New Japan ran a special post-G1 CLIMAX outdoor event today in cooperation with Japanese TV partner TV Asahi, part of a special summer event the station is holding in the Roppongi Hills area of Tokyo.
Today’s event was held at Roppongi Hills Arena, Summer Station Live Arena in Tokyo and was broadcast as a special PPV by TV Asahi in Japan. It is not available on New Japan World at this time. If the PPV is available outside Japan, it will be so for another week or two at a cost of about $15 US (2000 yen).
The announced paid attendance was 613, a legit advance sellout.
Match 1: Ryohei Oiwa beat Yuto Nakashima.
Match 2: Minoru Suzuki beat Kosei Fujita.
Match 3: Tomoshiro Ishii, Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Gedo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Goto pinned Gedo after Shoto.
Match 4: Master Wato & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Toru Yano. Tanahashi pinned Taguchi. Afterwards, Wato requested to re-form his team with Taguchi and go after the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship again even though they can’t be the 69th champions anymore. How would 7 or 1 sound? Unless they waited to become the 96th champions…
Match 5: Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat Tomoaki HOnma & Togi Makabe. Cobb pinned Honma after Tour of the Islands.
Main Event: BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, El Desperado, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. Naito pinned TAKA after Destino. Naito then sent the crowd home happy with a rally cry and hope this event would be held again next year.
After the event, the October & November schedule was announced. The series will be titled “Battle Autumn ’22”, a continuation of the year-long 50th Anniversary celebration. The schedule is as follows:
10/13 & 10/15-Korakuen Hall
10/16-Aore Nagaoka, Niigata (start time TBA)
10/17-Big Palette Fukushima, Fukushima
10/19-Aimesse Yamanashi, Yamanashi
10/21-Iwate Prefectural Gym, Iwate
10/22-Akita Terrsa, Akita
10/23-New Aomori Prefectural Sports Park Maeda Arena Main Arena, Aomori
10/26 & 10/27-Korakuen Hall
10/30-Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall 1, Chiba
11/1-Echisen Sports Arena, Fukui
11/2-Suehiro Gym, Komatsu City (Ishikawa)
11/3-Osaka Prefectural Gym #2, Osaka
11/5-Osaka Prefectural Gym
The New Japan World broadcast schedule for these events will be announced in late September for the October events and late October for the November events. Probably will be the Korakuen events, a couple others in between, and the two Osaka events. 11/5 likely will be a major event. This also suggests if the World Tag League is held this year, it will be the year-ending tour outside of perhaps a few late-December events as the final build for Tokyo Dome. For the next tour, there is a chance Kazuchika Okada will be absent as he is now on paternity leave following the birth of his son this past week, believed to be his first child. Congratulations to new proud father Okada on this joyous occasion. No word on when he will be back.
