Line-up for New Japan's big PPV next month;
New Japan Pro-Wrestling, "NJPW 40th Anniversary ~ KING OF PRO-WRESTLING"
October 08, 2012
Tokyo - Ryogoku Kokugikan
1. Manabu Nakanishi Return Match: Manabu Nakanishi, Yuji Nagata & Strong Man vs. Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii
2. IWGP Jr Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov (c) vs. KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley
3. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Kota Ibushi (c) vs. Low Ki
4. IWGP Tag Team Titles: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Lance Archer
5. Yujiro Takahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito
6. Togi Makabe & Wataru Inoue vs. Kazushi Sakuraba & Katsuyori Shibata
7. Right to Tokyo Dome IWGP Title Match: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Karl Anderson
8. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Hirooki Goto
9. IWGP Heavyweight Title: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki
Lots of cool stuff going on in this card - Manabu Nakanishi returns after being on the shelf for over a year with a spinal injury, Romero & Koslov defending the Jr. tag belts in what should be a really fun match against KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley, Low Ki cashing in his rematch for the Jr. heavyweight belt against Kota Ibushi, and Tenzan & Kojima defending their tag titles against Smith & Archer. Plus, MMA invaders Kazushi Sakuraba & Katsuyori Shibata face off against Makabe & Inoue, Karl Anderson & The Rainmaker compete to see who challenges for the heavyweight title at the huge annual Tokyo Dome show in January, Hirooki Goto gets his rematch against Shinsuke Nakamura for the intercontinental belt and Tanahashi defends the heavyweight belt against Minoru Suzuki.
Really looking forward to Suzuki vs Tanahashi, their match back in January was awesome;
Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs Minoru Suzuki - (NJPW 01/04/12)
I definitely will do my best and try to get something going for BOLA. Just curious, but how did you guys watch it together? Just all started it at the same time?
Yeah, but it's unfortunately not really ideal given the small number of indy fans here and their different time-zones/real-life stuff getting in the way, and BOLA is even more problematic as HighSpots don't release the downloadable versions of PWG shows until 30 days after the DVD. I think it's probably best if people just watch the shows at their leisure and then post their spoiler-tagged thoughts afterwards, and we keep the live viewings for iPPVs.
