New Japan began the Road To SAKURA GENESIS Tour today, a quick 1 week sprint that will lead to next week’s annual April blowout event.
Today’s event was held at Takaoka Techno Dome in Toyama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 828.
Match 1: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano beat Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Oleg pinned Murashima after Kamikaze.
Match 2: Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA beat Tiger Mask & El Desperado. KUSHIDA pinned TM 4.
Match 3: Callum Newman & Francesco Akira beat Gedo & Clark Connors. Akira pinned Gedo after Speed Fire.
Match 4: Yoh, Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe, Shota Umino & Tomohiro Ishii beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA. Yoh pinned TAKA after Direct Drive.
Match 5: Taiji Ishimori & Chase Owens beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Hirooki Goto. Owens pinned Taguchi after a package driver.
Match 6: Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Jado & Tanga Loa. Khan beat Jado with Subaru Sheep Killer.
Main Event: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL. Tsuji pinned Takahashi after Gene Blaster.
The next event is tomorrow at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast, but at the request of Great-O-Khan the main event, which is a KOPW 2024 Championship match, will be available on demand on New Japan World at a later date.
Also, at last night’s MLW War Chamber in the US, NJPW WORLD TV Champion Matt Riddle beat Kosei Fujita to retain the title. V2 for Riddle.
