The loser of Togi Makabe vs. Shinsuke Nakamura is in for a fairly low key day at Sumo Hall after it was announced today that he will be in the Battle Royal consisting largely of old timers and young lions. The other match announced, which most assumed the Kobe loser would be in, sees a new interpromotional kicker team of Nagata and ZERO1’s Kohei Sato do battle with CHAOS’ Yano & Iizuka. All eight matches for the show are now set but card order remains unclear. Chono’s anniversary match will most likely headline though with the IWGP Heavyweight Title match just behind it.
NJPW “MASAHIRO CHONO 25TH ANNIVERSARY - ARISTRIST IN RYOGOKU KOKUGIKAN”, 10/12/09 (WPW/PPV)
Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan1.
14 Man Time-lag Battle Royal featuring Super Strong Machine, Koji Kanemoto, Taichi, Tomoaki Honma, Mitsuhide Hirasawa, Kazuchika Okada, Nobuo Yoshihashi, Great Kojika
, Tiger Toguchi, Gran Hamada, Don Arakawa, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Kuniaki Kobayashi, loser of Makabe/Nakamura
2. Takao Omori vs. Karl Anderson
3. Hirooki Goto, Wataru Inoue, Ryusuke Taguchi & Prince Devitt vs. Masato Tanaka
, Tomohiro Ishii, Jado & Gedo
4.
3WAY Body Slam Match: Giant Bernard vs. Yutaka Yoshie
vs. Akebono
5. Riki Choshu, Jushin Thunder Liger & AKIRA vs. Original Tiger Mask, Tiger Mask & Kota Ibushi
6. Yuji Nagata & Kohei Sato
vs. Toru Yano & Takashi Iizuka
7.
IWGP Heavyweight Title: Winner of Makabe/Nakamura (c) vs. Shinjiro Otani
8.
Masahiro Chono 25th Anniversary Match: Masahiro Chono, Keiji Muto
& Kenta Kobashi
vs. Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima
& Jun Akiyama
