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NJPW, 3/11/12 (Samurai! TV)
Act City Hamamatsu
2,600 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Wataru Inoue beat Takaaki Watanabe (7:44) with the Spear of Justice.
2. Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask beat Jado & Gedo (8:09) when Tiger used a crucifix hold on Jado.
3. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka beat Captain New Japan & Tama Tonga (11:06) when Yano used the Oni Koroshi on Tonga.
4. Davey Richards, Rocky Romero & Tomohiro Ishii beat Prince Devitt, Ryusuke Taguchi & KUSHIDA (11:54) when Richards used the Contract Killer on KUSHIDA.
5. Togi Makabe, Riki Choshu, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata beat Minoru Suzuki, Yoshihiro Takayama, Lance Archer, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi (14:40) when Nagata used a backdrop hold on TAKA.
6. Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka & YOSHI-HASHI beat Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tetsuya Naito, Karl Anderson & Tomoaki Honma (16:19) when Okada used the Rainmaker on Honma.
7. IWGP Intercontinental Title: Hirooki Goto (c) beat Yujiro Takahashi (17:08) with the Shouten Kai (1st defense).

* Goto overcame a tough challenge in the form of Yujiro today as he made a successful V1 defense of his IWGP Intercontinental Title. In doing so scored his second win of the year over Yujiro following a victory on 1/29 at Korakuen. The up-and-coming CHAOS man has chance for quick retaliation though as they meet again on 4/1 in the New Japan Cup first round.

* Choshu’s special appearance was a very rare stop in New Japan for the legendary Power Hall nowadays but shows that relations are still good between New Japan and one of its favourite sons.