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NJPW News: Today’s Road To Power Struggle Results From Miyagi (10/29/18)
The Road To Power Struggle tour rolls along as New Japan Pro Wrestling presented the third to last event before Power Struggle in Osaka with today’s show in Miyagi.
Of course, the 2018 Super Junior Tag League continued as ACH and Ryusuke Taguchi met BUSHI and Shingo Takagi. However, on top of that today’s card also featured an 8-Man main event between CHAOS and The Bullet Club, Best Friends and Toru Yano taking on The Guerrilas Of Destiny and Bad Luck Fale in 6-Man action, as well as Jyushin Thunder Liger, Hiroshi Tanahashi and more in competition. Below are are the results with to tour continuing on Wednesday in Nagano:
- Ayato Yoshida & Yuya Uemura defeated Yota Tsuji & Tomoaki Honma
- Soberano Jr, Volador Jr. & Jyushin Thunder Liger defeated Shota Umino, Chris Sabin & KUSHIDA
- El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru defeated Ren Narita & Tiger Mask
- Bad Luck Fale & The Guerrilas Of Destiny defeated Best Friends & Toru Yano
- Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii defeated TAKA Michinoku & Minoru Suzuki
- Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi defeated Toa Henare & Hiroshi Tanahashi
- Super Junior Tag League: Shingo Takagi & BUSHI defeated ACH & Ryusuke Taguchi
- Jay White, Gedo, Robbie Eagles & Taiji Ishimori defeated Rocky Romero, Kazuchika Okada & Roppongi 3K
Results c/o NJPW1972
【10.29宮城大会・第1試合】
本間&辻vs吉田&上村!
上村の打点の高いドロップキックが本間にぐさり!【第2試合】
ライガー&ボラドール&ソベラーノvsKUSHIDA&セイビン&海野!
ソベラーノが得意の空中殺法で大暴れ!
新日本プロレス・スマホサイトで独占詳報中!https://t.co/QBte1zTaAm #njpw #njpst pic.twitter.com/4zCpGjjt9E— 新日本プロレスリング株式会社 (@njpw1972) October 29, 2018
【10.29宮城大会・第7試合】
『SUPER Jr. TAG LEAGUE 2018』公式戦!
田口隆祐&ACH vs BUSHI&鷹木信悟!
“地元出身”田口隆祐が大暴れ……!
新日本プロレス・スマホサイトで独占詳報中!https://t.co/QBte1zTaAm #njpw #njpst pic.twitter.com/jDthoT8Gcw— 新日本プロレスリング株式会社 (@njpw1972) October 29, 2018
【10.29宮城大会・第8試合】
CHAOS vs BULLET CLUBの8人タッグマッチ!
荒れ狂うジェイが場外戦で大暴れ!
新日本プロレス・スマホサイトで独占詳報中!https://t.co/QBte1zTaAm #njpw #njpst pic.twitter.com/38HxiYJb7O— 新日本プロレスリング株式会社 (@njpw1972) October 29, 2018
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Did your picks win points?
The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!
Here are your Gold League standings!
- Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
- Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
- Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
- Rush: 0-1, 0 points
- Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
- Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points
Here are your Blue League standings!
- Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
- Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
- Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
- Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
- Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
- Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete
My Thoughts:
Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.
Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.
In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.
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Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”
Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:
Blue League
- Bryan Danielson
- Andrade El Idolo
- Brody King
- Claudio Castagnoli
- Daniel Garcia
- Eddie Kingston
Gold League
- Jon Moxley
- Swerve Strickland
- Rush
- Mark Briscoe
- Jay Lethal
- Jay White
Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:
- Every match has a 20 minute time limit
- The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
- EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action
Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!
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