Promotion: New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date: February 4–5, 2023
Venue: Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center
TV station/network: NJPWWorld.com
Night 1: Commentary by: Yohei Onishi, Yuichi Tabata, Hiroki Mikami, Milano Collection AT & Shingo Takagi.
Night 2: Commentary by: Yohei Onishi, Hiroki Mikami, Milano Collection AT & El Desperado.
Overall Show Score: 6/10
Pros: Oskar Leube is getting better in each new match he is in like the one with Great-O-Khan. A handful of interactions in these tag matches helped me look forward to new matches on night 2, and my favourite match was between Taichi and Will Ospreay.
Cons: There were too many tag team matches.
Night 1:
Matches:
Singles Match:
vs.
Oskar Leube. Winner: Great-O-Khanwon by submission. Rating: Meh
Eight-Man Tag Team Match:
El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Ren Narita & RyoheiOiwa
vs.
House Of Torture (Dick Togo, EVIL, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi). Winners: El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Ren Narita & RyoheiOiwa. Won by submission. Rating: Fine
Eight-Man Tag Team Match:
CHAOS (HirookiGoto, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI) & Yuto Nakashima
vs.
TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste & Zack Sabre Jr.).Winners: TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste & Zack Sabre Jr.) Won by submission. Rating: Pretty Good
Eight-Man Tag Team Match:
BULLET CLUB (El Phantasmo, Jay White, KENTA & Taiji Ishimori)
vs.
Guerrillas Of Destiny (Hikuleo & Tama Tonga), Hiroshi Tanahashi & Master Wato. Winners: Guerrillas Of Destiny (Hikuleo & Tama Tonga), Hiroshi Tanahashi & Master Wato. Rating: Pretty Good
Eight-Man Tag Team Match:
CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano & YOH) & Ryusuke Taguchi
vs.
Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Shingo Takagi) .Winners: . Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Shingo Takagi). Rating: Good
Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship:
Catch 2/2 (Francesco Akira and TJP) (c) (with Gideon Grey)
vs.
Douki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru. Winners: Catch 2/2 keep their IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Rating: Good
Singles Match:
vs.
Will Ospreay. Winner: Will Ospreay Rating: Great
Main Event:
Singles Match:
vs.
Tetsuya Naito. Winner: Tetsuya Naito Rating: Really Good
Night 2:
Overall Show Score: 7/10
This is my first time giving my opinion of a 2nd night of wrestling on the same page. It had the same amount of matches as the first night, but it took me a few days to complete watching it the full show as i had other things going on.
Pros: The quality was on point and my favourite match was between Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Tomohiro Ishii.
Cons: None.
Matches:
Eight-Man Tag Team Match:
United Empire (Francesco Akira, Great-O-Khan, TJP & Will Ospreay)
vs.
Just 4 Guys (DOUKI, Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & Yoshinobu Kanemaru). Winners: United Empire Rating: boring
Eight-Man Tag Team Match:
El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Ren Narita & Yuto Nakashima
vs.
House Of Torture (Dick Togo, EVIL, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi). Winners: El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Ren Narita & Yuto Nakashima won by submission. Rating: Fine
Tag Team Match:
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Master Wato
vs.
BULLET CLUB (KENTA & Taiji Ishimori). Winners: KENTA & Taiji Ishimori Rating: Bad
Six-Man Tag Team Match:
BULLET CLUB (El Phantasmo, Gedo & Jay White)
vs.
Guerrillas Of Destiny (Hikuleo, Jado & Tama Tonga). Winners: Guerrillas Of Destiny (Hikuleo, Jado & Tama Tonga) won by submission. Rating: Okay
Eight-Man Tag Team Match:
CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano), Ryusuke Taguchi & Shota Umino
vs.
Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito). Winners: CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano), Ryusuke Taguchi & Shota Umino Rating: Okay
Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship:
Bishamon (HirookiGoto and Yoshi-Hashi) (c)
vs.
The Mighty Don’t Kneel (Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste). Winners: Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hash still the IWGP Tag Team Champions. Rating: Good
Singles match for the NJPW World Television Championship:
Zack Sabre Jr. (c)
vs.
Tomohiro Ishii. Winner: Zack Sabre Jr. keeps his NJPW World Television Championship. Rating: Very Good
Main Event:
Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship:
Hiromu Takahashi (c)
vs.
Yoh. Winner: Hiromu Takahashi is still the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. Rating: Really Good