NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2024 Notes: Grizzled Young Vets Wins Strong Tag Titles, Hazuki vs. Mercedes Mone for NJPW Strong Women’s Title Set for Strong Style Evolved 2024, Jack Perry & Jon Moxley Appears & Issues Challenges for Wrestle Dynasty

Grizzled Young Veterans Wins NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Titles at Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2024

Friday’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2024 event in Lowell, Massachusetts featured the Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake & Zack Gibson) defeating TMDK (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls) to become the new NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions.

This was Grizzled Young Veterans first ever NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship victory in their NJPW careers.


Hazuki vs. Mercedes Mone for NJPW Strong Women’s Title Set for NJPW Strong Style Evolved 2024

Friday’s NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2024 event also featured Hazuki defeating Trish Adora, Anna Jay, and Koguma in a #1 Contender Four-way match for the NJPW Strong Women’s Championship.

Following the match, Mercedes Mone made a surprise in-person appearance and confronted Hazuki. This led to a brawl breaking out and ended with Mone laying out Hazuki and posed with her NJPW Strong Women’s title.

As a result of her victory, Hazuki will officially face off against Mone for the NJPW Strong Women’s title at NJPW’s Strong Style Evolved 2024 event, which takes place on December 15th at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, California.


Jack Perry & Jon Moxley Make Surprise Appearances at Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2024 & Issue Challenges for Matches at Wrestle Dynasty

Friday’s NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2024 event also featured Jack Perry and Jon Moxley making surprise appearances and issuing challenges for matches at AEW x NJPW Wrestle Dynasty, which takes place on January 5, 2025 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.

Following Los Ingobernables De Japon’s Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji victory over Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett), the lights went out and a video aired on the big screen featuring a mysterious person. When the light came back on, this mystery person was revealed to be Perry who attacked Tsuji. Perry then grabbed a microphone and challenged Tsuji to a match at Wrestle Dynasty.

Later in the show, Tomohiro Ishii & Shota Umino defeated TMDK (Bad Dude Tito & Zack Sabre Jr.) in a tag team match. Similar to LIJ’s victory earlier, Ishii & Umino’s victory celebration was interrupted by a video airing on the big screen revealing Moxley. Moxley talked about his disappointment of late with Umino and challenged Umino to a match involving an “emissary” sent by him for Wrestle Dynasty. After the video ended, Umino accepted the challenge and denounced his association with Moxley.