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G1 Climax 29 Night 12: Moxley suffers first NJPW loss

Posted by John Powell | Aug 1, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

Sneaky Style has played spoiler once again. Toru Yano, the Sublime Master Thief of NJPW,...

G1 Climax 29 Night Nine: Okada and Kenta battle for A Block

Posted by John Powell | Jul 27, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

There is a tie no more. IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada has defeated Kenta for the top...

G1 Climax 29 Night Seven: Kenta and Okada double up on A Block

Posted by John Powell | Jul 20, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

Each unbeaten with four wins in a row, Kenta and the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika...

G1 Climax 29 Night Five: KENTA and Okada tied for the lead in A block

Posted by Don Davies | Jul 18, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

Both KENTA and Okada won their respective matches and are tied for the lead in the A block. KENTA...

NJPW Kizuna Road 2019: Sabre Jr. puts RevPro British Heavyweight title on the line

Posted by Matthew Asher | Jun 20, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

Kizuna Road 2019 continues with the June 25 event taking place in Miyagi at the Sendai Sunplaza...

Moxley’s ferocious debut, title win almost overshadows Ospreay’s BOSJ victory

Posted by John Powell | Jun 5, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

How do we follow that? That is the question finalists Will Ospreay and Shingo Takagi must have...

Best of the Super Jrs. Night 14: Ospreay to face Shingo Takagi in finals

Posted by John Powell | Jun 3, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

The Dragon and The Aerial Assassin will meet to determine the winner of the Best of the Super...

Best of the Super Jrs. Night 12: Taguchi and Ospreay to meet in B Block final, Phantasmo’s run ends

Posted by John Powell | May 30, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

After starting the tournament with such promise, Canadian Phantasmo has lost his third match in a...

Best of the Super Jrs. Night Seven: El Phantasmo rules B Block

Posted by John Powell | May 22, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

It was a lucky seventh night of the Best of the Super Jrs 2019 for NJPW fans as it had none of...

Best of the Super Jrs. Night Six: Canadian El Phantasmo tied at the top of B Block

Posted by John Powell | May 19, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

Canadian El Phantasmo, Ryusuke Taguchi and Will Ospreay all sit at the top of B Block after Night...

Best of the Super Jrs. Night Five: Ishimori, Takagi remain undefeated

Posted by John Powell | May 18, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

The Bone Soldier of Bullet Club and The Dragon of Los Ingobernables de Japan retained their...

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku Night One: Taichi a two-time champ

Posted by John Powell | May 4, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

On the first night of NJPW’s Wrestling Dontaku Taichi became the NEVER Openweight Champion for the...

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku Night Two: Y2J makes a surprise return, El Phantasmo debuts

Posted by John Powell | May 4, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

Chris Jericho has reappeared in NJPW despite having signed on with AEW. Just as IWGP Heavyweight...

NJPW Road to Dontaku: Super Jr. entrants announced, Chaos and LIJ feud on

Posted by John Powell | Apr 24, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

How do you know your latest tour isn’t generating the excitement it needs to? When a tournament...

NJPW Road to Dontaku: Roppongi 3K still the champs

Posted by Don Davies | Apr 22, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

The main event of night seven of Road to Dontaku featured an exciting tag team match with Los...

NJPW’s Wrestling Hinokuni: Guerrillas of Destiny get violent with the Players

Posted by John Powell | Apr 22, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

The Guerrillas of Destiny not only successfully defended their IWGP Tag Team Championships against...

NJPW Road to Dontaku: Suzuki-gun blindsides Cobb

Posted by John Powell | Apr 22, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

A double champion got into double trouble at Road to Wrestling Dontaku. Jeff Cobb, the current ROH...

NJPW Road to Dontaku: Thrilling elimination matches at the end of the Road

Posted by John Powell | Apr 22, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

A pair of elimination style matches highlighted the last Road to Wrestling Dontaku event before...

Naito challenges Ibushi at NJPW Sengorku Lord

Posted by John Powell | Apr 21, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

Kota Ibushi was successful in his first IWGP Intercontinental title defence defeating the most...

G1 Supercard: Okada and White have a 30-minute classic for the IWGP title

Posted by Matthew Asher | Apr 6, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

For the first time in decades the legendary Madison Square Garden is hosting a non-WWE pro...

New Japan Cup Night Six: Okada and Ospreay heading for a showdown, Owens attacks Juice

Posted by John Powell | Mar 14, 2019 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2019

Night Six of the New Japan Cup featured a classic David versus Goliath match-up and an all Chaos...

SLAM! Wrestling 2018 Awards

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Jan 8, 2019 | Year End Award Stories

2018 was a year of change. From women getting a big push to The Elite and their indie pals...

Juice Robinson thriving in New Japan

Posted by Greg Oliver | Nov 21, 2018 | Interviews

Being honest, Juice Robinson never thought he would work in Japan, let alone star, but that is...

Nakamura’s autobiography deserves a loud ‘yeahOH!’

Posted by Greg Oliver | Oct 8, 2018 | Gary Howard Memorial Library

The autobiography of Shinsuke Nakamura, King of Strong Style: 1980-2014, is a lot like him....

NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed: Triple threat set for the IWGP Heavyweight title set up for King of Pro Wrestling

Posted by Matthew Asher | Sep 30, 2018 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2018

Hard to believe that 15 months ago New Japan had yet to make an official full show on US soil....

Jericho makes even more NJPW friends at Dominion

Posted by John Powell | Jun 8, 2018 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2018

Nowadays, Chris Jericho is making friends wherever he goes including NJPW where The Ace has him in...

Mat Matters: Tiger Mask IV deserves another title run

Posted by John Powell | Jun 4, 2018 | Opinion

New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Best of the Super Juniors tournament is an annual showcase of some...

Los Ingobernables De Japon dominate War of the Worlds show

Posted by Don Davies | May 12, 2018 | Event Reports, House Show Reviews, ROH House Shows

TORONTO – At the 2018 War of the Worlds event in Toronto, Sanada, Evil, and Hiromu Takahashi...

Jericho attacks Naito at NJPW Wrestling Dontaku

Posted by Don Davies | May 4, 2018 | News

Chris Jericho made a surprise appearance at Wrestling Dontaku when he attacked IWGP...

Castle survives surprise opponent at Honor Rising

Posted by John Powell | Feb 24, 2018 | PPV Reports 2018

Ring of Honor World Champion Dalton Castle had to fight off two opponents to walk out of Honor...

Mat Matters: Don Davies’ Japan Wrestling Diary

Posted by Don Davies | Jan 18, 2018 | Opinion, Other House Shows

From the epic Wrestle Kingdom 12 to violent death matches to raunchy comedy wrestling this...

Live Report: NJPW’s New Year Dash sets up Jericho vs Naito

Posted by Don Davies | Jan 5, 2018 | Other House Shows

TOKYO – New Year Dash featured Chris Jericho attacking Tetsuya Naito and daring fans to hit...

Live report: Wrestle Kingdom 12 an incredible spectacle and experience

Posted by Don Davies | Jan 4, 2018 | Other House Shows

TOKYO – I traveled halfway around the world, from Toronto to Tokyo, for New Japan Pro...

Jericho fires back at Tetsuya Naito

Posted by John Powell | Dec 20, 2017 | Interviews

Chris Jericho has three words for Tetsuya Naito: Gimme a break. Naito, who faces IWGP Heavyweight...

Omega, Jericho brawl at Wrestle Kingdom presser

Posted by John Powell | Dec 12, 2017 | Canadian Hall of Fame

Kenny Omega got some measure of revenge at the Wrestle Kingdom press conference today. While Chris...

Jericho attacks Omega in Japan

Posted by John Powell | Dec 12, 2017 | News

Chris Jericho has turned up the heat on his rivalry with Kenny Omega. As Omega was celebrating his...

Mat Matters: How Jericho-Omega happened, and why I’m excited

Posted by Don Davies | Dec 10, 2017 | Opinion

It’s less than a month now until we get the most anticipated match of 2018: Chris Jericho...

NJPW drops Jericho vs Omega bombshell

Posted by John Powell | Nov 5, 2017 | News

It will be The Cleaner against Y2J at Wrestle Kingdom 12 on January 4th. After weeks of Twitter...

Mat Matters: WWE firing blanks with (Bullet) Club

Posted by John Powell | Sep 28, 2016 | Opinion

Back in 2002, the New World Order debuted in the WWE. Having purchased WCW’s video library...

Kenny Omega’s stardom in Japan about far more than luck

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jun 18, 2016 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

Kenny Omega uses the word “luck” often to describe his career, which hits new heights...

New Japan-ROH partnership keeps delivering dream matches

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jun 4, 2016 | Interviews

The relationship between New Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor has delivered many great...

Kyle O’Reilly focused on Super Juniors tournament

Posted by Greg Oliver | May 18, 2016 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

The 23rd Best of the Super Juniors tournament starts in New Japan Pro Wrestling on May 21st, and...

NYC crowd hot for ROH-New Japan lineup

Posted by Pat Laprade | May 15, 2016 | ROH House Shows

NEW YORK CITY – A host of injuries forced the initially-announced line-up of the final show...

Tama Tonga finally getting a shot in North America with ROH

Posted by Greg Oliver | Apr 27, 2016 | Interviews

The paths of the two sons of Haku/Meng split early in their wrestling careers. One son, Tevita,...

Watanabe and Kushida talk wrestling in ROH

Posted by Caleb Smith | Sep 2, 2015 | Interviews

The recent announcement by Ring of Honor and New Japan Wrestling confirmed that the promotions...

ROH & New Japan deliver a wild night in Toronto

Posted by Caleb Smith | May 15, 2015 | ROH House Shows

TORONTO – Ring of Honor Wrestling and New Japan Wrestling presented Global Wars ’15 pay-per...

Jushin Thunder Liger unmasked

Posted by Greg Oliver | May 5, 2015 | Interviews

LAS VEGAS — The thing that really stands out when interviewing Jushin Thunder Liger,...

Wrestle Kingdom 9: New Japan and Global Force joint effort a must-see event

Posted by Bob Kapur | Jan 4, 2015 | Event Reports, PPV Reports 2015

SPOILER ALERT. The following article includes detailed results from the Wrestle Kingdom 9...

CAC award ultimate honour for Scrap Iron Pearce

Posted by Pat Laprade | Jun 24, 2014 | CAC, Interviews

After 15 years, Adam Pearce has done almost everything the world of pro wrestling. He’s a...

New Japan tops Border City in stellar show

Posted by Matt Bishop | May 14, 2014 | House Show Reviews, Other House Shows

WINDSOR — As much as I love watching professional wrestling, sometimes I absolutely dread it. Like...

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