Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yuto-Ice will headline this Saturday’s New Japan Road event, while the entire card has been released.
After losing to Yota Tsuji in Gifu on Saturday, Tanahashi was challenged by Yuto-Ice, who is one-half of the IWGP tag team champions.
The match will be the biggest of the 28-year-old’s career, which began in 2021 after graduating from the New Japan Dojo. He returned from excursion with Oskar Leube and the tandem won the tag titles at Destruction in Kobe from Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii.
Saturday’s event will also see a NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Title match as champions Master Wato, Toru Yano & YOH defend against EVIL, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Dick Togo.
The show streams live on New Japan World with a version including English commentary to be available on demand.
Full lineup:
- Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuto-Ice
- NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Titles: Master Wato, YOH & Toru Yano © vs. EVIL, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Dick Togo
- Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa, Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson vs. Hirooki Goto, Taichi, YOSHI-HASHI & El Desperado
- Yota Tsuji, OSKAR & Daiki Nagai vs. Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura & Ryusuke Taguchi
- Shingo Takagi, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo vs. DOUKI, SHO & Yujiro
- Oleg Boltin, Tomoaki Honma & Tiger Mask vs. Great O-Khan, Callum Newman & Jakob Austin Young
- Shoma Kato & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Katsuya Murashima & Zane Jay
