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NJPW NEW YEAR'S DASH RESULTS, BIG JAPAN UPDATES, JAY WHITE AND MORE FROM JAPAN

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling held its New Year Dash!! show in Tokyo Dome City Hall today.

The full results were:

• Yuji Nagata def. Gabriel Kidd
• DOUKI and Minoru Suzuki def. Tiger Mask and Yuya Uemura
• Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay def. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima and Yota Tsuji
• El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa def. El Desperado, Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Zack Sabre Jr.
• Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano and YOSHI-HASHI def. Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, EVIL, Jay White and Yujiro Takahashi
• BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito def. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi, Master Wato, Rocky Romero and SHO

Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay continued to assault Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima and Yota Tsuji after the match. Tenzan was taken out on a stretcher.

El Phantasmo pinned Yoshinobu Kanemaru in the fourth match to set up a future IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships match. El Desperado and Kanemaru made their second successful defense of the titles against Master Wato and Rysuke Taguchi yesterday.

Tomohiro Ishii pinned Jay White and White was immediately helped backstage. Many fans were expecting a major angle to take place after White announced he planned to quit the company after today’s show following his loss to Kota Ibushi yesterday.

SHO will be Hiromu Takahashi’s first challenger for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship. Takahashi said he wanted to face SHO to avenge his Best of the Super Juniors loss.

Shingo Takagi issued a challenge to Hiroshi Tanahashi. If the match takes place, it would be the first time Tanahashi has challenged for the NEVER Openweight Championship. If the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and IWGP Intercontinental Championship are unified, the NEVER Openweight Championship would naturally become the second most important heavyweight title.

BUSHI challenged Master Wato to a singles match.

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the full card for its show in Osaka on January 24 and partial card for its show in Aichi in January 31.

The announced cards are:

January 24 in Osaka
• Masaki Morihiro vs. Yuichi Taniguchi
• Hideyoshi Kamitani and Issei Onizuka vs. Kosuke Sato and Takuya Nomura
• Akira Hyodo vs. GAINA
• Andy Wu, Daichi Hashimoto and Kazuki Hashimoto vs. Kota Sekifuda, Takuho Kato and Yuya Aoki
• Abdullah Kobayashi and CIMA vs. Drew Parker and Yuko Miyamoto
• Daisuke Sekimoto, Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yuji Okabayashi vs. Kazumi Kikuta, Quiet Storm and Ryuichi Kawakami
• Deathmatch: Jaki Numazawa, Kankuro Hoshino and Ryuji Ito vs. Shunma Katsumata, Takumi Tsukamoto and Yuki Ishikawa

January 31 in Aichi
• Deathmatch: Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa vs. Takumi Tsukamoto and Yuko Miyamoto
• Abdullah Kobayashi, Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito vs. Daichi Hashimoto, Daisuke Sekimoto and Yasufumi Nakanoue
• BJW Tag Team Championships: Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura (c) vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami

There will be four more matches at the January 31 show. The main event will be Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura’s sixth defense of the BJW Tag Team Championships.

GLEAT

Soma Watanabe has tested positive for COVID-19, GLEAT announced today.

Watanabe was scheduled to team with Takanori Ito against KANON and Ren Ayabe at JUST TAP OUT Professional Wrestling’s show in Korakuen Hall on January 15. TAKA Michinoku has confirmed Watanabe will miss the show and a replacement will be announced soon.

 

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