More New Begining coverage is on the menu for today’s New Japan on AXS, as we return after two weeks with a match of the year contender. The most interesting thing to remember on this show is that Tomoaki Honma was never scheduled to be on this show – Togi Makabe was set to defend the NEVER title against Ishii, but pulled out the day of the show due to suffering a flu. Fate is a funny thing sometimes.
Today’s bouts are from the February 14, 2015 New Beginnings show in Sendai.
Kota Ibushi and Tetsuya Naito vs. Toru Yano and Kazushi Sakuraba kicks things off. I’ve said this before, but man has Naito totally changed his look and persona in the last few months. This was only about ten months ago, but Naito has changed himself so much in that timespan this looks like a match from years ago, especially when you consider Ibushi’s been gone for a while. Ibushi and Sakuraba had some cool exchanges. It’s unfortunate that Ibushi and Sakuraba’s proposed match at the Toyko Dome isn’t taking place as they had some pretty good chemistry. Considering I’ve seen many World Tag League matches in the last couple of weeks which feature formulaic, solid wrestling, this was refreshing. A really good match with everyone getting some shine, and didn’t feel formulaic in the least bit. Everyone worked hard, even Yano, and that made this an exciting bout. Yano did his shoving opponent into the ref/low blow spot, but Naito transitioned during the execution and pinned Yano in a flash pin. Nice to see Naito beat Yano at his own game.
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata took on the Bullet Club, consisting of Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows, and Tama Tonga. This was fine, but felt like I’ve seen it before. A better version of a six man tag you’d see on any New Japan house show this year. Tanahashi gave Tama Tonga the slingblade, high fly flow, then pinned him
Main event hype time. Ishii said that he knew that Makabe couldn’t fight him due to getting the flu, but he didn’t know why he was facing Honma since he just lost to Ibushi a few days ago. He hasn’t thought much on Honma as his eyes were only on Makabe heading into this fight.
The match aired, and it hurt. Hurt bad. These two chopped and slapped the crap outta each other, repeatedly dropped each other on their heads and decapitated them with lariats in one hell of a match. Dave gave this ***** when it aired earlier this year, and I would have to agree with his. It’ll be on many people’s top 10 lists this year, and not a bad match to watch this time of year considering the Observer awards coming next month. Just a hellacious battle that proves that you can book a guy to lose all the time, but he can still be over if he’s given the opportunity. Honma very rarely pins a guy, but he gives it his all so much in every match people are into him, and makes his matches that much more special. The near falls in this match were so incredible. Even though you KNEW Honma wasn’t winning, this match was so great in making you believe he might be the next NEVER champion. After Honma kicks out of a sliding D to the side of the head (!), Ishii lays him out with a brainbuster and pins him in an excellent match.
Honma questioned himself why he couldn’t win in a situation like this. He promised a win next time. He’s not going anywhere, and that’s not changing anytime soon. Ishii says it’s only a temporary belt and won’t wear it until he beats Makabe. Prepare yourself.
Ishii, again a man of few words, says he doesn’t have much thoughts on the match. He wants to surpass the IC title with the Never title. He wants to win the belt and wear it in front of Makabe. Deep down, he feels the same with all opponents, and when he faces them he wants them to be fired up just as much as he does.
Excellent show this week, very much recommended if you haven’t seen this match yet. Be warned, however, as it’s not for the weak of heart.
We’re looking for reports from tonight’s WWE house show in Johnson City, TN (Roman Reigns vs. Sheamus plus Big Show, New Day, Dudleys, Charlotte and Paige) and NXT in Largo, FL at Dave Meltzer
NEW JAPAN WORLD PRO WRESTLING RETURNS ON AXS TV AT 9 P.M. EASTERN
Tomohiro Ishii vs. Tomoaki Honma for Never Open weight title – This was one of the best matches of 2015
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows & Tama Tonga
BELLATOR TONIGHT ON SPIKE AT 9 P.M. EASTERN FROM THE SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY GYM
Adam Piccolotti (155.8) vs. Mario Soto (155)
Virgil Zwicker (207.2) vs. Brian Rogers (205.8) – Zwicker missed weight and fined 20% of purse
Derek Anderson (155.8) vs. Patricky Pitbull Freire (155.6)
Daniel Weichel (144.8) vs. Georgi Karakhanyan (146)
Josh Thomson (155.4) vs. Pablo Villaseca (155)
CMLL LIVE AT WWW.CLAROSPORTS.COM FROM ARENA MEXICO AT 9:30 P.M. EASTERN (this may be geo-blocked but it hasn’t been the last several week)
Oro Jr. & Soberano vs. Arkangel de la Muerte & Canelo Casas
Angel de Oro & Brazo de Plata & Maximo Sexy vs. Ephesto & Kraneo & Luciferno
Euforia & Niebla Roja & Ultimo Guerrero vs. Barbaro Cavernario & Mephisto & Thunder
Dragon Lee vs. Kamaitachi for CMLL lightweight title
Mistico & Super Parka & Volador Jr. vs. Felino & Negro Casas & Shocker
AXS FIGHTS AT 10 P.M. EASTERN WITH LEGACY FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIPS FROM BOSSIER CITY, LA AT DIAMOND JACKS HOTEL & CASINO
Kalvin Hackney (146.9) vs. Cody Walker (146.4)
David Bosnick (148.9) vs. Kevin Aguilar (143.9)
Jonathan Martinez (127.9) vs. Matt Schenll (125.9)
Ariel Beck (124.9) vs. Andrea Lee (124.9) for the women’s flyweight title
Alex Morono (169.1) vs. Derrick Krants (169.3) for the welterweight title
NEW JAPAN TAG TOURNAMENT ON NEW JAPAN WORLD TOMORROW FROM KOBE
Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Michael Bennett & Matt Taven
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Michael Elgin vs. Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano
Saturday has WWE house shows in Augusta, GA (Roman Reigns vs. Sheamus, plus Big Show, New Day, Dudleys, Charlotte and Paige), WWE in Fayetteville, NC (Kevin Owens vs. Dean Ambrose, Tyler Breeze vs. Dolph Ziggler, Rusev vs. Ryback), NXT in Citrus Springs, FL and ROH in Fort Lauderdale at the War Memorial (Jay Lethal & Donovan Dijak vs. Young Bucks, Roderick Strong vs. Delirious for TV title, Matt Sydal vs. Jay Briscoe, Bobby Fish vs. ACH, Adam Cole vs. Kenny King, Moose vs. Dalton Castle vs. Cheeseburger vs. Rhett Titus, Mark Briscoe vs. Will Ferrara plus War Machine and Kyle O’Reilly).
LIVE ON NEW JAPAN WORLD FROM NAGOYA AT 2 A.M. EASTERN AND 11 P.M. PACIFIC LATE TOMORORW NIGHT
Yuji Nagata & Tiger Mask & Captain New Japan & Sho Tanaka vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Ryuske Taguchi & Mascara Dorada & Yohei Komatsu
Jay White & David Finlay vs. Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Juice Robinson vs. A.J. Styles (who is unlikely to be wrestling due to his back injury) & Cody Hall & Yujiro Takahashi
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Michael Elgin & Kushida vs. Matt Taven & Michael Bennett & Gedo
Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows
Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tetsuya Naito & Evil
Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga
Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs. Kazuchika Okada & Yoshi-Hashi
Sunday has WWE in Charlotte (Roman Reigns vs. Sheamus, plus New Day, Dudleys, Charlotte and Paige) and in Florence, SC (Kevin Owens vs. Dean Ambrose, Tyler Breeze vs. Dolph Ziggler, Rusev vs. Ryback).
Raw will be live Monday in North Charleston, SC. Nothing special has been announced for the show.
Smackdown and Main Event will be taped on Tuesday in Jacksonville.
Mick Foley’s talk on WWE creative and a look at all the new moves WWE tried this week on television is the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. We look at the changes WWE attempted after a week of record low ratings, as well as the fan questionnaire sent out, what can be learned from it, and why they are asking exactly the wrong people.
We also look at the strengths and weaknesses of the current WWE business, as well as why the ratings may be important, but other factors are probably more important,when it comes to WWE’s next television deal. We look at the different potential changes in the landscape look at what aspects of business are and aren’t improving, as well as WWE’s business in the big picture.
He also update the situation with A.J. Styles, and the New Japan tag team tournament with standings and notes on the tournament matches over the past week.
We also look at the TLC PPV update, more on La Sombra in WWE, questions about all the shoulder injuries, WWE security at live shows, Cena movie release, Brad Maddox firing, Maddox’s WWE history, talents WWE has shown interest in, WWE overseas tour lineup and WWE weekend live event notes and business.
We have a look at the debut of the new Rizin promotion, major announcements for the first weekend of shows, the tournament, just how big Bob Sapp vs Akebono was the first time.
We also have a story on the domestic abuse claims by the girlfriend of Tomoaki Honma, and his response.
We look at the realities of the free agency of Benson Henderson, judging of the key fights, as well as full rundown of UFC’s debut in South Korea this past week.
We’ve got notes of TNA’s canceled tour of India, notes on the death of Tommy Gilbert and El Bello Greco, along with a feature on Stan Holek, a member of two of the most decorated tag teams of the 50s and 60s, the Lisowski Brothers with Crusher and the Neilson Brothers with Art Neilson. We look at the unique reason why all of his success was as a tag team wrestler, his biggest rivals, and his 13 runs as world tag team champion.
We’ve got a feature on the retirement of Act Yasukawa and the sad reason it happened.
We’ve also got the awards ballot for the 2015 awards and information on how well Hell in a Cell did this year on PPV.
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Gleison Tibau would be the first drug test failure since the USADA/UFC drug testing program began (Mirko Cro Cop was not a test failure). Tibau has been provisionally suspended based on the results of an out of competition drug test. The nature of the test failure has yet to be announced.
As noted yesterday, the Aldo vs. McGregor Countdown show will be on Saturday at 3 p.m. Eastern on FOX. The Countdown show on FOX means a big audience will be watching.
Joey Ryan has gotten a ridiculous amount of mainstream publicity for a spot in his match with Danshoku Dino in Japan. It’s gotten coverage in ESPN, Maxim, the New York Daily News, The Soup, Fox Sports, SB Nation, Deadspin and Vice. Here is an article on it and here is the video (the article has an old video linked)
The pre-sale for the Raw after WrestleMania on 4/4 in Dallas sold out today. There will be more tickets put on sale to the public tomorrow, but that will also sell out immediately.
I just watched the 3/30/84 episode of Mid South Wrestling on the WWE Network. Granted, that was a few weeks before the most successful period in the history of that company (the last Stampede matches with Bill Watts & Stagger Lee vs. The Midnight Express), but my God, the promos, focus and character development between then and now is like night and day. They are still missing the boat not releasing the shows in a weekly episodic manner because scatter shot shows here and there only give you about 30% of the flavor of the stories and personalities.
UFC/MMA
Dana White has been everywherebuilding up the Ronda Rousey vs. Holly Holm rematch as well as plugging UFC 194. What they are pushing is that Rousey is bigger than ever due to losing. There are metrics that confirm this but the real metrics that count we won’t know until she fights again. Beyond that everyone expects if Rousey vs. Holm takes place it’ll be the biggest fight in UFC history. They are pushing Holm as the great female combat sports athlete of all-time.
UFC announced a 2/21 FS 1 card in Pittsburgh at the Consol Energy Center.
The UFC show on 2/27 in London sold out the O2 Arena in 27 minutes. So much for the idea that Gegard Mousasi vs. Michael Bisping as a main event fans didn’t want to see.
WWE
Mick Foley did a Facebook post talking about his son being hired by WWE and said that his writings this past week had nothing to do with it. A key factor is that he did his son no favors with the writing team by writing that.
TNA has a taped PPV that starts airing tonight called TNA vs. The World. The main events are Great Muta vs. Ken Anderson, Sonjay Dutt vs. Ethan Carter III and James Storm vs. Magnus.
Bill Apter has a show on 12/19 in Philadelphia at 2 p.m. at PhilaMOCA at 531 N. 12th St. It’s a talk show with tickets $10 on the afternoon after the ROH Final Battle PPV show.
One has a show tomorrow in Phnom Penh, Cambodia headlined by Lowen Tyanes vs. Rasui Yakhyaev
The Fight Network in Canada is now airing Paragon Pro Wrestling.
Live Pro Wrestling on 2/20 in Cornwall, ONT at the Agora Centre.
CMLL from Tuesday night in Guadalajara: Furia Roja & Malefico b Explosivo & Star Black, Flyer & Leono& Starman b Artillero & Super Comando & Okumura, The Panther & Stigma & Triton b Puma King & Sangre Azteca & Tiger, Angel de Oro & Blue Panther & Stuka Jr. b Mephisto & Ephesto & Luciferno, Gran Guerrero & Euforia & Niebla Roja b Maximo Sexy & Mistico & Titan (thanks to Kris Zellner)
Absolute Intense Wrestling tomorrow night in Cleveland at the Dr. Martin Luther Church with Kikutaro vs. Colt Cabana, Tracy Smothers vs. Grado, Cliff Compton vs. Frankie Flynn, Matt Cross vs. Alex Daniels and more. They also run 12/18 in Cleveland at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel with Ethan Carter III vs. Chuck Taylor, plus an appearance by Scott Hall.
Alpha 1 Wrestling on 12/13 in Hamilton, ONT at 166 Green Mountain Rd. with Eric Young vs. Scotty O’Shea, Alessandro Del Bruno vs. TJ Perkins and more.
CHIKARA finishes 2015 tomorrow night at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia with Top Banana headlined by Chuck Taylor & Drew Gulak & Orange Cassidy vs. Kobald & Obariyon & Kodama.
Freelance Wrestling tonight in Chicago at the Bottom Lounge with Colt Cabana, Grado, Kikutaro and Joey Ryan at 10 p.m.
Kansas City, Kansas: – In a MWA Title match, Champion Orville Brown beat Sonny Myers 2 falls to 1 – Al Lovelock beat Yukon Eric (as Eric Holmback) – Ronnie Etchison beat Fred Blassie
1954
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: – Argentina Rocca beat Chest Bernard – Jim Dobie beat Mitsu Arakawa – Great Tor Yamato beat Harry Lewis
1958
Kansas City, Kansas: – no time limit match, Lou Thesz beat Bob Geigel – Cowboy Bob Ellis and Ray Villmer defeated Lee Henning and Bob Orton – Mighty Atlas beat Joe Scarpa
1965
Omaha, Nebraska: – Texas Death Match: AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Mr. Wrestling dq – Verne Gagne beat Haru Sasaki – Mitsu Arakawa drew Reggie Parks – Billy Red Cloud beat Gene Anderson
1970
Los Angeles, California: – Rey Mendoza defeated John Tolos to win the NWA United National Heavyweight Title
1971
Omaha, Nebraska: – Larry Hennig beat The Crusher – Midwest Champion Great Kusatsu beat Bill Miller – Ray Stevens beat Red Bastien – Jerry Miller drew Mad Russian Stan Pulaski – Ox Baker drew Reggie Parks
1972
Hiroshima, Japan: – Kintaro Oki defeated Bobo Brazil to win the JWA NWA Int. title
1976
Caguas, Puerto Rico: – Hercules Ayala & Victor Jovica defeated Higo Hamaguchi & Gordon Nelson to win the WWC North American Tag Team Title
1978
Memphis, Tennessee: – Jerry Lawler defeated Don Fargo to win the AWA Southern Heavyweight Title
1979
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: – Bill Watts defeated Mike George to win the Mid-South North American Heavyweight Title
1981
Denver, Colorado: – AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Shiek Adnan – Hulk Hogan beat Jesse Ventura – Bobby Duncum beat Greg Gagne – Jim Brunzell beat Adrian Adonis – Tito Santana beat Bad Boy Brown
1992
Tokyo, Japan: – Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshio Kawada won the AJ Real World tag tournament from Terry Gordy & Steve Williams, thus winning the vacant Unified tag title
1993 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: – Kevin Sullivan & Tazmaniac defeated Tommy Dreamer & Shane Douglas (subbing for Johnny Gunn) to win the ECW Tag Team Titles
1999
Memphis, Tennessee: – Rico Constantino defeated Steve Bradley for the Memphis Power Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Title
2007
Mexico City, Mexico: – Mistico defeated Vangelis to win the National LHW title
2011
Greensboro, North Carolina: – ROH TV champ Jay Lethal defeated Adam Cole in a Proving Ground match – Eddie Edwards, El Generico and ROH Tag Team champions Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin defeated the Briscoes, Roderick Strong and Michael Elgin in an 80 minute Elimination match
Essex, England: – Jimmy Havoc defeated Cell to win the NWA (Hammerlock) UK Junior Heavyweight title
Tokyo, Japan: – KAI & Seiya Sanada defeated Masayuki Kono & Masakatsu Funaki to win the AJ World’s Strongest Tag League tournament
Santiago, Chile: – Super Crazy defeated Katastrofe to win the X-Law Junior Heavyweight title
ON DECEMBER 3 IN FLORIDA WRESTLING HISTORY (thanks to Barry Rose)
1956 – June Byers beat Therese Theis to retain the world women’s title (Tampa)
1956 – Betty Hawkins won five woman Battle Royal (Sarasota)
1958 – Ben & Mike Sharpe beat Enrique Torres & Sammy Berg (Miami)
1958 – Fabulous Moolah beat Kitty Adams to retain world women’s title (St. Petersburg)
1964 – Tarzan & Tim Tyler beat Hiro Matsuda & Bob Orton Sr. (Jacksonville)
1966 – The Infernos & J.C. Dykes beat Eddie Graham & Jose Lothario & Sammy Steamboat (Lakeland)
1968 – Jose Lothario & Wahoo McDaniel beat The Medics (Interns) (Tampa) and the semifinal was Lou Thesz & Joe Louis (Yes, that Joe Louis) & Sailor Art Thomas beat Great Malenko & Louie Tillet & Tarzan Tyler
1973 – Eddie Graham beat Dusty Rhodes via DQ (Orlando)
1974 – Cowboy Bill Watts beat Jerry Brisco to retain the Florida title (Fort Myers
1974 – Bob Roop beat Mike Graham (Tampa)
1975 – King Curtis Iaukea beat Jerry Brisco (Miami Beach)
1977 – Dusty Rhodes & Rocky Johnson double count out Lars Anderson & Killer Karl Kox (Ocala)
Adam Cole dominated screen time on the last in a series of Ring of Honor episodes taped in Kalamazoo as the build towards Final Battle continues. In the main event of this show, Cole was set to face Dalton Castle, but that evolves into a six-man tag team match also involving the Kingdom and War Machine. Elsewhere on the show, challenger AJ Styles confronts champion Jay Lethal and another miscue causes more tension in the Decade.
Mark Briscoe joined Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuiness on commentary for the first match, which would play into the aftermath of the match itself.
Will Ferrara beat Adam Page (with BJ Whitmer & Colby Corino)
Page attacked Ferrara before the bell. On commentary, the announcers mentioned Page would not be at Final Battle due to the recent twist in storyline tied to Steve Corino’s neck surgery. As Page was pummeling Ferrara, Will fired up and jumped off the middle rope into a hurricanrana. Page cut him off and rammed Ferrara into the ring post on the outside. Back in the ring, Page executed a pumphandle into a fallaway slam.
Moments later, Ferrara started a comeback and used a sunset bomb for a nearfall. After clotheslining Page out to the floor, Ferrara did a dive through the ropes on to Page and Whitmer at ringside. Whitmer tried to toss his crutch to Page but Ferrara intercepted it. Ferrara hit Page with the crutch and covered him for the pin.
Afterwards, Whitmer attacked Ferrara. Mark Briscoe wanted to make the save but Kevin Kelly noted he was on commentary so he was forbidden from doing so. Whitmer suplexed Ferrara then shoved down the referee, who crotched himself on the bottom rope. Not able to let such dastardly action continue, Briscoe left the announce table to make the save as Ferrara smirked at Page for having just scored an upset. Briscoe would not return to commentary.
At ringside, Kevin Kelly interviewed the Addiction. Daniels said there is a bias in ROH against them. He gave various examples and mentioned being attacked recently by a woman (Maria) who instead belonged in a “nursery or the kitchen.” Daniels brought up the mysterious masked man also attacking them. He claimed it violated the rules of ROH saying “anytime an unknown quantity introduces himself into a match” then the match must end immediately.
Kazarian said the conspiracy continued as they were not recognized by the company or the fans as the “global superstars” they really are so they were leaving for New Japan. They vowed to win the upcoming (or actually ongoing at present time) tag team tournament before they return to reclaim their world tag team championship… of the world.
In his first (not counting a teaser of the main event in the open) and certainly not last appearance on this episode, a video package feature highlighted Adam Cole and his feud with Kyle O’Reilly. In another recap, a replay showed the angle where “Brutal” Bob Evans turned on Cheeseburger as he also tried to cut his head off (with a hacksaw no less), which led to a plug for their grudge match on the Final Battle pre-show airing on YouTube before the PPV.
Adam Cole appeared again in a commercial plugging his new t-shirt along with shilling a Kingdom shirt as well. The promo for the shirt was probably better than most promos on the last episode of Raw.
The House of Truth made their way to the ring for a Jay Lethal promo. Truth Martini along his Book of Truth and Taeler Hendrix along with her notable cleavage were in tow. Lethal congratulated Roderick Strong on finally beating him after losing previously in what Lethal sarcastically estimated as 1,000 times. Lethal predicated he would be champion again by next week because Strong would be unable to handle the stress of being champion.
Besides, Lethal claimed all the people want to talk about was how great of a TV champion he was, and they keep talking about him as the great ROH champion he is now. According to Lethal, that is why he will beat AJ Styles at Final Battle. Lethal went on to say how much he used to admire Styles as the greatest. Now, Lethal said he himself is the greatest because AJ never became TV champion or ROH champion or “undisputed” champion like Lethal had accomplished. Lethal then called out Styles.
AJ entered the scene to confront Lethal. Styles agreed that Lethal was one of the best in the world because of the bullseye on his back. Styles noted people keep calling him out and challenging Lethal. However, this time AJ pointed out it was Lethal instead that was calling out AJ. On losing the TV title, he said it was the best thing to happen to Lethal because he could now focus on AJ Styles.
Styles vowed to win the title and wanted no complaining when he did so. AJ challenged Lethal to shake his hand and say “may the best man win.” They shook hands, and then in a scene reminiscent of Ronda Rousey crazily ranting on Holly Holm at the UFC 193 weigh-ins, Lethal snapped and shouted about winning the match. He ranted about being the greatest wrestler in the world. They then had a stare down to close out the segment.
In yet another of his many appearances, it was “Story Time With Adam Cole”, which replaced what as Mandy Leon’s “Inside ROH” segment. Cole cut a marvelous promo on Kyle O’Reilly building up their upcoming match at Final Battle. That was definitely better than any promo on Raw.
In more Final Battle hype, Kevin Kelly plugged all the matches announced so far on the card. Imagine that, advertising almost the entire lineup for a PPV weeks in advance on a show taped weeks ago.
Dalton Castle beat Adam Cole (with the Kingdom) via disqualification
Before the bell sounded and as the Kingdom stalked an alone Castle, the Boys suddenly emerged dashing through the crowd, hopped the guardrail and darted into the ring to back up Castle. They even had their drama masks again. An angry Silas Young marched out and ordered the Boys out of the ring and shooed them to the back. The Boys did as they were instructed because, as it was explained by the announce team, stipulations mean something in ROH so they had to adhere to the orders.
As the match began, Matt Taven and Michael Bennett interfered early on and tripped Castle. Nevertheless, Castle sent Cole sailing out over the ropes to the floor before diving through the ropes on to Bennett and Taven. Cole dove off the apron into the waiting arms of Castle. He caught him and gave him a suplex on the floor. Cole cut him off moments later with a superkick. At ringside, Bennett and Taven joined Cole in attacking and stomping on Castle in plain view of the referee leading to the DQ.
The Kingdom looked to continue the beat down when War Machine made the save. Hansen and Raymond Rowe hit the ring to save Castle so Nigel booked an impromptu six-man tag team match.
Adam Cole & Michael Bennett & Matt Taven (with Maria Kanellis) beat Dalton Castle & Raymond Rowe & Hansen
They all brawled at the outset in and around the ring. Eventually, Cole and Hansen paired off in the ring. Behind the ref’s back, Bennett and Taven crotched Hansen and delivered a double dropkick. The Kingdom proceeded to get heat on Hansen as they proverbially cut the ring in half and made quick tags. Hansen got a hope spot and a few moments later fought off all three Kingdom members to tag out.
Rowe came in off the hot tag running wild on the Kingdom. Cole cut him off but Castle tagged in and ran wild on Cole. Castle set up and delivered a missile dropkick off the top. Castle went to lift Taven up for a tombstone piledriver and he reserved it. They reversed each other’s reversals several times before Castle executed a tombstone. Bennett and Cole then took out Castle with a double team.
Rowe jumped in the fray and cleaned house in emptying the ring. Rowe then did a dive to the outside. Hansen went to the top turnbuckle jumped off into a senton and wiped out everyone. Back in the ring, Rowe and Hansen went to set up their Path of Resistance finisher and Castle helped by giving Cole a German suplex. Then, Hansen did a splash off the top. Castle cradled Cole but Bennett and Taven broke up the pin.
In jumping in the ring, Bennett and Taven dragged a load of used streamers behind them into the ring and the streamers hung from the ropes. Rowe and Hansen clotheslined Bennett and Taven over the top rope to the floor. Rowe held the ropes open for Hansen to do a dive. However, the streamers supposedly blocked his view so Hansen missed and crashed to the outside. Bennett gave Rowe a spear on the apron.
In the ring, Castle went to give Cole his finisher but Bennett and Taven hit a double superkick to make the save. Cole followed that with a suplex into a neckbreaker to score the pinfall.
On commentary, Kevin Kelly announced the return of Kyle O’Reilly for next week in the first episode of the new series of episodes taped in Nashville. They teased O’Reilly finally getting his hands on Cole. Despite that, the show closed with Adam Cole and the Kingdom standing victorious.
One day off and we’re back for yet another day of World Tag League matches! This time we’re in Kumamoto for more tag team action. Since AJ seems to be out of the tournament (New Japan still hasn’t commented on what’s going on here) his and Yujiro’s match against Evil and Tetsuya Naito results in another forfeit, giving them another two points. Let’s get to the matches that actually took place Wednesday morning:
Block A: Toru Yano and Kazushi Sakuraba vs. The Addiction
Not much to this at all, very basic stuff aside from the usual Yano antics. I did like the spot where Yano went to whip Daniels into the exposed turnbuckle but Kazarian flung his body into the ropes, absorbing the blow for Daniels. Match ended when Yano shoved Daniels, low blowed him, Sakuraba kicked him and Yano rolled him up for the win.
Block B:The Kingdom vs. Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata
Another match that really was just there. Hard time getting into it. Not that anyone was bad here, but the crowd was dead for the most part and the work was fine at best. They took out Beneett with a STO/Side Russian Legsweep combination, then did the same to Taven and pinned him. Finish was pretty anti-climatic.
Last night’s show, featuring the ninth week of the World title tournament, drew just 221,000 viewers for its 9-11 PM shows. The number was down from last week’s 234,000, and beat only the 11/18 episode (202,0000) for a first run show on Destination America. The midnight replay show did 73,000 viewers.
The combined two show total of 294,000 was also the second lowest in history, and only the second time the total of both airings was less than 300,000 viewers.
The show featured Drew Galloway vs. Lashley in the main event, Jessie Godderz vs. Awesome Kong, Tigre Uno vs. Gail Kim, and Bobby Roode vs. Matt Hardy.
Now fully in lame duck mode on Destination America, TNA is moving to POP TV in the first week of January, debuting on Tuesday, January 5th.
– Rich Swann beat Axel Tischer via an incredible standing splash maneuver
Great showing by Swann here. Instantly won over the crowd and worked a fast paced crisp match.
– Asuka, Adrien Reese and Aliyah beat Emma, Cameron and Billie Kay
Asuka caught Billie in the Asuka Lock.
– Tough Enough Josh promo segment where he was heelish and said his name is Bronson Mathews.
– Bull Dempsey beat Tino Sabatelli with a seated splash off the top
Comedy early. Bull did jumping jacks to upset Tino.
– Marcus Louis beat Oscar The Luchador with a rock bottom type slam
– Enzo, Big Cass w/ Carmella, and Levis Valenzuela beat NXT Tag Champions Dash & Dawson and Elias Samson
Pre match promo by Zo and Cass about taking the titles at Takeover. Long match. Cass hit a side slam followed by a top rope splash on Samson for the win. Post match, Cass told them to play Levis’ music and it was time to fiesta!
– Hugo Knox defeated Tucker Knight via spinning heel kick
Back and forth match.
– Nia Jax beat Daria in a squash
Tough Enough Daria was out to cut a promo but before she could start, Nia Jax interrupted and challenged her to a match.
– NXT Champion Finn Balor, Apollo Crews, and Tye Dillinger beat Baron Corbin, Constantine, and Riddick Moss
Long match, a lot of heat on Baron, crowd was behind Finn all the way. He received the the hot tag and finished off the match with the dropkick to the corner and the double foot stomp off the top.
Mick Foley’s talk on WWE creative and a look at all the new moves WWE tried this week on television is the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. We look at the changes WWE attempted after a week of record low ratings, as well as the fan questionnaire sent out, what can be learned from it, and why they are asking exactly the wrong people. We also look at how people’s sticking with Raw for the duration has changed in recent year, and how much it has changed each year.
We also look at the strengths and weaknesses of the current WWE business, as well as why the ratings may be important, but other factors are probably more important,when it comes to WWE’s next television deal. We look at the different potential changes in the landscape, but and look at what aspects of business are and aren’t improving, as well as WWE’s business in the big picture. We look at the recent survey, as well as historical notes, and the difference between making names people know and making needle movers who lead to huge business increases.
He also update the situation with A.J. Styles, and the New Japan tag team tournament with standings and notes on the tournament matches over the past week.
We also look at the TLC PPV update, more on La Sombra in WWE, questions about all the shoulder injuries, WWE security at live shows, Cena movie release, Brad Maddox firing, Maddox’s WWE history, talents WWE has shown interest in, WWE overseas tour lineup and WWE weekend live event notes and business.
We have a look at the debut of the new Rizin promotion, major announcements for the first weekend of shows, the tournament, just how big Bob Sapp vs Akebono was the first time, .
We also have a story on the domestic abuse claims by the girlfriend of Tomoaki Honma, and his response.
We look at the realities of the free agency of Benson Henderson, judging of the key fights, as well as full rundown of UFC’s debut in South Korea this past week.
We’ve got notes of TNA’s canceled tour of India, notes on the death of Tommy Gilbert and El Bello Greco, along with a feature on Stan Holek, a member of two of the most decorated tag teams of the 50s and 60s, the Lisowski Brothers with Crusher and the Neilson Brothers with Art Neilson. We look at the unique reason why all of his success was as a tag team wrestler, his biggest rivals, and his 13 runs as world tag team champion.
We’ve got a feature on the retirement of Act Yasukawa and the sad reason it happened.
We’ve also got the awards ballot for the 2015 awards and information on how well Hell in a Cell did this year on PPV.
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Also in this issue:
–CMLL’s bodybuilding championships
–Bad news for Lucha Libre Elite
–Latest from Arena Mexico
–AAA’s latest troubles
–Future of Rey Mysterio
–Ricochet and other U.S. stars working in AAA this past week
–Build to Wrestle-1’s Christmas eve show
–Dragon Gate tournament coming
–Rookie gets first major win
–All Japan tag team tournament news
–Go Shiozaki returns to NOAH
–A major story to watch for in January
–Tanahashi’s match in DDT and why it was so amazing
–New Japan World announces more new cards
–A major legends match
–Why GFW title had to change
–What’s next for Destination America
–Tradition dating back to 60s leads to huge indie show turnout
–Evolve tag team tournament update
–Major indie show news
–Disgraced senator back working in wrestling
–Former WWE star married
–A new style pro wrestling promotion attempting to be formed
–Lucha Underground notes
–ROH in the U.K. notes
–TNA title tournament update
–More on Mirko Cro Cop suspension and retirement
–Chris Weidman strategy for Luke Rockhold fight
–Georges St-Pierre talks his problems with UFC and UFC responds to his claims
–Lots of news regarding who buys UFC PPVs and value of Jones, Rousey an McGregor
–Notes on how people consume UFC PPV events
–Men vs. women and how it’s affected by Rousey headlining
–How the public really views Rousey and it’s much different than a lot of fans think
–How sports executives right now view UFC, Boxing and WWE
–UFC opening new offices
–Reebok issues
–UFC new fights
–UFC star in movie
–Bellator’s next show and firs overseas event
–Nominees for MMA awards
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It’s going to be a quiet weekend when it comes to major shows, as New Japan finishes its tag team tournament on Wednesday but has shows all weekend including a Saturday night/Sunday morning show which is the biggest so far this tour, and Bellator runs a show in San Jose tomorrow night.
We’re looking for reports from tonight’s NXT show in Orlando at Dave Meltzer
Smackdown tonight from Hershey, PA
Neville vs. Tyler Breeze
Becky Lynch vs. Brie Bella
Usos & Dean Ambrose vs. New Day
Devon Dudley vs. Bray Wyatt
Roman Reigns vs. Sheamus & King Barrett & Alberto Del Rio & Rusev in a handicap match.
The New Japan tag team tournament continues tomorrow in Takamatsu:
Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Michael Elgin vs. Tama Tonga & Bad Luck Fale
Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii
Mick Foley’s talk on WWE creative and a look at all the new moves WWE tried this week on television is the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. We look at the changes WWE attempted after a week of record low ratings, as well as the fan questionnaire sent out, what can be learned from it, and why they are asking exactly the wrong people.
We also look at the strengths and weaknesses of the current WWE business, as well as why the ratings may be important, but other factors are probably more important,when it comes to WWE’s next television deal. We look at the different potential changes in the landscape look at what aspects of business are and aren’t improving, as well as WWE’s business in the big picture.
He also update the situation with A.J. Styles, and the New Japan tag team tournament with standings and notes on the tournament matches over the past week.
We also look at the TLC PPV update, more on La Sombra in WWE, questions about all the shoulder injuries, WWE security at live shows, Cena movie release, Brad Maddox firing, Maddox’s WWE history, talents WWE has shown interest in, WWE overseas tour lineup and WWE weekend live event notes and business.
We have a look at the debut of the new Rizin promotion, major announcements for the first weekend of shows, the tournament, just how big Bob Sapp vs Akebono was the first time.
We also have a story on the domestic abuse claims by the girlfriend of Tomoaki Honma, and his response.
We look at the realities of the free agency of Benson Henderson, judging of the key fights, as well as full rundown of UFC’s debut in South Korea this past week.
We’ve got notes of TNA’s canceled tour of India, notes on the death of Tommy Gilbert and El Bello Greco, along with a feature on Stan Holek, a member of two of the most decorated tag teams of the 50s and 60s, the Lisowski Brothers with Crusher and the Neilson Brothers with Art Neilson. We look at the unique reason why all of his success was as a tag team wrestler, his biggest rivals, and his 13 runs as world tag team champion.
We’ve got a feature on the retirement of Act Yasukawa and the sad reason it happened.
We’ve also got the awards ballot for the 2015 awards and information on how well Hell in a Cell did this year on PPV.
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For the TLC show, the New Day vs. Lucha Dragons vs. Usos tag team title match will be a ladder match. Kevin Owens vs. Dean Ambrose for the IC title will be a straight match. This will all be announced on tonight’s show.
UFC activities in Las Vegas for next week’s three shows start on Tuesday. In many ways, this is the most ambitious week in company history, with the new stars show on Thursday, Frankie Edgar vs. Chad Mendes on Friday and UFC 194 on Saturday.
Tickets for the Raw after WrestleMania at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on 4/4 have a pre-sale on tomorrow at 10 a.m. Central time with the code DALLAS. These tickets will likely sell out quickly due to 60,000 to 100,000 tourists in town and only probably around 12,000 tickets available. Tickets go on sale to the public on Saturday at 10 a.m. Central time.
New Japan World has released 79 new matches that have taken place in December of previous years this week.
The legendary Andre the Giant vs. Stan Hansen match that we talked about on the audio show earlier this week was from September 23, 1981. It’s generally considered Andre’s best ever match. There are two Andre vs. Hansen matches up on New Japan World.
TNA announced that they will be airing footage from the early PPV shows from Nashville called “The Asylum Years” on the TNA YouTube channel every Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern time.
TNA also has a three hour special on the Flipps app tomorrow night stating at 8 p.m. Eastern for $14.99. This will be a taped PPV. Originally this was to be a live show from Mumbia, India.
CMLL tomorrow night at www.ClaroSports.com will have a singles title match with Dragon Lee vs. Kamaitachi from Arena Mexico. The match will start at about 11 p.m. Eastern time and it’s free. It’s not 100% that it will be available in the U.S., but the Friday night shows have been available the past few weeks.
WWE has released a ton of old television shows, a few each from Crockett Promotions, AWA, Stampede Wrestling, Mid South and Smoky Mountain Wrestling on its network.
WWE and Lionsgate’s Codeblack Films have a deal for co-producing and co-financing several moves, the first of which will be called “Brother’s Blood.” The movie will be filmed next month in New Orleans. What WWE star or stars involved that will likely suffer injuries on Raw at that time have not been revealed. More here.
The New York Post ran a story on WWE’s ratings declines today. They blamed the ratings decline on the WWE Network. I don’t buy that for a second. They also use last Thursday’s ratings to talk about the decline of Smackdown which is plain dishonest stats because everyone knows Thanksgiving night isn’t indicative of what the show is doing. I mean, Smackdown has declined significantly, but using Thanksgiving ratings for your stats is intellectually dishonest.
Brock Lesnar was announced for the 3/14 Raw taping in Pittsburgh. Lesnar should be appearing more regularly starting in a few weeks since he’s booked for both the Royal Rumble (promotion of which starts on 12/14) and WrestleMania.
Not that this will happen, but they were advertising this match for the 12/15 Smackdown tapings in Newark, NJ at the Prudential Center of Bray Wyatt & Sheamus & Kevin Owens vs. Kane & Roman Reigns & Dean Ambrose. (thanks to Mike Omansky)
Dwayne Johnson is on the cover of the new issue of Muscle & Fitness magazine
Ric Flair and Charlotte appear on 12/18 at iPlay America at 110 Schanck Rd in Freehold, NJ from 6 to 9 p.m.
Reader Jeff Bukantz note last night the Dudleys were at the Rangers-Islanders game on camera and did a trivia contest for two tickets to the 12/28 Raw show at the Barclays Center. He said that it died live, nobody reacted to them at all.
WWE stock closed at $17.32 per share today, down 11 cents.
Dewey Foley, Mick’s son, will start as a writers assistant in January. Writers assistants are not writers.
Serra-Longo Fight Team special on Friday at 7 p.m. on FS 1
Aldo vs. McGregor All Access show on Saturday at 3 p.m. on FOX
Ultimate Insider with Chris Weidman, Jose Aldo and more on Sunday at 4 p.m. on FS 1
AXS TV’s Inside MMA has a Ronda Rousey special tomorrow night at 12:30 a.m. Eastern time, with Miesha Tate, sports psychologist Ken Baum, Shannon Knapp, and MMA Junkie radio hosts George and Brian Garcia. The show airs after the Legacy Fighting Championships show at 10 p.m.
Beneil Dariush is injured and off the 1/17 UFC show in Boston where he was to face Mairbeck Taisumov in what was a sleeper match on that show. Former New Jersey state wrestling champion Chris Wade faces Taisumov as a replacement.
MISCELLANEOUS
Lucha Underground will be part of a City of Los Angeles TV commercial for the “Discover LA campaign. They will be doing a match with two Luchadores and would like fans to come as audience members. It takes place Saturday afternoon and will be a four-hour shoot. You have to commit to staying for the four hours. All fans will get a complimentary meal and Lucha Underground poster. It’s at the Lucha Underground Temple at 516 S. Anderson St. in Los Angeles. You must be 18 or older to attend. they’d like you to wear Lucha Underground T-shirts or hat, but nothing black. You have to e-mail the promotion for times and ability to attend.
Four members of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleading team will be a the Wrestlecon convention in Dallas over WrestleMania weekend with tons of major pro wrestling names. For more info you can go to www.Wrestlecon.com.
East Coast Wrestling toys for Tots event Saturday night in Woodbury Heights, NJ at the Community Center.
Icons of Wrestling and Comic Book Collectorfeset on 4/16 at The Arena in Philadelphia from 9 a.m will have an event covering pro wrestling, science fiction, pop culture, comics, movies and TV. For vendors who with to be involved send for into to iconsofwrestlingcollectrofest@aol.com
New England Championship Wrestling on Saturday night in Wilmington, MA at West Real Estate from Noon to 3 p.m. have a public appearance with free autographs and photo ops with a donation of an unwrapped toy.
Combate Americas on 12/16 in Hollywood, CA at the Florentine Gardens with John Castaneda vs. Kiko Lopez for a show that airs live on NBC Universo at 11 p.m. Eastern and 8 p.m. Pacific time.
Premier Wrestling results from Saturday in Gilroy, CA: Joe Graves b Jeff Cobb via unanimous decision after three rounds, Alexander Hammerstone (2-0) b Tyler Bateman (1-3), Timothy Thatcher b Jeff Cobb (6-5-1) via second round submission, Khamora b Nicole Savoy (3-2) in a semifinal for the women’s athlete title, Raze b Kiko (0-2) in a semifinal for the women’s athlete title, Vito Rea (1-0) b Buddy Royal (2-5), Womens’ tourney finals: Raze (2-2) b Khamora(2-2) to become first champion, JR Kratos (9-2-1) went to a double knockout with Gabriel Gallo (4-0-1) for the Premier title, Joe Graves (4-1-1) b Timothy Thatcher (5-3-1) via fifth round submission to win the Embrace the Grind tournament
American Combat Wrestling on 12/19 in New Port Richey, FL at the All Sports Arena.
Smash Wrestling on 1/16 at the Franklin Horner Community Centre in Toronto.
Shine runs 12/11 in Ybor City, FL at the Orpheum with Santana Garrett headlining an all womens show that including April Hunter, Marti Belle, Allysin Kay, Jessicka Havok, Amber Gallows, Malia Hosaka, Leilani Kai, Daffney and more.
CWE tonight in Brandon, Manitoba with Charlie Haas vs. Tommy Lee Curtis and Silas Young vs. Chad Tatum at the Houston’s Country Roadhouse.
There is a Lucha Libre show on 12/19 in Dallas at the Indoor Soccer Zone with Atlantis & El Hijo de L.A. Park vs. Bestia 666 & Ultimo Guerrero
Upcoming main events at the Auditorio in Tijuana are 12/18 with Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. L.A. Park vs. Damian 666 vs. Pagano, 12/25 with Dr. Wagner Jr. & El Hijo del Rey Misterio & Super Muneco vs. Damian 666 & Pakal & Rey Misterio II, and 1/8 with the original Gronda & L.A. Park & Rayo de Jalisco Jr. vs. Cibernetico & the original Cien Caras & Dr. Wagner Jr. (thanks to Kris Zellner)
Pure Wrestling Association on Friday night in Guelph, ONT at Red Chevron.
IWF on 12/5, 12/12 and 12/19 at the IWF Centre in Nutley, NJ.
Maryland Championship Wrestling tomorrow night in Felton, DE at the Delaware Auto Exchange with Mick Foley and The Head Bangers appearing.
