New Japan ran the penultimate event of the BURNING SPIRIT Tour today, featuring a postponed title match from last weekend continuing the never-ending NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Championship feud between Chaos & House Of Torture. Never NEVER.
Today’s event was held at Takamatsu City General Gym 1 in Kagawa and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese.
The announced paid attendance was 915.
Match 1: Kosei Fujita beat Ryohei Oiwa.
Match 2: Hikuleo, Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale beat Gideon Gray, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Hikuleo pinned Gray after a chokeslam.
Match 3: KENTA & El Phantasmo beat BUSHI & Shingo Takagi. KENTA beat BUSHI with Game Over.
Match 4: Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr. Takahashi pinned TAKA with Namelsss Hiromu Roll (countering jackpot now up to 1 million yen-about $7500 US).
Match 5: Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste & Jonah beat Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe & Kazuchika Okada. Jonah pinned Honma after Torpedo.
Match 6: Jado, Toru Yano, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tama Tonga beat Taiji Ishimori, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson & Jay White. Tanahashi pinned Gallows.
Match 7: In a Dog Cage Survival Match, where wrestlers could be temporarily eliminated by being locked up in dog cages located in each corner, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto to win the titles. Sho, Takahashi & EVIL become the 24th NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. EVIL pinned Yoh after EVIL.
Main Event: In an Elimination Match, The DKC, Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi & David Finlay beat Aaron Henare, Francesco Akira, TJP & Will Ospreay. Order of elimination: Wato, Akira, TJP, Taguchi, DKC, Ospreay, Henare. Finlay wins as last man left.
The tour-ender is Sunday at Kobe World Hall in Kobe. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. The status of KUSHIDA for the event is uncertain after he missed today (hand, foot & mouth disease). While the condition isn’t serious, it can be contagious for up to 10 days so consider him questionable for now.
Also, while no official announcement was made, it appears the broadcast plans for next week’s events in England are ON DEMAND ONLY on New Japan World, no live broadcast. Next Saturday’s event is scheduled to begin at Noon ET/9 AM PT, with next Sunday’s event at 11 AM ET/8 AM PT. Additionally, for the 10/28 event in New York City, New Japan World will have the event in Japanese as a PPV for about $21 US plus monthly subscription fees if you are not a subscriber. The event will be available in English on FITE. At this time the 10/27 event will only be on FITE.
UPDATE: KUSHIDA is now off Sunday. He was to have teamed with Tama Tonga to face Jay White & Taiji Ishimori. Jado is the replacement.
