At the recently concluded finals of The NJPW New Japan Cup Tournament, “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada defeated “Cold Skull” SANADA to win this year’s New Japan Cup Tournament. Because of Okada’s win, he now gets an opportunity at The IWGP Heavyweight Title against “Switchblade” Jay White at ROH / NJPW …
Read More »Backstage News On How Plans Changed in NJPW After Kenny Omega Left
Earlier this week, Jay White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to become The New IWGP Heavyweight Champion during the main event of NJPW’s The New Beginning in Osaka. Apparently, a key reason that White has reached the top of NJPW and obtained The IWGP Heavyweight Title so fast is directly correlated to …
Read More »Ten off the Top: Current Championship Reigns
The journey of a professional wrestler (or sports entertainer, depending on what end of the Cornette Kayfabe SpectrumTM you fall under) is often times underscored by his or her championship prowess. In this wonderful industry, it is not only the number of times we can reach the top of our …
Read More »A War Is Brewing: Intro To New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)
Throughout the years, competition has proven to be a huge driving force behind the success of WWE. When presented with true competitors like the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in the 80’s and WCW in the 90’s, Vince McMahon and his company successfully reshaped the professional wrestling world twice. However since …
Read More »New Japan Cup Finals Match Listing
The semi-finals and finals of the 2016 New Japan Cup will air on NJPWWorld.com starting at 3AM est. 12am pst. The winner of the New Japan Cup will receive a title opportunity of their choosing at Invasion Attack in April. Tetsuya Naito announced to the live crowd that he will not …
Read More »WWE Looking to Hire Lucha Underground Star?
Fresh off signing AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura (as well as Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson) it was reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE is looking to sign even more international stars. NJPW has been signing all their top guys to longer term contracts, and is apparently negotiating with …
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