NJPW “ROAD TO KINGDOM ~BATTLE XMAS!~”, 12/23/10 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
2,005 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Manabu Nakanishi & Tomoaki Honma beat Toru Yano & Jado (10:24) when Nakanishi used an Argentine backbreaker on Jado.
2. Yujiro Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Hirooki Goto & Tama Tonga (9:16) when Naito used a Stardust press on Tonga.
3. TAKA Michinoku , NOSAWA Rongai & Taichi beat Jushin Thunder Liger, Koji Kanemoto & Ryusuke Taguchi (11:24) when TAKA used a side cradle on Taguchi.
4. Special 6 Man Tag Match: Togi Makabe, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Tiger Mask beat Masato Tanaka , Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii (14:06) when Ishii was DQ’d.
5. Special Tag Match: Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Aoki beat Shinsuke Nakamura & Gedo (12:25) when Shiozaki used the Go Flasher on Gedo.
6. Special Tag Match: Yoshihiro Takayama & Minoru Suzuki beat Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue (14:46) when Takayama used a kneelift on Inoue.
7. Special Tag Match: Satoshi Kojima & Kota Ibushi beat Hiroshi Tanahashi & Prince Devitt (18:21) when Kojima used a lariat on Devitt.

* Wins for many of the outsiders in the big 1/4 build-up matches, the New Japan tag teams losing all three of the main matches including the heavyweight/junior ace team of Tanahashi & Devitt falling to their Tokyo Dome opponents, Kojima & Ibushi.
* Kojima, for really the first time since coming back to New Japan, went into full heel mode after the main event, KO’ing Tanahashi with a lariat and putting one foot on the fallen ace as he raised the IWGP Heavyweight Title. The fans booed him and told him to go home, and Kojima said to them, “I’ll go, you idiots!”. Tanahashi was carried out on a stretcher.
* Young lion Kazuchika Okada made a surprise appearance ahead of his Tokyo Dome return match, dropping Takayama with a German suplex to send a message that he is stronger than before and ready to go at the Dome!
* Taichi’s mystery partners turned out to be TAKA Michinoku and NOSAWA Rongai, the three beating Liger, Kanemoto & Taguchi.

* New Japan has launched a new website design that you can view here.
* WrestleTalk sent along word that they have an audio interview with Prince Devitt up that you can listen to here, with much insight into the Irishman’s time in Japan.