-- Next week’s King of Pro Wrestling will be headlined by a triple threat match for the IWGP championship.
Champion Kenny Omega will defend the title against Cody Rhodes and Kota Ibushi in a triple threat match. The match was made tonight at the end of Fighting Spirit Unleashed after the Golden Lovers defeated Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii in the main event.
Omega mentioned to Ibushi how they didn’t want to break their ten year promise, but the fans wanted a rematch between the two. Both seemed conflicted about the matter. Cody, who won the IWGP United States title earlier in the show, came out and wanted to help solve the issue. He proposed a triple threat match stipulation for King of Pro Wrestling between the three of them. Omega, liking the idea, agreed to the bout, as did Ibushi.
-- Coming out of tonight's show in Long Beach, California, the finals of NJPW's IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship tournament are set.
Marty Scurll and Will Ospreay renewed their rivalry at Fighting Spirit Unleashed, with Scurll hitting his Graduation finisher to advance to the finals. The other semifinal took place at Destruction in Kobe earlier this month. KUSHIDA defeated BUSHI, becoming the first wrestler to get a spot in the finals.
Scurll will face KUSHIDA at King of Pro Wrestling on Monday, October 8 to decide the new Junior Heavyweight Champion.
Due to the neck injury that Hiromu Takahashi suffered in his match against Dragon Lee at July's G1 Special in San Francisco, NJPW announced last month that the Junior Heavyweight title had been vacated. Scurll, KUSHIDA, Ospreay, and BUSHI were the four wrestlers included in the tournament.
