New Japan continued the Road To G! Climax Tour today in Yamagata.
Today’s event was held at Yamagaga Big Wing in Yamagata. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 1210.
Before the event began, Tomoaki Honma came out and announced his retirement. This is due to health concerns (he suffered a severe spinal injury in 2017 but fully recovered, however related concerns were noted recently). No specific date yet but he wants a hometown match beforehand.
Match 1: Dick Togo 1 & 2 beat Taisei Nakahara & Tiger Mask. 2 beat Nakahara with a crippler crossface. The final TM 4 farewell to fans followed as the final events of his career next week are both in Tokyo.
Match 2: Toru Yano & Togi Makabe beat Masatora Yasuda & Ryusuke Taguchi. Makabe pinned Yasuda.
Match 3: Master Wato & Shota Umio beat Tatsuya Matsumoto & Aaron Wolf. Wato beat Matsumoto with Vendeval.
Match 4: El Desperado & Yuya Uemura beat Zane Jay & Great-O-Khan. Uemura pinned Jay after Lions Shiner.
Match 5: Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson, Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa beat Jado, Satoshi Kojima, Taichi & El Desperado. Savre beat Kojima.
Match 6: YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Yoh beat Jacob Austin Young, Jake Lee & Francesco Akira. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Young.
Main Event: Daiki Nagai, Taiji Ishimori, OSKAR (The Grouch), Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) & Yota Tsuji beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, DOUKI, SANADA, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita. Tsuji pinned Kanemaru after Gene Blaster. Tsuji put Honma over post-match.
The tour-ender is Monday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.