Windy City Riot Review: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Konosuke Takeshita [FREE SHOW]

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🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Karen Peterson and Bruce Lord review NJPW Windy City Riot at the Wintrust Arena with Hiroshi Tanahashi bidding America farewell in his final U.S match against Konosuke Takeshita and Hirooki Goto defending the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against Shota Umino.

Plus: Zane Jay heads to Japan to prepare for his debut. Shirakawa vs. AZM ends in a double countout. Ishii dethrones Kidd in Sudden Death. Young Bucks issue a challenge to The War Dogs for Resurgence (and they’re not arriving outnumbered). Takeshita and ELP bump heads at the show’s end.

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NJPW Windy City Riot 2025

April 11, 2025

Wintrust Arena, Chicago, Illinois

Hiroshi Tanahashi’s Final USA Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. KONOSUKE TAKESHITA - Recommended
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Shota Umino
David Finlay vs. Zack Sabre, Jr. - Recommended
El Phantasmo & Rocky Romero vs. Tetsuya Naito & Titán
NJPW STRONG Openweight Championship Ironman Match: Gabe Kidd (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii - Recommended
NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Championships: World Class Wrecking Crew (c) vs. Intergalactic Jetsetters
NJPW STRONG Women’s Number One Contender’s Match: Mina Shirakawa vs. AZM
TJP vs. Tom Lawlor
Kickoff: STRONG SURVIVOR Match: Zane Jay (NJPW STRONG SURVIVOR) vs. CJ Tino

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0:00.0	This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel, and you get live editions of Rewind a raw,
0:06.3	rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown, featuring all the news of the day, your questions
0:11.1	and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door.
0:17.3	Hello and welcome to Post Wrestling's review of New Japan Pro Wrestling's Windy City Riot Card, which happened last night at the Wind Trust Arena in Chicago,
0:26.0	headlined by the Ace of New Japan, Hiroshi Tanahashi's final match in the United States and featuring Hiroki Goto's fourth defense of the IWGPWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
0:35.7	My name is Bruce Lord, and I'm joined as I always am for these New Japan reviews by the
0:41.0	Irrepressible Karen Peterson.
0:42.3	Karen, it's only been a week since you and I were reviewing Securigenesis behind the
0:47.5	Post Cafe Paywall, but here we are now on the free feed, and Lord knows a lot can happen
0:52.1	in a week these days.
0:53.7	Anything happening shares you and Zelda over the last last year. free feed, and Lord knows a lot can happen in a week these days. Anything, anything happening,
0:55.3	Shiz, you and Zelda over the last week or so. Well, I was on MCU later earlier in the week,
1:02.1	which is supposed to be behind the paywall, but it accidentally got live recorded for free,
1:06.6	but it's back behind the paywall now. Kayfabe. No, no, no no. No. That was just... Transparency. We had a blurb.
1:13.3	We also did Post-Pro Res. W.H. Park, which is now also available over at the cafe.
1:19.8	And just between you, me, and Zelda, my parents are visiting this weekend.
1:23.9	So they're trying to be very quiet off camera. And no, you're not getting
1:30.5	content Peterson's parents for free. They are not going to be on the feed today. But other than
1:36.0	that, I mean, you know, we're winding down to you going on vacation. So it's the,
1:42.1	the countdown is on. I got to say goodbye to Tata Hashi. I got to say goodbye to you for a short
1:47.0	period of time. That's just a month. I don't even know. I'm not even sure what shows. I'll still be
1:53.0	here for Dundaku and I think for resurgence. I believe I don't even know what I'll be missing
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