New Japan finished up the Road To SALURA GENESIS Tour today in Tokyo.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 1476, a legit sellout.
Match 1: Tiger Mask & Shota Umino beat Masatora Yasuda & KUSHIDA. Umino pinned Yasuda after Raging Fire. Afterwards, TM 4 announced his retirement event, which was expected sometime this year, will be on 7/7.
Match 2: Konosuke Takeshita beat Tatsuya Matsumoto.
Match 3: El Desperado, Taichi & Yuya Uemura beat Master Wato, Tomoaki Honma & Togo Makabe. Taichi pinned Honma.
Match 4: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Don Fale, Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita beat Toru Yano, Aaron Wolf, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Boltin Oleg. Fale pinned Yano after an elbow drop.
Match 5: Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Gedo, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby). Jackson pinned Gedo after Death Valley Bomb.
Match 6: Zane Jay, Jake Lee & Callum Newman beat Daiki Nagai, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji. Newman pinned Nagai after Excalibur.
Match 7: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori beat Jacob Auatin Young & Francesco Akira to retain the titles. X pinned Young after X Express. V1 for the champs. Next up: Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles in a rematch from when Ishimori & X won the titles.
Main Event: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion DOUKI beat Yoh to retain the title. V3 for DOUKI. Next up: TM 4 for one last shot before he retires. Unless they hold off until after Best Of The Super Junior.
The next event is SALURA GENESIS, the annual spring blowout event, Saturday at Ryogoku Kokugikan. Live streaming on New Japan World OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. This will be a live & exclusive TV Asahi broadcast in Japan.