New Japan continued the Road To THE NEW BEGINNING Tour today in Fukushima.
Today’s event was held at Toyota Crown Arena in Fukushima. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 713.
Match 1: Shoma Kato beat Masatora Yasuda.
Match 2: Katsuya Murashima & Tiger Mask beat Tatsuya Matsunoto & Tomoaki Honma. Murashima pinned Matsunoto.
Match 3: Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Boltin Oleg, Jackson pinned Taguchi after Death Valley Bomb.
Match 4: Master Wato, Yoh, Toru Yano & Aaron Wolf beat Dick Togo, DOUKI, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita. Wato beat Togo with Vendeval.
Match 5: El Deaperado, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino beat Daiki Nagai, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby). Desperado pinned Nagai after Pinche Loco.
Match 6: Jacob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Callum Newman beat Gedo, Robbie X, Drilla Moloney & Yota Tsuji. Khan beat Gedo with Domination Claw.
Main Event: Taiji Ishimori, Hiromu Takahashi & Yota Tsuji beat Zane Jay, Francesco Akira & Jake Lee. Tsuji pinned Jay after Gene Blaster. This apparently was Takahashi’s final main event before leaving New Japan next week.
The next event is Saturday at Habikino City Sports Center in Osaka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
In other news, after a couple days of teasing Syuri vs. Athena for the IWGP Women’s Championship…it’s now official. That match will happen on 2/27 at THE NEW BEGINNING USA.
UPDATE: Injury Report-the promotion now says Moloney was injured today or yesterday. Right triceps. For now he will finish the tour per his request and will be closely monitored by doctors so subject to change.