NJPW Best of the Super Juniors night four results, updated standings

For the second straight night at Korakuen Hall, Hiromu Takahashi took a loss in the main event of NJPW Best of the Super Juniors. Night four of the tournament was headlined by Francesco Akira defeating Takahashi to improve his record to 2-1. Takahashi is now 1-2 with losses to Akira and Kosei Fujita. Akira used a new Ground Tarantula submission to get the win against Takahashi. With Takahashi having no faction at the moment following Tetsuya Naito and BUSHI’s NJPW departures, Akira extended an offer after the match for him to join United Empire. A frustrated Takahashi continued heading backstage despite the offer. Here are the full results from Thursday’s show: A Block: Francesco Akira defeated Hiromu Takahashi B Block: Taiji Ishimori defeated El Desperado A Block: Kosei Fujita defeated Master Wato B Block: Titan defeated MAO A Block: Robbie X defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru B Block: Nick Wayne defeated Robbie Eagles A Block: KUSHIDA defeated Ninja Mack B Block: YOH defeated Kevin Knight A Block: Dragon Dia defe