All-Japan wraps up their weeklong Hokkaido tour with a doubleheader of major events today. The first event is a matinee headlined by 2 title matches-first, El Lindaman defends the All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Championship against Jonathan Gresham, looking to win the title to finish his first tour with the promotion. In the main event, All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito defend the titles against the odd but dangerous team of Minoru Suzuki & Hokuto Omori.
Today’s events will be held at Hotel Emisia Sapporo in Hokkaido and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV. It’s not yet known if there will be any commentary. The second event coming up after he first one will keep this first event from running too long, probably will go around 2 1/2 hours.
Today’s lineup:
Yoshitatsu vs. Ren Ayabe
Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato vs. Hikaru Sato & Ryo Inoue
Takao Omori, Takaya Doi (?) & Koji Yoshida vs. Black Menso-re, Fuminori Abe & Kumagoro Hokkai
Dan Tamura vs. T-Hawk
Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi & Shuji Ishikawa vs. Suwama, Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai
All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion El Lindaman vs. Jonathan Gresham for the title
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Minoru Suzuki & Hokuto Omori for the titles
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Updates below will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. (The second event will begin at 1 AM PT/MT/2 AM CT/3 AM ET-remember the time change-back 1 hour-is overnight tonight! There will be no live results for the second event)
8:01 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now…
We are LIVE from Hotel Emisia Sapporo in Hokkaido, Japan. Audio muted at start for a few seconds. There is Japanese commentary for this event. No videos tonight as there is no TV/monitor setup in the venue.
The paid attendance will be announced at the event. Looks like the setup is for 400-500 and looks to be 90-95% full so I’m thinking it’ll be around 450 depending on capacity. (Seemed like the crowd thinned out some during intermission. Revising my estimate down to maybe 400) (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 596)
Match 1: Yoshitatsu vs. Ren Ayabe. 10 minute time limit
Result: Ren Ayabe beat Yoshitatsu
Match 2: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato vs. Hikaru Sato & Ryo Inoue. 15 minute time limit
Result: Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising Hayato beat Hikaru Sato & Ryo Inoue. Hayato pinned Inoue after Sid Vicious.
Match 3: Takao Omori, Takaya Doi (?) & Koji Yoshida vs. Black Menso-re, Fuminori Abe & Kumagoro Hokkai. 20 minute time limit
Result: Takao Omori, Takaya Doi (?) & Koji Yoshida beat Black Menso-re, Fuminori Abe & Kumagoro Hokkai. Omori pinned Menso-re after Ax Bomber. A bit of a comedy match.
Intermission. Almost 20 minute break.
The matches resume at 9:02 PM PT.
Match 4: Dan Tamura vs. T-Hawk. 30 minute time limit
Result: T-Hawk beat Dan Tamura
Match 5: Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi & Shuji Ishikawa vs. Suwama, Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara, Yuma Aoyagi & Shuji Ishikawa beat Suwama, Ryuki Honda & Yuma Anzai. Ishikawa pinned Anzai after Splash Mountain.
Match 6: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion El Lindaman vs. Jonathan Gresham for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion El Lindaman beat Jonathan Gresham to retain the title. V4 for Lindaman. Show of respect from Gresham afterwards, coming up just short in a very competitive match.
Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Minoru Suzuki & Hokuto Omori for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Minoru Suzuki & Hokuto Omori to retain the titles. Jun Saito pinned Omori after Doomsday Device. V2 for the champs.
The next event is later today. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1 AM PT/MT/2 AM CT/3 AM ET (all time zones except PT have their start times affected by the time change back 1 hour).
