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NJPW Independence Day
The NJPW Independence Day was a two-night professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on July 4 and 5, 2023, at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It was the first NJPW Strong-branded event to be held in Japan. Production Storylines The event features professional wrestling matches, which involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Storylines are produced on NJPW's events. Night 1 Event The first night of the event from July 4 started with the preshow bout in which Oskar Leube, Yoh and Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Takahiro Katori, Dragon Libre and Kengo in six-man tag team action. The match was broadcast live on NJPW's YouTube channel. In the first main card match, Bad Dude Tito defeated The DK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
(NJPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo. Founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, the promotion was sold to Yuke's, who later sold it to Bushiroad in 2012. TV Asahi and Amuse, Inc. own minority shares of the company. Naoki Sugabayashi has served as the promotion's Chairman since September 2013, while Takami Ohbari has served as the president of the promotion since October 2020. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, NJPW is the largest and longest-running professional wrestling promotion in Japan. It was affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance at various points in its history. NJPW has had agreements with various MMA and professional wrestling promotions around the world, including WWE, World Championship Wrestling, American Wrestling Association, World Class Championship Wrestling, Impact Wrestling, WAR, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, UWFi, Ring of Honor, Pride Fighting Championships, and All Elite Wrestling. NJPW's bigge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweener (professional Wrestling)
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence of fans so as not to reveal the nature of the business. Into the 21st century, widespread discussion on the Internet has popularized these terms. Many of the terms refer to the financial aspects of professional wrestling in addition to in-ring terms. A B C D E F G H I J K L M mic work, mic skills, microphone work The ability to generate reaction from the audience using words, and generally by speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Archer
Lance Hoyt (born February 28, 1977) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Lance Archer. He also makes sporadic appearance for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is also known for his time with WWE as Vance Archer, and impact Wrestling (TNA) under his real name and as Lance Rock. Hoyt began his career in 2000 and worked in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2004 until 2009. In TNA, he wrestled first as Dallas, winning the NWA World Tag Team Championship twice with Kid Kash. After Diamond Dallas Page signed with TNA, he changed his name to Lance Hoyt and formed a rock band themed tag team with Jimmy Rave and Christy Hemme, the Rock N Rave Infection, eventually changing his name to Lance Rock in 2008. After Hoyt left TNA, he signed with WWE, where he worked until 2010 as Vance Archer. After he left WWE, he signed a contract with Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he worked as Lance Archer. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Zayne
Alex Zayne is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with WWE where he wrestled on the NXT and WWE 205 Live brands under the ring name Ari Sterling. He has also appeared on Impact Wrestling, Ring of Honor, NJPW Strong and Game Changer Wrestling. Early life Zayne worked at Taco Bell before he became a pro wrestler. He was Employee of the Month for 16 months in a row, a feat he considers his life's greatest accomplishment. A broken hand forced him to retire from his Taco Bell career and fall back on wrestling, but he still pays homage to his life's calling as taco artist by naming his signature moves after the Taco Bell menu. Professional wrestling career New Japan Pro Wrestling (2019-2021; 2021-Present) Zayne made his debut in NJPW on November 11, 2019 at New Japan Showdown, in a tag team match, where he and Aaron Solow lost against Amazing Red and T. J. Perkins. Since March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Zayne was unab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryohei Oiwa
is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of the TMDK stable. He also makes appearances for Pro Wrestling Noah. Early life Oiwa was born in Kōnan, Aichi, Japan on November 7, 1998. He began amateur wrestling at Zen Total Wrestling Club in his third year of junior high school, and won the bronze medal in the 86 kg freestyle division at the 2018 JOC Junior Olympic Cup. Professional wrestling career New Japan Pro-Wrestling Early career (2021–2023) Oiwa passed New Japan Pro-Wrestling's new apprentice test held in December 2020, and joined the dojo in April 2021 after graduating from Hosei University's Faculty of Law. On August 24, 2021, he made his in-ring debut match against Kosei Fujita, at Korakuen Hall, ending in a 10-minute time limit draw. On April 18, 2022, Oiwa defeated Fujita for his first professional victory. He also defeated fellow young lion Yuto Nakashima on August 20. At night 2 of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royce Isaacs
Isaac Hull (born February 8, 1989) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Royce Isaacs. He is currently appearing for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is a member of Team Filthy. From 2019 until 2020, Hull worked with the National Wrestling Alliance where he was a former NWA World Tag Team Champion. He also is known for his work in GCW Bloodsport, DDT Pro-Wrestling, and Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. Professional wrestling career Early career Hull received his training at the Butcher Shop in Westminster, Colorado from his trainer, Lonnie Valdez. He wrestled primarily for independent wrestling promotions in Colorado before expanding his opportunities by wrestling in promotions throughout the US. DDT Pro-Wrestling (2016-2017) Royce Isaacs debuted with DDT taking part in their DNA Grand Prix 2016 round-robin tournament. In 2017, he did three additional tours with the promotion, usually where he was a tag team partner of Danshoku Dino. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorel Nelson
Jorel Nelson (born May 17, 1992) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was a member of Team Filthy. He also makes appearances on the independent circuit. He was named after the character Jor-El from DC Comics' Superman franchise. Professional wrestling career Early career Nelson was scouted by wrestler Aaron Bolo to pursue professional wrestling after seeing Nelson at several local independent shows. He started his training at Tulalip Championship Wrestling in Marysville, Washington under the tutelage of Bolo, Ethan H. D., Mike Santiago, Kellen Raeth, Damon James, and Caden Mathews. He furthered his training by attending the Buddy Wayne Academy in Everett, Washington. In addition to TCW, Nelson would regally wrestle for Don't Own Anyone Pro Wrestling in Portland, Oregon and West Coast Wrestling Connection in Salem, Oregon. Nelson would start to wrestle for promotions in Southern California in 2016. He would also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The DKC
Dylan Barrales, better known by his ring name DKC (shortened from Dylan Kyle Cox) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling, mainly appearing into the NJPW Strong brand. Professional wrestling career American independent circuit (2018–present) Santino Bros. Wrestling (2018–present) Barrales made his professional wrestling debut at ''SBW Dance with the Devil'', an event promoted by Santino Bros. Wrestling on March 30, 2018, where he teamed up with Cameron Gates as "The Bomb Squad" in a losing effort against Dom Kubrick and Robby Phoenix in tag team competition. He is known for his tenures with various promotions from the American independent scene with which he has shared brief or longer stints such as FIST Combat, LA Lucha, Santino Bros. Wrestling, Ground Zero Pro and others. New Japan Pro Wrestling (2020–present) Barrales graduated from the NJPW LA Dojo in 2020. He made his debut in the company in the third night of the 2020 New Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Dude Tito
Tito Escondido, better known by his ring name Bad Dude Tito, is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he is the current MLW National Openweight Champion in his first reign, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of TMDK. Professional wrestling career New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2021–present) On the January 22, 2022 episode of '' NJPW Strong'', Tito made his NJPW debut where he lost to Juice Robinson. On the February 12 episode of NJPW Strong, he teamed up with Jonah where they lost to FinJuice ( David Finlay and Juice Robinson). On the March 6, episode of ''NJPW Strong'', Shane Haste interfered in the tag team match between FinJuice and the pairing of Jonah and Tito. He attacked Robinson while the referee was distracted, allowing Tito to hit a frog splash on Robinson for the win., reforming TMDK in the process. At Windy City Riot, TMDK and Tito were defeated by FinJuice and their partner, revealed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NJPW
(NJPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo. Founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, the promotion was sold to Yuke's, who later sold it to Bushiroad in 2012. TV Asahi and Amuse, Inc. own minority shares of the company. Naoki Sugabayashi has served as the promotion's Chairman since September 2013, while Takami Ohbari has served as the president of the promotion since October 2020. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, NJPW is the largest and longest-running professional wrestling promotion in Japan. It was affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance at various points in its history. NJPW has had agreements with various MMA and professional wrestling promotions around the world, including WWE, World Championship Wrestling, American Wrestling Association, World Class Championship Wrestling, Impact Wrestling, WAR,Jersey All Pro Wrestling, UWFi, Ring of Honor, Pride Fighting Championships, and All Elite Wrestling. NJPW's biggest event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryusuke Taguchi
is a Japanese professional wrestler, trained by and currently performing for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, seven-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion. He was also the winner of the 2012 Best of the Super Juniors. Pursuing several sports in high school, Taguchi competed in class amateur wrestling in college before entering the NJPW Dojo in March 2002 and debuting in November of that year at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, wrestling in New Japan's famous junior heavyweight division. Taguchi's best known gimmick is akin to a disco dancer, often sporting a short afro and colorful, flamboyant attire and celebrating victories with a post-match dance, encouraging his partners to join in during tag team matches. This earned Taguchi the nickname "Funky Weapon". Professional wrestling career New Japan Pro-Wrestling Early career (2002–2006) During high school, Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
