AJPW announces participants for the 2021 Champion Carnival

By Bryan Rose
Published: 22 Feb 2021, 21:08

AJPW has announced the participants for this year’s Champion Carnival tournament.

During this evening’s show at Korakuen Hall, the company announced the ten participants for this year’s tournament:

AJPW Triple Crown Champion Suwama
Zeus
Kento Miyahara
Shuji Ishikawa
Jake Lee
Yuma Aoyagi
Shotaro Ashino
Koji Doi
Kohei Sato
Shinjiro Otani

Zeus won last year’s tournament, pinning Miyahara in the finals. That tournament, originally scheduled to take place last April, was delayed to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s tournament will start on April 9 in Osaka and will conclude on May 3, with the finals taking place at Korakuen Hall. The dates for this year’s tournament are as follows:

April 9th in Osaka
April 10th in Nagoya
April 11th in Niigata
April 17th in Shinkiba
April 18th in Chiba
April 24th in Shinkiba
April 25th in Korakuen Hall
April 28th in Hodogaya
April 29th in Korakuen Hall
May 3rd in Korakuen Hall

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