Summer Struggle in Jingu (2020): WrestleFile Historical Verdict

Yoshinobu Kanemaru defeated Master Wato in 9:31 to open Summer Struggle in Jingu on August 29, 2020. On a six-match outdoor stadium card with several championship outcomes, the opening singles victory was the one result without a title or special tournament prize attached. WrestleFile's C+ / 6.5 score reflects a useful entry point rather than the event's historical center. The four-way final for provisional KOPW 2020 followed immediately, then the NEVER and junior heavyweight championships changed hands before the tag defense and Naito's closing double-title victory. Kanemaru's win should be kept distinct from all those later outcomes; Master Wato did not leave this match as a newly crowned champion, nor did it decide a berth in the KOPW final. Viewers tracking the card's title changes can pass over the opener, while fans of either participant have a precise date, opponent and result to follow.

Toru Yano defeated Kazuchika Okada, SANADA and El Desperado in 7:01 in a four-way final to win the vacant provisional KOPW 2020 title. This was the second match at Meiji Jingu Stadium and its outcome concerned the special KOPW tournament prize, not the IWGP Heavyweight Championship contested in the closing bout. WrestleFile's C+ / 6.9 assessment separates the historical consequence of naming a provisional winner from the quality ranking of a short multi-person match. Each of the three other listed competitors was an opponent in the same four-way, not a tag partner of Yano. Later on the card, Minoru Suzuki won the NEVER Openweight title, Taiji Ishimori took the junior singles belt and Tetsuya Naito beat EVIL for the top two belts in one match. The KOPW outcome should be presented as its own result rather than counted as another IWGP heavyweight title change.

Minoru Suzuki defeated defending NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi in 14:56 to win the championship during the third match at Summer Struggle in Jingu. Suzuki was the challenger who left with the belt, and Takagi was the unsuccessful defending champion; this was not the later retained-title pattern of Dangerous Tekkers, who defended the separate IWGP Tag Team Championship. WrestleFile scores Suzuki-Takagi B- / 7.1, placing the title result ahead of the opening singles and KOPW decisions in competitive consequence but below Naito-EVIL's B+ main-event recommendation. The outdoor August 29 card compacted several meaningful outcomes into six matches. For a short replay, this is useful for the NEVER singles championship lineage, especially when viewed alongside Ishimori's junior title victory in the next bout. The record supports the participants, result and duration without requiring an invented finishing sequence.

Taiji Ishimori defeated reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi in 13:30 to win the championship in the fourth match at Meiji Jingu Stadium. The B- / 7.4 grade recognizes one of the stronger supporting title results on the compact August 29 card. It was a junior singles championship change, distinct from Suzuki beating Takagi for the NEVER belt immediately before it and from Dangerous Tekkers retaining the heavyweight tag belts afterward. The outcome makes Ishimori the new junior champion on this date; treating the 2020 event as a night of universal title retentions would be inaccurate. This match offers a logical second stop for viewers interested in championship transitions after Naito's double-title return in the final. It also provides a clear identity for cross-linking both wrestlers' records without confusing the belt with IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team championships contested on entirely different cards.

Dangerous Tekkers, Zack Sabre Jr. and Taichi, retained the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating Golden Ace's Kota Ibushi and Hiroshi Tanahashi in 16:01 in the fifth match. Their successful defense was the exception among several title switches at the August 29 Jingu Stadium show: Suzuki had beaten Takagi for the NEVER belt, Ishimori had taken Takahashi's junior title, and Naito would win the heavyweight and intercontinental championships from EVIL in the main event. WrestleFile gives the tag defense B- / 7.4, level with the junior singles title bout but below the double-title headline. The winners here were the existing tag champions Sabre and Taichi, not newly installed champions. Preserving the difference between defended and transferred belts makes the event summary trustworthy, especially given how frequently this six-match card is described through its title changes. The 16:01 team bout remains a useful selective viewing choice.

Tetsuya Naito defeated defending champion EVIL in 26:20 to win both the IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships in the single final match at Summer Struggle in Jingu. The August 29, 2020 stadium event concluded with one double-title change, not two separate main events or a successful Naito defense. WrestleFile rates Naito-EVIL B+ / 8.4, clearly the top watch recommendation among six matches. The rest of the card carried other distinct consequences: Yano won the provisional KOPW four-way, Suzuki captured the NEVER title, Ishimori won the junior heavyweight belt, and Dangerous Tekkers retained the heavyweight tag championship. For the championship chronology, this was the night Naito regained the two top belts from EVIL; their later November Power Struggle meeting had a different title situation, with Naito defending instead. Capturing that direction of title movement accurately is more important than inventing details about the finish or stadium audience.