Ian Hamilton drops by for the first night on the road to Dominion, featuring the Guerrillas of Destiny defending the IWGP tag titles against Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi.
Quick Results
Toru Yano, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tomoaki Honma pinned Dick Togo, Gedo & EVIL in 8:54 ( ½)
Jeff Cobb, Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan & Aaron Henare pinned BUSHI, Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito & SANADA in 7:43 ( )
Tomohiro Ishii pinned Yujiro Takahashi in 15:17 ( ¼)
Taiji Ishimori pinned Hirooki Goto in 12:08 ( ½)
KENTA pinned YOSHI-HASHI in 26:07 ( ½)
Of course, after my gripe yesterday about New Japan “grenading” interest, they drew a crowd of 641 – a little bit below the NOAH show that ran there hours earlier, but it almost doubled the attendance for Thursday’s show, and was New Japan’s highest crowd since the New Japan Cup quarter-final show.
Oh, we’re back to the reduced hard camera side for this…