Wrestle Kingdom 11

What's the card?

Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Manabu Nakanishi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Tiger Mask vs. Yuji Nagata vs. surprise entrants    (New Japan Rumble)

Tiger Mask W vs. Tiger the Dark

The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) (c) vs. Roppongi Vice (Beretta and Rocky Romero) - Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

David Finlay, Ricochet and Satoshi Kojima (c) vs. Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Hangman Page and Yujiro Takahashi) vs. Chaos (Jado, Will Ospreay and Yoshi-Hashi) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Bushi, Evil and Sanada)    Gauntlet match for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship

Cody vs. Juice Robinson    (Debut of the American Nightmare!)

Kyle O'Reilly (c) vs. Adam Cole - Singles match for the ROH World Championship

Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Roa) (c) vs. Chaos (Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano) vs. G.B.H. (Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma)    Three-way tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship

Kushida (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi    Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

Katsuyori Shibata (c) vs. Hirooki Goto    Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship

Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi    Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship

Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kenny Omega    Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship

Guaranteed to have one 5* match with at least two or three 4.5 +.

All previous WKs are currently free on New Japan world, too.

Sweet, will have to check that out. Hopefully will be able to download it from somewhere afterwards.

Pretty sure it's Gedo, not Jado. If Jado were back I'd expect a bout with the Bucks at this show hahahaha

Last edited by Fish (Sat-31-Dec-2016 15:01:52)

I didn't watch all of the matches but for the most part they were excellent. The rumble was fine. Surprise entrant for Scott Norton, still looks like he would eat my family for breakfast.

Cody vs. Juice Robinson was ok but didn't hold my attention. I don't see the hype in Cody, and am still waiting to see this great match that fits the build-up he's been getting in every promotion.

The ROH title match was pretty good. The pacing was a little off and caught the crowd on the hop for the finish.

The last four matches were a build up to a crescendo.

Kushida vs. Takahashi was great, loads of daredevil spots and twists to complement the match. Takahashi who wrestled as Kamaitachi in Mexico had some brilliant matches with Dragon Lee.

Shibata vs Goto was brutal, stiff as a Japanese table.

Naito vs. Tanahashi told a terrific story. Tanahashi who has not won a big match in a long time tried with everything in his arsenal to beat Naito but he couldn't. Tanahashi's High Fly Flow has become too predetermined so opponents can counter it.

Okada vs. Omega. This match was a cataclysmic explosion of everything holy about pro-wrestling. Omega has a vignette in homage to the Terminator then makes his entrance as him. The match went about 45-50 minutes. Slow build-up working body parts to reel you in. Then some recklessly dangerous spots.

Springboard moonsault over the guard-rail

Double foot stomp through the table

These tables are not like WWE tables. Japanese tables are infamous for being very hard to break. Mainly due to the thickness of the wood and the metal frame. The feeling you would experience from taking a back body to the outside and through a table must be excruciating.

Once the mental spots were over. They went into this finish stretch of near-falls and signature moves for about 10 minutes. The end also kept the loser strong because he put on an amazing effort and didn't hit his finishing move, so can come back to fight again.

Meltzer went crazy at this match and went off the scale giving it 6 stars.

It was a great match. Fantastic even. But 6 stars suggests its the greatest match of all time and I wouldn't go that far. Awesome effort by both of them though.

I watched most of this the other week. Just need to find the time to sit down and watch the last match. As usual, it was a great PPV from what I've seen. Basically everything that Wrestlemania should be but isn't.

Now to just find an hour where I can just sit down and watch the last match. There's just too many other shows I could watch in a spare hour that I have.

Last edited by Ninjak_XO (Mon-13-Feb-2017 10:02:54)