Dave Meltzer’s Star Ratings For NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20 & New Year Dash

Dave Meltzer has shared his star ratings for NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 20 and New Year Dash pay-per-views.

In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer shared his review and star ratings for both of New Japan’s most recent pay-per-view offerings, Wrestle Kingdom 20 and New Year Dash.

Dave Meltzer’s Wrestle Kingdom 20 Star Ratings

Pre Show:

• Katsuya Murashima & Masatora Yasuda defeated Shoma Kato & Tatsuya Matsumoto – **1/2
• NJPW World Television Title Match: El Phantasmo (c) defeated Chris Brookes – ***1/2

Main Show:

• NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Title Rambo Match: TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.) won to become the new champions – **
• IWGP Women’s Title / NJPW STRONG Women’s Title Match: Syuri (c) [IWGP] defeated Saya Kamitani (c) [STRONG] – ****1/2
• United Empire (Andrade El Idolo, Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Jake Lee) defeated BULLET CLUB War Dogs (David Finlay, Drilla Moloney & Gabe Kidd), Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi – ****
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title #1 Contendership Four-Way Match: El Desperado defeated Kosei Fujita, SHO and Taiji Ishimori – ***
• NEVER Openweight Title Match: Aaron Wolf defeated EVIL (c) – ***1/2
• IWGP World Heavyweight Title / IWGP Global Heavyweight Title Match: Yota Tsuji (c) [Global] defeated Konosuke Takeshita (c) [World] – *****
• Kazuchika Okada defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi – ******

Dave Meltzer’s New Year Dash Star Ratings

• Team 150 (Satoshi Kojima, Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii) defeated Katsuya Murashima, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura – ***3/4
• The Don Callis Family (Konosuke Takeshita & Rocky Romero) defeated El Phantasmo & Shoma Kato – ***1/2
• Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) & Oleg Boltin defeated House Of Torture (SANADA, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Yujiro Takahashi) – **
• United Empire (Andrade El Idolo, Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young) defeated BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Clark Connors & Gabe Kidd) & Hiromu Takahashi – **3/4
• Aaron Wolf, Master Wato, Toru Yano & YOH defeated House Of Torture (Dick Togo, Don Fale, EVIL & Ren Narita) – *
• United Empire (Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Jake Lee) defeated BULLET CLUB War Dogs (David Finlay & Drilla Moloney), Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji – ***1/2
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match: Ichiban Sweet Boys (Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles) defeated BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori) and House Of Torture (DOUKI & SHO) (c) and El Desperado & Kuukai – ***1/2
• IWGP Tag Team Title Match: Knockout Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice) (c) defeated TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.) – ****1/2