Fighting Spirit Unleashed

Fighting Spirit Unleashed is a series of professional wrestling events produced annually in September by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, in the United States. NJPW first produced the event in 2018 and has since produced four editions, with the 2019 having been held as a three-event tour in Lowell, Massachusetts, New York City, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from September 27 to 29, 2019 and the most recent being held in closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic from September 4 to September 11, 2020.^[1][2]

Fighting Spirit Unleashed
Promotions	New Japan Pro-Wrestling
First event	Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2018)

Events

#	Event	Date	City	Venue	Attendance	Main event	Ref.
1	Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2018)	September 30, 2018	Long Beach, California	Walter Pyramid	3,007	Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) vs. Chaos (Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii)	^[3]
2	Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2019)	September 27, 2019	Lowell, Massachusetts	Lowell Memorial Auditorium	2,130	Kazuchika Okada, Kota Ibushi and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada, Evil and Tetsuya Naito)	^[4]
		September 28, 2019	New York City, New York	Hammerstein Ballroom	1,776	Kazuchika Okada and Kota Ibushi vs. Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada and Evil)	^[5]
		September 29, 2019	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	2300 Arena	1,030	Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, Yoshi-Hashi, Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson vs. Bullet Club (Jay White, Kenta, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Chase Owens and Gedo) in a twelve-man tag team elimination match	^[6]
3	Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2020)	September 4, 2020^[a]	Port Hueneme, California	Oceanview Pavilion	0^[b]	Flip Gordon vs. Jay White	^[7]
		September 11, 2020				Kenta vs. Jeff Cobb for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship challenge rights certificate
4	Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2021)	September 18, 2021^[c]	Long Beach, California	Thunder Studios	144	Juice Robinson vs. Hikuleo in a tables match	^[8]^[9]
		September 25, 2021				Fred Rosser vs. Ren Narita
		October 2, 2021				Tom Lawlor (c) vs. Lio Rush for the Strong Openweight Championship

Notes

1. The event was taped on an unknown date and aired on September 4 and 11 as regular episodes of NJPW Strong.
2. These events were attended only by essential personnel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. The event was taped on August 16 and aired on September 18, 25 and October 2 as regular episodes of NJPW Strong.

References

1. "NJPW storms the US east coast this September for Fighting Spirit Unleashed!". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. July 6, 2019. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
2. "2020.09.04 FIGHTING SPIRIT UNLEASHED". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Bushiroad. September 4, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
3. "Fighting Spirit Unleashed". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
4. "Fighting Spirit Unleashed". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
5. "Fighting Spirit Unleashed". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
6. "Fighting Spirit Unleashed". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
7. "Major matches lined up For Fighting Spirit Unleashed on NJPW STRONG! 【NJoA】". NJPW1972.com. New Japan Pro-Wrestling. August 28, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
8. "ON SALE NOW: Fans come to STRONG for Fighting Spirit Unleashed! 【NJoA】". NJPW1972.com. New Japan Pro-Wrestling. June 30, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
9. Bryant, Steve (August 17, 2021). "NJPW Strong – 16 August 2021 – Results". socaluncensored.com. Retrieved August 17, 2021.

External links

• The official New Japan Pro-Wrestling English website