New Japan continued the BATTLE AUTUMN ’22 Tour today with the last event of a week of non-televised house shows.
Today’s event was held at Akita Terrsa in Akita. There was no live broadcast and no on demand video will be available.
The announced paid attendance was 1060. From the couple of pictures on New Japan’s Japanese website it looked close to a sellout.
Match 1: Ryohei Oiwa beat Kosei Fujita.
Match 2: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Yuto Nakashima & Tomoaki Honma. YOSHI-HASHI beat Nakashima with Butterfly Lock.
Match 3: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tiger Mask & David Finlay. Sabre beat TM 4 with Clarky Cat.
Match 4: Taiji Ishimori & KENTA beat DOUKI & Taichi. Ishimori beat DOUKI with Bone Lock.
Match 5: Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Ren Narita & Togi Makabe. Yano pinned Makabe.
Match 6: Alex Zayne & Master Wato beat TAKA Michinoku & El Desperado. Zayne pinned TAKA after Cinnamon Twist.
Match 7: Jado, Hikuleo, Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Tanahashi pinned Togo after High Fly Flow. Afterwards, even though it wasn’t the end of the event, Tanahashi busted out the epic air guitar to send the crowd home happy when it was.
Main Event: Titan, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat Francesco Akira, TJP, Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Naito pinned Henare after Destino.
The next event is tomorrow at Aomori Sports Park Maeda Arena Main Arena in Aomori. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.
In other news, New Japan’s English website posted backstage comments from Hikuleo after yesterday’s event in the first update on the status of the NEVER Openweight Championship match between Hikuleo & Karl Anderson scheduled for 11/5. As of now the match is still on even though Anderson and Doc Gallows have apparently returned to WWE and are scheduled to be at the WWE event in Saudi Arabia on 11/5, likely meaning they can’t be at the tour-ender in Osaka. The video version may soon be available on YouTube if it’s not already.
