NWPC Event #27: No Items, Ospreay Only, Final Destination

[Comrade Khan]

At this event you will be predicting from 20 matches.

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19
Date: January 4, 2025
Location: Tokyo Dome - Tokyo, Japan

1	Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Shota Umino	Match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
2	Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiromu Takahashi	Dream Match 15 Years in the Making
3	David Finlay (c) vs. Yota Tsuji	Match for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship
4	DOUKI (c) vs. El Desperado	Match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
5	Shingo Takagi (NEVER) vs. Konosuke Takeshita (AEW)	Winner Takes All Match for the NEVER Openweight Championship and the AEW International Championship
6	Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. EVIL	Career Threatening Lumberjack Match If Tanahashi loses, he must retire immediately.
7	Ren Narita (c) vs. Jeff Cobb vs. Ryohei Oiwa vs. El Phantasmo	Four-Way Match for the NJPW WORLD TV Championship
8	Mayu Iwatani (c) vs. AZM	Match for the IWGP Women's Championship
9	Intergalactic Jet Setters: KUSHIDA/Kevin Knight (c) vs. Ichiban Sweet Boys: Robbie Eagles/Kosei Fujita vs. Catch 2/2: TJP/Francesco Akira vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs: Clark Connors/Drilla Moloney	Tokyo Terror Ladder Match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

Wrestle Dynasty
Date: January 5, 2025
Location: Tokyo Dome - Tokyo, Japan

10	Kenny Omega vs. Gabe Kidd	Kenny Omega's Return: AEW vs. NJPW Grudge Match
11	Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ricochet	NJPW vs. AEW World Superstar Match 1 If ZSJ wins Match #1, this will be for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
12	Shota Umino vs. Claudio Castagnoli	NJPW vs. AEW World Superstar Match 2 If Umino wins Match #1, this will be for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
13	David Finlay vs. Brody King	NJPW vs. AEW Global Superstar Match 1 If Finlay wins Match #3, this will be for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.
14	Yota Tsuji vs. Jack Perry	NJPW vs. AEW Global Superstar Match 2 If Tsuji wins Match #3, this will be for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.
15	Winner of #5 (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii	Match for the NEVER Openweight Championship and the AEW International Championship
16	The EVP Young Bucks: Matthew Jackson/Nicholas Jackson vs. Great-O-Khan/TBA	AEW vs. NJPW Match for the vacant IWGP Tag Team Championship
17	Mercedes Mone (STRONG) vs. Mina Shirakawa (UK)	AEW vs. STARDOM Winner Takes All Match for the NJPW STRONG Women's Championship and the Undisputed British Women's Championship
18	Choose whether a CMLL or NJPW representative will win 4 NJPW representatives and 4 CMLL representatives - NJPW	NJPW vs. CMLL 8-Man Lucha Gauntlet Match
19	The Sons of Texas: Dustin Rhodes/Sammy Guevara (c) vs. House of Torture: SHO/Yoshinobu Kanemaru	ROH vs. NJPW Match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship
20	Momo Watanabe vs. Willow Nightingale vs. Persephone vs. Athena	STARDOM vs. AEW vs. CMLL vs. ROH International Women's Cup Match

Tiebreaks!
Which of these 20 matches will last longest? sabre umino
Which will be shortest? 19
Who will take the match-ending fall in Match #7, the NJPW WORLD TV Title match?
Who is Great-O-Khan's mystery partner, after an injury to HENARE forced him out of action?
Who will pin whom in Match #16, the IWGP Tag Team Title match? phantasmo
As for the Lucha Gauntlet... choose 1 "luchador" from NJPW and 1 luchador from CMLL. You get 1TB for each of your choices that participates, plus 5TB if one of them wins. idk
Who will pin whom in Match #19, the ROH World Tag Team Title match? dustin pins kanebaru
Who will take the match-ending fall in Match #20, the International Women's Cup match? persephone

At Wrestle Kingdom, NJPW will also be hosting a New Japan Ranbo to determine the next contender to the IWGP World Heavyweight Title. So we're doing Rumble scoring for the first time since BfG! Choose 3 wrestlers you'd expect to see on a New Japan show. You get...

• 1TB for each choice that appears
• 1TB for each choice that scores an elimination
• 3TB if one of your choices was the runner-up
• 5TB and 1 prediction point if one of your choices was the winner!

funky weapon, danhausen, shrugging guy

Time to submit is 1 hour before the first show, which is: SATURDAY, January 4, 0200 Eastern / 2300 (Jan. 3) Pacific / 0700 UK.
Time :59 will be accepted, :00 will not.

 

[Deadd2009]

Wrestle Kingdom
Sabre
Naito
Yota
Desperado
Takeshita
Evil
Narita
AZM
Bullet Club War Dogs

Wrestle Dynasty
Omega
Sabre
Claudio
King
Yota
Takeshita
Young Bucks
Mercedes Mone
CMLL representatives will win (Mistico)
Sons of Texas
Athena

Omega/Kidd goes longest
Yota/Perry goes shortest
Phantasmo
Gideon Grey
Nick pins the mystery partner
Mistico and Taka
Sammy pins Sho
Persephone

Tom Lawlor
Yugi Nagata
Minoru Suzuki

 

[Leon TrotSky]

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19
Date: January 4, 2025
Location: Tokyo Dome - Tokyo, Japan

1	Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Shota Umino	Match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
2	Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiromu Takahashi	Dream Match 15 Years in the Making
3	David Finlay (c) vs. Yota Tsuji	Match for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship
4	DOUKI (c) vs. El Desperado	Match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
5	Shingo Takagi (NEVER) vs. Konosuke Takeshita (AEW)	Winner Takes All Match for the NEVER Openweight Championship and the AEW International Championship
6	Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. EVIL	Career Threatening Lumberjack Match If Tanahashi loses, he must retire immediately.
7	Ren Narita (c) vs. Jeff Cobb vs. Ryohei Oiwa vs. El Phantasmo	Four-Way Match for the NJPW WORLD TV Championship
8	Mayu Iwatani (c) vs. AZM	Match for the IWGP Women's Championship
9	Intergalactic Jet Setters: KUSHIDA/Kevin Knight (c) vs. Ichiban Sweet Boys: Robbie Eagles/Kosei Fujita vs. Catch 2/2: TJP/Francesco Akira vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs: Clark Connors/Drilla Moloney	Tokyo Terror Ladder Match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

Wrestle Dynasty
Date: January 5, 2025
Location: Tokyo Dome - Tokyo, Japan

10	Kenny Omega vs. Gabe Kidd	Kenny Omega's Return: AEW vs. NJPW Grudge Match
11	Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ricochet	NJPW vs. AEW World Superstar Match 1 If ZSJ wins Match #1, this will be for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
12	Shota Umino vs. Claudio Castagnoli	NJPW vs. AEW World Superstar Match 2 If Umino wins Match #1, this will be for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
13	David Finlay vs. Brody King	NJPW vs. AEW Global Superstar Match 1 If Finlay wins Match #3, this will be for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.
14	Yota Tsuji vs. Jack Perry	NJPW vs. AEW Global Superstar Match 2 If Tsuji wins Match #3, this will be for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.
15	Winner of #5 (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii	Match for the NEVER Openweight Championship and the AEW International Championship
16	The EVP Young Bucks: Matthew Jackson/Nicholas Jackson vs. Great-O-Khan/TBA *	AEW vs. NJPW Match for the vacant IWGP Tag Team Championship
17	Mercedes Mone (STRONG) vs. Mina Shirakawa (UK)	AEW vs. STARDOM Winner Takes All Match for the NJPW STRONG Women's Championship and the Undisputed British Women's Championship
18	Choose whether a CMLL or NJPW representative will win 4 NJPW representatives and 4 CMLL representatives	NJPW vs. CMLL 8-Man Lucha Gauntlet Match
19	The Sons of Texas: Dustin Rhodes/Sammy Guevara (c) vs. House of Torture: SHO/Yoshinobu Kanemaru	ROH vs. NJPW Match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship
20	Momo Watanabe vs. Willow Nightingale vs. Persephone vs. Athena	STARDOM vs. AEW vs. CMLL vs. ROH International Women's Cup Match

* Match 16 was technically changed because there was a whole extra team added to the match, but because they weren't involved in the finish at all, everyone's predictions can stand, so this stays in.

Tiebreaks!
Which of these 20 matches will last longest? ZSJ vs. Shota went too damn long at 43:44. 1TB for: Chris, HoHo, Roy Mustang, Rosie, Looch, Tranquilo Jay, Jimmy King, Blaze, Jeff

Which will be shortest? DOUKI vs. Despy was curtailed by an arm injury to 5:23. No TB for anyone.

Who will take the match-ending fall in Match #7, the NJPW WORLD TV Title match? It was the ex-champ Ren Narita. 1TB for: Chris, HoHo, Roy Mustang, Rosie, Looch, Tranquilo Jay, Dubb

Who is Great-O-Khan's mystery partner, after an injury to HENARE forced him out of action? The correct answer was Jeff Cobb. No TB for anyone.

Who will pin whom in Match #16, the IWGP Tag Team Title match? Matt over O-Khan. Who got what there?

Spoiler: IWGP Tags

Chris - 1TB (Matt)
HoHo - 1TB (Matt)
Roy Mustang - 0TB
LadyHotRod - 1TB (Matt)
Rosie - 0TB
Looch - 0TB
Tranquilo Jay - 0TB
Jimmy King - 0TB
Dubb - 0TB
Blaze - 0TB
Storm Trooper - 0TB
Barry - 2TB (exact)
Jeff - 0TB
Deadd2009 - 0TB

As for the Lucha Gauntlet... the lineups were Taiji Ishimori (W), Master Wato, Kosei Fujita, and El Desperado on the NJPW side, and Hechicero, Soberano Jr., Mascara Dorada, and Titan on the CMLL side. So, who got what there?

Spoiler: Lucha Gauntlet

Chris - 0TB
HoHo - 1TB (Titan)
Roy Mustang - 1TB (Despy)
LadyHotRod - 1TB (Despy)
Rosie - 2TB (Wato and Titan)
Looch - 1TB (Wato)
Tranquilo Jay - 2TB (Wato and Titan)
Jimmy King - 1TB (Wato)
Dubb - 1TB (Wato)
Blaze - 1TB (Despy)
Storm Trooper - 0TB
Barry - 0TB
Jeff - 0TB
Deadd2009 - 0TB

Who will pin whom in Match #19, the ROH World Tag Team Title match? Dustin over Kanemaru. Who got what there?

Spoiler: ROH Tags

Chris - 1TB (Dustin)
HoHo - 0TB
Roy Mustang - 2TB (exact)
LadyHotRod - 2TB (exact)
Rosie - 1TB (Kanemaru)
Looch - 0TB
Tranquilo Jay - 0TB
Jimmy King - 0TB
Dubb - 1TB (Kanemaru)
Blaze - 2TB (exact)
Storm Trooper - 1TB (Dustin)
Barry - 0TB
Jeff - 2TB (exact)
Deadd2009 - 0TB

Who will take the match-ending fall in Match #20, the International Women's Cup match? It was Athena. 1TB for:

And now, the New Japan Ranbo... Who gets what here?

Spoiler: Ranbo

Baron Corbin - did not appear. 0TB for: Storm Trooper
Danhausen - did not appear. 0TB for: Jeff
Great-O-Khan - appeared, 2 eliminations, runner-up. 5TB for: Chris, Roy Mustang, Dubb
Hiromu Takahashi - did not appear. 0TB for: Looch
KENTA - appeared, 1 elimination. 2TB for: Looch, Tranquilo Jay, Storm Trooper
Minoru Suzuki - did not appear. 0TB for: Deadd2009
Nic Nemeth - did not appear. 0TB for: Barry
Oleg Boltin - appeared. 1TB for: Rosie, Tranquilo Jay, Jimmy King, Blaze
Ryohei Oiwa - did not appear. 0TB for: Chris, HoHo, LadyHotRod
Ryusuke Taguchi - did not appear. 0TB for: Jeff
SANADA - appeared, 2 eliminations. 2TB for: Roy Mustang, LadyHotRod, Rosie, Tranquilo Jay, Jimmy King, Dubb, Blaze
Shinsuke Nakamura - did not appear. 0TB for: Barry
Taichi - appeared, 1 elimination. 2TB for: HoHo, Roy Mustang, LadyHotRod, Rosie, Jimmy King
Tom Lawlor - did not appear. 0TB for: Deadd2009
Toru Yano - appeared, 2 eliminations. 2TB for: Chris, HoHo, Dubb, Blaze, Barry, Jeff
Yuji Nagata - appeared. 1TB for: Looch, Storm Trooper, Deadd2009

Scores! We love scores!

The Free-For-All
Ties broken by TB points then by earliest submission
Roy Mustang - 16/20 (14TB)
Jeff - 16/20 (5TB)
Dubb - 14/20 (12TB)
LadyHotRod - 14/20 (8TB)
Storm Trooper - 14/20 (4TB)
Looch - 13/20 (6TB)
Deadd2009 - 12/20 (1TB)
Blaze - 11/20 (9TB)
Barry - 11/20 (4TB)
Jimmy King - 10/20 (7TB)

The beast of the predictions strikes again, as it's @Roy Mustang who will challenge for the Galaxyweight Title at Event #28!

Workhorseweight Title
Ties broken by TB points; titles can't change hands on earliest submission
HoHo - 16/20 (8TB)
Chris - 15/20 (11TB)

The winner of this contest...
And NEEEEEEEEEEW WORKHORSEWEIGHT PREDICTION CHAMPION!!

@Kairi HoHo !!​

But who's up next week?
Workhorseweight Title Standings (events 25-27)

Spoiler: Workhorseweight

Ties broken by TB points, then by highest "low" score, then by highest "middle" score, then by magic
Highest scorer challenges, except those involved in this week's title matches or next week's Galaxyweight Title match
Tranquilo Jay - 5 (1TB) + 13 (3TB) + 16 (9TB) = 34 (13TB)
Rosie - 4 (1TB) + 14 (13TB) + 15 (10TB) = 33 (24TB)
Chris - 6 (2TB) + 11 (9TB) + 15 (11TB) = 32 (22TB)
Roy Mustang - 7 (2TB) + 9 (4TB) + 16 (14TB) = 32 (20TB)
HoHo - 5 (1TB) + 11 (2TB) + 16 (8TB) = 32 (11TB)
Storm Trooper - 3 (0TB) + 14 (11TB) + 14 (4TB) = 31 (15TB)
Jeff - 5 (2TB) + 10 (2TB) + 16 (5TB) = 31 (9TB)
Deadd2009 - 6 (0TB) + 9 (3TB) + 12 (1TB) = 27 (4TB)
LadyHotRod - 6 (2TB) + 6 (1TB) + 14 (8TB) = 26 (11TB)
Looch - 3 (1TB) + 10 (3TB) + 13 (6TB) = 26 (10TB)
Blaze - 4 (2TB) + 10 (3TB) + 11 (9TB) = 25 (14TB)
Jimmy King - 6 (3TB) + 8 (2TB) + 10 (7TB) = 24 (12TB)
Barry - 5 (1TB) + 6 (2TB) + 11 (4TB) = 22 (7TB)
Lethal - 9 (4TB) + 12 (10TB) + 0 (0TB) = 21 (14TB)
Dubb - 5 (1TB) + 0 (0TB) + 14 (12TB) = 19 (13TB)
Tyler2 - 0 (0TB) + 11 (2TB) + 0 (0TB) = 11 (2TB)

Filtering out everyone in the title matches, that means that @Storm Trooper will challenge for the Workhorseweight Title at Event #28! Now for the big one.

Galaxyweight Title
Ties broken by TB points; titles can't change hands on earliest submission
Tranquilo Jay - 16/20 (9TB)
Rosie - 15/20 (10TB)

The winner of this contest...
And STILL Galaxyweight Prediction Champion!
@Tommy Shelby !!​

Another defence against strong opposition... but now you've got to face the Man. See you next event...

 

[Rosie]

F gg

 

[Storm Trooper]

Congrats on winning the week Roy. And congrats Tommy and HoHo on retaining/gaining the championships. May you both have a successful reign..... OH SHIT I'M #1 CONTENDER FOR THE WORKHORSEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP! HOHO MAY YOUR REIGN LAST 1 WEEK! YOUR RECKONING IS UPON YOU, I WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN AND BECOME THE GREATEST WORKHORSEWEIGHT CHAMPION OF ALL TIME!

 

[Roy Mustang]

LIKE KENNY OMEGA I HAVE RETURNED AND I WANT MY WORLD TITLE BACK!!!

 

[Comrade Khan]

Ouf I was so close

 

[Samoa Looch]

Congratulations to the winners