Takashi Iizuka marked his retirement from pro-wrestling in front of a packed Korakuen Hall, with a trios match involving friends from his past and present.
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The New Beginning tour wrapped up in Osaka, as we all found out if Jay White’s new era was truly underway.
New Japan stayed in Sapporo for a second night as Suzuki-gun challenged Los Ingobernables de Japon for a hat trick of titles!
A warm-up to Sunday’s “bigger show”, The New Beginning in Sapporo’s first night featured the Bullet Club against the New Japan dream team. Again.
One day on from WrestleKingdom, where all the belts changed hands, it’s the start of a “new year” as New Japan returned to Korakuen Hall.
The final New Japan show of the year was the last real stop before WrestleKingdom – and we closed out with a mash-up of the Tokyo Dome opener and main event for a hell of a match.
With WrestleKingdom getting ever closer, New Japan hit Korakuen Hall for the first of two year-end shows – and it’s a milestone for Okada, who finally got him some Gedo!
After a long, gruelling tour (to watch), the World Tag League wrapped up in Iwate as the Guerrillas of Destiny took on Los Ingobernables de Japon to decide what’d happen to those tag titles at WrestleKingdom on January 4.