Promotion: New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date: October 1–2, 2022
Venue: Crystal Palace Indoor Arena
City: London England
Network: NJPW World
Overall Show Score: 8/10
Pros: The London Fans’ help made this first Night well worth watching. It helped set up for upcoming matches on night 2. The main wrestler I was impressed by was Jay White because of how much heel heat he getting and my favourite Match was the Tag Team Title Match.
Cons: Some Matches have so few botched finishes. My least favourite Match was between Jazzy Gabert & Kanji vs. Alex Windsor & Ava White and I wish I was there to see this event live in person.
Night 1:
Singles Match:
vs.
Gabriel Kidd. Winner: Gabriel Kidd Rating: Good
Tag Team Match:
Michael Oku & Ricky Knight Jr.
vs.
United Empire (Gideon Grey & Great-O-Khan). Winners: Michael Oku & Ricky Knight Jr. Rating: Alright
Tag Team Match:
&
vs.
&
Ava White. Winners: Alex Windsor & Ava White Rating: Not that good.
Six Man Tag Team Match:
Suzuki-gun (DOUKI, El Desperado & Zack Sabre Jr.)
vs.
Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito). Winners: Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito) Rating: Pretty Good
Tag Team Match:
vs.
CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii). Winners: CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii) Rating: Descent
Eight-Man Tag Team Match:
BULLET CLUB (Doc Gallows, Gedo, Jay White & Karl Anderson)
vs.
Guerrillas Of Destiny (Hikuleo, Jado & Tama Tonga) & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Winners: Guerrillas Of Destiny (Hikuleo, Jado & Tama Tonga) & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Rating: Really Good
Singles Match:
vs.
Shota Umino. Winner: Will Ospreay Rating: Great
Main Event:
Tag Team Match for the IWGP Tag Team Championships:
FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) (c)
vs.
Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) (w/Great-O-Khan). Winners: FTR is Still the IWGP Tag Team Champions. Rating: Awesome
Overall Show Score: 7/10
Pros: The fans’ reactions made this 2nd-night fun to watch. This stream took me 2 days to finish watching it. I was quite impressing how much I had grown to like the United Empire through these two nights and Also, and I was impressed by how many new wrestlers I was impressed by.
Cons: I feel a lot of the Matches were cut for time so they can save more time for the main event. Bad Dude Tito didn’t win. My least favourite match was between Jazzy Gabert and Ava White & I also wasn’t there to experience it live in person.
Night 2:
Tag Team Match:
vs.
Suzuki-gun (DOUKI & El Desperado). Winners: Suzuki-gun (DOUKI & El Desperado) Rating: Meh
Tag Team Match:
The Young Guns (Ethan Allen & Luke Jacobs)
vs.
Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi & SANADA). Winners: Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi & SANADA) Rating: Fine
First round match for the IWGP Women’s Championship tournament:
vs.
Ava White. Winner: Jazzy Gabert advance Rating: Bad
Ten Man Tag Team Match:
FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood), Gabriel Kidd, Ricky Knight Jr. & Shota Umino
vs.
United Empire (Gideon Grey, Great-O-Khan, Kyle Fletcher, Mark Davis & Will Ospreay). Winners: United Empire (Gideon Grey, Great-O-Khan, Kyle Fletcher, Mark Davis & Will Ospreay) Rating: Good
Six-Man Tag Team Match:
BULLET CLUB (Doc Gallows, Jay White & Karl Anderson) (w/Gedo)
vs.
Guerrillas Of Destiny (Hikuleo & Tama Tonga) & Hiroshi Tanahashi (w/Jado). Winners: Guerrillas Of Destiny (Hikuleo & Tama Tonga) & Hiroshi Tanahashi Rating: solid
Singles Match:
vs.
Bad Dude Tito. Winner: Kazuchika Okada Rating: Ok
Singles Match:
vs.
Yota Tsuji. Winner: Tomohiro Ishii Rating: Lame
Main Event:
Singles match to determine the number one contender for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship:
vs.
Zack Sabre Jr. Winner: Tetsuya Naito Rating: Very Good