IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles Vacated
Following a six-man tag match on Thursday, Roppongi 3K’s SHO announced that he and his partner YOH will be vacating the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. The announcement comes a little over two months after YOH suffered a torn ACL in his New Japan Cup first round match against BUSHI on June 23rd.
Roppongi 3K won the IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship on January 5th, and held the titles for 236 days. They defended the belts twice in February against Suzuki-gun’s El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru, as well as the team of Rocky Romero & Ryusuke Taguchi. They had not defended the belts since NJPW resumed touring after their coronavirus hiatus.
NJPW has not made clear their plans to crown new champions.
After SHO's match last night in Korakuen Hall, he declared that he and YOH will be vacating the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships.
Stay tuned for official information when it becomes available.
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NJPW Road To Summer Struggle Results (8/27)
NJPW held their last show before Summer Struggle in Jingu on Thursday. Road to Summer Struggle took place in Korakuen Hall on Aug. 27th and is available on NJPWWorld.com.
- Yota Tsuji submitted Yuya Uemura via Boston Crab. (9:11)
- CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii) def. Yuji Nagata, Tomoaki Honma & Satoshi Kojima by submission. (9:45)
Yoshi-Hashi submitted Tomoaki Honma via Butterfly Lock. - CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Sho & Toru Yano) def. Bullet Club (Yujiro Takahashi, Gedo & Jado) by submission. (12:07)
Sho submitted Gedo via Armbar. - Los Ingobernables de Japon (SANADA, BUSHI & Shingo Takagi) def. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado & DOUKI) by submission. (9:18)
SANADA submitted DOUKI via Skull End. - Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi & Master Wato def. Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr. & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) by pinfall. (11:37)
Hiroshi Tanahashi pinned Yoshinobu Kanemaru via High Fly Flow. - Bullet Club (EVIL & Taiji Ishimori) def. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi) by pinfall. (11:58)
EVIL pinned Hiromu Takahashi via EVIL.
.@tanahashi1_100 is back in prime shape!
Could Golden☆Ace be back in IWGP tag team championship form?Replay "SUMMER STRUGGLE 2020 FINAL” (Aug 27th)
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