NJPW Showdown

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New Japan Showdown
Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
DateNovember 9, 2019
November 11, 2019
City San Jose, California
Los Angeles, California
Venue San Jose Civic
Globe Theatre
Attendance2,027 [1] (San Jose)
529 [2] (Los Angeles)
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New Japan Showdown [3] was a two-day professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on November 9, 2019 at the San Jose Civic in San Jose, California and on November 11, 2019 at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, California. The San Jose show was broadcast live on NJPW World, while the Los Angeles show was later available to on-demand viewing.

Contents

Results

Night 1: San Jose

No.Results [1] StipulationsTimes
1 Ren Narita defeated Alex Coughlin Singles match 7:43
2 Toru Yano and Colt Cabana defeated Jyushin Thunder Liger [Note 1] and Aaron Solow Tag team match 8:01
3 Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki and El Desperado) defeated Karl Fredericks and Clark Connors Tag team match 9:56
4 Tomohiro Ishii, Juice Robinson and TJP defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (Evil, Sanada and Bushi) Six-man tag team match 11:58
5 Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Yoh and Rocky Romero) defeated Bullet Club (Kenta, Taiji Ishimori and Jado) Six-man tag team match 11:00
6 El Phantasmo (c) defeated Sho Singles match for the British Cruiserweight Championship 20:23
7 Lance Archer (c) defeated David Finlay Singles match for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship 13:10
8 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito and Shingo Takagi) defeated Bullet Club (Jay White and Chase Owens) Tag team match 15:37
9 Chaos (Kazuchika Okada and Will Ospreay) defeated Kota Ibushi and Amazing Red Tag team match 15:35
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
  1. ↑ This was Jyushin Thunder Liger's last professional wrestling match in the United States.

Night 2: Los Angeles

No.Results [2] StipulationsTimes
1 Amazing Red and TJP defeated Alex Zayne and Aaron Solow Tag team match 10:24
2 Toru Yano and Colt Cabana defeated Karl Fredericks and Alex Coughlin Tag team match 8:47
3 Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer and El Desperado) defeated Juice Robinson, David Finlay and Clark Connors Six-man tag team match 10:24
4 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Evil and Sanada) defeated Chaos (Tomohiro Ishii and Rocky Romero) by submission Tag team match 11:22
5 Kota Ibushi defeated Ren Narita by submission Singles match 9:26
6 Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Sho and Yoh) defeated Bullet Club (Kenta, Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo) Six-man tag team match 13:30
7 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito, Shingo Takagi and Bushi) defeated Bullet Club (Jay White, Chase Owens and Gedo) Six-man tag team match 17:24

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