Changes have been made to NJPW Wrestling Dontaku.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced the Dogpound Steel Cage match between War Dogs (David Finlay, Gabe Kidd, Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, and Taiji Ishimori) against HOUSE OF TORTURE (SANADA, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SHO, Ren Narita, and EVIL) will now be a Loser Leaves Bullet Club bout at NJPW Wrestling Dontaku.
Plus, El Phantasmo will defend the NJPW World TV Title against Konosuke Takeshita.
El Phantasmo had been scheduled to team with Jado to take on Konosuke Takeshita and Rocky Romero in tag team action on the night, but plans changed when ELP won back the NJPW World TV title on April 29 at Hizen no Kuni. Already scheduled to face Takeshita for the NEVER Openweight Championbship May 9 at Resurgence, Phantasmo said that he was eager to beat the Alpha in Japan as well as the US. Putting his title on the line, ELP declared that Takeshita would be his first challenger of the TV Champion's second reign. After an epic war in the G1 last summer in Korakuen, can Phantasmo avenge his loss in Fukuoka?
The night will be headlined by the fearsome Dogpound Steel Cage match, as HOUSE OF TORTURE and War Dogs finally settle their long war. After a stipulation proposed by EVIL was accepted by David Finlay, the losers of this bout will officially be exiled from BULLET CLUB, with the Losers Leave BULLET CLUB ruling. Who will survive the group's bloody birthday?
Fightful will have coverage of NJPW Wrestling Dontaku on May 3rd.
