ROH-NJPW G1 Supercard Results – Apr. 6, 2019 – Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White

Results via John Pollock of PostWrestling.com

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April 6, 2019
New York City, New York – Madison Square Garden
Commentary: Kevin Kelly, Ian Riccaboni, and Colt Cabana

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Quick Match Results

1. Dark Match – Kagetsu, Jenny Rose, & Hazuki defeated Hana Kimura, Stella Gray, & Sumie Sakai via pinfall (6:45)
2. Pre-Show – Honor Rumble – Kenny King won, eliminating Jushin Thunder Liger and Great Muta (42:20)
3. NEVER Openweight & ROH World Television Title vs. Title match – Jeff Cobb (ROH) defeated Will Ospreay (NEVER) via pinfall (12:53)
4. Rush defeated Dalton Castle via pinfall (0:17)
5. WOH World Championship – Kelly Klein defeated Mayu Iwatani (c) via pinfall (10:38)
6. New York Street Fight – Flip Gordon, Juice Robinson, & Mark Haskins defeated Bully Ray, Shane Taylor, & Silas Young (11:20)
7. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Three-Way match – Dragon Lee defeated Bandido and Taiji Ishimori (c) via pinfall (8:56)
8. IWGP Tag Team & ROH World Tag Team Four-Way match – Guerrillas Of Destiny (IWGP) defeated SANADA & EVIL, The Briscoes, and Villain Enterprises (ROH) via pinfall (9:50)
9. RPW British Heavyweight Championship – Zack Sabre Jr (c) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi via submission (15:14)
10. IWGP Intercontinental Championship – Kota Ibushi defeated Tetsuya Naito (c) via pinfall (20:52)
11. ROH World Championship Three-Way Ladder match – Matt Taven defeated Marty Scurll and Jay Lethal (c) (29:34)
12. IWGP Heavyweight Championship – Kazuchika Okada defeated Jay White (c) via pinfall (31:48)

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Kagetsu, Jenny Rose, & Hazuki vs. Hana Kimura, Stella Gray, & Sumie Sakai

Grey, Kimura, and Sakai applied simultaneous submissions early. It was quiet in the arena, although a fair amount of people had shown up for the pre-show. It livened up when Hazuki and Kagetsu hit dives to the floor together. Kagetsu scored the fall for her team.

Winner: Kagetsu, Jenny Rose, & Hazuki via Pinfall.

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Honor Rumble

Kenny King was the first entrant, which was set up on the Road to G1 Supercard event last weekend in Baltimore. The second entrant was Minoru Suzuki, and everyone went crazy. Below is the order of the entrants:
1. Kenny King
2. Minoru Suzuki
3. Cheeseburger
4. Beer City Bruiser
5. SHO
6. Shingo Takagi
7. Bushi
8. YOH
9. Shaeem Ali
10. Rhett Titus

Titus entered and did a posing routine in the center of the ring and looked like he fell asleep in a tanning bed for a week.

11. Lio St. Giovanni
12. Ryusuke Taguchi

Taguchi received the second-loudest reaction after Suzuki, so far in the match. He came out his rugby ball and helmet as the audience chanted his name. Takagi took the ball away.

13. Will Ferrara
14. Chase Owens
15. Rocky Romero

Romero started the Forever clotheslines to all corners, followed by Taguchi directing traffic and everyone went nuts for the trademark spots. It ended with Bushi being tossed to the floor.

16. Brian Milonas
17. Bad Luck Fale

He received a huge reaction. Fale eliminated Roppongi 3K together. He tried to dump out Cheesburger, but he was caught and returned to the ring.

18. Jonathan Gresham

Suzuki eliminated Takagi, which was the first big elimination.

19. Tracy Williams
20. Yoshi-Hashi
21. PJ Black
22. Justin Thunder Liger

As expected, an enormous reception for Liger.

23. TK O’Ryan
24. Vinny Marseglia
25. Delirious
26. Tomohiro Ishii

Ishii was not announced ahead of time. All the key New Japan stars are receiving enormous reactions and it’s clear they are the big stars to the audience. Ishii eliminated Black quickly.

27. Toru Yano

Yano came out and gave up his spot to Colt Cabana and replaced him on commentary. The entire arena chanted “Colt Cabana” was the most over of the ROH stars, so far.

28. Hirooki Goto

Everyone worked together to dump Fale out.

29. King Haku

Haku is on the short list of talent on tonight’s show that has previously worked the building. Haku applied the Tongan Death Grip onto Cabana, who waved in Yano for assistance.

30. The Great Muta

The arena exploded for the surprise entrant, biggest pop of the match. Yano missed Suzuki with the turnbuckle padding, nailed Cabana and Suzuki tossed both out.

Suzuki and Ishii began a striking battle, Suzuki applied the armbar in the ropes and then got eliminated by Ishii as the audience booed. Marseglia and O’Ryan eliminated Cheeseburger and then dumped Haku out, which angered the crowd and finally threw out Ishii together.

It’s down to Liger, Muta, Marseglia, and O’Ryan. Liger eliminated Marseglia with a shotei and Muta eliminated O’Ryan leaving the two legends in the ring.

Kenny King returned as he had never been eliminated and dumped both Muta and Liger to the floor.

WINNER: Kenny King.

King took the mist from Muta and was dispatched afterward. Liger stood in the ring as they chanted “Thank you, Liger”. The match never dragged despite the time and got over tremendously well to the audience.

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NEVER Openweight & ROH World Television Title vs. Title Match
Will Ospreay (NEVER Openweight Champion) vs. Jeff Cobb (ROH World Television Champion)

Ospreay hit the Space Flying Tiger Drop, which Cobb was supposed to catch him from, but lifted him again and Ospreay hit a DDT to the floor. Cobb overpowered Ospreay in the ring, catching a kick and tossing him across the ring.

Cobb did a kip up into a standing moonsault for a two-count. Cobb came off the ropes for a lariat and was caught with a standing Spanish Fly as both went down as the audience cheered. Ospreay landed an Otani-style missile dropkick to the back of Cobb’s head. Ospreay countered Tour of the Islands into a Code Red for a near fall.

Ospreay had the OsCutter blocked, was thrown onto the turnbuckle and leaped back to hit the OsCutter to set up an enormous near fall.

They fought on the turnbuckle, climaxing with a Tour of the Islands off the second turnbuckle and another in the middle as Cobb pinned Ospreay.

Winner: Jeff Cobb via Pinfall to win the NEVER Openweight Championship. Cobb retained the ROH World Television Championship.

Excellent opening match, the audience is red-hot and they worked so well together. This could be a fantastic series of matches and clearly opens the door for Cobb to go over to New Japan more frequently and defend the title.

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Dalton Castle vs. Rush

Rush stormed Castle, hitting two running baseball slide dropkicks into the corner and pinned him in 17 seconds.

Winner: Rush via Pinfall.

Castle sold the effects of being embarrassed and the focus was more on Castle than Rush afterward. The Boys tried to console him and he destroyed them for the big turn. He hit one with the Bang-a-ran. This was an overdue turn for Castle.

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Mandy Leon joined the commentary team for the next match.

They cut to the back and Juice Robinson had been attacked and was unconscious.

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WOH World Championship
Kelly Klein vs. Mayu Iwatani (c)

The audience took a while to get into the match but reacted loudly when Iwatani landed a high cross to the floor.

Iwatani reversed on Klein’s shoulders to land a reverse huracanrana.

Klein came back to win the match after hitting a pair of K-Powers.

Winner: Kelly Klein via Pinfall to become the new WOH World Champion.

The crowd was down for this match and the finish didn’t seem to get over very effectively.

After the match, Angelina Love and Velvet Sky walked down the ramp. They were joined by Mandy Leon and attacked Klein. The audience reacted better to the attack than the match. Their group is called “The Allure”.

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New York Street Fight
Bully Ray, Shane Taylor, & Silas Young vs. Flip Gordon, Juice Robinson, & Mark Haskins

Mega Ran came out to perform “Going to the Garden” and the audience booed it loudly. He was interrupted by Bully Ray, who was met with loud “ECW” and “We Want Tables” chants. Bully shoved him down and Mega Ran stood up to him and got whipped with his chain. He said the Open Challenge is still open after Juice Robinson was attacked.

Flip Gordon answered the challenge.

A table was brought into the ring as Silas Young and Shane Taylor ran down to help Bully Ray. Mark Haskins came out with Juice Robinson and a dumpster full of weapons to make it a six-man tag.

The heels surrounded Gordon with kendo sticks, he stood and challenged them to hit him. They took turns and Gordon kept standing up as he did the Tommy Dreamer spot. Robinson and Haskins entered with their own sticks and there was a big standoff. Bully Ray backed down and left after it became 3-on-1 for the babyfaces.

Later in the match, Gordon was powerbombed through a table off the turnbuckle by Bully. Young hit Haskins with a twisting suplex onto a chair. Two chairs were set up, Young was placed on them and took a double foot stomp from Haskins off the top.

The babyfaces held Bully Ray’s legs open for the wuzzup spot and pinned him.

Winner: Flip Gordon, Juice Robinson, & Mark Haskins via Pinfall.

This relied on lots of weapons and brawling around the ring. It was average, not great and not bad. The show started off on a big high and has hit a lull.

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IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Three-Way
Dragon Lee vs. Bandido vs. Taiji Ishimori (c)

Bandido sent Lee to the floor with flying head scissors and hit him with a Fosbury Flop. Lee came back, leaping over the top and landing a rana off the apron to the floor onto Bandido. Ishimori then hit a Golden Triangle to both on the floor. They were working at an incredible pace out of the gate.

They went down after Ishimori hit La Mistica onto Bandido and Lee hit a Destroyer to Ishimori. Bandido pressed Ishimori in the air and landed a cutter coming down.

Bandido lifted both on the top turnbuckle for a double fallaway slam/moonsault off the top and tore down the house with that spot.

Ishimori was sent to the floor as Lee hit Bandido with Desnucadora to pin Bandido, so he wins the title but didn’t pin the champion.

Winner: Dragon Lee via Pinfall to become the new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion.

This was off the charts. They didn’t have a lot of time but made every second count and they tore the house down.

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IWGP Tag Team & ROH World Tag Team Four-Way
SANADA & EVIL vs. The Briscoes vs. Guerrillas Of Destiny (IWGP Tag Team Champions) vs. Villain Enterprises (ROH World Tag Team Champions)

PCO got this enormous entrance on a giant electric chair with Destro jolting him to life. PCO was a mega star when his entrance began.

EVIL placed a chair around Tama Tonga’s neck and nailed it with another chair.

Jay Briscoe hit Sanada with the Jay Driller and King broke up the cover. Jay was draped on the edge of the apron and PCO finally landed the somersault off the top onto his back. PCO followed with a top rope moonsault with King piling on, Tanga Loa was late making the save.

The Guerrillas lifted PCO and powerbombed onto the floor, PCO sat up and the place went insane.

Tonga hit King with a Gun Stun and Loa powerbombed King off the turnbuckle and they won.

Winner: Guerrillas Of Destiny via Pinfall to become the new ROH World Tag Team Champions. Guerrillas Of Destiny retained the IWGP Tag Team Championship.

PCO was the big star of the match with several insane moments.

Toru Yano came out after the match and he stole the IWGP tag titles.

The big angle followed with Big Cass and Enzo showing up and positioned it like they were crashing the show. Bully Ray ran down to join The Briscoes and make it feel like the locker room was kicking them out. The audience reacted loudly as they tried to get the chaos over and it worked.

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RPW British Heavyweight Championship
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Zack Sabre Jr (c)

Tanahashi attacked Zack’s right knee and applied the cloverleaf. Tanahashi went to the top and was stopped by Zack, who manipulated the wrist and targeted the left arm.

Zack used the European clutch and Tanahashi kicked out. Zack attempted a guillotine and Tanahashi broke out of it with a pair of Twist & Shouts. Zack came back and applied a Fujiwara armbar, he locked both arms and then applied Orienteering with Napalm Death and Tanahashi submitted.

Winner: Zack Sabre Jr via Submission to retain the RPW British Heavyweight Championship.

The ending sequence got a big reaction. I didn’t think this reached the level of their past great singles matches, including the New Japan Cup match a few weeks ago.

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IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Kota Ibushi vs. Tetsuya Naito (c)

They were on the floor and Naito Irish whipped Ibushi who ran into a production member on the floor and Naito got into his face for being in the wrong position.

Ibushi lifted Naito for the power German on the edge of the apron but Naito countered. They were both on the apron, Naito ran at him and Ibushi leaped into the air and hit a rana to the floor. The crowd chanted “Mama Mia” after that spot.

Back in the ring, Naito recovered and hit Gloria for a two-count.

On his next attempt, Ibushi hit the power German and Naito landed on his neck and kicked out. The replay looked brutal for Naito upon landing.

Naito blasted Ibushi in the face, he paused and came back with a huge strike. Naito hit a reverse rana and then the Destino but Ibushi kicked out for a huge pop. Naito went for another Destino, it was blocked and Ibushi landed a head kick and both went down.

Ibushi hit a Bom a Ye to the back of the head and a proper version for a near fall. Naito took the Last Ride powerbomb and kicked out of that. Ibushi finally beat him with a Kamigoye.

Winner: Kota Ibushi via Pinfall to become the new IWGP Intercontinental Champion.

Spectacular match and right on par with their classic last month in the opening round of the New Japan Cup. This opens a lot of directions they can go with both individuals. Ibushi sold the magnitude of the title victory by clutching the championship and treated it as a major accomplishment. This was great.

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ROH World Championship Three-Way Ladder Match
Matt Taven vs. Marty Scurll vs. Jay Lethal (c)

Nick Aldis joined Riccaboni and Cabana on commentary.

Lethal was placed in a tree of woe with a ladder wrapped around his head with Scurll swinging at the ladder with chair shots. Scurll climbed the ladder with his umbrella to retrieve the title and was cut off by Taven.

Scurll was on the ladder and Lethal applied a figure-four through the rungs as Taven began to climb and forced Lethal to relinquish the hold.

A ladder was set up horizontally on the aisle, Taven lifted Lethal off the apron and drove him through it with a running powerbomb.

Scurll called for the chicken wing and was kicked low by Taven, who the audience hated. Taven avoided his fingers being snapped and landed a spinning neck breaker to Scurll onto the ladder. They climbed a ladder in the corner and Scurll hit a superplex to Taven.

Lethal climbed and reached, Scurll came from behind and applied the chicken wing on top of the ladder. Lethal was sent down, Taven climbed and had his fingers snapped. He knocked down Scurll but couldn’t grab the title because of his fingers.

Lethal Injection was hit to Scurll after Taven was dropped onto two ladders criss-crossing. The ladders were joined and formed an “X”, Lethal dumped the contraption to the floor and it appeared to hit a fan in the front row. Officials checked on him and he appeared to be okay and remained in his seat.

Taven speared Scurll off the apron and through a table on the floor.

Lethal set up a gigantic ladder on the floor with Taven set up on a table below it. Lethal climbed and hit the elbow drop off the ladder onto Taven.

Taven introduced a large purple ladder as Scurll and Lethal fought on the regularly sized one in the ring. Lethal and Scurll were dropped onto ladders attached to the purple one. Taven climbed with Lethal up the purple one. Taven hit Lethal with the title and he fell onto the ladder back first. Taven grabbed the title and won the match.

Winner: Matt Taven to become the new ROH World Champion.

Taven was really over as a heel throughout the match, they worked super-hard but it was a long match this late in the show with the main event still to come. Taven and Lethal felt like the focal points of the match while trying to incorporate Scurll throughout.

The Kingdom came down and celebrated with Taven.

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IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White (c)

White hit a snap suplex sending Okada into the guardrail early in the match. White generated a lot of heat and played to it effectively. It led to a prolonged period of White in control until Okada fired back for his comeback. Okada placed White on the turnbuckle and dropkicked him to the floor. Okada proceeded to toss White and Gedo over the guardrail and leaped over taking both down with a flying crossbody.

Okada hit the top rope elbow and called for the Rainmaker as the audience roared. White sent Okada over the top and dumped onto the edge of the apron. Back in the ring, Okada cut off White and hit a tombstone. Okada finally landed the big dropkick, and everyone cheered. He then hit a follow up one and White ducked the Rainmaker.

Okada blocked the Blade Runner, Okada dropkicked him in the back of his head, Okada avoided another Blade Runner and landed the spinning Rainmaker. He lifted White and hit the proper Rainmaker and White kicked out. Everyone bit.

White recovered and hit the Blade Runner.

Gedo distracted Red Shoes and White hit Okada low.

Okada made his comeback, it climaxed with the Rainmaker countered to the Blade Runner, but Okada countered that with a tombstone and hit the final Rainmaker to win.

Winner: Kazuchika Okada via Pinfall to become the new IWGP Heavyweight Champion.