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[Chargers In 09]

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ROH is hosting Final Battle 2011 a week from today. Here is the card:

Davey Richards (c) vs Eddie Edwards - ROH World Championship
Jay Lethal (c) vs Mike Bennett vs El Generico - ROH TV Title
Haas/Benjamin vs The Briscoe Brothers - ROH World Tag Titles
Kevin Steen vs Steve Corino - Jimmy Jacobs is special ref
Roderick Strong vs ??? - open challenge
Young Bucks vs Future Shock vs C&C Co. vs The Bravados vs All Night Express - Gauntlet match for future Tag Title shot
Michael Elgin vs TJ Perkins
Tommaso Ciampa vs ??? - another open challenge

The card is very promising with the Davey/Eddie rematch from Best in the World where they fought in a match that should be in serious consideration for MOTY. Kevin Steen's return should be great.

I haven't watched ROH since BitW but this looks like a good card to start watching again. I'm going to post the Davey/Eddie match in a hour or two so anybody who wants to get into ROH knows what they're in for .

[Chargers In 09]

New Japan Pro Wrestling is also hosting an event next Friday and next Saturday. These shows precede their Wrestlemania show which takes place on 1/4 every year called WrestleKingdom. These are the cards:

12/23:
1. Kyosuke Mikami vs. Hiromu Takahashi
2. Hirooki Goto, Ryusuke Taguchi & Hideo Saito vs. Takashi Iizuka, Yujiro Takahashi & Gedo
3. Yuji Nagata, Wataru Inoue & King Fale vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii
4. Special Singles Match: Satoshi Kojima vs. Karl Anderson
5. Special Singles Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Giant Bernard
6. Special 8 Man Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, Tiger Mask & KUSHIDA vs. Minoru Suzuki, Yoshihiro Takayama, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi
7. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt (c) vs. Rocky Romero
8. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Masato Tanaka (c) vs. Tomoaki Honma

12/24
1. Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi & KUSHIDA vs. Rocky Romero, Jado & Gedo
2. Special Singles Match I: Hideo Saito vs. Takashi Iizuka
3. Special Singles Match II: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Karl Anderson
4. Special Singles Match III: Satoshi Kojima vs. Giant Bernard
5. Special Singles Match IV: Wataru Inoue vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
6. Special Singles Match V: Hirooki Goto vs. Yujiro Takahashi
7. Special Singles Match VI: Yuji Nagata vs. Toru Yano
8. Special Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe vs. Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama

On 1/4 Tanahashi (c) is facing Suzuki for the IWGP championship and Makabe is facing Takayama in a grudge match so that tag match should be off the hook. A lot of the matches stand out though. These are going to be really good cards.

[4thstreetpete]

Thank god someone made this thread. This was becoming a WWE forum. Really looking forward to Final Battle, always a good show. Pretty hyped up for it actually. Been watching all the Sinclair shows, can't wait for this.

[Chargers In 09]

I'm hyped for FB to. I'm one of the few not looking forward to Steen's return because I think the story line has been played out to death since after BitW. It may be great though but he's a world class wrestler and Corino is not going to put in a good match so w/e.

It should be really difficult for the Wolves to top their match @ BitW but it's going to be fun to watch them try.

Elgin vs TJ Perkins could easily be a show stealer.

Nigel might be putting in a match against Roddy and that would be f'n sick.

TV title match is whatever. Maybe they put the belt on Bennett though and have Lethal become a main eventer.

Really wish there was a fresher tag title match. Seeing Haas/Benj defend against FS or YB would've been much sweeter.

[Chargers In 09]

As promised, Richards vs Edwards from Best in the World. I gave this match ****3/4 fwiw. Brilliant match.

[[Phill]]

4.75 out of 5 is about right. Probably my fave match of the year

[tpir]

8. Special Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Togi Makabe vs. Minoru Suzuki & Yoshihiro Takayama

zomg yes plz. are there any sites that creek these PPVs or do we have to wait for someone to youtube them.

[Chargers In 09]

I host them on my youtube channel as soon as they get released. There are no live streams for NJPW stuff. Sweet graphic for those shows to...

[tpir]

Originally Posted by Chargers In 09

my youtube channel

holy ****ing **** awesome dude!

[4thstreetpete]

Originally Posted by Chargers In 09

I host them on my youtube channel as soon as they get released. There are no live streams for NJPW stuff. Sweet graphic for those shows to...

very nice, thank you

[Pharoah00]

Briscoes vs. WGTT should be awesome. I wouldn't mind seeing Shelton Benjamin vs. Davey Richards though.

[wesrwood]

Is MVP still wrestlingt for NJPW?

[Chargers In 09]

yeah. he wrestled on the 12/4 ppv and is scheduled for the WrestleKingdom show teaming with Shelton.

[wesrwood]

Is he big over there? Id love to see some AJPW from the 90's with alot of the big name americans over there

[Chargers In 09]

you mean like this?

Hansen vs Vader - Vader's eye pops out, graphic obv.

Hansen vs Kobashi - 5 star match

MVP was the first Intercontinental Champion in NJPW having won it earlier this year but he dropped it in October and lost the rematch in December. Not a big name yet. His tag match in January is pretty much a filler match.