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NJPW, 4/5/12 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
2,005 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Jado, Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii beat KUSHIDA, Hiromu Takahashi & Takaaki Watanabe (8:52) when Ishii used a lariat on Watanabe.
2. Yuji Nagata, Wataru Inoue, Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask beat Yoshihiro Takayama, Lance Archer, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi (8:18) when Tiger used a Tiger suplex hold on Taichi.
3. Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Ryusuke Taguchi (10:34) when Yano used the Akakiri on Taguchi.
4. Kazuchika Okada, Masato Tanaka & Yujiro Takahashi beat MVP, Captain New Japan & Tama Tonga (11:18) when Tanaka used the Sliding D on Tonga.
5. New Japan Cup – Round 2: Hirooki Goto beat La Sombra (9:51) with the Shouten Kai.
6. New Japan Cup – Round 2: Karl Anderson beat Shinsuke Nakamura (15:22) with the Gun Stun.
7. New Japan Cup – Round 2: Togi Makabe beat Minoru Suzuki (13:34) with a King Kong kneedrop.
8. New Japan Cup – Round 2: Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Tetsuya Naito (18:21) with a small package hold.

* An exciting semi final round of the New Japan Cup was set up at a sold out Korakuen Hall today with a couple of huge upsets. New Japan ace Hiroshi Tanahashi stalled Naito’s runaway momentum by showing he is still the man to beat despite his recent title loss to Okada, pinning Naito with a small package hold. This set up a match with… Karl Anderson! Yes, the “Machine Gun” prevented the latest clash of eternal rivals with Nakamura by beating the CHAOS leader in a huge upset. He dropped Shinsuke with the Gun Stun and continues to impress as he looks to make a name for himself as a singles wrestler in the post-Bad Intentions era.

* The second semi final will see two fan favourites go up against each other. Hirooki Goto unsurprisingly put away CMLL star La Sombra with his Shouten Kai, while Makabe scored a big win over Minoru Suzuki meaning he has now taken out Suzuki Gun’s “big three” of Suzuki, Takayama, and Archer in singles matches this year. So Goto vs. Makabe will collide back at Korakuen in a few days for a place in the final against either Tanahashi or Anderson.

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NJPW, 4/8/12 (WPW)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & KUSHIDA vs. Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii
2. Yuji Nagata, Wataru Inoue, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & Tama Tonga vs. Minoru Suzuki, Yoshihiro Takayama, Lance Archer, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi
3. New Japan Cup – Semi Final: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Karl Anderson
4. New Japan Cup – Semi Final: Hirooki Goto vs. Togi Makabe
5. Captain New Japan vs. Kazuchika Okada
6. Tetsuya Naito, MVP, La Sombra & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka , Yujiro Takahashi & YOSHI-HASHI
7. New Japan Cup – Final: