New Japan wrapped up the New Japan Road Tour today with the last of a Tokyo tripleheader, headlined today by a NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Title match and a Toru Yano oddball match because, well, Toru Yano gotta do something like that…
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese.
The announced paid attendance was 579.
Match 1: Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa. Wato beat Fujita.
Match 2: Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe. Kojima pinned Honma after a lariat.
Match 3: Alex Zayne, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada beat The DKC, Clark Connors & Yuji Nagata. Ishii pinned DKC after a vertical drop brainbuster.
Match 4: Jado, KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. Tanahashi beat Gedo with a Texas Cloverleaf.
Match 5: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki & Taichi. Takahashi pinned TAKA after D.
Match 6: In a Dog Cage Deathmatch, where the only way to win was to lock your opponent in a large dog cage, Toru Yano beat Dick Togo.
Main Event: Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL to win the titles. Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Goto become the 23rd NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Yoh pinned Sho after Direct Drive. And sent the crowd home very happy…Fo Sho, Yoh.
Next up is the G1 CLIMAX 32, the promotion’s biggest tournament of the year and the unofficial start of the Road To Tokyo Dome in January. Day 1 is 7/16 at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Kita Yell in Hokkaido. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin that day at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET, and remember the first 2 days will be available to watch FOR FREE!
Also, a live press conference will be broadcast FOR FREE on New Japan World beginning Wednesday at 11 PM PT/Thursday at 2 AM ET.
