NJPW releases full lineup for New Japan Soul on July 6
NJPW has released the full lineup for Sunday’s New Japan Soul show at Korakuen Hall.
As previously announced, the card will be headlined by El Desperado defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Best of the Super Juniors winner Kosei Fujita. It will also include a Junior Heavyweight Tag Title match with champions SHO and DOUKI of House of Torture defending against Master Wato and YOH.
Following news that Hirooki Goto has been pulled from the G1 Climax due to injury, a last chance play-in match has been scheduled for Sunday. Taichi, Chase Owens, Satoshi Kojima, and Tomohiro Ishii will compete in a gauntlet match with the winner earning entry into the tournament.
Just days after unsuccessfully challenging Gabe Kidd for the IWGP Global Championship in Aichi on Friday, Hiroshi Tanahashi will also be on Sunday’s show. He will face Tiger Mask in singles competition, in a match that will celebrate Tiger Mask’s 30th anniversary in wrestling after debuting in July 1995.
A six-man tag pitting former LIJ members Yota Tsuji, Hiromu Takahashi, and Shingo Takagi against TMDK’s Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa, and Hartley Jackson has been scheduled. A ten-man tag with members of House of Torture facing Shota Umino, Tomoaki Honma, Yuya Uemura, Ryusuke Taguchi, and Boltin Oleg has also been added to the card.
New Japan Soul lineup for Sunday, July 6:
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion El Desperado defends against Kosei Fujita
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions SHO & DOUKI defend against Master Wato & YOH
- Chase Owens vs. Satoshi Kojima vs. Taichi vs. Tomohiro Ishii in a G1 Climax Last Chance Play-In Gauntlet match
- Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tiger Mask
- Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi vs. Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson
- Ryusuke Taguchi, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino vs. EVIL, SANADA, Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- Masatora Yasuda & Shoma Kato vs. Katsuya Murashima & Daiki Nagai
- Zane Jay vs. Tatsuya Matsumoto
