Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2019)

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Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2019)
Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
DateSeptember 27-29, 2019
City Lowell, Massachusetts
New York City, New York
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Venue Lowell Memorial Auditorium
Hammerstein Ballroom
2300 Arena
Attendance2,130 [1] (Lowell)
1,776 [2] (New York)
1,030 [3] (Philadelphia)
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Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2019) was a professional wrestling three-event tour promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The three events took place from September 27 to 29, 2019 at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts, the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, New York and the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the second event held under the Fighting Spirit Unleashed branch.

Contents

Production

Background

On July 6, 2019, during the opening night of the G1 Climax tournament, NJPW announced their return to the United States to host a 2019 edition of Fighting Spirit Unleashed, a three-event tour across the East Coast of the United States at the end of September. The cities hosting the three events were announced by NJPW as Lowell, New York City and Philadelphia. Tickets went on sale on July 26. [4]

The New York event was streamed live worldwide on NJPW's streaming service, NJPW World, with Japanese commentary. The Lowell and Philadelphia events were later made available for on demand viewing.

Storylines

Fighting Spirit Unleashed featured seven to eight professional wrestling matches in each show that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. [5]

Results

Night 1 (Lowell)

No.Results [1] [6] StipulationsTimes
1 Karl Fredericks defeated Alex Coughlin by submission Singles match 8:47
2 Lance Archer defeated Ren Narita Singles match 7:23
3 Juice Robinson and Mikey Nicholls defeated TJP and Clark Connors Tag team match 8:04
4 Bullet Club (Chase Owens and Jado) defeated The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) Tag team match 9:10
5 Tomohiro Ishii and Amazing Red defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (Shingo Takagi and Bushi) Tag team match 8:48
6 Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Yoshi-Hashi and Rocky Romero) defeated Bullet Club (Jay White, Kenta and Gedo) by submission Six-man tag team match 12:28
7 Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) (c) defeated Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh) Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship 16:43
8 Kazuchika Okada, Kota Ibushi and Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada, Evil and Tetsuya Naito) Six-man tag team match 20:26
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 2 (New York)

No.Results [2] [7] StipulationsTimes
1 TJP defeated Ren Narita by submission Singles match 8:48
2 Lance Archer defeated Karl Fredericks Singles match 7:37
3 Juice Robinson and Mikey Nicholls defeated Clark Connors and Alex Coughlin Tag team match 8:29
4 Bullet Club (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa and Jado) defeated Roppongi 3K (Rocky Romero, Sho and Yoh) Six-man tag team match 10:46
5 Hiroshi Tanahashi and The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito, Shingo Takagi and Bushi) Six-man tag team match 10:19
6 Chaos (Hirooki Goto and Tomohiro Ishii) and Amazing Red defeated Bullet Club (Jay White, Chase Owens and Gedo) Six-man tag team match 12:02
7 Kenta (c) defeated Yoshi-Hashi Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship 25:04
8 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada and Evil) defeated Kazuchika Okada and Kota Ibushi Tag team match 18:46
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 3 (Philadelphia)

No.Results [3] [8] StipulationsTimes
1 Rocky Romero defeated Clark Connors by submission Singles match 9:03
2 Mikey Nicholls defeated Karl Fredericks Singles match 10:00
3 Lance Archer defeated Alex Coughlin Singles match 8:25
4 Amazing Red defeated Ren Narita Singles match 8:57
5 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito, Sanada and Shingo Takagi) defeated Juice Robinson and Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh) by submission Six-man tag team match 11:45
6 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Evil and Bushi) defeated Kota Ibushi and TJP Tag team match 11:23
7 Hiroshi Tanahashi, Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi) and The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) defeated Bullet Club (Jay White, Kenta, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Chase Owens and Gedo) Twelve-man tag team elimination match 22:20

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