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NJPW, 3/18/12 (Samurai! TV)
Iwate Prefectural Gymnasium
1,800 Fans

1. Yujiro Takahashi & Tomohiro Ishii beat Hiromu Takahashi & Takaaki Watanabe (9:42) when Ishii used a crab hold on Watanabe.
2. Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi & KUSHIDA beat Davey Richards, Rocky Romero, Jado & Gedo (14:25) when Tiger used a crucifix hold on Romero.
3. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka beat Captain New Japan & Tama Tonga (11:33) when Yano used the Kuro Kirishima on Tonga.
4. Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata & Wataru Inoue beat Minoru Suzuki, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi (14:13) when Makabe used a King Kong kneedrop on TAKA.
5. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, Tetsuya Naito & Karl Anderson beat Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka & YOSHI-HASHI (15:39) when Naito used a Stardust press on YOSHI-HASHI.
6. IWGP Tag Team Title: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (c) beat Yoshihiro Takayama & Lance Archer (17:42) when Tenzan used a moonsault press on Archer (2nd defense).

* Yano & Iizuka, who beat TenKoji in a non-title match on 3/4 at Korakuen, intruded after Tenzan & Kojima’s successful V2 defense of the IWGP Tag Team Title, Yano stealing their belts and issuing a challenge to the champions.