Loaded card set for April 14 in our Adelaide debut
April 14 sees NJPW TAMASHII break yet more new ground, as the brand heads to south Australia and Adelaide for the first time. What will arise from a spectacular night of action? See it first LIVE in person!
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Already announced for Adelaide is the main event of Chris Basso versus Hirooki Goto. Days after defending his IWGP Tag Team Championships along with YOSHI-HASHI in Ryogoku Saturday, Goto hopes to walk into Australia still a tag champion, but hoping to show his singles dominance tonight. His opponent is a twenty year veteran and staple of the South Australian scene in Basso, now in for one of the biggest opportunities of his career.
Shingo Takagi will take on ‘Punch-Drunk’ Istria. The well travelled Istria can lay claim to several tour of the States, Europe and Japan, where he’s wrestled for the likes of Zero1 and NOAH. Never short of confidence, Istria nonetheless has a mountain of a task at hand when he faces current KOPW2023 champion Takagi in Adelaide.
Robbie Eagles goes head to head with Link Barnett. Hailing from New Zealand, junior heavyweight Barnett is coming off a year long run with the Wrestle Rampage Tag Team Championships, but now faces who could be the singles IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion come April 14. With a huge test in front of him, will Barnett soar to success, or get shot out of the sky by the Sniper?
The Rogue Army, represented by Jack Bonza and Bad Luck Fale, will be taking on the team of the Party Guys, Party Guy Ty and Banjo Powers. Ty and Powers have had tag team success in Pro Wrestling South Australia, where they’re former tag champions. Yet their fun loving approach will likely find short shrift in the face of the all business Rogue Army.
Heavyweight singles action pits Joey Graham against Matt ‘Grimm’ Basso. The younger brother of the main eventing Chris Basso, Grimm has every bit the dedication and resume of Chris, but has a difficult opponent tonight in the imposing Graham.
Eli Theseus and Gabriel Aeros, the Parea make their TAMASHII debuts. Former three time Riot City Wrestling Tag Champions, the dynamic Parea have seven years’ experience as a team, and still in their mid 20s, have much to show TAMASHII and the world at large. Yet Purgatory, the enigmatic combination of Barren and Einar the Strange, currently hold the very titles that Parea claimed three times. Though the RCW belts are not on the line tonight, this tag team battle could easily see new contenders determined should Aeros and Theseus pull off the win.
More tag action pits Dean Brady and Corndog opposite Robbie Heart and Wrecking Ball. Current Wrestle Rampage National Champion Corndog teams with Wrestle Riot’s self proclaimed blue chip prospect in Brady, as they face colourful competition in Heart and Ball.
Younger sister of Dean Brady in tonight’s second bout, Delta Brady makes her powerful presence known in the opening bout in Adelaide. Current Melbourne City Wrestling Women’s Champion Brady is an intimidating presence, but might be met in intimidation stakes, albeit in a different form, by Adelaide’s human horror story Amber. Delta has teamed and won championships with brother Dean, while Amber has had her own success with Robbie Heart as a dup, linking both our opening bouts tonight, but in only the second female match in TAMASHII history, success in a burgeoning women’s division is topmost in these competitors’ minds.
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