New Japan Pro-Wrestling will crown new IWGP Jr. Tag Team Champions on Friday. After Roppongi 3K vacated the titles at the end of August, NJPW announced that a two night round robin tournament would crown new champions. Suzuki-gun’s El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru will clash with LIJ’s Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI in the finals of the tournament.
Takahashi & BUSHI have never beaten Desperado & Kanemaru in tag team title action, so a win for the Ingobernables juniors would mean big things for their growth as a team, but Desperado & Kanemaru are cunning and will do anything and everything to win the titles.
Plus the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Titles will be defended. The show is set to air at 5:30am ET.
9/11
New Japan Road
5:30am ET
- Satoshi Kojima, Tomoaki Honma & Yuji Nagata vs. Yota Tsuji, Yuya Uemura & Gabriel Kidd
- Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi, Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr. & DOUKI.
- Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & Shingo Takagi) vs. Bullet Club (EVIL, Dick Togo & Yujiro Takahashi)
- NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Championship Match: CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI) (c) vs. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, SHO & Toru Yano)
- IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship Match: Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI) vs. Suzuki-gun (El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
Kanemaru & Desperado, Hiromu & BUSHI to face off for IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championships after league ends in Sendai:https://t.co/6hqj8k9eXz#njpw #njroad pic.twitter.com/nRjaiLPg6t
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) September 10, 2020
Here are the results from the past two nights of New Japan Road. A third event was held on Sept. 8th but was not taped for NJPWWorld.
9/6
New Japan Road
Available on NJPWWorld.com
- Satoshi Kojima def. Yota Tsuji by pinfall via Western Lariat. (6:49)
- Kazuchika okada, Sho, Toru Yano & Gabriel Kidd def. Yoshi-Hashi, Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii & Yuya Uemura by submission (11:28)
Sho submitted Yuya Uemura via Cross Armbreaker. - Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi, Tomoaki Honma & Yuji Nagata def. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr. & Douki) by pinfall. (11:32)
Kota Ibushi pinned Douki via Kamigoye. - Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & Shingo Takagi) def. Bullet Club (EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi & Jado) by submission. (11:03)
SANADA submitted Jado via Skull End. - IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship Tournament Match: Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi (2) def. Suzuki-gun (El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) (0) by pinfall (13:27)
Master Wato pinned Yoshinobu Kanemaru via RPP. - IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship Tournament Match: Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI) (2) def. Bullet Club (Gedo & Taiji Ishimori) (0) by pinfall. (20:56)
BUSHI pinned Gedo via Double Flapjack.
9/9
New Japan Road
Available on NJPWWorld.com
- Satoshi Kojima def. Yota Tsuji by pinfall via Lariat. (7:34)
- Kazuchika okada, Sho, Toru Yano & Gabriel Kidd def. Yoshi-Hashi, Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii & Yuya Uemura. (14:16)
Sho submitted Yuya Uemura via Cross Armbreaker. - Kota Ibushi, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Yuji Nagata & Tomoaki Honma def. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr. & Douki) by pinfall (13:33)
Kota Ibushi pinned Douki via Kamigoye. - Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & Shingo Takagi def. EVIL, Dick Togo & Yujiro Takahashi by pinfall. (9:50)
Tetsuya Naito pinned Dick Togo via Destino. - IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship Tournament Match: Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori & Gedo) (2) def. Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi (2) by submission.(14:34)
Taiji Ishimori submitted Master Wato via YES! Lock. - IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship Tournament Match: Suzuki-gun (El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) (2) def. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI) (2) by pinfall. (17:15)
El Desperado pinned BUSHI via El Es Clero.
