In what will go down as no surprise to anyone, Shingo and YAMATO advance to face Ryo and Genki for the Twin Gate after defeating Michizuki and Nakajima in the finals.

Ryo and Genki made a demand before they would accept the match though – they get to choose a special guest referee. Now I’m not sure what position RH are in to be making such demands. They HAVE to defend their title against Shingo/YAMATO so making demands seems stupid. But alas, this is how it will go down.

The match is scheduled for Korakuen on September 17th. Let’s hope it is as good as their

YAMATO/Shingo, Araken/Kanda, Mochi/Nakajima and Yoshino/Hulk are your finalists for the tag league. My final pick of KAGE/Susumu went out the windows after KAGETORA fell to a Dragon Suplex by Mochi.

CIMA and Gamma had a strong showing coming in dead last. Well done guys!

Apologies once more for the lack of updates. Work and life has been draining me. I’ll do my best to keep you up to date though through this busy time.

If you haven’t been following the tag league lately, well some surprising (at least to me) developments have been happening. First of all, YAMATO and Shingo have claimed one of the semi spots already, leading the pack with 12 points. This is the biggest surprise to me due to their slow start but mostly because they challenged at World. I really can’t imagine they would win this thing only to have a rematch of World...

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Yuki Sato vs. Kotoka Shiiba
Tiger Jeet Ichikawa vs. Tiger Jeet Kiku
Gran Hamada & Super Shenlong II vs. Gamma & K-ness
Don Fujii & Naoki Tanizaki vs. Takashi Okita & Kento Miyahara
Minoru & KAGETORA vs. Fujita “Jr.” Hayato & Takeshi Minamino
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima