NJPW's upcoming New Japan Road shows have their match lineups announced.
The tour, taking place from September 3 to September 11, will see a tournament to crown a new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion via a four-team round robin format. In addition, the last stop on the tour will see the first title defense of the new NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions. Stars such as Tetsuya Naito, Kota Ibushi, EVIL, Minoru Suzuki, Kazuchika Okada and more have been announced for the tour.
Below are the cards, dates and locations of all six shows for the New Japan Road tour:
September 3, Saitama:
* Yuji Nagata vs. Gabriel Kidd
* Tomoaki Honma & Satoshi Kojima vs. Jado & Yujiro Takahashi
* Yota Tsuji, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto vs. Yuya Uemura, SHO, Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada
* SANADA & Shingo Takagi vs. DOUKI vs. Minoru Suzuki
* Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi, Kota Ibushi & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado, Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi
* BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & EVIL
September 5, Chiba:
* Satoshi Kojima vs. Yota Tsuji
* Yuya Uemura, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto vs. Gabriel Kidd, SHO, Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada
* Tomoaki Honma, Yuji Nagata, Kota Ibushi & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. DOUKI, Zack Sabre Junior, Taichi & Minoru Suzuki
* SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Jado, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL
* IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Tournament: Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
* IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Tournament: BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Gedo & Taiji Ishimori
September 6, Chiba:
* Yuji Nagata vs. Yuya Uemura
* Gabriel Kidd, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto vs. Yota Tsuji, SHO, Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada
* Tomoaki Honma, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi vs. DOUKI, Zack Sabre Junior, Taichi & Minoru Suzuki
* Shingo Takagi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito vs. Jado, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL
* IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Tournament: Taiji Ishimori & Gedo vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado
* IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Tournament: Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI
September 8, Ibaraki:
* Yuji Nagata vs. Gabriel Kidd
* Yota Tsuji, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto vs. Yuya Uemura, SHO, Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada
* Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Jado, Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & Yujiro Takahashi
* Tomoaki Honma, Kota Ibushi & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. DOUKI, Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi
* BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki
* SANADA & Tetsuya Naito vs. Dick Togo & EVIL
September 9, Miyagi:
* Satoshi Kojima vs. Yota Tsuji
* Yuya Uemura, YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto vs. Gabriel Kidd, SHO, Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada
* Tomoaki Honma, Yuji Nagata, Kota Ibushi & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. DOUKI, Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi & Minoru Suzuki
* SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Yujiro Takahashi, Dick Togo & EVIL
* IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Tournament: Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Gedo & Taiji Ishimori
* IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Tournament: BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado
September 11, Tokyo:
* IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Tournament Finals: TBA vs. TBA
* NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Title Match: YOSHI-HASHI, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto (c) vs. SHO, Toru Yano & Kazuchika Okada
Fightful will provide results of each night of the tour upon completion.
