Road To Wrestling Dontaku Continues 5:30am EDT
New Japan Pro Wrestling continues their Road To Wrestling Dontaku Tour on Monday. The show will be headlined by Suzuki-gun’s Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado defending their IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championships against BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi from Los Ingobernables de Japon.
Also Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada continue their tag match showdown series on the road to their 5/4 showdown for Okada’s IWGP Heavyweight Championship.
The show is set to begin at 5:30am EDT and will air LIVE on NJPWWorld.com.
- Ren Narita vs. Yota Tsuji
- Manabu Nakanishi, Yuji Nagata & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. TBA*, Tomoyuki Oka, & Shota Umino
- Roppongi 3K (Sho, Yoh & Rocky Romero) vs. Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka, Taichi & TAKA Michinoku)
- Juice Robinson, Togi Makabe, Michael Elgin, Toa Henare & KUSHIDA vs. CHAOS (Will Ospreay, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto)
- Hiroshi Tanahashi, David Finlay & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. CHAOS (Jay White, Gedo & Kazuchika Okada)
- Los Ingobernables de Japon (SANADA, EVIL & Tetsuya Naito) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.)
- IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: Champions Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi)
*Tetsuhiro Yagi’s replacement has yet to be named as of publication.
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Tetsuhiro Yagi Breaks Arm, Will Miss Upcoming Shows
Young Lion Tetsuhiro Yagi was supposed to team with fellow rookies Tomoyuki Oka & Shota Umino, but suffered a broken right ulna. Yagi’s replacement has yet to be announced.
Tetsuhiro Yagi fractures right ulna, is removed from April 22nd match in Ibaraki. The card for the April 22nd show has been changed to reflect Yagi’s absence. #njdontaku https://t.co/vKvxOgTL4k pic.twitter.com/aqqhnkXGc7
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) April 21, 2018
