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NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING ON AXS TV REPORT

Welcome to the New Japan on AXS TV report!

Tonight's matches are from the 2/19/22 New Japan’s New Years Golden Series event in Hokkaido, Japan:

IWGP Jr Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 4-way Match:  El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori vs. El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato vs. Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask

El Phantasmo comes to the ring wearing the mask that Ishimori stole from Tiger Mask. 

High spot match.   Too much action to recap. Eagles hit an insane Super Frankensteiner on ELP off the top and onto the other competitors.   Taguchi and Wato corner Tiger Mask in the ring.  Taguchi lifts Tiger Mask into a Dodon, while Wato hits a Flatliner.  

Taguchi pins Tiger Mask.

Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato win the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.   This was Wato’s first major title win in New Japan.

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship:   Yujiro Takahashi and EVIL vs. YOSH-HASHI and Hirooki Goto

The tag champs are attacked by SHO and Dick Togo as they come to the ring.  Tomohiro Ishii and YOH make the save.   They get match finally into the ring.   All men remain at ringside and interfere throughout the match.   Too much chaos in the match.    

Yujiro hits a low blow on YOSHI-HASHI.  Referee takes a bump.  House of Torture quadruple-teams YOSHI-HASHI.  Goto brings in his Bo Staff and clears the ring of House of Torture.   It becomes a normal tag match.   

YOSHI-HASHI and Goto hit a Shoto on Yujiro.

YOSHI-HASHI pins Yujiro.

The Champions retain the Tag Team titles against the House of Torture.

Solid match.   The problem for me is the same eight men surrounding three title pictures.  It becomes repetitive and predictable.   Hopefully things will change after the New Japan Cup.

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