All-Japan continues the Anniversary Series today in Sendai. Today is a borderline major event with 3 title matches scheduled: First up is a GAORA TV Championship match as Masaaki Mochizuki returns from Dragon Gate to defend the title against Yasutaku Yano. Second is a match for the vacant All-Asia Tag Team Championship between Dan Tamiura & Seigo Tachibana and MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka. Finally, in the main event, Jun & Rei Saito defend the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship against the Yumas-Yuma Aoyagi & Yuma Anzai. Saitos & Yumas, sounds like fun.
Today’s event will be held at Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. This will also be a taped GAORA SPORTS broadcast in Japan on 10/21. There are 7 matches planned with an intermission and while the later TV broadcast suggests the event could go as long as 4 hours, I anticipate the running time being closer to 3 hours.
Today’s lineup:
Shota Kofuji vs. Kumaarashi
Rising Hayato & Hokuto Omori vs. Aizawa No. 1 & Makoto Oishi
Suwama, Go Shiozaki & Masayuki Kono vs. Xyon, Odyssey & Shotaro Ashino
GAORA TV Champion Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Yasutaku Yano for the title
Intermission
Kento Miyahara & Hideki Suzuki vs. Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe
Dan Tamura & Seigo Tachibana vs. MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka for the vacant All-Asia Tag Team Championship
All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito vs. Yuma Aoyagi & Yuma Anzai for the titles
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10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Sendai Sun Plaza in Sendai, Japan. Commentary will begin shortly.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue’s full capacity is close to 4000 but I can’t tell if it’s set up for that. It doesn’t sound like it’ll be close to that initially, I’ll predict the total will be around 2000. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 2357)
The matches will begin shortly.
The matches begin at 10:07 PM PT/1:07 AM ET.
Match 1: Shota Kofuji vs. Kumaarashi. 20 minute time limit
Result: Kumaarashi beat Shota Kofuji
Match 2: Rising Hayato & Hokuto Omori vs. Aizawa No. 1 & Makoto Oishi (Independent/Freelancers). 20 minute time limit
Result: Rising Hayato & Hokuto Omori beat Aizawa No. 1 & Makoto Oishi. Double pinfall.
Match 3: Suwama, Go Shiozaki & Masayuki Kono vs. Xyon, Odyssey & Shotaro Ashino. 30 minute time limit
Result: Xyon, Odyssey & Shotaro Ashuno beat Suwama, Go Shiozaki & Masayuki Kono. Odyssey pinned Shiozaki after a chokeslam.
Match 4: GAORA TV Champion Masaaki Mochozuki beat Yasutaka Yano to retain the title. V1 for Mochizuki. Next up: It was thought to be Ashino but it actually could be Odyssey.
Match 5: Kento Miyahara & Hideki Suzuki beat Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. Miyahara pinned Honda with a shutdown suplex hold.
Match 6: MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka beat Dan Tamura & Seigo Tachibana to win the vacant All-Asia Tag Team Championship. MUSASHI & Yoshioka become the 133rd All-Asia Tag Team Champions. MUSASHI pinned Tachibana after Niten First Class. Next up: Kofuji & Suzuki.
Main Event: All-Japan World Tag Team Champions Jun & Rei Saito beat Yuma Aoyagi & Yuma Anzai to retain the titles. Jun Saito pinned Aoyagi after Yagiyama Cyclone. V3 for the Saitos/champs.
The next event is tomorrow at Suntec Kitakami in Iwate. There will be no live broadcast. On demand later in the day.