New Japan continued the BURNING AUTUMN ’22 Tour today with an event featuring the final Quarterfinals of the NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament. The Semifinals would be set today ahead of the tour-ender on 11/5, where we’ll find out who will face off to become the first champion at Tokyo Dome in January.
Today’s event was held at Makuhari Messe Industrial Exhibition Hall 1 in Chiba and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 493.
Match 1: DOUKI beat Kosei Fujita by submission.
Match 2: Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Ryohei Oiwa & Yuto Nakashima. Khan pinned Oiwa after Imperial Drop. Afterwards, Khan & Cobb called out IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FTR, who are to be at the 11/5 tour-ender to defend the titles (FTR beat the United Empire duo to win the titles).
Match 3: Master Wato & Hikuleo beat Dick Togo & EVIL. Hikuleo pinned Togo after a chokeslam.
Match 4: Alex Zayne, Tiger Mask & David Finlay beat TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. Finlay pinned TAKA after Trash Panda.
Match 5: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado beat Gedo & Taiji Ishimori. Kanemaru beat Gedo with a Figure 4.
Match 6: Titan, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gideon Gray, Francesco Akira, TJP & Aaton Henare. Takahashi pinned Gray.
Match 7: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament Quarterfinals: Ren Narita beat Toru Yano.
Main Event: NJPW WORLD TV Title Tournament Quarterfinals: SANADA beat KENTA. As a result, SANADA will face Narita in the Semifinals. The other Semifinal is EVIL vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
The next event is Tuesday at Echizen City AW-I Sports Arena in Fukui. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
