SECOND MATCH: Gauntlet For The NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champions Bullet Club (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Bad Luck Fale) vs. Michael Elgin & War Machine (Hanson & Raymond Rowe) vs. Suzuki-gun (Taichi, El Desperado & Zack Sabre Jr.) vs. Taguchi Japan (Ryusuke Taguchi, Juice Robinson & Togi Makabe)
First team out is Suzuki-gun. Second is War Machine & Michael Elgin.
Elgin starts the match by treating Iizuka like a Jr. Heavyweight. He tags in Hanson, who uses his beard like a Brillo Pad across the face of Iizuka. Taichi storms the ring and uses the ring bell hammer on Hanson.
Raymond Rowe tags in, as does Zack Sabre Jr. and Rowe uses his stiff strikes to keep the slippery Brit at bay. Rowe hits a series of gutwrench backbreakers but Sabre wiggles out and tags in Taichi and then Iizuka and Hanson go to war. Hanson misses a Moonsault on Iizuka and gets hit with a PK from Sabre. Rowe floors Sabre with a knee strike and then hits a popup powerslam on Taichi. The ref gets knocked out and Sabre chokes out Ray Rowe, but Rowe fights out and tries to turn a triangle choke into a powerbomb but it doesn’t work and the ref stops the match as Rowe has been choked out.
Next out is Ishii/Yano/Beretta from Chaos.
Suzuki-gun swarm the Chaos trio and continue to abuse the referee but after some quick offense, Yano rolls up Taichi to get the pin.
Next out is Taguchi Japan’s Togi Makabe, Ryusuke Taguchi & Juice Robinson.
All six men brawl in the ring to start and Juice ends up alone against Chaos. Juice hits a series of punches to take out Ishii & Beretta and then hits Yano with a wild clothesline. Makabe tags in and begins hitting running corner lariats on Yano & Ishii. Mounted punches on Yano, but Yano blocks a suplex, only to then get hit with a big lariat. Beretta gets in some offense on Makabe but Taguchi tags in and has everyone run the bases on Yano. Beretta and Ishii run in and hit tandem moves on Makabe but then end up on the outside, toppled by a plancha from Juice. Taguchi attempts the Bomaye Knee, but Yano rolls him up for the pin.
Next out are the Champions.
Bullet Club run roughshod over Chaos. Tanga Loa hits Beretta with a Death Valley Driver on the apron. Bad Luck Fale targets Yano in the ring with vicious chops. Every member of Bullet Club gets run into Yano’s trusty exposed turnbuckle. Ishii attempts a Brainbuster on Fale, and then attempts a German, but gets smashed into the exposed corner. Ishii rolls away from a Big Splash from Fale and then hits two lariats that fail to bring Fale down. Ishii hits a Vertical Suplex on Fale. Beretta tags in. Tama tags in. Tama dominates Beretta with punches. Beretta dodges a powerbomb from Tanga Loa but gets hit with Guerrilla Warfare.
After dual splashes in the exposed corner, the sons of Haku whip Beretta so hard into the other corner that he flips to the top rope. Beretta fights off Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa, attempts a Moonsault that is met with a Gun Stun. Tama covers but Yano breaks up the pinfall.
Tama attempts another Gun Stun but it gets reversed into a Dudebuster for the win.
WINNERS AND NEW CHAMPIONS: Beretta, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano.
