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New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling continued its The New Beginning tour in Korakuen Hall today.

The full results were:

• Gabriel Kidd and Ryusuke Taguchi def. Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura
• Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano def. EVIL, Jay White and Yujiro Takahashi
• El Phantasmo, Jado, Taiji Ishimori, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa def. DOUKI, El Desperado, Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Zack Sabre Jr.
• Hiromu Takahashi and Tetsuya Naito def. SHO and Tomoaki Honma
• BUSHI and SANADA def. Kota Ibushi and Master Wato

New Japan has announced Jay White, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa will challenge Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships on the second night of The New Beginning in Hiroshima on February 11. The updated card for the show is:

• DOUKI, Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Gabriel Kidd, Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura
• El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori and Yujiro Takahashi
• BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi and Tetsuya Naito vs. Master Wato, SHO and Tomoaki Honma
• Dick Togo and EVIL vs. Kazuchika Okada and Toru Yano
• NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships: Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI (c) vs. Jay White, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa
• IWGP Heavyweight Championship and IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Kota Ibushi (c) vs. SANADA

Multiple New Japan wrestlers will compete on the Giant Baba memorial show tomorrow. The full card is:

• Alejandro, Andy Wu and Osamu Nishimura vs. Jinsei Shinzaki, Mitsuya Nagai and Tomoaki Honma
• Atsushi Onita, Great Kojika, Masanobu Fuchi and Shiro Koshinaka vs. Masao Inoue, Takao Omori, Tiger Mask II and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
• Atsuki Aoyagi vs. BUSHI
• Hikaru Sato and Minoru Suzuki vs. Yuji Nagata and Yuma Aoyagi
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Kaz Hayashi and Masayuki Kono vs. Keiji Mutoh, Satoshi Kojima and SUWAMA

New Japan has uploaded the latest editions of Hiroshi Tanahashi’s Ace’s HIGH interview series. Tanahashi discusses topics such as Satoshi Kojima winning the IWGP Heavyweight Championship while signed to All Japan Pro Wrestling, wrestling Scott Norton and winning the first ever New Japan Cup in 2005.

The full piece can be read here.

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling has announced three new matches for its February 19 show in Korakuen Hall.

The updated card for the show is:

• Takuho Kato vs. Takuya Nomura
• Fuminori Abe, Kazuki Hashimoto and Masaki Morihiro vs. Kosuke Sato, Kota Sekifuda and Tatsuhiko Yoshino
• Daichi Hashimoto, Yuji Okabayashi and Yuya Aoki vs. Daisuke Sekimoto, Kazumi Kikuta and Ryota Hama
• BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship: Yasufumi Nakanoue vs. Ryuichi Kawakami
• BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship deathmatch: Takumi Tsukamoto (c) vs. Kankuro Hoshino

Two more deathmatches will be added to the card.

Big Japan has announced the cards for its two shows in Yokohama Radiant Hall on March 20. The full cards are:

Afternoon
• Akira Hyodo and Kosuke Sato vs. Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani
• Kankuro Hoshino vs. Yasufumi Nakanoue
• Kazuki Hashimoto and Kohei Sato vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Takuho Kato
• Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa vs. Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura
• Ryuichi Kawakami vs. Yuji Okabayashi
• Abdullah Kobayashi, Brahman Kei and Minoru Fujita vs. Great Kojika, Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito

Evening
• Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Takuho Kato
• Kosuke Sato vs. Minoru Fujita
• Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa
• Abdullah Kobayashi and Jaki Numazawa vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuji Ito
• Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani vs. Kazuki Hashimoto and Kohei Sato
• Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura vs. Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yuji Okabayashi

Big Japan has uploaded Kengo Mashimo versus Kosuke Sato from its January 17 show in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring onto its YouTube channel.

Colega Pro Wrestling

Colega Pro Wrestling aired its weekly Rising Night show on YouTube today. Ryouji Sai versus Ultimate Spider Jr. was the main event.

 

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