Originally published at Yuya Uemura captures KOPW Title at NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku
A new KOPW Champion is crowned.
The 4/27 NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku event took place at Hiroshima Sun Plaza in Hiroshima, Japan. There was a KOPW Championship match on the night that saw Yuya Uemura take on Great-O-Khan in a Rural Revitalization in Hamamatsu 2-out-3-Falls match.
Emerging victorious from the bout was Uemura and he scored two victories to O-Khan’s one.
Below are the complete results from the event:
- Pre-Show: Oleg Boltin & Toru Yano def. HANZO & Rey Paloma
- BULLET CLUB (Chase Owens, KENTA & Taiji Ishimori) def. Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tiger Mask
- United Empire (Francesco Akira & Jeff Cobb) def. T.M.D.K. (Kosei Fujita & Zack Sabre Jr.)
- El Desperado, Shota Umino & Tomohiro Ishii def. HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL, Ren Narita & Yujiro Takahashi)
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuya Murashima def. Shoma Kato & Tomoaki Honma
- HOUSE OF TORTURE (SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) def. DOUKI & TAKA Michinoku
- NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team Championship: T.M.D.K. (Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste) (c) (w/ Zack Sabre Jr.) def. El Phantasmo & Hikuleo (w/ Jado)
- NJPW KOPW Championship — Rural Revitalization in Hamamatsu 2-out-of-3 Falls: Yuya Uemura def. Great-O-Khan (c) (2-1)
- 10-Man Tag Team Elimination Match: Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito & Yota Tsuji) def. Clark Connors, David Finlay, Drilla Moloney, Gabe Kidd & Jake Lee