Whiskey Bottle Ladder match for KOPW Title made official for NJPW Road to Tokyo Dome

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Votes are in. 

The stipulation for the KOPW Championship match between Yoshinobu Kanemaru and champion Taichi is locked in. The two talents are going to be competing in a Whiskey Bottle Ladder match, which was suggested by Taichi and earned 70 percent of the votes. 

The match is taking place at NJPW Road to Tokyo Dome on December 21st. A whiskey bottle will be hung from the ceiling of Korakuen Hall and the wrestler who retrieves it will be able to use the bottle and its contents as a weapon. 

With the confirmation of this bout, here’s the updated lineup for the 12/21 event: 

– Masked Horse & Masked Boltin vs. Tiger Mask & Toru Yano
– Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima vs. T.M.D.K. (Zack Sabre Jr. & Kosei Fujita)
– United Empire (TJP, Francesco Akira & Callum Newman) vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney & Gedo)
– Master Wato, Shota Umino & Tomoaki Honma vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL, Ren Narita & SHO)
– Satoshi Kojima & El Desperado vs. Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi
– SANADA, Yuya Uemura & DOUKI vs. Tetsuya Naito, Yota Tsuji & BUSHI
– KOPW Championship — Whiskey Bottle Ladder Match: Taichi (c) vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru
– NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships: Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. United Empire (Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan & HENARE)

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