NJPW is on the road to their Destruction event. Tonight, it was the famous Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. In the main event of the evening it was Master Wato, Toru Yano & YOH (c) versus El Desperado, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi – NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship Match. It wasn’t what happened during the match but what happened after that got fans talking as NJPW class clown went feral on the President of NJPW, Hiroshi Tanahashi, The Ace.
Yoh and Desperado began the match with wrestling until Yano called The Ace out. It wasn’t long before punches were thrown. After that things quickly broke down. Taguchi pulled his pants down exposing his red underwear. Holding onto the buckle he used his legs to slam The Ace’s face into his butt.
Taguchi then worked over Master Wato’s ankle with an ankle lock. The Ace took over with his Dragon Screw Leg Whips. At one point Desperado, The Ace and Taguchi just stomped the crap out of Wato in their corner. The crowd actually booed them. Wato finally made the hot tag to Yoh who cleared the ring quickly. He splashed Desperado on the floor.
Desperado dodged Yano so Yano crashed into an exposed turnbuckle. The Ace took over. His senton from the top rope almost pinned Yano. Yano stopped a slingblade by grabbing The Ace’s hair. The Ace escaped a powerbomb to slingblade Yano down.
In the end it was Taguchi and Wato battling it out for their respective teams when Yoh took out everyone on the floor. Wato countered a Duodon and attempted roll-ups by Taguchi. Taguchi kicked out a bridging suplex but was eventually pinned by a Recientemente.
After the match, Yano attacked The Ace. After raking his eye he threw him to the floor where he choked him with a t-shirt. He then threw him into the steel barricade and smashed a steel chair across his back much to the crowd’s surprise before choking him out some more with the t-shirt. He was roundly booed by the crowd after they got over being stunned by Yano’s actions.
NJPW Road to Destruction Results
Zane Jay versus Tatsuya Matsumoto
Winner: Time Limit Draw
Katsuya Murashima, Masatora Yasuda & Shoma Kato versus Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma & Tiger Mask
Makabe gets the win for his team with a King Kong lariat.
Winners: Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma & Tiger Mask
House Of Torture (Dick Togo, Don Fale & EVIL) versus Oleg Boltin, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura
Uemura makes Gedo submit to his arm lock. Fale attacks Boltin after the match choking him with a pipe.
Winners: Oleg Boltin, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura
Daiki Nagai, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji versus War Dogs (David Finlay, Gabe Kidd, Gedo & Taiji Ishimori)
Kidd scores the win with a piledriver on Nagai. He sits in the middle of the ring with the IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion taunting Takagi.
Winners: War Dogs
War Dogs (Clark Connors, OSKAR & Yuto-Ice) versus Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & Tomohiro Ishii
Taka eats another pin.
Winners: War Dogs
House Of Torture (DOUKI, Ren Narita, SANADA, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi) versus TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.)
I don’t speak Japanese but Narita seemed to rundown TMDK for quite a long period of time on the mike before TMDK attack en masse. ZSJ cranked Narita’s arm over the ringside barricade. Back in the ring, Narita gouged Eagles’ eyes over and over. A back heel kick sent Narita scrambling from the ring. Fujita and Eagles double-teamed Douki and then Narita including ripping his shirt off and double chopping his chest. Then, they gave Douki a double wish bone. Sanada brings Fujita into the crowd. They smash each other’s heads off a metal sign. Sanada tries to bash Jackson with his guitar. Fujita stops him. Yujiro punches Fujita in the “lower abdomen”. As the official is distracted Yujiro bashes Jackson in the head with his stick. Narita pins Jackson with his flying head from the top rope.
ZSJ and Narita brawl into the stands. Narita spits something into ZSJ’s eyes as Douki hits Eagles with his lead pipe. He then chokes out Fujita as Narita hits him with his wrench. They hold ZSJ prone as Narita clocks him with his weight-lifting bar.
Winners: House Of Torture (DOUKI, Ren Narita, SANADA, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi)
Master Wato, Toru Yano & YOH (c) versus El Desperado, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi – NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship Match
Winners: …and still NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champions…Master Wato, Toru Yano & YOH
