New Japan continued the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today with the first of a few untelevised house shows this week.
Today’s event was held at Wing Hat Kusakabe in Saitama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 493.
There were last-minute changes to the card again due to the continued absences of Jeff Cobb, HENARE & Gabriel Kidd. All were to have been in Match 6, a 10-man tag match. Great-O-Khan was a replacement for Cobb & HENARE and it became an 8-man tag.
Match 1: Katsuya Murashima & Boltin Oleg beat Shoma Kato & Tomoaki Honma. Oleg pinned Kato after Kamikaze.
Match 2: Toru Yano, Yoh & El Desperado beat Yujiro Takahashi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho. Yano pinned Takahashi.
Match 3: Ryusuke Taguchi, Yuji Nagata & Shota Umino beat Dick Togo, Ren Narita & EVIL. Umino pinned Togo after Death Rider.
Match 4: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Jado, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. Ishimori pinned Jado.
Match 5: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tiger Mask, Togi Makabe, Tomohiro Ishii & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Sabre beat TM 4 with Cattle Mutilation.
Match 6: Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Alex Coughlin & David Finlay beat Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, TJP & Great-O-Khan. Finlay pinned Newman after Overkill.
Main Event: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, SHingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA. Naito pinned ? after Destino. (New Japan’s Japanese website currently doesn’t say who pinned who but from the finisher I know it was Naito. If I had to guess who took the fall it would be either TAKA or DOUKI. When/if I find out this will be updated)
The next event is Thursday at Iwaki City Gym in Fukushima. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
