Cero Reviews NJPW New Japan Cup 2022, 3.18

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Cero Reviews NJPW New Japan Cup 2022, 3.18

Post by cero2k » Mar 18th, '22, 12:08

New Japan Cup 2022, Day 11
March 18, 2022
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma) & YOH vs. Six Or Nine (Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi) & Hiroshi Tanahashi - 5/10
Ok friendly match, nothing too noteworthy other than Tanahashi won with a Texas Cloverleaf on Honma.

Suzuki-gun (DOUKI & El Desperado) vs. House Of Torture (SHO & Yujiro Takahashi) - 6.5/10
This is now officially building SHO versus Desperado, likely for the final night of the New Japan Cup. The match was good, the stuff with Despy and SHO was good, with Despy working the leg and SHO the arm. Even the stuff with DOUKI and Yujiro was good, DOUKI has good speed to work around Yujiro and just wait for the latter to hit Pimp Juice for the win.

Guerrillas Of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa) & Jado vs. BULLET CLUB (Bad Luck Fale, El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori) - 4/10
This had a good start with a brawl and some G.O.D. offense, but then they just decided to tag in Jado, who teased pressing Fale over his head. That just kinda made the whole approach dumb. Match didn't improve much, after the heat section, things came down to Jado taking away the brass knucks from Gedo and teasing using them, only to turn around and get a nut punch by ELP and Sudden Death for the pin.

Post-match - 6||9 ran down and attacked Ishimori and ELP, when Fale tried to take them out, G.O.D. ran them off. In the ring, 6||9 and the Guerrillas shook hands and started an alliance. G.O.D. on the hontai team is something else.

CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, TAKA Michinoku & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) - 6.5/10
We got Suzuki and Ishii trading strikes and a surprisingly good Goto versus Kanemaru pair up, so overall I give this a good rating. The stuff with YH and TAKA was good too, but too short as it just led to Bishamon hitting Shoto for the win.

Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito) vs. United Empire (Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay) - 7.5/10
This was really good, and really violent for some minutes early on when UE dominated LIJ. With Cobb singling out Naito, Ospreay was just running over BUSHI. Last couple of minutes went back and forth, but Cobb just didn't allow Naito to help BUSHI that much, and BUSHI ended up falling to a Hidden Blade.

Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr.) vs. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano) - 7/10
Fun match, a mix of good wrestling with Okada and Sabre, and then Yano and Taichi doing their thing. Last couple of minutes gave me hints that a feud between Taichi and Yano for the trophy wouldn't be all that farfetched if they work in some type of Sumo style into the match. Let's hope that is not the case. Taichi won with the Yokozuna elbow.

New Japan Cup 2022 Third Round Match
Shingo Takagi vs. Chase Owens (w/Bad Luck Fale) - 7.5/10
Good match, but I did feel like Owens got a lot of offense in early on, especially if you consider how little Fale interfered. That aside, the match was good, well wrestled, Shingo did a good job selling, and a strong comeback to win with the Last of the Dragons.

New Japan Cup 2022 Third Round Match
Hiromu Takahashi vs. EVIL (w/Dick Togo) - 9/10
Hiromu still holds that grudge from when EVIL turned on LIJ, and the energy showed. He came at EVIL like a spider monkey, he never stopped pushing, he countered Togo's involvement, he kicked out at everything EVIL threw at him, and at the end, with an EVERYTHING IS EVIL of all things, Hiromu finally avenged that loss from 2020 and pinned EVIL, and eliminated him from the tournament.

It will indeed be Shingo versus Hiromu in a battle of Ingobernables!

Post-match - Hiromu told EVIL that losing to his own move was the most humiliating thing, and while he once tried to get EVIL back in LIJ, to him EVIL was no more and Hiromu was done with the House of Torture. He thanked the crowd and addressed Shingo. Hiromu said that once he wins the cup, he's challenging Desperado for the championship.

OVERALL THOUGHTS
And up and down show, some of the undercard was really good and I really liked the main event, but then stuff like Shingo versus Owens wasn't satisfactory.
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