Christmas comes early for New Japan fans this year with two intriguing Korakuen Hall shows to finish the year. On the 22nd we have the “NEXT” matches previously announced, but also a Street Fight between oldster Kantaro Hoshino, who made sure Jado & Gedo couldn’t cheat their way to victory over NO LIMIT in Osaka. Then in the main event, the third generation unites in force, with Kojima joining old comrades Tenzan, Nagata, Nakanishi, and Kanemoto against GBH! Day two has a series of interesting matches such as Tiger Mask vs. AKIRA and the first ever battle of two famous teams, TenKoji and Jado & Gedo.

NJPW “NEXT ~CATCH THE VICTORY III~”, 12/22/08 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Wataru Inoue, Jushin Thunder Liger & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Milano Collection AT, Minoru & Taichi Ishikari
2. Bullet Sanction: Mitsuhide Hirasawa vs. Masato Tanaka
3. NEW JAPAN NEXT: Tiger Mask vs. Nobuo Yoshihashi
4. NEW JAPAN NEXT: Hirooki Goto vs. Yujiro
5. NEW JAPAN NEXT: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kazuchika Okada
6. NEW JAPAN NEXT: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito
7. Street Fight Anywhere Fall Match: Kantaro Hoshino vs. Gedo
8. Third Generation vs. GBH Elimination Match ~ Proceed to Next: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima , Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Koji Kanemoto vs. Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii & Jado

NJPW “THEORY ~CHAOS OF CHRISTMAS~”, 12/23/08 (SXW)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Nobuo Yoshihashi vs. Minoru
2. Ryusuke Taguchi & Kazuchika Okada vs. Milano Collection AT & Taichi Ishikari
3. Tiger Mask vs. AKIRA
4. Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto vs. Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii
5. Special Tag Match ~ Wrestle Kingdom Tag Scramble: Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano
6. Special Tag Match ~ Wrestle Kingdom Tag Scramble: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Jado & Gedo
7. Special 6 Man Tag Match ~ Wrestle Kingdom Chaos of Trinity: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shinsuke Nakamura & Hirooki Goto vs. Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Jushin Thunder Liger