The 2019 New Japan Cup will be the fifteenth tournament from New Japan Pro Wrestling and the stakes couldn’t be higher in 2019. Hiroshi Tanahashi enters this year’s New Japan Cup tournament once again after winning the first-ever tournament in 2005. Previous winners also include Kota Ibushi (2015), Katsuyori Shibata (2017) and Tetsuya Naito (2016). The […] READ MORE
A special champion vs champion match will headline the NJPW 47th Anniversary and the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship along with the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships will be on the line. It’s an annual tradition for New Japan Pro Wrestling to present an anniversary event every March but what’s so interesting about this year […] READ MORE
There will be two nights in Sapporo on the New Beginning tour from New Japan Pro Wrestling with three championships to be decided on night two. The faction wars are highlighted heavily as well as NJPW setting up young attractions as co-main eventers. EVIL, Zack Sabre Jr and SANADA all have big matches as wrestlers […] READ MORE
In order for a pro wrestler to reach his top potential, all of the pieces must be put together at the right time. That is exactly what is happening for 31 year old Zack Sabre Jr after an outstanding 2018. After affiliating with Suzuki-gun in 2017, Sabre went on to win the New Japan Cup tournament […] READ MORE
The 2018 World Tag League from New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) is the seventh under that name, with fourteen competing tag teams but only one team win the tournament to make it to Wrestle Kingdom 13 on January 4 for the IWGP tag team championships. EVIL and SANADA and The Guerrillas Of Destiny made it to […] READ MORE
The end of every year, New Japan Pro Wrestling presents it’s final tournament on the calendar with the NJPW World Tag League tournament. 2018 however will have a format change, instead of an A and B Block, every team will be grouped together with the two teams with the most wins going to the Finals. […] READ MORE
Will Ospreay was originally slated to challenge for the NEVER Openweight Championship until an untimely rib injury at Rev Pro Global Wars UK against Chris Ridgeway set Ospreay’s title match to a later date. Hirooki Goto had previously lost the NEVER Openweight Championship to Taichi at NJPW Destruction In Beppu on September 17. Goto received […] READ MORE
New Japan Pro Wrestling has been hosting the Road To Power Struggle events for all of October, heavily featuring the NJPW Super Junior Tag League tournament, leading to NJPW Power Struggle on November 2. The storylines are all coming to a head as we quickly approach Wrestle Kingdom 13 on January 4, the biggest event […] READ MORE
Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) has a Junior Heavyweight division that is ever evolving, Will Ospreay had such a terrific run as the IWGP Junior Heavyweight champion this year that Ospreay is testing himself in the Heavyweight division. Ospreay has adapted his ring-work more to the NJPW style of hard-hitting strikes and creative offense. Hiromu Takahashi […] READ MORE
New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) is coming off of a successful Fighting Spirit Unleashed event at the Walter Pyramid in California where the main event for King Of Pro Wrestling was set. The Golden Lovers (IWGP heavyweight champion Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) defeated the CHAOS dream team of Tomohiro Ishii and Kazuchika Okada in the […] READ MORE