Tomohiro Ishii to team with Kazuchika Okada at NJPW Wrestling Dontaku
One of Kazuchika Okada’s partners for Wrestling Dontaku has been revealed.
New Japan’s website on Friday confirmed that Tomohiro Ishii will be one of Okada’s two partners. Previously, it had been announced that Okada would team with two mystery partners to take on current NEVER Six-Man Tag Team Champions Ren Narita, El Desperado, and Minoru Suzuki. The website noted that Ishii had made an appeal to be Okada’s partner at a recent non-televised live event.
Since losing the IWGP World Heavyweight title earlier this month at Sakura Genesis, Okada has shifted towards teaming with other people. At Capital Collision, he teamed with Hiroshi Tanahashi in a losing effort against The Motor City Machine Guns and Aussie Open, the latter of who won the match to become the new champions.
Here is the updated card for Wrestling Dontaku on May 3 in Fukuoka:
- IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA defends against Hiromu Takahashi
- NEVER Openweight Champion Tama Tonga defends against David Finlay
- NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado & Ren Narita defend against Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, and a mystery partner
- NJPW World TV Champion Zack Sabre Jr. defends against Jeff Cobb
- Strong Openweight Champion KENTA defends against Hikuleo
- Tetsuya Naito, Shingo Takagi & BUSHI vs. Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI
- Shota Umino, KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight vs. Aaron Henare, TJP & Francesco Akira
- Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste & Kosei Fujita vs. Mark Davis, Kyle Fletcher & Great-O-Khan
- Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, Toru Yano & YOH vs. EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi, SHO & Dick Togo
- Kickoff match: Young Lion gauntlet
