AJPW Champions Carnival 2021 Results

[Chris]

source: f4wonline.com

Jake Lee has won this year’s Champion Carnival tournament.

Lee defeated Kento Miyahara this morning to win the tournament for the first time. Lee ended the tournament with 12 points, losing only two matches to Yuma Aoyagi and Suwama.

Leading up to the tournament, Lee had turned heel and formed a new faction called Total Eclipse. Members include Hokuto Omori, Koji Doi, Kuma Arashi, Yusuke Kodama, and Tajiri.

With the win, Lee will challenge the current Triple Crown champion, Suwama, on May 16 in Ota Ward Gymnasium. Suwama has held the Triple Crown title for over 400 days, defeating Kento Miyahara on March 23, 2020. He also holds the record for most championship reigns with seven.

This year’s tournament featured only one round robin block of ten wrestlers, the first time this has happened since 2001. Lee and Miyahara entered the finals both with 10 points each. Yuma Aoyagi, Kohei Sato, Zeus, Shuji Ishikawa, and Suwama also had 10 points but were already eliminated prior to the final match. Shotaro Ashino scored 8 points, Shinjiro Otani (who had to forfeit his last two matches due to injury) scored 4 points, and Koji Doi scored 2 points.

 

[Alexa]

The fact it took Jake Lee turning heel to finally win is kind of funny, but make sense in a way. I am glad he won though because he has been for the past couple of years and I am ready fro AJPW to fully embrace him as one of their main guys.

 

[Chris]

The fact it took Jake Lee turning heel to finally win is kind of funny, but make sense in a way. I am glad he won though because he has been for the past couple of years and I am ready fro AJPW to fully embrace him as one of their main guys.

It's that Western booking influence lmao I remember when I was a kid and still very much a mark I used to be so mad it felt like guys would only ever win titles if they turned heel did not set a good example for me

 

[Alexa]

It's that Western booking influence lmao I remember when I was a kid and still very much a mark I used to be so mad it felt like guys would only ever win titles if they turned heel did not set a good example for me

Yeah, it is since that has become ever so present in Japanese wrestling now and sometimes it is for the better because some people are just better as heel than faces, and I remember that feeling as well.