Tag: Windy City Riot

Scott Norton announced for NJPW Windy City Riot 12-man tag

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Former IWGP Heavyweight Champion and IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion Scott Norton is returning to an NJPW ring for the first time in five years.

Norton will be part of a 12-man tag team match at Windy City Riot on Saturday, April 16, teaming with Bullet Club against United Empire. 

Norton, The Good Brothers (Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson), El Phantasmo, Chris Bey, and Hikuleo will represent Bullet Club against Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb, TJP, Aaron Henare, and Aussie Open (Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher).

Norton, 60, last appeared for NJPW in 2017, taking part in the New Japan Rumble at Wrestle Kingdom 11, then wrestling in a 10-man tag the next night at New Year Dash. 

Six matches are now official for Windy City Riot. The lineup: 

NJPW Windy City Riot, Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m. Eastern time on FITE TV —

  • Jon Moxley vs. Will Ospreay
  • Tomohiro Ishii vs. Minoru Suzuki
  • US of Jay open challenge: Jay White vs. TBA
  • NJPW Strong Openweight Championship: Tom Lawlor (c) vs. Yuji Nagata
  • Fred Rosser, Chris Dickinson, Josh Alexander, Alex Coughlin & Ren Narita vs. Royce Isaacs, Jorel Nelson, JR Kratos, Danny Limelight & Black Tiger
  • Scott Norton, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson, El Phantasmo, Chris Bey & Hikuleo vs. Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb, Aaron Henare, TJP, Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher

NJPW Strong Openweight title match set for Windy City Riot

Posted on by Ethan Renner

A Championship match has been added to NJPW Windy City Riot. 

“Filthy” Tom Lawlor will defend the NJPW Strong Openweight Championship against Yuji Nagata in Chicago. The match was announced on Monday evening. 

Five matches are now official for the Saturday, April 16 event. AEW’s Jon Moxley will face Will Ospreay on the show, plus Tomohiro Ishii will take on Minoru Suzuki in a match set up with a challenge at this past week’s Lonestar Shootout event in Dallas. 

Here is the lineup so far: 

NJPW Windy City Riot, Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m. Eastern time on FITE TV —

  • Jon Moxley vs. Will Ospreay
  • Minoru Suzuki vs. Tomohiro Ishii
  • NJPW Strong Openweight Championship: “Filthy” Tom Lawlor (c) vs. Yuji Nagata
  • US of Jay open challenge: Jay White vs. TBA
  • Team Rosser (Fred Rosser, Josh Alexander, Alex Coughlin, Ren Narita & Chris Dickinson) vs. Team Filthy (Royce Isaacs, Jorel Nelson, JR Kratos, Black Tiger & Danny Limelight)

Minoru Suzuki vs. Tomohiro Ishii set for NJPW Windy City Riot

Posted on by Ethan Renner

A new match has been announced for NJPW Windy City Riot on Saturday, April 16. 

Minoru Suzuki will face Tomohiro Ishii in a bout that was set up at today’s Lonestar Shootout pay-per-view in Dallas. 

Suzuki defeated the debuting Killer Kross at Lonestar Shootout, while Ishii defeated Chris Dickinson in the main event of the show. Following Ishii’s win, Suzuki appeared and issued a challenge to Ishii. The match was then officially announced by the promotion. 

Jon Moxley also appeared at Lonestar Shootout to hype his Chicago match against Will Ospreay. Moxley vs. Ospreay, Suzuki vs. Ishii, a Jay White open challenge, plus a 10-man tag have been announced for the show so far. The lineup:

NJPW Windy City Riot, Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m. Eastern time on FITE TV —

  • Jon Moxley vs. Will Ospreay
  • Minoru Suzuki vs. Tomohiro Ishii
  • US of Jay open challenge: Jay White vs. TBA
  • Fred Rosser, Josh Alexander, Chris Dickinson, Ren Narita & Alex Coughlin vs. Team Filthy (Royce Isaacs, Jorel Nelson, JR Kratos, Black Tiger & Danny Limelight)

Ten-man tag match set for NJPW Windy City Riot

Posted on by Joseph Currier

A 10-man tag match has been made official for NJPW’s Windy City Riot event this April.

Fred Rosser, Josh Alexander, Chris Dickinson, Alex Coughlin & Ren Narita will team up together as they face Team Filthy’s JR Kratos, Royce Isaacs, Danny Limelight, Jorel Nelson & Black Tiger at Windy City Riot. The show is being held at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois on Saturday, April 16.

NJPW wrote about the match:

An explosive ten man tag has been added to the card for Windy City Riot on April 16, as Team Filthy head into battle against a formidable side headed up by Tom Lawlor’s bitter rival Fred Rosser.

Rosser will bring Chris Dickinson, Ren Narita, Alex Coughlin and Josh Alexander to face Danny Limelight, Jorel Nelson, Royce Isaacs, JR Kratos and Black Tiger. Rosser, Narita and Dickinson all have previous [issues] with Team Filthy leader Lawlor, and want to tear his team [apart]. Meanwhile, JR Kratos and Alex Coughlin will be picking up for the first time since Nemesis, when Coughlin defeated the Most feared to graduate from the LA Dojo and end his Open Challenge Series. Kratos vowed to enact brutal revenge on Coughlin, but with Walking Weapon Josh Alexander completing Team Filthy’s opposition, that will be a tall task indeed. 

Windy City Riot will air as a live pay-per-view on Fite TV. The show is being headlined by Jon Moxley vs. Will Ospreay. A U-S-of-Jay Open Challenge has also been announced for the show. It will be Jay White’s seventh match in the U-S-of-Jay Open Challenge series.

NJPW Windy City Riot to air live on FITE TV pay-per-view

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NJPW Windy City Riot will air as a pay-per-view on FITE TV. 

The promotion announced today that the Saturday, April 16 show will air exclusively on FITE at a $19.99 price point, with an archived version of the broadcast being added to the NJPW World streaming service at a later date. 

The announcement marks a departure from recent NJPW shows in the United States, where the approach has been to offer the show with English commentary for purchase on FITE, with the show also streaming live on NJPW World with Japanese commentary. 

No matches have been announced for the Chicago-area event to this point, but the lineup will include talent from the NJPW main unit roster, the US-based NJPW strong brand, as well as outside talent that the promotion regularly uses. 

The announced lineup: 

  • Jon Moxley
  • Minoru Suzuki
  • Will Ospreay
  • Jay White
  • Tomohiro Ishii
  • Tom Lawlor
  • Jeff Cobb
  • Juice Robinson
  • David Finlay
  • Yuji Nagata
  • Fred Rosser
  • JONAH
  • Brody King
  • Karl Fredericks
  • Clark Connors
  • Hikuleo
  • Rocky Romero
  • Doc Gallows
  • Karl Anderson
  • The Great-O-Khan

Jon Moxley returning to NJPW for Windy City Riot

Posted on by Joseph Currier

AEW star Jon Moxley will be in action when NJPW comes to the Chicago area this April.

NJPW has announced that Moxley will return for the promotion’s Windy City Riot show on Saturday, April 16. The event is taking place at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois.

To announce the news, NJPW posted a promo from Moxley. Moxley called himself the boogeyman of NJPW and challenged NJPW to bring their best. Moxley said that no one else can call themselves the best as long as he’s lurking in the shadows.

Moxley last wrestled for NJPW at a set of New Japan Strong tapings in Philadelphia last October. Minoru Suzuki & Lance Archer defeated Moxley & Eddie Kingston in a street fight.

Moxley has held NJPW’s IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship two times previously.

Tickets for Windy City Riot go on sale at noon Central time tomorrow (Friday, February 4). Will Ospreay, Jeff Cobb, Yuji Nagata, Tomohiro Ishii, Jay White, Juice Robinson & David Finlay, Tom Lawlor, Jonah, Fred Rosser, and Brody King have also been announced for the show.

NJPW announces Windy City Riot event for Chicago area

Posted on by Ethan Renner

NJPW is heading to the Chicago area. 

The company has announced Windy City Riot for Saturday, April 16 at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois.

Will Ospreay, Tomohiro Ishii, Jay White, Jeff Cobb, Yuji Nagata, David Finlay, Juice Robinson, Tom Lawlor, JONAH, Fred Rosser, and Brody King are the first talent announcements for the event. No matches have been made official as of yet.

Tickets for the show will go on sale on Friday, February 4 at 12 p.m. Central time at this link. Ticket prices will range from $25 to $299.

The show looks to be bigger than an NJPW Strong taping, as Ishii and Nagata are typically not brought in for smaller shows in the United States. In their announcement, NJPW said that the show will be “a major event.” A comparable show would be appear to be last November’s Battle in the Valley event in San Jose.