NOAH “Global Tag League War 2016” Results

[cero2k]

NOAH “Global Tag League War 2016”, 5/4/2016 [Wed] 18:30 @ Korakuen Hall in Tokyo

(1) Shiro Tomoyose vs. Kaito Kiyomiya
◆Winner: DRAW (10:00) Time Expired.

(2) Taiji Ishimori, Quiet Storm & Hitoshi Kumano vs. Yoshinari Ogawa, Genba Hirayanagi & Captain NOAH
◆Winner: Kumano (8:03) with the Kumagatame on Ogawa.
~ Kumano with a win over the veteran.

(3) Daisuke Harada, Atsushi Kotoge & Kenoh vs. TAKA Michinoku, El Desperado & Taichi
◆Winner: Kenoh (10:08) following Kibo on TAKA.
~ Kenoh said this win was for Ohara who will be taking on Kanemaru later in the night.

(4) Muhammad Yone & Akitoshi Saito vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
◆Winner: Kojima (9:56) following a Lariat on Saito.
~ TenCozy received a strong reaction as they ended the tour with a win.

(5) GTL 2016 Special 8 Man Tag Match: Go Shiozaki, Maybach Taniguchi, Katsuhiko Nakajima & Masa Kitamiya vs. Takashi Sugiura, Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka & Shelton “X” Benjamin
◆Winner: Shiozaki (20:13) following the Go-Arm Lariat on Iizuka.
~ Sugiura took out Shiozaki with a chair as he asserted himself over the champion before the title defense on 5/28 in Osaka.

(6) GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship Match: [31st Champion] Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. [Challenger] Hajime Ohara
◆Winner: Kanemaru (18:01) following the Touch Out.
~ 2nd successful title defense.
~ Suzuki-gun got involved in the match, though Kenoh jumped in and got his own form of retaliation against Kanemaru in the process. Though that still did not prove good enough as the veteran still managed to claim the win.
~ Kumano followed up his win at the start of the show as he made the challenge for the belt.

(7) Global Tag League War Final Match: (League #1 Standing) Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. (League #2 Standing) Naomichi Marufuji & Toru Yano
◆Winner: Marufuji (20:25) following a Shiranui on Smith.
~ Marufuji and Yano win the Global Tag League 2016, with a win over the GHC Tag Champions in the process.

[cero2k]

I wonder what Toru Yano does when there are no long turnbuckles to remove

[Big Red Machine]

Okay... so if they were going to have Marufuji get the big pin here against Smith & Archer, why did they have him eat the pin against them earlier in the tournament instead of frickin' Yano?