Destruction (2012)

Destruction (2012)
	Promotional poster for the event, featuring Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Togi Makabe, Tetsuya Naito and Hirooki Goto
Information
Promotion	New Japan Pro Wrestling
Date	September 23, 2012
Attendance	8,000
Venue	Kobe World Memorial Hall
City	Kobe, Japan
Pay-per-view chronology
Destruction chronology

Destruction (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on September 23, 2012, in Kobe, Hyōgo, at the Kobe World Memorial Hall. The event featured nine matches, two of which were contested for championships.^[1]^[2]^[3] It was the sixth event under the Destruction name.

Production

Destruction featured nine 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 culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.^[4]

The event featured the professional wrestling return match of both Katsuyori Shibata and Kazushi Sakuraba, two longtime mixed martial artists, who defeated Hiromu Takahashi and Wataru Inoue.^[1] The event also featured outside participation from freelancer Daisuke Sasaki, Kaientai Dojo representative Kengo Mashimo and Pro Wrestling Noah representative Naomichi Marufuji, who unsuccessfully challenged Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in the main event.^[1] During the event, Kota Ibushi successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Ryusuke Taguchi.^[1]

No.	Results^[1]^[2]^[3]	Stipulations	Times^[1]
1	Chaos (Takashi Iizuka and Tomohiro Ishii) defeated Captain New Japan and Tama Tonga	Tag team match	09:16
2	Alex Shelley, Bushi and Kushida defeated Chaos (Alex Koslov, Gedo and Rocky Romero)	Six-man tag team match	09:37
3	Low Ki defeated Daisuke Sasaki	Singles match	08:45
4	Suzuki-gun (Harry Smith, Lance Archer and Minoru Suzuki) defeated Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima) and Yuji Nagata	Six-man tag team match	12:02
5	Togi Makabe defeated Kengo Mashimo	Singles match	09:02
6	Laughter7 (Katsuyori Shibata and Kazushi Sakuraba) defeated Hiromu Takahashi and Wataru Inoue	Tag team match	03:03
7	Kota Ibushi (c) defeated Ryusuke Taguchi	Singles match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship	17:06
8	Hirooki Goto, Karl Anderson and Tetsuya Naito defeated Chaos (Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura and Yujiro Takahashi)	Six-man tag team match	15:08
9	Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) defeated Naomichi Marufuji	Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship	23:35
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