New Japan continued the Super Junior Tag League today with the penultimate day of Block B and the end of a 3-day Niigata stretch.
Today’s event was held at Sun Village Shibata in Niigata and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 1001, a full house/near sellout.
Match 1: Daiki Nagai & Clark Connors beat Zane Jay & Tatsuya Matsumoto. Connors pinned Jay.
Match 2; Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Templario beat Masatora Yasuda, Shoma Kato & Boltin Oleg. Young pinned Yasuda after Jacobs Ladder.
Match 3: OSKAR (The Grouch), Yuto Ice (Ice Baby), Gedo & Hiromu Takahashi beat Katsuya Murashima, Toru Yano, Dragon Dia (Dragon Gate) & Ryusuke Taguchi by ref stoppage (technical submission). OSKAR beat Murashima.
Match 4: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Master Wato & Yoh beat Yujiro Takahashi, Sho & DOUKI. Tanahashi pinned Takahashi after High Fly Flow.
Super Junior Tag League Block B:
Match 5: Yuki Yoshioka (Dragon Gate) & KUSHIDA beat Dick Togo & Yoshinobu Kanemaru. KUSHIDA beat Togo with a Texas cloverleaf.
Match 6: Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles beat YAMATO (Dragon Gate) & Tiger Mask. Eagles beat YAMATO with Ron Miller Special.
Main Event: Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori beat KUUKAI & El Desperado. X pinned KUUKAI after X Express.
Standings (Block B):
1-Eagles/Fujita, 4-0, 8 pts
2-KUSHIDA/Yoshioka, 3-1, 6 pts
3-X/Ishimori, 3-1, 6 pts
4-Desperado/KUUKAI, 1-3, 2 pts (OUT)
5-Togo/Kanemaru, 1-3, 2 pts (OUT)
6-YAMATO/TM 4, 0-4, 0 pts (OUT)
Only the winners advance to the Finals. The final outcome will be simple or complex. The simple-Eagles/Fujita advance if they win their last match or it’s a draw. The complex-if X/Ishimori win, they advance if KUSHIDA/Yoshioka also lose or draw. If both win, it’s complex because KUSHIDA/Yoshioka have the tiebreaker over X/Ishimori due to a forfeit but they lost to Eagles/Fujita while X/Ishimori will have beaten Eagles/Fujita but lost to KUSHIDA/Yoshioka…I think it would have to be a 3-way to settle it.
The next event is tomorrow at Fukui Industrial Hall Building 1 Exhibition Hall in Fukui to finish Block A. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.