New Japan continued the New Japan Road tour today with a non-televised house show as they continue their final build to the joint Forbidden Door PPV with All Elite Wrestling next week.
Today’s event was held at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka. There was no live broadcast and on demand video will not be available.
The announced paid attendance was 703.
Match 1: Clark Connors beat Ryohei Oiwa.
Match 2: Tomoaki Honma beat Yuto Nakashima.
Match 3: Minoru Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru beat Kosei Fujita & Tomohiro Ishii. Suzuki pinned Fujita after a Gotch-style piledriver.
Match 4: Yoh, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Gedo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Yoh pinned Togo after Traas Kick.
Match 5: Aaron Henare, Franceso Akira & TJP beat Jado, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi. Henare beat Jado with Ultima.
Match 6: BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. Takahashi pinned Gedo after D.
Main Event: SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Togi Makabe & Kazuchika Okada. Naito pinned Makabe after Valentia.
In other news, at today’s All-Japan Pro Wrestling event Tiger Mask 4 beat All-Japan Jr. Heavyweight Champion Mitsuru Sato to win the title and become the 62nd All-Japan Jr. Heavyweight Champion. It’s the first time in his career TM 4 has held the title. The match was a special Memorial Match in memory of former All-Japan and Pro Wrestling NOAH star Atsushi Aoki, who was killed on June 3, 2019 in a motorcycle accident while he was still champion. He was only 41. He was posthumously allowed to remain champion until late 2019 by then-All-Japan President Jun Akiyama, when the 6-month time limit between defenses would expire.
Yuji Nagata also participated in the event, he teamed with Dan Tamura in a loss to Suwama & TARU.
The next event is tomorrow at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World worldwide and in Japan on ABEMA will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET, and even better it’s the monthly event that everyone can watch on New Japan World live and on demand FOR FREE! No subscription or login required! The main event will be IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato vs. Francesco Akira & TJP for the titles. There also will be two matches in the AEW All-Atlantic Championship Tournament: Connors vs. Honma and Ishii vs. Kanemaru. The winners meet on Tuesday with that winner advancing to the 4-way for the title at Forbidden Door.
