NJPW Resurgence 2024 Results – May 11, 2024 – Jon Moxley vs. Shota Umino

May 11, 2024
Ontario, California – Toyota Arena
English Commentary: Ian Riccaboni and Veda Scott

Quick Match Results

1. Pre-show: Matt Vandagriff defeated Adrian Quest via Running Knee Strike (pinfall 4:27)
2. Pre-show: Mustafa Ali defeated Lio Rush via Pinfall (6:27)
   • Near the end of the match, Ali caught Rush in a backslide pin and put his feet on the ropes while the referee was not looking for the pinfall victory.
   • Following the match, Rush argued with the referee over Ali cheating to win while Ali denied that happened. This led to a brief brawl between the two that ended with Rush giving a black mist attack to Ali sending him out of the ring. Rush started to laugh over what he did to Ali.
3. House of Torture (Jack Perry, Ren Narita, & EVIL) defeated The DKC, Rocky Romero, & Tomohiro Ishii via Everything Is Evil (pinfall 11:29)
   • Near the end of the match, Perry choked out Ishhi with a cord while Narita held back The DKC with his weight bar leading to EVIL hitting an Everything Is Evil to Romero to give HoT the victory.
4. West Coast Wrecking Crew (Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs) defeated “Filthy” Tom Lawlor & Fred Rosser via Top Rope Elbow Drop (pinfall 11:54)
   • Nelson pinned Lawlor after Isaacs hit a piledriver to Lawlor and Nelson followed it up with a top rope elbow drop to give the victory to the WCWC.
5. NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship – Guerillas of Destiny (El Phantasmo and Hikuleo) defeated TMDK (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls) (c) via Super Thunder Kiss ’86 (pinfall 10:17)
   • El Phantasmo pinned Haste after hitting a Super Thunder Kiss ’86 off of Hikuleo’s shoulders for the NJPW Strong Openweight Tag titles victory.
6. NJPW Strong Women’s Championship – Stephanie Vaquer (c) defeated Alex Windsor via Package Neckbreaker (pinfall 10:53)
7. Yota Tsuji & Tetsuya Naito defeated KENTA & David Finlay via Destino (pinfall 14:45)
   • Naito pinned KENTA after hitting a Destino to give LIJ the victory.
8. Zack Sabre Jr. defeating Hiroshi Tananashi via Zack Driver (pinfall 12:12)
9. NJPW World Television Championship – Jeff Cobb (c) defeated Lance Archer via Tour of the Islands (pinfall 11:35)
   • Near the end of the match, Archer attempted a rope walk ax handle smash while clutching on Cobb’s wrist. This led to Cobb catching Archer and hitting a Tour of the Islands for the victory to retain his NJPW World TV title.
   • Following the match, Tomohiro Ishii came out to the ring and issued a challenge for Cobb’s title, which Cobb accepted.
10. NEVER Openweight Championship – Shingo Takagi (c) defeated Yuya Uemura via Pumping Bomber (pinfall 21:00)
    • Prior to the start of the match, a video aired on the big screen revealing HENARE making his surprise on-screen return from injury. HENARE called out Uemura and Takagi stating that he is the next challenger to who ever of the two is the NEVER Openweight Champion after tonight.
11. NJPW Strong Openweight Championship No Ropes Last Man Standing match – Gabe Kidd defeated Eddie Kingston (c) via Knockout (20:19)
    • Following the match, Kingston was given medical attention over the scary looking finish to the match that involved Kingston’s legs crashing very hard into and whiplashing off the barricade. After some treatment, Kingston managed to stand up and got into the ring as Jack Perry came out to confront Kingston. This turned out to be a ruse by Perry to distract Kingston long enough for the Young Bucks to run out from the crowd and attacked Kingston. The Young Bucks grabbed a microphone and proceeded to insult Kingston, their hometown of Ontario, and the crowd. The Young Bucks then hit an EVP Trigger to Kingston laying him out again and walked away to the back but not before Nicholas Jackson got involved in some antics with a fan in the crowd. Kingston was seen being helped out of the ring and to the back afterwards as the ring crew put the ropes back up for the main event match.
12. IWGP World Heavyweight Championship – Jon Moxley (c) defeated Shota Umino via Death Rider (pinfall 34:18)
    • Following the match, Moxley went up to Umino and shook his hand in respect of their hard fought match. While Moxley was occupied with Umino, House of Torture’s EVIL & Ran Narita ran out and attacked Moxley and Umino. EVIL then grabbed a microphone and challenged Moxley for his IWGP World title only to change his mind and claimed he was the real champion and Moxley needed to challenge him. EVIL grabbed the IWGP World title and spray painted it black before tossing it onto the ground. EVIL stood over Moxley before leaving with Narita.