Honor Rising: Japan 2019

Honor Rising: Japan 2019
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling Ring of Honor
Date	February 22-23, 2019
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Korakuen Hall
Event chronology
← Previous (NJPW) New Japan Road The New Beginning in Osaka (ROH) Bound By Honor Next → (NJPW) New Japan Road (ROH) 17th Anniversary Show (NJPW/ROH) G1 Supercard
Honor Rising: Japan chronology
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Honor Rising: Japan 2019 was a two-day professional wrestling supershow event co-produced by the Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and the American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotions. The shows took place on February 22 and 23, 2019, at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan and were streamed live on NJPW World.

Continuing the partnership between NJPW and ROH, these were the final Honor Rising: Japan shows.

Storylines

Other on-screen personnel

Role:	Name:
Commentators	Chris Charlton (English-language announcer)
	Don Callis (English-language announcer)
	Kevin Kelly (English-language announcer)
Ring announcers	Makoto Abe
Referees	Kenta Sato
	Marty Asami
	Red Shoes Unno
	Tiger Hattori

Honor Rising: Japan 2019 will feature professional wrestling matches, involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines that play out on ROH's and NJPW's television programs. Wrestlers portray villains or heroes as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[1]

Results

Night 1

No.	Results[2]	Stipulations	Times
1	Marty Scurll defeated Ren Narita by submission	Singles match	11:33
2	Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Shota Umino by submission	Singles match	13:56
3	Jyushin Thunder Liger and Jonathan Gresham defeated Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori and Robbie Eagles)	Tag team match	5:27
4	LifeBlood (Juice Robinson and David Finlay), Tomoaki Honma and Toa Henare defeated The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) and Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa)	Eight-man tag team match	12:14
5	Taguchi Japan (Togi Makabe, Toru Yano and Ryusuke Taguchi) (c) defeated Colt Cabana, Delirious and Cheeseburger	Six-man tag team match for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship	10:16
6	Will Ospreay (c) defeated Dalton Castle	Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship	17:30
7	Jeff Cobb (c) defeated Hirooki Goto	Singles match for the ROH World Television Championship	13:52
8	Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada and Jay Lethal defeated The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia)	Six-man tag team match	14:10
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Night 2

No.	Results[3]	Stipulations	Times
1	Jonathan Gresham and Toa Henare defeated Suzuki-gun (Zack Sabre Jr. and Taka Michinoku) by submission	Tag team match	12:20
2	Marty Scurll defeated Robbie Eagles by submission	Singles match	8:55
3	Toru Yano and Colt Cabana defeated Delirious and Cheeseburger	Tag team match	10:09
4	Chaos (Hirooki Goto and Will Ospreay) defeated Jeff Cobb and Dalton Castle	Tag team match	11:45
5	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito and Shingo Takagi) defeated The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Vinny Marseglia)	Tag team match	11:50
6	Jay Lethal (c) defeated T. K. O'Ryan	Singles match for the ROH World Championship	10:52
7	Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (Evil and Sanada) (c)	Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship	20:26
8	The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) (c) defeated FinJuice (Juice Robinson and David Finlay)	Tag team match for the ROH World Tag Team Championship	17:13
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

See also

• 2019 in professional wrestling

References

1. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
2. "Honor Rising: Japan 2019". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
3. "Honor Rising: Japan 2019". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved February 12, 2019.