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Hiroshi Tanahashi returned from America today in sweeping form, pinning Gedo in the main event. The theme of the current tour is Sekigun and RISE vs. GBH, so old rivals Tanahashi and Nakamura (plus Goto) team up on a few occasions.
NJPW, 11/22/08 (SXW)
Chichibu Miya Memorial Gymnasium
1,300 Fans
1. Milano Collection AT, Minoru & Taichi Ishikari beat Wataru Inoue, Koji Kanemoto & Nobuo Yoshihashi (11:41) when Milano pinned Yoshihashi after a union thrust kick.
2. Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA beat Tiger Mask & Kazuchika Okada (11:32) when AKIRA used a Musasabi press on Okada.
3. Low Ki & Jado beat Ryusuke Taguchi & Yujiro (14:25) when Ki used the Ki Crusher ‘99 on Yujiro.
4. Riki Choshu & Masahiro Chono beat Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma (8:31) when Chono used a Shining Yakuza kick on Honma.
5. Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi beat Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson (13:15) when Nakanishi used an Argentine backbreaker on Anderson.
6. HIGH FLYING STAR come back to FUJISAWA!: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto & Tetsuya Naito beat Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Gedo (16:02) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Gedo.