G1 Supercard

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G1 Supercard
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Promotional poster featuring Madison Square Garden
Promotion Ring of Honor
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
DateApril 6, 2019
City New York City, New York
Venue Madison Square Garden
Attendance16,534 [1]
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G1 Supercard was a professional wrestling supershow co-produced by the American Ring of Honor (ROH) and Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotions. It was the 13th annual Supercard of Honor event and took place on April 6, 2019, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The event was streamed live on Honor Club, New Japan Pro-Wrestling World, FITE TV, and broadcast live on traditional pay-per-view outlets. It is the final Supercard of Honor to be produced under Sinclair ownership.

Contents

The card featured 12 matches. [2] Both the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and ROH World Championship were defended on the card, as IWGP Champion Jay White defended against New Japan Cup winner Kazuchika Okada, while Survival of the Fittest winner Marty Scurll and Matt Taven wrestled for the ROH World Title against champion Jay Lethal in a ladder match. The event's undercard saw two Winner Take All matches between NJPW and ROH champions, and UK partner promotion Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW) had its top title – the British Heavyweight Championship – defended as well.

Production

Other on-screen personnel
Role:Name:
Commentators Ian Riccaboni (ROH)
Colt Cabana (ROH)
Kevin Kelly (NJPW)
Chris Charlton (NJPW)
Toru Yano (Honor Rumble)
Mandy Leon (match #5)
Caprice Coleman (matches #6, #7, & #8)
Nick Aldis (match #11)
Ring announcers Bobby Cruise (ROH)
Makoto Abe (NJPW)
Referees Todd Sinclair (ROH)
Paul Turner (ROH)
Kenta Sato (NJPW)
Marty Asami (NJPW)
Red Shoes Unno (NJPW)
Tiger Hattori (NJPW)
Chris Roberts (RPW)

Background

In June 2018, it was officially announced that Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro-Wrestling would be running a show at Madison Square Garden. [3] One month later, it was reported that the event would have been canceled due to interference by WWE. [4] The issues were eventually resolved and tickets went on sale for the event in August. During the pre-sale, 60% of tickets were sold, [5] with the remaining of the 15,000 tickets selling within 16 minutes of going on sale. [6] The G1 Supercard was the first professional wrestling event at Madison Square Garden by a promotion not owned by the McMahon family since November 14, 1960. [7]

Storylines

G1 Supercard featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [8]

At The New Beginning in Osaka, Jay White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for the first time. It was announced the following day that White will make his first title defense at G1 Supercard against the winner of the New Japan Cup. On March 24, Kazuchika Okada would defeat Sanada in the finals of the New Japan Cup to earn the opportunity to face White for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship at the G1 Supercard, a rematch of Wrestle Kingdom 13, where White defeated Okada.

On the second night of the Honor Rising: Japan 2019 supershow, the Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) won the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the fifth time, while in the main event ten-time title holders The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) successfully defended the ROH World Tag Team Championship. Following the main event match, Jay and Mark Briscoe challenged Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa to a winner takes all match for both of the teams' respective titles at G1 Supercard. The Guerrillas of Destiny then came out, confronting the Briscoes and accepting the challenge. On the following day, NJPW officially announced a match between the IWGP and ROH champions, noting that Jay and Mark Briscoe still had a defense scheduled before the show against Villain Enterprises (PCO and Brody King). King and PCO won the match, the titles, and the G1 Supercard match vs. the Guerrillas of Destiny. The Briscoes and Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada and Evil) would later be added to the match to make it a Winner Take All four-way tag team match for the IWGP and ROH Tag Team Titles.

On the NJPW's 47th Anniversary Event, Taiji Ishimori successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Jyushin Thunder Liger. After the match, he issued an open challenge to an ROH wrestler for a match at G1 Supercard. The challenge was accepted by Dragon Lee, representing Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion – a longtime partner of both NJPW and ROH. On the following day, Bandido expressed the intention of joining the title match representing ROH. Later that day, a three-way match for the title was officially announced.

On March 9, it was announced that both ROH and NJPW wrestlers would compete in an Honor Rumble match as part of the G1 Supercard pre-show.

At the G1 Supercard press conference on March 13, it was announced that Marty Scurll – who won the Survival of the Fittest tournament to earn an ROH World Championship match – will invoke his title opportunity at G1 Supercard, where he will face champion Jay Lethal for the title. Two nights later at the ROH 17th Anniversary Show, Lethal and Matt Taven wrestled to a 60-minute time limit draw in a championship match, so Taven was added to the G1 Supercard match, which then became a ladder match.

At Wrestle Kingdom 13, Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Tomohiro Ishii to win the RPW British Heavyweight Championship. In a third round New Japan Cup match, Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Sabre Jr. to advance in the tournament. It was later announced that Zack would defend his British Heavyweight Title against Tanahashi.

In a first round New Japan Cup match, Kota Ibushi defeated the IWGP Intercontinental Champion Tetsuya Naito. Ibushi would then be eliminated from the tournament in his second round matchup against Zack Sabre Jr. Throughout the rest of the tournament Ibushi would face Naito in tag matches with Naito pulling for another match against Ibushi. It was announced that Naito would defend his Intercontinental Title against Ibushi.

Reception

Critics of G1 Supercard mostly praised New Japan Pro-Wrestling's matches and angles while mostly criticizing Ring of Honor's matches and angles. Larry Csonka of 411Mania described G1 Supercard as "...a tale of two shows, with NJPW delivering bangers and a NJPW experience, while ROH failed and opted to trot out The Beautiful People, gave a cold Kenny King another title chance, went too long with Bully Ray, Klein’s title win, and wasted a huge opportunity on the biggest platform possible." [9]

Sean Radican of PWTorch called G1 Supercard a "really good show" saying that, "the ROH portions of the show weren’t very good at all outside of the Ladder match and even that had issues as the crowd didn’t invest much in the match and were really flat for Taven winning. The NJPW matches really delivered big time." [10]

Results

No.Results [11] StipulationsTimes [12] [13]
1DJenny Rose and Oedo Tai (Kagetsu and Hazuki) defeated Hana Kimura, Stella Grey, and Sumie Sakai Six-woman tag team match [14] 6:46
2P Kenny King won by last eliminating Jushin Thunder Liger 30-man Honor Rumble for a future ROH World Championship match [15] 42:21
3 Jeff Cobb (ROH) defeated Will Ospreay (NEVER) Winner takes all match for the NEVER Openweight Championship and ROH World Television Championship 12:52
4 Rush defeated Dalton Castle Singles match 0:15
5 Kelly Klein defeated Mayu Iwatani (c)Singles match for the Women of Honor World Championship 10:38
6 Flip Gordon and Lifeblood (Juice Robinson and Mark Haskins) defeated Bully Ray, Shane Taylor, and Silas Young Six-man tag team New York City Street Fight [16] 15:01
7 Dragon Lee defeated Taiji Ishimori (c) and Bandido Three-way match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship 8:54
8 Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) (IWGP) (with Jado) defeated Villain Enterprises (PCO and Brody King) (ROH), Los Ingobernables de Japón (Evil and Sanada), and The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe)Winner takes all four-way tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship and ROH World Tag Team Championship 9:45
9 Zack Sabre Jr. (c) (with Taka Michinoku) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi by submission Singles match for the British Heavyweight Championship 15:14
10 Kota Ibushi defeated Tetsuya Naito (c)Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship 20:53
11 Matt Taven defeated Jay Lethal (c) and Marty Scurll Three-way ladder match for the ROH World Championship [17] 29:35
12 Kazuchika Okada defeated Jay White (c) (with Gedo)Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship 32:33
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
D – this was a dark match
P – the match was broadcast on the pre-show

Honor Rumble entrants

Promotion

  – ROH
  – NJPW
  – Free agent
  – Winner
Draw [18] EntrantPromotion/StatusOrderEliminated byElimination(s)
1 Kenny King ROH--Winner3
2 Minoru Suzuki NJPW23Tomohiro Ishii7
3 Cheeseburger ROH24T. K. O'Ryan & Vinny Marseglia1
4 Beer City Bruiser ROH1Sho & Yoh0
5 Sho NJPW6Bad Luck Fale1
6 Shingo Takagi NJPW8Minoru Suzuki1
7 Bushi NJPW2Rocky Romero0
8 Yoh NJPW5Bad Luck Fale1
9Shaheem AliROH4Brian Milonas0
10 Rhett Titus ROH7Shingo Takagi0
11LSGROH3Brian Milonas0
12 Ryusuke Taguchi NJPW9Jonathan Gresham0
13 Will Ferrara ROH10Minoru Suzuki0
14 Chase Owens NJPW11Minoru Suzuki0
15 Rocky Romero NJPW15Tomohiro Ishii1
16Brian MilonasROH12Jushin Thunder Liger2
17 Bad Luck Fale NJPW17Cheeseburger, Colt Cabana, Delirious, Hirooki Goto, Jushin Thunder Liger, Kenny King, Minoru Suzuki, T. K. O'Ryan & Vinny Marseglia3
18 Jonathan Gresham ROH21The Great Muta1
19 Tracy Williams ROH13T. K. O'Ryan & Vinny Marseglia0
20 Yoshi-Hashi NJPW16Bad Luck Fale0
21 PJ Black ROH14Tomohiro Ishii0
22 Jushin Thunder Liger NJPW30Kenny King3
23 T. K. O'Ryan ROH28The Great Muta5
24 Vinny Marseglia ROH27Jushin Thunder Liger5
25 Delirious ROH18The Great Muta1
26 Tomohiro Ishii NJPW26T. K. O'Ryan & Vinny Marseglia3
27A Toru Yano [lower-alpha 1] NJPW20Minoru Suzuki0
27B Colt Cabana [lower-alpha 1] ROH19Minoru Suzuki1
28 Hirooki Goto NJPW22Minoru Suzuki1
29 King Haku NJPW25T. K. O'Ryan & Vinny Marseglia0
30 The Great Muta Free agent29Kenny King3
  1. 1 2 Toru Yano came out as the #27 entrant, but ultimately gave his spot to Colt Cabana. However, Yano also entered the match a few minutes later.

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