New Japan Pro Wrestling - The New Beginning in Nagoya 1/30/2021

New Japan Pro Wrestling - The New Beginning in Nagoya 1/30/2021

I'm just doing the top 3 matches here. The other two are short pointless tags.

Loser can't use the Mongolian Chop - Great O'Khan vs Hiroyoshi Tenzan

Khan charges at Tenzan during his entrance and they brawl in the entrance walkway. Khan hits some mongolian chops then Tenzan hits some. Khan then chops the back of Tenzan's head. Khan takes control and works on his neck. Khan sits on Tenzan's neck in the corner. Tenzan makes a comeback with a spin kick and hits some mongolian chops. Tenzan came off the top and dug a knee into Khan's neck as they landed then did a second rope mongolian chop.

They hit each other with mongolian chops at the same time and Tenzan lariated him. Tenzan put on the anaconda vice and slammed him with it. Tenzan went for a moonsault from the top but Khan moved. Khan hit a bicycle kick. Khan hit more mongolian chops, then he hit a TTD for a 2. Khan then hit a claw slam and won. This went longer than it needed to and the lack of crowd hurt it a lot. I have no idea why Khan won this when his mongolian chops suck and the chops are most of Tenzan's offense. I gurantee Tenzan will keep doing the chops and this will be forgotten soon.

No DQ - Will Opseray vs Satoshi Kojima

They get started at the bell and Kojim goes into the rails. Will uses a cookie sheet over Koji's head then Koji back body dropped Will onto a trash can. Koji tries to plancha Will, but Will moves then diving elbows him from the apron. Will rams a ladder into Koji's head. Will bridges a ladder over the apron and rails and kicks it into Koji's gut.

Will does a cool spin into a backbreaker. Will ends up getting hiptossed into a chair then gets machine gun chops in the corner. Koji puts a chair on Will then drops an elbow off the top onto it. Koji hit some forearms then a spinning forearm but Will came back with his rope handspring corkscrew kick.

Will set up a table on the outside. Will hits a springboard forearm on Koji then backdrops him for 2. Will find a guitar under the ring and is DDT'd before he could use it at 10 minutes. Koji then hits him with a guitar shot. A table gets set up in the corner and Will eats a Koji cutter. Will ends up powerbomb Koji through the table in the corner then Os cutters him for a 2 count only.

Will chairs him in the back then goes up top. Koji lariats him and he goes off the top onto the ladder bridged across the apron and rail. Koji brings him back in and brainbusters him on chairs for 2. Will goes for an Os Cutter but gets lariated in the back. Will throws a chair at Koji and elbows him in the face then hits a stormbreaker and wins it. This just didn't have the hate or the blood that something like this should have had and it went too long.

NEVER Openweight Championship - Shingo Takagi (c) vs Hiroshi Tanahashi
Not too much happens early until Shingo grabs Tana by the hair and throws him down. Then they do a stare down after Tana headscissors him. Shingo combos him with chops and punches in the corner. Shingo knocks over Tana with a shoulder then lariats him over the top.

Shingo drops Tana's head and neck onto the apron then DDT's him on the floor. Shingo starts holding his knee and suplexes Tana for 2 in the ring. Shingo climbs up the buckles and back elbows Tana from the top for 2 at 10 minutes. Shingo tries to knee Tana but Tana catches the knee and dragon screws him. Shingo doesn't sell it and hits a sliding lariat, then Tana does the legwhip again to him. Tana hits a flying forearm then does a sommersault senton from the 2nd rope for 2. They wrestle on the apron and Shingo comes back in but gets his knee dropkicked while he is stuck in the ropes. Tana high fly flows Shingo off the top to the floor.

Shingo tries to get back in and is dragon screwed over the middle rope at 15 minutes. Shingo ends up hitting a twist and shout then does it again. Shingo sliding lariats him. Then Shingo tries kicking him but Tana catches it and dropkicks his knee. Shingo gets back up then chopblocks Tana and jumps on Tana's knee. Tana is put on the middle buckle, then Shingo ties up one of his legs in the ropes and dragon screws the other. Tana tries to get up but is lariated down then powerbombed. Shingo then turns it into a single leg boston crab.

Shingo goes for Made in Japan, but Tana knocks him over then does double dragon screws. Shingo tries to go up top but Tana reverse dragon screws him down. Tana then puts him in a high cloverleaf. Tana hits a high fly flow while Shingo was down then does it again, but Shingo moves. Shingo wheelbarrow german's Tana into the buckles.  Shingo then dragon suplexes him and hits a lariat. Shingo then hits a disgusting made in Japan. Shingo goes for something but gets two twist and shouts. Tana hit a sling blade. He went for a high fly flow but Shingo caught it and death valley drivered him.

Shingo puts Tana in a dragon sleeper, then Tana hits the ropes but he hits like a slice over his knee on Tana at 30 minutes. Shingo hits a big lariat. Shingo hits anothr lariat on Tana and slaps his head around then hits combo forearms. Tana hits a headbutt an Tana no sells a dragon suplex then is hit with a slingblade. They hit each other with lariats at the same time then Shingo lariats him. Tana hits a slingvlade then a high fly flow and a dragon screw for at 35 minutes. Tana then high fly flows him for the win. I wasn't into this one. It went way too long and Shingo was just not on board for the story at all along with the no selling.