New Japan continued the Road to DESTRUCTION Tour today with the last televised event of this part of the series.
Today’s event was held at Fukuoka Island City Forum in Fukuoka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 1253, a legit sellout.
Match 1: Hiromu Takahashi beat Yuto Nakahsima.
Match 2: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Boltin Oleg & Oskar Leube. Makabe pinned Leube after a King Kong kneedrop.
Match 3: Yoh, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask & Satoshi Kojima, Yano pinned TM 4.
Match 4: Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste, Mikey NIcholls & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Kazuchika Okada. Nicholls pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Highway To Hell.
Match 5: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Callum Newman, HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Tsuji pinned NEwman after Gene Blaster.
Match 6: Best of 7 Series Match 2: El Desperado, Ren Narita & Minoru Suzuki beat Master Wato, Shota Umino & Yuji Nagata. Desperado pinned Wato after Pinche Loco. 1-0 with 1 draw.
Main Event: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Taichi & SANADA beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi, Sho & EVIL. SANADA pinned Togo after a rounding body press.
Also, before the event the results of fan voting for the upcoming KOPW 2023 Title match between Taichi & Sho were announced. Taichi’s rules won so it will be a Seconds Handcuffed Match, meaning all members of House Of Torture will be handcuffed to all members of Just 5 Guys at ringside (no Yoshinobu Kanemaru, who is out due to injury. Sho had proposed a 10 Minute Guaranteed Winner match, which would’ve been a match with a 10 minute time limit, and if it went to a time limit draw Sho would’ve won, Taichi would’ve been banned from using Black Mephisto and Sho also wanted additional rules due to the size difference between them (Sho is a Jr. Heavyweight while Taichi is a Heavyweight). one being Taichi also would have been banned from using Dangerous Backdrop. Taichi’s rules won the vote by a margin of roughly 62.7% to 37.3%. The match will be on 9/24.
The next event is tomorrow at Dejima Messe Nagasaki in Nagasaki. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. None of the 4 events this week will be available live or on demand.
