New Japan has a special pre-PPV event scheduled tonight in the US ahead of their next PPV tomorrow, taking on a Halloween theme for these events. Fans are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes to tonight’s event, as far as what’s on tap it all is a surprise-no matches will be announced on advance and fans in attendance won’t know each match until entrances happen.
Today’s event will be held at Palladium Times Square on New York City and can be watched LIVE on PPV via FITE in English. There will be no New Japan World broadcast and it will not be available on demand until a later date (probably early next year). The event is available as a standalone PPV for $14.99 or as a combo pack including tomorrow’s event for $29.99 (tomorrow’s event by itself is $24.99). Either purchase gets you the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays.
Because the event starts as I am beginning my commute home from work, the results below will be NEAR LIVE as FITE streams have DVR functionality so I will rewind to the start when I join the stream and watch from there. These results will be about 15-20 minutes behind real time as a result (I may catch up to live by the end though). Tonight’s event likely will run 2 1/2-3 hours.
Tonight’s lineup is all a mystery and each match will not be revealed until entrances happen.
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We are LIVE from Palladium Times Square in New York City. Your hosts are Ian Riccaboni & Matt Rehwoldt in costumes.
The paid attendance may be announced after the event, there were tickets available earlier today but commentary is saying a sellout. Small venue but it looks like it’ll maybe be in the low 1000s.
Match 1: Kevin Knight & The DKC vs. Rocky Romero & Alex Kozlov
Result: Kevin Knight & The DKC beat Rocky Romero & Alex Kozlov. Knight pinned Kozlov with a rollup.
Match 2: Crowbar vs. Fred Rosser. 20 minute time limit
Result: Fred Rosser beat Crowbar
After the match, Jonathan Gresham came out. This may be his first appearance anywhere since leaving All Elite Wrestling & Ring Of Honor a couple months ago. Rosser had an open challenge for tomorrow for the STRONG Openweight Championship. Had because Gresham has accepted.
Match 3: Aussie Open (Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher) vs. S.A.T. (Joel & Jose Maximo). 20 minute time limit
Result: Aussie Open beat S.A.T. Fletcher pinned one of the Maximos after Corealis.
Match 4: Mighty Mante vs. Smiley, Mascara Dorada & Mike Bailey in a 4-way. 30 minute time limit
Result: Mike Bailey beat Mighty Mante, Smiley & Mascara Dorada in a 4-way by pinning Mante.
Match 5: Tracy Williams vs. Minoru Suzuki. 30 minute time limit
Result: Minoru Suzuki beat Tracy Williams. Afterwards, Suzuki teased giving the referee a Gotch-style piledriver but spared him.
Match 6: Jake Something vs. Shingo Takagi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Shingo Takagi beat Jake Something (I incorrectly said Tracy Williams before)
Main Event: Elimination Match (over the top rules as well as pinfall/submission): Tom Lawlor, West Coast Wrecking Crew (Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs), El Phantasmo, Juice Robinson & Jay White vs. Amazing Red, Eddie Kingston, Homicide, Yoh, Jon Moxley & Kazuchika Okada. No time limit
Result: Amazing Red, Eddie Kingston, Homicide, Yoh, Jon Moxley & Kazuchika Okada beat Tom Lawlor, West Coast Wrecking Crew, El Phantasmo, Juice Robinson & Jay White. Order of elimination: Yoh by Nelson & Isaacs, Nelson by Red, Red by Isaacs, Isaacs by Homicide, Homicide by Lawlor, Phantasmo by Moxley, Lawlor by Moxkey, Okada by White, Robinson by Moxley, White by Moxley & Kingston. Moxley & Kingston win. Afterwards, Kingston with microphone to call out White and bury him ahead of his 1/4/23 IWGP World Heavyweight Championship defense against Okada, then handing the microphone to Moxley to cut the show-ending promo to send the crowd home happy.
This definitely was full of surprises as advertised with appearances by STRONG and local NYC indy talent as well as some current & former Impact & ROH talent among others. Mike Bailey is always awesome and AEW provided great surprises at the end with Moxley & Kingston, some flashbacks to the past with S.A.T, and much more. A fun prequel ahead to tomorrow’s main PPV that’s worth watching.
End Show. The event ran just under 3 hours.
The main feature is tomorrow. Live streaming on FITE in English and New Japan World in Japanese (as a separate PPV for 2990 Japanese yen) will begin at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT with a FREE pre-show match scheduled for 7:30 PM ET/4:30 PM PT. Tomorrow’s current lineup:
Pre-show: Waka Tsukiyama & Mina Shirakawa vs. Kylie Rae & Tiara James
Main Show:
Rocky Romero & Yoh vs. Yujiro Takahashi & Sho
STRONG Tag Team Champions Aussie Open vs. Motor City Machine Guns and The DKC & Kevin Knight in a 3-way for the titles
Homicide, Shota Umino & Wheeler Yuta vs. Tom lawlor & West Coast Wrecking Crew
Clark Connors vs. Minoru Suzuki
STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser vs. Jonathan Gresham for the title
SWA World Champion Mayu Iwatani vs. KiLynn King for the title
KOPW 2022 Trophy Holder Shingo Takagi vs. El Phantasmo in a Street Fight for the trophy
Kazuchika Okada & Eddie Kingston vs. Jay White & Juice Robinson (main event)
NEAR LIVE results are scheduled to begin at around 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT, but the exact time is subject to change. Regardless, full results will be posted.
UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 625. Friday’s PPV is now sold out so the number will be around the same, maybe a little higher.
