New Japan returned to Chiba today for BLUE JUSTICE 19, the latest Yuji Nagata Produced event as the oldest member at 58 years old did his best today to put on another successful honetown event, Zea.
Today’s event was held at Togane Arena in Chiba 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 1258.
Match 1: Tatsuya Matsumoto beat Taisei Nakahara.
Match 2: Dick Togo, Sho & DOUKI beat Masatora Yasuda, Ryusuke Taguchi & El Desperado. Sho pinned Yasuda after a double arm piledriver.
Before the next match, Nagata’s son, an accomplished high school wrestler himself, came out to help celebrate Satoshi Kojima’s 35th anniversary.
Match 3: Jacob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Callum Newman beat Jado, Satoshi Kojima, Boltin Oleg & Shota Umino. Khan pinned Jado after Collapse.
Match 4: Jeff Cobb beat Zane Jay.
Match 5: Taichi, Yuya Uemura & Aaron Wolf beat Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa. Taichi beat Jackson with a polestar cross lock.
Match 6: Master Wato, Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Gedo, Robbie X, Taiji Ishimori & Yota Tsuji. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Gedo after Shoto.
Main Event: Toru Yano, Togi Makabe & Yuji Nagata beat Daiki Nagai, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby). Nagata pinned Nagai with a backdrop hold.
It’s not known when Nagata will put on his next Chiba event but he plans to be back next year for a 35th Anniversary event.
The next event is Wednesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo for a doubleheader. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. The second event on Thursday will also be a live Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.