Here are your quick, editorial-free ROH/NJPW G1 Supercard 2019 results. The inter-promotional PPV featured matches for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, ROH World Championship, and more.
Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Best and Worst of ROH/NJPW G1 Supercard 2019 column.
G1 Supercard Results
– Kenny King won the Honor Rumble. This pre-show battle royal was for a shot at the ROH World Championship. The entrants, in order, were Kenny King, Minoru Suzuki, Cheeseburger, Beery City Bruiser, Sho, Shingo Takagi, Bushi, Yoh, Raheem Ali, Rhett Titus, LSG, Ryusuke Taguchi, Will Ferrara, Chase Owens, Rocky Romero, Brian Milonas, Bad Luck Fale, Jonathan Gresham, Tracy Williams, Yoshi-Hashi, PJ Black, Jushin Thunder Liger, TK O’Ryan, Vinny Marseglia, Delirious, Tomohiro Ishii, Colt Cabana (replacing Toru Yano, who entered later as a “just roll with it” #31), Hirooki Goto, Haku, and The Great Muta. It looked like Liger and Muta were the final two wrestlers left in the match, but as they were fighting one-on-one, King, who had hidden outside the ring to avoid elimination at one point, unexpectedly ran in and eliminated both legends.
– The Great Muta misted Kenny King after the Honor Rumble, but the ROH star managed to avoid a Shotei palm strike from Liger.
1. ROH Television Championship and NEVER Openweight Championship Winner-Take-All Match: Jeff Cobb (c) def. Will Ospreay (c). Cobb pinned Ospreay after a Super Tour of the Islands followed by a regular Tour of the Islands to win both titles.
2. Rush def. Dalton Castle. Rush defeated Castle in about thirty seconds, pinning him after three shotgun dropkicks right after the bell rang.
– After the match, the Boys tried to comfort Castle, but he attacked them and left the ring alone and distraught.
– Juice Robinson, set to face Bully Ray in a New York Street Fight later in the show, was found to have been attacked backstage.
3. ROH Women of Honor Championship Match: Kelly Klein def. Mayu Iwatani (c.) Klein pinned Iwatani after K-Power to win this title for the second time.
– After the match, Angelina Love and Velvet Skye (yes, really) entered the ring. Mandy Leon, who had been on commentary, entered the ring behind Klein and attacked her. Jenny Rose and Stella Grey, who had been in a dark match with wrestlers from Stardom, entered the ring to try to help Klein but were taken out by Sky and Love. Love drew on Klein’s forehead with lipstick while Leon took a selfie of the group. Leon, Love, and Sky posed in front of a big screen graphic that identified their new faction as “The Allure” before exiting the arena.
– Nerdcore rapper MegaRan entered the ring to perform the theme song he wrote for this show. His performance was interrupted by Bully Ray. Ray cut a promo on Robinson and then said the open challenge was still on. Flip Gordon, returning from injury, answered the challenge. Shane Taylor and Silas Young, who had not been booked on the G1 Supercard, entered the ring to help Ray. Juice Robinson and Mark Haskins then surprisingly entered the arena with a dumpster full of hardcore match weapons. Robinson requested the match be made three-on-three and the match was restarted as such.
4. NYC Street Fight: Juice Robinson, Mark Haskins, and Flip Gordon def. Bully Ray, Shane Taylor, and Silas Young. Gordon pinned Ray after a 450 splash.
5. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Match: Dragon Lee def. Taiji Ishimori (c) and Bandido. Lee pinned Bandido to win the triple-threat match and win this championship for the first time.
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6. IWGP Tag Team and ROH World Tag Team Championship Winner-Take-All Match: The Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) (c) def. Villian Enterprises (Brody King and PCO) (c), The Briscoe Brothers (Mark and Jay Briscoe), and Evil and Sanada. G.O.D. pinned Brody King after a Super Powerbomb to retain their titles and win the ROH tag belts. After the match, Toru Yano appeared on the ramp with the IWGP tag belts, having stolen them.
– Seen only in the background behind the commentary table and through fan footage and not as part of the G1 Supercard broadcast, former WWE employees Enzo Amore and Big Cass jumped the barricade. You can read more about the incident here.
7. RPW British Heavyweight Championship Match: Zack Sabre Jr. (c) def. Hiroshi Tanahashi. Sabre submitted Tanahashi with Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness to retain his title.
8. IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match: Kota Ibushi def. Tetsuya Naito (c.) Ibushi pinned Naito after a Kamigoye knee to win the IC title for the first time in his career.
9. ROH World Championship Ladder Match: Matt Taven def. Jay Lethal (c) and Matt Scurll. Late in the match, Taven introduced a purple ladder that had not been previously visible to the audience. This purple ladder was several rungs taller than the normal pro wrestling ladders in the match. After a struggle between all three men, Taven and Lethal traded strikes on top of the purple ladder. Taven swung the ROH World Championship to hit Lethal, sending him falling to the ring, and then unhooked the ladder for the win.
10. IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: Kazuchika Okada def. Jay White (c.) Okada pinned White after a Rainmaker, which White had managed to kick out of earlier in the match, to win this title for the fifth time in his career.
