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IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship:  Jeff Cobb and Great O-Khan vs. YOSHI-HASHI and Hirooki Goto vs. Chase Owens and Bad Luck Fale

According to the rules of the match, this will be a Tonado match, with no tags needed.

Chase Owens pays tribute to Beautiful Bobby Eaton wearing his t-shirt.

Great O-Khan comes out with a new entrance attire.

Fale attacks Cobb during the ring announcements.  This may be too much to recap here.   Fale gets thrown into the guardrails by United Empire.   Bodies are flying around the ring.   Until Cobb and Fale met in the ring face to face.  They hit each other with elbows.   Fale took down Cobb with a shoulder tackle.  Cobb got up and scoop slammed Fale.  The crowd popped for Cobb’s strength.   YOSHI-HASHI dropkicked Cobb out of the ring.  O-Khan jumped him from behind.  Goto and YOSHI-HASHI double teamed O-Khan.  They hit a Shoto on O-Khan.  YOSHI-HASHI goes for a pin and Owens hits him with a C-Trigger.   Goto and Owens trade strikes.   Owens jumps over the top rope and lands on O-Khan and YOSHI-HASHI.   Cobb tries for Tour of the Islands on Goto.  Goto reverses out and hits an ushigaroshi.   Goto goes for a GTR, but Cobb reverses out and elbows Goto in the face.  Goto falls to the mat.   Cobb pulls him up into a Tour of the Islands.   Cobb goes for the pin but Fale breaks it up.  Fale goes for a Hand Grenade.  Cobb hits a dropkick.   Cobb charges at Fale but pulls down the top rope and Cobb lands on the ring apron.  Owens hits a C-Trigger on Cobb and Fale follows with a lariat.  Cobb bumps to the floor.   Fale hits a Hand Grenade on Goto.   Owens goes to the top rope and they hit a Rocket Launcher.

Owens pins Goto.

Bad Luck Fale and Chase Owens win the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

This is the first title for Chase Owens in New Japan.

United Empire has words with Bullet Club after the match, especially since they were not pinned for the belts.

IWGP U.S. Heavyweight Championship:  Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tomohiro Ishii

Will Ospreay was supposed to face Hiroshi Tanahashi, but he tested positive for COVID.   Tomohiro Ishii replaces Ospreay.

As they lock up, Ishii slaps Tanahashi.   Tanahashi slaps him back.  Tanahashi hits a spring board body press and played his electric guitar for the fans.  Ishii kicks him  in the middle of his back, talking trash.    They begin throwing elbows back and forth.  Ishii hits a suplex.  Two count.   They exchange chops.  Tanahashi with a flying forearm.  Tanahashi with a somersault senton.  Two count.   Tanahashi hits a Dragon Screw.    Ishii counters with his own Dragon Screw.   Ishii kicks Tanahashi in the back and he gets angry.   Tanahashi throws elbows to the face Ishii who fights back with elbows.  Both men climb to the top rope.   Tanahashi tries a Sunset Bomb but Ishii avoids it.  Ishii is about to hit a move from the top rope, but Tanahashi grabs his leg and hits a Dragon Screw off the top rope.  Ishii is clutching his leg.  Tanahashi applies the Texas Cloverleaf.  Ishii gets a rope break.   They exchange strikes.   Tanahashi with a Dragon Suplex.  Ishii with a Dragon Suplex.  Tanahashi hits two Slingblades. Two count.

Tanahashi hits a German suplex.  Two count. Tanahashi climbs to the top rope.  Ishii charges and headbutts Tanahashi.   Ishii hits a superplex.  Two count.  Ishii with a Sliding Lariat.  Two count.   Ishii goes for a brainbuster, but Tanahashi reverses into a Twist and Shout.  He hits another Twist and Shout.  Tanahashi hits a Dragon Suplex.  Two count.   Tanahashi hits a High Fly Flow.  Tanahashi goes for another High Fly Flow, but Ishii moves.   Ishii rolls Tanahashi in a La Magistral cradle.   Tanahashi kicks out.  Tanahashi hits two lariats.  Ishii hits lariats of his own.   Ishii hits a brainbuster.   Tanahashi kicks out!!!!!   What????

Tanahashi hits a reverse Slingblade.  They exchanged chops, elbows and headbutts.   Ishii hits his own Slingblade.   They struggle for a position and Tanahashi hits a brainbuster.  Tanahashi hits Sky High.   Tanahashi connects with High Fly Flow.

Tanahashi pins Ishii.

Hiroshi Tanahashi wins the IWGP U.S. Heavyweight Championship.

Good fun match!   Both men beat the crap out of each other.

After the match, Tanahashi thanks Ishii.  He tells SANADA that he kept his promise to get the U.S. Title back.

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