2022 New Japan Pro-Wrestling event
Royal Quest II was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It was the second Royal Quest event and took place on October 1 & 2, 2022 at the Crystal Palace Indoor Arena in London , England .[ 1] [ 2]
Production
Background
Royal Quest II was the second event in the Royal Quest chronology, following the first event in 2019 .
On July 29, NJPW and Stardom announced the creation of the IWGP Women's Championship , which would be defend at NJPW events in Japan and United States. The inaugural champion will be crowned at Historic X-Over.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] 5 Star Grand Prix , it was announced that Alpha Female and Ava White would be participants in the international side of the tournament and will face off in the first round match at Royal Quest II.[ 6]
Storylines
Royal Quest II 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 built tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[ 7]
On June 26 at AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door , ROH Tag Team Champions FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood ) defeated IWGP Tag Team Champions United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb ) in a winner Takes All three-way tag team match with also involved Roppongi Vice (Rocky Romero and Trent Beretta ). On July 30, Aussie Open (Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher ) along with their United Empire stalemate TJP defeated FTR and Alex Zayne in a six-man tag team match at Music City Mayhem, after the match Aussie Open challenged FTR for the IWGP Tag Team titles which the title match was later made official for Royal Quest II on October 1.[ 8]
Results
See also
References
^ Currier, Joseph (16 August 2022). "NJPW returning to United Kingdom for Royal Quest II" . Wrestling Observer Newsletter . Retrieved 12 September 2022 . ^ Lambert, Jeremy (16 August 2022). "NJPW Announces Royal Quest II For October" . Fightful . Retrieved 12 September 2022 . ^ Renner, Ethan (29 July 2022). "NJPW & Stardom to hold first-ever joint event" . Wrestling Observer Online . Retrieved 23 August 2022 . ^ Lambert, Jeremy (30 July 2022). "NJPW & STARDOM creating IWGP Women's Championship" . Fightful . Retrieved 23 August 2022 . ^ "Kidani, Sugabayashi, Ogawa make Historic X-Over announcements" . New Japan Pro-Wrestling . 23 August 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022 .^ "Results: STARDOM 5 Star Grand Prix, Saturday August 27th" . Post Wrestling. 27 August 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022 .^ Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works" . HowStuffWorks, Inc . Discovery Communications . Retrieved 9 October 2017 . ^ "Aussie Open vs FTR for the IWGP Tag titles at Royal Quest II!" . New Japan Pro-Wrestling . Retrieved 12 September 2022 .^ "Royal Quest II" . New Japan Pro-Wrestling . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .^ Gregory, Jack (1 October 2022). "NJPW Royal Quest II Night 1 Full Results 10.01.2022: Heavyweight Tag Team Title & More" . 411mania.com . Retrieved 2 October 2022 . ^ "Royal Quest II" . New Japan Pro-Wrestling . Retrieved 2 October 2022 .
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