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]

Events
# Event Date City Venue Attendance Main event Ref(s)
1 Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2018) September 30, 2018 Long Beach, California Walter Pyramid 3,007 Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) versus 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 versus Los Ingobernables de Japon (Sanada, Evil and Tetsuya Naito) [4]
3 September 28, 2019 New York City, New York Hammerstein Ballroom 1,776 Kazuchika Okada and Kota Ibushi versus Los Ingobernables de Japon (Sanada and Evil) [5]
4 September 29, 2019 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2300 Arena 1,030 Hiroshi Tanahashi, Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi) and The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) versus Bullet Club (Jay White, Kenta, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Chase Owens and Gedo) in a twelve-man tag team elimination match [6]
5 Fighting Spirit Unleashed (2020) September 4, 2020 Port Hueneme, California Oceanview Pavilion 0[lower-alpha 1] Flip Gordon versus Jay White [7]
6 September 11, 2020 Kenta versus Jeff Cobb for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship challenge rights certificate

Notes
  1. These events were attended only by essential personnel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.
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