NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors 24 Day Two Results: Ospreay/Ricochet II & Block A Tournament Action
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BOTSJ Block A Match: Will Ospreay def. Ricochet
BOTSJ Block A Match: Hiromu Takahashi def. Jushin "Thunder" Liger
BOTSJ Block A Match: Dragon Lee def. Marty Scurll
BOTSJ Block A Match: Taichi def. Taka Michinoku
Los Ingobernables (Tetsuya Naito, Sanada, Evil & Bushi) def. Juice Robinson, Satoshi Kojima, Kushida & Ryusuke Taguchi
Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi, Tama Tonga & Tonga Roa) def. David Finaly & War Machine (Raymond Rowe & Hanson)
Suzuki-Gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desparado) def. ACH & Volador Jr.
Tiger Mask IV, Hirai Kawato & Tomoyuki Oka def. Tetsuhiro Yagi, Syota Umino & Katsuya Kitamura
Match By Match Recap
Tiger Mask IV, Hirai Kawato & Tomoyuki Oka vs. Tetsuhiro Yagi, Syota Umino & Katsuya Kitamura
The match begins with a brawl breaking out between everybody in the match, Mask IV is assaulted with running dropkicks by all three members of the opposing team. Yagi attacks Mask IV with forearm strikes before missing a drop kick, Mask IV drops Kitamura with chops before kicking him in the midsection. Oka tags in and he drops Kitamura with a shoulder tackle for a near fall, Oka slams Kitamura and then cracks him with a series of forearm strikes. Oks then slams Kitamura a few times for a near fall, Oka looks for a suplex and Kitamura winds up nailing him with one, Yagi tags in and he nails Oka with strikes in the corner.
Yagi then catches Oka with a hip toss for a near fall, Yagi follows that up by slamming Oka for another near fall. Yagi and Oka get into a striking exchange in the center of the ring, Kawato gets the tag from Oka and he works over Yagi in the corner. Yagi then drops a charging Kawato with a drop kick before tagging Umino in, Umino slams Kawato for a near fall. Umino locks Kawato in a Boston crab until Mask IV breaks it all up, a brawl breaks out again between everybody in the match. Kawato drops Umino with a drop kick and he briefly locks him in a single leg crab, Kawato locks Umino in a Boston crab to force a submission.
Winners: Tiger Mask IV, Hirai Kawato & Tomoyuki Oka
Suzuki-Gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desparado) vs. ACH & Volador Jr.
The match begins with Desparado scoring a takedown on Volador Jr, the wrestlers go through a series of reversals until Desparado stomps on a downed Volador Jr. Kanemaru interferes as Volador Jr takes control to help out Deparado, Volador Jr knocks Kanemaru and Desparado out of the ring, a four way brawl then breaks out between everybody in the match. Desparado attacks ACH with a chair in the crowd, Kanemaru brings Volador Jr to the ring apron so he can assault him with strikes. Desparado gets in the ring and he gets a two count on Volador Jr, Desparado slows things down further by holding Volador Jr in a chin lock, Kanemaru tags in and he attacks ACH on the arena floor.
Desparado grabs a cell phone from somebody and he hits Volador Jr with it, Desparado tags back in and he rakes the eyes of Volador Jr. Kanemaru tags back in and he locks Volador Jr in the camel clutch, Kanemaru eventually releases the hold and Volador Jr cracks him with a super kick. ACH tags in and he cleans house on both members of the opposing team, ACH knocks Kanemaru out of the ring before attacking both members of Suzuki-Gun with suicide dives. ACH then catches Kanemaru with a slingshot ace crusher for a near fall, ACH then delivers a slap to the balls of Kanemaru. Volador Jr hits the ring and he attacks Suzuki-Gun as well, ACH and Volador Jr then hit Desparado with a series of double team moves for a near fall.
Kanemaru interferes and he knocks Volador Jr out of the ring, ACH then knocks Kanemaru out of the ring as well. ACH hits Desparado with a lariat for another near fall, Kanemaru hits ACH with a foreign object as Desparado had the referee distracted. Desparado rolls up ACH to get the three count.
Winners: Suzuki-Gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desparado)
Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi, Tama Tonga & Tonga Roa) vs. David Finaly & War Machine (Raymond Rowe & Hanson)
The match begins with a six way brawl breaking out between everybody in the match, War Machine traps Tama and Roa in the corner before crushing them with a double avalanche. War Machine looks for their finisher and Takahashi interferes to break things up, Tama and Roa double team Rowe in the ring after dumping Hanson out of it. Tama traps Rowe in the corner and he assaults him with a lot of strikes, Roa tags in and he continues the assault in the corner. Takahashi tags in and he simply chokes Rowe with his foot in the corner, Bullet Club then attack Rowe with a series of triple team maneuvers.
Rowe fights back by nailing Takahashi with a headbutt followed by a clothesline, Hanson tags in and he cleans house on the opposing team. Hanson hits Tama and Roa with a series of running clotheslines, Hanson then crushes both Tama and Roa with an avalanche on the corner. Roa recovers and he drops Hanson with a clothesline, Hanson drops Tama and he tags Finlay into the match. Takahashi hits the ring and Finlay lays him out with a drop kick, Finlay then hits Tama with a diving European uppercut for a near fall. Tama recovers by dropping a charging Finlay with a spear, Bullet Club try triple teaming Finlay until War Machine hits the ring to even things up.
Roa and Takahashi get knockout out of the ring as Hanson nails them with a suicide dive, Tama nails Finlay out of nowhere with his finisher to get the three count.
Winners: Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi, Tama Tonga & Tonga Roa)
More action on Page Two…
Los Ingobernables (Tetsuya Naito, Sanada, Evil & Bushi) vs. Juice Robinson, Satoshi Kojima, Kushida & Ryusuke Taguchi
The match begins with a huge brawl breaking out between everybody in the match, Naito traps Robinson in the ropes while pulling on his hair. Bushi takes his shirt of and he chokes Kushida with it on the arena floor, Evil hts the ring to double team Robinson with Naito. Robinson drops Evil and Naito with a running cross body block, Robinson then hits Naito with a senton bomb before tagging Taguchi in. Taguchi starts attacking Naito with a series of hip attacks, Naito is then quadruple teamed by all og his opponents. Naito is then propelled into the behind of Taguchi, another brawl breaks out between everybody in the match.
Evil grabs Kojima and he throws him into the ring post, Bushi and Naito double team Taguchi inside of the ring. Sanada tags in and he traps Taguchi in the ropes before nailing him with a baseball slide drop kick, Evil hits the ring and he double teams Taguchi with Sanada. Taguchi is eventually quadruple teamed by all four members of the opposing team, Taguchi drops Evil with a suplex before tagging Kojima in. Kojima quickly attacks his opponents with his patented chops in the corner, Sanada slows Kojima down by nailing him with a low blow. Kojima recovers to hit Sanada and Evil with dragon screw leg whips, Evil lays out Kojima with a super kick after getting the referee involved in the action.
Bushi tags in and Kojima quickly nails him with an ace crusher, Kushida tags in and he immediately drops Evil with a handstand kick. Kushida then catches Bushi with a hip toss into a drop kick, Kushida then starts working over the arm of Bushi. Naito hits the ring and Kushida quickly knocks him out of it, Kushida locks Bushi in an arm bar until Sanada breaks it up. The wrestlers all take turns dropping each other until everybody goes down, Kushida then soccer kicks the injured arm of Bushi. Bushi then rolls up Kushida out of nowhere to get the three count.
Winners: Los Ingobernables (Tetsuya Naito, Sanada, Evil & Bushi)
BOTSJ Block A Match: Taichi vs Taka Michinoku
The match begins with the two wrestlers stalling and having an incredibly long stare down, the two start swinging at each other and they miss everything. Michinoku kicks the middle rope into the crotch of Taichi as he was returning to the ring, Taichi eventually does the same thing to Michinoku. Taichi then removes the turnbuckle pad from the corner as Michinoku recovers, Taichi eventually sends a charging Michinoku into the exposed corner. Taichi then goes for a super kick and claims to have injured his knee, Taichi kicks Michinoku low as the referee is distracted and rolls him up for the three count.
Winner: Taichi
BOTSJ Block A Match: Dragon Lee vs. Marty Scurll
The match begins with Scurll dragging Lee to the mat while working over his arm, Scurll catches Lee in a pinning combo for a near fall. Scurll then trips up Lee again before attacking his leg, Lee escapes the clutches of Scurll before working over his arm. Lee and Scurll try taking each other down with shoulder tackles, Lee looks for a sunset flip and Scurll winds up stomping on his bent arm. Scurll then knocks Lee out of the ring Scurll pretends to toss Lee into the crowd before tossing him back into the ring. Scurll then kicks away at the injured arm of Lee, Scurll follows that up by tying the mask of Lee into the ropes before assaulting him with strikes.
Lee gets his mask untied and Scurll continues working him over, Scurll follows that up by attacking Lee with a series of chops. Lee recovers and he catches a charging Scurll with a release German suplex that knocks him out of the ring, Lee then hits Scurll with a suicide dive. Lee brings Scurll back into the ring before cracking him with a leg lariat for a near fall, Lee and Scurll have a forearm strike exchange in the middle of the ring. Scurll then nails Lee with a super kick to the knee, Scurll drops Lee with a lariat before taunting the crowd. Scurll follows that up by dropping Lee with a running European uppercut, Lee then sends a charging Scurll into the turnbuckle.
Lee then crushes a downed Scurll with a running drop kick before putting him on the top rope, Scurll recovers and he hits Lee with a belly to belly suplex from the middle rope. Scurll attacks Lee with a series of kicks before getting another near fall, Lee fights back and Scurll cracks his fingers. Lee gets angry and he drops Scurll with a super kick, Scurll gets back up and he nails Lee with a suplex into a neck breaker for a near fall. Lee catches a charging Scurll with a Spanish Fly for another near fall, Lee goes to the top rope and Scurll follows him up there. The two exchange forearm strikes until Scurll gets trapped upside down, Lee nails Scurll with a double stomp from the top rope to get a three count.
Winner: Dragon Lee
Final bouts are on Page Three…
BOTSJ Block A Match: Jushin “Thunder” Liger vs. Hiromu Takahashi
The match begins with Liger immediately dropping Takahashi for a near fall, Liger then knocks Takahashi out of the ring before catching him with a swanton bomb dive on the arena floor. Liger follows that up by nailing Takahashi with a brain buster on the arena floor, Liger tosses Takahashi back into the ring and he stomps on him a few times. Liger also takes the opportunity to drop Takahashi a few times with some chops, Takahashi eventually knocks Liger to the ring apron. Takahashi then takes the opportunity to power bomb Liger on the ring apron, Takahashi then jumps off the ring to hit Liger with a drop kick. Takahashi throws Liger back into the ring and he assaults him with chops, Takahashi drops Liger with a running clothesline followed by a drop kick for a near fall.
Takahashi slows things down by holding Liger in a head scissors, Takahashi then tries to remove the mask from the face of Liger. Liger gets angry and he attacks Takahashi with some chops, Liger then catches a charging Takahashi with a tilt-a-whirl back breaker. Liger looks for the Liger Bomb and Takahashi rolls him up for a near fall, Liger clobbers a charging Takahashi with a palm strike before landing the Liger Bomb for a near fall. Liger goes for the brain buster and Takahashi escapes to hit him with a German suplex, Liger then drops Takahashi again with a palm strike bfroe landing the brain buster for a near fall. Liger misses a palm strike and Takahashi nails him with a super kick followed by the Time Bomb for the three count.
Winner: Hiromu Takahashi
BOTSJ Block A Match: Ricochet vs. Will Ospreay
The match begins with the competitors locking up and neither gaining an advantage, Ricochet scores a takedown and Ospreay winds up in control on the mat. Ricochet gets up and he winds up working over the arm of Ospreay, Ospreay eventually gets free and he works over the arm of Ricochet as well. The wrestlers then go through a series of reversals and nobody gets the advantage, Ospreay eventually gets angry and he just shoves Ricochet to the mat below. The competitors go through another series of reversals and nobody gains an advantage, Ospreay and Ricochet exchange strikes in the center of the ring.
Ospreay and Ricochet both catch each other with running kicks to the head that drop them both, the wrestlers then exchange chops in the middle of the ring. Ospreay nails Ricochet with a super kick before eating a running chop, Ricochet then nails a leaping Ospreay with a back breaker. Ricochet then kicks away at a downed Ospreay, Ricochet picks up Ospreay and he locks him in the crossbow submission hold. Ricochet traps Ospreay in the corner before attacking him with chops, Ricochet drags Ospreay to the middle of the ring before twisting him up in a submission hold. Ricochet follows that up by applying a modified abdominal stretch to Ospreay, Ospreay escapes and Ricochet quickly drops him.
Ospreay tries fighting back and Ricochet catches him with a northern lights suplex, Ospreay recovers and he catches Ricochet with a handspring enzaguri. Ospreay then kicks Ricochet in the head while trapping him in the corner, Ospreay then nails a downed Ricochet with a running drop kick. Ricochet gets up and Ospreay kicks away at him, Ospreay misses a charge into the corner and Ricochet hits him with a 619 followed by a springboard clothesline. Ospreay recovers by dropping Ricochet with a tornado DDT for a near fall, Ricochet then sends a charging Ospreay out of the ring. Ospreay returns and he knocks Ricochet out of the ring, Ospreay then hits Ricochet with a suicide dive.
Ricochet returns to the ring and Ospreay caches him with a trio of holds for a near fall, Ospreay then nails Ricochet with an enzaguri. Ospreay follows that up by nailing Ricochet with a twisting ace crusher, Ricochet gets up and he levels Ospreay with a modified Michinoku Driver for a near fall. Ricochet goes to the top rope and Ospreay meets him up there, Ricochet nearly knocks Ospreay off the ropes and he eats a forearm strike instead. Ospreay goes for a super-rana and Ricochet lands on his feet, Ricochet goes for a super reverse-rana and Ospreay lands on his feet. Ospreay then hits Ricochet with a reverse-rana, Ricochet recovers by hitting Ospreay with a release German suplex.
Ospreay and Ricochet have a striking exchange in the middle of the ring, Ricochet then drops Ospreay with a lariat. Ospreay and Ricochet battle on the arena floor until Ospreay places him on the ring apron, Ricochet gets up and he nails Ospreay with a knee strike. Ricochet then hits Ospreay with a Northern lights suplex into a brain buster on the ring apron, Ricochet waits for Ospreay to get into the ring before nailing him with an Os-Cutter for a near fall. Ricochet goes to the top rope and misses a shooting star press, Ricochet recovers to hit Ospreay with a knee strike. Ospreay gets up and he nails Ricochet with a Benadriller for a near fall, Ospreay goes to the top rope and Ricochet trips him up.
Ospreay recovers and he traps Ricochet in the ropes before nailing him with a super kick, Ospreay catches Ricochet with a springboard hurricarana for a near fall. Ospreay then crushes Ricochet with a spinning kick to the head followed by the Os-cutter for the three count.
Winner: Will Ospreay
