Hiroshi Tanahashi Announced For ROH/NJPW Shows in May

- Ring of Honor announced today that Hiroshi Tanahashi will appear on the joint ROH/NJPW events in May. The first shows take place on Tuesday May 12th and Wednesday May 13th in Philadelphia at the old ECW arena. The next two shows take place on Friday, May 15th and Saturday, May 16th at the Ted Reeve Arena in Toronto, Canada.

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Hiroshi Tanahashi Annouced For ROH/New Japan Show

From ROHWrestling.com:

Wrestling fans around the world were shocked by the announcement that Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling will be running two joint shows in May of this year. The first will be "Global Wars" and will take place Saturday May 10th at the Ted Reeve Arena in Toronto, Canada. The second will be "War of the Worlds" on Saturday May 17th at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. New Japan's top wrestlers will be making the trip overseas for these massive events. Over the next few weeks rohwrestling.com will be announcing the names of the New Japan stars that will be competing at these events, with the next one being...............

Hiroshi Tanahashi

The six time IWGP Heavyweight Champion is finally coming to Ring of Honor. For years Tanahashi has been hyped as one of the absolute best wrestlers on the planet. This May, Tanahashi will be able to put that claim to the test as he faces the ROH roster; the top wrestlers in North America with legit claim to being the best on the planet.

Tanahashi is the current reigning and defending IWGP Intercontinental Champion, and has also held the IWGP Tag Team Championships on two occasions. His six reigns as IWGP Heavyweight Champion ties him for the most all time in the illustrious history of the organization.

Regardless of who Tanahashi steps into the ring with, he's sure to bring elite match quality to these shows. Rohwrestling.com polled fans on who their ROH/New Japan dream matches would be, and Tanahashi's name came up more than any other wrestler. Fans seem to want to see him face off against everyone on the ROH roster as multiple names came up on who he should compete against.

You only have two opportunities to see the IWGP Heavyweight Champion live and in person in North America. Tickets have sold quickly, but seats are still available for "Global Wars" and "War of the Worlds" on May 10th and 17th in Toronto and New York City. Don't miss these epic once in a lifetime events.

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7/20 NJPW Kizuna Road iPPV Results: Akita, Japan

7/20 NJPW Kizuna Road iPPV Results: Akita, Japan

1. Manabu Nakanishi, Tomoaki Honma, Tiger Mask IV & KUSHIDA def. Yujiro Takahashi, Jado, Gedo & YOSHI-HASHI

2. The Forever Hooligans def. Taichi & TAKA Michinoku to retain the IWGP Jr. Tag Team Titles.

3. Minoru Suzuki def. Tomohiro Ishii

4. TenCozy def. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka to retain the IWGP Tag Team Titles

5. Masato Tanaka def. Tetsuya Naito to retain the NEVER Openweight Title

6. Shinsuke Nakamura def. La Sombra to regain the IWGP Intercontinental Title

7. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Liger, Togi Makabe & Captain New Japan def. The Bullet Club

8. Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata went to a Double KO.

9. Kazushi Sakuraba def. Yuji Nagata by submission

9. Kazuchika Okada def. IWGP Jr. Champion Prince Devitt to retain the IWGP World Title

Source: Puroresu Spirit

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Card For the July 20th New Japan Show

Today, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced the full card for their July 20th "Kizuna Road" iPPV in Akita, Japan at the Akita City Gym. The iPPV will be streamed at http://www.ustream.tv/njpw1972. The card is as follows:

1. Manabu Nakanishi, Tomoki Honma, Tiger Mask IV & KUSHIDA vs. CHAOS (Yujiro Takahashi, YOSHI-HASHI, Gedo & Jado)

2. IWGP Jr. Tag Titles: The Forever Hooligans (Rocky Romero & Alex Kozlov) (c's) vs. Suzuki-Gun (Taichi & TAKA Michinoku)

3. CHAOS vs. Suzuki-Gun: Minoru Suzuki (Suzuki-Gun) vs. Tomohiro Ishii (CHAOS)

4. IWGP Tag Titles: TenCozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) (c's) vs. CHAOS (Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka)

5. NEVER Openweight Title: Masato Tanaka (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito

6. IWGP Intercontinental Champion La Sombra vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

7. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin "Thunder" Liger, "The Unchained Gorilla" Togi Makabe & Captain New Japan vs. The Bullet Club ("Machine Gun" Karl Anderson, Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga) & El Terrible

8. Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata

9. Yuji Nagata vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

10. IWGP World Title: "The Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. IWGP Jr. Champion "The Real Rock & Rolla" Prince Devitt