All-Japan kicked off their annual Anniversary Series Tour, this year the 53rd Anniversary Tour, today in Saitama.
Today’s event was held at Gyoda Green Arena in Saitama and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. This was also a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.
The announced paid attendance was 1011.
Match 1: Jun Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito beat Knego Mashimo, Hikaru Sato & Seigo Tachibana. Jun Saito pinned Tachibana after a jackhammer. Afterwards, Jun Saito announced his withdrawal from the upcoming World’s Strongest Tag League/Real World Tag League due to his brother Rei Saito being unable to compete due to injury.
Match 2: Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Dan Tamura, ATM & Shota Kofuji. Omori pinned Kofuji after Narcissist Press. Apparently the Hokuto Army has combined with Kuroshio’s unit and will now be known as G-Boys. This is going to be hilarious(ly bad).
Match 3: Ryuki Honda & Rising Hayato beat Ren Ayabe & MUSASHI. Hayato pinned Ayabe.
Match 4: Shotaro Ashino & TBA beat Kento Miyahara & Hideki Suzuki by DQ. Miyahara DQ’d. TBA, a new member of Havoc, was revealed to be…Go Shiozaki! And he issued a Triple Crown challenge. Accepted. That match will happen on 10/22 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. So now I can keep my bad Go puns going in All-Japan! (Shiozaki left Pro Wrestling NOAH a couple weeks ago when his contract expired)
Match 5: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Atsuki Aoyagi beat Ryo Inoue to retain the title.V2 for Aoyagi. Next up: Hikaru Sato.
Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Xyon & Odyssey beat Yuma Aoyagi & Yuma Anzai to retain the titles. Xyon pinned Anzai after a diving headbutt. V1 for the champs. Next up: Omori & Kumaarashi.
The next event was to have been Monday in Miyagi but it was POSTPONED due to the Rei Saito injury so the next event now is Tuesday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.