NJPW has confirmed that both Newman and HENARE suffered knee injuries at yesterday’s show, and as a result removed them from the card for today (nothing had been announced for the finals night card yet).
Card changes for today are as follows:
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1st match changed from Kato vs Murashima to Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs Shoma Kato & Katsuya Murashima
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Great-O-Khan replaces Newman in the 3rd match: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi vs Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan & Jakob Austin Young
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Tanahashi/Jado vs HoT is now the main event (was originally semi-main)
HENARE being out means he and O-Khan forfeit their match with LIJ, so LIJ ends the Block with 10 points. Changes to winner scenarios as follows:
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Oleg/Yano lose (regardless of HoT win/loss) = LIJ win Block
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Oleg/Yano win and HoT lose = Oleg/Yano win Block
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Oleg/Yano win and HoT win = three-way tie between O/Y, LIJ, HoT— 3-way match to decide Block winner will happen on this same show (per the Japanese site.)
ETA: O-Khan has confirmed that both Callum and HENARE are still awaiting the full results of their medical evaluations, hence why there’s no news about any later shows. He also encourages you to buy merch to support both (these are the Global Shop links): https://shop.njpw1972.com/collections/callum-newman https://shop.njpw1972.com/collections/toa-henare
by EffingKENTA