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New Japan Pro Wrestling
New Japan Pro Wrestling will begin its Road to Power Struggle tour in Korakuen Hall tomorrow.
The full card is:
• Yota Tsuji vs. Yuya Uemura
• Gabriel Kidd and Kazuchika Okada vs. Great-O-Khan and Will Ospsreay
• BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi and Shingo Takagi vs. El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru
• Gedo, Jay White and KENTA vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi and Tomoaki Honma
• Dick Togo and EVIL vs. SANADA and Tetsuya Naito
• NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships: Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI vs. DOUKI, Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.
The main event will be Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii and YOSHI-HASHI’s second defense of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships.
English colour commentator Chris Charlton has also speculated about SANADA’s future.
Charlton said in a series of tweets: “SANADA post G1 is a heck of a thing to keep track of. Naito likened EVIL’s betrayal to his own position in 2015, but I think SANADA might be a more apt comparison. How much of the super cool cold skull is him and how much is who he thinks he should be?
“Naito would have spent almost all of his energy on Ibushi’s bad hamstring at the G1 final, but SANADA didn’t. Instead he created his own opening, and clearly had Ibushi under control, knocking him for a loop with his strikes.
“But a Skull end ref stoppage wouldn’t be the way Cold Skull wins a G1. So spirit of Muto 95, he goes up instead after Ibushi seems to be out cold, and eats it on the moonsault. Ibushi questioning whether SANADA is still really in the right place was telling post match.
“Now the discourse over SANADA seems to be whether he can really be *the* guy instead of a very popular support player. Stardust Genius Naito had the exact same conversations around him between 2012 and 2014.”
SANADA post G1 is a heck of a thing to keep track of.
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) October 21, 2020
Naito likened EVIL’s betrayal to his own position in 2015, but I think SANADA might be a more apt comparison.
How much of the super cool cold skull is him and how much is who he thinks he should be? https://t.co/8vsU46xDI6
SANADA post G1 is a heck of a thing to keep track of.
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) October 21, 2020
Naito likened EVIL’s betrayal to his own position in 2015, but I think SANADA might be a more apt comparison.
How much of the super cool cold skull is him and how much is who he thinks he should be? https://t.co/8vsU46xDI6
Naito would have spent almost all of his energy on Ibushi’s bad hamstring at the G1 final, but SANADA didn’t. Instead he created his own opening, and clearly had Ibushi under control, knocking him for a loop with his strikes.
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) October 21, 2020
But a Skull end ref stoppage wouldn’t be the way Cold Skull wins a G1. So spirit of Muto 95, he goes up instead after Ibushi seems to be out cold, and eats it on the moonsault. Ibushi questioning whether SANADA is still really in the right place was telling post match.
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) October 21, 2020
SANADA will team with Tetsuya Naito against Dick Togo and EVIL at tomorrow’s show.
New Japan and All Japan Pro Wrestling will hold another Giant Baba memorial show on February 4 next year in Korakuen Hall.
The show will be produced by All Japan referee Kyohei Wada and All Japan ring announcer Fumihito Kihara.
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— ????/???DX??? (@PKDX) October 22, 2020
The most recent memorial show was in Ry?goku Kokugikan in November 2019. It was headlined by Daisuke Sekimoto and Kento Miyahara versus Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yoshitatsu.
Pro Wrestling ZERO1
Pro Wrestling ZERO1’s Fire Festival tournament will continue tomorrow in Shinjuku FACE.
The full card is:
• B block: Shogun Okamoto vs. Yuko Miyamoto
• B block: Hayato Tamura vs. Masato Tanaka
• A block: Hartley Jackson vs. Yoshikazu Yokoyama
• A block: Towa Iwasaki vs. Yuji Hino
• A block: Quiet Storm vs. T-Hawk
• El Lindaman and Shinjiro Otani vs. Shoki Kitamura and Tsugutaka Sato vs. Takuya Sugawara and Yasu Kubota
Ahead of tomorrow’s show, the current Fire Festival standings are:
A block
1. T-Hawk (4-1 record): 19 points
2. Hartley Jackson (3-1 record): 15 points
3. Yuji Hino (3-2 record): 15 points
4. Takuya Sugawara (2-3-1 record): 13 points
5. Quiet Storm (2-2 record): 10 points
6. Yoshikazu Yokoyama (1-2-2 record): 10 points
7. Towa Iwasaki (0-3-1 record): 3 points
B block
1. Chris Vice (3-2-1 record): 18 points
2. Masato Tanaka (3-2 record): 15 points
-. Yuko Miyamoto (3-2 record): 15 points
4. Tsugutaka Sato (3-3 record): 15 points
5. Hayato Tamura (3-1 record): 14 points
6. Shogun Okamoto (1-2-1 record): 8 points
7. Takafumi (1-5 record): 5 points
Dragon Gate
Dragon Gate will hold a show in Nanao Joyama Gymnasium tomorrow.
The full card is:
• Jason Lee, Keisuke Okuda and Yosuke Santa Maria vs. Punch Tominaga, Ryo Saito and Ryotsu Shimizu
• Konomama Ichikawa vs. YAMATO
• Diamante and Kaito Ishida vs. Shachihoko Boy and Ultimo Dragon
• Ben-K and Kzy vs. Madoka Kikuta and Shuji Kondo
• BxB Hulk, Eita, H?Y?O and Takashi Yoshida vs. Dragon Kid, Genki Horiguchi, Masato Yoshino and Susumu Yokosuka
Naruki Doi was scheduled to team with Ryo Saito and Ryotsu Shimizu against Jason Lee, Keisuke Okuda and Yosuke Santa Maria. However, he aggravated an elbow injury and is being replaced by Punch Tominaga.
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