New IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Crowned Today
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El Desperado captures vacant IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship in Osaka three way
He had interjected himself into the bout that would determine the 89th IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion at the last possible moment, but once there, El Desperado was victorious, completing a seven year journey to the top of his division. Now with both junior heavyweight tag team and singles titles in his possession he is the first simultaneous junior champion since KUSHIDA, and has a huge opportunity next on his schedule.
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Yet the road to victory was a trying one for Suzuki-Gun’s masked agitator. Desperado started strong, sending BUSHI into El Phantasmo before suplexing the LIJ member, nominated for the bout by Hiromu Takahashi, onto ELP. Yet crotched by Phantasmo on the top strand, Desperado was subject to a top corner stomp, leading to two. Moments later, it was Desperado crotching ELP, but when he tried to follow up, BUSHI would intervene, landing his apron DDT before a top rope Frankensteiner got a nearfall.