Date: December 23, 2016
Venue: Yokohama Arena
City: Yokohama, Japan
Japanese Commentators: Taka Shimura and
“Samurai X” Misao Sakurai
English Commentators: Yo Kurasawa and
Eric O'Flaherty
Iron Road Qualifying Match
Morio Kamisaka vs.
Vera Vicious
Kamisaka dedicated
this match to his tag partner, Michinori Osaragi, who got his neck
broken in May during the World Crown Tournament. He faced a difficult
challenge by taking on IJPW Television Champion and Naraku no Soko
member Vera Vicious.
Iron Road Qualifying Match
Ashley
Thorne vs. Muffin Vanderburg
Thorne
represented Naraku no Soko as she took on gaijin fan favorite Muffin
Vanderburg.
Tag
Team Match
Naraku
no Soko (KANNON and Akuma Usami) vs. Isamu Shinagami and Trista Capra
Naraku
no Soko faced another battle in Yokohama as KANNON and Usami took on
Isamu Shinagami and “The Original Deathmatch Queen” Trista Capra
– two individuals who have declared war on the dark faction, but
have yet to form anything beyond an informal alliance.
Six-Person
Tag Team Match
Doyle
Brothers (Ricky Doyle and Ronnie Doyle) and Suda Tsukasa vs. Dave
Manton, Stan Ward, and Fabulous Adrian Bagglio
At
Iron Road: Sapporo, the Doyle Brothers earned a shot at the IJPW
World Tag Team Championship after beating Manton and Ward, while
Tsukasa continued his Indian summer by defeating FAB for a shot at
the IJPW Television Championship. While Manton, Ward, and FAB came up
short in their number one contender matches in Sapporo, they had a
chance to get a little bit of revenge in Yokohama.
Iron Road Qualifying Match
Nobuyoki
Katsushika vs. J
Murda
Katsushika
defeated J Murda in the second round of the World Crown Tournament in
May. Murda had a chance for revenge, but it was a tall task as he
took on the beloved giant who's itching to get back on top in Iron
Japan Pro Wrestling. Katsushika is one-half of the World Tag Team
Champions and Team Crown holders, but everyone knows he feels
incomplete without the IJPW World Wrestling Championship. Katsushika
hasn't been shy about his intentions to be known as the first Ace of
IJPW.
Iron Road Qualifying Match
Sakura
Shizuka vs. Curt Fleischer
Fleischer
defeated Shizuka at World Crown – Night Seven in a non-tournament
match. Shizuka is the girlfriend and tag team partner of Nobuyoki
Katsushika, and Fleischer has run into him a few times this past year
in some memorable bouts. The rivalry between Fleischer and the Noble
Power couple continued in Yokohama.
Six-Person
Tag Team Match
Ultraviolence
Union (Ricky Holt, Teiji Shintaro and Jun Hageshii) vs. Jona
Ziesemer, El Loco, and Jackie Walters
Ricky
Holt continued his year-long feud with former mentor and legendary
luchadore El Loco, who has had a 2016 to forget. Jona Ziesemer has
had a year to forget too. After one victory over Shintaro in the
World Crown Tournament, Jona has endured a never-ending nightmare
that has seen him get stabbed in the throat with a fork and lose to
Shintaro. Hageshii looked to finally get payback after famously
getting knocked out quickly by Jackie Walters in Iron Road qualifying
in Fukuoka. Hageshii has been seen as the weak link in the
Ultraviolence Union because he's tapped out numerous times to cost
his team the match.
*** MAIN EVENT ***
IJPW
World Wrestling Championship
Riddick
vs. (c) John Scroggs
Riddick
is the current IJPW World Crown holder. He defeated John Scroggs in
the tournament final at the Tokyo Dome in May, and he used that
reasoning when challenging Scroggs to a title match at the Yokohama
Arena. Riddick has kept up a hectic schedule while competing in both
IJPW and Death Trip Wrestling, and fans saw it catch up to him when
John Scroggs knocked him out with a chokeslam in Sapporo during an
eight-person tag team match.
