New Japan continued the BURNING SPIRIT Tour today with the last live event broadcast for a while, as TMDK looks to keep their early momentum going after two huge opening tour wins.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese FOR FREE! It’s also available on the New Japan World YouTube channel (Correction: Only the first 2 matches are on YouTube). Click below to watch:
https://njpwworld.com/p/s_00621_3_1
The announced paid attendance was 700, a legit advance sellout. Vocal support was allowed for the first time since the pandemic began.
Match 1: Minoru Suzuki beat Bad Dude Tito.
Match 2: Toru Yano, Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Yano pinned Togo.
Match 3: Hikuleo, Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale beet Gideon Gray, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Hikuleo pinned Gray after a chokeslam.
Match 4: Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira & TJP beat The DKC, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi. Henare pinned DKC after Rampage.
Match 5: Jado & KUSHIDA beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. KUSHIDA pinned Gedo with a hammerlock suplex hold.
Match 6: KENTA & El Phantasmo beat BUSHI & Shingo Takagi. Phantasmo pinned BUSHI after CR 2.
Match 7: Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat El Desperado, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. SANADA pinned Taichi with O’Connor Bridge.
Main Event: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat Shane Haste & Jonah. Tanahashi pinned Haste after High Fly Flow. Afterwards, Tanahashi & Okada led a big chorus of cheering to send the crowd home happy.
The next event is tomorrow. This event will be ON DEMAND ONLY on New Japan World. It will be a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan. The next live broadcast will not be until 9/18
But to keep you busy until then, several PPVs and major events that were behind paywalls earlier this year are now available on demand to all New Japan World subscribers: The Suzuki-Gun PPVs put on by Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & El Desperado from January and May are now available (a third one is coming up next week and is available as a PPV for approx. $22.50 in addition to the monthly subscription fees, so for new subscribers that’s right around $30), as is the Tatsumi Fujinami 50th Anniversary event from 5/12 and the special post-G1 CLIMAX TV Asahi Special outdoor event from 8/20.
