Ian Hamilton checks in for the first of two Road to Tokyo Dome shows, featuring the United Empire up against young lions in singles matches, along with Suzuki-gun in the main event.
Quick Results
Shingo Takagi, Hiromu Takahashi & SANADA pinned Dick Togo, Taiji Ishimori & EVIL in 8:32 ( )
Toru Yano beat Bad Luck Fale in 6:11 to retain the KOPW 2020 Title ( )
Jay White & KENTA pinned Toa Henare & Satoshi Kojima in 13:08 ( )
Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan & Will Ospreay pinned Tomoaki Honma, Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi in 14:08 ( ½)
SHO & Kota Ibushi pinned BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito in 17:00 ( )
The full cards for WrestleKingdom were announced in the hours before this show – and we’re looking at a pair of six-match cards, with night one’s dark match seeing the return of the New Japan Rambo!… to decide the final four for a match on night two to crown the provisional KOPW 2021 holder. Night two’s “pre-show” will feature a match from STARDOM, but it’s not yet clear if that’ll make the NJPW World stream…
Quick Results
Satoshi Kojima, Togi Makabe & Tiger Mask pinned Yota Tsuji, Yuya Uemura & Gabriel Kidd in 8:57 ( ½)
Juice Robinson & Toa Henare pinned Yujiro Takahashi & KENTA in 11:10 ( )
Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroyoshi Tenzan pinned Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki in 10:28 ( ¾)
Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Chase Owens pinned DOUKI, Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi in 8:32 ( ¾)
Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan & Will Ospreay pinned Tomoaki Honma, Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi in 14:12 ( ¼)
Jay White, EVIL & Dick Togo pinned BUSHI, Tetsuya Naito & SANADA in 17:36 ( ¼)
We’re at Korakuen Hall for this one – and while Kevin Kelly is actually in Japan, he’s on quarantine so we’ve only got live commentary in Japanese. But first, a truncated highlights video for 2020…