All-Japan continued the Royal Road Tournament today in Shizuoka.
Today’s event was held at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV tonight at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 505.
Match 1: Shotaro Ashino, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana beat MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Ryo Inoue. Ashino pinned Inoue after a T-Bone suplex.
Match 2: Yuma Aoyagi, Dan Tamura & Hideki Sekine (Indpendent/Freelancer) beat Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Jack Kennedy. Aoyagi pinned Kennedy.
Match 3: Davey Boy Smith Jr., Joel Redman & Hikaru Sato beat Rei Saito, Naruki Doi & Senor Saito. Sato beat Senor Saito with a chicken wing.
Match 4: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Yuma Anzai & Rising Hayato. Ayabe pinned Hayato after Des Rolette.
Royal Road Round 1:
Match 5: Cyrus beat Jun Saito.
Main Event: Kento Miyahara beat Hideki Suzuki.
As a result of today, the first Quarterfinals are set, which will be Miyahara vs. Joel Redman and Ryuki Honda vs. Dan Tamura. Cyrus will face the Rei Saito-Kumaarashi winner. The other 2 Round 1 winners (also tomorrow) will meet in the last Quarterfinal.
The next event is tomorrow at Hanahaku Memorial Park Tsurumi Ryokuchi Hanamizuki Hall in Osaka with the remainder of Round 1. There will be no live broadcast. On demand should be available tomorrow night.
In other news, it was announced that Suwama will return from recent injury absence (ear vertigo) on 9/22 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, which will be the Royal Road Semifinals & Finals.
