Junya Matsunaga & Tsugutaka Sato Scheduled to Defend Intercontinental Tag Team Titles at ZERO1 Shin-Kiba Event on 5/9

By: Ian McCord

Junya Matsunaga and Tsugutaka Sato are set to defend the Intercontinental Tag Team Titles against Yuya Aoki and Daichi Hashimoto on May 9th when ZERO1 returns to Shin-Kiba 1stRING.

ZERO1 World Heavyweight Champion Junya Matsunaga and Tsugutaka Sato won the Intercontinental Tag Titles back in December of 2025, defeating Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki in the finals of ZERO1’s Furinkazan Tag Team Tournament to capture the vacant championships. They successfully defended the titles back on February 7th in Itabashi against the Kubota Brothers.

This will be Matsunaga and Sato’s first defense of the championships since Matsunaga won the ZERO1 World Heavyweight Title last month.

The challengers, Yuya Aoki and Daichi Hashimoto, known for their years working for Big Japan Pro-Wrestling, wrestled one another at ZERO1’s 25th Anniversary event with Hashimoto walking away with the victory. If Aoki and Hashimoto can stay on the same page, they have the opportunity to walk away with championship gold in Shin-Kiba.

Also on the card, Hayabusa will battle Bryan Ishizaka and Fuminori Abe in a 3-way match, and Chris Vice is set to take on Yuko Miyamoto in a hardcore match.

Here is the full card for ZERO1’s Shin-Kiba event on May 9th:

• Takuya Sugawara & Ryunosuke Nagai vs. Yasu Kubota & Hide Kubota
• Hayabusa vs. Bryan Ishizaka vs. Fuminori Abe
• Masato Tanaka & Vent Vert Jack vs. Koji Doi & Kumaarashi
• Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Yuki Toki
• Hardcore Match: Chris Vice vs. Yuko Miyamoto
• Intercontinental Tag Team Championship: Junya Matsunaga & Tsugutaka Sato (C) vs. Daichi Hashimoto & Yuya Aoki