NJPW Road to Tokyo Dome results: Six-man tag main event
Recommended matches —
- Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & Hiromu Takahashi vs. EVIL, Dick Togo & Taiji Ishimori
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Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens defeated Toru Yano & Tomoaki Honma (7:27)
This was not good, but it was kept short.
Yano and Fale began. Yano tried to slam Fale, but failed. Fale easily slammed Yano. Both tagged out. Owens and Honma traded back elbow strikes. Honma missed a kokeshi and it afforded Bullet Club the opportunity to work over Honma in their corner.
Yano got a lukewarm tag and untied a corner pad. He again tried and failed to slam Fale. Fale ran into the exposed buckle. Yano tried another slam. Fale slammed Yano.
Owens tagged in and sent Yano into the buckle. Yano used a hair pull to set up a tag to Honma. Honma hit a kokeshi on Owens. Owens came back with a jewel heist for a near fall.
Honma used a schoolboy for a near fall, then hit a diving kokeshi. Fale and Yano fought to the floor. Honma missed a kokeshi off the second rope.
Owens then hit a pumping knee strike and a package piledriver and pinned Honma.
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Fale tried to destroy Yano’s KOPW trophy after the match. Yano saved the trophy but took a beating for it. Fale vs. Yano is going to be brutally bad tomorrow.
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Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato defeated Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (9:07)
This was about further establishing Taguchi and Wato as challengers for Desperado and Kanemaru’s Jr. Tag titles. It was effective in that regard. It was nothing special as a match.
Suzuki-gun attacked before the opening bell. They repeated the spot from yesterday where Suzuki tried a headbutt on Tenzan but Tenzan was impervious to the pain. Tenzan still ended up cut off.
Tenzan came back with a mountain bomb and tagged Wato. Wato hit a tornillo. He had a rough landing on it for the second straight night.
Kanemaru and Taguchi ended up the legal men. Kanemaru hit an inverted DDT for a near fall. He went for Deep Impact. Taguchi ducked and hit a hip attack. Taguchi used a schoolboy for a two count. They botched a hip attack/dropkick counter.
Kanemaru shoved the ref and tried a low blow. Taguchi avoided the blow and hit his own low blow, then used a schoolboy for the pin.
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Desperado made a big deal of the low blow after the match. Taguchi insisted that he kicked Kanemaru in the gut. He did not.
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Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Yujiro Takahashi (w/Jado) defeated Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr. & DOUKI (11:05)
This was a wild brawl. It took forever to get going, but the closing sequence was quite good.
DOUKI and Yujiro began. Bullet Club cut DOUKI off with underhanded tactics and worked him over. DOUKI came back with a DDT on Tanga, then tagged Sabre. The Suzuki-gun squad cut Tanga off.
Tama tried to interfere as Taichi used a dragon sleeper on Tanga. Sabre intercepted him with a guillotine. Jado jumped in with a kendo stick. DOUKI took him out with a swing of his metal pipe, then placed Yujiro in the DOUKI Chokey.
Dangerous Tekkers went for Zack Mephisto on Tanga. Tama made the save. G.O.D. went for a Magic Killer on Taichi, but Taichi and Sabre fought it off.
DOUKI hit Yujiro with a tope suicida. He went for Daybreak on Tanga. Sabre saved and DOUKI rolled Tanga up for two. DOUKI then used a magistral cradle for another near fall.
DOUKI hit the ropes, but ran right into Apesh*t from Tanga, who pinned him.
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After the match, Tanga put Taichi in the OJK, Tama put Sabre in the sharpshooter, while Jado beat up DOUKI with a kendo stick.
G.O.D. then posed with their World Tag League trophies and Taichi and Sabre’s IWGP Tag title belts.
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Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & Hiromu Takahashi defeated EVIL, Dick Togo & Taiji Ishimori (13:41)
Bullet Club attacked before the opening bell. LIJ overcame the cheap shots at first and the early focus was on EVIL vs. SANADA. SANADA got the upper hand, then tagged Naito in.
Togo exposed a buckle, then each member of the LIJ side was sent into the steel. EVIL used a chair on SANADA on the floor. Back in, EVIL covered Naito for a two count. Bullet Club worked Naito over. Naito came back with a neckbreaker on Ishimori, then tagged Hiromu.
Hiromu hit a series of corner clotheslines on Ishimori, then a double shotgun dropkick to Ishimori and Togo. Ishimori and Hiromu did a series of counters and teases, ending with an Ishimori knee strike and a double down.
SANADA and EVIL got tags. SANADA hit his leapfrog dropkick, but missed the follow-up plancha. EVIL sent SANADA into the barricade. The ring announcer took a bump on the barricade shot.
EVIL used a scorpion deathlock on SANADA. SANADA forced a break. Togo tagged in for the closing sequence.
EVIL took the ref. Togo choked SANADA. Hiromu saved for SANADA. SANADA tagged Naito. Naito hit a series of signature spots. LIJ jumped in for a triple team on Togo. EVIL And SANADA entered. SANADA hit Everything is EVIL and used a Skull End on EVIL.
The match finished up with Naito hitting Destino on Togo for the pin.
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SANADA kept EVIL in Skull End long after the bell sounded. Young Lions jumped in to try to break the hold, but Naito tossed them out of the ring. LIJ stood tall on this night.
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Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb (w/Will Ospreay & Bea Priestley) defeated Shingo Takagi & BUSHI (11:44)
The Empire attacked before the opening bell to establish the early advantage. The first five minutes of the match were Cobb and O-Khan just brutally pounding on BUSHI. BUSHI sold and sold, until finally hitting a double hurricanrana and tagging out.
Shingo and O-Khan faced off. They traded Mongolian chops. Cobb got a tag. Cobb hit a spin cycle suplex on Shingo for a near fall.
Cobb hit Shingo’s own trademark jab-jab-lariat combination. Shingo tried to answer with a suplex but Cobb blocked. Shingo hit a sliding lariat.
Shingo hit a massive wheelbarrow suplex on Cobb, into a double down. BUSH tagged in and hit a missile dropkick on Cobb, followed up with a suicide dive on O-Khan. Shingo fired up the crowd as LIJ doubled up on Cobb.
Cobb fought out of the double team and hit a double clothesline on Shingo and BUSHI. O-Khan and Cobb then teamed up on BUSHI. Cobb and O-Khan took turns hitting BUSHI with suplexes.
Shingo tried to save for BUSHI. Cobb no-sold a pumping bomber from Shingo, then hit Tour of the Islands on Shingo.
Cobb followed with Tour of the Islands on BUSHI for the pin.
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Cobb tossed Shingo out of the ring and posed with his NEVER title belt. O-Khan then cut a promo in the ring.
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Jay White, KENTA & Gedo defeated Kota Ibushi, Juice Robinson & SHO (18:11)
White acted as though he wanted to start off with Ibushi, but of course tagged out to Gedo right away. Gedo hit a series of strikes to Ibushi. Ibushi completely no-sold all of them as he walked around, stalking White.
The babyface side tripled up on Gedo. SHO tagged in and got cut off. Bullet Club traded tags, working him over in their corner. SHO managed a tag to Ibushi and we finally got the White-Ibushi sequence around the 10 minute call.
White hit a Blade Buster for a near fall. He then hit a dragon screw and modified STO. KENTA tagged in and hit Ibushi with kicks. Ibushi hit a dropkick, then tagged Juice.
Juice hit a series of strikes in the corner. KENTA answered with a slingshot DDT and a top rope clothesline. KENTA used Game Over. Juice reached the ropes to force a break. Juice hit a cannonball for a two count.
Juice and KENTA traded back elbows. Juice hit a leg lariat into a double down. SHO and Gedo tagged in at the 15 minute mark. SHO hit a series of kicks and scored a near fall. SHO hit a spear for another two count.
Gedo hit a backdrop out of Shock Arrow, then hit a chin crusher. SHO hit a series of forearms. Gedo hit a complete shot for a near fall, then grabbed a set of brass knuckles. White jumped in with a briefcase. Ibushi saved with a rana. KENTA jumped in. Juice took out KENTA with a plancha.
SHO hit Gedo with a lariat. He again called for Shock Arrow. White made the save with a sleeper suplex. White then tagged in. He took out an interfering Ibushi with a German, then hit SHO with Blade Runner and got the pinfall win.
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KENTA laid out Juice with a briefcase shot after the match, then cut a promo announcing that he accepted Juice’s challenge at Wrestle Kingdom.
White then attempted to close the show with a promo. He taunted Ibushi. Ibushi chased White out of the ring and closed the show with his own promo.