New Japan wrapped up the 2-event New Japan Road tour today with a non-televised event featuring warm-ups for most of the World Tag League participants.
Today’s event was held at Light Cube Utsunomiya in Tochigi. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 1076.
Match 1; Satoshi Kojima, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Minoru Suzuki & Yuji Nagata beat Tiger Mask, Togi Makabe, Soberano Jr. & Atlantis Jr. Suzuki pinned TM 4 after a Gotch-style piledriver.
Match 2: Taiji Ishimori, Jack Bonza & Bad Luck Fale beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne & lace Archer. Fale pinned Taguchi after Grenade.
Match 3: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat Yuto Nakashima, Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun. Fujita pinned Nakashima after Abandon Hope.
Match 4: Yoh, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Yano pinned Togo.
Match 5: Ren Narita, Master Wato & Shota Umino beat Callum Newman, HENARE & Great-O-Khan. Umino pinned Newman after Blaze Blade.
Match 6: HAYATA (Pro Wrestling NOAH), Ryohei Oiwa & Kaito Kiyomiya (Pro Wrestling NOAH) beat Gedo, Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin. HAYATA pinned Gedo after Hedeck.
Match 7: Tomoaki Honma, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Jado, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. YOSHI-HASHI beat Jado with Butterfly Lock.
Main Event: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Zandokan Jr., Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Taichi, Yuya Uemura & SANADA. Tsuji pinned TAKA after Ankler. This was originally to have been an 8-man tag match but TAKA and Zandokan were late adds.
Next up is the World Tag League, the annual year-ending Heavyweight tag team tournament, beginning tomorrow at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET, and even better, you will be able to watch the event live and on demand FOR FREE! No account or payment required! This will be an ABEMA simulcast in Japan.
UPDATE: Updated main event result to add Zandokan Jr., who is Yota Tsuji’s mystery partner in the World Tag League.
