New Japan Pro Wrestling returns this weekend to Washington, DC on Saturday evening 4/15 and Sunday afternoon 4/16. The officially announced lineups for the events:
Saturday 4/15 at the Entertainment & Sports Arena in Washington, DC:
*NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions The Motor City Machine Guns vs. Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. IWGP Tag Team Champions Aussie Open.
*NJPW Strong Openweight Champion KENTA vs. Eddie Edwards.
*IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito
*AR Fox vs. David Finlay.
*NJPW Television Champion Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Tom Lawlor.
*Tomohiro Ishii vs El Desperado.
*Fred Rosser vs. Juice Robinson.
*Lio Rush & Rocky Romero & Tomohiro Ishii & Clark Connors & The DKC vs. Volador Jr. & KUSHIDA & Speedball Mike Bailey & Kevin Knight & Gabriel Kidd.
*TMDK's Shane Haste & Bad Dude Tito vs. Royce Isaacs & Jorel Nelson.
Sunday 4/16 at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, PA:
*Lio Rush, Tomohiro Ishii & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs United Empire's Aussie Open & TJP.
*Rocky Romero & Fred Rosser vs. IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru.
*KENTA & Chase Owens vs. Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi.
*IWGP United States Championship Number One Contender Tournament: Lance Archer vs Juice Robinson.
*AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy vs. Gabriel Kidd.
*ROH Pure Rules: Tracy Williams vs. Alex Coughlin.
*TMDK's Bad Dude Tito & Shane Haste & Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs & Tom Lawlor.
*Volador Jr. & El Desperado vs Kevin Knight & Delirious.
For ticket information, click here.
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NJPW will release their Battle in the Valley PPV online for free tonight at 8 PM EST.
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