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NJPW, 2/11/13 (Samurai! TV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2
1,950 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Hiromu Takahashi & Takaaki Watanabe beat BUSHI & Sho Tanaka (9:13) when Watanabe used a crab hold on Tanaka.
2. KUSHIDA, Alex Shelley, Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask beat Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov, Jado & Gedo (11:18) when Tiger used a Tiger suplex hold on Gedo.
3. Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI beat Hirooki Goto & Wataru Inoue (12:33) when Ishii used a brainbuster on Inoue.
4. Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr., TAKA Michinoku & Hiro Tonai beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Tama Tonga & Captain New Japan (11:19) when Archer used the Killer bomb on Captain.
5. Special 6 Man Tag Match: Togi Makabe, Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi beat Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & Yujiro Takahashi (13:10) when Takahashi was DQ’d.
6. Special Tag Match: Shinsuke Nakamura & Kazuchika Okada beat Minoru Suzuki & Kengo Mashimo (11:10) when Okada used the Rainmaker on Mashimo.
7. Special Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi beat Karl Anderson & Prince Devitt (14:11) when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Devitt.

* Tanahashi got his pinfall back from Devitt in today’s main event after the Irishman recently upset the ace of New Japan in another tag bout. Devitt, the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion, is calling for a shot at Tanahashi’s IWGP Heavyweight Title.

* Nakamura and Archer had another face-to-face after the sixth match with the American set to challenge for Shinsuke’s IWGP Intercontinental Title soon.

* Despite being pinned by Makabe in their singles match yesterday, Yujiro laid Makabe out with his own chain after the fifth match today, suggesting this new rivalry will continue.

* Masked veterans Liger & Tiger Mask have challenged KUSHIDA & Alex Shelley to an IWGP Jr. Tag Team Title match which is another title match on the horizon. A tough test for the TIME SPLITTERS against two of New Japan’s most accomplished active juniors.

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New Japan continues to assist Pro Wrestling NOAH, a company very short on numbers nowadays after so many problems and a mass exodus of talent. The likes of Nagata, Tenzan, and Kojima have been appearing regularly, and now the CHAOS tandem of Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka are set to challenge for the GHC Tag Team Title, once held by New Japan teams such as Nagata & Tanahashi (2003) and Bernard & Anderson (2011).

NOAH, 3/10/13
Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium

- GHC Tag Team Title: Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi Sugiura (c) vs. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka