NJPW WORLD TV Championship Semi-Finals Set

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Both semi-finals in the tournament to crown the inaugural NJPW WORLD Television Champion have now officially been set.

On tonight’s NJPW Battle Autumn show (October 30), Ren Narita scored Toru Yano with a Jumping Knee Drop in the first quarter final of the night.

In the show’s main event, SANADA defeated KENTA to advance to the semi-finals himself, with him set to collide against Narita at the November 5 NJPW Battle Autumn event.

The other semi-final will take place on the November 5 show as well, which will see EVIL take on Zack Sabre Jr. The two winners will go on to face off against each other at Wrestle Kingdom 17 on January 4 to crown the inaugural NJPW WORLD TV Champion.

Here are the full results from today’s NJPW Battle Autumn event, per Fightful:

• DOUKI def. Kosei Fujita
• United Empire (Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan) def. Ryohei Oiwa & Yuto Nakashima
• Master Wato & Hikuleo def. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Dick Togo & EVIL)
• Alex Zayne, Tiger Mask & David Finlay def. Suzuki-Gun (Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & Zack Sabre Jr.)
• Suzuki-Gun (El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) def. BULLET CLUB (Taiji Ishimori & Gedo)
• Los Ingobernables De Japon (Titan, BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito) def. United Empire (Gideon Grey, Francesco Akira, TJP & Aaron Henare)
• NJPW World TV Championship Tournament Quarterfinal: Ren Narita def. Toru Yano
• NJPW World TV Championship Tournament Quarterfinal: SANADA def. KENTA

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