New Japan continued the BURNING AUTUMN Tour today with the 3rd day of the NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament. Today’s matches would set the 3rd of the 4 Quarterfinals pairings.
Today’s event was held at Aore Nagaoka in Niigata and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese.
The announced paid attendance was 1545, a legit advance sellout.
Before the matches began, Hiromu Takahashi appeared and gave cheering instructions to the crowd.
Match 1: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa. Makabe pinned Oiwa.
Match 2: YOSHI-HASHI, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Gideon Gray, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Gray after Butterfly Lock.
Match 3: Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Jado, Ryusuke Taguchi, Hikuleo & Hiroyoshi Tenzan, EVIL pinned Tenzan after EVIL.
Match 4: Ren Narita, Alex Zayne, Master Wato, Tiger Mask & David Finlay beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Zack Sabre Jr. Zayne pinned TAKA after Cinnamon Twist.
Match 5: Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. Takagi pinned Gedo after Pumping Bomber.
Toshiaki Kawada, one of the greatest wrestlers in Japan of the last 30+ years, joined commentary as a special guest here.
Match 6: Titan, BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito beat Francesco Akira, TJP & Aaron Henare, Titan pinned THP after Angel Immortal.
Match 7: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament: KENTA beat Hirooki Goto.
Main Event: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament: SANADA beat Taichi. It was close though-the win came with just 3 seconds left before the time limit. As a result, SANADA will face KENTA in the Quarterfinals. That match will happen on 10/30.
The next event is tomorrow at Big Palette Fukushima in Fukushima. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. None of the next 4 events will have video available. The next broadcast event will be next Sunday.
