ROH & New Japan Present: Global Wars & War Of The Worlds

[Postman Dave]

ROH/NJPW Global Wars
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5/10/14

Ring Of Honor Matches:
- ROH World Title - Adam Cole (c) vs. Kevin Steen
- ROH World TV Title - Four-Corner Survival - Jay Lethal (with Truth Martini) (c) vs. "Sicilian Psychopath" Tommaso Ciampa vs. Matt Taven vs. Silas Young
- Roderick Strong vs. Cedric Alexander
- Three Way Tag Team Match - reDRagon vs. The Briscoes vs. The Decade (Jimmy Jacobs & BJ Whitmer with TaDarius Thomas)
- Michael Bennett (with Maria Kanellis) vs. ACH

New Japan Matches:
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin "Thunder" Liger vs. CHAOS (IWGP Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura & Jado)
- Bullet Club (IWGP Heavyweight Champion "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles & "Machine Gun" Karl Anderson) vs. CHAOS ("Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada & Gedo)
- IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Titles - Three-Way Tag Team Match - The Young Bucks (c) vs. The Time Splitters vs. The Forever Hooligans

ROH vs. New Japan:
- "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin vs. Takaaki Watanabe

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ROH/NJPW War of the Worlds
New York City, New York 5/17/14

- IWGP Heavyweight Title - "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles (c) vs. "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin
- ROH World Title - Adam Cole/Kevin Steen (c) vs. Jushin "Thunder" Liger
- ROH World Tag Team Titles - The Young Bucks (c) vs. reDRagon
- IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles - The Bullet Club ("Machine Gun" Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) (c) vs. The Briscoes
- ROH World TV Title - Jay Lethal (with Truth Martini) (c) vs. KUSHIDA
- Adam Cole/Kevin Steen vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
- Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Michael Bennett (with Maria Kanellis)
- "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada vs. Cedric Alexander
- The Decade (Roderick Strong & BJ Whitmer with Jimmy Jacobs & Adam Page) vs. Gedo & Jado
- Six-Man Tag - ACH, Matt Taven & "Sicilian Psychopath" Tommaso Ciampa vs. The Forever Hooligans & Takaaki Watanabe
- Silas Young vs. Caprice Coleman

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May is a big month for independent wrestling. First is the ROH/New Japan double shot, as Japan's number one promotion heads to North America to present two shows with Ring Of Honor.

Global Wars is more of a split show, with ROH and NJPW talents working apart for the most part. War Of The Worlds however sees talent from each promotion clashing in a series of matches that sees 5 of the biggest titles in wrestling defended in one night!

 

[Postman Dave]

Results from Global Wars

Mike Bennett (w/Maria Kanellis) defeated A.C.H. (8:00)
Michael Elgin defeated Takaaki Watanabe (7:30)
The Briscoes defeated ReDragon (Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish) and The Decade (Jimmy Jacobs & B.J. Whitmer) (8:00)
Cedric Alexander defeated Roderick Strong (14:00)
The Young Bucks defeated Forever Hooligans (Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov) and Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA) to retain the IWGP Jr. Tag Titles (12:00)
RD Evans defeated announcer Bobby Cruise to continue "The Streak".
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Justin Liger defeated Shinsuke Nakamura & Jado (12:00)
ROH TV Title match: Jay Lethal retained over Tommaso Ciampa, Matt Taven and Silas Young. Lethal pinned Taven after Truth Martini got involved (8:00)
AJ Styles and Karl Anderson defeated Kazuchika Okada and Gedo (12:00)
Adam Cole defeated Kevin Steen with with a superkick to retain the ROH World Title (20:00)

411mania

No real surprises, but this was more of a warm up show. War Of The World's is the main one of the two.

 

[Postman Dave]

With Cedric Alexander put out of action by The Decade at Global Wars, Okada is now with opposition at War Of The Worlds.

A recent promo on Youtube seems to suggest we're getting Styles vs. Okada vs. Elgin now instead. Not confirmed, but a match that'll make everyone happy.

 

[Castiel]

Better than Styles vs Elgin again. This match could be huge, they need to hurry and confirm it.

 

[Postman Dave]

Results:

ACH, Matt Taven and Tomasso Chimpa defeated Alex Koslov, Rocky Romero and Takaaki Watanabe via pin (9:00)
Roderick Strong and BJ Whitmer defeated Gedo and Jado via pin (8:00)
Champion Jay Lethal defeated KUSHIDA to retain the ROH TV Title (11:30)
Champion Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson defeated The Briscoe Brothers to retain the IWGP Tag Team Titles (10:30)
Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Kevin Steen via multiple Boma Ye knee strikes (12:00)
Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Mike Bennett via pin (13:30)
reDragon defeated Champions The Young Bucks to win the ROH Tag Team Titles via submission (12:30)
Champion Adam Cole defeated Jushin Liger via submission to retain the ROH World Title (13:00)
Champion AJ Styles defeated Michael Elgin (pinned) and Kazuchika Okada to retain the IWGP Heavyweight Title (17:00)
A video played, showing that Christopher Daniels and someone off camera (likely Kazarian) will be at the June 22nd ROH Best in the World PPV

411mania

Apparently, Kevin Steen alluded to leaving ROH before Silas Young interrupted to seemingly start that feud. The Steen to WWE rumours have kicked back in again as a result.