NJPW Burning Spirit

{{short description|2022 New Japan Pro-Wrestling professional wrestling event}}

{{Infobox Wrestling event

|name=Burning Spirit

|promotion=New Japan Pro-Wrestling

|date=September 25, 2022

|city=Kobe, Japan

|venue=World Memorial Hall

|attendance= 3,150

|liveevent=y

|lastevent=Fighting Spirit Unleashed

|nextevent=Royal Quest II

|image=NJPW_Burning_Spirit_logo.gif|caption=NJPW Burning Spirit logo}}

Burning Spirit was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on September 25, 2022, in Kobe, Japan at World Memorial Hall.

Storylines

Burning Spirit featured nine professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.{{cite web | url = http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm | title = How Pro Wrestling Works | last=Grabianowski | first=Ed | access-date=October 9, 2017 | work=HowStuffWorks, Inc. | publisher=Discovery Communications}}

Results

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|times =

|match1 = Los Ingobernables de Japon (Shingo Takagi, Bushi and Hiromu Takahashi) defeated Bullet Club (Kenta, El Phantasmo and Hikuleo) by pinfall

|stip1 = Six-man tag team match

|time1 = 8:43

|match2 = Toru Yano vs. Doc Gallows ended in a double countout

|stip2 = Singles match

|time2 = 3:45

|match3 = United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb) defeated General's Jewel (Bad Luck Fale and Chase Owens) by pinfall

|stip3 = Tag team match

|time3 = 7:57

|match4 = Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito and Sanada) by pinfall

|stip4 = Tag team match

|time4 = 9:32

|match5 = TMDK (Jonah, Shane Haste and Bad Dude Tito) defeated Kazuchika Okada and Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma) by pinfall

|stip5 = Six-man tag team match

|time5 = 12:09

|match6 = Bullet Club (Jay White and Taiji Ishimori) defeated Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Jado{{efn|Kushida was initially scheduled to team up with Tonga but later pulled out due to suffering hand, foot, and mouth disease.}}) by submission

|stip6 = Tag team match

|time6 = 10:39

|match7 = United Empire (Francesco Akira and TJP) (c) defeated Six or Nine (Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato) by pinfall

|stip7 = Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship

|time7 = 12:43

|match8 = Karl Anderson (c) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi by pinfall

|stip8 = Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship

|time8 = 13:37

|match9 = Will Ospreay (c) defeated David Finlay by pinfall

|stip9 = Singles match for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship

|time9 = 28:22

}}

Notes

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References

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{{2022 NJPW events}}

{{New Japan Pro Wrestling events}}

Category:2022 in professional wrestling

Category:New Japan Pro-Wrestling shows