New Japan just announced the results of fan voting on Twitter for the stip for the next KOPW 2022 Trophy Match on 12/19 at the TakaTaichi PPV…and it was close. In the end, champion Shingo Takagi’s stip won so it will be a Takagi-style Last Man Standing Lumberjack Death Match. The only way to win is pinfall followed immediately by the downed opponent being unable to answer a followup 10 count. Taichi’s proposal of a 30 minute high score match actually won the English Twitter vote, but Takagi has a big enough margin on the Japanese Twitter vote to win.
The final combined total was 14,830 votes for Takagi to 13,694 votes for Taichi.
The 12/19 event will be at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym 2 in Tokyo and will be a standalone PPV on New Japan World.
