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Event
Date
City
Venue
Attendance
Main event
Ref(s)
1
Wrestling Hinokuni (2015)
April 29, 2015
Mashiki, Kumamoto
Grand Messe Kumamoto
2,460
Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. Togi Makabe for the NEVER Openweight Championship
[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
2
Wrestling Hinokuni (2016)
April 29, 2016
Mashiki, Kumamoto
Grand Messe Kumamoto
N/A
Kenny Omega (c) vs. Michael Elgin for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship
[ 8]
3
Wrestling Hinokuni (2018)
April 29, 2018
Mashiki, Kumamoto
Grand Messe Kumamoto
3,435
Minoru Suzuki (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship
[ 9]
4
Wrestling Hinokuni (2019)
April 29, 2019
Mashiki, Kumamoto
Grand Messe Kumamoto
2,702
Hirooki Goto vs. Jay White
[ 10]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
The first Wrestling Hinokuni took place on April 29, 2015, at the Grand Messe Kumamoto in Mashiki, Kumamoto ,[ 4] and aired worldwide on NJPW World .[ 7] The event featured nine matches, three of which were contested for championships . Wrestlers representing the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) took part in the event with both the NWA World Heavyweight and NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championships being defended.[ 4] In the first title match, NWA representative Steve Anthony successfully defended the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship against NJPW's Jyushin Thunder Liger . This was a rematch from a match in Las Vegas earlier in the month, where Anthony also defeated Liger to capture the title.[ 4] The second title match saw NJPW's Hiroyoshi Tenzan make his second successful defense of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against NWA's Big Daddy Yum-Yum.[ 4] Several matches at the event also built to matches taking place at Wrestling Dontaku 2015 the following week.[ 4] One of these matches saw Bullet Club 's Doc Gallows , Karl Anderson and Kenny Omega defeat Alex Shelley , Tetsuya Naito and Tomoaki Honma in a six-man tag team match in the buildup to an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match between champion Omega and challenger Shelley.[ 4]
Another match built to the main event of Wrestling Dontaku 2015, which would see Hirooki Goto challenge Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship .[ 4] At Wrestling Hinokuni 2015, Nakamura, Kazushi Sakuraba and Toru Yano defeated Goto, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Katsuyori Shibata .[ 4] In the main event of the show, Tomohiro Ishii defended the NEVER Openweight Championship against Togi Makabe . This was a rematch from January's Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome , where Makabe defeated Ishii to become the new NEVER Openweight Champion.[ 11] However, on February 14, Makabe was stripped of the title after he was forced to pull out of a scheduled rematch with Ishii due to influenza, which led to Ishii defeating Tomoaki Honma to recapture the now vacant title.[ 12] The main event saw Makabe again defeat Ishii to win the NEVER Openweight Championship for the second time.[ 4] [ 13]
Wrestling Hinokuni 2016 is a canceled professional wrestling event that was scheduled to take place on April 29, 2016, at the Grand Messe Kumamoto in Mashiki, Kumamoto .[ 14] The event was set to feature nine matches, three of which were to be contested for championships .[ 8] The event was to be headlined by Kenny Omega making his first defense of the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Michael Elgin .[ 8] This was set up earlier in the month at Invasion Attack 2016 , where the two had a heated confrontation after Elgin, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yoshitatsu had defeated Omega and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) to win the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship .[ 15] Another title match was set to continue a storyline, where Katsuyori Shibata defended the NEVER Openweight Championship against NJPW veterans, known as the "third generation".[ 8] Having already defended the title against Satoshi Kojima , at Invasion Attack 2016, Shibata successfully defended the title against Hiroyoshi Tenzan and afterwards kicked Yuji Nagata to set him up as his next challenger.[ 16] The two had previously faced off in August 2014 during the 2014 G1 Climax tournament, where Nagata defeated Shibata.[ 8]
The event was also scheduled to feature a rematch from Invasion Attack 2016, where the new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions , Roppongi Vice (Beretta and Rocky Romero ), would defend the title against previous champions, Matt Sydal and Ricochet .[ 8] One of the big non-title matches at Wrestling Hinokuni was set to continue the rivalry between the Chaos and Los Ingobernables de Japón stables as the former's Hirooki Goto , Kazuchika Okada , Tomohiro Ishii and Will Ospreay were set to take on the latter's Bushi , Evil , Sanada and Tetsuya Naito .[ 8] This match would also build up three matches taking place at Wrestling Dontaku 2016 , where Goto was set to take on Evil, Okada take on Sanada and Ishii challenge Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship .[ 17] [ 18]
On April 14, Kumamoto was hit with an earthquake , which led to NJPW announcing that they were trying to determine whether they could continue going forward with the show.[ 19] After another earthquake two days later, NJPW officially canceled the show on April 18.[ 20] [ 21] [ 22] Top matches from the event were later moved to the April 27 Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2016 and May 3 Wrestling Dontaku 2016 events.[ 23] [ 24] [ 25]
Wrestling Hinokuni 2018 was a professional wrestling event took place on April 29, 2018, at the Grand Messe Kumamoto in Mashiki, Kumamoto .[ 27] This event makes the return of New Japan Pro Wrestling to Mashiki, Kumamoto after two years.
No. Results[ 26] Stipulations Times 1 Ren Narita and Yuji Nagata defeated Shota Umino and Tomoyuki Oka Tag team match 09:41 2 Ryusuke Taguchi , Tiger Mask , Jyushin Thunder Liger , and David Finlay defeated Chaos (Sho , Yoh , and Rocky Romero and Jay White )Eight-man tag team match 07:18 3 Chaos (Toru Yano and Tomohiro Ishii ) defeated Toa Henare and Togi Makabe Tag team match 07:56 4 Suzuki-gun (Taka Michinoku , Taichi , Takashi Iizuka and Zack Sabre Jr. ) defeated Bullet Club (Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi ) and Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega & Kota Ibushi )Eight-man tag team match 08:51 5 Kushida , Michael Elgin , Juice Robinson and Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Chaos (Will Ospreay , Yoshi-Hashi , Hirooki Goto and Kazuchika Okada )Eight-man tag team match 10:13 6 Bushi defeated El Desperado by disqualificationSingles match 09:58 7 Hiromu Takahashi defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru Singles match 11:28 8 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada and Evil ) (c) defeated K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer )Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship 17:58 9 Tetsuya Naito defeated Minoru Suzuki (c)Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship 30:22 (c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
Wrestling Hinokuni 2019 was a professional wrestling event that took place on April 29, 2019, at the Grand Messe Kumamoto in Mashiki, Kumamoto .[ 27] This event makes the return of New Japan Pro Wrestling to Mashiki, Kumamoto after two years.
No. Results[ 29] Stipulations Times 1 Tomoaki Honma , Shota Umino and Ren Narita defeated Toa Henare , Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura Six-man tag team match 11:00 2 Jeff Cobb , Yoshi-Hashi , Jyushin Thunder Liger , Tiger Mask and Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Suzuki-gun (Taichi , Minoru Suzuki , Yoshinobu Kanemaru , El Desperado and Taka Michinoku )Ten-man tag team match 12:42 3 Dragon Lee and Will Ospreay defeated Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori and Hikuleo )Tag team match 10:06 4 Bad Luck Fale defeated Mikey Nicholls Singles match 7:24 5 Juice Robinson defeated Chase Owens Singles match 8:43 6 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada , Evil , Tetsuya Naito , Bushi and Shingo Takagi ) defeated Chaos (Kazuchika Okada , Tomohiro Ishii , Yoh and Sho ) and Kota Ibushi Ten-man tag team match 16:40 7 Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa ) (c) (with Jado ) defeated The Most Violent Players (Togi Makabe and Toru Yano )Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship 14:50 8 Jay White (with Gedo ) defeated Hirooki Goto Singles match 22:59 (c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
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