The final day of the Road to Power Struggle tour promised to bring chaos onto the Super Jr. Tag League standings and it delivered.
With as many scenarios that could have played as there were teams in the tournament, the one scenario that was perhaps the least likely to happen did occur. Once the dust settled, it was SHO & YOH and Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado who will face each other in the tournament finals again.
The scenario that resulted in this happening was the aforementioned teams picking up wins against the teams of Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo and Robbie Eagles & Will Ospreay, respectively. Any other result or a win for Ishimori and El Phantasmo, the duo with perhaps the best odds of advancing to the finals heading into November 1, would have resulted in them finishing in the top two.
But now, NJPW will see a rematch from two-thirds of the 2018 finals on November 3. In last year's tournament finals, SHO & YOH defeated Kanemaru & El Phantasmo and BUSHI & Shingo Takagi to become the only multi-time Super Jr. Tag League tournament winners in history.
Full results and highlights are below.
NJPW Road To Power Struggle Results (11/1) from the Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka, Japan:
- Yota Tsuji, Clark Connors & TJP defeated Yuya Uemura, Tiger Mask & Jushin Thunder Liger
- BUSHI, Shingo Takagi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito defeated DOUKI, Zack Sabre Jr., Minoru Suzuki & Taichi
- Karl Fredericks, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto defeated Yujiro Takahashi, KENTA & Jay White
- Toa Henare, YOSHI-HASHI, Kazuchika Okada defeated Tomoaki Honma, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi
- Super Junior Tag League: Titan & Volador Jr. defeated Rocky Romero & Ryusuke Taguchi
- Super Junior Tag League: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado defeated Robbie Eagles & Will Ospreay
- Super Junior Tag League: SHO & YOH defeated Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo
Volador Jr. 'Tope Con Giro'
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.@azucarRoc & @taguchiryusuke 'Black Hole Vacation'
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.@RobbieEagles_ & @WillOspreay 'Tope Con Giro'
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.@ElDesperado5 'Spear'
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Road to POWER STRUGGLE 大阪大会
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第6試合、@WillOspreay & @RobbieEagles_ VS @kmaru0923 & @ElDesperado5
B.O.Pの完璧な連携の前に金丸デスペラード絶体絶命
その状況を見た解説席の@taichi0319が不穏な動きを見せる…
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.@njpwyohei_k 'Complete Shot' & 'DDT'
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Road to POWER STRUGGLE 大阪大会
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第7試合、@njpwShowT & @njpwyohei_k -- @taiji_ishimori & @elpwrestling
痛めている腰を集中的に攻撃され苦悶の表情を浮かべるSHOこの後どう言った展開を見せるのか
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Road to POWER STRUGGLE（11/1）を公開
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メインはSUPER Jr. TAG LEAGUE 2019 @njpwShowT & @njpwyohei_k VS @taiji_ishimori & @elpwrestling
負ければ決勝進出が危ぶまれるSHO&YOH果たして勝負の行方は
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You can find past results from NJPW Road to Power Struggle at Fightful's results section. And keep up with Super Junior Tag League standings by clicking here.
