New Year Dash!! (2020)

New Year Dash!! (2020)
New Year Dash!! (2020)
	Event poster featuring Jushin Thunder Liger
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date	January 6, 2020
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Ota City General Gymnasium
Attendance	4,078
Event chronology
← Previous; Wrestle Kingdom 14	Next →; Fantastica Mania
New Year Dash!! chronology
← Previous; 2019	Next →; 2021

New Year Dash!! (2020) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on January 6, 2020, one day after Wrestle Kingdom 14.

The event featured the retirement ceremony of Japanese wrestling legend Jushin Thunder Liger.^[1]

Production

**Other on-screen personnel**
Role:	Name:
English commentators	Gino Gambino
	Kevin Kelly
	Chris Charlton
	Rocky Romero
Japanese commentators	Yohei Onishi
	Milano Collection A.T.
	Yusuke Okamoto
Ring announcers	Kimihiko Ozaki
Ring announcers	Makoto Abe
Referees	Jeremy Marcus
	Kenta Sato
	Marty Asami
	Red Shoes Unno
	Tiger Hattori

Background

New Year Dash!! was announced to be coming to Ōta on September 26, 2019, and was described as the "biggest New Year!! Dash" ever.^[2] The event featured blow-off matches for the previous night's Wrestle Kingdom 14 and as is tradition, all matches were revealed the night of the event.^[3]

Storylines

New Year Dash!! featured 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 build tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.^[4]

The previous night at Wrestle Kingdom 14, the IWGP Intercontinental Champion Tetsuya Naito defeated Kazuchika Okada to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship becoming the first ever dual IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental champion.^[5] After the match, he was attacked by Kenta,^[6] setting up the main event for New Year Dash!! as Naito and Los Ingobernables de Japón teammate Sanada would take on Kenta and his Bullet Club partner Jay White.^[7]

Results

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times^[1]
1	Alex Coughlin, Clark Connors, and Karl Fredericks defeated Yuya Uemura, Yota Tsuji, and Toa Henare by submission	Six-man tag team match	10:40
2	Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado) defeated Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh), Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi and Hiromu Takahashi), and Bullet Club's Cutest Tag Team (El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori)	Fatal 4-way tag team match	13:29
3	Kota Ibushi, Hiroshi Tanahashi and FinJuice (David Finlay, and Juice Robinson) defeated Bullet Club O.G. (Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale and Guerillas of Destiny (Tanga Loa, and Tama Tonga)) (with Jado)	Eight-man tag team match	11:39
4	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Shingo Takagi and Evil) defeated Chaos (Tomohiro Ishii and Hirooki Goto)	Tag team match	16:28
5	Chaos (Birds of Prey (Robbie Eagles and Will Ospreay) and Chaos Ride the Lightning (Yoshi-Hashi and Kazuchika Okada)) defeated Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Lance Archer, Zack Sabre Jr., and Minoru Suzuki) by disqualification	Eight-man tag team match	15:27
6	Los Ingobernables de Japón (Sanada and Tetsuya Naito) defeated Bullet Club (Jay White and Kenta) (with Gedo)	Tag team match	13:58

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "2020.01.06 NEW YEAR DASH!!". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
^ "New Year Dash!! Coming to Ota-ku January 6!". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. September 26, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
^ "2020.01.06 NEW YEAR DASH!! Tickets". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
^ Grabianowski, Ed (13 January 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
^ "2020.01.05 WRESTLE KINGDOM in TOKYO DOME night 2". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. January 5, 2020. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
^ Powell, Jason (January 5, 2020). "1/5 NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 night two results: Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships, Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Chris Jericho, Kota Ibushi vs. Jay White, Jushin Liger's final match, Jon Moxley vs. Juice Robinson for the IWGP U.S. Title". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
^ "2020.01.06 NEW YEAR DASH!! Card". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved January 6, 2019.

[New_Year_Dash-1] "2020.01.06 NEW YEAR DASH!!". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved January 6, 2019.

[2] "New Year Dash!! Coming to Ota-ku January 6!". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. September 26, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2019.

[3] "2020.01.06 NEW YEAR DASH!! Tickets". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved January 6, 2020.

[4] Grabianowski, Ed (13 January 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Retrieved October 9, 2017.

[5] "2020.01.05 WRESTLE KINGDOM in TOKYO DOME night 2". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. January 5, 2020. Retrieved January 5, 2020.

[WK14Night2-6] Powell, Jason (January 5, 2020). "1/5 NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 night two results: Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships, Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Chris Jericho, Kota Ibushi vs. Jay White, Jushin Liger's final match, Jon Moxley vs. Juice Robinson for the IWGP U.S. Title". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved January 5, 2020.

[7] "2020.01.06 NEW YEAR DASH!! Card". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Retrieved January 6, 2019.

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v t e ← 2019 - 2020 NJPW events - 2021 →
Events	Wrestle Kingdom 14 New Year Dash!! The New Beginning in Sapporo The New Beginning in Osaka Dominion in Osaka-jo Hall Sengoku Lord in Nagoya Destruction Summer Struggle in Jingu Fighting Spirit Unleashed Power Struggle
Tournaments	Best of the Super Juniors 2020 G1 Climax 30 Lion's Break Crown New Japan Cup 2020 Super J-Cup 8th Stage World Tag League 2020
Co-promoted events	Fantastica Mania 2020