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Windy City Riot (2022)
Windy City Riot was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on April 16, 2022, at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois. It was the inaugural event under the Windy City Riot chronology.
| Windy City Riot | ||
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| Promotional poster featuring several NJPW wrestlers | ||
| New Japan Pro-Wrestling | ||
| April 16, 2022 | ||
| Villa Park, Illinois | ||
| Odeum Expo Center | ||
| 2,277 | ||
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Windy City Riot was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on April 16, 2022, at the Odeum Expo Center in Villa Park, Illinois. It was the inaugural event under the Windy City Riot chronology.
Nine matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Jon Moxley defeated Will Ospreay. In other prominent matches, Tomohiro Ishii defeated Minoru Suzuki, Juice Robinson, David Finlay and Brody King defeated Jonah, Shane Haste and Bad Dude Tito in a Chicago Street Fight, and Tom Lawlor defeated Yuji Nagata to retain the Strong Openweight Championship. The event also saw Shota Umino's return to the company from excursion in a losing effort to Jay White.
This was the final event held at the Odeum Expo Center, as the venue permanently closed in May 2022.
Windy City Riot featured nine professional wrestling matches that involve 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 culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheeler Yuta and Rocky Romero defeated The DKC and Kevin Knight by pinfall | Tag team match | 9:30 | |
| The Factory (Q. T. Marshall, Aaron Solo and Nick Comoroto) defeated LA Dojo (Karl Fredericks, Clark Connors and Yuya Uemura) by pinfall | Six-man tag team match | 11:56 | |
| Fred Rosser, Josh Alexander, Alex Coughlin, Ren Narita and Chris Dickinson defeated Team Filthy (Royce Isaacs, Jorel Nelson, JR Kratos, Black Tiger and Danny Limelight) by submission | Ten-man tag team match | 13:50 | |
| Tom Lawlor (c) defeated Yuji Nagata by pinfall | Singles match for the Strong Openweight Championship | 13:57 | |
| United Empire (Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb, TJP, Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher) defeated Bullet Club (Hikuleo, Chris Bey, El Phantasmo, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows and Scott Norton) by pinfall | Twelve-man tag team match | 11:58 | |
| FinJuice (David Finlay and Juice Robinson) and Brody King defeated TMDK (Jonah and Shane Haste) and Bad Dude Tito by pinfall | Chicago Street Fight | 24:11 | |
| Jay White defeated Shota Umino by pinfall | Singles match | 15:45 | |
| Tomohiro Ishii defeated Minoru Suzuki by pinfall | Singles match | 18:46 | |
| Jon Moxley defeated Will Ospreay by pinfall | Singles match | 21:24 | |
| (c) | – the champion(s) heading into the match | D | – this was a dark match |
| (c) | – the champion(s) heading into the match | ||
| D | – this was a dark match |
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