New Japan continued the Road To SAKURA GENESIS Tour today with another event in Shizuoka.
Today’s event was held at Twin Messe Shizuoka North Building in Shizuoka. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The paid attendance was not announced.
There were last-minute changes to the card due to Tiger Mask 4 being pulled off the event once again. The always vague poor health/physical condition. Ryusuke Taguchi was the replacement.
Match 1: Masatora Yasuda beat Taisei Nakahara.
Match 2: KUSHIDA beat Tatsuya Matsumoto.
Match 3: El Desperado, Taichi & Yuya Uemura beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe. Uemura pinned Honma after Lions Shiner.
Match 4: Master Wato, Toru Yano, Boltin Oleg & Aaton Wolf beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, DOUKI & Don Fale. Yano pinned Kanemaru.
Match 5: Shota Umino, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Boltin Oleg beat Dick Togo, Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita. Umino pinned Togo after a lariat.
Match 6: Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Gedo, OSKAR (The Grouch) & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby). Jackson pinned Gedo after Death Valley Bomb.
Main Event; Daiki Nagai, Robbie X, Taiji Ishimori, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji beat Zane Jay, Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Jake Lee & Callum Newman. Tsuji pinned Jay after Gene Blaster.
The next event is Wednesday at Nagano Prefectural Martial Arts Center iN Nagano. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
In other news, the promotion has been announcing participants for this year’s Best Of The Super Junior tournament gradually, unveiling 3 participants per day. Here is who we know is in so far: Yoh, Master Wato, Sho, Valiente Jr. (CMLL), Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Daisuke Sasaki (DDT), Kosei Fujita (defending tournament winner), DOUKI, El Desperado. For Sasaki this is the first time in 14 years he will be participating. These announcements will continue until Thursday, then the last 2 entrants and the blocks (this is a round-robin format event) will be announced at SAKURA GENESIS on Saturday.