New Japan headed to Osaka today to begin the penultimate weekend of the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING Tour.
Today’s event was held at Habikino City General Sports Center in Osaka. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 805.
President Hiroshi Tanahashi made an appearance before the event began. The mayor of Habikino City also appeared and they made it pretty much official that the promotion will be back next year.
Match 1: Katsuya Murashima beat Masatora Yasuda.
Match 2: Ryusuke Taguchi & El Desperado beat Shoma Kato & Tiger Mask. Desperado pinned Kato after Pinche Loco.
Match 3: Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tatsuya Matsomoto, Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Fujita pinned Matsmoto with a variant German suplex hold.
Match 4: Master Wato, Yoh, Toru Yano & Aaron Wolf beat Dick Togo, DOUKI, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita. Wato beat Togo with Vendeval.
Match 5: Robbie X, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) beat Tomoaki Honma, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino by ref stoppage. OSKAR beat Honma.
Match 6: Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, HENARE & Callum Newman beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay. Young pinned Gedo after BANGYOBU BEACH (Boston crab variation).
Main Event: Zane Jay, Great-O-Khan & Jake Lee beat Daiki Nagai, Drilla Moloney & Yota Tsuji. Lee pinned Nagai after D4C.
The tour-ender is tomorrow at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.