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All-Japan ran the penultimate day of the World’s Strongest Tag League preliminary round today in Tottori.

Today’s event was held at Yonago Convention Center Big Ship in Tottori and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 465.

Match 1: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai & Mike D. Vecchio beat Kento Miayahra, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue. Anzai pinned Inoue after Gimlet.

Match 2: MUSASHI & Lowther beat Seiki Yoshioka & ALL Mighty Inoue. MUSASHI pinned Inoue after Estrella Futuro.

World’s Strongest Tag League:
Match 3: Block B: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto. Ayabe pinned Sato after Des Roulette.
Match 4: Block B: Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Abe pinned Tachibana.
Match 5: Block A: Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo beat Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura. Sekimoto pinned Tamura after Big Bang Catastrophe.
Match 6: Block B: Suwama & Hideki Suzuki beat Cyrus & Hartley Jackson by ref stoppage (technical submission). Suwama beat Jackson with a vise sleeper.
Main Event: Block A: Jun & Rei Saito beat Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi. Rei Saito pinned Omori after BBQ Bomb.

Standings:
Block A:
1-Saitos, 6-0, 12 pts (Advanced)
2-Sekimoto/Mashimo, 3-1-1, 7 pts
3-Omori/Kumaarashi, 3-2, 6 pts
4-Hayato/Anzai, 3-2, 6 pts
5-Oishi/Vecchio, 1-4, 2 pts (OUT)
6-Ashino/Tamura, 1-4, 2 pts (OUT)
7-MUSASHI/Yoshioka, 0-4-1, 1 pt (OUT)

Block B:
1-Miyahara/Smith, 4-1, 8 pts
2-Honda/Ayabe, 4-2, 8 pts
3-Suwama/Suzuki, 3-2, 6 pts
4-Cyrus/Jackson, 3-2, 6 pts
5-Aoyagi/Abe, 3-3, 6 pts (OUT)
6-Sato/Miyamoto, 1-4, 2 pts (OUT)
7-Kuroshio/Tachibana, 1-5, 2 pts (OUT)

The top 2 in each block advance to the Semifinals. Only the Saitos have done so, going a perfect 6-0. They are finished going to the final day. In Block A, If Sekimoto/Mashimo win their final match (Hayato/Anzai), they will advance. If Hayato/Anzai win, they advance only if Omori/Kumaarashi lose (Oishi/Vecchio). If Omori/Kuamarashi win, they need Hayato/Anzai to win to advance on tiebreakers. In Block B, Miyahara/Smith advance with a win or draw (Cyrus/Jackson). Suwama/Suzuki will advance with a win (Sato/Miyamoto) because of tiebreakers (they beat Honda/Ayabe & Cyrus/Jackson). Cyrus/Jackson must win and Suwama/Suzuki must lose or draw to advance.Honda/Ayabe advance is Suwama/Suzuki and Cyrus Jackson both lose or draw. They have the tiebreaker over Miyahara/Smith. A 4-way tie if it happens will be complicated.

The next event is Thursday at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1;30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

All-Japan continued the World’s Strongest Tag League today in Osaka.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 874.

Match 1: Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, Seigo Tachibana & Seiki Yoshioka beat Hokuto Omori, The Bodyguard (Independent/Freelancer) & Taishin Nagao. Yoshioka pinned Nagao.

Match 2: World’s Strongest Tag League Block B: Cyrus & Hartley Jackson beat Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe. Cyrus pinned Abe after a reverse splash.

Match 3: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Suwama, Hideki Suzuki, MUSASHI & Ryo Inoue. Anzai pinned Inoue after Gimlet.

World’s Strongest Tag League:
Match 4; Block A: Jun & Rei Saito beat Dan Tamura & Shotaro Ashino. Jun Saito pinned Tamura after Psycho Break.
Match 5: Block A: Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo beat Makoto Oishi & Mike D. Vecchio. Mashimo pinned Oishi after a vertical drop brainbuster.
Main Event: Block B: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto. Miyahara pinned Sato with a shurdown suplex hold.

Standings:
Block A:
1-Saitos, 5-0, 10 pts (Advanced)
2-Omori/Kumaarashi, 3-1, 6 pts
3-Hayato/Anzai, 3-2, 6 pts
4-Seklimoto/Mashimo, 2-1-1, 5 pts
5-Ashino/Tamura, 1-3, 2 pts
6-Oishi/Vecchio, 1-4, 2 pts (OUT)
7-MUSASHI/Yoshioka, 0-4-1, 1 pt (OUT)

Block B:
1-Miyahara/Smith, 4-1, 8 pts
2-Cyrus/Jackson, 3-1, 6 pts
3-Honda/Ayabe, 3-2, 6 pts
4-Aoyagi/Abe, 2-3, 4 pts
5-Suwama/Hideki Suzuki, 2-2, 4 pts
6-Sato/Miyamoto, 1-3, 2 pts
7-Kuroshio/Tachibana, 1-4, 2 pts (OUT)
The top 2 in each block will advance to the Semifinals. As a result of today, the Sairos will advance in Block A and will win the block as long as they don’t lose their last match. The second spot is still up for grabs. Block B is wide open although Miyahara/Smith have the advantage for one of the spots. Their last match is Cyrus/Jackson.

The next event is tomorrow at Yonago Convention Center Big Ship in Tottori. There will be no live broadcast.

All-Japan has reported on the passing of Mighty Inoue, a former wrestler who joined the promotion in 1981 and became a referee after retiring in 1998. He was 75. The cause of death was ventricular fibrillation. Inoue was a former All-Japan World Junior Heavyweight Champion and All-Asia Tag Team Champion and was a popular member of the Villain Shokai faction in his wrestling years.

I join All-Japan Pro Wrestling in expressing condolences to the family, friends & fans of Mighty Inoue.

All-Japan continued the World’s Strongest Tag League today in Saitama.

Today’s event was held at Tokorozawa Sakura Town Japan Pavilion in Saitama and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV tonight at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 558.

Match 1: Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura beat Taishin Nagao & Mike D. Vecchio. Tamura pinned Nagao after a powerbomb.

Match 2: Jun & Rei Saito beat Yuma Aoyagi & Hikaru Sato. Jun Saito pinned Sato after a chokeslam.

Match 3: World’s Strongest Tag League Block B: Suwama & Hideki Suzuki beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Suwama pinned Tachibana after a backdrop.

Match 4: All-Japan 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus beat Ryo Inoue, Masayuki Kono (KONO) & Ryuji Hijikata to retain the titles. Kumaarashi pinned Inoue after a diving senton. V2 for the champs.

Match 5: World’s Strongest Tag League Block A: Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai beat MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka. Anzai pinned Yoshioka after Gimlet.

Main Event: World’s Strongest Tag League Block B: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. Honda pinned Miyaraha after Final Vent.

The next event is tomorrow at Nagoya International Convention Center Event Hall in Nagoya. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

All-Japan continued the World’s Strongest Tag League today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Stellar Ball in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 715.

Match 1: Ryuki Honda, Ren Ayabe & MUSASHI beat Suwama, Cyrus & Ryo Inoue. MUSASHI pinned Inoue after Estrella Futuro.

World’s Strongest Tag League:
Match 2: Block B: Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Miyamoto pinned Tachibana.
Match 3: Block A: Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi beat Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura. Kumaarashi pinned Ashino after a diving senton.
Match 4: Block A: Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai beat Makoto Oishi & Mike D. Vecchio. Anzai pinned Oishi after Gimlet.
Match 5: Block A: Jun & Rei Saito beat Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo. Rei Saito pinned Sekimoto after BBQ Bomb.
Main Event: Block B: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe. Miyahara pinned Aoyagi with a shutdown suplex hold.

Standings-wise, the Saitos have all but clinched a Semifinals spot (the top 2 in each block advance) as they are 4-0, 8 points with 2 matches left so they just need to win one or have other results go their way. Omori & Kumaarashi are second at 4 points but have 3 matches left. Nobody is out of it but Yoshioka & MUSASHI can’t finish first now as they are on 1 point with 3 matches left. Block B is wide open, the top 4 all are on 4 points but Miyahara & Smith still have 4 matches left while most teams have 3, but Aoyagi & Abe are in trouble despite being on 4 points because they have only 2 matches left now.

The next event is Saturday at Tokorozawa Sakura Town Japan Pavilion in Saitama. There will be no live broadcast. It should be available on demand that evening.

With a few off days until their current tour resumes, All-Japan today announced a title match for this coming weekend: On Saturday at the event in Tokorozawa there will be an All-Japan 6-Man Tag Team Championship match as Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Cyrus defend against Ryo Inoue, Masayuki Kono & Ryuji Hijikata. If Kono looks/sounds familiar it’s because he also appears occasionally as KONO, aligned with Voodoo Murders and sometimes the Saitos.

Saturday’s event will begin Friday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET and will be available on demand on AJPW.TV Saturday at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. There will be no live broadcast.

All-Japan continued the World’s Strongest Tag League today in Yamagata.

Today’s event was held at Fujishima Gym in Yamagata and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 511.

Match 1: Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan beat Hokuto Omori, Kuamarashi & Aizawa No. 1. Ashino pinned Aizawa with a German suplex hold.

Match 2: Mike D. Vecchio beat Seigo Tachibana.

Match 3: World’s Strongest Tag League Block B: Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe beat Suwama & Hideki Suzuki. Aoyagi pinned Suwama.

Match 4; Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue beat Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai & Taishin Nagao. Inoue pinned Nagao after Daikannon Suplex.

Match 5: World’s Strongest Tag League Block B: Cyrus & Hartley jackson beat Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. Cyrus pinned Honda after a reverse splash.

Main Event: World’s Strongest Tag League Block A: Jun & Rei Saito beat MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka. Jun Saito pinned MUSASHI after Psycho Break,

Standings-wise, Block A is all Saitos at 3-0, 6 pts. They are 3 points ahead of second place. Block B has 3 tied at 2-1, 4 pts. The top 2 in each block will advance to the Semifinals.

The next event is Wednesday at Stellar Ball at Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

All-Japan continues the World’s Strongest Tag League today in Sendai with the third day. It’s still in the early stages and every team has only had one or two matches so far, today each of the 2 blocks have 2 matches scheduled. Block A has MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Makoto Oishi & Mike D. Vecchio while the main event will be the second block match of Jun & Rei Saito vs. Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai. Block B matches will be Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto vs. Cyrus & Hartley Jackson and Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe vs. Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Non-tournament matches fill out the card.

Today’s event will be held at Yume Messe Miyagi in Sendai and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV. There will be no commentary. There will be an intermission at the halfway point of the card, so although it has only 6 matches that will stretch it out a little big. That and Kuroshio’s seemingly never-ending entrance antics. Even if every match went the distance the longest this event could go is 3 hours, with the intermission I’d anticipate the running time being roughly 2 1/4 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Yuma Aoyagi, Suwama & Fuminori Abe vs. Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Aizawa No. 1
World’s Strongest Tag League Block B:
Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto vs. Cyrus & Hartley Jackson
Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayaba vs. Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana
Intermission
Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue vs. Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Hideki Suzuki
World’s Strongest Tag League Block A:
MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Makoto Oishi & Mike D. Vecchio
Jun & Rei Saito vs. Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

8:45 PM PT UPDATE: Unfortunately there will now be no live broadcast. The live stream has been CANCELLED last-minute due to internet connection issues at the venue. It will now be on demand only and should be available tomorrow at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. Results will be posted tomorrow morning.

UPDATE 2: Here are the results:
The announced paid attendance was 1335.

Match 1: Yuma Aoyagi, SUwama & Fuminori Abe beat Hokuto Omori, Kumaarashi & Aizawa No. 1. Aoyagi pinned Aizawa after Endgame.

World’s Strongest Tag League Block B:
Match 2: Cyrus & Hartley Jackson beat Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto. Cyrus pinned Sato after a reverse splash.
Match 3: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Kuroshi TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Honda pinned Tachibana after an airplane throw.

Match 4: Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Hideki Suzuki beat Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Ryo Inoue. Suzuki pinned Inoue after a double arm suplex.

World’s Strongest Tag League Block A:
Match 5: Makoto Oishi & Mike D. Vecchio beat MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka. Vecchio pinned MUSASHI after as hooting star press.
Main Event: Jun & Rei Saito beat Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai. Jun Saito pinned Anzai after Doom.

The next event is tomorrow at Fujishima Gym in Yamagata. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

All-Japan continued the World’s Strongest Tag League today in Iwate.

Today’s event was held at Iwate Prefectural Gym in Iwate and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV.

The announced paid attendance was 609.

World’s Strongest Tag League Block A:
Match 1: Shotaro Ashino & Dan Tamura beat Makoto Oishi & Mike D. Vecchio. Tamura pinned Oishi after a powerbomb.
Match 2: Hokuto Omori & Kuamarashi beat Rishing Hayato & Yuma Anzai. Omori beat Hayato with Narcissist Lock.

Match 3: Cyrus, Hartley Jackson & Aizawa No. 1 beat Corbell Ito, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana. Cyrus pinned Tachibana after a reverse splash.

Match 4: Jun & Rei Saito, Suwama & Hideki Suzuki beat Kento Miyahara, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Ryo Inoue & Taishin Nagao. Suwama pinned Nagao after a lariat.

World’s Strongest Tag League Block B:
Match 5: Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe. Honda pinned Aoyagi after Final Vent.
Main Event: MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Kengo Mashimo & Daisuke Sekimoto went to a 30 minute time limit draw. 1 point for each.

The next event is tomorrow at Yume Messe Miyagi in Sendai. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin TONIGHT at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. I will try to do live results.

All-Japan kicked off the World’s Strongest Tag League, the promotion’s annual tag team tournament, today in Tokyo. And they also launched a completely remade website too.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on AJPW.TV. This event also aired live on GAORA SPORTS in Japan.

The announced paid attendance was 1393.

Match 1: World’s Strongest Tag League Block B: Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Seigo Tachibana beat Cyrus & Hartley Jackson. Tachibana pinned Jackson. (Hey, they gotta win one match after all)

Match 2: World’s Strongest Tag League Block A: Daisuke Sekimoto (Big Japan) & Kengo Mashimo (Independent/Freelancer) beat Hokuto Omori & Kumaarashi. Sekimoto pinned Omori after The Big Bang Catastrophe.

Match 3: Ryuji Hijikata & MAZADA (Independent/Freelancer) beat Ryo Inoue & Taishin Nagao. MAZADA pinned Nagao after MAZADA Drop.

Match 4: Rising Hayato, Yuma Anzai, Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe beat Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura, MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka. Honda pinned Tamura after Final Vent.

Match 5: World’s Strongest Tag League Block B: Yuma Aoyagi & Fuminori Abe beat Hikaru Sato & Yuko Miyamoto. Aoyagi pinned Sato.

Match 6: World’s Strongest Tag League Block A: Jun & Rei Saito beat Makoto Oishi (Independent/Freelancer) & Mike D. Vecchio. Rei Saito pinned Oishi after Ice Vine.

Main Event: World’s Strongest Tag League Block : Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Suwama & Hideki Suzuki. Smith pinned Suwama after Bulldog Bomb.

The next event is Friday at Iwate Prefectural Gym in Iwate. Live streaming on AJPW.TV will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.