{"id":106144,"date":"2021-12-15T13:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=106144"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:05:32","slug":"kenta-tanahashi-iwgp-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/12\/15\/kenta-tanahashi-iwgp-us\/","title":{"rendered":"KENTA and Hiroshi Tanahashi US Title &#8220;No DQ&#8221; Match is Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It looks like <\/span><b>KENTA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and <\/span><b>Hiroshi Tanahashi\u2019s <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">roads don\u2019t split up yet, as <strong>NJPW<\/strong>\u2019s Ace will get his rematch for IWGP United States Heavyweight Title.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At today\u2019s World Tag League and Best of the Super Junior finals event, Tanahashi took part in an eight-man tag team match with he, TenKoji, and <\/span><b>Yuji Nagata<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> defeating <strong>Bullet Club<\/strong>. After Tanahashi scored a roll-up pin victory over <\/span><b>Chase Owens<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, KENTA appeared on a big screen with a video message for him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\uff0f<br \/>WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2021 \uff06<br \/>BEST OF THE SUPER Jr.28\ud83c\udfc6\u512a\u52dd\u6c7a\u5b9a\u6226\ud83c\udfc6<br \/>\uff3c<\/p>\n<p>\u7b2c4\u8a66\u5408\u7d42\u4e86\u5f8c\u3001IWGP US\u30d8\u30d3\u30fc\u7d1a\u738b\u8005KENTA\u304b\u3089\u68da\u6a4b\u3078\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u203c\ufe0f<br \/>\u4e00\u4f53\u4f55\u3092\u8a9e\u308b\u306e\u304b\u2049\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njpwworld?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njpwworld<\/a> \u3067\u914d\u4fe1\u4e2d\ud83d\udce1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc40\u767b\u9332\uff06\u8996\u8074\u23e9<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tj7UBINMhP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/Tj7UBINMhP<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njpw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njpw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njwtl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njwtl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njbosj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njbosj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WYvppe6Ukd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/WYvppe6Ukd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NJPW WORLD (@njpwworld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/njpwworld\/status\/1471068374679834624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KENTA stated that he really doesn\u2019t want to wrestle Tanahashi, but if he insists on it and allows him to set the conditions of the match he accepts the challenge &#8211; only if it will be contested under a No DQ rules. It will serve as KENTA\u2019s revenge on Tanahashi for putting him through a table during their US Title match that took place at Power Struggle on November 6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tanahashi received a microphone and agreed to KENTA\u2019s terms. The date of the match is yet to be set.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tanahashi won the IWGP United States Title at NJPW <strong><em>Resurgence<\/em> <\/strong>in August by defeating <\/span><b>Lance Archer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Since then, he has successfully defended it against <\/span><b>Kota Ibushi <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Wregle Grand Slam in September and lost the belt to KENTA in November.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KENTA\u2019s road to championship started in August 2020 with a New Japan Cup USA tournament. He defeated <\/span><b>Karl Fredericks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Jeff Cobb, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>David Finlay<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in succession to get a title shot. At last year\u2019s Power Struggle he defended Right to Challenge against Tanahashi. Then he defended it again at <em><strong>Wrestle Kingdom 15<\/strong> <\/em>against Kojima. At New Beginning USA he unsuccessfully challenged then-champion <\/span><b>Jon Moxley<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Finally, he achieved his goal at this year\u2019s Power Struggle by dethroning Tanahashi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can rewatch all 2021 NJPW events and plenty more tremendous wrestling content from New Japan Pro-Wrestling on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/njpwworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NJPWWorld.com<\/a>; The King of Sports Streaming.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like KENTA\u00a0and Hiroshi Tanahashi\u2019s roads don\u2019t split up yet, as NJPW\u2019s Ace will get his rematch for IWGP United States Heavyweight Title.\u00a0 At today\u2019s World Tag League and Best of the Super Junior finals event, Tanahashi took part in an eight-man tag team match with he, TenKoji, and Yuji Nagata defeating Bullet Club. 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