New Japan continues the Toad To DESTRUCTION Tour today with BLUE JUSTICE 13, the latest Yuji Nagata Produced event in his hometown.
Today’s event was held at Togane Arena in Chiba and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 1332.
There were once again last-minute card changes due to injuries-Yoshinobu Kanemaru legit injured his knee yesterday and Boltin Oleg remains out due to an arm infection and fever. Kanemaru is also off tomorrow’s event.
Match 1: Jado, Tiger Mask, Togi Makabe & Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Oskar Leube, Yuto Nakashima, Makabe pinned Nakashima after a King Kong kneefrop.
Match 2: Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Yoh & Ryusuke Taguchi. Yano pinned Taguchi.
Match 3: Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Kazuchika Okada. Sabre pinned Ishii with a crucifix.
Match 4: HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb beat BUSHI, SHingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. HENARE beat BUSHI with Ultima.
Match 5: Yota Tsuji & Hiromu Takahashi beat Callum Newman & Will Ospreay. Takahashi pinned Newman after Time Bomb.
Match 6: Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, Sho & EVIL beat TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Taichi & SANADA. EVIL pinned TAKA after EVIL.
Main Event: Best of 7 Series Match 1: Master Wato, Shota Umino & Yuji Nagata vs. Ren Narita, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki went to a 30 minute time limit draw.
The next event is tomorrow at Tatsunoko Arena in Ibaraki. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. In fact, of the 8 remaining events on this part of the tour only one will be televised at all.