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Royal Quest (2019)
Royal Quest was a professional wrestling pay-per-view List of NJPW pay-per-view events, event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It was the inaugural NJPW Royal Quest, Royal Quest event and took place on 31 August 2019 at the Copper Box Arena in London, England and was streamed live on FITE TV. It was the first-ever event independently promoted by NJPW in the United Kingdom. Eight matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Kazuchika Okada retained the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Minoru Suzuki. Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Zack Sabre Jr. to win the British Heavyweight Championship (RevPro), British Heavyweight Championship, Hideo Itami, Kenta defeated Tomohiro Ishii to win the NEVER Openweight Championship, and the Guerrillas of Destiny retained the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Aussie Open (professional wrestling), Aussie Open – the winners of Revolution Pro Wrestling's Road to Royal Quest tournament. Production Background Royal Quest was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kota Ibushi
is a Japanese professional wrestler and martial artist. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is best known for his tenure with New Japan-Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) and WWE. His career began with the Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) promotion in 2004 and over the next eleven years became a three-time KO-D Openweight Champion, five-time KO-D Tag Team Champion and a two-time KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion. Two of the KO-D Tag Team title reigns was with Kenny Omega as the Golden☆Lovers; their combined total of 351 days is still a DDT record. In 2009, Ibushi started working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling and eventually signed with the promotion in 2013. In NJPW, Ibushi is a former NEVER Openweight Champion, three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and a one-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion. He resigned from both DDT and NJPW in February 2016 and has performed in several different organizations as a freelancer, including both DDT and NJPW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of NJPW Pay-per-view Events
This is a list of major NJPW events, detailing all notable professional wrestling cards promoted on pay-per-view (PPV), aired on live TV broadcasts by TV Asahi, or streamed on New Japan Pro-Wrestling World by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Past events 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Upcoming event schedule 2025 2026 Number of events by year * 1989 – 1 * 1990 – 2 * 1991 – 1 * 1992 – 1 * 1993 – 2 * 1994 – 2 * 1995 – 4 * 1996 – 2 * 1997 – 5 * 1998 – 3 * 1999 – 4 * 2000 – 6 * 2001 – 6 * 2002 – 3 * 2003 – 5 * 2004 – 4 * 2005 – 4 * 2006 – 1 * 2007 – 2 * 2008 – 2 * 2009 – 6 * 2010 – 4 * 2011 – 6 * 2012 – 7 * 2013 – 8 * 2014 – 12 * 2015 – 9 * 2016 – 11 * 2017 – 16 * 2018 – 17 * 2019 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strong Style Evolved UK
Strong Style Evolved UK was a two-day professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), in partnership with Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW). It took place on June 30 and July 1, 2018 at Planet Ice Milton Keynes in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England and Planet Ice Altrincham in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. The event was streamed on demand on RPW on Demand and NJPW World. The event was themed around Chaos versus Suzuki-gun matches and featured participation of wrestlers from both NJPW and RPW. Three RPW championships were defended, including the British Heavyweight Championship. Production Background On March 25, 2018, NJPW held Strong Style Evolved at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California, U.S. The following day on March 26, NJPW announced the follow-up to Strong Style Evolved, Strong Style Evolved UK, occurring on June 30 and July 1. The event will be held in conjunction with NJPW's British partner RPW; the two promotions had es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolution Pro Wrestling
Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro/RPW) is a British professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion, promotion founded on 26 August 2012 by Andy Quildan after separating from International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom. Revolution Pro Wrestling currently has partnerships with several internationally based promotions including US-based All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Japan's New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). American independent company Global Force Wrestling (2014–2017), Global Force Wrestling (GFW), also has worked with RPW in the past.GFW Global Partners Top international wrestlers who have worked for RevPro, include WWE performers Kurt Angle, A.J. Styles, AJ Styles, Rey Mysterio, Kevin Owens, Apollo Crews, Finn Bálor, Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows, Kalisto (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aussie Open (professional Wrestling)
Aussie Open were an Australian professional wrestling tag team, consisting of Mark Davis (wrestler), Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher. They are signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where they are members and also a sub-group of The Don Callis Family. They previously wrestled for AEW’s sister company Ring of Honor (ROH), where they are former ROH World Tag Team Championship, ROH World Tag Team Champions. The duo were previously signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where they were members of the United Empire, former IWGP Tag Team Championship, IWGP Tag Team Champions, and inaugural and record-setting two-time Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship, Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions. They also have wrestled regularly for Europe, European promotions, including the England based Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro), where they are two-time British Tag Team Championship (RevPro), Undisputed British Tag Team Champions, and the Germany based Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IWGP Tag Team Championship
The is a professional wrestling world tag team championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of the NJPW's governing body, the . The title was introduced on December 12, 1985 at an NJPW live event. The IWGP Tag Team Championship is one of two weight-specific tag team titles contested for in NJPW; the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is also sanctioned by NJPW. According to NJPW's official website, the IWGP Tag Team Championship is considered the "IWGP Heavyweight agClass", while the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is listed as the "IWGP Jr. Tag Class". Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Title changes usually happen at NJPW-promoted events; although the title has only changed hands twice at a non-NJPW event, it has been defended in several other promotions. History Before the IWGP championship system was created, New Japan Pro-Wrestling featured t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guerrillas Of Destiny
The Tongans, formerly known as Guerrillas of Destiny (G.O.D), is a Tongan-American professional wrestling tag team currently signed with WWE, founded by and consisting of brothers Alipate Leone and Tevita Fifita, who both perform on the SmackDown brand under the names Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa respectively. The team is currently inactive due to their respective injuries. The brothers first wrestled together in 2008 as Sons of Tonga, a reference to their father Tonga Fifita. Although the team was originally short-lived, the two reformed as Guerrillas of Destiny in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from 2016 to 2024, where they became one of the promotion's prime tag teams, winning the IWGP Tag Team Championship a record seven times, the 2020 World Tag League, and the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship three times with various stablemates from Bullet Club, of which the two were members until 2022. From 2022 to 2024, Guerillas of Destiny extended into a stable of its ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NEVER Openweight Championship
The is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. NEVER is an acronym of the terms "New Blood", "Evolution", "Valiantly", "Eternal", and "Radical" and was an NJPW-promoted series of events, which featured younger up-and-coming talent and outside wrestlers not signed to the promotion. The project was officially announced on July 12, 2010, and held its first event on August 24, 2010. On October 5, 2012, NJPW announced that NEVER was going to get its own championship, the NEVER Openweight Championship. The current champion is Boltin Oleg, who is in his first reign. The title was originally scheduled to be defended exclusively at NEVER events, but this plan was quickly changed and since its foundation, the title has been defended on the undercards of NJPW events. The original concept of having younger workers wrestle for the title has also not been realized with the first seven holders of the title having been in their thirties or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomohiro Ishii
is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is currently a double champion: being the Strong Openweight Champion in his first reign, and one-half of the current IWGP Tag Team Champions with Taichi in their first reign as a team (Ishii's second reign individually). He is a founding member of the now-defunct Chaos stable. He also makes additional appearances for All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Conglomeration. He is also known for his work with the independent Fighting World of Japan Pro Wrestling (Riki Pro) promotion, where he worked backstage as the chairman. Though pushed for most of his career as an undercarder without any major championship wins, Ishii gathered a cult following, and in February 2013 was called "probably ne of themost underrated guys in the business" by Dave Meltzer of the ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter''. Ishii's status in NJPW finally began rising in early 2013, culminating in him w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideo Itami
, known mononymously as Kenta (stylised in all caps), is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to Pro Wrestling Noah. A former amateur kickboxer, Kobayashi's wrestling style is based upon strong kicks and strikes. Kobayashi pioneered both the '' Go 2 Sleep'' and '' Busaiku Knee'' kick finishing manoeuvres, later popularized by CM Punk and Bryan Danielson, respectively. Kobayashi started his career in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), before moving to Pro Wrestling Noah; through Noah's involvement in the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance (GPWA), a global organization of cooperative promotions that allow their competitors to travel abroad to other companies, he has wrestled extensively in American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). In Noah, he was a one-time GHC Heavyweight Champion, three-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion, three-time GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, and one-time GHC Tag Team Champion. He was also the winner of the 2012 Global League and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
