New Japan ran the penultimate event of the Road To WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour today.
Today’s event was held at Grand Messe Kumamoto in Kumamoto. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 1035.
There were last-minute changes to the card again because, after missing the last couple events for unspecified medical reasons, the promotion announced SANADA is now off through at least after ALL TOGETHER on 5/6, meaning at least another week. For matches he was in, either they will be reduced participants for 6/8-man tag matches and for tag matches Taichi is the replacement.
Match 1: Boltin Oleg beat Shoma Kato.
Match 2: DOUKI & Yuya Uemura beat Sho & Yujiro Takahashi. Uemura pinned Takahashi with a Kannuki suplex hold.
Match 3: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Tiger Mask, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Owens pinned TM 4.
Match 4: Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, TJP & Jeff Cobb beat Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. Cobb pinned Fujita after Tour of the Islands.
Match 5: El Desperado, Shota Umino, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo beat Dick Togo, Ren Narita, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & EVIL. Umino pinned Togo after Death Rider.
Match 6: Togi Makabe & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Tanahashi pinned TAKA after High Fly Flow.
Main Event: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gedo, Drilla Moloney, Gabriel Kidd, Clark Connors & David Finlay. Tsuji pinned Gedo after Gene Blaster.
The tour-ender is tomorrow at Cycle Shop Kodama Ozu Arena in Oita. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
