New Japan resumed the New Japan Soul 2025 Tour today after a week-long break with the penultimate event of the tour.
Today’s event was held at Tokyo Budokan in Tokyo (not the same as Nippon Budokan) and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 1377.
Pre-show:
Match 1: Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Zane Jay went to a 10 minute time limit draw.
Match 2: Daiki Nagai & Katsuya Murashima beat Masatora Yasuda & Shoma Kato. Nagai pinned Yasuda.
Main show:
Match 1: Tiger Mask, Shota Umino, Taichi, Tomohiro Ishii & Shota Umino beat Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SANADA, DOUKI & EVIL. Umino beat Togo with STF.
Match 2: Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. Takagi pinned Young after MADE IN JAPAN.
Match 3: Boltin Oleg, Yuya Uemura & El Desperado beat Hartley Jackson, Zack Sabre Jr. & Kosei Fujita. Uemura pinned Jackson after a Frankensteiner.
G1 CLIMAX 35 Qualifier Tournament Finals:
Match 4: Block A: Ryohei Oiwa beat Satoshi Kojima. As a result, Oiwa will be in Block A of the tournament.
Match 5: Block B: YOSHI-HASHI beat Chase Owens. As a result, YOSHI-HASHI will be in Block B of the tournament.
Match 6: Master Wato, Yoh & Toru Yano beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita to win the titles. Wato, Yoh & Yano become the 31st NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Yano pinned Takahashi.
Main Event: IWGP Global Champion Gabriel Kidd beat Hiroshi Tanahashi to retain the title. V1 for Kidd.
The tour-ender is Sunday at Korakuen Hall. It may be a legit sellout and overflow crowd as standing room only tickets are now on sale in limited quantities. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.
UPDATE: After the event, it was announced Hirooki Goto is OUT of G1 CLIMAX 35. Recent elbow injury suffered last weekend at TANAHASHI JAM. That means he is now out at least another month. The replacement in Block A will be determined by a gauntlet match Sunday with Tomohiro Ishii, Taichi, Satoshi Kojima & Chase Owens participating. The winner is the replacement for Goto.
UPDATE 2: At today’s TAMASHII event in Auckland, New Zealand, Mark Tui & Richard Mulu, known as The Pretty Boys when teaming, won a tournament to become the inaugural TAMASHII Tag Team Champions.
