All-Japan continued the Champions Carnival today in Kagawa.
Today’s event was held at Takamatsu Symbol Tower in Kagawa and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 330.
Match 1: Rei Saito, MUSASHI, Ryo Inoue & Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Rising Hayato, Atsuki Aoyagi, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao. Saito pinned Nagao after a chokeslam.
Champions Carnival Block A:
Match 2: Hideki Suzuki beat Takashi Yoshida.
Match 3: Shotaro Ashino beat Davey Boy Smith Jr. by submission.
Match 4: Jun Saito beat Xyon.
Match 5: Kento Miyahara, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Madoka Kikuta. Ayabe pinned Omori after Des Roulette.
Champions Carnival Block B:
Match 6: Yuma Anzai beat MIke D. Vecchio.
Main Event: Yuma Aoyagi beat Aigle Blanc.
Standings-wise, Smith still leads Block A with 10 points but has only one match left while 3 of the 4 tied for 2nd with 8 points have 2 matches left. Kengo Mashimo only has one left in that group. The only one under 8 points not yet mathematically eliminated from contention is Kumaarashi at 6 points because he has 2 matches left-Ashino is also on 6 points but only has one match left and loses all tiebreakers to the 8 point group so he is out. Xyon is also out as is the pointless Yoshida. In Block B, Anzai & Kikuta are tied for the lead with 8 points but Kikuta has the advantage with 3 matches left against Anzai having only 2. Aoyagi, Honda & Vehhio are all on 6 points and still in it but Honda has 3 matches left and the others have just 2. Nobody is mathematically out of it yet, and despite being on only 4 points Omori still has 3 matches left so he has a way in as does Rei Saito who is in last at 2 points but with 4 matches to go. The top 2 in each block advance to the Semifinals.
The next event is tomorrow (tonight US time) at Okayama Convention Center in Okayama. There will be no live broadcast. On demand tomorrow night.
