NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 32 night one results

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The Best of the Super Juniors 32 kicked off today in Chiba.

Matches from both the A and B Blocks were featured on the show.

The first tournament match of the night featured AEW’s Nick Wayne making his tournament debut against House of Torture’s SHO. Wayne picked up the win with a Prodigy Plex. He had the crowd behind him as well, after SHO insulted the fans and attempted multiple low blows throughout the bout.

The semi-main event of the evening saw four-time tournament winner Hiromu Takahashi against two-time tournament winner KUSHIDA. The finish of the match saw KUSHIDA almost score the victory after the two excahnged pinning combinations just before Takahashi locked in Maximum The Holding (A cloverleaf type submission) and made KUSHIDA tap.

The main event of the night saw IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion El Desperado against CMLL’s Titan. This is the fourth year in a row that the two have met in the tournament, having been in the same block for 3 and meeting in the semifinals of BOSJ 30. Desperado made Titan tap to his Numero Dos stretch-muffler submission hold on Saturday. The two rivals are now 2-2 in singles matches against one another. After the match, Desperado said he wants to defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title against TItan at some point, be it in Japan or Mexico. He also said that he’s only won BOSJ twice, and still considers himself as chasing the tournament’s all-time most-decorated competitor, Takahashi, who has won it four times (Jushin Liger won it three times.)

NJPW BOSJ 32 night 1 results:

  • B Block: El Desperado (2points) defeated Titan (0points)
  • A Block: Hiromu Takahashi (2points) defeated KUSHIDA (0points)
  • A Block: Kosei Fujita (2points) defeated Francesco Akira (0points)
  • A Block: Dragon Dia (2points) defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru (0points)
  • B Block: Nick Wayne (2points) defeated SHO (0points)
  • YOH & Toru Yano defeated Harley Jackson & Robbie Eagles
  • Master Wato, Kevin Knight & Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Shawn Kato, Ryohei Oiwa & Taiji Ishimori
  • Katsuyori Murashima & Ninja Mack defeated Takoyakid & Robbie X

Block Standings:

A Block:

  • Hiromu Takahashi (1-0) 2 points
  • Dragon Dia (1-0) 2 points
  • Kosei Fujita (1-0) 2 points
  • Master Wato (0-0) 0 points
  • Ninja Mack (0-0) 0 points
  • Robbie X (0-0) 0 points
  • Clark Connors (0-0) 0 points
  • KUSHIDA (0-1) 0 points
  • Francesco Akira (0-1) 0 points
  • Yoshinobu Kanemaru (0-1) 0 points

B Block:

  • El Desperado (1-0) 2 points
  • Nick Wayne (1-0) 2 points
  • Ryusuke Taguchi (0-0) 0 points
  • Robbie Eagles (0-0) 0 points
  • YOH (0-0) 0 points
  • Kevin Knight (0-0) 0 points
  • Taiji Ishimori (0-0) 0 points
  • MAO (0-0) 0 points
  • Titan (0-1) 0 points
  • SHO (0-1) 0 points

Upcoming schedule:

NJPW BOSJ 32 night two on Sunday, May 11::

  • B Block: Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Taiji Ishimori
  • B Block: YOH vs. Robbie Eagles
  • A Block: Master Wato vs. Clark Connors
  • B Block: Kevin Knight vs. MAO
  • A Block: Ninja Mack vs. Robbie X
  • Shingo Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita
  • Shoma Kato & El Desperado vs. Daiki Nagai & Nick Wayne

NJPW BOSJ 32 night three on Wednesday, May 13::

  • A Block: Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kosei Fujita
  • B Block: El Desperado vs. Nick Wayne
  • A Block: Master Wato vs. Dragon Dia
  • B Block: YOH vs. SHO
  • A Block: Clark Connors vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru
  • B Block: MAO vs. Taiji Ishimori
  • A Block: KUSHIDA vs. Robbie X
  • B Block: Kevin Knight vs. Robbie Eagles
  • A Block: Ninja Mack vs. Francesco Akira
  • B Block: Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Titan