NJPW Battle Autumn Night 3 Results – October 16, 2022
Location: Niigata Japan
Venue: Ao-Re Nagaoka
Attendance: 1,545
Kicking off the 3rd Night of Battle Autumn with Hiromu Takahashi gets in the ring to warm up the crowd.
Tag Team Match
Great Bash Heel vs. Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa
Great Bash Heel worked over Kosei Fujita early. Ryohei Oiwa hits a dropkick on Tomoaki Honma. Oiwa hits a gutwrench suplex on Makabe then locks in a Boston Crab but Togi reached the ropes. Honma hit a flying shoulder tackle on Oiwa then Makabe locks in the Boston Crab & Oiwa had no choice but to submit.
Winners By Submission: Great Bash Heel (9:46)
Rate: 5
6 Man Tag Team Match
Chaos (Yoshi Hashi,Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii) vs. United Empire (Gideon Grey,Great O Khan & Jeff Cobb)
Toru Yano & Great O Khan starts off this match. United Empire works over Yano early. Tomohiro Ishii enters the match and traded shoulder tackles with Jeff Cobb.
Cobb & Yoshi Hashi traded blows. Gideon Grey entered and he beat up Yoshi Hashi. Yano hit a low blow on Grey, and Yoshi Hashi locks Grey in the Butterfly Lock on Grey to get the submission win for his team.
Winners By Submission: Chaos (7:34)
Rate: 5
8 Man Tag Team Match
House Of Torture vs. Guerrillas Of Density,Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Match starts off with House Of Torture & Guerrillas Of Density,Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroyoshi Tenzan brawling at the bell. Taguchi hit his flying butt bump on Sho. Hikuleo entered and overpowered Sho.
House Of Torture began working over Jado. Hikuleo gets back in the match and he slams Evil for a 2 count. Hikuleo hit a running Stinger Splash on Evil.
Tenzan applied a submission hold on Evil on the mat but Dick Togo got in and choked him that sets up Evil to hit Tenzan with Everything Is Evil for the win.
Winners: House Of Torture (8:31)
Rate: 3
10 Man Tag Team Match
Suzuki Gun vs. Alex Zayne,David Finlay,Master Wato,Tiger Mask IV & Ren Narita
Master Wato & El Desperado starts us off they go back & forth before Douki & Tiger Mask IV entered and traded reversals. Desperado bodyslams Wato on the mat at ringside. Suzuki Gun continued to work over Tiger Mask in the ring. Tiger Mask hits a tilt a whirl backbreaker on Douki at.
Ren Narita hits a northern lights suplex on Yoshinobu Kanemaru that gets a 2 count. Zack Sabre Jr entered for the 1st time and he ties up Narita.
David Finlay got in and hit a running European uppercut on Sabre, ZSJ & Finlay trades some rollup attempts. Alex Zayne enters the ring & he battles with Taka Michinoku. Taka nailed a superkick. Zayne hit a Michinoku Driver then the Cinnamon Twist to score the victory.
Winners: Alex Zayne,David Finlay,Master Wato,Tiger Mask IV & Ren Narita (8:30)
Rate: 6
Tag Team Match
Los Ingobnrables De Japon (KOPW 2022 Champion Shingo Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi) vs. Bullet Club (Junior Heavyweight Champion Taiji Ishimori & Gedo)
Taiji Ishimori & Hiromu Takahashi starts this tag team match off they face off for a bit before Los Ingobnrables De Japon are working over Ishimori.
LIJ & Bullet Club brawls to the floor. In the ring, Shingo slams Ishimori to the mat but he misses a senton. Ishimori hit a handspring back-spin kick on Shingo, and they were both down.
Gedo tagged in and hit a superkick on Takagi goes for a cover & Takagi kicks out and he jawed at the ref. Hiromu hit a shotgun dropkick on Gedo. Hiromu hit a superkick on Gedo, and Shingo hits the Pumping Bomber to get the win for LIJ.
Winners: Los Ingobnrables De Japon (9:25)
Rate: 5
6 Man Tag Team Match
Los Ingobnrables De Japon (Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Francesco Akira & TJP & Aaron Henare) vs. Los Ingobnrables De Japon (Bushi,Titan & Tetsuya Naito)
Titan & Francesco Akira started with standing reversals. United Empire took turns working over Titan. Tetsuya Naito & Aaron Henare traded offense with Aaron hitting a Thesz Press and punches to the face.
Naito hit an enzuigiri. TJP & Akira worked over Titan. TJP hit a running facewash in the corner on Titan. Titan put TJP on his shoulders and dropped him stomach first. Titan hits Angel Immortal on the back of TJP to get the win.
Winners: Los Ingobnrables De Japon (12:33)
Rate: 7
After the match Titan & Bushi challenges TJP & Akira for the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles (This match is official on the final night of Battle Autumn on Nov 5th)
1st Round Match Of The Television Title Tournament
Hirooki Goto vs. Kenta
Hirooki Goto would run Kenta down with a lariat and follow up with the ushigoroshi for a two count. Kenta would roll to safety on the floor with Goto making the chase. Kenta would use this to his advantage, driving Goto back first into the steel railing at ringside. He’d look for the count out win but Goto was back in the ring well before 20.
Kenta would expose a corner of the ring, and would use the steel of the ring for more damage on the back of Goto. A few pinfall attempts would get Kenta as far as a two count, before a Russian leg sweep. Some mocking kicks to the face would just fire Goto up, with Kenta expertly luring him into a tight DDT.
Goto would finally find some more offence with a lariat, but was unable to make a quick follow up. Kenta would use the corner to rise, and look the spinning wheel kick into bulldog for a two count. Goto would look for another ushigoroshi, but Kenta slipped free and behind before using Goto to drop the referee.
While the referee is down, Kenta would roll out to the floor and grabbed a steel chair from under the ring. Goto would avoid being nailed with the chair, and would instead hit a lariat to the chair sending it into the face of Kenta he was gonna use but he throws the chair to the ground, he’d distract the referee allowing for a low blow into a roll up for a two count.
Kenta would unload with palm strikes before Goto found a cradle pinfall for two. Lariat was blocked and Goto was sent into the corner. Go 2 Sleep connects & gets the win.
Winner: Kenta (9:32)
Rate: 6
1st Round Match Of The Television Title Tournament
Sanada vs. Taichi
Match starts off with Taichi & Sanada locking up that forces Taichi to the ropes but allowed a clean break. Taichi would call for a push up contest, luring Sanada into perfect position for the Gedo Clutch.
He’d only find a two count, before Sanada got a near fall off the O’Connor roll. Sanada would look for the moonsault, but Taichi avoided and nailed the Axe Bomber. Taichi spike Sanada with the Ganso Bomb & somehow Sanada was able to kick out.
Sanada would be choked on the mat by Taichi, unable to find his feet after the Dangerous Drop Taichi pulled off. The referee checked him, and Sanada said he could continue, as Taichi hit some mocking kicks to the face. Sanada would be pulled to his feet and dropped with a hook kick he goes for a hook of the leg but Taichi kicks out.
Kawada Kicks would follow with Sanada blocking before nailing a massive lariat. Sanada would bounce up to his feet, before leapfrogging a running Taichi twice and sending him to the floor with a dropkick. Sanada takes down Taichi with a body press.
Back in the ring the TKO would be blocked with Taichi hitting a kick to the arm before a second to the head. Taichi ripped his pants off, before Sanada would look to locks in Skull End but it was unsuccessful with Taichi hitting a chokeslam for a one count. TKO would land, with Taichi fast to his feet as Sanada was dropped with a Dangerous Backdrop.
Taichi was launched with a tiger suplex moments later, before Sanada collapsed and both men rolled to the floor. Back into the ring after a moment of recovery, they’d trade strikes with Taichi hitting another hook kick. Sanada stood tall and hit an uppercut, before taking an elbow smash, Axe Bomber to the back of the head and a gamiguri as he turned.
Soulful Powerbomb would follow, and Sanada somehow kicked out before three. Sanada would respond with a Tiger Driver but was unable to follow up with a pinfall. Avoiding Black Mephisto, Sanada would instead be chucked to the mat but blocked the Gedo Clutch and applied the Dragon Sleeper. He’d move into Skull End as we got 1 min left but let it go in favour of the moonsault that gets a two count. Another moonsault would be blocked and before Taichi got the Gedo Clutch. Sanada would kick out, move into the European Clutch for the win with 3 seconds left.
Winner: Sanada (14:57) (He will face Kenta in the Quarter Finals on Oct 30th)
Rate: 8 (Recommend)
