Resurgence, New Japan’s latest US event, is now in the books. Read on to find out who became the first STRONG Women’s Champion and more.
Today’s event was held at Walker Pyramid in Long Beach, CA and can be watched on demand as a PPV on New Japan World.
The paid attendance has not yet been announced.
Pre-Show:
Match 1: The DKC beat Bateman.
Match 2: Alex Coughlin beat Christopher Daniels.
PPV:
Match 1: Barbaro Cavernario & Virus beat Bad Dude Tito & Zack Sabre Jr. Cavernario pinned Tito.
Match 2: STRONG Women’s Chanpionship Tournament: Mercedes Mone beat Stephanie Vaquer.
Match 3: STRONG Women’s Championship Tournament: Willow Nightingale beat Momo Kohga.
Match 4: In a Street Fight, Juice Robinson beat Fred Rosser.
The STRONG Tag Team Championship AND IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship are now VACANT. Kyle Fletcher announced that Aussie Open (Mark Davis & Fletcher) are vacating the titles due to a Davis injury. Determination match between Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI and Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL to crown new champions will happen at DOMINION on 6/4. That match will be for both titles.
Match 5: KENTA beat STRONG Openweight Champion Hikuleo by countout to win the title. KENTA becomes the 5th STRONG Openweight Champion. Next up: Possibly Eddie Kingston.
Match 6: Wheeler Yuta, Jon Moxley & Shota Umino beat Rocky Romero, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada. Umino pinned Romero after Death Rider.
Match 7: IWGP US Championship #1 Contender Tournament: Will Ospreay beat Hiroshi Tanahashi. As a result, Ospreay will face Lance Archer on 6/4 with the winner facing Kenny Omega for the title at a later date.
Main Event: STRONG Women’s Championship Tournament Final: Willow Nightingale beat Mercedes Mone to win the tournament and the title and become the inaugural STRONG Women’s Champion. Mone may have been legit injured and was hospitalized afterwards. Regardless, this is a huge upset and a lot of online fans are not happy.
The next US event is All Star Junior Festival USA 2023 on 8/19 at 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, PA.
UPDATE: Mone was legit injured in the match. Broken ankle.
The announced paid attendance was 2903. Not sure what capacity was but not a sellout.
