NJPW Strong results: Jeff Cobb vs. Bad Dude Tito

“Filthy” Tom Lawlor appeared at the top of the show, interrupting announcers Kevin Kelly & Ale Koslov. He, Danny Limelight & Bobby Fish would take on Homicide, Eddie Kingston and David Finlay in a six-man tag later in the show. He complained about Homicide and the fact that he’s just a street fighter who doesn’t have balls. He’d go on to challenge Homicide to a “Filthy Rules” no-disqualification match at Battle in the Valley on February 17th.

Mascara Dorada defeated Che Cabrera

Good opener. Dorado wore new sci-fi-looking shoulderpads to the ring. He did some of his signature rope-running springboard attacks early. Cabrera, who looks a lot like Jim Powers, was solid in this as well. He laid Dorada out with a neck screw off the ropes. Dorada would go on to win the match with a rope-walk springboard elbow drop.

Homicide, Eddie Kingston & David Finlay defeated Bobby Fish, “Filthy” Tom Lawlor & Danny Limelight

Finlay and Fish started things off for their teams. Good matchup. Later, Eddie Kingston threw a chair in the ring while Team Filthy was posing. There was some chaos outside the ring, with Kingston, Limelight and the ring bell all a part of it. Kingston and Homicide made the match feel like anything could happen during it.

Kingston was officially back in the match later on and chopped up both Lawlor and Limelight in the corner. He’d use a nodowa-otoshi chokeslam followed by a stretch plum submission—The Royal Road Combo.

Lawlor responded later with a big Takeshi Rikio-style uranage. Finlay took Limelight out at the end with a perfect Trash Panda, where Danny Limelight’s headband flew off when he hit the mat. Good stuff.

Fish went after Finlay just after the three-count.

Team Filthy took it to Finlay until Kingston and Homicide were in the ring with chairs. Fans were really hot for Kingston and chanted “EDD-IE! EDD-IE!” over and over.

Jay White rolled into the ring while Kingston’s back was still turned, but Kingston quickly noticed and raised a chair at him. White backed off and rolled out of the ring. He then unfolded a chair and told Kingston he was using a chair “how it’s supposed to be used.” and sat down onto it.

White jaw-jacked a bit until giving Kingston the mic. Kingston insisted that White back up his talk of being the best in NJPW and the father of NJPW Strong and fight Kingston, right there. White declined and attempted to leave. Kingston then mentioned Battle in the Valley as a possible date for a match, and White eventually agreed. He said it was still “his era.” It is now official that the two will square off on February 17 in San Jose at NJPW’s Battle in the Valley.

Jeff Cobb defeated Bad Dude Tito

This was pretty much everything you’d want from these two in a match that had to be under ten minutes. Big guys doing wild big guy stuff. They traded shoulder blocks early on, a lot of them. Cobb would finally take Tito down with a jumping shoulder block.

Tito hoisted Cobb with a Blue Thunder bomb. Cobb did a Swing Cycle spinning backdrop suplex and followed it with a standing moonsault. He’d eventually put Tito away with the Tour of the Islands.

Final thoughts:

Good episode with two official announcements for Battle in the Valley in Kingston vs. White and Tom Lawlor vs. Homicide in a Filthy Rules match. The six-man tag was a good brawl and the final match was solid and will probably be better next time.