New IWGP Heavyweight Championship Design Revealed At NJPW/ROH ‘Festival Of Honor’
The IWGP Heavyweight Title got a makeover.
Ring Of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling held their G1 Supercard press conference at the Festival Of Honor event at the Hulu Theater. As the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion Jay White and Kazuchika Okada made their way out to the table to speak about their forthcoming match at G1 Supercard, White showed off his newly-designed IWGP Heavyweight Championship belt. The belt has been fixed up and a screenshot of the title was posted on the @FightfulWrestle Twitter page.
New IWGP title. Thoughts? #G1Supercard pic.twitter.com/0goBN7XE6y
— Fightful Wrestling (@FightfulWrestle) April 6, 2019
The IWGP Heavyweight Championship match is one of twelve matches that will unfold at G1 Supercard and here’s a look at the updated match card:
IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Jay White (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada
ROH World Championship – Ladder Match
Jay Lethal (c) vs. Matt Taven vs. Marty Scurll
Winners Take All – Four Way Tag Team Match
Guerrillas Of Destiny (IWGP Tag Team Champions) vs. PCO & Brody King (ROH World Tag Team Champions) vs. EVIL & SANADA vs. The Briscoes
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship – Three Way Match
Taiji Ishimori (c) vs. Bandido vs. Dragon Lee
Bully Ray’s NYC Street Fight Open Challenge
Bully Ray vs. Juice Robinson
Rush vs. Dalton Castle
Honor Rumble
Jushin Thunder Liger, Kenny King, PJ Black, The Bouncers, Cheeseburger, Rhett Titus, Coast 2 Coast, Tracy Williams
IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Kota Ibushi
Title vs. Title Match
Will Ospreay (NEVER Openweight Champion) vs. Jeff Cobb (ROH World Television Champion)
RPW British Heavyweight Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Women Of Honor World Championship
Mayu Iwatani (c) vs. Kelly Klein
Stella Gray & Sumie Sakai & Hana Kimura vs. Hazuki & Jenny Rose & Kagetsu
Fightfulw will have live coverage of G1 Supercard along with a post-event recap podcast that is set to stream to live on the Fightful Pro Wrestling YouTube channel.
