NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed Review: Tama Tonga vs. Shingo Takagi [FREE]

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🗓️ 29 October 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Bruce Lord and Karen Peterson wrap up October with a review of NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed featuring Tama Tonga defending his NEVER Openweight Championship against Shingo Takagi.

Plus: All three NJPW STRONG Championships are defended, next month’s Lonestar Shootout card comes together, and SANADA & Yuya Uemura take on Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi in a Wrestle Kingdom 18 teaser.

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NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed

October 28, 2023

Las Vegas, Nevada

Sam’s Town Hotel & Gambling Hall

NEVER Openweight Championship: Tama Tonga (c) vs. Shingo Takagi
SANADA & Yuya Uemura vs. Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi
NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship: Eddie Kingston © vs. HENARE
NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team Championship: ELP & Hikuleo © vs. Lance Archer & Alex Zayne
NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship: Giulia © vs. Hyan
Atlantis’ 40th Anniversary Match: Atlantis, Atlantis Jr., Hiroshi Tanahashi, & Mistico vs. Adrian Quest, Rocky Romero, Soberano Jr., & Tiger Mask IV
Tom Lawlor vs. Gabe Kidd
CMLL Lucha Rules Tag Match: Stephanie Vaquer & Zeuxis vs. Lluvia & Johnnie Robbie
NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship #1 Contender 4-Way Match: Satoshi Kojima vs. Fred Rosser vs. Jeff Cobb vs. Alex Coughlin
Pre-Show
NJPW STRONG Survivor Match: Matt Vandagriff vs. Buck Skynyr
6-Man Tag: Danny Limelight, Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs vs. Baliyan Akki, Jakob Austin Young & Titus Alexander

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Here's a sample of a free podcast from the Post Wrestling Cafe.
0:03.9	Six dollars gets you through the door at Post Wrestling Cafe.com.
0:09.1	Hello and welcome to Post Wrestling's review of New Japan Pro Wrestling's Fighting Spirit
0:14.2	Unleashed Card, which happened yesterday in Las Vegas.
0:18.0	My name is Bruce Lorde and for those of you who are getting this review on the free post
0:22.1	wrestling feed, you may not be aware that I have been doing reviews of New Japan shows
0:26.6	for Post Cafe Patrons with my co-host pretty much every week or every other week for the
0:32.1	past two months.
0:34.1	Karen Peterson, much like Batman and the Joker, much like El Generico and Kevin Steen,
0:38.8	I think that you and I are destined to do this forever, or at least until forces larger
0:42.9	than us, namely John Pollock or Gato, say otherwise.
0:46.7	Karen, how are you doing?
0:48.2	What's happening down in Florida right now?
0:50.3	The autumn cut keeps trying to creep in, but then in the middle of the day, it's also hot
0:55.2	as summer here again, so you know, I'm glad I'm in the air conditioning.
0:59.7	I am ready to talk some New Japan, but yes, for those who have followed the New Japan
1:05.1	reviews, you and I have been meeting very frequently in the last couple of months and there's
1:10.6	no sign of it stopping anytime soon, apparently.
1:13.1	No, we'll be back next week.
1:15.7	And apparently every week, it's the hotel California or the hotel Sam's Place in Las Vegas
1:21.5	or whatever where you can check out or you can check in, but you can't check out.
1:24.7	We can't ever leave.
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