Kobashi 5/11 Nippon Budokan retirement show

[Zach Arnold]

1. Masa Fuchi vs. Hitoshi Kumano

2. SUWA & Tsutomu Hirayanagi vs. Taiji Ishimori & Atsushi Kotuge

- Kenta Kobashi retirement ceremony

3. Tamon Honda & Kentaro Shiga vs. Kotaro Suzuki & Atsushi Aoki

4. Takeshi Morishima & Masao Inoue vs. Gen'ichiro Tenryu & Yoshinari Ogawa

5. Takashi Sugiura, Mohammed Yone, & Akitoshi Saito vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Yuji Nagata, & Satoshi Kojima

6. Naomichi Marufuji & Minoru Suzuki vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Omori

7. Retirement match: Kenta Kobashi, Jun Akiyama, Keiji Mutoh, & Kensuke Sasaki vs. KENTA, Go Shiozaki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, & Maybach Taniguchi

[Zach Arnold]

Claimed 17,000 paid. Red carpet treatment. Masa Fuchi, Toshiaki Kawada, Hiroshi Hase, Masa Chono, and others appeared for the retirement ceremony.

1. Masa Fuchi defeated Hitoshi Kumano in 6'21 with a back-drop suplex.

2. Taiji Ishimori & Atsushi Kotuge defeated SUWA & Tsutomu Hirayanagi in 8'45 when Ishimori used a 450 Splash on SUWA.

3. Atsushi Aoki & Kotaro Suzuki defeated Kentaro Shiga & Tamon Honda in 11'29 when Suzuki used the "Endless Waltz" on Shiga.

4. Yoshinari Ogawa & Gen'ichiro Tenryu defeated Takeshi Morishima & Masao Inoue in 8'38 when Ogawa used a school-boy roll-up on Inoue.

5. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Yuji Nagata, & Satoshi Kojima defeated Takashi Sugiura, Mohammed Yone, & Akitoshi Saito in 14'23 when Tanahashi used the High Fly Flow on Saito. Tanahashi was booed after the match for his air guitar routine.

6. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Omori (original No Fear) defeated Minoru Suzuki & Naomichi Marufuji in 18'26 when Takayama used an Everest German Suplex Hold on Marufuji.

7. Kenta Kobashi, Jun Akiyama, Keiji Mutoh, & Kensuke Sasaki defeated KENTA, Maybach Taniguchi, Go Shiozaki, & Yoshinobu Kanemaru in 39'59 when Kobashi used a moonsault press on Kanemaru for the win.