New Japan ran Day 9 of the World Tag League today, with Day 5 of Block A.
Today’s event was held at Wakayama Prefectural Gym in Wakayama and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 625.
Pre-show Match: Yuto Nakashima beat Shoma Kato.
Match 1: Taiji Ishimori, Jack Bonza & Bad Luck Fale beat Jado, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo. Bonza pinned Jado.
Match 2: DOUKI, Yuya Yemura & Taichi beat Tiger Mask, Soberano Jr. & Atlantis Jr. Uemura pinned TM 4 with a Kannuki suplex hold.
Match 3: Master Wato, Minoru Suzuki & Yuji Nagata beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne & Lance Archer. Wato beat Taguchi with Vendeval.
Match 4: Boltin Oleg, Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat BUSHI, Zandokan Jr., Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi. Yoh pinned BUSHI after Direct Drive.
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Match 5: Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun. EVIL pinned Kaun after EVIL.
Match 6: Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat Ryohei Oiwa & Kaito Kiyomiya. Haste pinned Oiwa after Tank Buster.
Match 7: Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin beat HENARE & Great-O-Khan. Kidd pinned HENARE after a hijack piledriver.
Main Event: Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishio beat Ren Narita & Shota Umino. Ishii pinned Umino after a vertical drop braonbuseter.
Haste/Nicholls now lead at 4-1, 8 points with 2 matches to go, still wide open.
The next event is tomorrow at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka with Day 5 of Block B. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. Remember of you are a new subscriber to New Japan World you now pay $9.99/month, or possibly $12.99 if you subscribe through App Store/Google Play and not directly through New Japan. If you are under the existing subscriber model and paying the new rate of 1299 yen, this month’s cost is $8.84, up about $2 from before but still better than $9.99 (the dollar has gotten worse for us this month-WRESTLE UNIVERSE and AJPW.TV both went up about 11 cents from $6 to $6.11).
