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Lion’s Break Collision series to air on NJPW World

Posted on by Bryan Rose

NJPW has announced a new show featuring up and coming talent facing established stars starting in July.

The show will be called Lion’s Break Collision, and will start airing July 3rd at 10 pm Eastern, running at the same time WWE 205 Live airs on the WWE Network. The show is slated to air throughout the month.

The announcement noted that former MLW Heavyweight champion and radio host for this website Tom Lawlor will appear on the shows.

The card for the July 3 event will feature Alex Coughlin vs. Clark Connors and Jeff Cobb & Rocky Romero vs. TJP & Karl Fredericks. Other wrestlers scheduled to appear on the shows include Misterioso, Rust Taylor, Danny Limelight, and The DKC.

Lion’s Break is the name of shows under the NJPW banner that feature up and coming talent from NJPW’s LA Dojo. A show was slated for WrestleMania weekend featuring Hiroshi Tanahashi, The Guerillas of Destiny, and other NJPW talent, but the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘My Dad is a Heel Wrestler’ movie coming to NJPW World

Posted on by Joseph Currier

“My Dad is a Heel Wrestler” is coming to New Japan World later this week.

The movie, which came out in 2018 and stars Hiroshi Tanahashi, will be uploaded to NJPW World at midnight Japan Standard Time on Saturday, April 4. It will have English subtitles available.

“My Dad is a Heel Wrestler” tells “the tale of a former top-flight, fan-favorite wrestler trying to reclaim a bond with both the public and his son.”

Outside of Japan, the movie is being made available in America, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and Germany and can be streamed from when it’s uploaded until September 3, 2020.

In Japan, the movie can be streamed on NJPW World until April 3, 2021.

During NJPW and CMLL’s Fantasticamania tour in January 2019, Tanahashi & Ryusuke Taguchi faced Kazuchika Okada & Togi Makabe in a match where all four wrestled as their in-ring personas from “My Dad is a Heel Wrestler.”

The movie is being added to NJPW World as part of the NJPW Together project, which features alternative content being uploaded while new events aren’t happening due to the coronavirus pandemic.

NJPW World adds two more live BOSJ shows to schedule

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

New Japan World announced today that it is adding two live events to the service over the upcoming days.

Both the May 31st show in Osaka and the June 1st show in Nagoya, which will be the last day of competition in the A block and B block respectively, will now have the entire shows streamed live. Previously only the tournament matches were to air on a several hour delay.

Tomorrow’s show in Takasaki will be the last tape delayed show.

NJPW World was already broadcasting Monday’s show from Korakuen Hall live. So this means the live schedule will be:

  • Monday at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time from Korakuen Hall
  • Wednesday at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time from Osaka Edion Arena #2
  • Thursday at 5 a.m. Eastern time from Nagoya International Conference Hall
  • Saturday at 4 a.m. Eastern time from Tokyo Yoyogi Gym (A block champion vs. B block champion — This show will broadcast in English)
  • June 9th at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time from Korakuen Hall (This show will broadcast in English and be a loaded show shooting angles for Dominion)
  • June 11th at 3 a.m. Eastern from Osaka Jo Hall (Dominion headlined by Kazuchika Okada vs. Kenny Omega and Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi)

The lineup for Wednesday’s show from Osaka is:

  • ACH & Volador Jr. vs. Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
  • Juice Robinson, Ryusuke Taguchi & KUSHIDA vs. SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI
  • Ray Rowe, Hanson & David Finlay vs. Tama Tonga, Tanga Roa & Yujiro Takahashi
  • Kazuchika Okada & Gedo vs. Kenny Omega & Bad Luck Fale
  • Jushin Liger vs. Taichi
  • Ricochet vs. Marty Scurll
  • Dragon Lee vs. Taka Michinoku
  • Hiromu Takahashi vs. Will Ospreay

The card for Thursday’s show from Nagoya is:

  • Jushin Liger & Hirai Kawato vs. Taka Michinoku & Taichi
  • Ricochet, Dragon Lee & Juice Robinson vs. SANADA, EVIL & Hiromu Takahashi
  • Ray Rowe, Hanson & David Finlay vs. Tama Tonga, Tanga Roa & Yujiro Takahashi
  • Tiger Mask vs. BUSHI
  • Ryusuke Taguchi vs. ACH
  • Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Desperado
  • KUSHIDA vs. Volador Jr.
  • Kazuchika Okada, Will Ospreay & Gedo vs. Kenny Omega, Bad Luck Fale & Marty Scurll

NJPW World finds its new lead English color commentary voice

Posted on by Joseph Currier

With Steve Corino leaving Ring of Honor and his announcing duties with New Japan Pro Wrestling for a job at the WWE Performance Center, NJPW was tasked with filling the spot on their streaming service’s English broadcast team opposite Kevin Kelly.

That spot has been filled, with Don Callis (formerly known as The Jackyl in WWF and Cyrus in ECW) announcing on the latest episode of his “Killing the Town” podcast — that he does with Lance Storm — that he has accepted a position to be NJPW World’s new lead English color commentary voice.

Callis noted on the podcast that he had agreed to the deal within the last week and would be working on the broadcast team alongside Kelly, who he worked with previously in the WWF in the 1990s. Callis thanked Kenny Omega for helping facilitate the deal.

NJPW announced last week that they would be ramping up their English commentary broadcast schedule as they attempt to further appeal to international fans.

NJPW announces English commentary broadcast schedule

Posted on by Dave Meltzer

New Japan today has announced a full schedule of events on New Japan World with English language commentary of the events that will air live.

As has already been reported, both major shows in February, the New Beginning in Sapporo on February 5th with the Kazuchika Okada vs. Minoru Suzuki IWGP title match and the February 11th New Beginning in Osaka with the Tetsuya Naito vs. Michael Elgin IC title match will have English language commentary.

The other shows between now and August with English commentary are:

  • March 6th — 45th Anniversary show at the Tokyo Ota Ward Gym
  • March 20th — New Japan Cup finals (winner to get an IWGP title match on 4/9)
  • April 9th — Sakura Genesis at Tokyo Sumo Hall
  • May 3rd — Wrestling Dontaku in Fukuoka’s International Center Arena
  • June 3rd — Best of the Super Junior finals
  • June 11th — Dominion in Osaka Jo Hall (the biggest event between now and G-1)
  • July 1st — The show in Long Beach, CA
  • July 2nd — The second show in Long Beach, CA
  • July 17th — Opening night of the G-1 tournament in Sapporo
  • August 11th — A block finals of G-1 at Sumo Hall
  • August 12th — B block finals of G-1 at Sumo Hall
  • August 13th — G-1 Climax championship match at Sumo Hall

Kevin Kelly will be the lead announcer for the broadcasts. At this point it’s unknown who will be working with him now that Steve Corino has taken a job as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center.