{"id":124392,"date":"2024-05-12T04:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T08:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=124392"},"modified":"2024-05-12T22:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T02:09:35","slug":"kento-miyahara-wins-ajpw-champion-carnival-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/05\/12\/kento-miyahara-wins-ajpw-champion-carnival-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Kento Miyahara Wins the AJPW Champion Carnival Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night in Yokohama Buntai,\u00a0<\/span>Kento Miyahara<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0defeated Jun Saito<\/strong> to win the prestigious tournament for the first time since 2019 in All Japan Pro Wrestling<\/strong>. The Fukuoka native will challenge Yuma Anzai<\/strong> for the Triple Crown championship later this month in Korakuen Hall on May 29th<\/span>, fans<\/span>\u00a0will be rocking for this one. <\/span><\/p>\n

Miyahara won the A Block by beating Davey Boy Smith Jr.<\/strong> en route to outlasting one-half of the former AJPW<\/strong> World tag team champion Jun Saito in the finale.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Champion Carnival<\/strong><\/em> field this year included SUWAMA<\/strong>, Hideki Suzuki<\/strong>, Yuma Aoyagi<\/strong>, Davey Boy Smith J.r, Cyrus<\/strong>, current Triple Crown champion Yuma Anzai, Hartley Jackson<\/strong> & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan<\/strong> among others. <\/span><\/p>\n

The in-ring output was <\/span>really good<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0a few standout matches throughout the tournament\u00a0<\/span>like<\/span>\u00a0Yuma Aoyagi vs Shotaro Ashino and Yuma Anzai vs Ryuki Honda\u00a0<\/span>just<\/span>\u00a0to name a few. The promotion seems to be regrouping after the odd run\u00a0<\/span>that was<\/span>\u00a0known as Katsuhiko Nakajima<\/span>, putting<\/span>\u00a0Anzai out front with the World championship was well deserved\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0he should hold it till the year ends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rising HAYATO retained the AJPW Jr World championship against Kaz Hayashi on the undercard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yuma Anzai & Ryuki Honda defeated Davey Boy Smith Jr & Cyrus in a tag team match on the undercard.<\/span><\/p>\n

SUWAMA & Hideki Suzuki defeated Masayuki Kono & Masakatsu Funaki in a tag team match on the undercard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rei Saito defeated Ren Ayabe in a singles match on the undercard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yuma Aoyagi, AKIRA & Shiro Kushinaka defeated Kuroshio TOKYO Japan, Shotaro Ashino & Seigo Tachibana in a trios match on the undercard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hokuto Omori & Kuma Arashi defeated Hartley Jackson & Lord Crewe in a tag team match on the undercard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dan Tamura & MUSASHI defeated Andy Wu & Seiki Yoshioka\u00a0<\/span>in the opening match<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This show from Yokohama was streamed<\/span>\u00a0live via AJPW TV, the streaming service of All Japan Pro Wrestling.<\/span><\/p>\n

More from LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n

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Last night in Yokohama Buntai,\u00a0Kento Miyahara\u00a0defeated Jun Saito to win the prestigious tournament for the first time since 2019 in All Japan Pro Wrestling. The Fukuoka native will challenge Yuma Anzai for the Triple Crown championship later this month in Korakuen Hall on May 29th, fans\u00a0will be rocking for this one. Miyahara won the A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3471,"featured_media":124395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,12],"tags":[6106,2389],"class_list":["post-124392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ajpw","category-international","category-news","tag-champion-carnival","tag-kento-miyahara"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}