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From Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan:
1 - Shota Umino, Yuji Nagata and Satoshi Kojima vs. Togi Makabe, Toru Yano and Taisei Nakahara
Umino forces Nakahara to tap out to a Boston Crab.
2 - Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, YOH, Ryusuke Taguchi and Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Zane Jay, Jakob Austin Young, Great O-Khan, Jake Lee and Francesco Akira
Lee pins Matsumoto after hitting a hard knee strike to the gut.
3 - Aaron Wolf, Boltin Oleg and Jado vs. Yuto-Ice, OSKAR and Gedo
Wolf forces Gedo to tap out to a head and arm triangle submission.
4 - Yuya Uemura, Taichi, El Desperado, Master Wato and Masatora Yasuda vs. Ren Narita, SANADA, DOUKI, SHO and Yoshinobu Kanemaru
DOUKI hits Yasuda with his metal pipe. SHO hits a cross arm piledriver on Yasuda and gets the pin.
5 - Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi, Taiji Ishimori and Daiki Nagai vs. Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson and Kosei Fujita
Fujita pins Nagai after hitting a German Suplex with a bridge.
Jyushin "Thunder" Liger joins the Japanese commentary team for the main events.
6 - Retirement Match #1: Tiger Mask vs. Tommy Billington
Tommy Billington is the nephew of the "Dynamite Kid" Tom Billington, and wrestles for AEW. This match is a tribute to the match between Dynamite Kid and the original Tiger Mask Satoru Sayama.
Billington and Tiger Mask wrestle to a 5 minute draw.
Black Tiger IV (aka Rocky Romero) attacks both Billington and Tiger Mask.
7 - Retirement Match #2: Tiger Mask vs. Black Tiger IV
Black Tiger tries to rip off Tiger Mask's mask. Crowd cheers loudly for Tiger Mask. Black Tiger tries all kinds of tricks and cannot defeat his opponent. Tiger Mask hits a Tiger Suplex and pins Black Tiger.
Tiger Mask wins his final match.
Billington congratulates Tiger Mask. Black Tiger takes off his mask, and Rocky Romero hugs Tiger Mask. Romero gives him his mask.
All the following come out to congratulate Tiger Mask and give gifts:
The Unbound Company.
All of TMDK.
All of Hontai
Hiroshi Tanahashi, the president of New Japan.
Other Japanese entertainers
The Great Sasuke. (Awesome!)
Jinsei Shinzaki
Kazuo Yamazaki
Jyushin "Thunder" Liger
Tatsumi Fujinami
A few Japanese baseball legends. (Audio was terrible on New Japan World, with music drowning out the commentary.)
Satoru Sayama, the original Tiger Mask.
Tiger Mask asks his mentor Sayama to lock up with him one last time. They have one last head and arm tie up to a round of applause.
Tiger Mask then thanks the fans in Korakuen and around the world for their support.
They ring the bell ten times for Tiger Mask ending his career in the ring.
Tiger Mask shakes hands with the wrestlers and the fans.
G1 Climax 36 begins this Saturday July 11 at the NOW Arena, in Hoffman Estates outside of Chicago, Illinois.
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