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NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku Results 4.30.23: LIJ Wins in Headliner

April 30, 2023 | Posted by Jeffrey Harris
NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 4-30-2023 Image Credit: NJPW

– NJPW continued the Road to Wrestling Dontaku tour earlier today at the Grand Messe Kumamoto in Kumamoto, Japan. Below are some results, per New Japan’s website:

* The House Of Torture (Dick Togo, EVIL, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi) beat CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, YOH, & YOSHI-HASHI) & Ryohei Oiwa at 9:13.
* The Intergalactic Jet Setters (Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA) & Yuto Nakashima beat The United Empire (Francesco Akira, The Great-O-Khan, & TJP) at 10:13.
* The United Empire (Aaron Henare, Jeff Cobb, Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) picked up the win over TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste, & Zack Sabre Jr.) at 10:53.
* BULLET CLUB (KENTA & Taiji Ishimori) beat The Guerrillas Of Destiny (Hikuleo & Jado) at 6:33.
* Master Wato & Tama Tonga defeated The Bullet Club (David Finlay & Gedo) at 6:24.
* CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, & Toru Yano) & Tomoaki Honma beat Strong Style (El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, & Ren Narita) & Oskar Leube at 11:22.
* Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito) beat Just 5 Guys (DOUKI, SANADA, Taichi, & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) at 20:53.

SANADA will be defending his IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Hiromu Takahashi this Wednesday at Wrestling Dontaku in Fukuoka. You can also check out some highlights and clips, and post-match interview comments from today’s event below: