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Hiroshi Tanahashi finished the main house show segment of the current tour with eight successive and direct main event wins today when he pinned Ishiii in a six man tag, and appears in unstoppable form. But in five days time, his real test before the Tokyo Dome begins, when he faces Bernard and Makabe in separate singles matches on the big show double header in Nagoya and Osaka.

NJPW, 12/1/08
Tokushima Municipal Gymnasium
868 Fans

1. Tiger Mask beat Mitsuhide Hirasawa (7:59) with a V1 armlock.
2. Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA beat Minoru & Kazuchika Okada (10:58) when Liger used a brainbuster on Okada.
3. Wataru Inoue & Koji Kanemoto beat Milano Collection AT & Taichi Ishikari (14:26) when Inoue used a modified Triangle Lancer on Ishikari.
4. Riki Choshu, Masahiro Chono & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Takashi Iizuka, Tomoaki Honma & Low Ki (12:15) when Ki was DQ’d.
5. Giant Bernard, Karl Anderson, Jado & Gedo beat Shinsuke Nakamura, Hirooki Goto, Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito (14:56) when Bernard used a running body press on Naito.
6. HIGH FLYING STAR come back to TOKUSHIMA!: Yuji Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii (17:49) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Ishii.