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HOW ALL JAPAN WILL DETERMINE THE NEW TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPION, DDT PRO, KIZUNA ROAD AND MORE FROM JAPAN

All Japan Pro Wrestling

Jake Lee, Kento Miyahara and Yuma Aoyagi will face off in three singles matches to determine the new holder of the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship at All Japan Pro Wrestling’s show on June 26 in Ota Ward Gymnasium.

Each man will represent one of the three titles that formed the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship in 1989. As seen in the picture below from left to right, Aoyagi will represent the NWA United National Championship, Lee will represent the NWA International Heavyweight Championship and Miyahara will represent the PWF World Heavyweight Championship.

The first man to win two matches will become the new holder of the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship. The title was previously held by SUWAMA, who was scheduled to attempt his eighth defense of the title against Lee, but he vacated the title due to testing positive for COVID-19.

There will be a lottery at the start of the show to determine the order of the three singles matches. To account for the changes to the card, Koji Doi and Kuma Arashi will now face Ryuki Honda and Shotaro Ashino while Jun Saito and Rei Saito will face each other in a singles match.

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling held its sixth Kizuna Road tour show today in Korakuen Hall.

The full results were:

• Taichi def. Yuya Uemura
• Zack Sabre Jr. def. Yota Tsuji
• Kazuchika Okada, SHO, Toru Yano and YOH def. El Phantasmo, Gedo, Jado and Taiji Ishimori
• Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Kota Ibushi, Satoshi Kojima and Yuji Nagata def. BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito
• NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships: Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI (c) def. Dick Togo, EVIL and Yujiro Takahashi

Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI made their sixth successful defense of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships against Dick Togo, EVIL and Yujiro Takahashi in the main event.

After the bout, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima and Yuji Nagata came to the ring to signal their intentions to challenge for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships.

New Japan will hold its seventh Kizuna Road tour show tomorrow in Korakuen Hall. The full card is:

• Great-O-Khan vs. Yota Tsuji
• Kota Ibushi vs. Yuya Uemura
• Dick Togo, EVIL, Gedo, Jado and Yujiro Takahashi vs. Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano and YOSHI-HASHI
• BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito vs. El Desperado, Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Zack Sabre Jr.
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: SHO and YOH (c) vs. El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori

Great-O-Khan’s match against Yota Tsuji will be his first appearance since Dominion. With Aaron Henare, Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay all seemingly out of Japan, it will be interesting to see how Great-O-Khan is booked as the lone member of United Empire available.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling held a press conference today ahead of HARASHIMA and Yuji Okabayashi’s defense of the KO-D Tag Team Championships against Konosuke Takeshita and Shunma Katsumata on June 26 in Osaka.

Pictures and full quotes from the press conference (in Japanese) can be read on DDT’s website here. The match will be HARASHIMA and Okabayashi’s second defense of the titles.

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