All-Japan kicked off their annual Flag-Raising Anniversary Series tour today, held each October to commemorate the beginning of the promotion in 1972.
Today’s event was held at Gyoda Green Arena Main Arena in Saitama and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.
The announced paid attendance was 867.
Match 1: Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo (Independent/Freelancers) beat Kuamarashi & Yuya Aoki (Independent/Freelancer). Sekmoto pinned Aoki after a backbreaker.
Match 2: Rising Hayato & Yasutaka Yano beat MUSASHI & Hokuto Omori. Hayato pinned Omori after SId Vicious.
Match 3: Xyon, Odyssey & Shotaro Ashino beat Hideki Suzuki, Masayuki Kono & Nobuhiko Kimura (Independent/Freelancer). Odyssey pinned Kimura after a second rope body splash.
Match 4: Yuma Aoyagi, Yuma Anzai & Shota Kofuji beat Jun & Rei & Senor Saito. Aoyagi pinned Senor Saito after The Fool.
Match 5: Kento Miyahara & Go Shiozaki beat Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. Miyahara pinned Honda with a shutdown suplex hold.
Main Event: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion Dan Tamura beat Seiki Yoshioka to retain the title. V2 for Tamura. Next up: Likely Hayato.
The next event is 10/11 at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin on 10/10 at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. This will also be a GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan.