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NJPW News: Results From Today’s New Year Dash!! At Korakuen Hall (1/5/19)
Results from NJPW’s New Year Dash!!
Following up on yesterday’s huge Wrestle Kingdom 13 (check out all the results with Andrew’s Results & Review) event that saw every single title on the line change hands, New Japan Pro Wrestling was at Korakuen Hall early this morning for those of us in the USA for New Year Dash!!
Today’s card only featured one match advertised in advance, as Ryusuke Taguchi, Toru Yano and Togi Makabe challenged The Guerrillas Of Destiny and Taiji Ishimori for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Titles after winning the opportunity the previous night. Here are the results from New Year Dash!! (which you can watch on NJPW World) with NJPW’s next event coming up on January 11th for the start of Fantastica Mania:
- Roppongi 3K & Rocky Romero defeated Killer Elite Squad & Takashi Iizuka
- Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi defeated Toa Henare & Togi Makabe
- David Finlay & Juice Robinson defeated Best Friends
- Will Ospreay, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii defeated KUSHIDA, Jeff Cobb & Yuji Nagata
- NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Titles: The Guerrillas Of Destiny & Taiji Ishimori retained over Togi Makabe, Ryusuke Taguchi & Toru Yano
- Taichi, El Desperado, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Minoru Suzuki & Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI, EVIL, SANADA & Shingo Takagi
- Jay White, Bad Luck Fale & Gedo defeated YOSHI-HASHI, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada
Results c/o NJPW1972
何かが起こるイッテンゴ!始まりましたNEW YEAR DASH!!
第1試合は@LanceHoyt & @DBSmithjr &飯塚高史 VS @azucarRoc & @njpwShowT & @njpwyohei_k !
視聴無料▷https://t.co/Tj7UBJ4PjP #njwk13 #njdash #njpwworld #njpw pic.twitter.com/5maOqsm9WF— njpwworld (@njpwworld) January 5, 2019
NEW YEAR DASH!!、第5試合NEVER無差別級6人タッグ選手権@Tama_Tonga & @TangaloaNJPW & @taiji_ishimori VS @GBH_makabe & @YTR_CHAOS & @taguchiryusuke!真壁と矢野の息のあったコンビネーションで王者組を追いつめる!ベルト奪還なるか⁉︎
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#njdash #njpwworld pic.twitter.com/g9cnFpprHJ— njpwworld (@njpwworld) January 5, 2019
NEW YEAR DASH!!、第7試合YOSHI-HASHI復帰戦!@tanahashi1_100 & @rainmakerXokada & @YOSHIHASHICHAOS VS @JayWhiteNZ & @TOKSFALE & 外道!
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#njdash #njpwworld pic.twitter.com/pJHXcVcz7u— njpwworld (@njpwworld) January 5, 2019
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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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