Honor Rising: Japan 2019

Honor Rising: Japan 2019 was a two-day professional wrestling supershow event co-produced by the Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and the American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotions. The shows took place on February 22 and 23, 2019, at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan and were streamed live on NJPW World.

Honor Rising: Japan 2019
PromotionNew Japan Pro-Wrestling
Ring of Honor
DateFebruary 22, 2019
February 23, 2019
CityTokyo, Japan
VenueKorakuen Hall
Event chronology
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Continuing the partnership between NJPW and ROH, these will be the fourth annual Honor Rising: Japan shows.

Storylines
Other on-screen personnel
Role: Name:
Commentators Chris Charlton (English-language announcer)
Don Callis (English-language announcer)
Kevin Kelly (English-language announcer)
Ring announcers Makoto Abe
Referees Kenta Sato
Marty Asami
Red Shoes Unno
Tiger Hattori

Honor Rising: Japan 2019 will feature professional wrestling matches, involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines that play out on ROH's and NJPW's television programs. Wrestlers portray villains or heroes as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[1]

Matches

Night 1
No. Results[2] Stipulations Times
1 Marty Scurll defeated Ren Narita by submission Singles match 11:33
2 Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Shota Umino by submission Singles match 13:56
3 Jyushin Thunder Liger and Jonathan Gresham defeated Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori and Robbie Eagles) Tag team match 5:27
4 LifeBlood (Juice Robinson and David Finlay), Tomoaki Honma and Toa Henare defeated The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) and Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) Eight-man tag team match 12:14
5 Taguchi Japan (Togi Makabe, Toru Yano and Ryusuke Taguchi) (c) defeated Colt Cabana, Delirious and Cheeseburger Six-man tag team match for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship 10:16
6 Will Ospreay (c) defeated Dalton Castle Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship 17:30
7 Jeff Cobb (c) defeated Hirooki Goto Singles match for the ROH World Television Championship 13:52
8 Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada and Jay Lethal defeated The Kingdom (Matt Taven, TK O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) Six-man tag team match 14:10
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 2
No. Results[3] Stipulations Times
1 Jonathan Gresham and Toa Henare defeated Suzuki-gun (Zack Sabre Jr. and Taka Michinoku) by submission Tag team match 12:20
2 Marty Scurll defeated Robbie Eagles by submission Singles match 8:55
3 Toru Yano and Colt Cabana defeated Delirious and Cheeseburger Tag team match 10:09
4 Chaos (Hirooki Goto and Will Ospreay) defeated Jeff Cobb and Dalton Castle Tag team match 11:45
5 Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito and Shingo Takagi) defeated The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Vinny Marseglia) Tag team match 11:50
6 Jay Lethal (c) defeated TK O'Ryan Singles match for the ROH World Championship 10:52
7 Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon (Evil and Sanada) (c) Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship 20:26
8 The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) (c) defeated LifeBlood (Juice Robinson and David Finlay) Tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship 17:13
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

See also

References
  1. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  2. "Honor Rising: Japan 2019". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  3. "Honor Rising: Japan 2019". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
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