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Dragon Gate
Dragon Gate continued its Open the New Year Gate 2021 tour in Korakuen Hall today.
The full results were:
• Don Fujii, Gamma and Shuji Kondo def. Kagetora, Kenichiro Arai and Yasushi Kanda
• Eita and H.Y.O def. Keisuke Okuda and Masaaki Mochizuki
• Keisuke Okuda def. Punch Tominaga
• Bokutimo Dragon and Ultimo Dragon def. Punch Tominaga and Ryo Saito
• BxB Hulk, KAI, Kaito Ishida and HipHip Kikuta def. Jason Lee, Kota Minoura, La Estrella and Shun Skywalker
• Dragon Kid vs. YAMATO – No Contest
• Open the Triangle Gate Championships: Genki Horiguchi, Kzy and Susumu Yokosuka def. KAZMA SAKAMOTO, SB KENTo and Takashi Yoshida (c)
Genki Horiguchi, Kzy and Susumu Yokosuka won the Open the Triangle Gate Championships from KAZMA SAKAMOTO, SB KENTo and Takashi Yoshida in the main event.
New Japan Pro Wrestling
New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the New Japan Cup will take place in March.
New Japan will hold its forty-ninth anniversary show in the Nippon Budokan on March 5, then the New Japan Cup will begin on March 6.
The tournament will culminate on March 21 in the Xebio Arena Sendai in Miyagi, which will be the first time New Japan has held a show in the venue.
The winner of the New Japan Cup earns the right to challenge for any championship in the company. EVIL won last year’s tournament after defeating Kazuchika Okada in the final.
New Japan’s full statement on the tournament can be read here.
Elsewhere, Hiroshi Tanahashi has revealed Nobuhiko Takada’s HUSTLE promotion made him a lucrative three-year offer in 2008 as part of the Ace’s HIGH interview series.
In the latest Ace's HIGH!
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) January 13, 2021
Was Hiroshi Tanahashi nearly HUSTLE bound in 2005?
Find out what kept the Ace in NJPW!https://t.co/WOskAEZ2e0#njpw #goACE pic.twitter.com/QPuGmJoJAC
Tanahashi said he stayed with New Japan out of loyalty, despite HUSTLE’s very financially rewarding offer. The full piece can be read here.
Big Japan Pro Wrestling
Big Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the full cards for its Death Market59 show in Aichi on January 31, as well as its show in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on February 5.
The full cards are:
January 31
• Kosuke Sato vs. Kota Sekifuda
• Kazuki Hashimoto vs. Masaki Morihiro
• Akira Hyodo and Takuho Kato vs. Hideyoshi Kamitani and Yuya Aoki
• Brahman Kei and Yuji Okabayashi vs. Kankuro Hoshino and Onryo
• Deathmatch: Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa vs. Takumi Tsukamoto and Yuko Miyamoto
• Abdullah Kobayashi, Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito vs. Daichi Hashimoto, Daisuke Sekimoto and Yasufumi Nakanoue
• BJW Tag Team Championships: Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura (c) vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami
February 5
• Kazuki Hashimoto and Kota Sekifuda vs. Masaki Morihiro and Takuho Kato
• Brahman Kei, Shigehiro Irie and Yuji Okabayashi vs. Daichi Hashimoto, Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura
• Kazumi Kikuta and Yuya Aoki vs. Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yuya Aoki
• Deathmatch: Drew Parker, Hideyoshi Kamitani and Masaya Takahashi vs. Jaki Numazawa, Ryuji Ito and Yuki Ishikawa
• BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship: Isami Kodaka (c) vs. Kosuke Sato
• Deathmatch: Akira Hyodo and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Masashi Takeda and Takumi Tsukamoto
Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura will attempt their sixth defense of the BJW Tag Team Championships against Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami on January 31, while Isami Kodaka will attempt his second defense of the BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship against Kosuke Sato on February 5.
Brahman Shu is unable to compete on both shows due to a spine injury.
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