Young lion Nobuo Yoshihashi scored his first ever singles victory earlier on Riki Choshu’s LOCK UP show, pinning ZERO1’s Yuzuru Saito in one of various matches featuring New Japan wrestlers.
LOCK UP, 1/17/10
Shinjuku FACE
- Nobuo Yoshihashi 
beat Yuzuru Saito 
(7:24) with a modified cross armbreaker.
- Daisuke Sekimoto 
beat Kazuchika Okada (9:02) with a German suplex hold.
- Jado & Gedo beat Dick Togo & Ikuto Hidaka (19:03) when Gedo used a schoolboy on Togo.
- Yuji Nagata beat Tomohiro Ishii (15:47) with a backdrop hold.