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Prince Devitt's immense growth in the past year was still not enough as he again found himself "that" close to glory in a rematch of the SUPER J-CUP final today. New IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion, Naomichi Marufuji, made a successful V1 defense of the belt against the young Irishman in another closely contested bout. The experience of Marufuji was again enough to give him the edge though as he dropped Devitt with his Tiger Frosion for the win. His next challenger may be an even proposition though as veteran Koji Kanemoto appeared after the match and challenged Marufuji. Marufuji responded rudely to the junior legend, calling him a "deteriorated version of KENTA", heating up what should be a spectacular match in the near future.
CHAOS' Toru Yano took one of his biggest scalps lately in the semi final, a tag match designed more to build up Nakamura vs. Nakanishi, as Nakamura & Yano battled Nakanishi & Tanahashi. But it was the brewing rivalry between Tanahashi and a fellow young generation man typically placed a few notches below the "4 Heroes", Yano, that took center stage as Yano blocked the High Fly Flow with both knees and cradled Tanahashi for the flash three count. A singles match between the two is a possibility for the 2/14 Sumo Hall show, where neither is yet booked.
NJPW, 1/30/10 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
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1. Tomoaki Honma beat Nobuo Yoshihashi (4:47) with the Shalimarti.
2. Black Cat Memorial Match: Koji Kanemoto, Tiger Mask & El Samurai beat Super Strong Machine, Wataru Inoue & Mitsuhide Hirasawa (10:25) when Kanemoto used an ankle hold on Hirasawa.
3. Hirooki Goto beat Kazuchika Okada (9:46) with the Shouten.
4. Takashi Iizuka, Tomohiro Ishii, Jado & Gedo beat Riki Choshu, Togi Makabe, Ryusuke Taguchi & Taichi (8:28) when Gedo used the Gedo clutch on Taichi.
5. Special 6 Man Tag Match: Yuji Nagata, Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito beat TAJIRI, Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson (13:30) when TAJIRI was DQ’d.
6. Special Tag Match: Shinsuke Nakamura & Toru Yano beat Manabu Nakanishi & Hiroshi Tanahashi (16:49) when Yano pinned Tanahashi.
7. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Naomichi Marufuji 
(c) beat Prince Devitt (20:19) with the Tiger Frosion (1st defense).