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Card update! Yagi’s injury sees super sub Taguchi stand in to team with Ren Narita!

APR.26.2018

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Card update! Yagi’s injury sees super sub Taguchi stand in to team with Ren Narita!

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As a result of the injury sustained by Tetsuhiro Yagi, a change has been made to the Tuesday May 15 LION’S GATE Project12 card. Yagi was set to team up with fellow Young Lion Ren Narita in Shinjuku FACE, but instead, the Taguchi Japan Coach Ryusuke Taguchi will tag with Narita. In the opposite corner will be a Team 2000 reunion as Hiroyoshi Tenzan teams with Hiro Saito. These two certainly have years of chemistry to rely on, and the seasoned team have fought together as recently as this February’s Wrestling Masters show in Korakuen. Can super sub Taguchi manage his team to glory? We’ll find out May 15!

 

Other cards :

Yuji Nagata will take on Ayato Yoshida from K-DOJO in our main event. This match was originally scheduled for a July 2017 LION’S GATE card but an injury to Yoshida prevented that from happening. Now the young K-DOJO prospect with impressive kicks and submissions can finally face a man he ‘respects the hell out of’ in Nagata.
Nagata for his part seems full of confidence when it comes to facing Yoshida, having stated the younger man is ‘rushing into this,’ and that ‘he has heart but right now he’s just spinning his wheels’. Will experience beat out youthful vigor? Or will young Yoshida score a huge upset?

 

In the semi main event, we see a big name (in more ways than one) appear on a LIONS GATE show for the first time. The core of Strong BJ, Daisuke Sekimoto will go one-on-one with Shota Umino.
Big Japan Pro Wrestling has earned a reputation for 
death-matches, but in an arena of blood and guts, Sekimoto has carried the banner for strong heavyweight wrestling. With BJW as his base, Sekimoto has impressed in promotions around the world, with his most notable singles achievement being a victory in All Japans Champion Carnival tournament in 2016. With his partner Yuji Okabayashi, Sekimoto is also a two time former World Tag Team Champion.
Sekimoto
s resume is strong, but his history with New Japan is a short one. He wrestled a few times for the NJPW sub-brand LOCK UP in 2007, and participated in July 2012s Summer Fight Fever show, which saw AJPW and NJPW wrestlers compete in Ryogoku to mark both companies 40th anniversary. Since then however, Sekimoto hasnt been seen in an NJPW ring; now he seeks to make a huge impact. Opposite him, meanwhile, Shota Umino is fresh off the first main event of his career April 10, and will look to make the most of a huge chance against the impressive big man.

 

Tomoyuki Oka will take on Manabu Nakanishi in singles action. There’s a real teacher versus student feel to this one, as the two heavyweights with amateur backbones collide. How will Oka fare against the ‘Countrified Monster’ Nakanishi?

 

To open the show, it’ll be the two newest Young Lions pitted against one another. Yuuya Uemura and Yota Tsuji both debuted on April 10. Now we might see who has the upper hand at this early stage of their careers.

 

Daisuke Sekimoto
DOB: February 9, 1981
Hometown: Osaka
Height: 175cm (5
 9’’)
Weight: 120kg (265 
lbs)
Debut: August 10, 1999 (against Ryuji Ito)
Signature moves: Fire Hammer, German 
Suplex, Big Splash, Scorpion Deathlock, Lariat, Bizan (Double team)

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