Invasion Attack 2016: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

Bad Luck Fale and Yujiro Takahashi of Bullet Club defeated Ryusuke Taguchi and Juice Robinson in 3:45 to open Invasion Attack on April 10, 2016 at Ryōgoku Kokugikan. WrestleFile assigned the short two-on-two C / 6.3. The opening Bullet Club victory did not transfer any title; Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks held the NEVER Openweight six-man belts until a later match, when Tanahashi, Michael Elgin and Yoshitatsu beat them for that separate championship. Tetsuya Naito's IWGP Heavyweight title victory over Kazuchika Okada was still further away in the final. Precisely separating Fale and Yujiro's early win from the Elite's later title loss prevents an all-Bullet-Club summary from giving the wrong individuals championships.

Jushin Thunder Liger, Satoshi Kojima and Yuji Nagata defeated CHAOS representatives Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI and Kazushi Sakuraba in 7:06 during the second match of Invasion Attack 2016. All six participants belong to this result; it was a non-title six-man win rather than a championship defense by any of the three victors. With WrestleFile assigning C / 6.3, the bout functions as early event context ahead of the night's numerous title decisions. The next match paired Tomohiro Ishii and Hirooki Goto against EVIL and BUSHI, before Roppongi Vice won the junior tag belts in the fourth match. That sequence is important because the opening faction contests did not themselves decide those championships. This six-man is best sampled by viewers following Liger, Kojima or Nagata on the April 10 Ryogoku card, rather than treated as a rival headline attraction to Tetsuya Naito's eventual IWGP Heavyweight title victory over Kazuchika Okada.

Tomohiro Ishii and Hirooki Goto beat EVIL and BUSHI in 10:36 in a CHAOS-versus-Los Ingobernables de Japon tag match, the third bout of the April 10 Ryogoku card. The C+ / 6.5 score places it among the supporting results, but the faction split makes it particularly easy to misstate when summarizing the evening. Ishii and Goto won this encounter for CHAOS, even though Los Ingobernables leader Tetsuya Naito would beat another CHAOS wrestler, Kazuchika Okada, for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in the final match. Those are distinct results, not a sweep by either faction. This bout also came ahead of Roppongi Vice's junior tag championship victory; no title changed hands in the Ishii-Goto match itself. Readers tracking the multi-faction card can use the precise outcome, while those choosing only championship attractions have stronger options later in the event.

Beretta and Rocky Romero, Roppongi Vice, defeated defending IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Matt Sydal and Ricochet in 15:48 to WIN the belts at Invasion Attack on April 10, 2016. The previously stored time of 15:78 was not valid minutes-and-seconds notation; the contemporaneous Japanese event results record 15 minutes 48 seconds, independently corroborated by the CAGEMATCH team results. WrestleFile gives the fourth match B- / 7.1. Roppongi Vice's junior TAG title acquisition came before KUSHIDA successfully defended a separate junior SINGLES title against Will Ospreay. Later, Guerrillas of Destiny won the heavyweight tag championships, and Naito won the IWGP Heavyweight belt from Okada. The exact pairings, duration and championship type should remain separate.

KUSHIDA successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Will Ospreay in 15:07 during the fifth match of Invasion Attack 2016. He entered and left as the junior singles champion, making this outcome the opposite of the junior tag match immediately before it: Roppongi Vice had just taken that separate championship from Matt Sydal and Ricochet. The B- / 7.1 judgment credits the singles defense without presenting it as a title change or as the same contest as the junior tag upset. Ospreay was the unsuccessful challenger on April 10, regardless of his later career. A selective replay can use this bout to understand how the junior division contributed to the event's mix of retentions and switches. The heavyweight final went the other way when Naito defeated Okada; grouping every championship result as a new winner would erase that distinction.

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Michael Elgin and Yoshitatsu defeated defending NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson in 14:46, winning the belts during the sixth match. The change belonged to these exact three wrestlers, not to the earlier Fale-Yujiro Bullet Club tag in the opener. Omega and the Young Bucks lost the six-man championship, while the subsequent NEVER Openweight singles defense followed its own path: Katsuyori Shibata beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan to retain. The B- / 7.1 score puts this faction-and-title result in the card's capable middle section rather than ahead of Naito-Okada as an editorial recommendation. Because the show featured multiple title decisions, correctly distinguishing the Elite's six-man belts from the junior and heavyweight tag championships gives the reader a more accurate picture of what actually changed at Ryogoku.

Katsuyori Shibata retained the NEVER Openweight Championship by defeating Hiroyoshi Tenzan in 10:47, the seventh contest at Invasion Attack 2016. This was a singles defense of Shibata's title, not part of the NEVER six-man change immediately before it. Tanahashi, Michael Elgin and Yoshitatsu had won those team belts from the Elite, whereas Shibata stayed champion in this separate one-on-one match. WrestleFile's B- / 7.2 score reflects a credible supporting championship bout while acknowledging that the highest-rated moment would arrive in the heavyweight main event. The event next moved to Guerrillas of Destiny versus Great Bash Heel for the IWGP heavyweight tag title, another contest with a different championship lineage and a different outcome. Shibata-Tenzan is worth sampling for the singles title chronology, particularly because its successful defense contrasts with the card's multiple new champions.

Guerrillas of Destiny, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa, defeated reigning IWGP Tag Team Champions Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma of Great Bash Heel in 16:54 to win the belts. Placed directly ahead of the Naito-Okada headline match, the heavyweight tag switch was one of Invasion Attack 2016's larger results outside the IWGP Heavyweight title. WrestleFile scores it B- / 7.4, higher than some earlier championship contests but below the B+ / 8.4 final. The new champions were Tonga and Loa together; no result here transfers the junior tag titles, which Roppongi Vice won earlier from Sydal and Ricochet. That specific distinction is essential on a card where multiple teams captured gold. The bout is a sensible second viewing choice for those focused on heavyweight-division changes rather than on the entire nine-match lineup.

Tetsuya Naito defeated defending IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada in 28:50 at Ryogoku to win the championship in the final match of Invasion Attack on April 10, 2016. The result established Naito as the new champion on this night, not as the successful defending champion he would be at the subsequent Wrestling Dontaku event. WrestleFile's B+ / 8.4 is the card's highest individual evaluation and is the clearest full-watch recommendation. Its historical weight differs from the several tag-title switches earlier in the evening: Roppongi Vice captured the junior tags, Tanahashi's trio won the NEVER six-man belts, and Guerrillas of Destiny took the heavyweight tag championship. KUSHIDA and Shibata, meanwhile, retained their separate singles titles. Keeping Naito's win distinct from those other results explains why the final is both the editorial peak and the heavyweight turning point of this specific nine-match card.