New Japan began the Road to KING OF PRO WRESTLING 2024 Tour today, unusual because all the events are/will be non-televised house shows so unless you are/were there you won’t be able to watch.
Today’s event was held at Kumagaya City Municipal Gym in Saitama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 978.
There were last-minute changes to the event because of Gabriel Kidd being off the event unexpectedly. Flight delays-unable to make it in time as a result.
Match 1: Katsuya Murashima beat Daiki Nagai. First career singles win for the Young Lion!
Match 2: Tomoaki Honma & Boltin Oleg beat Shoma Kato & Tomohiro Ishii. Oleg pinned Kato after Kamikaze.
Match 3: Taiji Ishimori, Caveman Agu & Bad Luck Fale beat Hartley Jackson (Independent/Freelancer), Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls. Fale pinned Jackson after an elbow drop.
Match 4: Taichi & DOUKI beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho. Taichi beat Kanemaru with a Taichi-type Gedo Clutch.
Match 5: Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji beat Jacob Austin Young & Jeff Cobb. Takahashi beat Young with a Figure 4.
Match 6: Shota Umino, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Umino pinned Togo after Death Rider.
Match 7: Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gedo & David Finlay. YOSHI-HASHI beat Gedo with Butterfly Lock.
Main Event: Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. Sabre pinned BUSHI after Sabre Driver.
The next event is BLUE JUSTICE 14, a Yuji Nagata Produced 40th Anniversary event, tomorrow at Togane Arena in Chiba. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
UPDATE: Great-O-Khan made an appearance at today’s Stardom PPV in Nagoy and announced he wanted to defend the KOPW 2024 Championship at Historic X-Over 2 on 11/17 against someone-or someones-from Stardom. Khan announced any rules would be acceptable. We’ll see what happens.
