Pretty stoked for the most anticipated main event in years. And for Omega/Jericho, too.
IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito Naito takes the gold.
IWGP U.S. Championship, No DQ: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Chris Jericho Completely unpredictable, thanks to Jericho. Flipped a coin, came up Alpha.
IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Switchblade Tanahashi retains.
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Marty Scurll (c) vs. KUSHIDA vs. Will Ospreay vs. Hiromu Takahashi Ospreay wins the title by pinning Takahashi.
NEVER Openweight Championship, Hair vs. Hair, All Seconds Barred From Ringside: Minoru Suzuki (c) vs. Hirooki Goto Goto wins (maybe with some help from the Young Lions at ringside...seems a poetic way to end the feud).
IWGP Tag Team Championship: Killer Elite Squad (c) vs. EVIL and SANADA LIJ take the belts.
Kota Ibushi vs. Cody Ibushi with the win.
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship, Gauntlet Match: Bullet Club (Guerillas of Destiny & Bad Luck Fale) (c) vs. Suzuki-Gun (Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & Takashi Iizuka) vs. CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano and Beretta) vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Juice Robinson & Togi Makabe vs. War Machine and Michael Elgin CHAOS wins.
IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship: Roppongi 3K (c) vs. Young Bucks Roppongi 3K retains.
New Japan Rumble If healthy enough to participate, Honma; if not, Henare.
30 man battle royale - Liger. Jr. Heavyweight tag titles - Ropongi Vice 3k because they are the new team of the future. Never Open 6-men titles - Juice/Makabe/Taguchi because Taguchi is always in some title mix there. Cody vs Kota Ibushi - Ibushi because he's much better. Tag titles - EVIL & Sanada to build up tension for Naito Never Open title - Goto. I love Suzuki but he doesn't do anything with it. Also hope it's a good match thanks to the no-seconds rule. Junior Heavyweight title - Scurll remains because he's awesome. Kushida, Hiromu don't need it. Ospreay gets pinned. IC title - Switchblade. Please give Tanahashi some time off?! US title - Omega. Next night Jericho joins Bullet Club. IWGP heavyweight title - Naito because goddamnit he's the man.
I can only hope the last 4 matches can deliver like last year's card. Those 4 (jrh heavy, never open, ic, heavyweight) made me an instant fan of NJPW. Before that I watched some, since then I've watched nearly everything.
Yuji Nagata wins the NJR. Honma may make a surprise appearance. Possibly Shibata but I am not expecting it.
Jr Tag Titles - Roppongi 3K beat the Bucks
Never 6 Man - Bullet Club retain
Ibushi beats Cody
Hvy Tag Titles - KES beats LIJ
NEVER Openweight - Goto over Suzuki
Jr Hvy Title - Scurll retains
Intercontinental - Tanahashi retains
US Championship - Omega beats Alpha
IWGP Heavyweight Title - Tetsuya Naito finally gets the big Tokyo Dome moment that he's missing and ends Okada's historic reign.
I think that unlike last year, most of the titles will stay around the waists of the men who walk into the show tomorrow night except for Suzuki and Okada. I am looking forward to this. Moreso than anything the WWE is planning to roll out later this month.
Chuck Norris drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls.
IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito
Okada retains. Am I the only one calling this?
IWGP U.S. Championship, No DQ: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Chris Jericho
Ooooof. I really don't know. I guess Omega? I'm assuming this is more of a one-off from Jericho.
IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Switchblade
Tanahashi
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Marty Scurll (c) vs. KUSHIDA vs. Will Ospreay vs. Hiromu Takahashi Ospreay
NEVER Openweight Championship, Hair vs. Hair, All Seconds Barred From Ringside: Minoru Suzuki (c) vs. Hirooki Goto
Goto
IWGP Tag Team Championship: Killer Elite Squad (c) vs. EVIL and SANADA
EVIL & Sanada
Kota Ibushi vs. Cody
Cody
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship, Gauntlet Match: Bullet Club (Guerillas of Destiny & Bad Luck Fale) (c) vs. Suzuki-Gun (Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & Takashi Iizuka) vs. CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano and Beretta) vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Juice Robinson & Togi Makabe vs. War Machine and Michael Elgin
Ryusuke, Juice, & Makabe
IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship: Roppongi 3K (c) vs. Young Bucks
Young Bucks
New Japan Rumble
I don't really know who's in this. I guess I'll go with Liger too.
I'm trying to figure out two things: when this was filmed, and how to save the file locally. Now...I'm thinking this is right after when Hogan beat Yokozuna for the title at Wrestlemania IX but before he lost it a month later BACK to Yoko.