YOH vs. Hiromu Takahashi Added To NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2022; Updated Card
Personal issues between YOH and Hiromu Takahashi have forced some changes to the Wrestling Dontaku 2022 card.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling has announced that YOH and Takahashi will now face each other in singles competition on May 1. Takahashi was supposed to team with Shingo Takagi and Tatsumi Fujinami against Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi, and Taka Michinoku in the opening match on the card but now, BUSHI will take his place.
May 1 sees Fukuoka’s PayPay Dome play host to Wrestling Dontaku. A stacked card has seen intense competition for spots, but one person who wasn’t been involved in the lineup was CHAOS’ YOH.
YOH’s motivation seemed to be in question in recent weeks, and after a loss during the Golden Fight Series tour opener this past Monday, he found himself aggressively called out by Hiromu Takahashi. The Time Bomb stated that YOH was a ‘completely different person’ to the one who fought so valiantly in the Best of the Super Jr. 28 final this past December, a criticism that YOH took to heart.
Bringing fire to the ring in Korakuen Hall this week, YOH would take to the microphone and promise that he would ‘crush’ Hiromu. Not waiting for Best of the Super Jr., YOH demanded the match happen sooner, and that bout is now official for Fukuoka.
Taking Hiromu’s spot in the prior advertised six man tag team opener that will see Suzuki-Gun face LIJ and the legendary Tatsumi Fujinami will be BUSHI. The current master of the tope suicida will be alongside the man who popularized the ‘Dragon Rocket’ to start what is now an even more unmissable card!
Check out the full card below:
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito
- IWGP United States Championship: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Will Ospreay
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Desperado vs. Taiji Ishimori
- NEVER Openweight Championship: EVIL vs. Tama Tonga
- IWGP Tag Team Championships: YOSHI-HASHI and Hirooki Goto vs. Jeff Cobb and Great-O-Khan vs. Bad Luck Fale and Chase Owens
- IWGP Junior Tag Team Championships: Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru and DOUKI
- Tanga Loa vs. Yujiro Takahashi
- YOH vs. Hiromu Takahashi
- Tatsumi Fujinami, Shingo Takagi, and BUSHI vs. Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi, and Taka Michinoku
We will have the results of the event following its conclusion. We have regular NJPW event results in our results section.
