All-Japan ran the third Rising Hayato Produced NEW AGE CHRONICLE Z event today, focused on younger and less experienced wrestlers.
Today’s event was held at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring and can be watched on demand on YouTube. It was to have been live on AJPW.TV but was bot due to technical issues and an emergency decision was made to stream it for free on YouTube. It will be available on demand on AJPW.TV at a later time. The YouTube video is joined in progress (it appears to start after intros for the first match so it’s missing the first few minutes of the event). I attempted to link to/embed it here but the provider doesn’t allow it. (The AJPW.TV version is now available on the service, they are still looking into the technical issues)
The announced paid attendance was 335, a legit advance sellout.
Match 1: Soma Watanabe beat Ryo Inoue.
Match 2: Hideki Sekine beat Imabari Towel Mascaras.
Match 3: Jun & Rei Saito beat Shotaro Ashino & Kumaarashi. Rei Saito pinned Lumaarashi after Iginari Saito Splash.
Match 4: Yuma Aoyagi, Yuma Anzai & Ryuki Honda beat Hokuto Omori, Ren Ayabe & So Daimonji. Anzai pinned Ayabe with a German suplex hold.
Main Event: Dan Tamura & Hayato Tamura beat Rising Hayato & TBA, revealed at match time to be Rising Atsuki. Dan Tamura pinned Atsuki after a powerbomb. It was originally announced that Atsuki Aoyagi would not be part of the event due to working as a producer for the event…clearly a well-played swerve.
There will be a 4th event in the series on 4/11-the series has been extremely successful so far as every event has been a legit advance sellout well ahead of time as they spotlight wrestlers with less than 10 years experience.
The next event is 2/20 at Korakuen Hall with 3 title matches including Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Rei Saito for the Triple Crown. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1;30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.
