NJPW: New Beginning in Osaka (3:00 a.m. EST / midnight PST)

[Silkk]

Beginning in Osaka will be headlined by Los Ingobernables de Japan leader Tetsuya Naito defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against former champion Michael Elgin, who was sidelined for the later part of 2016 with an injured orbital bone. Fellow LIJ member Hiromu Takahashi (the former Kamaitachi) will also be defending his IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship against CMLL star Dragon Lee. Perhaps one of the most highly anticipated bouts of the night, however, will see the strong-style expert Katsuyori Shibata defending the RevPro British Heavyweight Championship against Chaos member and high-flying sensation Will Ospreay.

Here’s the full match card:


IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Michael Elgin

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship
Hiromu Takahashi (c) vs. Dragon Lee

IWGP Tag Team Championship
Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano (c) vs. Great Bash Heel vs. Takashi Iizuka & Davey Boy Smith Jr.

British Heavyweight Championship
Katsuyori Shibata (c) vs. Will Ospreay

NEVER Openweight 6-Man Championship
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi & Ryusuke Taguchi (c) vs. Bushi, Seiya Sanada & Evil (Los Ingobernables de Japon)

Kazuchika Okada & Roppongi Vice vs. Minoru Suzuki, Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru

Tiger Mask, Jushin Thunder Liger, Juice Robinson & Yuji Nagata vs. Gedo, Jado, Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi

Henare, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Tomoyuki Oka, Kushida & Yoshytatsu

Hirai Kawato vs. Taka Michinoku

 

[Silkk]

shyt gonna be fire, i'll peep on tomorrow. Got a feeling Shibata gonna humble the fukk out Ospreay

 

[Drones]

Takahashi/Lee VTR:

Naito/Elgin VTR:

 

[Superkick Party]

Shows gonna be so much better than Sapporo

 

[Nero Christ]

to Ospreay

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I just caught up. Okada and Suzuki was very good, very focused. I liked it. The show as a whole was okay but this is the real shyt I been waiting for. I'll be up in this hoe commenting, will I stay up to watch it LIVE I don't know but definitely the following morning/afternoon

 

[Vinny Lupton]

Didn't they just have a big show last week?

 

[jackswstd]

Taka's music

 

[Drones]

Shibata just might kick Ospreay's head clean off his shoulders.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

So its gonna be on tonight or it already happened?

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

So its gonna be on tonight or it already happened?

what i'm wondering

if so then OP

 

[MenacingMonk]

Hoping for the Shibata/Ospreay match upped when I get up. If not I'll just skim to it when the show is up.

 

[Superkick Party]

So its gonna be on tonight or it already happened?

Already happened

 

[The Rainmaker]

NOSOTROS
LOS
INGOBERNAAAAABLEEEES
DE!
JA!
PÓN!

 

[MightyHealthy]

Watching now, seeing Yoshi actually be remotely interesting for once. Turning his disappointment into a storyline might actually be a good look. Sink or swim.

Would have been about this live, but my son is kicking my ass