New champions were crowned at the New Japan Soul event at Tokyo Budokan.
Friday’s event drew 1,377 to the venue and saw House of Torture’s Ren Narita, Yujiro & SHO drop the NEVER Openweight six-man tag titles to Master Wato, YOH & Toru Yano.
Yano removed the turnbuckle pad and attacked all three opponents with low blows before using a schoolboy roll-up for the pin.
It marks the seventh time that Yano has won the NEVER Openweight six-man tag titles, ending House of Torture’s five-month reign as champions.
In the main event of Friday’s show, Gabe Kidd retained the IWGP Global Heavyweight championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi after using the Drill-a-Hole piledriver.
RESULTS:
*IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: Gabe Kidd © over Hiroshi Tanahashi in 23:58
*NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Titles: Toru Yano, Master Wato & YOH over Yujiro, Ren Narita & SHO © in 12:06
*B Block Play-In Match: YOSHI-HASHI over Chase Owens
*A Block Play-In Match: Ryohei Oiwa over Satoshi Kojima in 9:44
*El Desperado, Oleg Boltin & Yuya Uemura over Zack Sabre Jr., Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson in 8:39
*Shingo Takagi, Yott Tsuji & Hiromu Takahashi over Great O-Khan, Callum Newman & Jakob Austin Young in 10:05
*Shota Umino, Tomohiro Ishii, Taichi, Yuji Nagata & Tiger Mask over EVIL, SANADA, DOUKI, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Dick Togo in 7:37
*Kickoff Match: Daiki Nagai & Katsuya Murashima over Masatora Yasuda & Shoma Kato in 9:18
*Kickoff Match: Zane Jay vs. Tatsuya Matsumoto went to a 10-minute draw
