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Jushin Thunder Liger lost the NWA Jr Heavyweight Championship to Steve Anthony last night in Las Vegas. Anthony will defend the title against Liger at the upcoming NJPW "Wrestling Hinokuni" show on April 29th.

Hiroyoshi Tenzan will also defend the NWA World Heavyweight championship against Big Daddy Yum Yum (most well known for the way he sold Kojima's machine gun chops last year) on that card.

Also on the show:

*NEVER Openweight Championship: Togi Makabe vs. Tomohiro Ishii

*Hiroshi Tanahashi, Katsuyori Shibata & Hirooki Goto vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano

*Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga

*Tetauya Naito, Tomoaki Honma & Alex Shelley vs. Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson & Kenny Omega

*Yuji Nagata, Tiger Mask IV & Mascara Dorada vs. Manabu Nakanishi, Ryusuke Taguchi & KUSHIDA

*Satoshi Kojima & Captain New Japan vs. Yujiro Takahashi & Cody Hall

*Yohan Komatsu, Sho Tanaka & Jay White vs. Rocky Romero, Beretta & Gedo

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