Less than 24 hours after their huge 50th Anniversary event, All-Japan is turning right back around with another big matinee event today, a national holiday in Japan. Despite the threats from the massive Super Typhoon (hurricane) that made landfall in the southwestern regions of the country and impacts that may be reaching Tokyo soon if they haven’t already, the event is going on as planned. The main event features New All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara, who won the Triple Crown yesterday (today US time), defending against Naoya Nomura, who earned the opportunity by beating Jake Lee yesterday. On the undercard, one of the longest-running comic book-inspired rivalries in Japanese wrestling will be reborn as New Japan star Tiger Mask, who just lost the All-Japan World Jr. Heavyweight Championship yesterday, faces the resurfacing of his eternal rival, Black Tiger (who may or may not be New Japan and AEW star Rocky Romero, who often has portrayed Black Tiger before).
Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV. There likely will be Japanese commentary. If you’re staying up late on a Sunday night in the US to watch, I anticipate the event’s running time being between 2 1/2-3 hours.
Today’s lineup:
Izanagi & Black Menso-re vs. Doho Koji (?) & Ryuarashi (?)
Yoshitatsu, TAJIRI & Rising Hayato vs. Atsuki Aoyagi, Christopher Daniels & Cyrus
Tiger Mask (New Japan Pro Wrestling) vs. Black Tiger
Takao Omori & Ryo Inoue vs. Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & Dan Tamura
Minoru Suzuki vs. Yuma Anzai
Suwama, TARU, Minoru & Toshizo vs. Jake Lee, Shuji Ishikawa, Yuma Aoyagi & Hokuto Omori
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Shotaro Ashino & Ryuki Honda vs. Jun & Rei Saito for the titles
All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara vs. Naoya Nomura for the Triple Crown
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Updates below will begin at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT.
10:30 PM ET UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is Japanese commentary but I did not catch the name (just one person).
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. From first look at the beginning I’m estimating around 550.
Match 1: Koji Doi & Kuma Arashi vs. Izanagi & Black Menso-re. 10 minute time limit
Result: Koji Doi & Kuma Arashi beat Izanagi & Black Menso-re. Arashi pined Izanagi after a diving senton.
Match 2: Yoshitatsu, TAJIRI & Rising Hayato vs. Atsuki Aoyagi, Christopher Daniels & Cyrus. 20 minute time limit
Result: Atsuki Aoyagi, Christopher Daniels & Cyrus beat Yoshitatsu, TAJIRI & Rising Hayato. Daniels pinned TAJIRI after a moonsault. Afterwards, Hayato gestured towards Aoyagi as to suggest a challenge for the All-Asia Tag Team Championship.
Match 3: Tiger Mask (New Japan Pro Wrestling) vs. Black Tiger (about 100% certain it’s not Rocky Romero). 20 minute time limit
Result; Tiger Mask beat Black Tiger by ref stoppage (submission). Afterawrds, TM 4 attempted to unmask Black Tiger, and did enough to confirm that indeed it was not Rocky Romero. TM 4’s entrance theme was muted during his entrance but they did an instrumental version afterwards to not mute audio.
Match 4: Takao Omori & Ryo Inoue vs. Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & Dan Tamura. 20 minute time limit
Result: Yuji Nagata & Dan Tamura beat Takao Omori & Ryo Inoue. Tamuura pinned Inoue after a thunder driver.
Matches for upcoming events are announced. On 10/2, Toru Yano, Nagata and the New Japan Young Lions will all participate. On 10/22 there will be a Yoshitatsu 20th Anniversary Match of Yoshitatsu vs. Suwama and a 50th Anniversary match. On 10/23, Nagata and several members of GLEAT will participate.
Match 5: Yuma Anzai vs. Minoru Suzuki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Minoru Suzuki beat Yuma Anzai by submission. This was Japan’s version of an extended glorified squash, although this was only Anzai’s second career match. His Debut was just yesterday.
Match 6: Suwama, TARU, Minoru & Toshizo vs. Jake Lee, Shuji Ishikawa, Yuma Aoyagi & Hokuto Omori. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jake Lee, Shuji Ishikawa, Yuma Aoyagi & Hokuto Omori beat Suwama, TARU, Minoru & Toshizo. Ishikawa pinned Suwama.
Match 7: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Shotaro Ashino & Ryuki Honda vs. Jun & Rei Saito for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Shotaro Ashino & Ryuki Honda beat Jun & Rei Saito to retain the titles. Ashino beat Rei Saito (I think) with a heel hook. V3 for the champs. Afterwards, Doi & Arashi came out presumably to make the customary next challenge. Presumably accepted.
Main Event: All-Japan Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara vs. Naoya Nomura for the Triple Crown. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara beat Naoya Nomura to retain the Triple Crown. V1 for Miyahara. Afterwards, the next potential challenger appeared and hit the ring…Takao Omori. Very spirited challenge made.
The next event is 10/2.
UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 919.
