Official War of the Worlds/Global Wars 2015 Super Thread

[DXvsNWO1994]

With the official talent announcements starting today (April 1st), I decided to end the speculation and get the official thread going.

It's that time of year again, as Ring of Honor joins forced with New Japan Pro Wrestling to produce four major SuperShows in Philadelphia & Toronto!!

War of the Worlds 2015: Night 1
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 5/12/15

- The Briscoes vs. CHAOS (Shinsuke Nakamura & "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada)
- IWGP Heavyweight Champion "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles vs. ????????
- reDRagon vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin "Thunder" Liger
- "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin vs. Tetsuya Naito
- Three-Way Tag Team Match - ROH World Tag Team Champions The Addiction vs. IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett with Maria Kanellis) vs. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks
- ROH World TV Champion Jay Lethal vs. Takaaki Watanabe
- Roderick Strong vs. KUSHIDA
- Delirious vs. Gedo

War of the World 2015: Night 2
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 5/13/15

- Six-Man Tag - The Kingdom (Adam Cole & IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Matt Taven & Michael Bennett with Maria Kanellis) vs. The Bullet Club (IWGP Heavyweight Champion "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles & IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks)
- ROH World Title - Jay Briscoe vs. Bobby Fish
- Four-Corner Survival - ROH World TV Champion Jay Lethal (with Truth Martini) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Jushin "Thunder" Liger
- ROH World Tag Team Champions The Addiction ("The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian) vs. CHAOS ("Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada & Gedo)
- Roderick Strong vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
- Kyle O'Reilly vs. Tetsuya Naito
- "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin vs. KUSHIDA
- Adam Page vs. Takaaki Watanabe

Signed To Appear:

- Moose

Global Wars 2015: Night 1 (iPPV)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5/15/15

- All-Star 10 Man Tag - Team ROH (The Briscoes, War Machine & Roderick Strong) vs. The Bullet Club (IWGP Heavyweight Champion "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks)
- ROH World TV Title - Jay Lethal (with Truth Martini) vs. Tetsuya Naito
- ACH vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
- "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
- Cedric Alexander vs. "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada
- Four-Corner Tag Team Match - Roppongi Vice (Baretta & Rocky Romero) vs. ROH World Tag Team Champions The Addiction ("The Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels & Franke Kazarian) vs. The Decade (BJ Whitmer & Adam Page) vs. reDRagon
- IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett with Maria Kanellis) vs. Matt Sydal & Jushin "Thunder" Liger
- Chris Sabin vs. KUSHIDA
- Gedo & Moose (with Stokely Hathaway & Veda Scott) vs. Silas Young & Takaaki Watanabe

Global Wars 2015: Night 2 (TV Taping)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5/16/15

- Six-Man Tag - The Bullet Club (IWGP Heavyweight Champion "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles & IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks) vs. CHAOS ("Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada & Roppongi Vice)
- Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Roderick Strong
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs. ACH & Matt Sydal
- IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett with Maria Kanellis) vs. The Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows)
- Jushin "Thunder" Liger vs. Dalton Castle
- "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin vs. Gedo
- KUSHIDA vs. Will Ferrara
- Moose (with Stokely Hathaway & Veda Scott) vs. BJ Whitmer

Signed To Appear:

- The Briscoes
- ROH World Tag Team Champions The Addiction ("The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian)
- The House of Truth (ROH World TV Champion Jay Lethal, Donovan Dijak with Truth Martini)
- reDRagon
- War Machine
- Cedric Alexander
- Adam Page
- Takaaki Watanabe

Keep all discussions here...

[tigermask7.0]

I sincerely hope that they announce that they are bringing . . .
harajuku/cosplay girls with them


it would truly be a supershow if they had . . .
a pack of futuristic steampunk girls, okada's dinosaur, and a ninja slicing up some evil samurais

[ICHIFUJI]

Now BC keep 4 IWGP titles.
Nakamura will come with IC title.
(I can't imagine but NEVER champion might coming)
How many titlematch for Philadelphia and how many for Toronto?

[jordidebaas]

If they'd have every title defended once, they could do 2 title matches every night. Don't think they'll have a lot of titles defended twice, but it's possible they'd do that for a few titles, maybe first give a NJPW wrestler shot at a certain title, and then another night an ROH guy gets a shot. You might get up to 3 title matches a night on average that way, and maybe even more on a single night, if they'll once again do one or two shows with NJPW vs. NJPW and ROH vs. ROH

[DXvsNWO1994]

I think we'll get at least one title match for each of the IWGP Titles.

[DXvsNWO1994]

@ringofhonor · 40m 40 minutes ago
1pm Eastern today we will announce the first @njpw1972 star signed for #WarOfTheWorlds & #GlobalWars

[Aedr0th666]

ROH are such trolls loll. Seriously announcing 1 star. just 1 ! maaaaannnn they announced plenty taking part of that field of honor show. I'm sooooo dying to know the lineup for those Toronto shows it's not even funny anymore. But well 1 is better than none... I guess.

[187_Joeism]

I hope they troll and announce AJ Styles

[Aedr0th666]

Tanahashi just announced. Looking forward to see who he's facing.

[187_Joeism]

Would love to see Adam Cole (If he is back by then) or Jay Lethal vs Tanahashi

[Robareid]

I wonder if he'll work hard this time around. IIRC he was pretty beat up for last one, and didn't have the best opponent (although there was about twenty people on this board who were internet yelling at me that Bennett was an awesome opponent for him because he's a great storyteller because he works a slower pace, because working a slower pace automatically makes you a better storyteller, and suddenly when the match was crap they all went very quiet).

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

I wonder if he'll work hard this time around. IIRC he was pretty beat up for last one, and didn't have the best opponent (although there was about twenty people on this board who were internet yelling at me that Bennett was an awesome opponent for him because he's a great storyteller because he works a slower pace, because working a slower pace automatically makes you a better storyteller, and suddenly when the match was crap they all went very quiet).

I, for one, don't believe we'll have to worry about there being a rematch.

[187_Joeism]

I think Bennett vs Tanahashi was fine solid match, it got Bennett a place with NJPW.

[Robareid]

It was almost universally panned for being pretty awful. Bennett got a job with New Japan because of Maria, and more specifically Maria's as (as can be seen from the camera angles in every shot with them in). If Maria happened to be the valet of Will Ferrara he'd probably be booked over at New Japan instead.

[187_Joeism]

People like to trash everything, i mean they wanted to see ACH vs Tana if i don´t remember it wrong so... I don´t say that the match was great or anything but Tanahashi was injured at the time and Bennett was one of the safest matches they could book for him.

[DirtyDave]

I enjoyed the Bennett/Tanahashi match last yr. Maria played a good role.

regardless, great announcement to start the New Japan/ROH build

[Burnside]

Bennett/Tanahashi was good. I had it at *** and I think that was more or less the consensus rating for it. Nobody expected - or at least nobody should have expected - Tanahashi to work a NJPW PPV main event quality match on that show. He actually did more than I expected. The High Fly Flow from the turnbuckle to Bennett on the floor was to me being there live one of the more memorable moments on the show.

[Robareid]

Maybe I'm misremembering then, because I seem to remember everybody having it closer to the ** mark and it getting panned heavily. But I'll never understand the people who were saying Bennett was the perfect opponent for Tana because he's such a great storyteller,

[DXvsNWO1994]

I think I had it around the *** mark as well, either *** or ***1/4. I thought it was fine for what it was. For me, it was the 7th best match on the show.

[JigsawVs.Jason]

Tanahashi vs Cole HAS to happen at one of these shows, I was so disappointed last year when they wasted Tana against Bennett.