NJPW Wrestle Dynasty Results & Review by Ryan Balkwill

Promotion: New Japan Pro-Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Ring of Honor, World Wonder Ring Stardom

Date: January 5, 2025

City: Tokyo, Japan

Venue: Tokyo Done

TV station/network: NJPWWorld.com

Commentary by: Chris Charlton, Walker Stewart

Overall Show Score: 7/10

Pros: Congratulations for Mercedes Moné capturing both women’s championships making her the first and only female professional wrestler to win titles across WWE, AEW and NJPW. Shota Umino beat Claudio. Konosuke Takeshita retain both his Never Openweight Championship and the AEW International championship after winning them the night before. Kenny Omega is back  and mange to get a win over Gabe kidd & Zack Saber Jr retaining his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship again at this event.

Cons: I don’t agreed  having a women’s cup 4-way final involved on the main show. Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Katsuyori Shibata might benefitted with a other couple of minutes. I didn’t like seeing the Young Bucks winning the IWGP Tag Titles & This event of overshadowed what came before from the previous one Wrestle kingdom a day ago.

Pre-Show:

Matches:

International Women’s Cup final four-way match
Winner receives a women’s championship match from the participating promotion of their choosing.                                                                                                                                                                                   

Willow Nightingale (AEW)

vs.

Persephone (CMLL)

vs. 

Athena (ROH)

vs. 

Momo Watanabe (Stardom).                                                                                                                                                      Winner: Momo Watanabe won by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                 Rating: Good

Tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship:                                            

The Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara) (c)

vs. 

House of Torture (Sho and Yoshinobu Kanemaru).                                                                                                   Winners: The Sons of Texas keep their ROH World Tag Team Championship by pinfall.                                                                                Rating: solid.

Main Show:

Matches:

Eight-man Lucha Gauntlet match:                                                                                      

Taiji Ishimori 

vs. 

Titan 

vs. 

El Desperado 

vs. 

Hechicero 

vs. 

Soberano Jr. 

vs. 

Master Wato 

vs. 

Kosei Fujita 

vs. 

Mascara Dorada.                                                                                             Winner: Taiji Ishimori won by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                                   Rating: Not that BAD.

Grappling Rules exhibition match:

Hiroshi Tanahashi 

vs. 

Katsuyori Shibata.                                                                                Winner: That’s ended in a draw                                                                                                                                                                                  Rating: Descent

Winner Takes All match for the Strong Women’s Championship and the Undisputed British Women’s Championship:             

Mercedes Moné (c)

vs. 

Mina Shirakawa.                                                                                                              Winner: Mercedes Moné won the the Undisputed British Women’s Championship by pinfall.                                                               Rating: Underwhelming

Singles Match:                                                                                                                                                                      

David Finlay 

vs. 

Brody King.                                                                                                                                         Winner: Dave Finlay won by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                                     Rating: Pretty Good  

Singles Match:                                                                                                                                                                      

Shota Umino 

vs. 

Claudio Castagnoli.                                                                                                                    Winner: Shota Umino won by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                                     Rating: Good

Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship and the AEW International Championship:                                         

Konosuke Takeshita (c)

vs. 

Tomohiro Ishii.                                                                                                             Winner: Konosuke Takeshita keep both Never Openweight Championship and the AEW International championship by pinfall.          Rating: Great

Three-way Tag team match for the vacant IWGP Tag Team Championship:                                             

United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb)

vs. 

The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson)

vs. 

Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito and Hiromu Takahashi).                                                          Winners: The Young Bucks won the vacant IWGP Tag Team Championships by pinfall.                                                                              Rating: Good

Singles Match for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship:                                        

Yota Tsuji ©

vs. 

Jack Perry.                                                                                                                                  Winner: Yota Tsuji keep his IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship by pinfall.                                                                                            Rating: Pretty Good

Singles match:                                                                                                                                                                      

Kenny Omega 

vs. 

Gabe Kidd.                                                                                                                                       Winner: Kenny Omega won by pinfall.                                                                                                                                                                                   Rating: Amazing  

Main Event:

Singles Match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship:                                                               

Zack Sabre Jr. 

vs.

Ricochet.                                                                                                                                               Winner: Zack Sabre Jr keep his IWGP World Heavyweight Championship by submission.                                                                Rating: Good

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