1st match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Jushin Thunder Liger vs Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka, Taka Michinoku

Starting off the show is a six-man tag featuring the older members of the roster going at it the story has been that with Iizuka retirement show later on February Tenzan has been trying to get his ex-tag partner the old Iizuka back but Iizuka has seemingly not listened being the wild man he is. this match should overall be a decent match and personally can see the good guys winning

Winners: Main unit win via DQ

2nd Match: Sanada, EVIL vs Shota Umino, Ayato Yoshida

Our second match sees the IWGP tag team champions Evil and Sanada take on two younger wrestlers in Shota Umino and Ayato Yoshida. With the L.I.J duo retaining their tag titles against Suzuki and ZSJ they get essentially a warm-up match against the two young lions but do expect Unimo and Yoshida to get a decent showing in this match

Winners: Evil and Sanada

3rd Match: Tetsuya Naito, Shingo Takagi, and Bushi vs Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, and El Desperado

This match will be the final big match feud between L.I.J and Suzuki-gun (for at least this tour) with both Naito and Bushi, Shingo retaining their titles against Suzuki-gun (Naito besting Taichi for the IC title and Bushi and Shingo retaining their junior tag titles against Despi and Kanemaru) With Suzuki gun expect them to jump L.I.J before the bell and brawling around the arena but I should still expect to see a good match

Winners: L.I.J

4th Match: YOSHI-HASHI and Tomoaki Honma vs Yujiro Takahashi and Chase Owens

This match Starts off the major feud between Main unit and Chaos against the Bullet Club and we start with the Lower Midcarders of the respective groups. This match could go either way personally. Chase and Honma don’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon so it really depends on who New Japan want to give a slight push to whether it is YOSHI-HASHI or Yujiro but this should be a fine match no matter what

Winners: YOSHI-HASHI and Tomoaki Honma

5th Match: Most Violent Players (Togi Makabe and Toru Yano) vs G.O.D (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa)

Our Next match See’s two big New Japan tag teams go at it as the newly reformed team of Makabe and Yano take on one of New Japan main stay tag teams in G.O.D a quick backstory on M.V.P during 2008 To 2009 Great Bash Heel was a big stable with Makabe as their leader Together Him and Yano won the Tag Titles and held them for Near enough A whole year before losing them at WrestleKingdom 3 eventually Yano would betray Makabe and Form Chaos with Nakamura and many other members of GBH. but now things seem to have been patched and this match should be quite the hard-hitting affair but with Tama Tonga seemingly trying to be the “Good Guy” and his Brother getting more angrier at him in post-match interviews, can G.O.D pull it together before it turns into a blood bath have to wait and see.

Winners: Togi Makabe and Toru Yano

6th match: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (Taiji Ishimori vs Ryusuke Taguchi)

The first of three big singles matches in this card we will see the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Taiji Ishimori Defend his title against one-third of the Never Openweight six man Tag team champions in “the coach” Ryusuke Taguchi following Ishimori’s victory over Kushida to win the title in WrestleKingdom. this is the first singles meeting between the two wrestlers and while many expect Ishimori to flatten Taguchi, they have shown Taguchi to be a deadly and skilled opponent much to Ishimori’s surprise

anyway one thing to notice is that during the new beginning tour Taguchi along with Makabe and Yano beat Ishimori and G.O.D to win the NEVER six-man belts with Taguchi tapping out Ishimori with the ankle lock with Ishimori noticeable having some ankle injury during the power struggle tour. This match has the potential to be a match of the night contender depending on which Taguchi shows up but if serious Taguchi shows up best expect a strong match

Winner: Ishimori retains

7th match: Kazuchika Okada vs Bad Luck Fale

Our semi-main event see’s the rainmaker take on the rogue general. This is the seventh single’s match between the two wrestlers with their record split even at 3-3 their last meeting being at last years G1 Climax where Fale picked up the win. Following Okada’s lost to Jay White at Wrestlekingdom Okada has now moved on to Fale to try and regain some momentum. Fale while not the greatest worker, when paired with the right opponent, can have a good match and Okada is one of them with the pair having two four-star matches at Invasion Attack 2015 and Wrestling Dontaku 2017. this match could go either way but with the track record of 3-0 in non-tournament matches to the rainmaker the same could happen here.

Winner: Kazuchika Okada

8th match: IWGP Heavyweight Championship (Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Jay White)

Our Main event of the night sees the Ace Hiroshi Tanahashi take on the leader of the bullet club “switchblade” Jay White. their fourth singles match standing at a record of 2-1 to the one in a century talent. While their first match many people found to be disappointing their matches have gotten better between them and both are coming off huge wins at WrestleKingdom with Tanahashi beating Omega to win the Heavyweight Title while Jay White bested the Rainmaker to many people’s surprise. with Kenny Omega’s departure from New Japan, it seems clear that Jay White is being pushed to be the top Heel Gajin (foreign wrestler) of the company and what better way than by beating Tanahashi at his first defense of the Title. and it could happen Jay White does seem to have Tanahashi number with Jay Tapping out Tanahashi at the first night at Sapporo event in a tag match. But the Ace has been in this situation many times before against Gajins like Giant Bernard, Karl Anderson and AJ Styles with the ace coming out the Victor can the Ace do it Again have to wait and see

Winner: Jay white Becomes the 68th IWGP Heavyweight Champion

And that’s my Thoughts and Predictions what are your’s tell me in the comments below and hope you enjoyed and till next time see ya