The year is 2015! With The Triple Crown and the Junior Heavyweight Title held by Joe Doering and Atsushi Aoki, respectively, Evolution is on top of All Japan! However, the group XCeed is in the game as well; Go Shiozaki will challenge Joe on the second night of the wars, while Kotaro Suzuki and Kento Miyahara hold the All Asia Tag Belts. As the first shows in the new year, there's a lot hanging in the balance for the men of All Japan!
Night 1, January 2nd, 2015
Naoya Nomura vs. Yuma Aoyagi
This was a Young Boy match, and if you've seen one at any point in the past, then you've seen this one. The only really neat thing to mention is that these men would one day be All Asia Tag Champions together. Nomura won with, shockingly, a Boston Crab
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Kotaro Suzuki (Xceed) and Ryuji Hijikata (not of XCeed) vs. Masanobu Fuchi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Instead of a Yohei Nakajima match, which happened but we apparently skipped, we got this. I've heard of Kotaro Suzuki before, but looking at all the hardware he's had in his career tells an amazing story. Masanobu Fuchi took the entire beating, then his fire up was composed of a single nose hook and the coldest hot tag ever. I don't want to surprise anyone, but Yoshinobu turned the match's pace around for the absolute better, making a great comeback. He and Suzuki clicked very well, and Hijikata wasn't an entire slouch. We had a string of La Magistrals from Suzuki until one actually worked, pinning Fuchi for the three.
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