NJPW Strong Style Evolved Results: 3/25/17 – Kenny Omega And Kota Ibushi Vs. The Young Bucks

Roppongi 3K (SOH and YOH) and Rocky Romero vs. Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky

Scorpio and Romero start us off, Scorpio acting like Romero is pulling his non-existent ant hair for a nice laugh. Roll through cutter by Scorpio. YOH and Kazarian in, shoulder tackle by Kazarian, kip up by YOH. SHO then tagged in, drop toe hold into a sliding kick. Double dropkicks on Daniels who immediately heads out to the floor. Kazarian with an eye rake and takes in Scorpio. Dropkick by SHO and brings in YOH as the crowd chants “Roppongi!” Suplex by YOH, cover, two. Kazarian with a disaster kick attempted, slipped off, and tagged in Daniels.

Romero finally tagged in springboard crossbody, double frankensteiner. Romero goes corner to corner with multiple clotheslines. All six men in the ring now, SHO and YOH dumped out to the floor. Scorpio Sky flips to the outside! Kazarian nearly gets a three on Romero, but it’s broken up. Scorpio tries for another cutter and mistakenly hits it on his own partner. SHO with multiple german suplexes on Scorpio, double jumping knees by Roppongi 3k on Scorpio, cover, two. 3K hits cleanly, cover, and that will do it.

Winners: Roppongi 3k and Rocky Romero via Pinfall

Gedo and Hirooki Goto vs. Juice Robinson and David Finlay

Robinson testing his strength with some shoulder tackles, but no luck early on, but pops him with a running forearm to put Goto down. Double clotheslines stun each guy. Looks like Goto’s mouth is already busted open. Finlay runs in and gets suplexed onto his own partner. Gedo in goes to work on Robinson. Toys with him a bit allowing him to get somewhat close to tagging in his partner. Gedo working over Robinson’s eye as the ref was slightly distracted.

Robinson gets something going with a number of punches, eye pokes from both Gedo and Robinson. Finlay in now, forearms to Goto, flying elbow takes down Goto. Finlay goes corner to corner with running uppercuts. Flying european uppercut, pin, two. Robinson up and over the top rope and takes out Goto on the floor. Finlay hits a stunner on Gedo, 1-2-3.

Winners: David Finlay and Juice Robinson via Pinfall

Chuckie T and Toru Yano vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer

Lance Archer doing his usual soak the entire front row with water. Archer and Smith go right after Yano and Chuckie, crowd boos. Smith and Chuckie get us started in the ring. Big german suplex by Smith, then big boots Yano down to the floor. Yano is quite over with the crowd tonight. Chuckie tries for a powerbomb, gets back body dropped by Archer, big clothesline. Archer heads up to the top rope and walks almost all the way across before dropping down on Chuckie’s arm.

High angle boston crab on Chukie, elbow drop on his back. Archer charges Yano who backs off and wanders over to the walkway as his partner gets destroyed in the ring. Chuckie with a nice counter to get away from Archer and Smith, in comes Yano to a big applause. Archer throws him into the ropes, but Yano stays and taunts his opponent. He then smacks Archer on the head. “Sorry!” Yano tries for a low blow, nope. Tries for atomic drop, but doesn’t land it. Yano hides in the ropes again and Archer runs him over. Crowd boos hard at that.

Yano drops Archer to the floor, dodges Smith who runs into his own partner, Chuckie flips on them. Yano acts like he’s flying out, but undoes one of the turnbuckle pads. Crowd is loving Yano. Chuckie in and finally hits a piledriver on Archer, cover, Smith breaks up the pin. Archer runs down Chuckie, chokeslam, cover, 2. Chuckie able to get a sneaky roll-up, that was a super close three. Killer Bomb finally lands and that will end this one.

Winners: Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer via Pinfall

Cody Rhodes and Marty Scurll vs. Guerrillas of Destiny

Before the match, Cody on the mic talking Bullet Club, says Guerrillas of Destiny were wrestlers that got Bullet Club going, but it’s Superstars like him that make the group as popular as they are now. “F— you, Cody!” chant from the crowd. Lots of sarcasm in that promo, doesn’t sound like he wants to fight fellow Bullet Club members. Cody also rocking a weight lifting belt a la “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan. Tonga Loa on the mic and says they are having a match for the fans and if they are on a team, it’s definitely not “Team Cody.” Cody ends up getting tossed out to the floor and Scurll starts acting like he’s teamed up with Loa and Tonga, really hamming it up. He turns around and gets blasted to the mat. Scurll runs off and jumps in Cody’s arms.

Cody rolls out of a charging Tonga, but as he gets up Tonga is already hitting a splash on him. Cody out to be with Brandi who gets between Tonga and her husband long enough for Scurll to come over and hit a kick on Tonga. Scurll plants Tonga’s hand to the mat and stomps on it twice. Cody with a stalled vertical facebuster and does a couple push-ups until Tonga smacks him in the head. Scurll tagged in, cheap shot on Loa. Scurll calls for crossface chickenwing, but Cody tags himself in, tries for the crossroads but gets a swinging neckbreak. Cody slaps away at Loa which doesn’t hurt him at all.

Disaster kick by Cody on Loa, heads up to the top rope, Tonga with a running forearm, climbs up, superplex, goes to the top, but Scurll stops him and hits a superplex of his own. Both opponents out on the floor, Cody mocking Omega’s taunt, looks to fly, but gets speared by Loa, cover, broken up by Scurll. Scurll dumped in the corner, Tonga with a big splash. Cody hits crossroads after throwing his opponents into each other, 1-2-3.

Winners: Cody and Marty Scurll via Pinfall

Hiroshi Tanahashi, KUSHIDA, Dragon Lee, and Rysuke Taguchi vs. SANADA, Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI, and Hiromu Takahashi