Tanahashi missed today's show with a knee problem. No word on how serious, if at all, the injury is and whether he'll be on the next show in three days time.
NJPW, 3/16/10
Kumagaya Citizen Gymnasium
1,200 Fans
1. Tiger Mask beat Nobuo Yoshihashi (8:31) with a tombstone piledriver.
2. Yuji Nagata beat Tomoaki Honma (10:07) with a backdrop hold.
3. Riki Choshu & Jushin Thunder Liger beat Takashi Iizuka & Gedo (9:05) when Liger used an air scissors drop on Gedo.
4. Yujiro Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Wataru Inoue & Mitsuhide Hirasawa (15:17) when Naito pinned Hirasawa after the Limitless Explosion.
5. Giant Bernard & Karl Anderson beat Manabu Nakanishi & Strong Man (13:35) when Anderson used a horizontal cradle on Strong Man.
6. New Japan Cup Special 6 Man Tag Match: Shinsuke Nakamura, Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Hirooki Goto, Togi Makabe & Ryusuke Taguchi (15:27) when Nakamura used the Boma Ye on Taguchi.