AJPW Nettou Summer Action Wars 2024 - Tachikawa: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

The most consequential booking choice is the Triple Crown change. Anzai had collected major wins during his reign, including the May defense over Miyahara and the August 3 defense over Rei Saito. Moving the title to Aoyagi gives the division a new champion and immediately creates another direction when Miyahara comes out afterward. The result is historically important even if the match itself drew a negative contemporary review.

The rest of the title picture is much more stable. Abe retains the GAORA TV belt, MUSASHI and Yoshioka retain the Asia Tag titles, and Jun and Rei Saito retain the World Tag titles. That makes the main event the only championship pivot on a card otherwise designed to reinforce existing champions rather than reset every division at once.

Ayabe pinning Kumaarashi is another useful result because it continues spreading wins through ELPIDA. The younger unit had been built around Anzai’s Triple Crown reign, so keeping Ayabe productive on the same night Anzai loses the title helps prevent the faction from becoming dependent on one championship.

The weak point is that several finishes advance stories without producing satisfying matches. Doi’s comedy pin in the three-way tag, Abe’s roll-up over Tachibana and the main event’s abrupt-feeling title change all drew criticism in the review. The event has plenty of results that matter on paper, but the route to those results is inconsistent.

The announced 2,031 at Arena Tachikawa Tachihi makes this one of the larger crowds in the late-summer AJPW run. That attendance supports the four-title-match presentation and gives the Triple Crown change a bigger-event setting than many regional tour stops. The card has the scale of an important summer checkpoint even if the match quality does not fully match the billing.

AJPW structures the show around escalating championship stakes. The GAORA TV title opens, the Asia Tag championship occupies the middle, the World Tag titles lead directly into the Triple Crown main event, and the two non-title tags bridge those divisions. The layout is straightforward and keeps the audience oriented even when the individual matches use very different tones.

The contemporary review repeatedly notes tonal inconsistency. Abe-Tachibana begins with goofy arena wandering, the three-way tag is almost entirely comedy, and the later heavyweight tags slow the show down before the main event. That makes the card feel less cohesive than its title-heavy structure suggests. WrestleFile therefore separates the event’s importance from its entertainment grade.

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Aoyagi winning the Triple Crown is the event’s defining historical result. Anzai’s reign had been built around beating established names and younger heavyweights alike, so the loss marks a real shift at the top of the promotion. Miyahara’s immediate post-match challenge also makes the title change the start of another chapter rather than an isolated upset.

The Saito Brothers continue to hold the World Tag Team Championship after beating Suwama and Hideki Suzuki. Jun pins Suwama with the jackhammer, keeping the brothers positioned as the promotion’s dominant heavyweight team while Ryuki Honda and Ren Ayabe appear afterward to signal another possible challenge.

The Asia Tag champions also stay intact when Yoshioka pins Tamura. Even though the contemporary review found the match overlong and structurally weak, the result preserves MUSASHI and Yoshioka as champions while Abe and Tachibana appear afterward with the GAORA TV belt, linking two secondary-title stories.

Miyahara and Smith’s partnership receives another documented win, with Miyahara pinning Omori after a match built around teasing tension and accidental contact. That story is less important than the title changes, but it helps explain why Smith remained integrated into the AJPW heavyweight scene rather than functioning as a one-off foreign guest.

For WrestleFile chronology, Tachikawa is the major August 17 checkpoint between Anzai’s Sendai defense and the next late-summer events. The card records a Triple Crown title change, three successful title defenses and the next challengers emerging across multiple divisions, making it historically denser than its C+ show grade might imply.