New Japan continued the World Tag League today with the 5th fay of Block B.
Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. This was a Samurai! TV broadcast in Japan.
The announced paid attendance was 951, a legit sellout.
The pre-show Young Lions match was cancelled due to a Masatora Yasuda injury. There was also a change to Match 3 due to a Shota Umino injury. He was to have teamed with Tiger Mask. Tomoaki Honma was the replacement.
Match 1: Gedo, SANADA & Gabriel Kidd beat Katsuya Murashima, Ryusuke Taguchi & Alex Zayne. SANADA beat Murashima with Skull End.
Match 2: Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb beat Shoma Kato, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Young pinned Kato after Jacobs Ladder.
Match 3: Chase Owens & KENTA beat Tiger Mask & Tomoaki Honma. KENTA pinned TM 4.
Match 4: Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi. Oiwa pinned BUSHI after The Grip.
World Tag League Block B:
Match 5: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano beat TAKA MIchinoku & Taichi. Oleg pinned TAKA after Kamikaze.
Match 6: Ren Narita & EVIL beat Tome & Stevie Filip. Narita pinned Stevie Filip after Double Cross.
Match 7: Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito. Tanahashi pinned Takahashi after High Fly Flow.
Main Event: HENARE & Great-O-Khan beat Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls. HENARE pinned Haste after Imperial Drop.
With 2 matches left it’s now HENARE/Khan & Narita/EVIL tied in the lead at 4-2, 8 points. Naito/Takahashi & Oleg/Yano are at 3-3, 6 points.
The next event is tomorrow at Kochi Prefectural Gym in Kochi with Block A. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.
