NJPW New Beginning In Osaka: Results and live commentary
NJPW are back with New Beginning In Osaka. We have a stacked card with 5 titles on the line.
Card:
Henare vs. Taka Michinoku
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. KUSHIDA & Yoshitatsu
Juice Robinson, Yuji Nagata, Jushin Liger & Tiger Mask IV vs. YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto, Gedo & Jado
Kazuchika Okada, Rocky Romero & Beretta vs. Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Taichi
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Manabu Nakanishi & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. SANADA & EVIL & BUSHI (for the NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championships)
Katsuyori Shibata vs. Will Ospreay (for the British Heavyweight Championship)
Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs. Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Takashi Iizuka (for the IWGP Tag Team Championships)
Hiromu Takahashi vs. Dragon Lee (for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship)
Tetsuya Naito vs. Michael Elgin (for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship)
Injury News:
David Finlay is still out of action with a shoulder injury.
Desperado is off the card due to an injury.
Lance Archer is out of the IWGP Tag Team title match due to a herniated disc
Also Read: Lance Archer out with herniated disc, May undergo surgery this weekend
LIVE COVERAGE WILL BEGIN AT 130PM IST - 5PM JST – 8AM GMT (PLEASE KEEP REFRESHING)
Henare vs Taka Michinoku
The match started off a little slowly before Taka and Henare started trading strikes. Taka is a former WWE Superstar and he used his experience to lock in a couple of different submisison moves on the younger Henare. Henare hit back with a nice Samoan Drop before hitting a nice flying shoulder tackle for a 2-count.
That couldn’t keep Taka Michinoku down and he used his experience to roll up Henare in a crucifix pin for the 3-count.
Taka Michinoku def. Henare