NJPW has released the full lineup for its show this Saturday in Aichi.
The main event will feature one of the final matches of Hiroshi Tanahashiâ€s career as he faces Yuto-Ice.
Ice confronted Tanahashi this past weekend at Final Homecoming in Gifu, where Tanahashi wrestled his last match in front of his home prefecture. Both Tanahashi and Ice are from Ogaki, Gifu, and Ice attended the same middle school that Tanahashi did 20 years earlier.
“From the same town of Ogaki city, and a graduate of the same middle school, Ice made it his lifetime quest to become a professional wrestler when he found out that Tanahashi was his middle school alum, and that he might not be the strongest ever product of Ogaki. Determined to reach a stage where he could fight Tanahashi and prove his point once and for all, the match has now been made years later,” wrote NJPW1972.com about the match.
The semi-main event will see the NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team titles defended. Master Wato, YOH, and Toru Yano will make their second defense of the belts against House of Tortureâ€s Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, and EVIL.
The full lineup is below:
NJPW Road in Anjo lineup for Saturday, November 8:
- Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuto-Ice
- NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champions Master Wato, YOH & Toru Yano defend against Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & EVIL
- El Desperado, Taichi, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. Hartley Jackson, Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.
- Ryusuke Taguchi, Yuya Uemura, & Shota Umino vs. Daiki Nagai, OSKAR & Yota Tsuji
- Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & Shingo Takagi vs. SHO, DOUKI & Yujiro Takahashi
- Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma & Boltin Oleg vs. Jakob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan
- Tatsuya Matsumoto & Shoma Kato vs. Zane Jay & Katsuya Murashima
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