For these of you who comply with New Japan Professional Wrestling, you understand that this Friday evening’s episode of NJPW Robust will characteristic Jon Moxley vs. KENTA in the primary occasion. You possibly can try the up to date lineup beneath:
* IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship Match: Jon Moxley vs. KENTA
* Ren Narita vs. Chris Dickinson
* TJP, Clark Connors, The DKC & Kevin Knight vs. Brody King, ACH, Logan Riegel & Sterling Riegel
Right here is the official announcement from NJPW:
After over a yr, Jon Moxley wrestles in an NJPW ring this Friday, and he places the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship on the road within the match the world has been ready for, all this week on NJPW STRONG.
Major occasion: IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship- Jon Moxley vs KENTA
For the primary time since February 9 2020 in Osaka Jo Corridor, Jon Moxley defends the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship in our principal occasion tonight towards KENTA.
For KENTA particularly, this match has been a very long time coming. In August, the BULLET CLUB member turned the primary ever winner of New Japan Cup USA, granting him a primary contender’s briefcase that, by means of honest means and foul, he defended in subsequent months towards Jeff Cobb, Hiroshi Tanahashi, David Finlay, Brody King and Satoshi Kojima. His 5 protection file would make him probably the most profitable IWGP US Heavyweight Champion of all time- if it had been the gold he held and never the briefcase.
That’s a distinction that Moxley is eager to level out. The ‘boogeyman of NJPW’ had sufficient of ready on January 29, and stormed by means of promotional and political strains to assault KENTA on NJPW STRONG. The following week, KENTA returned the favour on AEW Dynamite, and two Go2Sleeps in two weeks to the US Champion appears to grant the sting in momentum to the challenger.
On February 26 nonetheless, a protracted interval of speaking involves an in depth, and all that’s left is competitors for the purple and gold. Who emerges because the champion? And in an apparently new period in all {of professional} wrestling in America, what imaginative and prescient may Friday’s principal occasion victor have for the US title?
2nd Match: Ren Narita vs Chris Dickinson
The second match of the evening sees two males who’ve been on the rise on NJPW STRONG this yr face off one on one.
Since showing on the primary NJPW STRONG of 2021, Chris Dickinson has but to style defeat. The Soiled Daddy has been working for his complete profession to compete within the cerulean blue, and since his debut, has been keen to indicate the world why he belongs. But Narita too has a degree to show. The Noge Dojo graduate has excessive expectations of him on his American tour, and made his personal profitable NJPW STRONG debut by defeating Bateman final month.
When Narita and Dickinson met in a tag crew principal occasion on the street to New Starting, Narita was not giving an inch to Dickinson, and fired up towards the Crew Filthy member. Although Dickinson would win the match by submitting TJP, He wished to press the purpose after the bell by getting in Narita’s house. When the previous Younger Lion refused to again down, a brawl broke out, and now this concern might be settled one on one.
1st Match: TJP, Clark Connors, The DKC & Kevin Knight vs Brody King, ACH, Logan Riegel & Sterling Riegel
The evening’s motion will kick off with an eight man tag crew match. Brody King has taken the Riegel Twins beneath his wing of late, although not all the time to success. When his facet misplaced their final tag crew bout, King declared that he had ‘an thought’ in thoughts to maneuver himself and his teammates ahead. Including ACH to their quantity, will his crew share a unified imaginative and prescient tonight?
