Second part of Korakuen double header January 25

The Road to The New Beginning makes its last Korakuen Hall stop Monday before Nagoya sees NEVER Openweight Championship action and a pair of high profile grudge matches. 

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Main event: Kota Ibushi, Hiroshi Tanahashi & SHO vs Los Ingobernables De Japon (SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi)

Three title match previews come to the surface in our main event in Korakuen Hall. With Saturday night in Nagoya seeing the NEVER Openweight Championship on the line, the most pressing issue at hand will be Shingo Takagi and Hiroshi Tanahashi. After a submission win over BUSHI Sunday night in Korakuen, Tanahashi acknowledged that Shingo ‘knows what it means to be a champion, but I know, too.’ Challenger will keep bringing the fight to champion tonight.

After Ibushi continued to press SANADA’s buttons last night, asking SANADA to really express just why he wants the double IWGP gold, SANADA will let his actions do the talking in the Hall tonight. And SHO and Hiromu are certain to have another explosive collision on the road to their oiwn Hiroshima title clash on February 10. 

4th Match: Master Wato & Tomoaki Honma vs Los Ingobernables De Japon (Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI) 

Master Wato continues on his own road to face BUSHI in Hiroshima on February 10, while Tomoaki Honma persists in his attempt to rattle Tetsuya Naito in Korakuen. In Ota, Honma put himself firmly on Naito’s radar by eliminating him from ten man tag competition, and though he ended the next night with an X by his name, it was a close call after a late kickout from a jackknife pin. With Yota Tsuji also throwing his hat in the ring to challenge Naito, he is finding himself in demand from veterans and Young Lions; how will Naito proceed as he looks for a new opponent to occupy him?

3rd Match: CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii) vs BULLET CLUB (EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi & Dick Togo)

CHAOS’ war with BULLET CLUB continues in the third match of the night. The tour has not been kind to BULLET CLUB on the whole, with Dick Togo and Yujiro Takahashi suffering pinfall and submission losses at the hands of Okada’s Money Clip. Yet it’s EVIL that Okada wants his hands on, and it’s EVIL that’s escaped direct defeat, and scored pinfall victory over YOSHI-HASHI Sunday after Togo provided a wire choke assist. Will Okada move a step closer to his long requested singles bout tonight?

2nd Match: TenCozy (Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan) vs UNITED EMPIRE (Will Ospreay & Great-O-Khan)

The third in a series of tag team bouts between TenCozy and United Empire hits Korakuen in the second match of the night. TenCozy struck an emphatic blow to Great-O-Khan and Will Ospreay on January 23, losing via disqualification, but after landing a series of vicious chair shots and a crunching lariat to Ospreay. The next night in Korakuen, a furious United Empire didn’t even let the match get underway properly before tossing a pile of chairs into the ring; as the match was thrown out, Kojima saw to it that a potentially lethal plan was not carried out. How will the legendary TenCozy team fare in this final match before a pair of Nagoya singles showdowns? 

1st Match: Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata, Tiger Mask & Yota Tsuji vs BULLET CLUB (Taiji Ishimori, El Phantasmo, Jado & Gedo)

The action kicks off Monday night with BULLET CLUB facing the veteran/Young Lion combo of Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata, Tiger Mask and Yota Tsuji. After January 23 in Ota, new IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Champions hit the ring tonight, joining the World Class Tag Team combo of Jado and Gedo. Their hontai opposition will bring the fight, but will need to stay clear of ELP’s superkick, suspicious boot or not.