New Japan continued the Road To SAKURA GENESIS Tour today in Yamanashi.
Today’s event was held at Aimesse Yamanashi in Yamanashi and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. Originally it was to be non-televised but since this may be Hiroshi Tanahashi’s last match there before retirement, plans changed and it was streamed live.
The announced paid attendance was 850.
Match 1: Tiger Mask, Yoh, Master Wato, Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Katsuya Murashima, Ninja Mack, Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Yoh beat Murashima with Anaconda Vice
Match 2: Drilla Moloney & SANADA beat TAKA Michinoku & Yuya Uenura. Moloney pinned TAKA after Drilla Killer.
Match 3: Gabriel Kidd, Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori beat Hartley Jackson (Independent/Freelancer), Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles. Kidd pinned Jackson after Drill-A-Hole Piledriver.
Match 4: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira & Callum Newman. Takahashi pinned Young with Maximum The Holding 3rd Form.
Match 5: Yota Tsuji beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru by DQ. EVIL low blow.
Match 6: El Desperado, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Clark Connors, Gedo & David Finlay. Desperado beat Gedo with Numero Dos.
Main Event: Shingo Takagi beat Hiroshi Tanahashi.
The tour-ender is Friday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, which has now been dubbed “Jr. Genesis” with an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.
