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New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 CLIMAX 32 Day 2 Results (7/17/22)

New Japan runs Day 2 of the G1 CLIMAX 32 Tournament today, featuring the second match for each of the 4 blocks and some big openers are on tap. Most notably is a heated-to-be affair between Zack Sabre Jr. & KENTA, while the main event will be Shingo Takagi vs. Juice Robinson. The other tournament matches today are Tomohiro Ishii vs. Taichi and Jonah vs. Toru Yano.

Today’s event will be held at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell in Hokkaido and can be watched LIVE and on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English, and like Day 1 you can watch FOR FREE! No login or signup required! If you plan to pull an all-nighter to watch, I anticipate the event having a total run time of around 3 hours, but it will be no more than 4 hours.

Today’s lineup:
David Finlay & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Tom Lawlor & Royce Isaacs
TAKA Michinoku & Lance Archer vs. El Phantasmo & Bad Luck Fale
Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay vs. Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL
Jado & Tama Tonga vs. Chase Owens & Jay White
Hirooki Goto, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada vs. BUSHI, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito
G1 CLIMAX:
Block B-Tomohiro Ishii vs. Taichi
Block A-Toru Yano vs. Jonah
Block C-Zack Sabre Jr. vs. KENTA
Block D-Shingo Takagi vs. Juice Robinson

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 1 AM ET/10 PM PT.

9:45 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin early because…
We are LIVE from Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell in Hokkaido, Japan. Hiromu Takahashi has just hit the ring for a special promo that lasts about 10 minutes, promo for the STRONG SPIRITS mobile game. He stops to take a selfie in a funny spot on the way out. Feed switches back to pre-show mode.
The event will begin in 5 minutes. Updates will resume shortly.
10 PM PT UPDATE: Live broadcast begins NOW…
We are LIVE from Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell in Hokkaido, Japan. This event is airing as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE on TV Asahi in Japan and is also being streamed live on ABEMA.

The announced paid attendance was 2942. Just a handful smaller than yesterday. Hiroyoshi Tenzan is again our guest on Japanese commentary.

Match 1: Tom Lawlor & Royce Isaacs vs. David Finlay & YOSHI-HASHI. 20 minute time limit
Result: YOSHI-HASHI & David Finlay beat Tom Lawlor & Royce Isaacs. Finlay pinned Isaacs.

Match 2: TAKA Michinoku & Lance Archer vs. El Phantasmo & Bad Luck Fale. 20 minute time limit
Result: El Phantasmo & Bad Luck Fale beat TAKA Michinoku & Lance Archer. Phantasmo pinned TAKA after Sudden Death.

Match 3: Aaron Henare, Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay vs. Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. 20 minute time limit
Result; Aaron Henarte, Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay beat Dick Togo, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. Henare beat Togo with Ultima.

Match 4: Jado & Tama Tonga vs. Chase Owens & Jay White. 20 minute time limit
Result: Chase Owens & Jay White beat Jado & Tama Tonga. Owens pinned Jado after C Trigger.

Match 5: Hirooki Goto, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada vs. BUSHI, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hirooki Goto, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada beat BUSHI, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito. Tanahashi pinned BUSHI after High Fly Flow.

Intermission. It’s 11:28 PM PT. The event will resume in 5-10 minutes. We’re likely going to finish the event around 1 AM PT.

11:34 PM PT-and we’re back!

Match 6: G1 CLIMAX 32 Block B-Taichi (with Miho Abe and a mini-plush on her shoulder, cute!) vs. Tomohiro Ishii. 30 minute time limit
Result: Taichi beat Tomohiro Ishii

Match 7: G1 CLIMAX 32 Block A-Toru Yano vs. Jonah. 30 minute time limit
Result: Toru Yano beat Jonah by countout. Guess they have to give Yano his one garbage comedy win.

Match 8: G1 CLIMAX 32 Block C-Zack Sabre Jr. vs. KENTA. 30 minute time limit
Result: Zack Sabre Jr. beat KENTA by submission.

Main Event: G1 CLIMAX 32 Block D-Shingo Takagi vs. Juice Robinson. 30 minute time limit
Result: Juice Robinson beat Shingo Takagi

Day 3 is Wednesday at Xebio Arena Sendai in Sendai. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

New Japan 7/16/22 Results

New Japan kicked off the G1 CLIMAX 32 Tournament today, the biggest and most important tournament of the year that unofficially begins the road to Tokyo Dome on January 4. This year’s installment has 28 entrants-the most ever-spread out among 4 blocks in round-robin format.

Today’s event was held at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kita Yell in Hokkaido and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese and English FOR FREE! No login or signup required!

The announced paid attendance was 2891. On replay it looked very close to a legit sellout. This event aired as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE on TV Asahi in Japan and was also simulcast on ABEMA. Hiroyoshi Tenzan is the guest on Japanese commentary.

Match 1: Tom Lawlor beat Kosei Fujita. This was to have been Fujita & Yuto Nakashima vs. Lawlor & Royce Isaacs, but Nakashima & Isaacs were both removed due to a Nakashima injury.

Match 2: Bad Dude Tito & Jonah beat Ryohei Oiwa & Toru Yano. Jonah pinned Oiwa after a powerbomb.

Match 3: Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Jado, David Finlay & Tama Tonga. Takahashi pinned Jado after Pimp Juice.

Match 4: Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale, Juice Robinson & KENTA beat TAKA Michinoku, Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr. & Lance Archer. Robinson pinned TAKA.

Match 5: YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto beat BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito. Ishii pinned BUSHI after a vertical drop brainbuster.

G1 CLIMAX:
Match 6: Block C-Aaron Henare beat Hiroshi Tanahashi. UPSET ALERT!
Match 7: Block D-Will Ospreay beat El Phantasmo.
Match 8: Block B-Jay White beat SANADA.
Main Event: Block A-Kazuchika Okada beat Jeff Cobb. Last year this match determined who went to the Finals. This year, who knows.

Day 2 is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World begins TONIGHT at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET, and once again it will be available FOR FREE!

New Japan G1 CLIMAX 32 Undercard Changes

New Japan has announced a couple of non-tournament card changes to upcoming G1 CLIMAX 32 events because Yuto Nakashima is now off a couple events. Still recovering from a left elbow injury and will miss tomorrow and Wednesday. For tomorrow, he was to have teamed with Kosei Fujita to face Tom Lawlor & Royce Isaacs. Isaacs is now off as well so it will be Fujita-Lawlor. On Wednesday, he was to have teamed with Toru Yano to face YOSHI-HASHI & Kazuchika Okada. Ryohei Oiwa is the replacement.
No word on how much longer Nakashima may be out.

New Japan News: Music City Mayhem Card Set

New Japan has announced what appears to be the full card for Music City Mayhem, their next live US event, on 7/30 in Nashville, TN. The event is part of STARRCAST V, a weekend loaded with independent events, podcasts and more that is all centered around what will be the final match in the career of the iconic Ric Flair.
Music City Mayhem’s full card is currently as follows:
Fred Yehi, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs. The DKC, Kevin Knight & Ren Narita
Clark Connors vs. Davey Richards
Hiromu Takahashi vs. Blake Christian
KUSHIDA vs. Alex Shelley
FTR & Alex Zayne vs. TJP & Aussie Open
STRONG Openweight Champion Fred Rosser vs. Big Damo for the title
Jon Moxley vs. El Desperado in a No DQ Match
The event will be a LIVE PPV and is available for pre-order on FITE. It can be purchased as a standalone PPV for $19.99 or is part of a STARRCAST V bundle that includes multiple events-I believe the particular bundle including this event is $99.99. You get the live broadcast and unlimited on demand replays with purchase. The event is scheduled to start at 3 PM ET/Noon PT on 7/30.

Obituary: Masashi Aoyagi Passes Away

New Japan announced today the death of former wrestler and karate instructor Masashi Aoyagi, who died Tuesday according to an announcement from Pro Wrestling ZERO1. He was 65. Aoyagi first got into wrestling after an MMA fight against Atsushi Onita in 1989, during which time Apyagi was the director of a karate dojo, which led to them having a match in FMW. Aoyagi then debuted in New Japan in 1990, where he had an MMA match against Jushin Thunder Liger, then he formed his own faction in 1992 with, among others, current NOAH wrestler Akitoshi Saito, one of Aoyagi’s karate students. Aoyagi later continued making appearances throughout Japanese wrestling promotions, always sticking to a karate-based style.

New Japan’s obituary story in Japanese can be read below:
https://sp.njpw.jp/366230

New Japan Press Conference 7/7/22

Earlier today (late last night US time) New Japan held a special press conference that was open to the public, or at least select members of New Japan’s fan club. Some items of note from New Japan’s English recap will follow but you can also watch the event FOR FREE on New Japan World (no login or signup required):
https://njpwworld.com/p/o_original_0274_1O

(Note: The service will be unavailable on 7/12 from 7 PM PT-1 AM PT due to maintenance)

Notes from the event:
This was a Business Strategy Presentation with Bushiroad Director Takaaki Kidani (Kitani), Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hiromu Takahashi & Great-O-Khan also attending.
They started discussing finances and future plans for the US, which will include women’s matches mainly from Stardom, which is also owned by NJPW owner Bushiroad Corporation.
New Japan will return to the UK in October for the first time since 2019.
An outdoor event will be held at a to be determined location in Japan on 8/20.
The New Japan-Stardom joint event in November will have “around two” mixed tag matches, but not true intergender matches because the women will wrestle only the women, and same for the men. This was something Tanahashi previously hointed at and was pushing for.
Fans will be allowed to cheer vocally at two Korakuen Hall events in September, with masks required and capacity limited to 50%.
New goods and product collaborations were announced, likely Japan-only for now, including protein supplements featuring Tanahashi, a Khan t-shirt and Takahashi featured in trading cards. The t-shirt is designed by famed anime artist Masami Ohbari, the brother of NJPW President Takami Ohbari.
In closing, Kidani described what he calls the “2.1 era”, his vision the future of both New Japan and Stardom.

More on everything as it becomes available.

New Japan 7/5/22 Results

New Japan wrapped up the New Japan Road Tour today with the last of a Tokyo tripleheader, headlined today by a NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Title match and a Toru Yano oddball match because, well, Toru Yano gotta do something like that…

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese.

The announced paid attendance was 579.

Match 1: Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa. Wato beat Fujita.

Match 2: Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe. Kojima pinned Honma after a lariat.

Match 3: Alex Zayne, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada beat The DKC, Clark Connors & Yuji Nagata. Ishii pinned DKC after a vertical drop brainbuster.

Match 4: Jado, KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. Tanahashi beat Gedo with a Texas Cloverleaf.

Match 5: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat TAKA Michinoku, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki & Taichi. Takahashi pinned TAKA after D.

Match 6: In a Dog Cage Deathmatch, where the only way to win was to lock your opponent in a large dog cage, Toru Yano beat Dick Togo.

Main Event: Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL to win the titles. Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Goto become the 23rd NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Yoh pinned Sho after Direct Drive. And sent the crowd home very happy…Fo Sho, Yoh.

Next up is the G1 CLIMAX 32, the promotion’s biggest tournament of the year and the unofficial start of the Road To Tokyo Dome in January. Day 1 is 7/16 at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Kita Yell in Hokkaido. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin that day at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET, and remember the first 2 days will be available to watch FOR FREE!
Also, a live press conference will be broadcast FOR FREE on New Japan World beginning Wednesday at 11 PM PT/Thursday at 2 AM ET.

New Japan 7/4/22 Results

New Japan continued the New Japan Road tour with the middle event of the final 3-event stretch before the G1 CLIMAX.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese.

The announced paid attendance was 536. Smaller setup used today on the opposite hard camera side. No guest on commentary. (Togi Makabe joined after the break)

Match 1: Minoru Suzuki beat Kosei Fujita by submission.

Match 2: Satoshi Kojima beat TAKA Michinoku. Kojima came out wearing a Pro Wrestling NOAH shift and with the GHC Heavyweight Championship that he next defends on 7/16. Kojima with microphone afterwards to promote that match.

Match 3: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Ryohei Oiwa & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Makabe beat Oiwa with a Boston Crab.

Match 4: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Taichi beat The DKC, Clark Connors & Yuji Nagata. Taichi pinned DKC after Dangerous Backdrop.

Match 5: Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Takahashi after Shoto.

Match 6: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne, Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada. Takagi pinned Wato after MADE IN JAPAN.

Main Event: Taiji Ishimori & KENTA beat KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Ishimori beat KUSHIDA with Bone Lock.

The tour-ender is tomorrow with Yano vs. Togo in a Dog Cage Deathmatch and NEVER 6-Man Tag Team Champions Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL vs. Yoh, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto for the titles. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. After that, it’s on to the G1 CLIMAX-EVERY event will stream LIVE and on demand in Japanese and English on New Japan World, and everyone will be able to watch the first 2 events FOR FREE!

New Japan 7/3/22 Results

New Japan resumed the New Japan Road Tour today after a roughly 2-week break for the Forbidden Door joint PPV with All Elite Wrestling last week in the US, beginning a quick 3-day sprint to the finish before the G1 CLIMAX begins.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on New Japan World in Japanese.

The announced paid attendance was 1200. Maybe a full house/near-sellout based on the setup for today. No guest on commentary. (Hiroyoshi Tenzan joined commentary after intermission)

Match 1: Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe beat Ryohei Oiwa & TBA, which at the start of the event was revealed to be Tiger Mask 4. Honma beat Oiwa with a Boston Crab. Afterwards, TM 4 with microphone discussing his successful winning the All-Japan Jr. Heavyweight Championship, which he will defend in the promotion later this month. This was to have been Yuto Nakashima & Oiwa vs. Honma & Makabe, but Nakashima is out of the remaining events due to injury.

Match 2: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki beat Kosei Fujita, Master Wato & Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Suzuki pinned Fujita after a Gotch-style piledriver.

Match 3: Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan beat BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi. Henare beat BUSHI with Ultima. This was to have been Jado & Ryusuke Tatughi vs. BUSHI & Takahashi, but Jado was a last-minute removal from the event due to a fever (he tested negative for coronavirus). Taguchi was also pulled.

Match 4: SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito beat The DKC, Clark Connors & Yuji Nagata. Sanada pinned DKC after Skull End. This was to have been Alex Coughlin, Connors & DKC vs. LIJ, but Coughlin is out due to injury.

Match 5: Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Takahashi pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Big Juice. This was to have been an 8-man tag but Yoh is out due to coronavirus. Sho was also removed as a result.

Match 6: Tomohiro Ishii & Kazuchika Okada beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Okada beat TAKA with Money Clip. This was to have been DOUKI & Taichi vs. Ishii & Okada, but DOUKI is out as a precaution due to being a coronavirus close contact.

Main Event: KENTA & KUSHIDA Return Match: Alex Zayne, KUSHIDA & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA. KUSHIDA beat Gedo with a hammerlock suplex hold. This was KENTA’s first match since suffering injuries at Tokyo Dome in January in a bloody No DQ IWGP US Heavyweight Title match against Tanahashi, and KUSHIDA’s first match in New Japan since 2019, when he left for WWE.

The next event is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

DEVELOPING: Another New Japan Card Change

New Japan has just announced another last-minute change for today’s event in a couple hours-Jado is now off the event. Fever. Tested negative for coronavirus but will be kept out as a precaution. He was to have teamed with Ryusuke Taguchi to face Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI. Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan are the replacements and Taguchi is now off. Probably just took LIJ from win to near-squash loss.

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