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OSPREAY VS. SANADA: NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING ON AXS TV REPORT

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

Henare and Jessie Vargas came to the ring with United Empire.

Bullet Club worked over O-Khan early in the match.   Cobb tags in and slams Fale.  Cobb hits a Spin Cycle on Owens.   Owens and Fale double team Cobb.  Owens hits a Jewel Heist.  Two count.   Owens avoids a Tour of the Islands and hits two C-Triggers.   Fale and Owens double team Cobb.  O-Khan hits a lariat on Fale who falls to the floor.  Cobb hits Tour of the Islands on Owens.  

Cobb pins Owens.

United Empire wins the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

After the match, Rocky Romero hit the ring to attack O-Khan and Cobb.  O-Khan lays out Rocky with an Eliminator. 

IWGP U.S. Heavyweight Championship:   SANADA vs. Will Ospreay 

Juice Robinson was stripped of the U.S. Title and removed from this match which was supposed to be a 3-way match.  Juice suffered from appendicitis at the BOSJ 29 Final so he was unable to compete.  However, Juice still holds the actual belt.

Both men start fast and SANADA hits a plancha.  They exchange fists.  Ospreay with a hot shot and boot to the face.   Ospreay with a spinning back breaker.  They exchange more elbows.  SANADA with a dropkick to the leg.  Ospreay hits a Sky Twister on SANADA.   Ospreay with a springboard elbow.  Two count.   

Ospreay hits a hook kick and an Oscutter. Two count.   They exchange reversals.  Ospreay with the Hidden Blade.  Two count.  Ospreay with another Hidden Blade and a Stormbreaker.

Ospreay pins SANADA.

Will Ospreay wins the IWGP U.S. Heavyweight Championship.  

Really good match.  Both men are coming off injury and health issues, so they may have had timing issues.  

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