NJPW Championship Matches Set For Wrestling Dontaku Tour

New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the cards for its their upcoming Wrestling Dontaku tour. Included in these cards are six championship matches, set to be held across four shows.

These four shows will be Sengoku Lord on April 20th, Wrestling Hi No Kuni on April 29th, Wrestling Dontaku Night One on May 3rd, and Wrestling Dontaku Night Two on May 4th.

Four of these championship matches will be the first defences of the respective champions. As G1 Supercard featured four New Japan titles changing hands. Kazuchika Okada, Kota Ibushi, Dragon Lee, and Jeff Cobb will all make their first title defences on this tour.

Additionally, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Hiroyoshi Tenzan will both miss this tour due to injury. Tanahashi is currently dealing with a left elbow injury while Tenzan is suffering from a knee injury.

The full cards for each show are as follows:

Sengoku Lord (April 20th)

• IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match – Kota Ibushi (c) vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
• IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship Match – Juice Robinson (c) vs. Bad Luck Fale
• Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, SHO & YOH vs. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, BUSHI & Shingo Takagi
• Hirooki Goto & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Jay White & Hikuleo
• Mikey Nicholls vs. Chase Owens
• Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Dragon Lee vs. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Taiji Ishimori
• Satoshi Kojima, Yuji Nagata, Tomoaki Honma, Toa Henare & Jushin Liger vs. Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & TAKA Michinoku
• Shota Umino & Ren Narita vs. Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura

Wrestling Hi no Kuni (April 29th)

• Hirooki Goto vs. Jay White
• IWGP Tag Team Championship Match – Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa (c) vs. Togi Makabe & Toru Yano
• Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Rocky Romero, SHO & YOH vs. Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, BUSHI & Shingo Takagi
• Juice Robinson vs. Chase Owens
• Mikey Nicholls vs. Bad Luck Fale
• Dragon Lee & Will Ospreay vs. Taiji Ishimori & Hikuleo
• Jeff Cobb, YOSHI-HASHI, Jushin Liger, Tiger Mask IV & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Taichi, Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & TAKA Michinoku
• Tomoaki Honma, Shota Umino & Ren Narita vs. Toa Henare, Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura

Wrestling Dontaku night one (May 3rd)

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Match – Dragon Lee (c) vs. Taiji Ishimori
• NEVER Openweight Championship Match – Jeff Cobb (c) vs. Taichi
• Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii vs. SANADA & EVIL
• Hirooki Goto, Juice Robinson & Mikey Nicholls vs. Jay White, Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens
• Rocky Romero, SHO & YOH vs. Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & Shingo Takagi
• Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Will Ospreay vs. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Hikuleo
• YOSHI-HASHI, Jushin Liger, Tiger Mask IV & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & TAKA Michinoku
• Tomoaki Honma, Shota Umino & Ren Narita vs. Toa Henare, Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura

Wrestling Dontaku night two (May 4th)

• IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match – Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. SANADA
• Tomohiro Ishii vs. EVIL
• Rocky Romero, SHO & YOH vs. Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI & Shingo Takagi
• Dragon Lee & Will Ospreay vs. Taiji Ishimori & TBD
• Hirooki Goto, Juice Robinson, Mikey Nicholls & Tomoaki Honma vs. Jay White, Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens & Hikuleo
• Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Jushin Liger vs. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Jado
• Jeff Cobb, YOSHI-HASHI, Toa Henare, Tiger Mask IV & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Taichi, Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & TAKA Michinoku
• Shota Umino & Ren Narita vs. Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura

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