Ring of Honor (ROH) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW)'s Tokyo "super shows" are in the books.
The event aired live on New Japan's streaming service, NJPW World (subscribe here) and is available in the archives there. ROH will use footage from the show for their weekly television show - so if you're a weekly ROH TV viewer, consider everything that follows potential spoilers for that series, which airs Wednesday nights on Comet and streams on ROHWrestling.com.
Unlike night one, the big story happened outside of kayfabe, as Machine Gun Karl Anderson is the latest New Japan star to make it official that he's headed to WWE:
Karl Anderson revealed that he will go to WWE.
— enuhito(English) (@enuhito_eng) February 20, 2016
Today is the last match in Japan for him and Doc Gallows.
Karl Anderson said "NJPW fans are the best in the world. I want to come back someday to get IWGP heavy weight championship."
— enuhito(English) (@enuhito_eng) February 20, 2016
Karl Anderson said "I have to go to find real who I am and to be a big star".
— enuhito(English) (@enuhito_eng) February 20, 2016
Doc Gallows is coming with him, of course. And their bout on Saturday night (local time) was their farewell to the country where they rose to prominence these last few years.
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— MARUTA☻ (@424peanuts) February 20, 2016
Bullet Club #njpw #njroh #HonorRising #BulletClub #Core4 pic.twitter.com/BlkKgmOjis
This has been expected for quite some time, and the Bullet Club original was working dates he'd agreed to and was contracted for when his name was linked to WWE last month. It brings us one step closer to a Bálor Club in Florida - or whatever WWE/NXT chooses to do with Anderson.
In the ring:
- Jay White defeats David Finlay via submission with a Boston Crab
- Jushin Thunder Liger & Matt Sydal defeat Gedo & Delirious via pinfall (Sydal on Gedo following a SSP)
- Dalton Castle defeats Frankie Kazarian via pinfall following Bang-A-Rang
- ReDragon, Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata defeat Bullet Club (Tama Tonga, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson & Bad Luck Fale) via pinfall after Shibata hit Gallows with a Shining Wizard
- KUSHIDA & Moose defeat Los Ingobernables (Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI) via pinfall after Moose speared BUSHI
- Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin & Roderick Strong defeat CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada) via pinfall after Elgin hits HASHI with a buckle bomb/sit-out powerbomb combo
- The Elite of the Bullet Club (Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks) defeat Toru Yano & The Briscoes via pinfall to become new NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team champions with a pin on Yano
Most importantly, this happened...
- Jay Lethal defeated Tomoaki Honma to retain his ROH World championship via pinfall following Lethal Injection (and thanks to an assist from Naito)
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Who watched? Whether you did or not, what do you think of what happened?