NJPW Power Struggle Match Times
Here’s how long the bouts went at ‘Power Struggle’…
New Japan Pro Wrestling presented their ‘Power Struggle’ show this morning from Osaka and there were nine matches that took place with three of those being for championships. The finals of the 2018 Super Junior Tag League commenced and concluded, the civil war between Bullet Club and ‘CHAOS’ rolled on, Chris Jericho’s stranglehold on the IWGP Intercontinental Championship remained intact and Kenny Omega and Hiroshi Tanahashi met in the ring once again before their IWGP Heavyweight Championship clash at Wrestle Kingdom 13. The following will be the times that each of the matches during today’s show went for and the longest on the card was the main event:
1) Ryusuke Taguchi, Chris Sabin, ACH & Toa Henare def. Jyushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask, Volador Jr. & Soberano Jr. 6:10
2) Bullet Club (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa and Robbie Eagles) def. Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & KUSHIDA 7:39
3) Kazuchika Okada and Beretta def. Jay White & Bad Luck Fale 4:32
4) Golden Lovers (Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi) def. Hiroshi Tanahashi & David Finlay 9:47
5) Super Junior Tag Team Tournament Finals – Three Way – Roppongi 3K (SHO and YOH) def. Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado and BUSHI and Shingo Takagi 15:55
6) NEVER Openweight Championship – Hirooki Goto def. Taichi (c) 15:02
7) RPW British Heavyweight Championship – Tomohiro Ishii (c) def. Minoru Suzuki 19:21
8) Tetsuya Naito def. Zack Sabre Jr. 20:12
9) IWGP Intercontinental Championship – Chris Jericho (c) def. EVIL 21:40
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