NJPW New Year’s Golden Series night one results: The tour begins

NJPW’s New Year’s Golden Series kicked off today at Korakuen Hall.

IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada, IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Yuji Nagata teamed against Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, and Shingo Takagi of Los Ingobernables de Japon in the main event.

Here are today’s results:

Great-O-Khan defeated Yuto Nakashima (5:35)

O-Khan won via submission with a cross armbreaker.

Hiromu Takahashi defeated Ryohei Oiwa (7:24)

Hiromu won by submission with a Boston crab.

Tiger Mask & Togi Makabe defeated Taiji Ishimori & Jado (8:59)

Tiger won by submission with a double armbar.

Toru Yano, Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma defeated Minoru Suzuki, Taichi & TAKA Michinoku (9:12)

Kojima pinned TAKA after hitting a lariat.

Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated El Desperado, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI (10:51)

Wato submitted DOUKI with his new Bendabar hold.

Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & YOH defeated EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi, Dick Togo & SHO (11:41)

Ishii pinned Togo after a Vertical Drop Brainbuster.

Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & Shingo Takagi defeated Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Yuji Nagata (20:16)

Naito pinned Nagata after hitting Destino.