It will be Shota Umino and Yuya Uemura facing champions The Knock-Out Brothers at NJPW New Beginning in Osaka on February 11th for their IWGP Tag Team Championships. Umino and Uemura defeated Ishii and Taichi at Road to The New Beginning to secure that title match.
The champs, Yuto-Ice and Oskar take their seats on commentary before the match began. Ishii blocks Umino’s lariat with a head butt. Ishii nose it bleeding at this point. Ishii bounces off the ropes for momentum. Umino clotheslines him down for a two count. Umino hits the running knee but Ishii escapes the Final Chapter. Ishii whips Umino into Taichi who haymakers him in the face. Taichi holds Umino so that Ishii can hit his sliding clothesline. Uemura saves Umino from being pinned. Taichi back drops Uemura out of the ring. As Ishii holds Uemura up for a piledriver Ishii kicks him in the head. Umino kicks out. Uemura shoves Ishii into Taichi. Uemura Frankensteiners Ishii over. Uemura sends Taichi out of the ring with his Deadbolt suplex. Ishii runs into an Uemura drop kick. Umino clotheslines Ishii as Uemura German Suplexes him. Umino pins Ishii with the Second Chapter, scoop brainbuster.
After the match, Taichi and Ishii shook hands with the winners and praised them. They then traded not so pleasant words with the champions to close out the night.
The event crowned new NEVER Openweight 6 man Tag team Champions as the red hot trio of Boltin Oleg, Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI beat TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.).
Jackson and Oleg struggle over who will lands a belly-to-belly slam. Oleg gets it. Oiwa blocks the Kamikaze with a German Suplex. Oiwa clotheslines Oleg over the top rope and clotheslines Goto. Goto kicks out of a powerbomb. Oiwa clotheslines Goto for a two count. Hashi traps Oiwa in the ropes. Goto clotheslines him from behind. Hashi German Suplexes Oiwa. Oleg slams Oiwa into a corner. A train of clotheslines clobber Oiwa. Oleg body splashes Oiwa as Hashi and Goto hold him up. Goto pins Oiwa with a GTR.
Road to The New Beginning Night 1 Results
Masatora Yasuda vs Tatsuya Matsumoto – Young Lion Cup 1st Round
Matsumoto taps out to Yasuda’s Boston Crab.
Winner: Masatora Yasuda
Daiki Nagai vs Zane Jay – Young Lion Cup 1st Round
Nagai puts Jay in a Boston Crab. Callum Newman suddenly appears on the apron. Nagai punches Neman in the face. Newman pushes, slaps the official away and slugs Nagai. Newman pulls out a steel chair from under the ring sliding it to Jay. Jay contemplates what to do then smashes the chair over Nagai’s head. He is disqualified. Newman claps at ringside. Newman holds up Jay’s hand. Jay attacks Nagai in laying in more punches. Unbound Co. runs out to protect Nagai.
Winner: Daiki Nagai
Aaron Wolf, El Desperado, Toru Yano, YOH & Master Wato vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, DOUKI, EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi & Dick Togo)
Wato trips up Togo and almost pins him with a Magistral Cradle. Togo rolls up Wato for a two. Wato makes Togo submit to Vendaval and won’t let go even after the bell has rung, which is unusual for Wato.
Winners: Aaron Wolf, El Desperado, Toru Yano, YOH & Master Wato
Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi, Hiromu Takahashi, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo) vs United Empire (Jake Lee, Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young)
A couple of fans have signs in the audience wishing Shingo Takagi and Natsupoi a “Happy Wedding”. Awww. Unbound attacks before the bell can ring and the fight goes to the floor as Takahi puts the boots to The Great-O-Khan in the ring. Khan fights back with Mongolian Chops but Takagi counters them with some of his own. They both start chewing on each other’s heads. Akira grabs Gedo by the beard but Gedo pokes him in the eyes and punches him in the jaw. Akira blocks Gedo’s kick so that Newman can hit him in the face with a running knee smash. Newman nails Gedo with Overkill as Akira pins him with his Fireball finisher.
Tsuji gets on the mike. He tells Lee he still hasn’t accepted his challenge but it is Lee’s birthday today. He hands the microphone to Lee in case he has something to say. Lee puts him in a chokehold as he holds the microphone so that everyone can hear Tsuji gasp for air. Tsuji passes out. Lee drops the championship belt over Tsuji.
Winners: United Empire (Jake Lee, Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young)
Kosei Fujita vs SHO
“It doesn’t matter how determined you are. I am going to beat the crap out of you,” says Sho on the mike.
Sho attacks Fujita as he poses for the fans on the top rope. He chokes him out with his boot and he doesn’t even have his robe off. Sho takes Fujita’s IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship belt and sits down on a chair with it. As the official takes the belt away, Sho tries to hit Fujita with a steel chair. Fujita ducks and drop kicks the chair into Sho’s face.
Fujita! Fujita!
Fujita takes Sho to the floor slamming him against each of the ringside barricades.
Fujita! Fujita!
Sho turns things around doing the same thing to Fujita. Sho starts attacking the Young Lions as well. Sho smashes a steel chair over Fujita’s back and shoulder as the official is concerned with the Young Lion. Sho targets the shoulder working it over with various submission holds. Sho resorts to pulling out his wrench. The official pulls it away. Sho pushes Fujita into the official. Sho low-blows Fujita. Sho retrieves the House of Torture black mirror from under the ring. He swings at Fujita but misses. Fujita punches him in the face instead. Fujita takes the mirror bashing Sho in the head with it in full view of the official. The match is thrown out. Yoshinobu Kanemaru puts a stop to the beatdown. Robbie Eagles pulls Kanemaru out of the ring…We flow right into…
Winner: Sho via disqualification.
Robbie Eagles vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Kanemaru shoves Eagles into the official. He kicks Eagles in the stomach and reverse DDTs him. Kanemaru holds the official’s head down as he spits whiskey into Eagles’ eyes. Flying head scissors into a pin for Kanemaru.
Winner: Yoshinobu Kanemaru
TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.) (c) versus Boltin Oleg, Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI – NEVER Openweight 6 man Tag team Championships
Winners: …and new NEVER Openweight 6 man Tag team Champions…Boltin Oleg, Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI.
Tomohiro Ishii & Taichi vs Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura – IWGP Tag Team Championship No.1 Contendership Match
Winners: Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura
