Quick Results
Hirooki Goto, Gabriel Kidd, Tomoaki Honma & Master Wato pinned DOUKI, Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi in 10:29 ( )
EVIL, Jay White, Chase Owens, KENTA & Taiji Ishimori pinned Ryusuke Taguchi, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Toa Henare in 7:39 ( ½)
SHO, Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii pinned BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & SANADA in 9:00 ( ¾)
New Japan Cup 2021 – First Round: Jeff Cobb pinned Satoshi Kojima in 11:49 ( ½)
New Japan Cup 2021 – First Round: Great-O-Khan defeated Tetsuya Naito via referee stoppage in 20:20 ( ¾)
Kota Ibushi pinned El Desperado in 20:36 to retain the IWGP Heavyweight & IWGP Intercontinental Championships ( )
We’re at Budokan Hall in Tokyo for this one, with English commentary via studio from Kevin Kelly, Gino Gambino and Chris Charlton. Poor Chris blew out everyone’s eardrums.
NJPW Castle Attack Quick Results
Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan pinned Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay in 9:56 ( )
Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano submitted Chase Owens, Jay White & EVIL in 8:35 ( ¼)
Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa pinned Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI in 15:46 to retain the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships ( ¼)
Hiroshi Tanahashi pinned Great-O-Khan in 18:44 to retain the NEVER Openweight Championship ( ½)
El Desperado pinned El Phantasmo & BUSHI in 23:12 to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship ( ¾)
Kota Ibushi pinned Tetsuya Naito in 27:50 to retain the IWGP Intercontinental Championship ( )
We’re back to Osaka-Jo Hall for the second night – and once again we’ve got English commentary via the remote studios of Kevin Kelly, Chris Charlton and Gino Gambino…
NJPW Castle Attack Quick Results
Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb pinned Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroshi Tanahashi in 10:22 ( ¾)
Tanga Loa pinned YOSHI-HASHI in 12:51 ( )
Hirooki Goto pinned Tama Tonga in 6:42 ( ¾)
Toru Yano defeated Chase Owens in a YTR-style Texas Strap Match in 12:49 ( )
Jay White pinned Tomohiro Ishii in 25:42 ( )
Kazuchika Okada pinned EVIL in 28:09 ( )
This really is a weird card, huh? Almost all CHAOS vs. Bullet Club, as the feuds from that almost-cursed Castle Attack tour built to this weekend – with two singles matches ahead of the tag title defence tomorrow. We’ve got live English commentary again, with Kevin Kelly in the studio rather than in Osaka-Jo Hall – he’s got Chris Charlton and Gino Gambino on the call with him…
Welcome back to Part Eleven of the 411 Wrestling Year-End Awards of 2020! The Year-End Awards have been out for a couple of years but they’re back, and here’s how they work. For the next couple of weeks, we will present our top choices for a particular topic relating to wrestling in 2020. All the writers here on 411 will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic and the end, based on where all of the votes rank on people’s list, we will create an overall Top 5 list. It looks a little like this… 1st – 5
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Taiji Ishimori – I frelling loved this year’s Best of the Super Junior tournaments. Collectively, they were some of my favorite matches to watch this year. I feel like this year’s tournament was a real breakout year for El Desperado especially, but honestly, I’m somewhat turned off by the lack of praise and attention that Taiji Ishimori, you know the frelling IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, is getting. Ishimori’s matches were some of my favo
Welcome back to Part Seven of the 411 Wrestling Year-End Awards of 2020! The Year-End Awards have been out for a couple of years but they’re back, and here’s how they work. For the next couple of weeks, we will present our top choices for a particular topic relating to wrestling in 2020. All the writers here on 411 will have the ability to give us their Top 5 on said topic and the end, based on where all of the votes rank on people’s list, we will create an overall Top 5 list. It looks a little like this… 1st – 5
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Finn Balor – For the record, Pentagon and PAC would both be in the top 5 if they hadn’t missed so much time in AEW due to travel restrictions during the pandemic. Love both of those guys. But for me, Finn’s year felt like Johnny Gargano’s from a year or two ago. He just put on match after match after match. I never cared about Damien Priest… until Finn pulled a great encounter out of him. Never had an affinity for Timothy Thatcher… until he a