Quick Results
Taiji Ishimori & Yujiro Takahashi pinned Master Wato & Hiroyoshi Tenzan in 10:31 ( )
Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan & Aaron Henare pinned BUSHI, Tetsuya Naito & SANADA in 14:55 ( )
Toru Yano, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi pinned Dick Togo, Jay White & EVIL in 12:23 ( ½)
Will Ospreay pinned Shingo Takagi in 44:53 to retain the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship ( )
We’re back at the Fukuoka Convention Center after a very bare bones hold screen. No Taguchi music video. No Makabe teaching us the rules. None of that… which is explained as…
We open with a statement from New Japan chairman Naoki Sugabayashi, saying that a wrestler due to appear on the card presented with a fever – and as such has been pulled from the card. Another wrestler, who’d only joined the tour at the weekend, was also pulled – as we lost the El Desperado vs. YOH junior title match… enjoy the jigsaw identification attempts.
Quick Results
Taiji Ishimori, EVIL, Dick Togo & Yujiro Takahashi pinned Tiger Mask, Toru Yano, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Master Wato in 9:58 ( ½)
YOH, SHO & Kazuchika Okada pinned Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki in 10:31 ( ¾)
SANADA, Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI pinned Aaron Henare, Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb in 11:31 ( )
Zack Sabre Jr. pinned Tanga Loa in 15:12 ( ¼)
Taichi defeated Tama Tonga in 27:10 to regain the Iron Fingers from Hell (½ )
Jay White pinned Hiroshi Tanahashi in 38:59 to win the NEVER Openweight Championship ( ¼)
We’re at the Fukuoka Convention Center, with no live English commentary as Kevin Kelly is in quarantine ahead of the two big stadium shows…
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NJPW The New Beginning in Hiroshima 2021 Review: Lawn Dart of Vengeance
If we learned two things from this week in NJPW they re to respect Bushi and to respect the 6-man titles NJPW
After a big show in Nagoya and a few nights at Korakuen Hall, New Japan Pro Wrestling wrapped up the 2021 New Beginning tour with back-to-back nights in Hiroshima. A downside of the event going in was how predictable the results of the main events seemed. Sho and Sanada were clearly doomed, for better or worse, and the selling point of both headling matches was just good wrestling. NJPW didn’t end up pulling a massive swerve and neither the IWGP Junior Heavyweight nor double championship changed hands, but The New Beginning in Hiroshima still took some unexpected turns, also for better or worse.
Quick Results
Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & DOUKI submitted Gabriel Kidd, Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura in 8:52 ( ½)
Master Wato, Tomoaki Honma & SHO pinned Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki in 8:06 ( ¾)
Tetsuya Naito, Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI pinned Yujiro Takahashi, El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori in 9:54 ( ¼)
EVIL & Dick Togo vs. Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano went to a double count-out in 1:29 (DUD)
Kazuchika Okada defeated EVIL via disqualification in 5:40 ( )
YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii pinned Tanga Loa, Tama Tonga & Jay WHite in 27:03 to retain the NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship ( ¾)
Kota Ibushi pinned SANADA in 27:51 to retain the IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships ( ¼)