ROH-New Japan Matches Announced

[Big Red Machine]

GLOBAL WARS - Toronto, ON- May 10, 2014:

**MATCHES BROUGHT TO YOU BY NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING**

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Jado

The Bullet Club (“The Phenomenal” AJ Styles & “Machine Gun” Karl Anderson) vs IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada & Gedo
Takaaki Watanabe vs. "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin (IWGP Heavyweight Title Contender)

IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP - 3-WAY TAG TEAM MATCH
Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov & Rocky Romero) vs. Time Splitters (KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley) vs. Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson) (c)

**On 5/3 in Fukuoka, Japan The Young Bucks will defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships against Forever Hooligans. The winners of that match will defending their championships in this three way contest.

**MATCHES BROUGHT TO YOU BY RING OF HONOR WRESTLING**

ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Adam Cole defends against “Mr Wrestling” Kevin Steen

ROH TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP - 4 CORNER SURVIVAL
Jay Lethal (c) w/ Truth Martini vs. Tommaso Ciampa vs. Matt Taven vs. “Last Real Man” Silas Young

Also Signed to Appear
Mark & Jay Briscoe
Michael Bennett w/ Maria Kanellis
reDRagon (Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish)
The Decade (Roderick Strong, BJ Whitmer & Jimmy Jacobs) w/ Tadarius Thomas
ACH
Cedric Alexander



WAR OF THE WORLDS - New York, NY- May 17, 2014:




ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Winner of Adam Cole vs. Kevin Steen from GLOBAL WARS (ROH) vs. Jushin “Thunder” Liger (NJPW)

It will certainly be a historic contest as ROH’s top wrestler defends his World Championship against the legendary Jushin Liger. Will Liger change the international landscape of professional wrestling by becoming the ROH World Champion? Or will Adam Cole/Kevin Steen walk out of New York with the gold and add this huge win to their list of accomplishments?

IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
"Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada vs. "Unbreakable" Michael Elgin (ROH)
**5/3 in Fukuoka, Japan Kazuchika Okada defends the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against AJ Styles. The winner of that match will defend against Michael Elgin on May 17th

Elgin earned his IWGP Heavyweight Championship opportunity by defeated Kevin Steen at Supercard of Honor 8. With Elgin obsessed on winning World Championships, will his New Japan dream finally come true? Or can Okada defend his gold on American soil?

ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Champions: The Young Bucks (Bullet Club) vs. reDRagon (ROH)

The Young Bucks shocked fans by capturing the ROH World Tag Championships from reDRagon a few months ago. reDRagon has already earned their championship rematch and looks for redemption against the current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team and ROH World Tag Team Champion Young Bucks. reDRagon has been ruthless in the ring since losing the gold. Will they get back the championships that they held for the better part of last year? Or will The Young Bucks prove that what happened a few months back was not an upset or fluke?

IWGP WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Champions: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows (Bullet Club) vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe (ROH)

The Briscoes are 8 time ROH World Tag Team Champions. Can they add the IWGP World Tag Team Titles to their list of accomplishments? Or will the big man tag team of Anderson and Gallows retain?

ROH WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP
Champion: Jay Lethal w/ Truth Martini (ROH) vs. KUSHIDA (NJPW)

Shinsuke Nakamura (NJPW) vs. Kevin Steen or Adam Cole (ROH)

Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW) vs. Michael Bennett w/ Maria Kanellis (ROH)

Also Signed to Appear
"The Phenomenal" AJ Styles (ROH)
Gedo & Jado (NJPW)
The Forever Hooligans (Rocky Romero & Alex Koslov) (NJPW)
Takaaki Watanabe (NJPW)
The Decade (Roderick Strong, BJ Whitmer & Jimmy Jacobs) w/ Adam Page (ROH)
ACH (ROH)
Matt Taven (ROH)
Cedric Alexander (ROH)
Tommaso Ciampa (ROH)
Silas Young (ROH)
Caprice Coleman (ROH)

[Big Red Machine]

Tanahashi's only singles match is against MIKE BENNETT?! WHAT THE F*CK?!

[badnewzxl]

this shows are going to be AWESME!!!

[cero2k]

some matches are truly dream matches, some other decisions i find questionable

[Big Red Machine]

Here is the latest line-up for the NY Show, from the Wrestling Observer website:


ROH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Winner of Adam Cole vs. Kevin Steen from GLOBAL WARS (ROH) vs. Jushin “Thunder” Liger (NJPW)

IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
AJ Styles vs. “Unbreakable” Michael Elgin (ROH)

ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Champions: The Young Bucks (Bullet Club) vs. reDRagon (ROH)

IWGP WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Champions: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows (Bullet Club) vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe (ROH)

ROH WORLD TV CHAMPIONSHIP
Champion: Jay Lethal w/ Truth Martini (ROH) vs. KUSHIDA (NJPW)

Shinsuke Nakamura (NJPW) vs. Kevin Steen or Adam Cole (ROH)

Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW) vs. Michael Bennett w/ Maria Kanellis (ROH)

NEW matches

Cedric Alexander vs Kazuchika Okada

(The Decade) BJ Whitmer & Roderick Strong vs Gedo and Jado

Matt Taven, ACH, Tommaso Ciampa vs Forever Hooligans and Takaaki Watanabe

[cero2k]

Cedric Alexander vs Kazuchika Okada

what? nothing against Cedric Alexander....but what!?

[Big Red Machine]

Cedric Alexander vs Kazuchika Okada

what? nothing against Cedric Alexander....but what!?

My thoughts exactly.

[Bulletclubfan2014]

Cedric Alexander vs Kazuchika Okada

what? nothing against Cedric Alexander....but what!?

My thoughts exactly.

If you've seen Cedric's matches with guys like Jay Lethal Johnny Gargano Michael Elgin AJ Styles ETC you'd be looking forward to this match

[Big Red Machine]

what? nothing against Cedric Alexander....but what!?

My thoughts exactly.

If you've seen Cedric's matches with guys like Jay Lethal Johnny Gargano Michael Elgin AJ Styles ETC you'd be looking forward to this match

Like he said, it's nothing against Cedric. I'd just rather see Elgin vs. Okada (especially as we've seen AJ vs. ELgin twice in the past few months).

[cero2k]

Like he said, it's nothing against Cedric. I'd just rather see Elgin vs. Okada (especially as we've seen AJ vs. ELgin twice in the past few months).

this, i actually do like Cedric alot. I've been wishing they dump C&C and bring in 7OH!4. I just found it weird that they would pair him up with the former IWGP champ. Roddy vs Okada would have been the best option to me, even decade vs Okada/Jado/Gedo

[Bulletclubfan2014]

BTW I heard a rumor that may shed some light on why Bennett got picked to face Tanahashi
Tanahashi has been rumored to have a couple minor injuries and New Japan officials didn't want his match for ROH to make them worse so ROH put him with the guy who's there biggest star with the offense that is least likely to aggravate his injuries and I guess that'd be Bennett

[Big Red Machine]

BTW I heard a rumor that may shed some light on why Bennett got picked to face Tanahashi
Tanahashi has been rumored to have a couple minor injuries and New Japan officials didn't want his match for ROH to make them worse so ROH put him with the guy who's there biggest star with the offense that is least likely to aggravate his injuries and I guess that'd be Bennett

I have heard this, too. Also, New Japan is supposedly looking for some heavyweights, and Bennett is one of the few ones that ROH has, so they'd rather kill off a few different birds with one stone by giving Bennett something of a tryout against Tanahashi.

It still doesn't stop me from being disappointed that we're not getting Tanahashi vs. Roderick.

[Bulletclubfan2014]

BTW I heard a rumor that may shed some light on why Bennett got picked to face Tanahashi
Tanahashi has been rumored to have a couple minor injuries and New Japan officials didn't want his match for ROH to make them worse so ROH put him with the guy who's there biggest star with the offense that is least likely to aggravate his injuries and I guess that'd be Bennett

I have heard this, too. Also, New Japan is supposedly looking for some heavyweights, and Bennett is one of the few ones that ROH has, so they'd rather kill off a few different birds with one stone by giving Bennett something of a tryout against Tanahashi.

It still doesn't stop me from being disappointed that we're not getting Tanahashi vs. Roderick.

Yea True But ROH has said these shows are just the beginning of an agreement that will last for years so it most likely will happen some day

[Big Red Machine]

BTW I heard a rumor that may shed some light on why Bennett got picked to face Tanahashi
Tanahashi has been rumored to have a couple minor injuries and New Japan officials didn't want his match for ROH to make them worse so ROH put him with the guy who's there biggest star with the offense that is least likely to aggravate his injuries and I guess that'd be Bennett

I have heard this, too. Also, New Japan is supposedly looking for some heavyweights, and Bennett is one of the few ones that ROH has, so they'd rather kill off a few different birds with one stone by giving Bennett something of a tryout against Tanahashi.

It still doesn't stop me from being disappointed that we're not getting Tanahashi vs. Roderick.

Yea True But ROH has said these shows are just the beginning of an agreement that will last for years so it most likely will happen some day

Bit this agreement has already been going on for a year. ROH usually gets the Hooligans and some other random guys (I think we got Karl Anderson and KUSHIDA randomly last year) while New Japan gets exposure after their horrible failure of US shows in 2011.

[cero2k]

Bit this agreement has already been going on for a year. ROH usually gets the Hooligans and some other random guys (I think we got Karl Anderson and KUSHIDA randomly last year) while New Japan gets exposure after their horrible failure of US shows in 2011.

just anderson for the thing with Elgin, but i think the rest of the japanese (and ricky marvin) were all from NOAH

[Big Red Machine]

Bit this agreement has already been going on for a year. ROH usually gets the Hooligans and some other random guys (I think we got Karl Anderson and KUSHIDA randomly last year) while New Japan gets exposure after their horrible failure of US shows in 2011.

just anderson for the thing with Elgin, but i think the rest of the japanese (and ricky marvin) were all from NOAH

KUSHIDA was in for All-Star Extravaganza V, if not some TV tapings, too.

[cero2k]

Bit this agreement has already been going on for a year. ROH usually gets the Hooligans and some other random guys (I think we got Karl Anderson and KUSHIDA randomly last year) while New Japan gets exposure after their horrible failure of US shows in 2011.

just anderson for the thing with Elgin, but i think the rest of the japanese (and ricky marvin) were all from NOAH

KUSHIDA was in for All-Star Extravaganza V, if not some TV tapings, too.

oh ok, don't remember that one, just when Ishimori came for Border Wars

[cero2k]

Cedric Alexander out of Global Wars

This past weekend at GLOBAL WARS Cedric Alexander defeated Roderick Strong in what many are calling a huge upset. After a hard fought match from both competitors, Cedric caught Strong in a small package and got the three count. Moments after the match ended, BJ Whitmer slid into the ring and attacked Cedric. The rest of The Decade followed behind.

After a TaDarius Thomas kick to the face, Roderick Strong sent Cedric through multiple chairs with a back breaker. Unfortunately, Cedric Alexander will not be able to compete at WAR OF THE WORLDS because of the injuries sustained at the hands of The Decade.

Cedric Alexander was originally scheduled to face "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada in what may have been the biggest match in Cedric's young career. The Decade has once again hindered the career of Cedric in costing him this major opportunity to face the former IWGP Heavyweight Champion. The Decade has already tried to take away Cedric's place in the locker room by tossing his bags to the ringside area and prohibiting him from entering "their" locker room in San Antonio earlier this year. They seem intent on taking every opportunity away from Alexander.

It is unfortunate news that Cedric will not be a part of this major WAR OF THE WORLDS event after his huge singles competition win at GLOBAL WARS against Roderick Strong. "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada will have a new opponent this Saturday in NYC that is still to be determined at this point.

Cedric's career seemed to have been picking up momentum following GLOBAL WARS, but will be temporarily put on hold. Cedric Alexander could not be reached for comment.