New Japan’s Super Junior Tag League featured three matches in the A Block on Tuesday as the round-robin portion nears its conclusion.
The teams of DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori came out of Tuesday’s show in Ibaraki with six points each, each having one more round-robin match before next week’s final.
DOUKI & Kanemaru defeated Místico & Masatora Yasuda (a late substitution for the injured El Desperado) in the main event. The House of Torture interference caused a numbers imbalance, and Místico was unable to save his partner, who was struck by the whiskey from Kanemaru and Suplex de la Luna by DOUKI.
Robbie & Ishimori improved to 3-1 in the A Block, beating Master Wato & KUUKAI after X used the X Xpress to pin KUUKAI.
Elsewhere, Ryusuke Taguchi & Kazuma Sumi beat KUSHIDA & Nick Wayne in a seventeen-minute match, ending with Taguchi rolling up KUSHIDA for the cover and increasing their point total to four.
The final A Block matches are Saturday in Kyoto with Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori vs. Nick Wayne & KUSHIDA, DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Master Wato & KUUKAI, and Místico & Masatora Yasuda vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Kazuma Sumi.
The winning teams from A and B Blocks will meet in the final at Power Struggle next Tuesday in Hiroshima.
Here’s a look at the updated blocks for the junior tag league. Tomorrow’s show will focus on A Block action from Ibaraki.
A Block
- Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori (6)
- DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru (6)
- KUSHIDA & Nick Wayne (4)
- Kazuma Sumi & Ryusuke Taguchi (4)
- Masatora Yasuda & Místico (2)
- Kuukai & Master Wato (2)
B Block
- Hyo & YOH (4)
- Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young (4)
- Blake Christian & Lee Johnson (4)
- Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles (4)
- Dick Togo & SHO (2)
- Titan & Daiki Nagai (0)
