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Title: TNA Goes to Japan
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Viceroy Virus - December 18, 2007 06:57 AM (GMT)
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On January 4, the stars of Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling are traveling to Japan to face the stars of New Japan Pro Wrestling at a huge event at the famous Tokyo Dome.

The footage of the event will be broadcast as part of a TNA/SpikeTV "Global iMPACT!" special on Thursday, January 17 at 11pm ET!

Encores will air Friday, January 18 at 9am ET and Saturday, January 19 at 2pm ET.

Led by Olympic Gold Medalist and current TNA World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle, TNA is set to unleash the beast in the "Land of the Rising Sun" as a team of its superstars set off to declare "Global Warning!" on New Japan Pro Wrestling.

Angle, who is New Japan's IWGP World Champion, is set to defend both titles against New Japan Pro Wrestling superstar Yugi Nagata.

This is a rare opportunity for American fans to not only witness the top wrestling talent from Japan in action on SpikeTV, but to see them compete against the superstars of Total Nonstop Action!

Other TNA vs. New Japan bouts set to take place at the January 4 event in Tokyo include:

TNA's Steiner Brothers vs. IWGP Tag Team Champions Tomko & Giant Bernard

TNA's Abyss vs. New Japan's Manabu Nakanishi

TNA's Team 3D vs. New Japan's Toru Yano & Togi Makabe

TNA's Christian Cage, AJ Styles & Petey Williams vs. New Japan's Minoru, Prince Devitt and Milano Collection AT

Don't miss the TNA vs. New Japan "Global iMPACT!" special on SpikeTV on Thursday, January 17!

SamoaRowe - December 18, 2007 12:08 PM (GMT)
Hey, now that's something I'd actually want to watch.

C'mon, Viceroy, let's force our girlfriends to watch this with us!

dynamite kido - December 18, 2007 03:21 PM (GMT)
Although I'm not too hot on some of the matchups I'm REALLY interested in that Angle/Yuji match.

Viceroy Virus - January 5, 2008 06:57 PM (GMT)
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- A.J. Styles, Christian Cage & Petey Williams defeated RISE (Milano Collection AT, Minoru & Prince Devitt) (10:25)

- NJPW IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Match Wataru Inoue defeated 'The Fallen Angel' Christopher Daniels (10:17)

- Manabu Nakanishi defeated Abyss (6:00)

- Katsushi Takemura, Masato Tanaka, Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Yutaka Yoshie defeated Koji Kanemoto, Ryusuke Taguchi, Takashi Iizuka & Tiger Mask IV (8:36)

- Team 3D (Brother Devon & Brother Ray) defeated Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Toru Yano) in a hardcore match (13:12)

- Legend (Jushin 'Thunder' Liger, Masahiro Chono, Riki Choshu & Tatsumi Fujinami) defeated Voodoo Murders (Shuji Kondo, TARU & 'brother' YASSHI), Gedo & Jado (7:18)

- The Great Muta defeated Hirooki Goto (13:04)

- NJPW IWGP Tag Team Champions Giant Bernard & Travis Tomko defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner) (12:50)

- IGF IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle defeated Yuji Nagata (18:29)

- Shinsuke Nakamura defeated NJPW IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the title (23:08) Angle vs. Nakamura in a unification title match is rumored for the February Sumo Hall NJPW show.


:sigh: The shortest match was Abyss being beat in six-minutes.

Wait, which promotion was Daniels "representing," seeing he was "released" by TNA? Umm..."air quotes". Well, I would suspect al of this will make sense when this is aired. ...Maybe.

Big F'N Swigg - January 19, 2008 05:11 AM (GMT)
Did anyone catch the show last night? It was probably the best show TNA's put on in about a year, though it really emphasized what I hate about Kurt Angle

Mad Dog - January 19, 2008 05:41 AM (GMT)
Thank New Japan for it being a good show. They've been on fire booking wise for about 17 months now. Say what you want about Lesnar but him flaking on New Japan was the best thing to ever happen to the company. They really woke up and started doing everything right with that event.




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