Lio Rush To Be Replaced By YOH In IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match At NJPW Destruction In Ryogoku
A big change was made to the October 9th New Japan Pro-Wrestling Destruction In Ryogoku IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title three way match.
Originally it was scheduled to be champion Hiromu Takahashi defending against Mike Bailey and Lio Rush. Lio Rush unfortunately has fallen ill and will not be able to compete at Destruction In Ryogoku.
During a press conference in which Takahashi was participating in alone due to Mike Bailey not being in Japan yet and Lio Rush out, YOH appeared and suggested he take Lio Rush’s place in the match. Hiromu Takahashi agreed and the new three way match for the IWGP Jr Heavyweight Championship was made official.
Here is the updated card for NJPW Destruction In Ryogoku on October 9th:
- DOUKI, Taichi & TBD vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi
- Tanga Loa vs. Chase Owens
- BUSHI, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Callum Newman, HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Drilla Moloney & Clark Connors (c) vs. Kevin Knight & KUSHIDA
- Best of Seven Series Final: Master Wato, Shota Umino & Yuji Nagata vs. El Desperado, Ren Narita & Minoru Suzuki
- NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team Championships: Alex Coughlin & Gabe Kidd (c) vs. El Phantasmo & Hikuleo
- NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships: Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Josh Alexander, Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley
- NEVER Openweight Championship: David Finlay (c) vs. Tama Tonga
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Hiromu Takahashi (c) vs. YOH vs. ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Lumberjack Match: SANADA (c) vs. EVIL
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