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IWGP Heavyweight champion Tetsuya Naito vs. ACH (non-title)
Naito got a big reaction. He was awesome at playing his "don't care" role. ACH went for a big dive but Naito slipped out of the way. Naito and ACH faced off. ACH faked him out on a lockup and nailed a series of chops, then caught him with a dropkick. Naito went to the floor. ACH charged with a stuff kick. He sent Naito into the guard rail. ACH leapt on the rail and hit a flip off of it into Naito.
ACH went for a big flying bodypress but Naito ducked and he crashed into the ring. The crowd chanted for Naito. Naito locked on a chinlock. Naito kicked him in a disrespectful way. ACH came back with a ridiculous clothesline. Naito nailed several right hands but caught him with a back suplex. They continued battling back and forth.
Naito cut off ACH with a big inverted atomic drop and a swinging DDT. ACH popped up but then went down, dazed from the move. Naito went to the top but ACH drilled him with this amazing kick and then hit his insane dive to the floor. That was f***ing tremendous. Naito ducked a double stomp. He went to the top but was cut kicked and hit with a brainbuster for a two count. The crowd chanted, "This is awesome."
ACH went to the top for a 450 splash but Naito moved out of the way and nailed a rolling kick. The referee counted them down. They amde it to their feet before the 10 count. They battled back and forth with punches and strikes. They went back and forth ACH caught him with a superkick. Naito cut him off and nailed his finisher for the pin.
Your winner, IWGP champion Tetsuya Naito!
Absolutely phenomenal match. Best match of ACH's career that I have seen.
Naito attacked referee Todd Sinclair and stomped the hell out of him. NYC loved that.
The crowd was chanting "One Buck!"
The Bullet Club (Adam Cole & Matt Jackson) vs. Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii vs. ROH champion Jay Lethal & Roderick Strong
Lots of posturing early. Strong and Cole went back and forth. Ishii tagged in. He and Strong tagged each other with stiff shots. Lethal tagged in. Okada tagged in. The crowd went nuts for this. Before they could lock up, Cole blindtagged himself in. Jackson tagged in. Okada slammed him and nailed a slingshot splash. Ishii and Okada worked over Jackson. Cole and Jackson woked over Ishii. He fired back but they superkicked him.
Jackson nailed a dive to the outside. Everyone battled. When it settled down, Cole used his boot to choke Ishii in the corner. He and Jackson worked over Ishii. Okada drilled Strong with a dropkick. Jackson and Cole worked over Okada but were hit with flapjacks at once. Okada nailed a big dropkick for a two count,
Lethal and Okada went face to face, finally. They exchanged forearms. Lethal goes for the Lethal Injection but is dropkicked mid-stream. Strong hits the scene and whips out tons of backbreakers. He nails a Gutbuster on Okada. The crowd chants, "ROH!" Jackson tries to superkick Lethal but he catches it and sends it to Cole. They nailed a double superkick on Lethal after they backdrop his Lethal Injection attempt. Cole drills Strong with a Canadian Destroyer. It's all madness.
It settled down to Ishii vs. Strong. They brought the thunder with stuff chops and punches. Ishii nailed a big suplex. Strong backdropped him out of a powerbomb attempt but Ishii drilled him with a back suplex. Lethal broke up the pinfall attempt. Ishii crushed him with a big right forearm. Lethal nailed the backspring elbow into the cutter on Ishii. He went for the same on Okada, who caught him and went for a tombestone/ Bullet Club superkicked him. All sorts of madness until Strong scored the pin on Tomohiro Ishii!
Just a batcrazy main event.
Your winners, ROH champion Jay Lethal and Roderick Strong!
That's all from NYC tonight!!
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