IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Match 4 Way Match: Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly vs. Matt & Nick Jackson vs. Alex Koslov & Rocky Romero vs. Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma vs. Bad Luck Fale & Jeff Jarret & Yujiro Takahashi
Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste & Naomichi Marufuji & Toru Yano vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Lance Archer & Shelton Benjamin & Takashi Iizuka
UWF-I Rules: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Minoru Suzuki
NEVER Openweight Title Match: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Togi Makabe
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Kenny Omega
IWGP Tag Title Match: Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson vs. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata
AJ Styles vs. Tetsuya Naito
IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi
IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada
Sho Tanaka vs. Yohei Komatsu 5:38
Mascara Dorada & Tiger Mask vs. Captain New Japan & Manabu Nakanishi 5:03
Chase Owens & Rob Conway vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Jushin Thunder Liger 7:53
Kota Ibushi vs. Tomoaki Honma 12:15
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title: Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly vs. Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson vs. Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA 13:31
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: Kenny Omega vs. Ryusuke Taguchi 13:58
Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano & Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi 11:45
Satoshi Kojima & Tetsuya Naito & Yuji Nagata vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI 16:30
IWGP Tag Team Title: Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson 16:26
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. AJ Styles 26:08
YOSHI-HASHI vs. Jay White 7:07
Manabu Nakanishi & Mascara Dorada & Ryusuke Taguchi & Satoshi Kojima & Tiger Mask vs. Captain New Japan & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Jushin Thunder Liger & KUSHIDA & Tomoaki Honma 10:54
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yohei Komatsu vs. Sho Tanaka & Yuji Nagata 12:10
Kazuchika Okada & Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga & Cody Hall 11:22
New Japan Cup 2015 Second Round Match: Togi Makabe vs. Yujiro Takahashi 10:15
New Japan Cup 2015 Second Round Match: Kota Ibushi vs. Toru Yano 2:44
New Japan Cup 2015 Second Round Match: Tetsuya Naito vs. Bad Luck Fale 12:51
New Japan Cup 2015 Second Round Match: Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata 17:18
Ryusuke Taguchi & Yohei Komatsu vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Sho Tanaka 6:55
Tiger Mask vs. Chase Owens 6:24
Mascara Dorada vs. El Barbaro Cavernario 9:27
Bobby Fish vs. Beretta 11:16
Rocky Romero vs. Nick Jackson 11:31
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma vs. David Finlay & Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata 10:28
Gedo & Kazuchika Okada vs. Cody Hall & Yujiro Takahashi 8:39
Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI & Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Captain New Japan & Hirooki Goto & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata & Togi Makabe 16:19
Best Of The Super Junior XXII Final Match: KUSHIDA vs. Kyle O'Reilly 30:45. Tremendous epic final that never felt long & wasn't "limited" by being a junior match, managing to meld most of the good aspects of pro wrestling from the past 5 decades into something that was not only still cohesive, but kept adding layers of goodness. From the get go, it felt like an athletic contest, and rather than try to trump up some nonsense about why they suddenly hated each other, O'Reilly offered a handshake before the match & they proceeded to do an honorable technical classic that actually gave wrestling a good name & made it come off as a sport rather than the sideshow farce all the haters associate it with. A lot of matches are serious, but this or their 5/21/16 rematch would be great to show your friends who think there's nothing to wrestling beyond Hogan flexing his muscles & punching his hand or some poor sap lying on his back forever while Rock spends a minute telegraphing his elbow drop then has to slap on a chinlock to catch his breath. The match had enough crediblity & intensity, while still being diverse, spectacular, & exciting. Though both are more MMA leaning than almost any other junior in the actual offense they use, and I think those aspects are among the strongest of the match, at least compared to the cringe worthy grappling & striking you see from most others, the match doesn't even start out as a quasi worked like a shoot as KUSHIDA's 5/27/18 match with SHO leans toward being throughout. Instead, it's more a modern updating of the old UK/US grappling masters blended into the more technical end of the hybrid melting pot junior style, maybe some weird combination of Robinson vs. Gagne & Samurai vs. Otani, but no example I can come up with really feels right because its a unique match in its own right. This isn't a match that blows you away from the start like a lot of high end junior matches with a really hot opening or an aerial explosion before they get into the match, but they have really great chemistry, flowing so fluidly in & out of all the styles that very little feels out of place or wasteful (KUSHIDA's swandive northern chop never really works for me). The match builds exceptionally through a focused but never overbearing story, is smart & well thought out, and they do a lot of things well that you don't normally see from others. Right at the outset, there's more thought put into how they are going to get the opponent down with both actually using some reasonable entries to engage, though "leverage" ultimately plays a bigger role than solid wrestling takedowns. O'Reilly is one of the only wrestlers who is actually willing & able to throw something that even resembles a kickboxing strike combo, though striking is generally a minor aspect that comes in late when all else has failed. Both men have an arm submission they like to win with, KUSHIDA the hoverboard lock & O'Reilly the armbar, and KUSHIDA had a bad elbow coming in, so it was only natural that both men targeted their opponents arms, but they eased into it. The arm story was the main thing going on, but while neither forget about it for too long, they also didn't unnaturally force it trying to be consistent. KUSHIDA's first big success came escaping O'Reilly's guillotine by rolling into the Kimura. This set up the key spot of the match where KUSHIDA tried the Kimura off the 2nd, but O'Reilly stopped it & accidentally gave KUSHIDA a concussion with an armbreaker off the ropes. In a sense, this isn't a big move by avalanche style standards, but the problem is there's no good way to soften or cussion the bump, so even KUSHIDA's arm & shoulder hit first, his head bounced off the canvas. O'Reilly basically just released his armlock because KUSHIDA wasn't responding with the counter, but from that point KUSHIDA recovered, somehow. One of the amazing things about the match is KUSHIDA miraculously managed to do another 17 or so minutes of the best wrestling of his career in this state, including taking a ridiculous avalanche style backdrop, and although he forgot the match so O'Reilly had to keep calling the spots for him, which was somewhat distracting at points, KUSHIDA's performance wasn't too compromised apart from the injury arguably causing him to more or less miss his corkscrew moonsault right before the finish. KUSHIDA didn't ease up, not at all, he just plowed forward with a tope con giro & moonsault that O'Reilly awesomely countered with a triangle. Though the match had started somewhat cautiously, they really built a ton of momentum in a short period, and throughout the 2nd half you really felt like the match could end any time. Everyone knew KUSHIDA was going to win, yet the match was so good you actually often forgot that. All that being said, they tended to avoid near finishes until the very end, with O'Reilly kicking out of the sliced bread, which isn't a normal KUSHIDA move but rather the finisher of his tag partner, Alex Shelley, and also the afformentioned mostly missed flying move. I liked that when they worked the striking into the match, they did so blasting away at each others arms with the logic being if they couldn't break it one way they'd try another. One of the best arm sequences saw O'Reilly hit a brainbuster into an armbar, but KUSHIDA's hold his clasp, so Kyle transitioned into an omoplata. One of the great things about the match is they kept answering each other & escalating the proceedings without things seeming too cute or contrived. For instance, O'Reilly did his guillotine on the apron, & just as Bobby Fish was screaming for the ref to stop it because KUSHIDA was out, KUSHIDA answered with his own brainbuster onto the apron, which set up a great double sell spot where KUSHIDA was face first drooling onto the mat as Fish cracked me up screaming at him "WHY? WHY? WHY? YOU'RE EVIL!" There were a few perfect opportunities for Fish to interfere, but they refused to soil the match with such circus shenanigans. The worst part of the match for me was predictably the big strike exchange, which was just all sorts of contrived beyond the usual just waiting for the opponent to eventually hit you back when they got around to it, starting super slow because both couldn't use the arms & were doing as much damage to themselves by doing so anyway, so instead of just doing something else they kept making silly faces then began mixing the pace until it's super hyper because who knows why? Thankfully, they did see the story through with KUSHIDA winning with the Kimura. This match combined with KUSHIDA's subsequent 7/5/15 junior title win over Omega helped establish KUSHIDA as the first real ace of NJ's junior division since Devitt was "promoted". As amazing as KUSHIDA's performance was, especially given the circumstances, it was really O'Reilly who carried the day & kept things together amidst the adversity. Even well above his Never title shot against Shibata, this & the league match rematch stand as his best work in NJ, and show him at the height of his powers. ****3/4
Manabu Nakanishi & Mascara Dorada & Ryusuke Taguchi & Sho Tanaka & Yuji Nagata vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask & Yohei Komatsu 8:16
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title Three Way Match: Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson vs. Beretta & Rocky Romero vs. Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly 14:30
Tetsuya Naito & Tomoaki Honma vs. Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi 8:50
Katsuyori Shibata vs. Kazushi Sakuraba 11:48
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Kenny Omega vs. KUSHIDA 20:44
NEVER Openweight Title Match: Togi Makabe vs. Tomohiro Ishii 17:50
IWGP Tag Title Match: Matt Taven & Michael Bennett vs. Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson 10:09
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Toru Yano 12:32
IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Hirooki Goto vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 22:40
IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: AJ Styles vs. Kazuchika Okada 26:16
Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask vs. Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu 11:31
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Captain New Japan & Manabu Nakanishi 9:39
Yuji Nagata vs. Daichi Hashimoto 16:16
Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask & Yohei Komatsu & Yuji Nagata vs. David Finlay & Jay White & Mascara Dorada & Tomoaki Honma
Captain New Japan & Hirooki Goto vs. Cody Hall & Yujiro Takahashi
Shinsuke Nakamura & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga
Gedo & Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Michael Elgin & Ryusuke Taguchi & Satoshi Kojima
Block A: Doc Gallows vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Block A: Toru Yano vs. Togi Makabe
Block A: Tetsuya Naito vs. Bad Luck Fale
Block A: Katsuyori Shibata vs. AJ Styles
Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kota Ibushi 20:53. Excellent match.
Hirooki Goto & Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask & Yohei Komatsu vs. David Finlay & Mascara Dorada & Ryusuke Taguchi & Tomoaki Honma
Captain New Japan & Yuji Nagata vs. Cody Hall & Yujiro Takahashi
Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga vs. Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI
Michael Elgin & Satoshi Kojima vs. Gedo & Kazuchika Okada
G1 CLIMAX A Block: Bad Luck Fale vs. Doc Gallows
G1 CLIMAX A Block: Toru Yano vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
G1 CLIMAX A Block: Katsuyori Shibata vs. Togi Makabe
G1 CLIMAX A Block: Kota Ibushi vs. AJ Styles
G1 CLIMAX A Block: Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Mascara Dorada & Tiger Mask vs. David Finlay & Jay White
Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi & Cody Hall vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Satoshi Kojima & Yohei Komatsu & Yuji Nagata
Michael Elgin & Tomoaki Honma vs. Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI
Hirooki Goto & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Gedo & Kazuchika Okada
Block A: Doc Gallows vs. Toru Yano
Block A: Togi Makabe vs. Hioyoshi Tenzan
Block A: Katsuyori Shibata vs. Kota Ibushi 13:25. Excellent match.
Block A: Bad Luck Fale vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Block A: Tetsuya Naito vs. AJ Styles
Hirooki Goto & Mascara Dorada & Michael Elgin vs. Satoshi Kojima & Yohei Komatsu & Yuji Nagata
Cody Hall & Karl Anderson vs. Jay White & Tomoaki Honma
Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi
Gedo & Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Captain New Japan & KUSHIDA & Ryusuke Taguchi
G1 CLIMAX A Block: Bad Luck Fale vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
G1 CLIMAX A Block: Toru Yano vs. Katsuyori Shibata
G1 CLIMAX A Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Doc Gallows
G1 CLIMAX A Block: AJ Styles vs. Togi Makabe
G1 CLIMAX A Block: Tetsuya Naito vs & Kota Ibushi
Jushin Thunder Liger & Ryusuke Taguchi & Satoshi Kojima & Yohei Komatsu vs. David Finlay & KUSHIDA & Mascara Dorada & Yuji Nagata 7:15
Cody Hall & Karl Anderson vs. Jay White & Michael Elgin 8:57
Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Captain New Japan & Hirooki Goto & Tomoaki Honma 9:14
Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Gedo & Kazuchika Okada 10:56
G1 Climax 2015 Block A Match: Bad Luck Fale [10] vs. Kota Ibushi [6] 8:30
G1 Climax 2015 Block A Match: Tetsuya Naito [10] vs. Toru Yano [4] 8:01
G1 Climax 2015 Block A Match: AJ Styles [10] vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan [2] 13:29
G1 Climax 2015 Block A Match: Togi Makabe [8] vs. Doc Gallows [2] 8:55
G1 Climax 2015 Block A Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi [10] vs. Katsuyori Shibata [8] 21:20
Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Mascara Dorada & Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma 7:19
Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly & Michael Elgin vs. Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson & Cody Hall 9:46
KUSHIDA & Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata vs. Captain New Japan & Hirooki Goto & Ricochet 10:12
Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Gedo & Kazuchika Okada & Matt Taven & Michael Bennett 10:13
G1 Climax 2015 Block A: Doc Gallows [6] vs. Katsuyori Shibata [10] 7:52
G1 Climax 2015 Block A: Toru Yano [8] vs. Bad Luck Fale [10] 3:44
G1 Climax 2015 Block A: Hiroyoshi Tenzan [6] vs. Tetsuya Naito [10] 14:18
G1 Climax 2015 Block A: Kota Ibushi [8] vs. Togi Makabe [8] 9:07
G1 Climax 2015 Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi [14] vs. AJ Styles [12] 27:56
Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly vs. Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu 6:36
Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson vs. David Finlay & Jay White 6:38
Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI & Matt Taven & Michael Bennett vs. AJ Styles & Bad Luck Fale & Doc Gallows & Tama Tonga & Cody Hall 7:08
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Katsuyori Shibata & KUSHIDA & Togi Makabe vs. Captain New Japan & Kota Ibushi & Manabu Nakanishi & Ricochet & Tetsuya Naito 9:21
G1 Climax 2015 Block B: Yujiro Takahashi [6] vs. Tomoaki Honma [2] 10:33
G1 Climax 2015 Block B: Tomohiro Ishii [10] vs. Michael Elgin [8] 14:30
G1 Climax 2015 Block B: Yuji Nagata [6] vs. Hirooki Goto [12] 13:00
G1 Climax 2015 Block B: Satoshi Kojima [6] vs. Karl Anderson [12] 10:53
G1 Climax 2015 Block B: Shinsuke Nakamura [14] vs. Kazuchika Okada [14] 23:31
David Finlay & Mascara Dorada & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu 6:39
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima & Captain New Japan vs. Jay White & Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata 6:38
Michael Elgin vs. YOSHI-HASHI 9:24
Kazushi Sakuraba & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi 8:53
Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata & Kota Ibushi vs. Tetsuya Naito & Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma 10:41
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title: Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson vs. Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly 17:35
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title: KUSHIDA vs. Ricochet 17:28
AJ Styles & Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson vs. Kazuchika Okada & Matt Taven & Michael Bennett 11:16
G1 Climax 2015 Final: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 32:15
James Castle & Sha Samuels vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima 8:29
Martin Kirby vs. ACH 11:42
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Big Damo 15:10
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Gedo & Kazuchika Okada 16:30
Kyle O'Reilly vs. KUSHIDA 17:43. The much anticipated rematch of the Super Jr final was rolled out in the mid card with nothing at stake, and subsequently was only half the length, which would have been fine if they wrestled like their 5/21/16 rematch rather than doing half the match. Part of the problem with doing this match in the UK was there's no Brits, so it was behind a lot of stuff that was very obviously going to be vastly inferior, but it was interesting that they shifted the technical style even more toward their idea of a World of Sport match. Leaning less toward MMA in their submissions early on didn't improve the match, but they used legit stuff when it mattered, and apart from what I'd consider to be fundamental errors having O'Reilly repeatedly using the ropes for leverage when he had KUSHIDA in the abdominal stretch to get cheap heat after KUSHIDA readily shook hands with O'Reilly to start based on the honor he earned in the previous encounter & O'Reilly then KUSHIDA moving away from the real sports intensity & aura of the first match by clowning around a bit, it was okay in the sense that this at least felt like a different match rather than the radio edit of the original classic. The main story of O'Reilly wanting to win with the armbar & KUSHIDA wanted to win again with the Kimura was the same though, and despite the hamming it up early surrounding, and thus lessened the importance of these crucial finishers, there was some really intricate technical wrestling going on here, with a lot of sweet reversals back & forth. The match really took off when O'Reilly turned the handspring back elbow into his ARMageddon. From here the sequences were excellent as they both had one answer after another & were just chaining counters until something finally momentarily stuck. The striking was better in this encounter because it was less predictable & they weren't just waiting for another. Down the stretch, they exchanged discus elbows then instead of KUSHIDA standing there so O'Reilly could hit him with a 2nd discus elbow, they both landed one at once, & instead of O'Reilly letting KUSHIDA hit him with the Masahiro Tanaka, he countered with the guard pull guillotine. The match just rather randomly ended a little after that though with O'Reilly getting the submission with the triangle. I didn't expect the match to go 30 minutes or anything, but it seemed reasonable that if they were just going to pull the plug with O'Reilly catching KUSHIDA in something, it would be with the armbar, so this finish was surprising to say the least. ***1/2
Tetsuya Naito vs. Mark Haskins 12:58
RevPro British Cruiserweight Title No Disqualification Match: Josh Bodom vs. Jimmy Havoc 16:10
RevPro British Heavyweight Title Three Way Match: AJ Styles vs. Marty Scurll and Will Ospreay 18:22. Ospreay is all sorts of spectacular in his offense & his bumps. At one point he uses boosts himself off the top turnbuckle to somersault to the floor onto AJ, runs the floor & dives through the bottom rope for a swinging DDT on Scurll, then reenters with a corkscrew shooting star press. Unfortunately, the match includes Scurll, who can't help but destroy it by stopping after every move for more of his cornball cartoon mannerisms, turning an already contrived contest into a straight up exhibition. Liked the finish where Ospreay breaks up Scurll's chickenwing with his Oscutter, but that leaves him prone for the Styles clash.
2/22/15 Cockpit Theatre, RevPro British Cruiserweight Title Match: Will Ospreay vs. Rocky Romero 19:40
Tetsuya Naito vs. KUSHIDA vs. Martin Kirby 12:18. KUSHIDA & Kirby worked really hard & Naito stalled. KUSHIDA stole the show from a wrestling perspective, but Naito's disinterest still wound up being the story of the match.
Gideon Grey vs. Gedo 8:40
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Joel Redman & Mark Haskins 12:04
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Marty Scurll 17:20
Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson vs. James Castle & Sha Samuels 7:09
Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay 15:49. Okada's matches are him following along with the opponent for a reason. This match really didn't work because Ospreay was too big an underdog to be able to do all the work for him & make the match. They opened with a series of athletic counters, which were fine but nowhere near the level Ospreay does with more athletic & flexible opponents. From there Okada took over with mostly uninspiring offense to set up the crowd really getting into it as underdog Ospreay made his comeback, but it was short lived, each and every time. Ospreay was given little more than hope spots, and unless you were delusional enough to believe he was going to flash pin Okada, he was never in this. Ospreay did take a fantastic bump to actually make Okada's silly diving European uppercut look like a reasonable maneuver, but while the match had its moments, it was really just a glorified jobber match. **1/2
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Big Damo 14:25
RevPro British Heavyweight Title Match: AJ Styles vs. Jushin Thunder Liger 15:04. AJ is one of the many who grew up idolizing Liger, and though today's Liger is obviously nowhere near his optimal mid '90s level, Styles both put him over heavily despite it being a heavy vs. a junior match & also really understood how to work around Liger's lessened athleticism & take sweet bumps to make his moves look better. Whether Styles was giving or taking, he was doing pretty much all the running & jumping so Liger wasn't tested too heavily physically. Liger was mostly working the back with submission moves, but he did just enough offense to keep it entertaining before Styles finally got going. Liger stepped it up in the 2nd half, which was mostly built around his shotei, unfortunately forgetting the back almost entirely, with Styles taking one awesome flip bump and countering one with an overhead kick only to have Liger answer with his abisegiri. This was hardly a blowout MOTY contender, but it was an effective match that made for a reasonable main event. It was just the opposite of Okada vs. Ospreay, with AJ succeeding in making me believe he could lose while giving a performance that showed he deserved to win. ***
Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask vs. Sho Tanaka & Yohei Komatsu
KUSHIDA vs. David Finlay
Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Jay White
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata
Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs. Gedo & Toru Yano
Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Captain Taiwan & Hirooki Goto
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi vs. Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI
8/29/02 Tokyo Super Rookie Debut Match: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Tadao Yasuda
5/2/03 Tokyo Dome Ultimate Crush Rules: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Jan Nortje
12/9/03 Osaka IWGP Title Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
1/4/04 Tokyo Dome IWGP & NWF Title Match: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Yoshihiro Takayama
1/4/05 Tokyo Dome IWGP U-30 Openweight Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura. 24:45 Complete
1/4/08 Tokyo Dome IWGP Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
4/5/09 Tokyo Resolution '09 The End of Discord: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Togi Makabe
8/14/11 Tokyo G1 Climax Final: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Tetsuya Naito. 20:19 Complete
7/22/12 Yamagata IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Hirooki Goto vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
4/6/14 Tokyo IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 26:49 complete
1/4/15 Tokyo Dome IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kota Ibushi 20:12 complete
10/19/99 Fukuoka: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Wataru Inoue
4/23/03 Hiroshima G2 U-30 Climax Final, U-30 Openweight Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinya Makabe
1/30/05 Tsukisamu IWGP Tag Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Shinsuke Namakura vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Yuji Nagata
7/17/06 Tsukisamu IWGP Title Decision Match, IWGP Tournament Final: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Giant Bernard 17:44 complete
8/12/07 Tokyo G1 Climax Final: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuji Nagata
11/11/07 Tokyo IWGP Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hirooki Goto
1/4/09 Tokyo Dome IWGP Title Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Keiji Muto 30:22 complete
6/16/12 Osaka IWGP Title Match: Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi 28:06 complete
8/16/15 Tokyo G1 Climax Final: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura 32:15 complete