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Andrew’s New Japan Cup Results & Match Ratings 6.16.20: Day 1

New Japan Cup Day 1 gets things started off slowly, but maybe the smaller names will impress?!

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Now after their Together Project show, we understand that they really are just dipping their toes back into the water. This isn’t really a loaded show, but for a kickoff day; we get to see a few veterans or lower card guys who don’t get much shine.

Hiromu has to be an early favorite to get to at least the semi-finals while Makabe is poised nicely to get one more encounter with Tomohiro Ishii. Yes, the New Japan Cup is notorious for upsets, but if we get deprived of another Makabe versus Ishii…I’m gonna be a little mad.

So let’s see how things play out!

Ratings:

  • Yota Tsuji vs Togi Makabe: Makabe wins via German Suplex Hold @8:40 – *** ¼
  • Jado w/Gedo & Yujiro Takahashi vs Toru Yano: Yano wins via Rollup @9:05 – ½
  • Suzuki-Gun (Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr) vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, Yuji Nagata, Kota Ibushi & Yuya Uemura: Suzuki wins via Gotch Style Piledriver @13:30 – *** ½
  • Tomoaki Honma vs Hiromu Takahashi: Hiromu via Time Bomb @18:45 – *** ¼
  • El Desperado vs Tomohiro Ishii: Ishii wins via Vertical Drop Brainbuster @20:15 – *** ¾

 

Results:

Yota Tsuji vs Togi Makabe

Yota thrusts himself into a Spear immediately at the bell for an early 2 count. Strike exchange, and then Yota with a big Shoulder Tackle for another near fall causing Togi to powder. Yota is on top of it though and follows for more strikes before Togi eventually counters the Irish Whip into the barricade.

It’s not often that people take the fight to the Unchained Gorilla, so Makabe slides back in to gather himself and wait for the Young Lion to answer the count. Yota still brings some fight, but Makabe slows down the pace and starts controlling the match. Sleeper Hold and Half Boston Crab send a message to the energetic young wrestler, but another burst gives Yota some hope.

Great fire continued to drive Yota as he hit a Splash, another Spear and even tried to finish Makabe with a Boston Crab of his own. Makabe wasn’t going to be insulted though, and after a quick exchange where Yota thought he had the advantage, he hits the ropes, Togi turns him inside out with a Lariat and ends the match with a German Suplex Hold. Much more competitive than I expected from Yota.

Jado w/Gedo & Yujiro Takahashi vs Toru Yano

Yano’s tron has clips of his YouTube and calls him “YouTuber Toru Yano”, ending with Please Subscribe of course. This match takes an expected…yet too damn long turn.

Weapons, interference, Yano starting a chant, Jado telling him no one’s here, but then Jado starting a chant with Yano telling him he’s dumb cause it’s empty arena. Yujiro and Gedo interfered on Jado’s behalf often, Jado took the Triple H bump, where he walked around the ring dazed after eating a turnbuckle pad, and then Flair flopped.

This was miserable since Jado shouldn’t be in a ring and Yano didn’t feel like being serious. Ugh…definitely in contention for worst match of the year.

Suzuki-Gun (Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr) vs Hiroshi Tanahashi, Yuji Nagata, Kota Ibushi & Yuya Uemura

Ahh the time honored tradition of the Suzuki-Gun mugging before introductions are done. Surprisingly Uemura gets the best of Kanemaru and quickly tags in Tanahashi who calls out Taichi. Tanahashi comes out hot, but Suzuki-Gun and ZSJ turn the tide. Most notably, Taichi holds Tanahashi and Zack insults the Ace by performing a Dragon Screw Leg Whip and Reverse Dragon Screw. Working the legs, the pride and the history of the Fujinami Dragon style.

With that, Suzuki comes in and applies the Kneebar that is reminiscent of how he won the Intercontinental title off of Tanahashi two years ago. This match turns into everyone beats the hell out of the Ace. Referee distractions, chairs, knee focusing…just tearing Tanahashi apart. He eventually manages to Dragon Screw ZSJ for some space and some vengeance, bringing Ibushi in for the foreshadowing.

Nagata and Suzuki have a great moment, Taichi goes after Tanahashi and ZSJ’s interactions with Ibushi are just perfect. This was a great hype match. Three big matches, with different styles, stories and personalities. After Suzuki pins Uemura, the future opponents each have their own moments. Taichi has Tanahashi in the Stretch Plum, Nagata goes in to slap box with Suzuki and Sabre and Ibushi are just jawing playfully. It’s not until Taichi interjects himself with Ibushi that they finally lay out Kota. Great story telling and personality shown during and after. Ibushi is helped up after Suzuki-Gun snickers off, and he runs after them.

Tomoaki Honma vs Hiromu Takahashi

This may be the first time…in a long time that I’ve heard Honma’s personal theme. Part of the story here really could be that they both came back from serious neck injuries. Hiromu seemingly better thanks to his youth, but this is interesting. Honma is never really considered even upper mid card, but he’s solid and looking to use his size advantage.

Commentary made this match much better than it should’ve been (yes even in Japanese). Hiromu toyed with Honma early since he’s the lovable loser, but that made his hope spots even more exciting. Commentary went crazy at the prospect of Honma pulling off the win. A tease for a top rope to the outside Kokeshi was surprising, a few short range and falling Kokeshis gave Honma a good bit of near falls, but Hiromu prevailed in the end. Definitely sounded like Hiromu insulted Honma to the effect of “and this is a heavyweight”, so I’d hope this is a small chance for Honma to prove himself through the rest of the year and not just raise Hiromu up by making the lower card look even worse.

El Desperado vs Tomohiro Ishii

So even though we just saw a Junior versus a Heavyweight, this is a completely different story. Ishii is held very highly in the minds and hearts of fans, where Desperado is mostly a decent worker in the Junior division.

The story here was Desperado reminding us that Ishii’s left knee was giving him issues before the quarantine, and pulling out every heel tactic he knew. Eye poke, ref shields, low blows, exposed turnbuckles, referee as a weapon…sheesh. Ishii sold wonderfully and there was even a great spot where he was going to Powerbomb Despy, but his knee gave out so he just kind of flipped Despy and fell backwards into the ropes. Botch or good sell work, it was a nice touch and no one landed funny so it added to Desperado’s chance to win.

Despy pulled out most of his signature finishers except for Pinche Loco. So while it was a pretty solid story and well enough wrestled, Despy’s constant reliance on heel tactics got a little old.

Overall Score: 7.25/10

This day didn’t really have a lot of big players except for in the non-tournament tag match. The work was fairly consistent, even with the Jado match, and it was nice to see Honma get a chance to shine. Given who was involved, it wasn’t a bad show and again, the hard work was very obvious. Day 2 will bring us two bigger matches, with Okada finally getting to beat the hell out of Gedo for everything that went on and Nagata versus Suzuki…that will be special.

Just to keep everyone on the same page, after today’s matches here’s how round 2 will play out for this quadrant.

Togi Makabe vs Tomohiro Ishii (lots of history here, some great NEVER championship matches)

Hiromu Takahashi  vs Toru Yano ( crazy like a fox facing stupid like a fox…who knows what we get here)


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Andrew’s TNA iMPACT! Results & Match Ratings: 4.25.2024

We just got done with Rebellion, and Under Siege is two weeks away! Gotta see how these dots connect!

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Rebellion had quite a few returns, Mike Santana, Sami Callihan and Broken Matt Hardy. All three of these guys could easily be main event players, and its nice to mix up and expand what felt like a rather small pool of potential challengers.

Under Siege is only like 2 weeks out, so we’ll see how the dots connect in such a short period of time.

Ratings:

  • Mike Santana vs Myron Reed w/Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz: Santana wins via Spin the Block – ** 1/2
  • #1 Contender: Frankie Kazarian vs Josh Alexander: Josh wins via Grapevine Ankle Lock – ***
  • ASH by Elegance vs Xia Brookside: Xia wins via School Girl Roll-Up – ** 3/4
  • Sami Callihan vs The Good Hands: Sami Callihan wins via Cactus Driver ’97 – SQUASH
  • Eddie Edwards w/Alisha Edwards & Brian Myers vs Nic Nemeth: Eddie wins via Boston Knee Party – *** 1/4

Results:

A weird opening that is just framed to put Nemeth and Hardy together against The System. Feels a little awkward, but who knows how it will play out. 

Mike Santana vs Myron Reed w/Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz

Ahh I didn’t really pay attention to Santana’s theme at Rebellion, but its pretty damn cool. Good stuff. 

Rascalz blindside Santana early, but the heel advantage doesn’t last more than a few moves. Santana whips Myron from corner to corner, hits a few Hip Attacks before Myron finally dodges one and starts using his unique offense and agility to his advantage. Matrix dodge, into an Leaping Outside Back in Slingshot Codebreaker. Some more offense and Santana powders to the ramp, Myron jumps over the rope and tries a Flying Cutter, but Santana blocks it, turns things around, gets pushed forward and hits the Rolling Cutter. Santana takes out the Rascalz, heads back into the ring, Myron tries to catch him unawares but eats the Spin the Block off the rope run! Santana wins fairly quickly.

Maclin’s music hits, he tries to employ the help of The Rascalz to attack Santana, but as soon as Maclin positions himself to get in, The Rascalz bail and flip off Maclin. Maclin makes it out of the confrontation relatively unscathed, but at least we know where he’s going for Under Siege probably.

OH FUCK ME WITH RUSTY KNIVES. Because Cardona is hurt Kon is paired with SDL, and she just challenges Jordynne and PCO to a tag match. WHY!? STOP IT. This is hot garbage. 

Josh Alexander comes out…I wonder who’s Super Finisher he’s gonna conveniently kick out this time? Brian Myers? Frankie Kazarian? Rich Swann? Because yes, I’m still annoyed that Hammerstone has been in TNA for half a sandwich, he already connects with a Super version of his finish on tacks, and that’s not a finish. Oh Kaz’s music hits. Okay, so time for Josh to kick out of Fade to Black or Flux Capacitor. Kaz talks smack, says he won his match too so he should have a say in who’s number one contender. Josh challenges him, Kaz says not right now, but a referee runs out and says the match is official. 

#1 Contender: Frankie Kazarian vs Josh Alexander

Kaz throws his jacket on Josh’s head, and attacks him with some strikes before Josh fights back and throws Kaz out. Commercial break, we see Kaz misses his Apron Guillotine, Josh goes for the Low Crossbody but Kaz dodges and Josh goes flying. Kaz starts throwing some chops and claws at the cauliflowered ears of Josh. Russian Leg Sweep from Kaz for a near fall. Josh swings wildly and Kaz ducks the strike and levels Josh with a Lariat.

Josh blocks a Vertical Suplex attempt, but Frankie pulls off a Fisherman’s Suplex after a few overhead strikes for a near fall. Josh stands up and connects with a straight right, rocks Kaz, Back Body Drop, into a Charging Forearm, Rolling Senton, 2 count! C4 Spike attempt countered into a Back Stabber and then Chicken Wing, but Josh fights it off, rolls through and into an Ankle Lock, Kaz kicks off and into a Head and Arm Cradle for a near fall and then the Guillotine Leg Drop into Slingshot DDT spot from Kaz for another 2 count!

Fade to Black, but its fought off, Big Boot but then Kaz counters the next move with a Power Slam into the Springboard Guillotine Leg Drop, but Josh grabs the Ankle Lock! Locomotion German Suplex time from Josh, Halfhatch Suplex after the Germans, floats over for a 2 count! C4 Spike attempt again, but Kaz fights it off, dumps him over the top rope, slingshots him in and into the Cutter for a near fall for Kaz! After the 2 Kaz grabs a chair and chain, the referee stops the chair of course, so he tries the chain, EY runs down and grabs the chain so Kaz pulls the Eddie Guerrero and the referee admonishes EY, but doesn’t DQ Josh. So as Kaz is busy laughing at EY, Josh picks the ankle, Ankle Lock with the Grapevine, Kaz taps.

ASH by Elegance vs Xia Brookside

Both are jawing at each other and then throw hands before Xia gets the upper hand with a Headscissors from the Top Turnbuckle, Charging Knees, a Flurry of Kicks, but when the ref forces some space in the corner, ASH is finally able to dodge and work over Xia with her Twisting Body Splash, a few choking moves, a corner Stomp into a Snap Suplex for 2. ASH is in charge elegantly, but the referee keeps forcing space on both of them when they go for corner attacks. Xia manages to take advantage a little, but ASH regains control, kicks Xia up the ramp and then lands her Cartwheel Back Elbow up the ramp. It actually looks pretty cool executed like that.

Headlocks and Hair Pulling to keep Xia down and using energy to kick out. ASH is getting frustrated but Xia is remaining persistent. ASH goes back to the Headlock, but Xia fights up, Jawbreaker, Back Elbow, Kick to the gut and Drop Toe Hold sends ASH face first into the middle buckle. Xia rips off 4 Double Knee Smashes to the back of ASH’s head into her Flying Crossbody for a close 2! Xia pulls her up, but ASH spins out, then Xia slips it, but ASH kicks her in the chest and deposits her to the outside and demands a count from the referee. Iceman puts Jeweled Knuckles/Rings on ASH’s hand, the referee catches her, removes the stuff from her fingers and Xia hits the School Girl Roll-Up for the flash win.

Sami Callihan vs The Good Hands

So the Good Hand Jobs are about to do their job to Sami. I’m just gonna assume Sami beats the hell out of both and wins with a Cactus Driver ’97. If anything interesting happens I might actually cover it, but come on now.

Kaz makes a Metallica reference with the “Wash Your Back So You Won’t Stab Mine”…and Sweet Amber is the only good song on St. Anger. So…I ain’t mad.

Eddie Edwards w/Alisha Edwards & Brian Myers vs Nic Nemeth

A little early ground wrestling and headlocks for control from both men. Nothing super flashy to start until we get to the rope run and Nemeth goes for the Flying Body Press to drop Eddie. Before Nemeth can follow up, Lish grabs his foot. Nic does have his brother Ryan in the crowd, trying to get chants going and do the old school ‘power up the babyface’ thing, but Eddie has been in control since Lish got involved. Simple offense, chokes, strikes, Snap Suplexes, Knee Drops, simple yet effective. But then Eddie ducks his head too early, Nemeth kicks him in the face, bounces his head off the buckles a few times, Dropkick sends Eddie reeling to the corner, Nemeth starts the 10 Count Punches but Myers hits the apron to distract and Eddie manages to slip the situation and push Nemeth to the floor.

Commercial break happens, Nemeth is trying to fight back with Chops, but a Kitchen Sink from Eddie puts Nemeth on the floor again! Clubbing blow from Eddie, but Eddie then misses the Hip Attack in the corner and Nemeth counters with the Rude Awakening into the 10 Count Rain of Elbows. Fame Ass-er miss, Eddie tries something but Nemeth turns it into that hesitation DDT for 2! Tuning up the band starts to build and Eddie powders to avoid it. Nemeth throws Eddie back in, goes to the top, but Eddie crotches him, rises up and hits the Superplex into Tiger Driver for 2! Eddie starts mocking with Tuning Up the band but Nemeth hits his own Superkick into an Olympic Slam for 2!

Both men just trade strikes Fighting Spirit style, Eddie says “Always Trust the System” and Nemeth shuts him up with a Headbutt. Danger Zone is blocked, Boston Knee Party gets ducked, they level each other with Lariats! Myers and Ryan Nemeth start fighting to distract the referee, Moose hits the ring and hits Nemeth with the belt. Eddie lands Boston Knee Party and The System wins again!

 

Overall Score: 6/10

A lame opening segment, a squash match, ASH by Elegance getting her first loss, and a weird way of just pulling the number one contender out of mid air makes for an awkward show. Also Kon still be involved in, literally anything, is negative. However, I can say there was a ton of stuff thrown at the wall this episode, so there’s a chance that some things landed better with other people than myself. The ballot segments were amusing, they overused the “I need to talk to you Santino” gimmick a bit much and personally I feel like having Jake versus Hammerstone is booking yourself into a weird corner.

But hey, the main event was fun, Nemeth getting laid out to the point that there could be a story reason to take him out of the Under Siege match. Kaz with the Metallica reference was pop worthy and I guess its a lot of ‘let’s see where it goes’ kind of angle creation. So it wasn’t complete trash, but its definitely a wait and see episode.


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Mitchell’s ROH Results & Report! (4/25/24)

Champions need challengers!

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The Queen is coming for her crown!

Athena & Billie Starkz are the top champions in the ROH Women’s Division, but Queen Aminata’s coming after them! Who will she target first?

OFFICIAL RESULTS

  • Isiah Kassidy VS Komander w/ Alex Abrahantes; Zay wins.
  • Six Man Tag: Top Flight VS The Dark Order; wins.
  • ROH World Tag Team Championships Proving Ground Match: The Undisputed Kingdom VS The Outrunners; win(s) and
  • Abadon VS ???
  • Johnny TV VS ???
  • Taya Valkyrie VS ???
  • Anna Jay VS Allysin Kay; wins.
  • Six Man Tag: Lance Archer & The Righteous VS ???
  • Triple Threat: Blake Christian VS AR Fox VS The Beast Mortos; wins.

PLAY BY PLAY

Isiah Kassidy VS Komander w/ Alex Abrahantes!

Brother Zay and the Commander of the Skies are coming down from the high of competing against Rob Van Dam on April 20th, but they’re both ready to get back up. Will Kassidy earn his shot (shot shot) at a championship? Or will the AAA Cruiserweight Champion be aiming for ROH gold?

The Code of Honor is upheld, but Zay has his fingers crossed! Zay trips Komander at the bell, says he’s too smart, then he steps on Komander’s dropdown to say “SHOTS! SHOTS! SHOTS!” and “SUCK IT!” Komander keeps cool, he and Zay tie up, and Komander headlocks. Zay pulls on the mask, powers up and out to hurdle, but then Komander steps on him! Komander mocks “SHOTS! SHOTS!” Zay runs up, Komander avoids the boot to then wrench, wrench and mule kick a leg! Kmoander steps over, rolls through, then rolls again, to a HALF CRAB! Zay endures, fights around, ROPEBREAK! Komander lets go and Zay stands back up.

The fans rally, Komander runs in but is put on the apron. Zay runs in but into a slingshot BOOT! Zay comes back but Komander goes up and headscissors Zay into buckles. Komander comes back to springboard, wheelbarrow, but Zay HOTSHOTS Komander and then throws him down! The fans boo but Zay says they don’t teach that at school. Just follow Zay and he’ll get your right. Zay then smothers Komander with his towel! The ref reprimands, Zay lets off and Komander sputters to a corner. Zay bumps Komander off buckles, CHOPS him, then stomps Komander down. Zay says “SHOTS! SHOTS!” as he gives stomp after stomp.

The ref counts, Zay lets off at 4 and dusts his shoes off. Zay goes back to scuff Komander, taunt him, but the fans rally up for Komander. Zay scuffs Komander more, eggs him on, but Komander fights up to fire hands! Zay ducks a roundhouse but not the HEEL KICK! Zay leans on ropes, Komander runs in but Zay puts him on the apron. Komander gets up but Zay triangle jump STUNNERS! Komander flops to the floor, Zay scowls and goes out after him. The fans rally, Zay backs Abrahantes off, and the fans boo. Zay goes back for Komander, SMACKS him off barriers, then grabs the chair.

The fans boo, Zay says watch this, it’s about to be an 8K. Zay runs and uses the chair to LAUNCH, into barriers! Komander avoids disaster, puts Zay in the ring, and he hurries to a corner. The fans fire up as Komander springboards, but Zay moves! Komander rolls through, ducks ‘n’ dodges then RANAS! The fans fire up while Zay bails out. Komander builds speed and WRECKS Zay with a dropkick! Then ASAI MOONSAULT and down goes Zay! The fans fire up, Komander drags Zay up and in, then he springboards again, for a SWANTON BOMB! Cover, TWO! Zay stays in this as fans chant “DOS! DOS! DOS!”

Zay goes to the apron, Komander storms up and stands him up. Zay shoves Komander away, goes up the corner, but Komander runs up! Zay anticipates and GAMANGIRIS! Zay goes up to SUPSER SUSNET FLIP, but Komander flips through!! The fans fire up and Zay is shocked! Zay still BOOTS Komander, fires forearms, but Komander bobs ‘n’ weaves to SLAP, UPPERCUT and power up! Zay turns Komander around but gets a SHOTEI! Komander then jumps up top POISON-RANA! The fans fire up again and Komander runs, but into a SPANISH FLY! Cover, TWO! Or as the fans remind us, “DOS! DOS! DOS!”

Zay says Komander’s done wasting his time. Zay whips, Komander reverses but Zay reverses back to scoop, only for Komander to tilt-o-whirl sunset flip! TWO, but Komander tries a side roll sunset, TWO! Zay escapes, Komander dodges his haymaker and waistlocks. Zay switches, Komander switches back, but Zay grabs the ref! LOW BLOW MULE KICK!! The fans boo as Zay gets away with that one! Abrahantes protests but the ref can’t call what he didn’t see! Zay blows a kiss, before the INVERTED TWIST OF FATE! Cover, Zay wins!

Winner: Isiah Kassidy, by pinfall

Brother Zay didn’t break rules but he did find a loophole to DELETE Komander’s momentum. Will Zay soon have a WONDERFUL ascension to the top of ROH?

 

ROH hears from Bullet Club Gold.

It was backstage at AEW Dynasty this past Sunday that the Bang Bang Gang unified the AEW and ROH World Trios Championships! Jay White says, “Today, our destiny, fulfilling our destiny by building our Dynasty! Y’see, I’m full! I’m full of that feeling when I get to say, I told you so! When I came to AEW, joined forces with The Gunns, I said the Gunns were money! Brought them in along with Juice Robinson, to Bullet Club GOLD. I said I would bring you gold, and boys, we’re running out of space. Because we’ve got gold a plenty, haven’t we, boys? Cuz I’m the mother effin’ Catalyst of Professional Wrestling! I told you so!”

Austin says their backpacks are heavier on the ride home, but that extra weight just reminds him that the Bang Bang Gang runs this Trios ish! Colten says they like to have fun before and after, but during? They don’t take no ish! There’s this saying around here, “Restore the Feeling.” That’s something for the young guys to get on TV, but guess who are never mentioned? The Gunns! Is it because they’ve been in too many main events? Is it because they’ve been tag team world champions? And now they’re AEW & ROH Trios Champions! The Gunns are the best damn team in the world! White is the best singles man in the world!

And tonight, they are the BEST trio in the world!! And if you’re not down with that, they’ve got two words for ya: GUNS UP!! The Bang Bang Gang is firing on all cylinders, but will they be able to shoot down those who take aim at them?

 

Six Man Tag: Top Flight VS The Dark Order!

Speaking of the trios championships, Action Andretti, and the brothers Martin get their shot at the Bang Bang Gang this Saturday! Will Top Flight pick up speed going into that Collision? Or will Evil Uno, John Silver & Alex Reynolds prove they are worthy contenders?

 


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