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NJPW, 7/19/12 (Samurai! TV)
Sapporo Teisen Hall
1,450 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. KUSHIDA, BUSHI & Tama Tonga beat Wataru Inoue, Hiromu Takahashi & Takaaki Watanabe (10:12) when KUSHIDA used the Midnight Express on Takahashi.
2. Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & Maximo beat Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov & Gedo (9:49) when Maximo used a la magistral on Gedo.
3. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (12:26) by referee stop (Iizuka beat Kojima).
4. Low Ki & Jado beat Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki (12:29) when Ki used the Ki Krusher ’99 on Sasaki.
5. Tetsuya Naito, Karl Anderson & Captain New Japan beat Kazuchika Okada, Yujiro Takahashi & YOSHI-HASHI (14:43) when Anderson used the Gun Stun on YOSHI-HASHI.
6. Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi beat Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata, Prince Devitt & Ryusuke Taguchi (12:43) when Taichi pinned Taguchi after Suzuki used a Gotch-style piledriver.
7. Special 6 Man Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto & Akebono beat Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka & Tomohiro Ishii (16:37) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Ishii.

* The planned Kojima vs. Iizuka and Tenzan vs. Yano singles matches were scrapped after yesterday’s DQs in both Tenzan vs. Iizuka and Kojima vs. Yano, and a preview of Sunday’s IWGP Tag Team Title decision match was set with TenKoji against Iizuka & Yano. And surprisingly, even without the four referees the title match will have, this had some sort of conclusive finish with Iizuka forcing a referee stop victory over Kojima!