PWInsider - WWE News, Wrestling News, WWE

EIGHT NEW JAPAN STARS PULLED FROM THE RING AND MORE FROM JAPAN

New Japan Pro Wrestling

BUSHI, Dick Togo, EVIL, Gedo, SANADA, Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro Takahashi all missed New Japan Pro Wrestling’s fifteenth Summer Struggle tour show today in Korakuen Hall due to the company’s COVID-19 protocols.

BUSHI and Takagi recorded a fever upon arrival to yesterday’s Summer Struggle tour show in Shizuoka and were held off the show. Both wrestlers, and all others deemed to be in close contact with them, were held off today’s show.

Due to Dick Togo and Gedo’s absence, they forfeited their Super Junior Tag League match against Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi and the latter were automatically awarded two points.

The full results from today’s show were:

• Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma def. Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi
• Hirooki Goto, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima and YOSHI-HASHI def. DOUKI, Minoru Suzuki, Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.
• Kazuchika Okada and Toru Yano def. Chase Owens and Jado
• Super Junior Tag League: El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori def. Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask
• Super Junior Tag League: El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru def. SHO and YOH

After the main event, SHO turned on YOH.

Having won the last three tournaments, the team had suffered a horrendous 0-3 start in the Super Junior Tag League. At the climax of today’s main event, SHO opted not to save YOH and watched from the outside as El Desperado picked up the victory.

SHO then hit Shock Arrow on YOH and announced backstage that his former partner is of no use to him anymore, putting an emphatic end on a nine-year partnership.

Since returning from excursion in 2017, SHO and YOH – better known as Roppongi 3K – were arguably one of the most dominant junior heavyweight tag team in modern history. As mentioned, the duo won the last three Super Junior Tag League tournaments and have also held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships five times (only topped by Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson’s seven reigns with the titles).

It remains to be seen what the future holds for SHO and YOH, but one has to imagine SHO might be migrating to a new faction in the near future.

Following today’s show, the updated Super Junior Tag League standings are:

1. El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori (4-0 record): 8 points
2. Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask (3-1 record): 6 points
3. El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru (3-1 record): 6 points
4. Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi (2-2 record): 4 points
5. Dick Togo and Gedo (0-4 record): 0 points
-. SHO and YOH (0-4 record): 0 points

New Japan will hold its sixteenth Summer Struggle tour show tomorrow in Korakuen Hall. The announced card as of the publishing of this article is:

• Chase Owens, Jado and Yujiro Takahashi vs. Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma and Toru Yano
• BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito vs. Hirooki Goto, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima and YOSHI-HASHI
• Super Junior Tag League: Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask
• Super Junior Tag League: Dick Togo and Gedo vs. SHO and YOH
• Super Junior Tag League: El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori

El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori and Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask can all mathematically win the Super Junior Tag League tomorrow.

The ball is in El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori’s court. If they defeat or draw El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru, they win the tournament regardless of Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask.

El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru can win the tournament if they defeat El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori, but they will need Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi to defeat or draw Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask.

Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask can win the tournament if they need Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi and El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru defeat El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori.

All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the full card for its show on August 18 in Yokohama.

The full card is:

• Black Menso~re, Dan Tamura, Devil Murasaki, Izanagi and Takao Omori vs. Jun Saito, Rei Saito, Ryoma Tsukamoto, Ryuki Honda and Yuma Aoyagi
• Royal Road: Atuski Aoyagi vs. TAJIRI
• Royal Road: Francesco Akira vs. Shuji Ishikawa
• Royal Road: Shigehiro Irie vs. Yoshitatsu
• Royal Road: Ayato Yoshida vs. Hokuto Omori
• Royal Road: Shotaro Ashino vs. Zeus
• Royal Road: Abdullah Kobayashi vs. SUWAMA
• Royal Road: Kento Miyahara vs. T-Hawk
• Royal Road: Jake Lee vs. Koji Iwamoto

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling has announced Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani will attempt their first defense of the BJW Tag Team Championships against Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Hino at its Death Mania IX 2021 show on September 5 in Nagoya.

The bout was initially scheduled to be a non-title affair but was changed to be Hashimoto and Kamitani’s first defense of the titles after they defeated Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura to win them at Big Japan’s show yesterday in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring.

Big Japan has also announced Drew Parker will attempt his first defense of Game Changer Wrestling’s GCW Ultraviolent Championship against Yuki Ishikawa at its show on September 23 in Korakuen Hall.

Kota Sekifuda will also attempt his first defense of the BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship against Tatsuhiko Yoshino on the same show.

If you enjoy PWInsider.com you can check out the AD-FREE PWInsider Elite section, which features exclusive audio updates, news, our critically acclaimed podcasts, interviews and more by clicking here!

• Tweet