Takashi Iizuka Retirement Show Card
The upcoming New Japan Road show will be Takashi Iizuka’s final show as a wrestler. The 52-year old wrestler will end his 32-year long career with a six-man tag match against Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano, all of whom Iizuka has tagged or been a stablemate with at some point.
2/21, 4:30am EST on NJPWWorld.
- Jushin Thunder Liger & Yuya Uemura vs. Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori & Robbie Eagles)
- Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Toa Henare & Tiger Mask vs. Satoshi Kojima, Manabu Nakanishi, Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji
- Yuji Nagata & Shota Umino vs. CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI & Tomohiro Ishii)
- Roppongi 3K (SHO & YOH) vs. Suzuki-gun (El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
- Hirooki Goto & Ryusuki Taguchi vs. Suzuki-gun (Zack Sabre Jr. & TAKA Michinoku)
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & Will Ospreay vs. Killer Elite Squad (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr)
- Takashi Iizuka Retirement Match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Kazuchika Okada & Toru Yano vs. Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka, Taichi & Minoru Suzuki)
Honor Rising Cards
New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Ring of Honor will be presenting their annual Honor Rising tour. The show will take place over two nights, featuring a total of six title matches. Here is the full match cards:
2/22, 4:30am EST on NJPWWorld.
- Ren Narita vs. Marty Scurll
- Shota Umino vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
- Jushin Thunder Liger & Jonathan Gresham vs. Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori & Robbie Eagles)
- Juice Robinson, David Finlay, Tomoaki Honma & Toa Henare vs. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe
- NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Championship Match: Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Ryusuke Taguchi (c) vs. Cheeseburger, Delirious & Colt Cabana
- NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Dalton Castle
- Ring of Honor World Television Championship Match: Jeff Cobb (c) vs. Hirooki Goto
- Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada & Jay Lethal vs. The Kingdom (Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia & TK O’Ryan)
2/23, 4:30am EST on NJPWWorld.
- Shota Umino, Ren Narita & Yota Tsuji vs. Cheeseburger, Delirious & Colt Cabana
- Jonathan Gresham & Toa Henare vs. Suzuki-gun (TAKA Michinoku & Zack Sabre Jr.)
- Marty Scurll vs. Robbie Eagles
- CHAOS (Hirooki Goto & Will Ospreay) vs. Jeff Cobb & Dalton Castle
- Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito & Shingo Takagi) vs. The Kingdom (Vinny Marseglia & Matt Taven)
- Ring of Honor World Championship Match: Jay Lethal (c) vs. TK O’Ryan
- IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: Los Ingobernables de Japon (EVIL & SANADA) (c) vs. Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa)
- Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championship Match: Mark Briscoe & Jay Briscoe (c) vs. Lifeblood (Juice Robinson & David Finlay)
6 Championship matches have been announced for HONOR RISING: JAPAN 2019!
See the details about the exciting match-ups on the official English website👇https://t.co/PCAnLXfB4E#njpw #njroh pic.twitter.com/rCgA9tDsvq
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) February 12, 2019
