NJPW Strong Style Evolved - March 25, 2018

[monster mafia]

thats their work...njpw pay them.

you can put all your roster in high profile matches.

[dhads7161]

It it Goto & Yoshi-Hashi or Goto & Gedo? NJPW has it listed as Goto & Gedo here
www.njpw1972.com/tornament/19885?showCards=1

[Big Red Machine]

thats their work...njpw pay them.

you can put all your roster in high profile matches.

No. But you can at least try to find an interesting match-up. What's the point of paying to fly them half-way across the world if you're not going use them in a productive manner? You would save yourself money by booking Goto, Yano, and YOSHI-HASHI out to an indy show in Japan (you'd actually make some money if you asked for a percentage of their cut) and I'm sure that any indy running would be happy to have someone of Goto or YOSHI-HASHI's stature and caliber on their show.

[monster mafia]

i like both matches.

[alexsmellzzz]

Card looks great to me. It's typical New Japan style booking, it's not like any of those tags are "filler" per se, those guys just aren't in the main event slots that night.

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

I have a gut feeling that The Young Bucks are going to win and Kenny Omega turns on Kota Ibushi in a post match beatdown.

[supersonic]

Unless WrestleCon plans to make drastic change in NOLA, no chance that happens.

[famicommander]

Here we go.

SoCal Uncensored out without their ROH Six Man belts.

JR and Barnett already making me miss Kevin Kelly and Don Callis.

[famicommander]

Barnett didn't know they didn't go to commercial and he dropped an F bomb while burying the Roppongi/SoCal match.

[famicommander]

So far the ROH guys have eaten a pin in both matches they were in.

Scorpio Sky and Chuck Taylor.

[famicommander]

JR plugging his podcast and mispronouncing Scurll.

[famicommander]

Cody picks up the first win of the night for an ROH guy, pinning Tanga Loa

[famicommander]

Mysterio showed up, says he promises to return and wrestle for NJPW.

So I guess we can uncancel existence.

[AlexROH]

Great show! Jim Ross and Barnett were awful (for the surprise of nobody) on commentary. I switched to japanese for the last four matches.

Cody looked like a star. Page and White, despite the quiet crowd, worked a fantastic match. Hangman had one of the best nights of his young career, terrific performance (****). The main event was brillant. Words don't do justice, this was so so good. A masterclass of storytelling and emotion. You need to watch this now (*****). So hyped for the BC Civil War.

[ICHIFUJI]

Thanks for BC members.
Cody Page Bucks .

[famicommander]

Toru Yano is freaking over. I did not expect that loud of a pop at all.

[famicommander]

ROH results from the show

Roppongi 3K beat ROH Six Man champions SoCal Uncensored when Sho pinned Scorpio Sky
Cody Rhodes and Marty Scurll beat the Guerillas of Destiny when Cody pinned Tanga Loa
Killer Elite Squad beat Toru Yano and Chuck Taylor when Lance Archer pinned Chuck Taylor
Jay White pinned Adam Page
Golden Lovers beat the Young Bucks when Kenny Omega pinned Matt Jackson

So the ROH guys won one match and lost four, and only the ones in Bullet Club won.

If you still count Rocky Romero and Will Ospreay as ROH guys it doesn't look quite as one sided. They're definitely more associated with NJPW but still listed on the ROH roster page I guess. Ospreay pinned Liger and Romero picked up a win a part of Roppongi 3K.

But hey, at least they didn't let Okada pin their World Champ clean like last year.

[dhads7161]

R3K over SCU could be used to have a rematch on the WOTW tour if SCU are still Six Man Tag Team Champions then.

[Big Red Machine]

Great show! Jim Ross and Barnett were awful (for the surprise of nobody) on commentary. I switched to japanese for the last four matches.

Ross criticizing the matches was pretty infuriating. He really should be fired for this.

[WebConn]

This show was bonkers I reviewed it on my podcast, the review starts at the 1 hour 58 minute mark

https://soundcloud.com/websweeklywrestl ... -the-rocks