Quick Results
Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale & KENTA pinned DOUKI, Minoru Suzuki & Taichi in 7:25 ( ¾)
SHO, Kazuchika Okada & Hirooki Goto pinned BUSHI, Tetsuya Naito & Shingo Takagi in 10:02 ( ¾)
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toa Henare & Juice Robinson pinned Yujiro Takahashi, Jay White & EVIL in 13:44 ( )
New Japan Cup 2021 – Second Round: SANADA pinned Yuji Nagata in 18:17 ( ½)
New Japan Cup 2021 – Second Round: Will Ospreay pinned Zack Sabre Jr. in 21:22 ( ¾)
The tour moves to the Amagasaki Memorial Park Gymnasium in Hyogo for today’s round…
YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs. David Finlay, Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura
We’re building up YOSHI-HASHI vs. Finlay tomorrow – and there’s no obvious mention of Finlay’s recent successes in Impact wrestling here.
A look at the career of 80s star Hacksaw Butch Reed, who passed away this past week, is the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
We look at all of his titles won, sports career before wrestling, what was and wasn t exaggerated about him, how he got started in wrestling, how fast it was that he was moved to star status, including main eventing at the key wrestling arenas in the country very early, the role Dory Funk Jr, made in his career, how he was booked, a super tag team with Skip Young that few outside of Florida ever saw, feuding with the biggest names on top, his matches with Ric Flair up and down the state of Florida, his sellout with Flair in St. Louis, runs in Georgia and his move to Mid South, his Mid South runs, the high point of his career, his feud with JYD, his Superdome main events, his face and heel turns, his biggest angles, his fight with John Nord and his departure from Mid South, his meeting with Slick, heading to WWF as The Natural
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Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Yuya Uemura defeated Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Jado (8:57)
This wasn t good, but I ll say this for Jado he s moving much better than he has in recent years.
Jado and Uemura began as the legal men. Goto and YH stopped G.O.D. from interfering. Jado hit a tackle and cut Uemura off. G.O.D. brawled with Goto and YH on the outside. Bullet Club spent several minutes working on Uemura.
Uemura came back with a dropkick and tagged Goto. Goto hit a bulldog for a near fall on Tama. Goto and YH double teamed an interfering Tanga. YH got a tag and got triple teamed by G.O.D. and Jado. Jado hit a draping DDT for a near fall.