Road To Wrestling Dontaku Schedule
As New Japan Pro Wrestling builds to it’s Wrestling Dontaku weekend on May 3rd & 4th, they will be presenting a long tour of house shows. Five of those house shows will be available on NJPWWorld.com. WrestleZone will be providing coverage for all shows. English commentary will not be available.
4/13 5:30am EST
- Tetsuhiro Yagi vs. Yuya Uemura
- Manabu Nakanishi vs. Tomoyuki Oka
- Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe & Ren Narita vs. Yuji Nagata, Tiger Mask & Shota Umino
- Roppongi 3K (Sho, Yoh & Rocky Romero) vs. Suzuki-gun (TAKA Michinoku, Takashi Iizuka & Taichi)
- Toa Henare & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano)
- Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & EVIL) vs. Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado, Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr.)
- Elimination Tag Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, David Finlay, Michael Elgin & KUSHIDA vs. CHAOS (Will Ospreay, Jay White, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Kazuchika Okada)
4/14 5:30am EST
- Ren Narita vs. Yota Tsuji
- Yuji Nagata vs. Shota Umino
- Tiger Mask, Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Tetsuhiro Yagi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Manabu Nakanishi & Tomoyuki Oka
- Roppongi 3K (Sho, Yoh & Rocky Romero) vs. Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi)
- Toa Henare & Togi Makabe vs. CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano)
- KUSHIDA, Michael Elgin, David Finlay & Juice Robinson vs. CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, Jay White & Will Ospreay)
- Elimination Tag Match: Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, SANADA, EVIL, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito) vs. Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Minoru Suzuki)
4/23 5:30am EST
- Ren Narita vs. Yota Tsuji
- Manabu Nakanishi, Yuji Nagata & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Tomoyuki Oka, Tetsuhiro Yagi & 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)
4/24 5:30am EST
- Tetsuhiro Yagi vs. Ren Narita
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Shota Umino vs. Yuji Nagata & Tomoyuki Oka
- Roppongi 3K (Sho, Yoh & Rocky Romero) vs. Suzuki-gun (Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & Takashi Iizuka)
- Michael Elgin, KUSHIDA, Toa Henare & Togi Makabe vs. CHAOS (Will Ospreay, YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii)
- Los Ingobernables de Japon (Hiromu Takahashi, BUSHI, SANADA, EVIL & Tetsuya Naito) vs. Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki)
- Ryusuke Taguchi, Juice Robinson & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Gedo)
- IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship Match: Champion “Switchblade” Jay White vs. David Finlay
4/27 5:30am EST
- Tetsuhiro Yagi vs. Ren Narita
- Shota Umino, Tomoyuki Oka & Yuji Nagata vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask & Jushin “Thunder” Liger
- Roppongi 3K (Sho, Yoh & Rocky Romero) vs. Suzuki-gun (TAKA Michinoku, Taichi & Takashi Iizuka)
- David Finlay, Toa Henare, Togi Makabe & Michael Elgin vs. CHAOS (Jay White, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI)
- Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI, SANADA, EVIL & Hiromu Takahashi) vs. Suzuki-gun (Davey Boy Smith Jr., Lance Archer, El Desperado, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Minoru Suzuki)
- NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Champion Hirooki Goto vs. Juice Robinson
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & KUSHIDA vs. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Will Ospreay)
NJPW Wrestlers Recording For Fire Pro Wrestling World
Back in January, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced that their wrestlers would be available in the PS4 version of the popular game Fire Pro Wrestling World. Recently Young Lion Tomoyuki Oka, as well as former IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion KUSHIDA recorded their voices for the game. No word yet on the game’s release date.
https://twitter.com/KUSHIDA_0904/status/981439288620605441
今年の夏発売予定のゲーム『FIRE PRO WRESTLING WORLD』
通称・ファイプロの収録をしてきました。ゲームの仕事に携わることができて緊張と感動でいっぱいでしたが予習はバッチリなので最高の出来です❗️
絶対に遊んでください!!!#njpw pic.twitter.com/uorK763dHx— グレート-O-カーン (@Great_O_Khan) April 4, 2018
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