New Japan Pro Wrestling will be presenting their ‘New Japan Road’ event tomorrow night. The show will take place at the Uonuma Horinouchi Gymnasium ahead of the King of Pro Wrestling show on Monday October 8th.
Here’s the full card for the event:
- Toa Henare vs Yota Tsuji
- Yuji Nagata vs Ren Narita
- Shota Umino, Tiger Mask and Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger vs El Desperado, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Taichi
- Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomoaki Honma, and Togi Makabe vs Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima and Hiroyoshi Tenzan
- Hirooki Goto and Tomohiro Ishii vs Takashi Iizuka and Minoru Suzuki
- KUSHIDA and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Gedo and Jay White
- SHO, YOH, Toru Yano and Kazuchika Okada vs BUSHI, SANADA, EVIL and Tetsuya Naito
The headline grabbing match from this show pits KUSHIDA and Hiroshi Tanahashi against Gedo and Jay White. Tanahashi and White will be colliding on Monday as part of King of Pro Wrestling in a huge singles match. That bout will be contested for the rights to the IWGP Heavyweight title match at Wrestle Kingdom in January. Tanahashi already defended the contract for the January 4th match against Okada back in September.
Jay White recently attacked his CHAOS stablemate Kazuchika Okada and aligned himself with Gedo. As well as being the booker of New Japan Gedo was the longtime manager of Okada, helping him to reach the incredible heights that he has risen to over the past 5 years.