{"id":9938,"date":"2020-10-23T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2020-12-06T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T17:56:21","slug":"njpw-strong-episode-12-never-recap-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/njpw-strong-episode-12-never-recap-review\/","title":{"rendered":"NJPW Strong (Episode 12: NEVER) Recap &#038; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>NJPW Strong<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9780 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NEVER-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"NJPW Strong NEVER\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NEVER-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NEVER.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Episode 12<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>NEVER Night 2<\/strong><br \/>\n#njpwstrong<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Air Date: October 23, 2020<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Event Date: ?<\/strong><br \/>\n(uploaded to NJPW World)<\/p>\n<p><strong>City: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=port-hueneme-ca\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Port Hueneme<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=california\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">CA<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (unconfirmed)<br \/>\n<strong>Venue: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/?tag=oceanview-pavilion\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oceanview Pavilion<\/span><\/a><\/strong> (empty arena) (unconfirmed)<br \/>\n<strong>Series: NEVER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary<\/strong> (English)<strong>: Kevin Kelly, Alex Koslov<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ring Announcer: Adnan Kureishy<\/strong> (ringside)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Intro Video<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Ring Area<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nKevin Kelly and Alex Koslov welcome us tonight&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 1<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Clark Connors vs Fred Rosser<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Sparky Ballard)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e74eac4111a','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e74eac4111a\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e74eac4111a\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Fred Rosser wins via pinfall after Gutcheck <\/strong>(pop-up double knee gutbuster)<br \/>\n<strong>Time: 6:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nGood match. Clark Connors has always been very aggressive, and coming off his win of the Lion&#8217;s Break: Crown tournament made it feel like he might have a real chance against the much bigger Fred Rosser. Connors started Strong and even had Rosser leave the ring to regroup early in the match. Rosser was able to weather Connors&#8217; attacks though, and once Rosser was able to string together a nice series of his own moves, Connors struggled to maintain his momentum. This was a nice fight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 2<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Karl Fredericks vs ACH<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Justin Borden)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e74eac41246','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e74eac41246\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e74eac41246\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Karl Fredericks wins via pinfall after Manifest Destiny<\/strong> (implant DDT)<br \/>\n<strong>Time: 6:22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nVery good match. It looked like business as usual for ACH when the match started, but by the end of the match Fredericks was countering a lot of ACH&#8217;s moves with some smart wrestling. I think by the time ACH realized that Fredericks was going to be more difficult to defeat than he thought, Fredericks was already solidly in control of the match. This felt like an important step forward for Fredericks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Intermission<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe ring is cleaned and sanitized during a brief intermission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 3<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Guerrillas of Destiny vs Brody King &amp; Flip Gordon<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Justin Borden)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e74eac41280','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e74eac41280\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e74eac41280\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Tama Tonga pins Flip Gordon after Gun Stun<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 7:39<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nVery good match. Brody King was the most dominant person in the match. Every time King was in the ring he dominated, and it took both members of GOD to deal with him. Flip Gordon had a much more difficult time maintaining any sort of offense. Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa were able to isolate Gordon which severely hurt his effectiveness. GOD smartly focused on keeping Gordon in the ring, and their teamwork made it somewhat easy for them to manipulate Gordon and King to their advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match 4<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Rocky Romero vs Jay White<\/strong><br \/>\n(referee: Jeremy Marcus)<\/p>\n<!-- Content Reveal v2.3.1 -->\n<div class=\"scrhead\" onmouseover=\"document.body.style.cursor='pointer'\" onmouseout=\"document.body.style.cursor='default'\" onclick=\"acr_swap_display('ran_69e74eac412b3','0','','')\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-content-reveal\/images\/image1.gif\" class=\"scrimg\" id=\"scrimg_ran_69e74eac412b3\" alt=\"Reveal content\" title=\"Reveal content\"\/>');<\/script> Show\/Hide Results\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<div style=\"display: none\" class=\"scrdiv\" id=\"scrdiv_ran_69e74eac412b3\">');<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Jay White wins via pinfall after Blade Runner<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 14:12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">document.writeln('<\/div>');<\/script>\n<!-- End of Content Reveal -->\n\n<p><strong>Match Thoughts<\/strong><br \/>\nGreat match. Rocky started quickly and had White on the defensive, but White was able to slow the match down and gain a bit of control. White let Rocky hang around too long though. Rocky was able to regroup and build up his offense over the middle portion of the match. Rocky didn&#8217;t let White go to his usual tricks of laying out in the ring or escaping to ringside, and Rocky kept his attacks aggressive. White was on the defensive again late in the match, and that led to a very exciting final few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Show Impressions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThis was a fun show. I really enjoy how NJPW Strong keeps smarlty building up guys (like Fredericks) while keeping other guys looking strong (like White &amp; GOD) in matches that build up their opponents (like Brody King and Rocky Romero).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Match of the Night<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Rocky Romero vs Jay White<\/strong><br \/>\nBefore te match I didn&#8217;t think Rocky would win, but I was fully buying that he might win as the match went on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Official Results: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njpw1972.com\/tornament\/82494?showResult=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">https:\/\/www.njpw1972.com\/tornament\/82494?showResult=1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Romero faces Jay White in a very fun main event on a good episode of NJPW Strong and the second night of the NEVER tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[620,297,6635],"tags":[769,6565,235,2532,723,1555,1389,2681,1246,6699,2600,1486,597,6564,6641,2680,637,6824,577,576,6567,6568,714,6640,6636,594,1778],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-njpw","category-show-results","category-strong","tag-ach","tag-adnan-kureishy","tag-alex-koslov","tag-brody-king","tag-bullet-club","tag-california","tag-chaos","tag-clark-connors","tag-flip-gordon","tag-fred-rosser","tag-god","tag-guerrillas-of-destiny","tag-jay-white","tag-jeremy-marcus","tag-justin-borden","tag-karl-fredericks","tag-kevin-kelly","tag-never","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling","tag-njpw","tag-oceanview-pavilion","tag-port-hueneme-ca","tag-rocky-romero","tag-sparky-ballard","tag-strong","tag-tama-tonga","tag-tanga-loa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9941,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions\/9941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnjradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}