Although New Japan did not have an event today, the Suzuki-gun faction put on a special TAKA Michinoku 30th Anniversary event which New Japan put on as a PPV.
Today’s event was held at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo and can be watched on demand as a PPV on New Japan World. The cost is around $22.50 US, if you are not a current New Japan World subscriber you’ll also need to pay for a monthly subscription, which brings the actual total to around $30. It will be available to all New Japan World subscribers at a later date, based on other PPVs now removed from paywalls it will likely be some time early next year. These results are partial results as New Japan’s website listed 4 matches but there may have been as many as 7.
The announced paid attendance was 1940.
Match 1: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Minoru Suzuki beat Akira Jumanji, Genta Yubari, Hideki Sekine & Hikaru Sato. Suzuki pinned Jumanji after a Gotch-style piledriver. The losing team was all mixed martial arts fighters although Sato has also been a wrestler for a good two decades or close to it.
Match 2-4: Results unknown (not posted by New Japan).
Match 5: TAKA Michinoku 30th Anniversary Match: Gedo, Dick Togo & The Great Sasuke beat Kaz Hayashi (GLEAT), CIMA (GLEAT) & TAKA Michinoku. Gedo beat TAKA with Gedo Clutch.
Match 6: Taichi 20th Anniversary Match: Ryusuke Taguchi & Hirooki Goto beat Yoshitatsu (All-Japan Pro Wrestling) & Taichi. Goto pinned Yoshitatsu when everyone turned on him and pinned him simultaneously, Taichi included.
Main Event: In a No DQ Deathmatch, El Desperado beat Jun Kasai (Freedoms).
In other news, New Japan announced IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR vs. Aussie Open for the titles at Royal Quest 2 on 10/1 in England. Aussie Open will look to become double champions as they currently hold the STRONG Tag Team Championship while FTR also are the AAA and Ring Of Honor Tag Team Champions, sometimes defending them in All Elite Wrestling.
