Power Struggle (2011) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on November 12, 2011, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium and featured eleven matches, five of which were contested for championships.[1][2] It was the first event under the Power Struggle name.
Production[]
Storylines[]
Power Struggle featured eleven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[3]
Event[]
During the event all five champions were successful in their defenses. Davey Richards, one half of the No Remorse Corps, who successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship against Kushida and Tiger Mask, challenged Prince Devitt, after he had successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Taka Michinoku, to a future title match.[1] The match took place on December 4 and saw Devitt emerge victorious.[4] The semi-main event saw Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) make their tenth successful defense of the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Suzuki-gun representatives Lance Archer and Minoru Suzuki.[1] This would turn out to be the final successful defense of the team, which set the record not only for most defenses, but also the longest reign. In the main event, Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Toru Yano for his ninth successful defense of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, regaining possession of the title belt, which had been stolen by Yano.[1]
Results[]
| # | Results[1][2] | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The World Class Tag Team (Gedo and Jado) defeated Killer Rabbit and Tama Tonga | Tag team match | 04:32 |
| 2 | Tomoaki Honma and Wataru Inoue defeated CHAOS (Hideo Saito and Takashi Iizuka) | Tag team match | 03:42 |
| 3 | Yuji Nagata defeated Tomohiro Ishii | Singles match | 09:53 |
| 4 | Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Yoshihiro Takayama) defeated Ryusuke Taguchi and Togi Makabe | Tag team match | 08:39 |
| 5 | No Remorse Corps (Davey Richards and Rocky Romero) (c) defeated Kushida and Tiger Mask | Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 12:43 |
| 6 | Prince Devitt (c) defeated Taka Michinoku | Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship | 12:13 |
| 7 | MVP and Tetsuya Naito defeated Chaos (Shinsuke Nakamura and Yujiro Takahashi) | Tag team match | 12:18 |
| 8 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Satoshi Kojima | Singles match | 15:49 |
| 9 | Masato Tanaka (c) defeated Hirooki Goto | Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship | 09:51 |
| 10 | Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) (c) defeated Suzuki-gun (Lance Archer and Minoru Suzuki) | Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship | 17:15 |
| 11 | Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) defeated Toru Yano | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 22:01 |
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Power Struggle (in Japanese). New Japan Pro Wrestling. Retrieved on 2013-10-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Power Struggle 2011 . Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved on 2015-08-14.
- ↑ Grabianowski, Ed. How Pro Wrestling Works . HowStuffWorks, Inc.. Discovery Communications. Retrieved on 2014-09-13.
- ↑ New Japan Alive 2011 (in Japanese). New Japan Pro Wrestling. Retrieved on 2013-10-18.
