New Japan Pro Wrestling’s premier tournament for the Junior Heavyweight Division has now begun. The 2018 iteration features some of the finest high flying and technically gifted athletes on the planet and should present some top tier bouts over the next few weeks.
Here are the results from Night 5 of the tournament which featured the combatants in Block A:
Tiger Mask b. BUSHI – Following two Double Underhook Suplexes (one from the top rope) Tiger hit a double a Tiger Suplex for the pin
Yoshinobu Kanemaru b. ACH – Kanemaru spit the whiskey mist at ACH and hit a brainbuster for a nearfall which was then followed with Deep Impact for the win
Flip Gordon b. Taiji Ishimori – Flip attempted a 450 but Ishimori got his knees up. Ishimori then went for a suplex, but Flip reversed this into an O’Connor Roll to take the win
Will Ospreay b. YOH – The finish came when Ospreay hit a standing Spanish Fly for a nearfall, he then followed with the Storm Breaker for the pinfall win
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Here are the results from Night 6 of the tournament which featured the combatants in Block B:
Marty Scurll b. Chris Sabin – Scurll took a flip bump off a big lariat and then popped back up and hit the Black Plague for the win
Ryusuke Taguchi b. KUSHIDA – Taguchi caught KUSHIDA early attempting a front facelock and then small packaged him for the extremely quick upset
SHO b. El Desperado – SHO hit Powerbomb Lungblower for a nearfall, he then hit a lariat and a Shock Arrow for the pinfall win
Dragon Lee b. Hiromu Takahashi – WATCH THIS MATCH, anyway Lee hit a standing Spanish Fly for a nearfall and followed this up with a Dragon Driver for the win…incredible bout
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