Top 10 wrestling moments of 2019

#9 New Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor perform at The Garden

G1 Supercard

Wrestling historians will typically associate areas with certain promotions. For WWE, their wrestling home base has always been New York City.

For decades, fans would flock to Madison Square Garden to see the old WWWF and WWF headline the venue on a regular basis to witness stars such as Bruno Sammartino and Hulk Hogan in the flesh.

Even as we moved into the 1990s and 2000s, WWE would continue to perform at least once a year at The Garden. For the longest time, the company and the venue essentially had exclusivity agreement in place.

This made it all the more surprising when in June 2018, New Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor announced that their joint G1 Supercard event would take place at MSG over WrestleMania weekend.

The event, which sold out in minutes, marked the first non-WWE wrestling event in nearly half a century to take place at The Garden.

To many, G1 Supercard marked a changing of the guard, signifying the want for an alternative to the McMahon product.

The event itself was met with mixed acclaim. Many described the show as a tale of two halves, with the NJPW portion of the show praised whilst the ROH section was panned by many. It has led to speculation that the partnership between the companies could soon be coming to an end.

Regardless, the fact that a company from Japan held a show in this venue signified how far NJPW has come in the last decade.