NJPW “NEVER.9 ~ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT Final~”, 4/15/12
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
250 Fans – No Vacancy

1. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Semi Final: Madoka beat Hiro Tounai (8:49) with the Ranhei.
2. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Semi Final: Black Tiger beat Ryuichi Sekine (6:29) with a la magistral.
3. YOSHI-HASHI beat Takaaki Watanabe (9:05) with a Swanton bomb.
4. Jado, Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii beat Captain New Japan, Kaji Tomato & Yusuke Kodama (15:02) when Ishii used a lariat on Tomato.
5. TAKA Michinoku & Taichi beat KUSHIDA & Hiromu Takahashi (14:08) when Taichi used a Gedo clutch on Takahashi.
6. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Final: Black Tiger beat Madoka (9:56) with the BT Driver.

* Look out Tiger Mask! The latest version of Black Tiger stormed to victory in the second ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT, earning himself a place in this year’s Super Jr. tournament. He defeated Madoka who has been unlucky enough to lose two finals in two years and miss out on the Super Jr. tournament twice. Black Tiger appears to have aligned himself with Suzuki Gun as he was photographed with TAKA and Taichi in a Suzuki Gun t-shirt. He spoke in Japanese and is apparently a personal friend of Suzuki.

NJPW “NEVER.9 ~ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT 1st~”, 4/13/12
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
250 Fans – No Vacancy

1. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Round 1: Ryuichi Sekine beat Takaaki Watanabe (7:45) with the Ryusetsu.
2. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Round 1: Black Tiger beat Yusuke Kodama (8:23) with the BT Driver.
3. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Round 1: Hiro Tounai beat Hiromu Takahashi (7:48) with an armlock.
4. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Round 1: Madoka beat Kaji Tomato (9:38) with the Ranhei.
5. TAKA Michinoku & Taichi beat Jado & Gedo (12:50) when Taichi used a Gedo clutch on Gedo.
6. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka beat Tetsuya Naito & Captain New Japan (9:29) when Yano used the Oni Koroshi on Captain.

* Madoka, Hiro Tounai, Black Tiger (a new version it seems), and Ryuichi Sekine all advance to the tournament finals on Sunday where someone will earn the right to enter this year’s Best of the Super Jr. tournament.

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NJPW “NEVER.9 ~ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT Final~”, 4/15/12
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Semi Final: Madoka vs. Hiro Tounai
2. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Semi Final: Ryuichi Sekine vs. Black Tiger
3. Takaaki Watanabe vs. YOSHI-HASHI
4. Captain New Japan, Kaji Tomato & Yusuke Kodama vs. Jado, Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii
5. KUSHIDA & Hiromu Takahashi vs. TAKA Michinoku & Taichi
6. ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT – Final:

NJPW “NEVER.1″, 8/24/10
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
300 Fans - Super No Vacancy

1. Kyosuke Mikami beat Hiromu Takahashi (debut) (8:28) with a crab hold.
2. Taichi Takizawa beat King Fale (11:23) with a moonsault press.
3. Ryusuke Taguchi & Taichi beat Yusuke Kodama & Kazuhiro Tamura (10:50) when Taguchi used the Dodon on Tamura.
4. Tomohiro Ishii beat Osamu Namiguchi (11:01) with a lariat.
5. Yujiro Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Madoka & Shinobu (18:04) when Takahashi used a German suplex hold on Shinobu.

* New Japan’s new youth-centered brand debuted at a sold out 1st RING, featuring youngsters from all across Japan along with a cast of New Japan wrestlers (also mostly young generation).
* The brand started well and in addition to NEVER.2 at Osaka World Pavillion on 9/16, NEVER.3 has already been announced for 10/8 back at 1st RING in Tokyo.
* Hiromu Takahashi, New Japan’s newest debutant and the last of the 2010 class (Mikami and Fale being the others), debuted in the opener, falling to his classmate Mikami.