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Andrew’s NJPW Strong Ep. 7 Results & Match Ratings 9.18.2020
Episode 7 of Strong and well…it’s a bit lackluster. Building toward a Lion’s Break tournament, I guess is a thing. Maybe we get a surprise?
Well after a slow start, Strong started piling up one better show after the other. This episode however, doesn’t really have a big payoff. It seems to be the first Road to Lion’s Break Crown. Great…
If anything was a fear of mine at first, it was that this was going to turn into Young Lion/Nobodies on Ice the weekly show. I’m hoping this is just a reset while Cobb, Jay and KENTA are quarantining in Japan getting ready for G1 Climax, because if it’s going to be primarily this…this will be rough to care about weekly.
As I’ve said with the earlier shows, when people tune in to New Japan product, they want to see New Japan stars…not 75% North American indy guys and a few NJPW roster gaijins scattered about.
Well…maybe it won’t suck?
Ratings:
- Barrett Brown, The DKC, Jordan Clearwater & Blake Christian vs Clark Connors, Logan Riegel, Danny Limelight & Adrian Quest: Riegel wins via Jumping DDT – ** 1/2
- Misterioso & Fred Rosser vs PJ Black & Rocky Romero: Black wins via Placebo Effect – ***
- Alex Zayne & ACH vs Guerrillas of Destiny: Loa wins via Ape Shit – *** 1/4
Results:
Barrett Brown, The DKC, Jordan Clearwater & Blake Christian vs Clark Connors, Logan Riegel, Danny Limelight & Adrian Quest
Well each side of this 8 man has a jabroni, so that’s nice that they made it fair. We see a lot of the early tag outs being Lion’s Break Crown previews. Not a lot to take away from the early goings beyond; Limelight is sloppy, DKC is spastic (imagine Kenny Omega’s flourish antics, but looking like a spasm instead), Clearwater is solid but looks like a human Ken Doll and Riegel didn’t get a ton of work but his story is that he’s learning how to wrestle singles. As for Brown, Christian, Quest and Connors, they are all very good, and the linchpins that keep this match moving.
Connors gets a hot tag and bowls everything over. As Connors locks in the Boston Crab, we get the move spam portion of the match. DKC breaks up the pin, Limelight takes him out, then Dive, then Brown dives, then Christian dives because Quest didn’t do a move and just went to check on the pile up. This worked in the one team’s favor since Riegel managed to get a blind tag on Connors, right before Clark at a Midas Touch. Clearwater had no clue Riegel tagged in, so Riegel jumps up, grabs the head, Jumping DDT for the pin.
This match was supposed to “wet the appetite” for this Lion’s Break Crown tournament thing, it failed. To me, it just showed what I already knew, half of them are kinda lame and half are actually worth the time to watch their matches.
Misterioso & Fred Rosser vs PJ Black & Rocky Romero
Talk about an interesting set of teammates, right? It’s been nearly a decade since Black and Rosser were in Nexus together, while Misterioso and Romero bring a mixture of Lucha and Japanese Junior style. There’s no clear favorite in this, so it should be interesting.
Early on, Rosser’s power is on display when Rocky tries to charge at him with Shoulder Tackles. The Forever Shoulder Tackles keep bouncing off to the point that Rocky takes a comedy bump back to his corner and tags in PJ. PJ then charges and gets knocked on his ass. So PJ holds his head and turns back to a selling on the floor Rocky with the “yeah, ouch” kind of reaction; as Rosser tags out to Misterioso.
All of these men are fairly well traveled veterans and the match is pretty solid. Misterioso hits wonderful rolling Dropkicks, Sentons, his top rope Kneeling Senton, and it’s just solid. PJ hits a desperation Spanish Fly to slow down Misterioso’s momentum, but Rosser hits the ring and tries to take advantage of the referee checking and then going to randomly berate Rocky for Sneaky Style thoughts.
Rocky adds some more comedy as earlier he called out Brainbuster on Rosser, but failed, and he tried to double Powerbomb the bigger men who were looking to Double Superplex PJ Black, but they just kicked Rocky away. Superplex hits, Rocky breaks up the pin. Rosser charges Rocky, Low Bridge, Pescado from Rocky to wipe out Rosser. Then PJ manages to hit his Springboard 450 (Placebo Effect) on Misterioso.
Alex Zayne & ACH vs Guerrillas of Destiny
Commentary tries to frame this as a trap game since G.o.D. are the established team going against a random pairing. Zayne and ACH manage to apply the speed kills motto to the early goings of this match. A few quick tags and locomotion moves left the brothers reeling. It wasn’t until Tama found an opening to slow the match down and bring in Loa for some double Sentons and calm calculated tag team wrestling.
Part of my enjoyment of Zayne’s matches are Koslov’s insistence on referring to everything he does through the Taco Bell menu. Not sure how what inspired that, but when he brings up the Hot Sauce, Baja Blast hair color, going for the Crunchwrap Supreme…it’s just all amusing. Once G.o.D. took over, things looked bleak for the smaller team. There were a few save spots when ACH stopped the Super Powerbomb and then Alex Zayne hit a huge Avalanche Frankensteiner; but we’re not going to see one of the most decorated heavyweight teams go down like that.
Tama clears out ACH, Loa manages to stifle Zayne and then hit him with Ape Shit for the win.
In a small observation, I think this is the second time we’ve see Loa win a tag match with Ape Shit. So I wonder if there’s something there that it’s not the tandem moves putting people away.
Overall Score: 5/10
While nothing was awful, there is no real burning reason to watch this episode. The wrestling was fine, the attempted story is really only for the Lion’s Break tournament, with the rest feeling like filler. So after a few weeks that slowly got better, we get a glimpse of what Strong will look like without names like Jeff Cobb, KENTA and Jay White…and it ain’t great.
This is just another run of the mill show, with a bunch of names people don’t know or decent vets in matches with no significance. At least there’s potential for next week to be better.
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Mitchell’s NJPW Best of the Super Juniors Results & Report! (5/14/25)
It’s a BIG day for BOSJ!
Everyone jumps in for round 2!
NJPW is feeling good on a Wednesday, so they’re bringing ALL TEN MATCHES of Best of the Super Juniors Round 2 to Korakuen Hall!
OFFICIAL RESULTS
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: Ryusuke Taguchi VS Titan; Titan wins.
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: Ninja Mack VS Francesco Akira; Akira wins.
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: Kevin Knight VS Robbie Eagles; wins.
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: KUSHIDA VS Robbie X; wins.
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: MAO VS Taiji Ishimori; wins.
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: Clark Connors VS Yoshinobu Kanemaru; wins.
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: YOH VS SHO; wins.
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: Master Wato VS Dragon Dia; wins.
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: El Desperado VS Nick Wayne; wins.
- Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: Hiromu Takahashi VS Kosei Fujita; wins.
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Here are the current A Block standings!
Hiromu Takahashi: 1-0, 2 points
Dragon Dia: 1-0, 2 points
Kosei Fujita: 1-0, 2 points
Ninja Mack: 1-0, 2 points
Clark Connors: 1-0, 2 points
Master Wato: 0-1, 0 points
KUSHIDA: 0-1, 0 points
Yoshinobu Kanemaru: 0-1, 0 points
Francesco Akira: 0-1, 0 points
Robbie X: 0-1, 0 points
Here are the current B Block standings!
El Desperado: 1-0, 2 points
Nick Wayne: 1-0, 2 points
MAO: 1-0, 2 points
Robbie Eagles: 1-0, 2 points
Ryusuke Taguchi: 1-0, 2 points
Kevin Knight: 0-1, 0 points
Titan: 0-1, 0 points
SHO: 0-1, 0 points
YOH: 0-1, 0 points
Taiji Ishimori: 0-1, 0 points
Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: Ryusuke Taguchi VS Titan!
The Funky Weapon won big in his main event match on Sunday, while El Inmortal lost to El Desperado in the main event on Saturday. But who will win here to open this massive second round on Wednesday?
Taguchi and Titan shake hands and the fans cheer. The bell rings and the fans rally behind Taguchi. Taguchi and Titan circle, feel things out, then knuckle lock. But Titan trips Taguchi and things speed up. Taguchi hurdles, Titan leaps over, and Titan comes back. Taguchi wrenches to whip Titan to a corner, but Titan goes up, over, and handsprings away! The fans fire up, and Taguchi runs in, but Titan goes Matrix! Titan CALF KICKS and Taguchi tumbles out. Titan builds speed and DIVES! Direct hit and down goes Taguchi! The fans fire up more as Titan shakes out the stars. Titan then borrows a fan’s flag of Mexico and show it off.
Titan stomps Taguchi, puts him in the ring, and covers, TWO! The fans applaud as Taguchi stays in this. Titan stays on Taguchi with kicks to the side. Titan stands Taguchi up but Taguchi CHOPS! And CHOPS! But Titan ducks the next one to fire off a strike fest! Titan fires up but Taguchi fires his own strike fest! ENZIGIRI! Taguchi runs, but into a HIP ATTACK!? Titan whips, Taguchi reverses, then Taguchi goes Matrix! The fans fire up, and then Taguchi HIP ATTACKS! Taguchi calls upon the powers of Strange Style, “ORYA~!” KETS- NO, Titan O’Conner Rolls and bridges! TITAN WINS!!
Winner: Titan, by pinfall (gains 2 points; Taguchi earns 0)
Even Titan is shocked that he finishes this one off so fast! Taguchi is disappointed in himself, but can he still turn things around? Or will this be the rise of El Inmortal?
Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: Ninja Mack VS Francesco Akira w/ The United Empire!
Speaking of the fast and the furious, the American Ninja showed just how quick he can be as he defeated Robbie X, while the Crown of Fire brought a lot of aggression, only to lose to Kosei Fujita. Will Akira redeem himself here in Korakuen? Or will the Mack attack stack another win?
Well hold on! As soon as Mack is ringside, Akira PLANCHAS out onto him! The fans fire up with Akira and the bell rings. Akira puts Mack in the ring, runs up and LARIATS int he corner! Akira whips, Mack grabs ropes, so Akira runs in. Mack BOOTS Akira, puts him on the, and then “HADOUKEN!” double punches him down! And then Mack hits the NINJA SPECIAL! Not quite as wild as that one against Robbie but still impressive! Mack then stands Akira up to DOUBLE CHOP! The fans cheer, Akira sputters away, but Mack pursues. Mack KICKS Akira against the apron, but then doesn’t like Callum & Jakob being so close.
Mack argues with Callum but Akira slips into the ring. Mack pursues, brings Akira up, and snap suplexes. Cover, TWO! The fans rally while Mack clamps onto Akira’s arm. Akira endures the motorcycle stretch, even as Mack sits back to pulls on the arms! Akira fights up to his feet, but Mack lets him drop into the body scissors and SLEEPER! Akira flails and moves around, and he finds the ROPEBREAK! Mack lets go, drags Akira to center, but Akira kicks at him. Mack falls back and Akira rises. Mack still KICKS and CHOPS Akira to a corner. Mack whips but Akira reverses. Akira wheelbarrows, victory rolls, and STOMP 182!
The fans fire up while both men are down. Mack and Akira both rise but Akira is on Mack first. Akira CHOPS Mack right down! Then he brings Mack around to reel him in. SPEED- NO, Mack fights Speedfire by hooking a leg. Akira fires KNEES into Mack, then runs, but Mack follows! Mack slips around to waistlock, SLEEPER, but Akira snapmares free! Akria ducks the Shuriken Kick to SUPERKICK! The fans fire up for “A! KI-RA!” and he hooks Mack up. SPEED- NO, Mack handsprings free and SHURIKEN KICKS! Cover, TWO! Another cover, TWO! Mack is frustrated, but he drags Akira to a drop zone.
The fans rally as Mack climbs, and Akira springs up! Akira CLUBS Mack, wags his finger, then CLUBS him again. Akira climbs up as he turns Mack around, and Akira calls his shot! But Mack fights the lift! Mack hops down, GAMANGIRIS Akira down, and then climbs back up. But Akira is right back up to get him! SUPER DUPER STEINER, and Mack flips through?!? But then FIREBALL hits!! Cover, Akira wins!
Winner: Francesco Akira, by pinfall (gains 2 points; Mack earns 0)
Right as Mack thought he was hot stuff, Akira showed he’s hotter! Will Akira still blaze a trail to the top of the block? Or will the American Ninja still accomplish his mission?
Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: Kevin Knight VS Robbie Eagles!
The Jet got brought town to Earth in the opening round going up against MAO, but the Sniper of the Skies hit YOH on the bull’s eye. Will Eagles prove he can fly higher than #2Flyy? Or will this be Kevin’s night?
Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: KUSHIDA VS Robbie X!
The Time Splitter was taken by surprise and made to tap out to Hiromu Takahashi. Meanwhile, Mr. X could not solve Ninja Mack. Who will quickly turn things around while the other continues to fall down the block?
Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: MAO VS Taiji Ishimori!
Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: Clark Connors VS Yoshinobu Kanemaru!
Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: YOH VS SHO!
Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: Master Wato VS Dragon Dia!
Best of the Super Juniors 32 B Block: El Desperado VS Nick Wayne!
Best of the Super Juniors 32 A Block: Hiromu Takahashi VS Kosei Fujita!
Here are the NEW A Block standings!
Hiromu Takahashi: 1-0, 2 points
Dragon Dia: 1-0, 2 points
Kosei Fujita: 1-0, 2 points
Francesco Akira: 1-1, 2 points
Ninja Mack: 1-1, 2 points
Clark Connors: 1-0, 2 points
Master Wato: 0-1, 0 points
KUSHIDA: 0-1, 0 points
Yoshinobu Kanemaru: 0-1, 0 points
Robbie X: 0-1, 0 points
Here are the NEW B Block standings!
El Desperado: 1-0, 2 points
Nick Wayne: 1-0, 2 points
MAO: 1-0, 2 points
Robbie Eagles: 1-0, 2 points
Titan: 1-1, 2 points
Ryusuke Taguchi: 1-1, 2 points
Kevin Knight: 0-1, 0 points
SHO: 0-1, 0 points
YOH: 0-1, 0 points
Taiji Ishimori: 0-1, 0 points
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Will “Super Sean” bow down to The King?
Lexis King brings the drama to Evolve as he claims to be the new gatekeeper! But will Sean Legacy humble Lexis in their first 1v1 match?
OFFICIAL RESULTS
- Lexis King VS Sean Legacy; wins.
- Javier Bernal VS It’s Gal; wins.
- Harlem Lewis & Keanu Carver VS The Coffey Brothers; win(s).
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