Historic X-Over

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Historic X-Over
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Promotional poster featuring various NJPW and Stardom wrestlers.
Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
World Wonder Ring Stardom
DateNovember 20, 2022
City Tokyo, Japan
Venue Ariake Arena
Attendance7,102 [1]
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Historic X-Over (pronounced: Historic Crossover) was a professional wrestling event co-promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom). It took place on November 20, 2022, at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Contents

Production

Background

On January 31, 2012, card game company Bushiroad fully acquired New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from video game developer Yuke's. On October 17, 2019, Bushiroad announced in a press conference that they had also acquired World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom) from the company's President Rossy Ogawa, making Stardom the sister promotion of NJPW. Since Wrestle Kingdom 14, NJPW has featured Stardom matches at various NJPW events.

On June 6, 2022, during Bushiroad's 15th anniversary press conference, it was announced that NJPW and Stardom will hold its first shared event on November 20. [2] NJPW President Takami Ohbari, revealed that the event would include at least two mixed tag team matches and that Stardom wrestlers would be featured on NJPW Strong events in the United States. [3]

On July 29, NJPW and Stardom announced the creation of the IWGP Women's Championship, which would be defended at NJPW events in Japan and United States by Stardom wrestlers. The inaugural champion will be crowned at Historic X-Over. [4] [5]

Storylines

Historic X-Over featured eleven professional wrestling matches that result from scripted storylines, where 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. [6]

On August 27, 2022, representatives from fives stables would draw straws to determine which four stables out of the five would compete for in the IWGP Women's Championship tournament. The representatives were Giulia from Donna Del Mondo, Mayu Iwatani from Stars, Starlight Kid from Oedo Tai, and Utami Hayashishita from Queen's Quest with Syuri from God's Eye being eliminated due to drawing the shortest straw. [7] With Iwatani, Hayashishita, Himeka from Donna Del Mondo and Momo Watanabe from Oedo Tai being chosen to complete in the on the Japanese side of the tournament, while Jazzy Gabert, Ava White, and Kairi (despite being Japanese) was announced to compete on the foreigner side with Kairi receiving a first round bye. [8] [9] On October 2 at Royal Quest II, Gabert defeated White to advanced to the semi-final while Iwatani defeated Watanabe and Hayashishita defeated Himeka on October 22 to advance. [10] [11] On October 23, Iwatani and Kairi would defeat Hayashishita and Gabert to advance to the finals at Historic X-Over. [12]

On October 26, during a NJPW World Television Championship tournament match between Toru Yano and Great-O-Khan was the return of The Great Muta return to NJPW, where he cost Great-O-Khan's match by spraying green mist in his face. [13] During backstage comments, Muta expressed his desire to tag with Yano and Kazuchika Okada at Historic X-Over to take on Great-O-Khan and the United Empire with the match being made official shortly after. [14]

On November 5 at Battle Autumn, Will Ospreay successfully defended the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against Tetsuya Naito in the main event. After the match, Ospreay would lay down an open challenge for the title for Historic X-Over only to have the returning Shota Umino attack Ospreay and his fellow United Empire stable in the ring, accepting Ospreay's open challenge and setting up the title match. [15]

Results

No.Results [16] [17] StipulationsTimes [1]
1PLA Dojo (Alex Coughlin, Clark Connors, Gabriel Kidd and Kevin Knight) defeated Kosei Fujita, Oskar Leube, Ryohei Oiwa and Yuto Nakashima by pinfall Eight-man tag team match 9:39
2P Mirai won by last eliminating Super Strong Stardom Machine 15-woman Stardom Rambo 23:06
3 Chaos (Lio Rush, Tomohiro Ishii, Yoh and Yoshi-Hashi) defeated House of Torture (Dick Togo, Evil, Sho and Yujiro Takahashi) by pinfall Eight-man tag team match 7:05
4 Queen's Quest (AZM, Lady C and Saya Kamitani) defeated Donna Del Mondo (Himeka, Mai Sakurai and Thekla) by pinfall Six-woman tag team match 9:20
5 Giulia and Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Syuri and Tom Lawlor by pinfall Mixed tag team match 10:29
6 meltear (Tam Nakano and Natsupoi) and Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated Black Desire (Momo Watanabe and Starlight Kid) and Suzuki-gun (El Desperado and Douki) by pinfall Eight-Person mixed tag team match 12:01
7 Hiroshi Tanahashi and Utami Hayashishita defeated Hirooki Goto and Maika by pinfall Mixed tag team match 9:36
8 United Empire (Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis), Catch 2/2 (Francesco Akira and TJP) and Gideon Grey) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon (Bushi, Hiromu Takahashi, Sanada, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito) by pinfall Ten-man tag team match 9:55
9 Chaos (Kazuchika Okada and Toru Yano) and The Great Muta defeated United Empire (Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Aaron Henare) by pinfall Six-man tag team match 9:48
10 Will Ospreay (c) defeated Shota Umino by pinfall Singles match for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship 23:30
11 Kairi defeated Mayu Iwatani by pinfall Tournament Final for the inaugural IWGP Women's Championship 25:28
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
P – the match was broadcast on the pre-show

IWGP Women's Championship tournament

This section is an excerpt from IWGP Women's Championship § Inaugural championship tournament (2022).[ edit ]
The inaugural IWGP Women's Champion Kairi STARDOM WORLD CLIMAX 2022 IMG 6853.jpg
The inaugural IWGP Women's Champion Kairi
Round 1
Royal Quest II
(October 2)
IWGP Women's Championship Tournament First Round
(October 22) [18] 		Semifinals
Goddesses of Stardom Tag League 2022
Night 1
(October 23)		Finals
Historic X-Over
(November 20)
         
Mayu Iwatani Pin
Momo Watanabe 12:32 [19]
Mayu Iwatani Pin
Utami Hayashishita 14:51 [20]
Utami Hayashishita Pin
Himeka 11:41 [19]
Mayu Iwatani 25:28 [21]
Kairi Pin
Jazzy Gabert Pin
Ava White 10:34 [22]
Jazzy Gabert 12:24 [20]
Kairi Pin
Kairi Bye
–

Stardom Rambo entrances and eliminations

DrawEntrantOrderEliminated byElimination(s)
1 Mirai –Winner3
2 Ami Sohrei 11Saki Kashima2
3 Saya Iida 1Natsuko Tora0
4 Natsuko Tora 6Hazuki1
5 Hanan 8Saki Kashima1
6 Hina 4Ruaka2
7 Rina 7Hanan0
8 Hazuki 10Saki Kashima1
9 Koguma 9Saki Kashima0
10 Momo Kohgo 2Ami Sourei and Hina0
11 Waka Tsukiyama 3Ami Sourei and Hina0
12 Saki Kashima 13Mirai5
13 Ruaka 5Mirai1
14 Miyu Amasaki 12Saki Kashima0
15 Super Strong Stardom Machine 14Mirai0

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