A new title match has been announced for the NJPW Power Struggle event, which is their next big show. New Japan Pro Wrestling officials confirmed that Taichi will now defend the NEVER Openweight Championship against Hirooki Goto. Originally, Taichi was supposed to wrestle Will Ospreay, but Ospreay had to pull out due to injury.
Last week, it was revealed by the promotion that Ospreay wouldn’t be able to wrestle at the show after suffering a rib injury at Revolution Pro Wrestling’s Global Wars UK event on October 14. The young rising wrestling star suffered the injury when he landed badly during his match against Chris Ridgeway.
This match joins a stacked card as several big matches have already been announced. Those matches include Chris Jericho defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against EVIL, the Super Jr. Tag League finals, and Tetsuya Naito vs. Zack Sabre, Jr.
Power Struggle takes place on November 3rd and will air live on New Japan World. Here is the updated card:
– Rev Pro British Heavyweight Champion Tomohiro Ishii vs. Minoru Suzuki
– NEVER Openweight Champion Taichi vs. Hirooki Goto
– Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho vs. EVIL
– Super Junior Tag League Finals
– Kazuchika Okada & Beretta vs. Jay White & Bad Luck Fale
– Hiroshi Tanahashi & David Finlay vs. The Golden Lovers
