Hiroyoshi Tenzan injured, misses NJPW New Year’s Golden Series event

Hiroyoshi Tenzan missed today’s NJPW New Year’s Golden Series event due to a knee injury. 

NJPW announced prior to today’s show that Tenzan would miss the card due to pre-existing knee injury. He was scheduled to take part in an elimination match main event at Korakuen Hall, teaming with Toru Yano, Yuji Nagata, Ryusuke Taguchi, and Master Wato against the Suzuki-gun team of Minoru Suzuki, DOUKI, Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, and El Desperado. The match was made an eight-man elimination bout instead, with DOUKI not participating on the Suzuki-gun side. 

Tenzan is currently still scheduled to take part in Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday NJPW events, including facing The Great-O-Khan in a singles match on Sunday on the tour’s final night. No announcement has been made to this point regarding his status for the remainder of the tour.

Tenzan is a former four-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, and has also held the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team titles a total of 12 times.