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gdwessel · 3 years

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Naito Suffers Knee Injury, Out of G1 Climax 31; Suzuki Officially Added To GCW Bloodsport 7 10/22/2021; Bullet Club Beats FinJuice Again at Impact Victory Road; Shooter, Yota, Ospreay at RevPro High Stakes 2021, Aussie Open Joins United Empire

Bad news regarding G1 Climax: It has been reported that Tetsuya Naito suffered a left knee injury (MCL and meniscus) during his opening match Saturday against Zack Sabre Jr. There is no timetable for his return, so he will be forfeiting the rest of his A Block matches, with the rest of his opponents getting a free 2pts because of this. The cards will be altered, with Yuji Nagata, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi and Satoshi Kojima all stepping in to wrestle Naito’s opponents those nights in non-tournament matches. If you ask me they could have just put Kojima in to give him one last G1 Climax, but I don’t book New Japan Pro Wrestling so what do I know.

This will also make Naito the first person with 0pts in G1 Climax since Tomoaki Honma in G1 Climax 24 back in 2014, although Honma wrestled all his matches, whereas Naito had to forfeit after one round. So maybe not really the same thing.

As predicted, Minoru Suzuki has been officially added to the card for GCW’s Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 7 event. No opponent has been announced for this as yet. Suzuki was in the first two Bloodsport branded events (the first one under the name of *spits* Matt Riddle), and was due to face Chris Dickinson at Barnett’s Bloodsport 3 during Mania Weekend 2020 before the pandemic put paid to that.

So with that, here’s the updated Suzuki indie itinerary.

- 9/22/2021, All Elite Wrestling, Dynamite: Grand Slam, Arthur Ashe Arena, Queens, NYC, NY (Airing 9/24/2021 on AEW Rampage on TNT)

Lights Out Match: Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston v. Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki

- 9/24/2021, Game Changer Wrestling, Get Lost A Lot, Melrose Ballroom, NYC, NY (FITE)

Minoru Suzuki v. Homicide

- 9/25/2021, New Japan of America, Autumn Attack Night 1 (NJPW Strong taping), Curtis Culwell Center, Garland, TX

Fred Rosser v. Minoru Suzuki [SZKG]

- 9/26/2021, New Japan of America, Autumn Attack Night 2 (NJPW Strong taping), Curtis Culwell Center, Garland TX

Minoru Suzuki [SZKG] & Lance Archer [AEW] v. “Filthy” Tom Lawlor & Royce Isaacs [Team Filthy]

- 10/1/2021, WrestleMax, Episode VI, Affton Elks Lodge, St. Louis, MO

Minoru Suzuki v. Calvin Tankman

- 10/2/2021, Premiere Wrestling Xperience, All Hail The King, Cabarrus Arena, Concord, NC

Minoru Suzuki v. Anthony Henry

- 10/3/2021, Glory Pro, Little Ring of Horrors, South Broadway Athletic Club, St. Louis, MO

Minoru Suzuki v. Davey Richards

- 10/5/2021, NJPW Toukon Shop Online Meet & Greet

- 10/8/2021, West Coast Pro Wrestling, No Leaf Clover (3rd Anniversary Show), The State Room, San Francisco, CA (IWTV)

Minoru Suzuki v. Daniel Garcia

- 10/10/2021, Game Changer Wrestling, The Aftermath, The Showboat, Atlantic City, NJ (FITE)

Minoru Suzuki v. Joey Janela

- 10/17/2021, New Japan of America, New Japan Showdown 2021 Night 1 (NJPW Strong taping), 2300 Arena, Philadelphia, PA

Chris Dickinson [ROH] v. Minoru Suzuki [SZKG]

- 10/18/2021, New Japan of America, New Japan Showdown 2021 Night 2 (NJPW Strong taping), 2300 Arena, Philadelphia, PA

TBA

- 10/21/2021, TimeBomb Pro, Violence is Forever, Tak Music Venue, Dilworth, MN

Minoru Suzuki v. Dominic Garrini

- 10/22/2021, Game Changer Wrestling, Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 7, Ukrainian Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (FITE)

Minoru Suzuki v. TBA

- 10/23/2021, Game Changer Wrestling, War Ready, Ukrainian Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (FITE)

Nick Gage v. Minoru Suzuki

In other news, Saturday was Impact’s Victory Road PPV, which among other matches, had the Bullet Club tandem of Chris Bey & Hikuleo once again getting the better of FinJuice in a tag team match, continuing that feud as we head into Sunday’s NJPW Strong tapings with the rubber Texas Bullrope Match between Juice v. Hikuleo. Also on the show, NJPW Strong guest Josh Alexander decided to utilize “Option C” with regard to the X Division title, whereby he vacates that title in order to challenge Christian Cage for the Impact World Title. That will happen at the forthcoming Bound For Glory event.

On Sunday, RevPro in the UK held their High Stakes 2021 event, that saw Shota Umino defeat Dan Moloney, as well as Yota Tsuji beat Mark Haskins in 21:45, which turned out to be the 3rd longest match on the show, and definitely the longest match Yota Tsuji has ever wrestled.

Will Ospreay retained the Undisputed British Heavyweight title by defeating British Heavyweight champion Ricky Knight Jr. (there’s something there with RevPro acquiring some promotions and grandfathering in their champions, or something). I’d still like to know how Will Ospreay is able to go back and forth between the UK and the USA right now. Post-main, Ospreay continued to beat down Knight, which brought out Shooter for the save. Ospreay and RevPro tag team the Young Guns continued to beat down Shooter, until RevPro tag team champions Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) came out.... and also attacked Shooter, whilst Ospreay then turned on the Young Guns. With that, Aussie Open have now joined the United Empire, and it’s a good chance one of Aussie Open will be Ospreay’s mystery partner in Texas this Sunday.

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gdwessel · 5 years

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Super J-Cup 2019 Night 1 - 8/22/2019; Jon Moxley Has MRSA In Elbow, Missing AEW All Out, Probably Won’t Make Destruction Tour; Many Special Jushin Liger Matches on NJPWWorld Now; Tonight’s NJPW on AXS

Strong Style Story Podcast Episode 56 on Pro Wrestling Only

Hey, this is about a day late, and sorry for that; with the Super J-Cup show being on the West Coast, it wasn’t ending til near midnight my time, and yesterday, something came up and wasn’t able to get to my PC all day. Sorry.

In any event, Thursday was the first night of the 2019 edition of Super J-Cup. 9 matches total, 8 of which were the first round. This show is still not posted anywhere, so can’t speak to any quality, etc.

Super J-Cup 2019 - 8/22/2019, Temple Theater, Tacoma, WA

Jushin Thunder Liger & Karl Fredericks d. Shota Umino & Ren Narita (Fredericks > Narita, Boston Crab, 7:30)

Super J-Cup 2019 First Round: Soberano Jr. [CMLL] d. Rocky Romero [CHAOS] (Tornillo, 11:04)

Super J-Cup 2019 First Round: TJP [FREE] d. Clark Connors (Pinoy Stretch, 11:56)

Super J-Cup 2019 First Round: Caristico [CMLL] d. BUSHI [Los Ingobernables] (Top Rope Spanish Fly, 10:08)

Super J-Cup 2019 First Round: Ryusuke Taguchi d. Jonathan Gresham [ROH] (Inside Cradle, 12:59)

Super J-Cup 2019 First Round: El Phantasmo [Bullet Club] d. Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] (Schoolboy, 12:17)

Super J-Cup 2019 First Round: Dragon Lee [CMLL] d. YOH [CHAOS] (Desnucadora, 18:51)

Super J-Cup 2019 First Round: SHO [CHAOS] d. Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club] (Shock Arrow, 17:06)

Super J-Cup 2019 First Round: Will Ospreay [CHAOS] d. Amazing Red [FREE] (Stormbreaker, 28:19)

If there are any surprises in this, it is that all three CMLL luchadores made it through to the next round, and SHO beating Ishimori. The latter is to set up an inevitable IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team match more than anything. There was no way TJP was going to lose. There was no way Amazing Red was going to win. El Phantasmo wins this round of the grudge feud with Robbie Eagles.

The card for tonight’s quarterfinals show in San Francisco will be posted at the end of the post.

Jon Moxley tweeted out yesterday the above, stating he has MRSA (staph infection) in his elbow, which will prevent his wrestling against Kenny Omega at AEW’s All Out PPV event on 8/31/2019 right in my backyard (I won’t be going). He went on to further say:

I apologize to all involved, most importantly the fans. I am incredibly frustrated and pissed off. I'll have surgery this week to remove the bursa sac in my elbow and be done with it for good. Should be a quick recovery so I will be 100% for AEW Wednesday nights on TNT.

Still, I expect All out to be an amazing ppv and hope all the fans out there looking for an alternative tune in. You will be blown away by AEW and be excited to be a wrestling fan. I'm looking forward to watching as a fan myself

A bursa sac removal takes approximately 3-4 weeks to heal up, generally, before being able to use that elbow again. Moxley also tweeted at former NJPW on AXS commentator Josh Barnett lamenting the match the two were due to have on 9/16/2019 at the GCW Presents Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport II event, so safe assumption that match will also not be happening. As of right now, no lineups for the Destruction cycle of shows have been announced, but the timeline for recovery makes it unlikely we will see Moxley on that tour. AEW on TNT is supposed to start on 10/2/2019; King of Pro Wrestling is on 10/14/2019 from Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan, so we may be waiting until then to see Mox in the NJPW ring once more.

NJPWWorld has a treat for fans wanting to see more of Jushin Thunder Liger before his retirement. First off, they have posted what is, unbelievably, Liger’s debut in Pro Wrestling Zero-1, the promotion founded by former Three Musketeer, the late Shinya Hashimoto, only this past July, on 7/28/2019 in Tokyo Korakuen Hall (I missed this happening due to all the move shenanigans). In this, Liger teams with his old pal The Great Sasuke, against two former NJPW junior heavyweight legends from the days of yore, Shinjiro Otani (the main man in Zero-1 since Hashimoto’s passing in 2005) and Tatsuhito Takaiwa.

The service has also posted Liger’s farewell match to Arena Mexico, from 7/19/2019 at CMLL’s Viernes Espectacular, where there was a farewell ceremony, as well as a 4-corners “Relevos CMLL” match with Liger facing off against Caristico, Negro Casas & Ultimo Guerrero. In addition, the bout from the next night, at Lucha Libre Real in Arena Coliseo, featuring Liger against 10 different luchadores, then the winners of a Battle Royale of those 10 (yes, winners, plural), are posted as well. Some fun matches to watch, perhaps, as we wait for the Super J-Cup to come. (These matches are region-locked if you are in Mexico, sadly)

Tonight’s episode of NJPW on AXS wraps up their coverage of G1 Climax 29, with the showing of the Finals between Kota Ibushi v. Jay White, from Tokyo Nippon Budokan on 8/12/2019. Also advertised is the tag match between Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi v. Minoru Suzuki & Zack Sabre Jr. Show starts at 9pm EDT / 8m CDT.

There is not a new episode next week, considering a) Labor Day Weekend b) AEW’s All Out would be direct competition c) no new post-G1 material yet. They are showing Okada v. Chris Jericho from Dominion in June, if that interests you.

Here is tonight’s lineup for the second night of Super J-Cup, from San Francisco:

- 8/24/2019, SFSU Student Life Events Center, San Francisco, CA

Jonathan Gresham [ROH] v. Alex Coughlin

Robbie Eagles [CHAOS] v. Clark Connors

Shota Umino v. BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

Ren Narita & Karl Fredericks v. Taiji Ishimori & Gedo [Bullet Club]

Jushin Thunder Liger & Amazing Red [FREE] v. Rocky Romero & YOH [CHAOS]

Super J-Cup 2019 Quarterfinal: Caristico [CMLL] v. Soberano Jr. [CMLL]

Super J-Cup 2019 Quarterfinal: TJP [FREE] v. El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]

Super J-Cup 2019 Quarterfinal: Ryusuke Taguchi v. Dragon Lee [CMLL]

Super J-Cup 2019 Quarterfinal: Will Ospreay [CHAOS] v. SHO [CHAOS]

Strong Style Story Podcast Episode 56 on Pro Wrestling Only

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