Moloney and Connors regain the titles.
In Catch 2/2’s first defense of their new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Title reign, they lost the belts to BULLET CLUB War Dogs’ Drilla Moloney and Clark Connors at NJPW Road to The New Beginning on 2/4.
Catch 2/2 defeated Moloney and Connors for the belts at Wrestle Kingdom 18. After the title change on 2/4, there was a dust-up between United Empire and BULLET CLUB War Dogs ahead of their Steel Cage match on February 11th. That will be Will Ospreay’s final match in NJPW.
Here are the results from Road to The New Beginning:
- HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita, SHO & EVIL) def. Boltin Oleg, YOSHI-HASHI, Togi Makabe, El Desperado & Shota Umino
- Taiji Ishimori, Chase Owens & KENTA def. Tomoaki Honma, El Phantasmo & Hikuleo
- T.M.D.K. (Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr.) def. YOH, Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomohiro Ishii & Hiroshi Tanahashi
- Just 5 Guys (TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA) def. Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito)
- Great-O-Khan def. Alex Coughlin
- HENARE vs. Gabe Kidd — Knock Out Draw (20:27)
- David Finlay def. Callum Newman
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney) (c) def. Catch 2/2 (TJP & Francesco Akira) (c)
