New IWGP Tag Team Champions were crowned during tonight’s Hyper Battle event.
Jeff Cobb and The Great-O-Khan defeated YOSHI-HASHI and Hirooki Goto to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the first time. Cobb pinned YOSHI-HASHI following the Tour of the Islands. This ends YOSHI-HASHI and Goto’s run with the titles after over 95 days, defeating Dangerous Tekkers (Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.) back on January 4.
Additionally, Taichi defeated Toru Yano in a sumo match to become the provisional KOPW Champion, dumping Yano to the floor to win. Taichi then challenged Shingo Takagi to a match after he won the trophy.
The rest of New Japan’s champions retained their titles tonight. Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi retained the IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship over El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori, while EVIL retained the NEVER Openweight Championship against Hiromu Takahashi. El Desperado retained the Junior Heavyweight title over SHO, and in the main event Kazuchika Okada retained the IWGP World Heavyweigh title over Zack Sabre Jr..
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