Southern Showdown

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NJPW Southern Showdown
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Promotional poster featuring Will Ospreay, Kazuchika Okada and Jay White
Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date29 June 2019
30 June 2019
City Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Venue Festival Hall
UNSW Roundhouse
AttendanceNight 1: 1,798 [1]
Night 2: 955 [2]
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Southern Showdown [3] [4] was a two-day professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on 29 and 30 June 2019 at the Festival Hall in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and the UNSW Roundhouse in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Melbourne event was streamed live on FITE TV and was made available for on demand viewing on NJPW World 72 hours later.

Contents

Production

Other on-screen personnel
Role:Name:
English CommentatorsChris Charlton (Melbourne announcer)
Concrete Davidson (Sydney announcer)
Don Marnell (Melbourne and Sydney announcer)
Ring announcers Makoto Abe
Referees Kenta Sato
Marty Asami
Red Shoes Unno
Tiger Hattori
Lloyd Morgan

Results

Night 1

No.Results [3] StipulationsTimes
1 Toa Henare, Shota Umino and Nick Bury defeated Mark Tui, Andrew Villalobos and Michael Richards Six-man tag team match 10:08
2Slex defeated Aaron Solow Singles match 9:07
3 Chaos (Toru Yano and Yoh) defeated Bullet Club (Gino Gambino and Taiji Ishimori) Tag team match 9:40
4 Chaos (Tomohiro Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi) defeated Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi and Chase Owens) Tag team match 9:47
5 El Phantasmo (c) defeated Rocky Romero Singles match for the British Cruiserweight Championship 18:45
6 Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) (c) (with Jado) defeated Juice Robinson and Mikey Nicholls Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship 11:20
7 Will Ospreay (c) defeated Robbie Eagles Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship 34:04
8 Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Bullet Club (Jay White and Bad Luck Fale) (with Gedo) Tag team match 19:55
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 2

No.Results [4] StipulationsTimes
1Andrew Villalobos and Michael Richards defeated The Natural Classics (Tome Filip and Stevie Filip) by submission Tag team match 6:55
2 Rocky Romero defeated Tony Kozina by submission Singles match 10:35
3Jack Bonza defeated Mick Moretti Singles match 11:00
4 Chase Owens defeated Aaron Solow Singles match 12:20
5 Juice Robinson and Chaos (Mikey Nicholls and Toru Yano) defeated Bullet Club (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa and Gino Gambino) (with Jado) Six-man tag team match 9:30
6 Tomohiro Ishii defeated Toa Henare Singles match 12:30
7 Chaos (Kazuchika Okada and Will Ospreay) and Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Bullet Club (Jay White, Bad Luck Fale and Robbie Eagles) (with Gedo) Six-man tag team match 15:10

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  2. ↑ "NJPW SOUTHERN SHOWDOWN in SYDNEY – オーストラリア・シドニー ニューサウスウェールズ大学 ラウンドハウス".
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