NJPW New Japan Cup Night Five: Results, and Analysis

CHAOS (Chuck Taylor, Toru Yano, & Tomohiro Ishii) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, SANADA, Tetsuya Naito)

Yano starts the match with SANADA, and SANADA almost locked in the paradise lock right away. Yano bailed, as he remembered from last year’s G1 that the paradise lock is what got him counted out. Chuck Taylor came in and they picked up right where their match left off. Soon thereafter, the action spilled to the outside of the ring.

Poor Yano couldn’t avoid the paradise lock forever, and SANADA eventually locked it in. After dropkicking Yano in the posterior, Yano was freed. BUSHI came off the top rope with a missile dropkick, and this was soon followed by all 3 members of LIJ hitting a dropkick on him. BUSHI went for the MX, but Yano through the referee in his way, low blowed BUSHI, pulled his shirt over his head hockey fight style, and rolled him up for the pinfall.

Result: CHAOS

Rating: 2.5 stars out of 5

This was fun. Nothing special, but quite fun. Yano gets the win heading into his match against SANADA tomorrow, to build a little momentum.

CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto, & Kazuchika Okada) vs. Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Iizuka, & Minoru Suzuki)

The match starts with Suzuki-gun going right after CHAOS, and Suzuki attacking Okada. From that point forward, Suzuki-gun got the heat on YOSHI-HASHI and continued to beat on him for several minutes. As Taichi was attempting to beat up YOSHI-HASHI, YOSHI-HASHI managed to make the tag to Goto. Goto would make Taichi pay with a Ushigoroshi before tagging out to Okada.

Okada and Suzuki are left in the ring, and we’re treated to some very good sequences here. Suzuki locks in the knee bar that he nearly ended Tanahashi’s career with, but Okada escaped. Nonetheless, some damage was done, and Okada spent the rest of the match limping. This didn’t stop him from hitting two dropkicks on Iizuka and locking in the cobra clutch though. After the end of the match, Taichi faced off with YOSHI-HASHI, and Suzuki faced off with Okada, hinting at two possible future matches.

The later is quite interesting, because the last time they wrestled one on one, Suzuki took Okada to a 30 minute draw in the G1.

Result: CHAOS

Rating: 3 stars out of 5