New Japan wrapped up the Road To WRESTLING DONTAKU Tour today with a house show in Oita.
Today’s event was held at Cycle Shop Kodama Ozu Arena in Oita. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 850.
There were last-minute changes to the card due to Yota Tsuji being off the event. Illness. He was to have been in the main event, a 10-man tag. Gedo was also removed to make it an 8-man tag.
Match 1: El Phantasmo & Hikuleo beat Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Hikuleo pinned Murashima after a double chokeslam.
Match 2: DOUKI & Yuya Uemura beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Sho. DOUKI beat Kanemaru with Jorge Rivera Special.
Match 3: Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA beat Tiger Mask, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. KENTA pinned TM 4.
Match 4: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, TJP & Jeff Cobb. Sabre beat Newman with a reverse armbar.
Match 5: Dick Togo, Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Boltin Oleg, Shota Umino, Togi Makabe & El Desperado. Narita pinned Makabe after Double Cross.
Match 6: Tomoaki Honma & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Tanahashi pinned TAKA after High Fly Flow.
Main Event: Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gabriel Kidd & David Finlay beat BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. Finlay pinned BUSHI after Overkill.
The next event is WRESTLING DONTAKU, the annual early May blowout event, on Friday & Saturday at Fukuoka International Center in Fukuoka. Live streaming on New Japan World OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET Friday for Day 1 and that night at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET for Day 2. Both days will be live TV Asahi broadcasts in Japan.
