NJPW Best of the Super Jr. 25 Recap & Review – Night 1
The 25th Best of the Super Jr. tournament begins with a series of good matches including ACH vs Flip Gordon and Will Ospreay vs Tiaji Ishimori!
The 25th Best of the Super Jr. tournament begins with a series of good matches including ACH vs Flip Gordon and Will Ospreay vs Tiaji Ishimori!
The fourth Stardom Cinderella Tournament was a night filled with fun matches, a little drama, and a very interesting result.
New Japan Cup 2018 Event Date: March 9, 2018 (18:30 JST) aired live on NJPW World City: Bunko, Tokyo, Japan Venue: Korakuen Hall Attendance: 1,719 Series: New Japan Cup 2018 Commentary (English): Kevin Kelly, Chuckie T (matches 3- 7) Commentary (Japanese): Milano Collection AT, Hirooki Goto (matches 3-7) Ring Announcer: Kimihiko Ozaki, Makoto Abe …
Momo Watanabe challenges the leader of Queen’s Quest, Io Shirai, in a match to prove herself. Also, Oedo Tai puts their tag titles up against Tam Nakano and Mayu Iwatani, and Toni Storm takes on the legendary Meiko Satomura in a good Korakuen Hall show for Stardom.
Queen’s Quest battles Queen’s Quest in a tag match and Oedo Tai faces a trio including their former teammate Tam Nakano in a good show from Stardom.
Tam Nakano begins her journey outside of Oedo Tai while her former teammates battle Queen’s Quest for the Artist of Stardom Titles!
Oedo Tai and Queen’s Quest finally battle five-on-five, and one team member will be forced to leave their faction.
The fallout from Tokyo lands at Korakuen Hall, and even though many people are hurting from last night, the beginnings of many new rivalries are formed among the chaos.
Stardom starts of 2018 with a good show and sets up an interesting tag match for Korakuen Hall later in January.
The last big show before Wrestle Kingdom was a good preview of what’s to come with some good matches.
The first of two nights to end the NJPW year at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo serves as a nice preview of things to come at Wrestle Kingdom in a few short weeks.
The second round of A Block matches were consistently very good despite not having the same blockbuster match-ups as the opening night.
B Block of the 2017 G1 Climax starts with a round of great matches featuring, among other things, Juice Robinson getting off to an impressive start, EVIL and SANADA tearing the house down, and Kenny Omega trying to survive against the maniac Minoru Suzuki!
Mayu Iwatani takes on her first challenger for the World of Stardom Title as she battles Yoko Bito in a night of very good matches at Korakuen Hall!
The focus of tonight’s Stardom show at Shinkiba 1st Ring seemed to be to set up the upcoming Korakuen Hall show, but it managed to have some pretty good matches as well.
Stardom takes over Korakuen Hall with two big title matches: Oedo Tai challenges Team Jungle for the Goddess of Stardom titles and Mayu Iwatani gets another shot at Io Shirai’s World of Stardom championship!
Mayu Iwatani puts her Wonder of Stardom Title on the line against Hana Kimura, and HZK tests her abilities against Io Shirai in a nice night of action from Stardom!
Two nights before the big event in Osaka, the Road to Dominion had a lot of fun tag matches and managed to build some solid interest in all of the upcoming title matches.
Kairi Hojo says goodbye to Stardom in an emotional night where her Artist of Stardom Titles are on the line against Queen’s Quest.
The Best of the Super Jr. 24 tournament ends with great final match a bunch of fun tag matches in the undercard.