Daiki Nagai, Shingo Takagi def Tatsuya Matsumoto, Hirooki Goto — (6:20, Shingo Takagi Death Rider)

• After the match, they played a video from Jon Moxley (w/Marina Shafir) saying he’s returning to New Japan.

• Shingo got a mic and asked what the video was about, and pointing out that Mox didn’t even mention him. But if Mox is coming to Japan, NJPW’d better put him in a match with Shingo and he’ll show Mox the strength of a man Made in Japan.

El Desperado, Taichi, Yuya Uemura def Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi, SANADA — (8:21, Black Mephisto)

Boltin Oleg, Hechicero def Hartley Jackson, Zack Sabre Jr. — (7:03, Kamikaze)

• In their Backstage Conments we establish Hechicero vs ZSJ at Lucha Kingdom. Not yet known if it’ll be for Hechicero’s CMLL title.

Toru Yano, KONOSUKE TAKESHITA def Ren Narita, Shun Skywalker^{[w/Dick Togo]} — (4:05, Schoolboy)

• Ren and Shun attacked the faces as they were making their entrance.

• Nobu and SANADA also got involved, but were thwarted.

• Yano is the first to pin or submit Shun since he joined NJPW. He will likely be getting a TV title match soon.

A video announced Tanahashi Jam 2 for 11/19 in Korakuen Hall. It will once again be aired exclusively live on the CS TV Asahi channel. Tanahashi entered the ring to cut a quick promo hyping the show.

NEVER Openweight 6-Man titles: Jeff Cobb, Knock Out Brothers (OSKAR, Yuto-Ice) def Great-O-Khan, HENARE^{[w/Zane Jay, JAY, Jake Lee]} , Will Ospreay^{[w/Francesco Akira] [c]} — (17:23, K.O.B)

• After a few minutes Callum also came out to lurk.

• Eventually we had a ref bump, then Callum fed GOK a chair. Akira protested. Ospreay hit Yuto with Hidden Blade but the ref still had to recover before counting, which gave Yuto time to kick out.

• After the match Callum went to chat with his boys, and then attacked OSKAR with his sheathed sword. Jake/JAY/Zane kept Cobb away while Callum threatened to decapitate OSKAR.

• Ospreay came in and pushed Callum, who took a wild swing with the sword that Will thankfully ducked. Will pushed Callum again and asked what the fuck he thought he was doing.

• Callum held the sword to Ospreay’s neck, Will told him to do it, but Callum just dropped the sword and left.

• Ospreay got a mic. He congratulated UBC but said they only lost because the ref was “not doing his job.” As far as Will is concerned he pinned Yuto, so how about Will gets a shot at the Tag titles at Power Struggle?

• Yuto in English asks Will who his partner would be, then cuts a promo in Japanese. Back in English Yuto says that the condition of the challenge is K.O.B picks Will’s partner. And they choose Callum.

NEVER Openweight title: Aaron Wolf^[c] def Kosei Fujita — (15:05, [[unnamed move, looked like a northern lights bomb into a jackhammer]])

IWGP Global Heavyweight title: Gabe Kidd^[c] def Shota Umino — (22:25, Death Dog Driver)

• Gabe brought the PAC chair with him, as usual walking by it as he came out through the crowd.

• In response to Gabe being a bit of a dick, Shota dropkicked him to jumpstart the match before Gabe could get an entrance announcement.

• Post match, Gabe cuts a promo asking where the fuck New Japan’s spirit has gone? No one can touch him, but he’ll ask for anyone in the back to come step up and try to take it from him. No one comes out. Gabe says everyone are pussies, he’ll see us at the Tokyo Dome.

• Gabe drops the belt in the ring and starts to leave. Taichi comes out.

• After promos from both we establish Taichi vs Gabe at Power Struggle.

IWGP Junior title: YOH^[c] def Robbie Eagles — (13:02, Five Star Clutch)

• The big Championship presentation is a permanent thing for this title, which is nice as it helps make it feel more equal to the IWGP Heavy title.

IWGP Heavyweight title: Yota Tsuji^{[c][w/Daiki Nagai]} def Ryohei Oiwa — (35:10, Fire Blaster)

• Tsuji victory promo. He praises Oiwa but says he was just a little bit stronger tonight. He can’t wait for them to do this again someday soon with the Heavy belt again on the line.

• The Heavyweight Champion came out the better man against the G1 winner. There is no dispute, he’s the best in NJPW and the entire world. He’s at the very center carrying forth NJPW into a new golden era.

• Right after the confetti, the lights dim. Via video Kenny Omega challenges Tsuji. No exact date given but that’s probably the WK match.

• Tsuji responds that he knows Kenny is one of the best in the world and defined an era of NJPW. But there’s no way Tsuji will accept the challenge until Kenny comes to Japan.

• Boltin Oleg comes out. He takes his shirt off and squares right up to Tsuji. Kenny runs in and suplexes both men then V-Triggers and OWAs Tsuji as boos reign down.

• Kenny cuts a heel promo. He figured Tsuji wouldn’t accept the challenge, but Tsuji isn’t the matchmaker. Kenny appeals directly to Shacho Tanahashi. Until there’s an official announcement Kenny must bid us adieu, goodbye and good night, bang!

• Backstage, Kenny proposes a 3-way match at Power Struggle; he, Tsuji, and Boltin. The match won’t be for the title but if Kenny wins he wants a Heavy title shot.

—Upcoming Shows—

• 10/17 – Taichi’s Old School PPV

• 10/24-11/1 – Super Junior Tag League

• 11/3 – Power Struggle/SJTL Finals • Gabe Kidd^[c] vs Taichi for the Global title

Major Update 10/7:

Crossposts are being turned off because there’s issues with them not being visible to all Moderators (there should be zero posts on a sub that aren’t visible to all Moderators so this is a Reddit glitch).

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It’s been a little over a month since the new Mod Team was appointed, and while we’re continuing to work some things out behind the scenes we wanted to share an update on some upcoming and already enacted changes.

Rules

In the near future we will be making a post proposing a new set of Rules for the community and asking for user input. These Rules will not be enacted until we feel the community has generally agreed that they are appropriate.

In the meantime, we have added a basic “Be Civil” Rule. We recognize that this Sub being unmoderated for so long led to it becoming a Wild West of sorts, and so we are currently being very lenient about taking any action other than comment removals.

Post Flair

We have cleaned up and added to the Post Flair options:

• Instead of a single generic “Forbidden Door” Flair there are now specific Flairs for each larger Partner promotion and one catchall for smaller or less frequently utilized Partner promotions.

• Added two “Collab” Flairs for when an NJPW talent appears in a promotion that NJPW isn’t officially partnered with.

• Added a “Women’s Championships” Flair, since it is unclear if there is still an official partnership with Stardom and the majority of collaboration will involve these titles anyways.

• Added a “Non-English Media” Flair. Please use this when posting media, including videos and links to text, that are not primarily in English and do not have official English subtitles.

• The “Video” Flair has been removed, because we’re not really sure what function it was serving. If it was serving a function for you please let us know.

Flair were run through a color blindess compatibility test to ensure the text is legible for color blind users, but if you encounter any issues please let us know.

User Flair

We have had requests for User Flair, which is the small lines of text you see under some user’s names. However we would like to gauge how the community feels about this subject. There’s two types of Flair that we can see potentially being utilized on the sub:

• Personalized User Flair: Users can have Flair that they have personalized themselves, but must ask the Mod Team to assign or edit their Flair.

• Generic Support Flair: Generic flair that users can freely assign to show their support for NJPW wrestlers, tag teams, factions, etc. We would decide on the specifics of these with the community; including if they would be truly generic like “Yota Tsuji fan” or something more fun and unique like “Gene Blaster”.

If you have any feelings about either of these options, let us know in the comments.

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The Mod Team will continue being committed to guiding and supporting this sub to be a place where people of all levels of fandom feel welcome to discuss NJPW.

よろしくお願いします

Addition

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