NWPC Event 2x40: A Gun to a Knife Fight

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NJPW Sakura Genesis
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2026
Location: Ryogoku Kokugikan - Tokyo, Japan
1Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Callum Newman(8)Match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship
2Knock Out Brothers: Yuto-Ice/OSKAR (c) vs. TMDK: Zack Sabre Jr./Ryohei Oiwa(6)Match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
3Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Shota Umino(9)Match for the NJPW WORLD Television Championship
4Bishamon-tin: Hirooki Goto/YOSHI-HASHI/Oleg Boltin (c) vs. House of Torture: Ren Narita/Chase Owens/Yujiro Takahashi(4)Match for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship
5Hontai: El Desperado/Taichi/Yuya Uemura vs. United Empire: Will Ospreay/Great-O-Khan/HENARE(7)Will Ospreay's Return to Japan
6Hontai: Master Wato/Toru Yano/YOH/Aaron Wolf vs. House of Torture: Yoshinobu Kanemaru/SHO/DOUKI/Don Fale(5)Eight-Man Tag Team Match
7Unbound Co.: Shingo Takagi/Taiji Ishimori/Robbie X vs. United Empire: Jake Lee/Francesco Akira/Jakob Austin Young(2)Six-Man Tag Team Match
8Togi Makabe/Tiger Mask vs. TMDK: Kosei Fujita/Hartley Jackson(3)Tag Team Match
9KUSHIDA/Masatora Yasuda vs. Taisei Nakahara/Tatsuya Matsumoto: draw (1)Young Lions Match With KUSHIDA Also There
As a YL match, you may predict a DRAW for this match only.

Tiebreaks
The Perfect Show Bonus has been feeling pretty lonely lately.
For getting all 9 matches right, 27TB.

Which of the above matches (1-9) will last longest? Match 3

For 2TB: which will go shortest?
Match 5
Who will pin whom in match 2, KO Bros vs. ZSJ/Oiwa? ZSJ pins OSKAR

Who will pin whom in match 5, Will Ospreay's return? Will pins Taichi
 
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  1. Tsuji (9)
  2. Knockout Bros (2)
  3. Takeshita (8)
  4. Bishamon (6)
  5. United Empire (7)
  6. House of Torture (3)
  7. Unbound Co. (5)
  8. TMDK (1)
  9. KUSHIDA/Yasuda (4)

Which of the above matches (1-9) will last longest? Match 1
For 2TB: which will go shortest? Match 9
Who will pin whom in match 2, KO Bros vs. ZSJ/Oiwa? (1TB for each) OSKAR over Oiwa
Who will pin whom in match 5, Will Ospreay's return? (1TB for each) Ospreay over Uemura
 
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NJPW Sakura Genesis
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2026
Location: Ryogoku Kokugikan - Tokyo, Japan
1Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Callum NewmanMatch for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship
2Knock Out Brothers: Yuto-Ice/OSKAR (c) vs. TMDK: Zack Sabre Jr./Ryohei OiwaMatch for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
3Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Shota Umino - DRAWMatch for the NJPW WORLD Television Championship
4Bishamon-tin: Hirooki Goto/YOSHI-HASHI/Oleg Boltin (c) vs. House of Torture: Ren Narita/Chase Owens/Yujiro TakahashiMatch for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship
5Hontai: El Desperado/Taichi/Yuya Uemura vs. United Empire: Will Ospreay/Great-O-Khan/HENAREWill Ospreay's Return to Japan
6Hontai: Master Wato/Toru Yano/YOH/Aaron Wolf vs. House of Torture: Yoshinobu Kanemaru/SHO/DOUKI/Don FaleEight-Man Tag Team Match
7Unbound Co.: Shingo Takagi/Taiji Ishimori/Robbie X vs. United Empire: Jake Lee/Francesco Akira/Jakob Austin YoungSix-Man Tag Team Match
8Togi Makabe/Tiger Mask vs. TMDK: Kosei Fujita/Hartley JacksonTag Team Match
9KUSHIDA/Masatora Yasuda vs. Taisei Nakahara/Tatsuya MatsumotoYoung Lions Match With KUSHIDA Also There
As a YL match, you may predict a DRAW for this match only.

Tiebreaks
The Perfect Show Bonus has been feeling pretty lonely lately.
For getting all 9 matches right, 27TB.

Which of the above matches (1-9) will last longest? Match 1, of course, got 24:17. 1TB for: Brett, Alexis, Roy Mustang, Chris, Jimmy King, Mr. PrettyGood, HoHo, Doom, Blaze

For 2TB: which will go shortest? Match 8 got 7:02. 2TB for: Chris, Jimmy King, Jacob Fox, LadyHotRod

Who will pin whom in match 2, KO Bros vs. ZSJ/Oiwa? (1TB for each) Yuto-Ice over Oiwa. Who got what there?
1TB (Oiwa) - Alexis, Chris, Jimmy King, HoHo, Jacob Fox, Looch, Lethal
0TB - Brett, Mr. PrettyGood, LadyHotRod, Doom, Blaze, Dollar

Who will pin whom in match 5, Will Ospreay's return? (1TB for each) Ospreay over Taichi. Who got what there?
2TB (exact) - Roy Mustang, Chris, HoHo, Jacob Fox, LadyHotRod, Looch, Blaze, Lethal, Dollar
1TB (Ospreay) - Brett, Jimmy King, Mr. PrettyGood, Doom
0TB - Alexis

That was a shock title change, right there. But what midden does that make of the scores?
As a reminder, you are sorted on: prediction score, then total number of right predictions, then TB points, then reverse order in the rankings, then earliest submission
Maximum possible score for this event would be: 44pt. (8/8, 34TB)

The Free-For-All
Looch - 32pt. (6/8, 4TB)*
HoHo - 32pt. (6/8, 4TB)*
Lethal - 32pt. (6/8, 3TB)
Mr. PrettyGood - 29pt. (5/8, 2TB)
Blaze - 25pt. (5/8, 3TB)
Roy Mustang - 23pt. (4/8, 3TB)
Doom - 21pt. (4/8, 2TB)
LadyHotRod - 21pt. (3/8, 4TB)
Jacob Fox - 19pt. (3/8, 5TB)
Dollar - 15pt. (3/8, 2TB)
*Looch and HoHo separated by rankings underdog status (15th on 756pt. vs. 4th on 1102pt.)

It's a three-car pileup at the top! And the rare "reverse order of rankings" tiebreaker comes into play once again! @Loochquake is going for the top at Event #41!

Workhorseweight Title
Chris - 26pt. (5/8, 6TB)
Jimmy King - 20pt. (4/8, 5TB)

The winner of this contest...
And NEEEEEEEW WORKHORSEWEIGHT PREDICTION CHAMPION!

@Chris !!

Once again, consistency giving way to chaos! Who's going to try and topple Chris like he toppled Jimmy King?
Workhorseweight Title Standings (events 2x38 ~ 2x40)
Ties broken by TB points, then by highest "low" score, then by highest "middle" score, then by reverse order in the rankings, then by magic
Highest scorer challenges, except those involved in this week's title matches or next week's Galaxyweight Title match
(Note: only those that predicted all three of the last three weeks qualify to challenge)

Brett - 15 (3TB) + 38 (6TB) + 35 (2TB) = 88 (11TB)
HoHo - 20 (4TB) + 34 (7TB) + 32 (4TB) = 86 (15TB)
Mr. PrettyGood - 14 (2TB) + 22 (0TB) + 29 (2TB) = 65 (4TB)
Jimmy King - 14 (4TB) + 30 (6TB) + 20 (5TB) = 64 (15TB)
Chris - 15 (4TB) + 22 (7TB) + 26 (6TB) = 63 (17TB)
Dollar - 16 (2TB) + 26 (5TB) + 15 (2TB) = 57 (9TB)
Looch - 0 (0TB) + 23 (9TB) + 32 (4TB) = 55 (13TB)
LadyHotRod - 15 (2TB) + 19 (0TB) + 21 (4TB) = 55 (6TB)
Roy Mustang - 10 (3TB) + 20 (6TB) + 23 (3TB) = 53 (12TB)
Doom - 0 (0TB) + 20 (1TB) + 21 (2TB) = 41 (3TB)
Tommy Shelby - 10 (2TB) + 27 (4TB) + 0 (0TB) = 37 (6TB)
Blaze - 9 (4TB) + 0 (0TB) + 25 (3TB) = 34 (7TB)
Lethal - 0 (0TB) + 0 (0TB) + 32 (3TB) = 32 (3TB)
Deadd2009 - 0 (1TB) + 23 (3TB) + 0 (0TB) = 23 (3TB)
Dubb - 3 (2TB) + 0 (0TB) + 0 (0TB) = 3 (2TB)
Storm Trooper - 3 (1TB) + 0 (0TB) + 0 (0TB) = 3 (1TB)

Another beast of a matchup, as Chris takes on @Kairi HoHo at Event #41!

Galaxyweight Title
Brett - 35pt. (7/8, 2TB)
Alexis - 31pt. (6/8, 2TB)

The winner of this contest...
And STILL Galaxyweight Prediction Champion!

@Brett !!

Phew. I was hoping that would be the result, honestly, because this is an announcement I hate to make.
Due to allegations of him using AI to get ahead in other endeavours, and his previous lack of interest in wrestling making it likely he used these things to improve his own predictions, Alexis2282AE is hereby disallowed from predicting until further notice.

Good. Hopefully we can move on. NEXT EVENT
 
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Who will pin whom in match 2, KO Bros vs. ZSJ/Oiwa? (1TB for each) Yuto-Ice over Oiwa. Who got what there?
1TB (Oiwa) - Alexis, Chris, Jimmy King, HoHo, Jacob Fox, Looch, Lethal
0TB - Brett, Mr. PrettyGood, LadyHotRod, Doom, Blaze, Dollar

The Free-For-All
Looch - 32pt. (6/8, 4TB)*
HoHo - 32pt. (6/8, 4TB)*
Lethal - 32pt. (6/8, 3TB)
Mr. PrettyGood - 29pt. (5/8, 2TB)
Blaze - 25pt. (5/8, 3TB)
Roy Mustang - 23pt. (4/8, 3TB)
Doom - 21pt. (4/8, 2TB)
LadyHotRod - 21pt. (3/8, 4TB)
Jacob Fox - 19pt. (3/8, 5TB)
Dollar - 15pt. (3/8, 2TB)
*Looch and HoHo separated by rankings underdog status (15th on 756pt. vs. 4th on 1102pt.)

Well... that's unexpected. ...but also I put Yuto over Oiwa in as my Tag outcome prediction, so.
 

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I deffo want to pick draw in the TV title match for the record but I feel a load of others would have done the same :side:
 
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