Full Kizuna Road, Southern Showdown Lineups; Super J-Cup 2019 Announced: 3 Dates in USA; Kojima at Fortune Dream 6
Strong Style Story Podcast Episode 54 on Pro Wrestling Only
In the aftermath of Dominion, the lineups for not only the Kizuna Road tour, but also the Southern Showdown tour of Australia were announced today.
The tour headliners are two RevPro UK titles being defended. On the final day, Zack Sabre Jr. will defend the Undisputed British Heavyweight title against YOSHI-HASHI, coming from the latter’s shock pin of the former yesterday in a tag match. RevPro’s Undisputed British Cruiserweight belt will also be defended, as El Phantasmo takes on Ryusuke Taguchi.
Earlier on, at Tokyo Korakuen Hall, Roppongi 3K will meet the challenge of Bullet Club’s Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo for SHO & YOH’s IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles, whilst the NEVER Openweight Comedy 6-Man Tag Team belts will also be on defense the next day. The two shows will also feature announcements for the participants, blocks and feature matches for G1 Climax 29.
The tour also features two wrestlers returning from injury, as Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Yujiro Takahashi both return to the lineups. Mikey Nicholls, Lance Archer and DOUKI also make their returns. Neither Jon Moxley nor KENTA feature in this tour, Moxley having AEW commitments during this time.
As for Southern Showdown, as promised, Will Ospreay defends the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title against Robbie Eagles in Melbourne, in a show that will be on both NJPWWorld and FITE TV. There are also a ton of Aussie wrestlers, including Gino Gambino teaming with his Bullet Club stablemates.
Kizuna Road 2019 - 6/14/2019, Shizuoka Kira Messe Numazu
Yota Tsuji v. Yuya Uemura
Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask IV & Shota Umino v. Lance Archer, Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG]
Togi Makabe & Ren Narita v. SANADA & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Kota Ibushi, Tomoaki Honma & Toa Henare v. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL & Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS], SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano [CHAOS] & Ryusuke Taguchi v. Jay White, Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]
Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI & Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS] v. MInoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr. & DOUKI [SZKG]
- 6/15/2019, Tokyo Machida Gymnasium
Yota Tsuji v. Yuya Uemura
Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask IV & Ren Narita v. Lance Archer, Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG]
Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS] & Shota Umino v. Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Kota Ibushi, Tomoaki Honma & Toa Henare v. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL & SANADA [Los Ingobernables]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS], SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Ryusuke Taguchi v. Jay White, Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]
Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. MInoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr. & DOUKI [SZKG]
- 6/16/2019, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (NJPWWorld)
Yota Tsuji v. Yuya Uemura
Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], Tomoaki Honma & Ren Narita v. Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] & Ryusuke Taguchi v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Jado [Bullet Club]
Kota Ibushi, Yuji Nagata, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask IV & Shota Umino v. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. Jay White, Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]
Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS], YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] & Toa Henare v. MInoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr. & Lance Archer [SZKG]
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: SHO & YOH [CHAOS] (c) v. Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]
- 6/17/2019, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (NJPWWorld)
Yota Tsuji v. Yuya Uemura
Yuji Nagata & Shota Umino v. Tomoaki Honma & Toa Henare
Hiroyoshi Tenzan Return Match: Kota Ibushi, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask IV v. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] & Ren Narita v. Jay White, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club]
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship: Togi Makabe, Toru Yano [CHAOS] & Ryusuke Taguchi (c) v. Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens & El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]
Elimination Match: Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii, SHO & YOH [CHAOS] v. Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Lance Archer, Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG]
- 6/19/2019, Saitama Mainichikogyo Arena Kuki
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima v. Yuji Nagata & Yuya Uemura
Tiger Mask IV & Yota Tsuji v. Lance Archer & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] & Ren Narita v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]
Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Jushin Thunder Liger v. EVIL, SANADA & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Kota Ibushi & Shota Umino v. Tetsuya Naito & Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toa Henare, Ryusuke Taguchi, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Jay White, Yujiro Takahashi, El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo [Bullet Club]
Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & DOUKI [SZKG]
- 6/20/2019, Fukushima City National Memorial Gym
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima v. Yuji Nagata & Yota Tsuji
Tiger Mask IV & Yuya Uemura v. Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] & Ren Narita v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club]
Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Jushin Thunder Liger v. EVIL, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Kota Ibushi & Shota Umino v. Tetsuya Naito & SANADA [Los Ingobernables]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toa Henare, Ryusuke Taguchi, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Jay White, Chase Owens, El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo [Bullet Club]
Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Lance Archer & DOUKI [SZKG]
- 6/21/2019, Niigata City Gymnasium
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima v. Yuji Nagata & Yuya Uemura
Tiger Mask IV & Yota Tsuji v. Lance Archer & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] & Ren Narita v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]
Jushin Thunder Liger & Shota Umino v. Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Kota Ibushi, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma v. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL & SANADA [Los Ingobernables]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toa Henare, Ryusuke Taguchi, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Jay White, Yujiro Takahashi, El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo [Bullet Club]
Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & DOUKI [SZKG]
- 6/23/2019, Iwate Morioka Takaya Arena
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima v. Yuji Nagata & Yota Tsuji
Tiger Mask IV & Yuya Uemura v. Taichi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] & Ren Narita v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club]
Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Jushin Thunder Liger v. SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Kota Ibushi & Shota Umino v. Tetsuya Naito & EVIL [Los Ingobernables]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toa Henare, Ryusuke Taguchi, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Jay White, Chase Owens, El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo [Bullet Club]
Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Lance Archer & DOUKI [SZKG]
- 6/24/2019, Aomori Hachinohe City East Gymnasium
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima v. Yuji Nagata & Yuya Uemura
Tiger Mask IV & Yota Tsuji v. Lance Archer & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] & Ren Narita v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]
Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Jushin Thunder Liger v. EVIL, SANADA & Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables]
Kota Ibushi & Shota Umino v. Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toa Henare, Ryusuke Taguchi, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Jay White, Yujiro Takahashi, El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo [Bullet Club]
Kazuchika Okada, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & DOUKI [SZKG]
- 6/25/2019, Miyagi Sendai Sunplaza Hall (NJPWWorld)
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima v. Yuji Nagata & Yota Tsuji
Kota Ibushi, Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Shota Umino & Ren Narita v. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood] & Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] v. Tama Tonga, & Tanga Loa [Bullet Club]
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toa Henare, SHO [CHAOS] & YOH [CHAOS] v. Jay White, Yujiro Takahashi, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo [Bullet Club]
Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS], Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS], Toru Yano [CHAOS], Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask IV v. Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Lance Archer, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI [SZKG]
RevPro Undisputed British Cruiserweight Championship: El Phantasmo [Bullet Club] (c) v. Ryusuke Taguchi
RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship: Zack Sabre Jr. [SZKG] (c) v. YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS]
Southern Showdown - 6/29/2019, Festival Hall, Melbourne (NJPWWorld, FITE TV)
Toa Henare, Shota Umino & Ren Narita v. Mark Tui, Andrew Villalobos & Michael Richards
Aaron Solow v. Slex
Toru Yano, SHO & YOH [CHAOS] v. Gino Gambino, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo [Bullet Club]
Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] v. Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens [Bullet Club]
Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. El Phantasmo [Bullet Club]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood] & Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] v. Tama Tonga, & Tanga Loa [Bullet Club]
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Will Ospreay [CHAOS] (c) v. Robbie Eagle [Bullet Club]
HIroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS] v. Jay White & Bad Luck Fale [Bullet Club]
- 6/30/2019, University of New South Wales Roundhouse, Sydney
Andrew Villalobos & Michael Richards v. Tome & Stevie Filip
Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. Tony Kozina
Jack Bonza v. Mick Moretti
Aaron Solow v. Chase Owens [Bullet Club]
Juice Robinson [Lifeblood], Mikey Nicholls [CHAOS] & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Gino Gambino [Bullet Club]
Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS] v. Toa Henare
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS] & Will Ospreay [CHAOS] v. Jay White, Bad Luck Fale & Robbie Eagles [Bullet Club]
The announcements didn’t stop there, as Jushin Thunder Liger today announced the return of Super J-Cup for 2019. The difference this time, it will be a 3-day event, and take place entirely in the USA. I just hope it’s better than the 2016 edition, which was very hyped and seriously failed in many ways. No announcements have been made for talents, although it is assumed that CMLL and ROH will be sending participants to this event.
Super J-Cup 2019 - 8/22/2019, Temple Theater, Tacoma, WA - 8/24/2019, SFSU Student Life Events Center, San Francisco, CA - 8/25/2019, Walter Pyramid, Long Beach, CA
Tickets go on sale on Monday 6/24/2019 12pm PDT (3pm EDT). More news as it comes.
Earlier today at Tokyo Korakuen Hall, the legend Kenta Kobashi (not KENTA) ran his 6th self-produced Fortune Dream card, which was shown live on G+. The semi-main feature NJPW’s Satoshi Kojima, fresh off his loss to Shingo Takagi yesterday. Today he won, teaming with ZERO-1′s (and NJPW veteran) Shinjiro Otani, as they defeated a Big Japan tandem of Daisuke Sekimoto & Hideyoshi Kamitani. It looks like it was a really good show, featuring a “talk battle” between Kobashi & Akira Maeda, and a whole host of other talents from all over the spectrum of Japanese pro wrestling. Check it out if you can.
Strong Style Story Podcast Episode 54 on Pro Wrestling Only