New Japan 4/3/24 Results

New Japan continued the Road To SAKURA GENESIS Tour today with the last televised event before this weekend.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1195.

Match 1: Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Takahashi pinned Kato after Pimp Juice.

Match 2: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA beat Boltin Oleg, Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Toru Yano. Uemura pinned TM 4 with a diving cross body.

Match 3: Taiji Ishimori & Chase Owens beat El Desperado & YOSHI-HASHI. Ishimori pinned Desperado.

Match 4: In a Gauntlet match, Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA & Tomohiro Ishii beat Callum Newman, Francesco Akira & TJP, then Knight/KUSHIDA/Ishii beat Gedo, Drilla Moloney & Clark Connorsz

Match 5: Shingo Takagi beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru by DQ. Ref assaults. Afterwards, EVIL named Kanemaru a special referee for Saturday’s NEVER Openweight Championship match against Takagi.

Match 6: Yoh & Shota Umino beat Sho & Ren Narita. Yoh punned Sho after Direct Drive. Afterwards, Yoh & Sho may have agreed to change Saturday’s IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match to a No DQ match.

Main Event: BUSHI & Yota Tsuji beat Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito. BUSHI pinned Takahashi.

Not counting a special pre-event press conference and talk show event Friday that is open to the public, the tour-ender is tomorrow at Ryugasaki City General Gym in Ibaraki. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.

During today’s event, the annual G1 CLIMAX Tournament was announced. The 34th annual event schedule is as follows:
7/20-7/21-Osaka Prefectural Gym, Osaka
7/23-Hiroshima Sun Plaza, Hiroshima
7/25-Sun Messe Kagawa, Kagawa
7/27-Dojima Messe Nagasaki, Nagasaki
7/28-7/29-Fukuoka International Center, Fukuoka
7/31-KDDI Ishin Hall, Yamaguchi
8/3-Yamato University Yamato Arena, Osaka
8/4-Aichi Prefectural Gym, Nagoya
8/6-8/7-Korakuen
8/8-Yokohama Budokan, Yokohama
8/10-Xebio Arena Sendai, Sendai
8/12-Aore Nagaoka, Niigata
8/14-Hamamatsu Arena, Shizuoka
8/15-Makuhari Messe, Chiba
8/17-8/18-Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo
Participants TBA at a later date, probably in June.

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