By Oliver Taylor
New Japan Pro Wrestling
New Japan Pro Wrestling held its first Road to Dominion tour show today in Korakuen Hall.
The full results were:
• El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru def. SHO, YOH and Yuya Uemura
• Chase Owens, El Phantasmo, EVIL and Taiji Ishimori def. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask and Tomoaki Honma
• Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb def. Kota Ibushi and Yota Tsuji
• Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI def. BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito
• IWGP Tag Team Championships: Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr. def. Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa (c)
Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa to win the IWGP Tag Team Championships in the main event.
After the match, Sabre Jr. made an open challenge to any team from any company.
New Japan will hold its second Road to Dominion tour show tomorrow in Korakuen Hall. The full card is:
• Chase Owens, El Phantasmo, EVIL and Taiji Ishimori vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tomoaki Honma, Yota Tsuji and Yuya Uemura
• DOUKI, El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, SHO and YOH
• Jado, Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa vs. Minoru Suzuki, Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.
• Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb vs. Kota Ibushi and Master Wato
• NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships: Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI (c) vs. BUSHI, SANADA and Tetsuya Naito
Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI will attempt their fifth defense of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships against BUSHI, SANADA and Tetsuya Naito in the main event.
New Japan has cancelled its third Road to Dominion tour show on June 4 in Ota City General Gymnasium due to the extended state of emergency in Japan. Dominion on June 7 in Osaka-jō Hall will proceed as scheduled.
Pro Wrestling NOAH
Pro Wrestling NOAH has announced it will air three shows on ABEMA on June 13, 26 and 27.
The June 13 show will be dedicated to Mitsuharu Misawa. The full card will be announced at the start of the show.
The June 26 show will be headlined by Katsuhiko Nakajima versus Masa Kitamiya in a steel cage hair-verus-hair match.
Kitamiya betrayed Nakajima and left Kongoh at NOAH’s Mitsuharu Misawa memorial show yesterday. Confusingly, they currently hold the GHC Tag Team Championships.
Two others matches have been confirmed for the June 26 show. Kazunari Murakami, Kazushi Sakuraba, Kendo Kashin and Takashi Sugiura will face Akitoshi Saito, Masao Inoue, Mohammed Yone and Shuhei Taniguchi in an elimination match.
Also on June 26, there will be a battle royal to determine Atsushi Kotoge’s next challenger for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. The subsequent title match will take place on the June 27 show.
The June 27 show will be headlined by the return of The Great Muta. His opponent is currently unannounced.
Dragon Gate
Dragon Gate has cancelled its shows on June 14 in Yukuhashi Municipal Gym and June 19 and 20 in Naha Tenbusukan due to the extended state of emergency in Japan.
All Japan Pro Wrestling
All Japan Pro Wrestling will hold the first night of its Jr. Battle of Glory tournament tomorrow in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring.
The first-round matchups, moving from left to right across the bracket, are:
• Francesco Akira vs. TAJIRI
• Dan Tamura vs. Tatsuhito Takaiwa
• Black Menso~re vs. Yusuke Kodama
• Atsuki Aoyagi vs. SUGI
• Fuminori Abe vs. Devil Murasaki
• Brahman Kei vs. Izanagi
• El Lindaman vs. Rising HAYATO
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