New champions were crowned, and a title was vacated, at Saturday’s (April 9) NJPW Hyper Battle event.
During the show, Taichi defeated Toru Yano in a no rope, no ringout match, to claim the King of Pro Wrestling provisional trophy.
The IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship also changed hands, with Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb defeating Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI for the gold.
SANADA also announced that he’s relinquishing the IWGP US Championship, which you can read more about right here.
Here are the full results from the show:
- Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jado def. Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, Gedo & Yujiro Takahashi
- Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito def. Aaron Henare & Will Ospreay
- Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi (c) def. El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori – IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships
- Taichi def. Toru Yano (c) to win the trophy – King Of Pro-Wrestling Championship No Rope, Ringout Match
- SANADA vacated the IWGP United States Championship
- EVIL (c) def. Hiromu Takahashi – NEVER Openweight Championship
- Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb def. Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI (c) to win the gold – IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
- El Desperado (c) def. SHO – IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
- Kauchika Okada (c) def. Zack Sabre Jr – IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
NJPW also announced the schedule for the G1 Climax 32 tournament, which you can view at this link.
Via Fightful.
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