Honor Rising Weekend Is At Hand
New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Ring of Honor will be presenting their annual Honor Rising tour, starting Friday. The two shows will feature six-title matches and a pair of Young Lion showcases. Both shows will air on NJPWWorld.com at 4:30am EST.
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)
🎬The Wire: HUGE MATCHES AT HONOR RISING JAPAN 2019 🎬
HONOR RISING: JAPAN 2019 is just around the corner!
With IWGP, NEVER and ROH World titles on the line, will this be the most eventful HONOR RISING: JAPAN tour ever?
Watch on YouTube👇https://t.co/UIeoXXckdJ#njpw #njroh pic.twitter.com/z4ayZgEmr2
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) February 19, 2019
Kota Ibushi: “I’ll End My Wrestling Career In NJPW”
Kota Ibushi was recently interviewed by ShuroPro. In the interview (translated by Chris Charlton), Ibushi mentions that he has not spoken to Kenny Omega since Wrestle Kingdom, also that he turned down an offer from AEW to become exclusive with NJPW. Ibushi ended the interview by saying “This is the last decision I will make in my career. I’ll end my wrestling career in NJPW.
Chris Charlton’s Twitter is the best place to read translations of the interview.
‘This is the last decision I will make in my career. I’ll end my wrestling career in NJPW’
— chris charlton (@reasonjp) February 20, 2019
