was a Japanese

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event promoted by the New Year's Eve Pro-Wrestling Committee, comprising multiple independent wrestling promotions. The event, held on December 31, 2011, at

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aired live on Fighting TV Samurai. Ten matches were contested at the event, including a dark match. In the main event, a 74-person tag team match, the team led by Ken Ohka defeated the team led by Ryuichi Sekine. Other prominent matches saw the team of

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and Antonio Honda win a 15-team gauntlet match celebrating the 15th anniversary of the launch of the Samurai TV channel, and Naomichi Marufuji defeated Tatsuhiko Yoshino in a special singles match. The event also featured the

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ceremony and the retirement ceremony of

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ending his 8-year career.

Production

Background

The tradition of holding a joint event for smaller promotions on

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started with the 2006 Indy Summit. In 2009, the brand was created for the Tenka Sanbun no Kei: Ōmisoka New Year's Eve Special event. There were twenty-one participating promotions and brands at the event: * Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) * Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) * (DEP) * DDT Pro-Wrestling * * Ice Ribbon * (IWF) * JWP Joshi Puroresu *

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Storylines

The show featured ten

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that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray

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, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Results

Gauntlet match

References

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