NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors Night 12 Results – May 28, 2023
Location: Tokyo Japan
Venue: Ota City General Gymnasium
Tag Team Match
Togi Makabe & Boltin Oleg vs. Yuto Nakashima & Oskar Leube
Boltin Oleg & Oskar Leube traded forearm shots then Yuto Nakashima battles with Togi Makabe then Leube hits a leg drop on Makabe then Nakashima locks Makabe in the Boston Crab but he makes it to the ropes. Makabe hits King Kong Knee Drop on Nakashima to get the win.
Winners: Togi Makabe & Boltin Oleg (6:37)
Rate: 6
Clark Connors vs. Ryohei Oiwa
Clark Connors hits a shoulder tackle that sent Ryohei Oiwa to the floor and they brawled on the floor then back in the ring Connors drops Oiwa with a forearm then he locks in full nelson.
Connors set up for the spear but Oiwa caught him with a dropkick then he hits a gutwrench suplex for a near fall before Connors hits the Spear then No Chaser puts away Oiwa.
Winner: Clark Connors (5:18)
Rate: 5
Tag Team Match
Chaos (Lio Rush & Yoh) vs. TMDK (Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita)
Lio Rush & Robbie Eagles starts this match then Yoh entered to face Kosei Fujita and Yoh hits a basement dropkick on the knee. Eagles & Rush got back in and traded offense. Rush misses Final Hour and Eagles locks in Ron Miller Special but Yoh made the save.
Fujita got an O’Connor Roll on Rush for a near fall then Rush connects with Final Hour on Fujita for the victory.
Winners: Chaos (9:12)
Rate: 7
10 Man Tag Team Match
Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Jett Setters (Kushida & Kevin Knight), TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) & Yuji Nagata vs. United Empire (TJP, Francesco Akira, Great O Khan, Aaron Henare & Dan Moloney)
Yuji Nagata & Great O Khan starts this match then Kevin Knight & TJP enters then Dan Moloney beat up Knight. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Aaron Henare traded forearms before Tenzan locks in Anaconda Vice before Henare got to the ropes.
TJP & Francesco Akira hit simultaneous planchas to the floor then Henare hits Rampage on Tenzan then goes for the cover but Nagata made the save then Henare nails Tenzan with Streets Of Rage to get the win for United Empire.
Winners: United Empire (12:50)
Rate: 6
6 Man Tag Team Match
Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Yoshi Hashi & Toru Yano) vs. House Of Torture (Evil, Yujiro Takahashi & Sho)
Chaos & House Of Torture brawl at the bell and it spills to the floor then Toru Yano enters the match and immediately removes a ring corner pad but Sho stomps on Yano. Sho got his wrench but Hirooki Goto blocks it then Dick Togo interfered and chokes Goto with his wire then Evil throws Great O Khan & Aaron Henare in the ring then all 3 teams brawl & the ref calls for the bell.
Winners: No One (No Contest) (9:07)
Rate: 3
After the match Great O Khan got on the mic and said that the IWGP Tag Team & Strong Openweight Tag Team Titles belong to the Empire. Yoshi Hashi accepts the challenge.
8 Man Tag Team Match
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champions Chaos (Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii) & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Strong Style (El Desperado & Ren Narita), Shota Umino & Mike Bailey
Mike Bailey & Ryusuke Taguchi starts the match off then Tomohiro Ishii enters and hits a double clothesline then we get some comedy with Taguchi & Ishii as he ignores a fist bump offer. Ishii hits a suplex on El Desperado. Desperado hits a back suplex on Hiroshi Tanahashi then a spinebuster on Ishii.
Shota Umino tags in and hit a diving forearm on Taguchi but Umino once again hits Kazuchika Okada as he was standing on the ring apron then Umino locks Tanahashi in an STF but Okada made the save. Okada & Umino are in the ring with Okada locking in Money Clip. Umino hits a suplex then a running back elbow and a slingshot DDT on Okada then Ren Narita makes the blind tag.
Okada hits a flapjack on Narita then Taguchi tags in and he hits some flying butt bumps, and he locks Oh My & Garankle on Narita then Bailey enters and hits Speedball Kicks to Taguchi’s ribs. Bailey hit a series of kicks on Tanahashi then a 2nd rope missile dropkick on Tanahashi. Bailey nails the Triangle Moonsault to the floor on Tanahashi.
Meanwhile in the ring Desperado hits a spear on Ishii. Narita hits a northern lights suplex on Taguchi for a near fall then on the floor Umino threw a table at Okada then in the ring, Narita hits an enzuigiri follow by a northern lights suplex before he locks Taguchi in the Cobra Twist for the submission win.
Winners By Submission: Strong Style, Shota Umino & Mike Bailey (12:47)
Rate: 7
After the match Umino got on the mic & he announced his other partner will be Claudio Castagnoli.
8 Man Tag Team Match
Just 4 Guys (IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Sanada, KOPW 2023 Champion Taichi, Douki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) vs. Los Ingobernables De Japon (Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi, Bushi & Tetsuya Naito)
LIJ attacks Just 4 Guys at the bell then Hiromu Takahashi & Taichi squared off in the ring then Sanada enters then Taichi & Shingo Takagi traded clotheslines.
Douki barreled through the ropes onto Tetsuya Naito on the floor then in the ring Douki hits Daybreak on Naito for a near fall then Douki got some roll ups for near falls on Naito then Naito hits Destino on Douki for the win.
Winners: Los Ingobernables De Japon (11:48)
Rate: 7
Finals Of The 2023 Best Of The Super Juniors
Block B Winner 2 Master Wato vs. Block A Winner 2 Titan
Match starts off with Master Wato rolls Titan down to the mat then we get a double dropkick standoff before Titan connects with a lucha armdrag but Wato cartwheels free as he returned with a Tijeras & that takes Titan to the outside for a delayed plancha before they return to the ring.
A low dropkick from Titan spins Wato down ahead of a cross kneebar that ended almost instantly in the ropes. Titan follows up with a Trailer Hitch & Wato gets a break in the ropes but Titan is able to pull ahead by outsmarting Wato and taking him outside only to get his dive cut off with a kick. Wato adds a tope con giro to the mix then a springboard uppercut back into the ring before Vendeval ended in the ropes.
Titan scrambles to grab a rope to block Recientemente before some bodyscissors drags Wato to the outside for a springboard moonsault that nearly wipes out a table then returning to the ring Titan nails a tope con giro rather than take a count out win then took things back inside again to pick up a near fall.
Wato attempted to make a comeback as he lands a leaping neckbreaker but he gets instantly taken down as they trading strikes & it leads to a crucifix that Wato maneuvered into Recientemente for a near fall before rolling Titan into Vendeval that ends in the ropes as Titan struck back with a swinging DDT.
Titan measures up Wato for a through the corner clothesline while a springboard stomp to the back almost got the win that’s followed up with another Trailer Hitch but Titan switches the hold up into the Llave Inmortal with Wato just about making it to the ropes before Titan could lock that in.
An O’Connor roll from Wato gets a 2 count then he nails Tsutenkaku German Suplex only gets a near fall before Titan scores another near fall from a roll up coming out of a Mistica. Wato gets hit with barrage of kicks as Titan pulls himself up top for another double stomp.
Titan puts his feet through Wato then goes for the pin but Wato kicks out then Titan goes for the Trailer Hitch one more only to get roll up. Wato connects with a head kick, before the Tsutenkaku German suplex landed then he rolls through it into Recientemente 2 gets the win.
Winner Of The 2023 Best Of The Super Juniors: Master Wato (24:48)
Rate: 9 (Recommend)
After the match Master Wato confirms he’ll be taking his Junior Heavyweight Title shot against Hiromu Takahashi at Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-Jo Hall next week.
Matches Of The Night
Chaos vs. TMDK
Chaos, Tanahashi & Taguchi vs. Strong Style, Umino & Bailey
Just 4 Guys vs. LIJ
Finals Of The 2023 Best Of The Super Juniors
