Yuya Uemura Illness, Kosei Fujita Injury Forces NJPW Destruction In Kobe Changes
Changes have been made to NJPW Destruction in Kobe.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced that Yuya Uemura and Yushin Hatazawa are ill, and Kosei Fujita suffered a knee injury, leading to changes to the card.
The kickoff match of Masatora Yasuda & Taisei Nakahara vs Tatsuya Matsumoto & Yushin Hatazawa has been canceled.
The six-man tag that would see Aaron Wolf, Taichi & Yuya Uemura take on Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. has been changed to a tag team match with Uemura and Fujita out.
From NJPW:
Thank you for supporting New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
Yuya Uemura, and Yushin Hatazawa, who were both scheduled to compete at Destruction in Kobe Sunday, have both been forced to withdraw due to ill health.
In addition, Kosei Fujita has sustained an injury to his right knee and will also be unable to compete.
We apologise to fans who were looking forward to seeing all three wrestle, and appreciate your understanding.
The following changes have been made to Sunday’s card:
4th Match
Aaron Wolf, Taichi & Yuya Uemura vs Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.–>
Aaron Wolf & Taichi vs Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.
Kickoff Match has now been canceled.
Here is the current lineup for Destruction in Kobe:
NJPW Destruction in Kobe (9/27)
- IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Hirooki Goto
- IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: Gabe Kidd (c) vs. Drilla Moloney
- Shingo Takagi vs Claudio Castagnoli
- NJPW World TV Championship: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs Shun Skywalker
- Jeff Cobb vs Callum Newman
- Aaron Wolf & Taichi vs TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa)
- Unbound Co. (Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Daiki Nagai) vs United Empire (HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Zane Jay)
- YOH, Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato vs Unbound Co. (Taiji Ishimori, Robbie X & Gedo)
- Shota Umino, Boltin Oleg, Mistico, El Desperado & Toru Yano vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, SANADA, DOUKI, SHO & Dick Togo)
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