–> “NEW JAPAN ROAD” <--

NJPW, 2/11/13 (Samurai! TV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2
1,950 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Hiromu Takahashi & Takaaki Watanabe beat BUSHI & Sho Tanaka (9:13) when Watanabe used a crab hold on Tanaka.
2. KUSHIDA, Alex Shelley, Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask beat Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov, Jado & Gedo (11:18) when Tiger used a Tiger suplex hold on Gedo.
3. Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI beat Hirooki Goto & Wataru Inoue (12:33) when Ishii used a brainbuster on Inoue.
4. Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr., TAKA Michinoku & Hiro Tonai beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Tama Tonga & Captain New Japan (11:19) when Archer used the Killer bomb on Captain.
5. Special 6 Man Tag Match: Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi beat Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Yujiro Takahashi (13:10) when Takahashi was DQ’d.
6. Special Tag Match: Shinsuke Nakamura & Kazuchika Okada beat Minoru Suzuki & Kengo Mashimo (11:10) when Okada used the Rainmaker on Mashimo.
7. Special Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Karl Anderson & Prince Devitt (14:11) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Devitt.

* Tanahashi got his pinfall back from Devitt in today’s main event after the Irishman recently upset the ace of New Japan in another tag bout. Devitt, the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion, is calling for a shot at Tanahashi’s IWGP Heavyweight Title.

* Nakamura and Archer had another face-to-face after the sixth match with the American set to challenge for Shinsuke’s IWGP Intercontinental Title soon.

* Despite being pinned by Makabe in their singles match yesterday, Yujiro laid Makabe out with his own chain after the fifth match today, suggesting this new rivalry will continue.

* Masked veterans Liger & Tiger Mask have challenged KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley to an IWGP Jr. Tag Team Title match which is another title match on the horizon. A tough test for the TIME SPLITTERS against two of New Japan’s most accomplished active juniors.

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New Japan continues to assist Pro Wrestling NOAH, a company very short on numbers nowadays after so many problems and a mass exodus of talent. The likes of Nagata, Tenzan, and Kojima have been appearing regularly, and now the CHAOS tandem of Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka are set to challenge for the GHC Tag Team Title, once held by New Japan teams such as Nagata & Tanahashi (2003) and Bernard & Anderson (2011).

NOAH, 3/10/13
Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium

- GHC Tag Team Title: Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura (c) vs. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka

–> “NJPW 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR ~ ROAD TO TOKYO DOME” <--

NJPW, 12/20/12 (Samurai! TV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2
1,610 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. Sho Tanaka vs. Yohei Komatsu went to a draw (10:00) when the time limit expired.
2. Tiger Mask & BUSHI beat Hiromu Takahashi & Takaaki Watanabe (8:41) when BUSHI used the Reed Road on Watanabe.
3. Yujiro Takahashi & Jado beat Wataru Inoue & Captain New Japan (8:00) when Takahashi used a Bukko Nuki German suplex hold on Captain.
4. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Manabu Nakanishi beat Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI (10:39) when Iizuka was DQ’d.
5. Yuji Nagata, Hirooki Goto & Jushin Thunder Liger beat Minoru Suzuki, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi (11:17) when Liger used a shotei on TAKA.
6. Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii beat Togi Makabe & KUSHIDA (14:41) when Ishii used a brainbuster on KUSHIDA.
7. Kazuchika Okada & Gedo beat Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi (19:18) when Okada used the Rainmaker on Taguchi.

* Toru Yano is saying that he will bring former IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Bob Sapp, to the Tokyo Dome in January as a mystery partner which means he could replace a CHAOS member in the six man tag. Sapp once headlined a New Japan Tokyo Dome show when he was the biggest thing in Japanese pop culture, but his star has long since fallen and if he does appear it’ll be in the planned opening match. New Japan chairman Takaaki Kidani is considering bringing back MMA fighters to New Japan in 2013 to challenge top stars after publicly backing Sakuraba and Shibata and opposing President Sugabayashi who has done so much work to make New Japan an honest pro wrestling group again. This is all a storyline with no telling where it’ll lead, my only hope is if MMA fighters do appear next year the booking will be a lot less reckless than what happened in the 2000s which put New Japan’s whole existence in danger. Dave Meltzer says it could possibly see Kidani as a heel owner in an nWo style group with Antonio Inoki possibly used as a retired version of Hulk Hogan.

–> NJPW 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR ~ NEW JAPAN BRAVE 2012 <--

NJPW, 4/21/12 (Samurai! TV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2
1,610 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Tama Tonga beat Hiromu Takahashi (8:36) with the Headshrinker.
2. YOSHI-HASHI & Tomohiro Ishii beat Strong Man & Captain New Japan (12:40) when Ishii used a brainbuster on Captain.
3. Low Ki, Rocky Romero, Jado & Gedo beat Prince Devitt, Ryusuke Taguchi, Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask (12:36) with Ki used a diving footstomp on Devitt.
4. Minoru Suzuki, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi beat Togi Makabe, Wataru Inoue & KUSHIDA (12:35) when Taichi pinned Inoue after Suzuki used a Gotch-style piledriver.
5. Special Singles Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Takashi Iizuka went to a double countout (6:03).
5a. Rematch: Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Takashi Iizuka (4:06) by DQ.
6. Special Singles Match: Toru Yano beat Satoshi Kojima (9:37) with the Akakiri.
7. Special 8 Man Tag Match: Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka & Yujiro Takahashi beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, Tetsuya Naito & Karl Anderson (19:24) when Tanaka used the Sliding D on Tanahashi.

–> “CIRCUIT 2009 NEW JAPAN BRAVE” <--
The two young generation stars who will battle over the IWGP Heavyweight Title on May 3rd faced older, more experienced opposition today and both showed why their generation now leads New Japan. IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Hiroshi Tanahashi, fought off a good non-title challenge from Takao Omori in the main event, while Hirooki Goto submitted big senior Nakanishi right before it. Earlier in the show, Tiger Mask bested Black Tiger by DQ, getting his mask torn again, and it looks like a singles match is forthcoming over the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title, so soon after Tiger Mask ended the fourth generation Black Tiger's stint under the hood.

NJPW, 4/22/09 (SXW)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2
1,777 Fans - Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Jushin Thunder Liger, Milano Collection AT, Taichi & Kazuchika Okada beat Koji Kanemoto, Ryusuke Taguchi, Prince Devitt & Nobuo Yoshihashi (10:15) when Taichi used the Black Mephisto on Yoshihashi.
2. Tomohiro Ishii & Jado beat Wataru Inoue & AKIRA (15:31) when Ishii used a brainbuster on AKIRA.
3. Takashi Iizuka, Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson beat Riki Choshu, Yuji Nagata & Mitsuhide Hirasawa (10:56) when Anderson used the Gun Stun on Hirasawa.
4. Tiger Mask beat Black Tiger (8:04) by DQ.
5. Shinsuke Nakamura & Toru Yano beat Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (9:58) when Nakamura used the Landslide on Honma.
6. Hirooki Goto beat Manabu Nakanishi (14:38) with a modified armlock.
7. Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Takao Omori (16:27) with the High Fly Flow.

–> “CIRCUIT 2009 NEW JAPAN BRAVE” <--
Togi Makabe stormed back into the New Japan ring today and finally made his presence felt after Toru Yano's betrayal at Sumo Hall and the subsequent GBH-minus-Honma and Nakamura alliance to rid the wrestling business of Makabe. It happened after Honma had been pinned by Ishii in a singles match and was receiving a GBH beatdown. Makabe hit the ring and ran off Yano to huge "Makabe!" chants. Makabe announced that from tomorrow on the second half of the Osaka double header, he would return to cooperate with Honma, possibly calling a halt to Honma's singles match series that he seems destined to lose each match of. But Makabe wasn't the only one to help Honma as Wataru Inoue -- feuding with Ishii for a long time now -- also hit the ring and helped out. Wataru seems to have common ground with Makabe and it looks like he could cooperate with Makabe and Honma against the Nakamura/GBH alliance.

Wild Child hit form today with instant revenge over the tandem that defeated them at Sumo Hall, as they defeated the team who will face TenKoji in a #1 contendership match for Team 3D's IWGP Tag Team Title, Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson. Omori, who suffered the humiliation of being pinned by the upcoming Anderson at Sumo Hall, struck down the American with an Axe Bomber.

NJPW, 4/21/09 (SXW)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2
1,400 Fans

1. Koji Kanemoto beat Kazuchika Okada (8:33) with an ankle hold.
2. Super Strong Machine, Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA beat Prince Devitt, Mitsuhide Hirasawa & Nobuo Yoshihashi (9:07) when AKIRA used a Musasabi press on Yoshihashi.
3. Black Tiger & Jado beat Tiger Mask & Taichi (12:50) when Jado used the Crossface of JADO on Taichi.
4. Tomohiro Ishii beat Tomoaki Honma (10:29) with a brainbuster.
5. Manabu Nakanishi & Takao Omori beat Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson (13:05) when Omori used an Axe Bomber on Anderson.
6. Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka beat Riki Choshu, Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue (11:05) when Nakamura used the Landslide on Inoue.
7. Hirooki Goto & Milano Collection AT beat Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi (17:35) when Goto used the Shouten on Taguchi.