Fighting Spirit Unleashed

New Japan Pro-Wrestling event series
Professional wrestling pay-per-view event series
Fighting Spirit Unleashed
PromotionsNew Japan Pro-Wrestling
First eventFighting Spirit Unleashed (2018)

Fighting Spirit Unleashed is a series of professional wrestling events produced annually in September by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, in the United States. NJPW first produced the event in 2018 and has since produced four editions, with the 2019 having been held as a three-event tour in Lowell, Massachusetts, New York City, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from September 27 to 29, 2019 and the most recent being held in closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic from September 4 to September 11, 2020.[1][2]

Events

# Event Date City Venue Attendance Main event Ref.
1 Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2018) September 30, 2018 Long Beach, California Walter Pyramid 3,007 Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) vs. Chaos (Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii) [3]
2 Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2019) September 27, 2019 Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell Memorial Auditorium 2,130 Kazuchika Okada, Kota Ibushi and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada, Evil and Tetsuya Naito) [4]
September 28, 2019 New York City, New York Hammerstein Ballroom 1,776 Kazuchika Okada and Kota Ibushi vs. Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada and Evil) [5]
September 29, 2019 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2300 Arena 1,030 Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, Yoshi-Hashi, Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson vs. Bullet Club (Jay White, Kenta, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Chase Owens and Gedo) in a twelve-man tag team elimination match [6]
3 Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2020) September 4, 2020[a] Port Hueneme, California Oceanview Pavilion 0[b] Flip Gordon vs. Jay White [7]
September 11, 2020 Kenta vs. Jeff Cobb for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship challenge rights certificate
4 Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2021) September 18, 2021[c] Long Beach, California Thunder Studios 144 Juice Robinson vs. Hikuleo in a tables match [8][9]
September 25, 2021 Fred Rosser vs. Ren Narita
October 2, 2021 Tom Lawlor (c) vs. Lio Rush for the Strong Openweight Championship
5 Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2022) September 10, 2022 Los Angeles, California The Vermont Hollywood 287 Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis) (c) vs. West Coast Wrecking Crew (Jorel Nelson and Royce Isaacs) for the Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship [10]
September 17, 2022 Bullet Club (Chase Owens, Hikuleo, Jay White and Juice Robinson) (with Taiji Ishimori) vs. Kushida and Roppongi Vice (Beretta and Rocky Romero) amd Taylor Rust
September 24, 2022 Taiji Ishimori vs. Alan Angels
October 1, 2022 Fred Rosser (c) vs. TJP for the Strong Openweight Championship
6 Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2023) October 28, 2023 Las Vegas, Nevada Sam's Town Live 801 Tama Tonga (c) vs. Shingo Takagi for the NEVER Openweight Championship [11][12]

Notes

  1. ^ The event was taped on an unknown date and aired on September 4 and 11 as regular episodes of NJPW Strong.
  2. ^ These events were attended only by essential personnel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  3. ^ The event was taped on August 16 and aired on September 18, 25 and October 2 as regular episodes of NJPW Strong.

References

  1. ^ "NJPW storms the US east coast this September for Fighting Spirit Unleashed!". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. July 6, 2019. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  2. ^ "2020.09.04 FIGHTING SPIRIT UNLEASHED". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Bushiroad. September 4, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
  3. ^ "Fighting Spirit Unleashed". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  4. ^ "Fighting Spirit Unleashed". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  5. ^ "Fighting Spirit Unleashed". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  6. ^ "Fighting Spirit Unleashed". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  7. ^ "Major matches lined up For Fighting Spirit Unleashed on NJPW STRONG! 【NJoA】". NJPW1972.com. New Japan Pro-Wrestling. August 28, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  8. ^ "ON SALE NOW: Fans come to STRONG for Fighting Spirit Unleashed! 【NJoA】". NJPW1972.com. New Japan Pro-Wrestling. June 30, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  9. ^ Bryant, Steve (August 17, 2021). "NJPW Strong – 16 August 2021 – Results". socaluncensored.com. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  10. ^ "FIGHTING SPIRIT UNLEASHED". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. August 10, 2022. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  11. ^ NJPW (September 7, 2023). "Fighting Spirit Unleashed comes to Vegas October 28! 【NJoA】". njpw1972.com. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  12. ^ TheSmackDownHotel. "NJPW Strong Fighting Spirit Unleashed 2023". thesmackdownhotel.com. Retrieved October 1, 2023.

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