IWA Midsouth King of the Deathmatches, BJW Notes, ICW’s Snakebitten Circus and More
Top Story: IWA Midsouth King of the Deathmatch 2020
Yet another King of the Deathmatches is in the book and your winner is Eric Ryan.
There’s a lot to talk about with this show so let’s start with the champion.
Eric Ryan has been on the deathmatch scene for a while in CZW, IWA MS, AIW and of course GCW. It was his matches against Ciclope and Shlak in 2018 that gave him a larger spotlight. He’s in real cut shape compared to most and he can wrestle a really hard style against the bigger guys or be more technical against guys like Alex Colon or the luchadores. Beyond that he shows an absolute dedication to doing the impossible over and over again.
For a while his trademark weapon was a shopping cart. He would bring it to the ring and always incorporate it into his matches. It started as bumps into the cart’s bucket but quickly escalated to taking full fledged bumps onto the sides of the cart where there are hard bars and protruding edged everywhere.
On July 26th, 2019, less than a month until GCW’s debut shows in Japan, Eric Ryan was slammed onto the side of the cart and a small spike from the cart broke off and punctured his side several inches deep. When I ran into Ryan in Japan the next month he was proud of his battle scar and even tried to secure a shopping cart for the matches in Japan.
Earlier this year I called Ryan the most underrated guy in deathmatch wrestling. He’s now part of the 44.Oh group and is getting more exposure there but the KOTDM win helps rise the ranks in the fan’s eyes.
The only downside for me was that they overbooked the finish. The finals were Shlak vs. Eric Ryan in a barbed wire cage, house of horrors match and it was definitely insane but featured way too much interference from 44.Oh in the middle and at the end where the 44.Oh guys just won the match for Ryan. Shlak and Ryan have amazing chemistry every time and I think 1 or 2 spots would have worked much better than the runin angles they did.
The match itself was off the walls. They had the house of horrors setup with the hanging lighttubes, another hundred+ lighttubes scattered around the ring, some panes of glass and a barbed wire cage. The cage only really came into play at the end when Eric Ryan very very carefully climbed up for a senton off the cage through the table for the win. It really was a sea of carnage.
The 2 nights were rough on many of the guys.
Shlak posted images on soc. Media saying he had “thousands of cuts” but the worst of it was Orin Veidt.
During his match with Jimmy Lloyd on Monday in an electrified lighttube match (with some kind of stipulation about who broke more tubes, I couldn’t follow it) Orin suffered 2 severe gashes. The fiurst was on his right arm after he DDT’s Jimmy on a lighttube. You could see him checking on his cut as it gushed blood. Eventually the match was paused so he could be taped up. He was visibly shaken the rest of the match.
A few minutes later Jimmy swung an electrified bundle on Veidt and Lloyd immediately freaked out, checking on Veidt. They rushed to the end of the match where Veidt gave Lloyd an assault driver into a kiddie pool with rubbing alcohol (come on).
Orin had to go to the hospital and get stitches and staples for injuries to his arm and his shoulder up to his neck. He wound up needing a blood transfusion. Due to this Orin had to pull off the second night and was replaced by Jimmy Lloyd.
Orin has also had to pull of the ICW Deathmatch Circus shows.
Alex Colon had an insight that the electrified light tubes carry extra danger because they are brand new and they are heated up making the glass even more likely to slice through flesh.
Other stories coming out of the show are that Devon Moore no-showed and had to be filled in by JC Rotten, Ian’s son, who had left the promotion in 2019 to form Trainwreck. Ian had to cut a promo on Devon Moore.
The other big story for KOTDM is always the gimmicks themselves. IWA MS likes to get a little creative with their stipulations which can lead to innovative ideas at best and unusable rings at worst.
My hall of shame for the gimmicks are as follows
Desert Storm Taipei Death Match: Jeff King is a crazy performer who has never really broken through and he defeated Eddy Only in this restrictive match with taped fists, cactuses in corners and a pit of hot coals. It wasn’t visually impressive and was just dirty for the guys.
Construction Deathmatch: Shlak defeated RSP in a match with nail bundles for a nailgun, circular saws, bunch of plywood and other “construction site” standards. None of the weapons popped and the guys had to work around a cluttered ring.
Death from Above: Aeroboy defeated Tristen Ramsey in a match where they had lighttube towers in the ring supporting “mystery boxes” with different stuff in them to fall when the tubes break. The tubes never really broke right and the boxes had things like salt or other gimmicks that just fell flat.
Shane Mercer really stood out on night one when he lost to John Wayne Murdoch in a Caribbean spidernet match with lighttubes. Mercer has done deathmatches in the past. He is a powerlifter and has a fantastic physique and I know deathmatches are bad for that hobby as it makes it harder to stretch and to weighted exercises.
Eric Ryan defeated Jeff King in a pains of glass match that wound up horrifying in many ways. Jeff King was sliced so badly he had to pull out of the ICW shows as well. It was a greatly worked match was fantastic high spots.
Finally my match of the tournament was Murdoch vs. Eric Ryan. It was just sheer brutality with glass and lighttubes everywhere. The thing that put it on top was the finish where Eric Ryan was trying to “stomp” tubes into Murdoch’s head but kept missing and just stopped his face repeatedly leading to a ref stoppage.
Night 2 was the better night by far but both were far better than in recent years and I recommend watching.
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North America and Mexico News
GCW
On August 2nd GCW held the “Keep in Touch” show in Indianapolis. ACH defeated Joey Janela in the main event and appears to be in for a while.
ACH won the DDT Iron Man Heavy Metal Weight title by accident and it got passed around from ACH to Levi Everett when he laid down, Tony Deppen won it with a run in on a scooter, he lost it to Nate Webb and Nate Webb dropped it back to Joey at the airport.
GCW will be returning to Indianapolis in short order on September 6th. AIW will be doing the afternoon show for a double header.
GCW announced that there will be a show on the Showboat Boardwalk on August 23rd, the day after TOS, called Jimmy Lloyd’s Jersey Shore. It will be broadcast on IWTV, their first IWTV show since the Corona Virus cancellations. Announced talent and matches are listed below.
Alex Colon and RSP have been announced for TOS 5. Expect a lot of surprises in the entrants and format of this one.
The 44.Oh group have been filming a lot of vignettes recently. They released a funeral for MDK video recently.
Nick Gage’s current condition is unknown. He went in for an MRI this week and hasn’t been announced for any shows going forward.
H2O
H2O will be unveiling the “Danny Havoc Hardcore Championship” at an event called “The Last Extravaganza”. They will have a tournament to crown the first champion. This is in reference to the “Matt Tremont and Danny Havoc’s Deathmatch Extravaganza” events they did from time to time.
H2O has filmed the “Back in the Saddle” show on August 1st, with the Tremont vs. Mouse Barbed Wire match and Homicide vs. Low Life Louie, which will air on August 14th on IWTV. They also taped a show called “Final Opportunity” which will air the next night on August 15th.
H2O is announcing matches for Hustlemania 3 on September 12th. The main event will be Louie and The Lone Rangers (Mitch Vallin and Jeff Cannonball) vs. WTF (Ron Mathis, Tyler Voxx and Bruce Grey) in a barbed wire cage match. It will be for the tag and H2O championships.
ICW: NHB
ICW has had absolute awful luck trying to put together the Deathmatch Circus Weekend on August 7th and 8th. The shows were set to be a pretty massive event with the advertising, they had tons of seminars planned, weapon making workshops as well as 2 stacked cards. So where do we begin.
Abdullah the Butcher was set to be a guest of honor for photos, meet and greets and a fan Q&A however he had to cancel (his health is pretty bad, not that shocking). He was replaced by New Jack in quick order.
Then Orin Veidt had to pull out of his matches with Alex Ocean and Akira, he was replaced with Jimmy Lloyd.
Then Jeff King had to pull out, also from injuries suffered at IWA MS KOTDM, and he was replaced with Casanova Valentine vs. Shlak and Mance Warner.
Eddie Kingston was set for the show but he had to cancel, likely due to AEW commitments.
The day of the show came and they knew there was a bad storm coming into town so they were arranging for a “circus tent” to cover the ring but it just never happened and the storm wound up being a lot worse than anticipated. The show was originally postponed from 8 to 10 PM before just being moved inside a barn to do no ring matches the entire show. Truthfully this wasn’t the biggest change ever since the chain ropes make the ring mostly unusable anyway.
I wanna just get this newsletter out so we’ll review the ICW shows next week.
Mexico
Hidalgo, Mexico has remained in the “red” for corona-related restrictions. DTU has already postponed their August 16th show to August 30th (set to be an iPPV). Vanguardia also runs out of Hidalgo but they are trying to do the “secret show” thing.
Pagano did an interview with The Record in Mexico talking about the danger of deathmatches. You can read it at https://www.record.com.mx/lucha-aaa/pagano-llevo-la-lucha-extrema-como-estilo-de-vida-en-el-ring
American Notes
Timebomb Pro, which did some of the wildest no ring deathmatches in North Dakota using Orin Veidt, announced their return on September 12 in Morehead, MN (instead of their usual North Dakota) with Nick Gage vs. Orin Veidt. Mathew Justice, AJ Gray and The One Called Manders will also be on the show. The show will have a ring this time.
Pro Wrestling Trainwreck have announced the following guys for the Souther Sickness Cup next year. Cody Rice, Casanova Valentine, John Wayne Murdock, Rebecca Payne, Louis Ramos, Josh Crane, Ludark Shaitan, Alex Ocean, Mason Martin, Orin Veidt, and Carnage.
John Wayne Murdoch will face Cole Radrick in a 5,000 Thumbtacks Deathmatch on August 14th in Kalkaska, MI.
G-Raver made a Facebook video for fun where he battles a toy hippo and looked to have good mobility in his arm.
USA and North America Results
IWA MS 7/31/20
Connersville, IN
King of the Deathmatch Night 1
Triple Threat Match For The IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship
Jake Crist (w/JT Davidson) defeated Ace Perry and Kevin Giza to become the new Champion.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 First Round Match
Barbed Wire Madness Stairway To Hell Match
Rickey Shane Page defeated JC Rotten.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 First Round Match
Barefoot Bad Landing Deathmatch
Dale Patricks defeated Josh Crane.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 First Round Match
Desert Storm Taipei Deathmatch
Jeff King defeated Eddy Only.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 First Round Match
Fans Bring The Weapons Match
SHLAK defeated Casanova Valentine.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 First Round Match
Death From Above Match
Aero Boy defeated Tristen Ramsey.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 First Round Match
World Series Of Electrified Light Tubes Deathmatch
Orin Veidt defeated Jimmy Lloyd.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 First Round Match
Glass Galore Texas Deathmatch
Eric Ryan defeated BC Killer.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 First Round Match
No Rope, Barbed Wire Caribbean Spider Web Double Hell Deathmatch
John Wayne Murdoch defeated Shane Mercer.
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IWA MS 8/1/20
Connersville, IN
King of the Deathmatch Night 2
Singles Match
Shane Mercer defeated Gary Jay.
Singles Match
Josh Crane defeated Slade Porter.
IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship Match
Jake Crist (c) defeated Lincoln Moseley.
No Holds Barred Match
Aaron Williams defeated Chris Dickinson.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 Quarter Final Match
Construction Deathmatch
SHLAK defeated Rickey Shane Page.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 Quarter Final Match
Medieval Deathmatch
John Wayne Murdoch defeated Jimmy Lloyd.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 Quarter Final Match
Panes Of Glass Match
Eric Ryan defeated Jeff King.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 Quarter Final Match
High Impact Tables Deathmatch
Dale Patricks defeated Aero Boy.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 Semi Final Match
Glass Castle Deathmatch
Eric Ryan defeated John Wayne Murdoch.
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 Semi Final Match
Carnival Deathmatch
SHLAK defeated Dale Patricks.
Fatal Four Way Fans Bring The Weapons Match
Tristen Ramsey defeated BC Killer, Casanova Valentine and Eddy Only
IWA Mid-South King Of The Deathmatches 2020 Final
Barbed Wire Cage House Of Horrors Match
Eric Ryan (w/Eddy Only & Rickey Shane Page) defeated SHLAK.
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GCW 8/2/2020
Indianapolis, IN
Tony Deppen def. Benjamin Carter
Cole Radrick def. Kylie Rae
KTB def. Calvin Tankman
Blake Christian def. Tre LaMar
44OH! (Rickey Shane Page and Atticus Cogar) def. Allie Kat and EFFY
Mance Warner def. Nate Webb
Six-Man Scramble Match: Alex Zayne def. Jordan Oliver, Jimmy Lloyd, Shane Mercer, Isaias Velasquez, and Ace Austin
Chris Dickinson def. AJ Gray
ACH def. Joey Janela
US and North America Upcoming Shows
ICW: NHB 8/7/2020
NHB Vol. 4
Millville, NJ
Taipei Deathmatch: Eddy Only vs. Eric Ryan
John Wayne Murdoch vs. Akira
Alex Ocean vs. Jimmy Lloyd
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ICW: NHB 8/8/2020
NHB Vol. 5
Millville, NJ
Akira vs. Jimmy Lloyd
Circus Deathmatch: Mance Warner vs. Jeff King
Pagano vs. Alex Colon
No Roped Barbed Wire: Homicide vs. Shlak
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MCPW 8/14/20
Kalkaska, MI
John Wayne Murdoch vs. Cole Radrick
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GCW 8/22/2020 (FITE)
Tournament of Survival 5
Atlantic City, NJ
RSP, Alex Colon
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GCW 8/23/2020 (IWTV)
Jimmy Lloyd’s Jersey Shore
Atlantic City, NJ
Pinkie Sanchez, Elayna Black, Lucky 13, Blake Christian
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GCW 9/6/2020
Bring ’em Out
Indianapolis, IN
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Timebomb Pro 9/12/20
Morehead, MN
Nick Gage vs. Orin Veidt
Matthew Justice, AJ Gray, Manders
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H2O 9/12/20
Williamstown, NJ
Hustlemania 3
Japan
FREEDOMS
Freedoms announced the card for the August 9th Unchain Night at Shinkiba. The main event will be Toru Sugiura, Tomoya Hirata and Daisuke Masaoka vs. Jun Kasai, Kenji Fukimoto and X. Takeda is out for the moment and its possible they need to change the August 31st main event. I have no idea who X would be that wouldn’t be a bit of a let down.
Dragon Libre is also returning to action on this show. His first match since December.
Violento Jack posted on social media that he successfully renewed his Visa to stay in Japan.
BJW
The July 24th show aired on Samurai TV.
Masashi Takeda defeated Drew Parker in a Yakkitori stick deathmatch. Its a pretty simple idea but they used it to its extent. There were sticks taped to the corners pointing out, skewer boards and loose packets. Takeda dominated most of the match, they drove skewers into each other’s hands, head, shoulder, foot, etc. It was honestly a really good MATCH, Parker has improved a ton in his movements and moveset. At one point he hit an awesome springboard hurricanrana.
At the end of the match they had this awfully unsafe board with cut pop cans with skewers sticking up, It looked like something bad could happen. Parker and the ref, Frank Atsushi, definitely sold it as devastating. Takeda won with a dominator on a skewer board chair.
Afterwards Drew Parker cut a pretty sick promo in Japanese and English on Takeda.
Numazawa and Fukimoto defeated Sakuda and Ishikawa. The match featured the usual comedy weapon spots, cheek puncturing, knife boards and a bucket of kenzans. Numazawa pinned Ishikawa and looked a LOT better than he’s looked in years. He’s slimmed down and moving well.
After the match Numazawa called Jun Kasai out. They reminisced on the 045 Junkies and wanted to team up which led to Sakuda and Ishikawa coming back out. This led to them setting up a tag match between Ishikawa/Sakuda vs. Kasai/Numazawa on the August 29th Yokohama Gym show (more below).
Finally there was the Ryuji Ito, Shunma Katsumata & Masaya Takahashi vs. Abdullah Kobayashi, Yuko Miyamoto & Isami Kodaka match. This was mainly a centerpiece for Shunma Katsumata who has a really cool look. He came with a bundle of tubes with Lego’s glued on them. Abdullah Kobayashi now has bleached hair.
The match was every 6 man BJW deathmatch you ever saw. It started with the usual all over the ringside brawl before Shunma got cornered and Kobayashi, Miyamoto and Kodaka just did they usual offense on him. Ito and Kobayashi are both moving better then before the pandemic. Kodaka squared up with Shunma for a great sprint leading to Shunma breaking a big bundle full of Lego’s. Shunma hit an awesome launchpad splash for a 2 count.
Miyamoto and Kodaka double teamed Shunma for a while until Kodaka won with some kind of locked-arm belly top belly that looked brutal. Afterwards they cut the promo for Shunma teaming with Ito.
On August 29th and 30th BJW will hold their “last shows” at the Yokohama Bunka gym before it will be decommissioned. Full cards are below but the top matches are Ito vs. Fujita and Kasai/Numazawa vs. Ishikawa/Sakuda on the 29th and mostly strong matches on the 30th.
IWTV has added the March 25th, 2019 show which was Night 6 of the Ikkitousen tournament. It has a few great matches including RSP vs. Takeda, Jimmy Havoc vs. Miyamoto and Kobayashi vs. Kodaka.
Japan Notes
August 4th was the 30th anniversary of the first explosion deathmatch on August 4th, 1990. It was an FMW show held at the Shiodome section of Tokyo, Japan. It was part of what became the Summer Spectacular series and the main event saw Atsushi Onita defeat Tarzan Goto in the first ever exploding barbed wire deathmatch for the WWA Brass Knux Title.
The set up for the match was a no roped barbed wire match with tiny explosives attached to the ropes. The match went on to win the Match of the Year from Tokyo Sports, the first time a deathmatch won that honor (the second would be the Ito vs. Kasai 2009 match).
This set off the long line of explosion matches that defined FMW during this era and it continues to this day with the Blast Championship that gets tossed from promotion to promotion.
Shingo Takagi, of NJPW, announced that he wants to have a “Current Blast Title Match” at the Meiji Jingu Baseball Stadium on the August 29th NJPW show. He is the current NEVER champion but he claimed there’s no challengers. It is being hyped as a 21st anniversary match of sorts for the Great Nita vs. Great Muta explosion match in the same arena. Its a bit unclear if it will be for the actual Current Blast Title which is held by TARU or if they’ll do a full exploding ring or just the bat.
This comes on the heels of NJPW announcing the King of Pro Wrestling title where every match will be in some sort of gimmick match, rare in NJPW, and Takagi made mention that the blast match could be for the KOPW title tournament. Onita is already trying to get the match but he’s basically been turned down..
On July 30th Onita was minding his own business in a 7-11 parking lot when a car ran over his foot. We wish him a speedy recovery.
Speaking of Onita his coffee house he is opening is called LaJa Coffee Roast Factory and he is using the fact the beans are imported from Laos as the main selling point. It is located in Kanzaki-cho which is in Hyoga province, really in the middle of nowhere. You can see more at the website https://www.lajacoffee.jp/
I had to see this photo from a 666 show and now you do too.
Japan Results
BJW, 8/1/2020
Yokohama Radiant Hall
45 Fans
1. Kosuke Sato Defeat Masaki Morihiro (7:42)
2. 3 Way Match: Tatsuhiko Yoshino Defeat Yuichi Taniguchi & Kota Sekifuda (8:37)
3. Toshiyuki Sakuda & Takuya Nomura defeat Ryuichi Kawakami & Hideyoshi Kamitani (12:41)
4. Yuji Okabayashi Defeat Akira Hyodo (14:40)
5. Daisuke Sekimoto Defeat Yuya Aoki (15:55)
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BJW “BJW JR. HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE NEXT CHALLENGER TOURNAMENT ROUND 2”, 8/1/2020
Yokohama Radiant Hall
81 Fans
1. Daisuke Sekimoto & Kosuke Sato defeat Yuji Okabayashi & Masaki Morihiro (9:17)
2. Frank Atsushi Defeat Yuichi Taniguchi (8:06)
3. Yuya Aoki & Kota Sekifuda defeat Tatsuhiko Yoshino & Takuya Nomura (10:48)
4. BJW Jr. Heavyweight Title Next Challenger Tournament – Round 2: Shinobu Defeat Fuminori Abe (2:38) via Referee Stop (Modified Figure-Four Leglock).
5. BJW Jr. Heavyweight Title Next Challenger Tournament – Round 2: Kazuki Hashimoto Defeat Kaji Tomato (12:12)
6. Ryuichi Kawakami, Hideyoshi Kamitani & Akira Hyodo defeat Yuko Miyamoto, Toshiyuki Sakuda & Drew Parker (14:22)
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BJW, 08/02/2020 (noon)
Hokkaido New Pacific Transport Co., Ltd. Parking Special Ring
158 fans
1. Daichi Hashimoto vs. Brahman Kei – No Contest (5:34) .
2. Daichi Hashimoto & Takuho Kato defeat Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei (9:00) after a blockbuster hold by Kato against Kei.
3. Yasufumi Nakanoue defeats Kazumi Kikuta (9:51) with a diving elbow drop.
4. TLC Death Match : Masaya Takahashi defeats Yuki Ishikawa (11:12) with a jackhammer on a chair.
5. Northern Lands Anywhere Falls Death Match : Ryuji Ito & Abdullah Kobayashi defeat “Black Angel” Jaki Numazawa & Kankuro Hoshino(11:33) after Ito’s Dragon Splash against Hoshino.
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BJW, 8/2/2020 (afternoon)
Hokkaido New Pacific Transport Co., Ltd. Parking Special Ring
178 fans
1. Abdullah Kobayashi & “Black Angel” Jaki Numazawa defeat Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei (8:46) after a horizontal cradle from Kobayashi against Kei.
2. Yasufumi Nakanoue defeats Takuho Kato (9:10) with a lariat.
3. Daichi Hashimoto defeats Kazumi Kikuta (9:34) with a German Suplex Hold.
4. Barbed Wire Board Deathmatch : Ryuji Ito defeated Yuki Ishikawa (8:49) with the Dragon Splash.
5. Concrete Block & G Shock Death Match: Masaya Takahashi defeats Kankuro Hoshino (10:56) with a jackhammer.
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ZERO1 “WE’RE NOT GOING TO LOSE TO CORONA!”, 8/22020 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
720 Fans
4. NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Title, Decision Match :Towa Iwasaki & Tsugataka Sato besiegen Yuko Miyamoto &Takashi Sasaki (12:59) after a backdrop hold by Iwasaki against Miyamoto – title change (42nd Champions).
Japan Upcoming Shows
BJW, 8/10/2020 (Samurai! TV)
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
BJW Jr. Heavyweight Title Next Challenger Tournament-Semi Final :
BJW Jr. Heavyweight Title Next Challenger Tournament-Semi Final :
Death Match : Ryuji Ito, Yuko Miyamoto & Isami Kodaka vs. Minoru Fujita, Abdullah Kobayashi & Masashi Takeda
BJW Tag Team Title : Daisuke Sekimoto & Kohei Sato (c) vs. Takuya Nomura & Fuminori Abe
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BJW/ZERO1/2AW “3 GROUPS JOINT PERFORMANCE ~ TOKYO DELTA”, 8/11/2020
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1. Ricky Fuji ,Kaji Tomato ,SUGI & Shoki Kitamura vs. Takuya Sugawara, Tatsuhiko Yoshino, Kota Sekifuda & Drew Parker
2. Yuji Okabayashi, Yasufumi Nakanoue & Akira Hyodo vs. Shu Asakawa ,Taishi Takizawa & Ayumu Honda
3.Shinjiro Otanivs. Tatsuya Han
4. Ryuji Ito & Kohei Sato vs. Chris Vice & Yoshikazu Yokoyama
5. Daisuke Sekimoto, Masato Tanaka & Ayato Yoshida vs. Tank Nagai ,Towa Iwasaki & Takuya Nomura
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BJW “PRO-WRESTLING IS COMING TO ISHIKAWA ~ ISHIKAWA J -WINGS2”, 8/15/2020
Ichikawa City Bunka Center
1. Kazuki Hashimoto vs. Masaki Morihiro
2. Yuya Aoki & Toshiyuki Sakuda vs. Kota Sekifuda & Drew Parker
3. Abdullah Kobayashi & Yuichi Taniguchi vs. “Black Angel” Jaki Numazawa & Masaya Takahashi
4. Ryota Hama & Kankuro Hoshino vs. Ryuichi Kawakami & Kazumi Kikuta
5. Takuya Nomura vs. Kosuke Sato
6. Ryuji Ito, Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuko Miyamoto vs. Akira Hyodo, Takuho Kato & Yuki Ishikawa
7. Daichi Hashimoto & Hideyoshi Kamitani vs. Yasufumi Nakanoue & Yuji Okabayashi
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BJW 8/29/2020
Yokohama Cultural Gynmasium
Yokohama
Abdullah Kobayashi, Ryuichi Kawakami & Kazumi Kikuta vs. Brahman Kei, Brahman Shu & Yuichi Taniguchi
BJW Jr. Heavyweight Title Next Challenger Tournament Final:
Death Match: Jun Kasai & “Black Angel” Jaki Numazawa vs. Toshiyuki Sakuta & Yuki Ishikawa
BJW World Strong Heavyweight Title: Daichi Hashimoto/Akira Hyodo (c) vs. X
BJW Death Match Heavyweight Title: Ryuji Ito (c) vs. Minoru Fujita
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BJW 8/29/2020
Yokohama Cultural Gynmasium
Yokohama
Onryo, Shinobu & Koju Takeda vs. Isami Kodaka, Ryuichi Sekine & Daiki Shimomura
Hardcore Match: Masato Tanaka & Mammoth Sasaki vs. Kamitani & Leatherface
Shuji Ishikawa, Kohei Sato & Tetsuya Endo vs. Ryota Hama, Ryuichi Kawakami & Kazumi Kikuta
Daisuke Sekimoto, Yuji Okabayashi & Yuya Aoki vs. Tatsumi Fujinami, Daichi Hashimoto & Yasufumi Nakanoue