My Fire Pro Wrestling World Results: NJPW New Year Dash !! 2018 (Fri.Jan.W1.18)

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2018

January.Week 1.2018

Yurakuen Hall

Referee: Red Shoes Unno

Average Match Rating: 83.5%

CHAMPIONS

IWGP Heavyweight Champion: Hiroshi Tanahashi

IWGP Intercontinental Champion: Katsuyori Shibata

IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion: Kenny Omega

NEVER Openweight Champion: Michael Elgin

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion: KUSHIDA

IWGP Tag Team Champions: Killer Elite Squad (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.)

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions: The Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson)

NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions: Yuji Nagata & War Machine (Raymond Rowe & Hanson)

MATCH #1

20 MINUTES LIMIT

Eight-Man Tag Team Match

TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima), Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi vs Hirai Kawato, Tomoyuki Oka, Shota Umino & Tetsuhiro Yagi

WINNERS: N/A

Method: Draw

Time: 20:00

Rating: 68%

MATCH #2

20 MINUTES LIMIT

Eight-Man Tag Team Match

Togi Makabe, Toa Henare, Jyushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask vs Suzuki-Gun (Takashi Iizuka, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi & El Desperado)

WINNERS: N/A

Method: Draw

Time: 20:00

Rating: 78%

MATCH #3

KATSUYA KITAMURA “BEST OF SEVEN SERIES” 1^st MATCH

20 MINUTES LIMIT

Normal Match

Jay White vs Katsuya Kitamura

WINNER: Jay White

Method: Submission

Finish: Reverse Figure 4

Time: 19:12

Rating: 96%

MATCH #4

20 MINUTES LIMIT

Six-Man Tag Team Match

BULLET CLUB (Kenny Omega, Nick & Matt Jackson) vs Roppongi 3K (SHO & YOH) & Cheeseburger

WINNERS: BULLET CLUB (Kenny Omega, Nick & Matt Jackson)

Method: Pinfall from Matt Jackson on YOH

Finish: Huracanrana

Time: 19:45

Rating: 72%

MATCH #5

30 MINUTES LIMIT

Eight-Man Tag Team Match

BULLET CLUB (Cody, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens & Marty Scurll) vs Kota Ibushi, Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Ryusuke Taguchi)

Mid-Match: Finlay is KO'ed by a Chase Owens' Package Piledriver but he is not the legal man, thus the match continued on as Four on Three Handicap Match.

WINNERS: BULLET CLUB (Cody, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens & Marty Scurll)

Method: K.O. from Cody on Ibushi

Finish: Cross Rhodes

Time: 26:01

Rating: 78%

MATCH #6

NEVER OPENWEIGHT SIX-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

60 MINUTES LIMIT

Six-Man Tag Team Match

Yuji Nagata & War Machine (Raymond Rowe & Hanson)(c) vs BULLET CLUB (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa)

WINNERS and STILL NEVER OPENWEIGHT SIX-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: Yuji Nagata & War Machine (Raymond Rowe & Hanson)

Method: Submission from Nagata on Loa

Finish: Sniper Cross Face

Time: 36:05

Rating: 99%

MATCH #7

30 MINUTES LIMIT

Tag Team Match

Katsuyori Shibata & Tomoaki Honma vs Suzuki-Gun (Minoru Suzuki & Zack Sabre Jr.)

WINNERS: Katsuyori Shibata & Tomoaki Honma

Method: Submission from Shibata on Sabre Jr.

Finish: Octopus Hold

Time: 25:24

Rating: 95%

MATCH #8

MAIN EVENT

30 MINUTES LIMIT

Eight-Man Tag Team Match

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin, Togi Makabe & KUSHIDA vs CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Will Ospreay)

WINNERS: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin, Togi Makabe & KUSHIDA

Method: Pinfall from Tanahashi on Okada

Finish: Body Buster

Time: 20:18

Rating: 82%