{"id":44087,"date":"2019-04-12T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=44087"},"modified":"2019-04-12T18:28:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T22:28:31","slug":"njpw-announces-a-return-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/04\/12\/njpw-announces-a-return-to-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"NJPW Announces A Return To Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>New Japan Pro Wrestling<\/b> has today announced a return to Australia. The tour which will be dubbed <b><i>NJPW Southern Showdown <\/i><\/b>is set to take place in Melbourne at Festival Hall on June 29.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The company has also said there will be a further announcement later of a date and location for a show in Sydney as part of the same tour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NJPW RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA! We&#39;re thrilled to announce that NJPW Southern Showdown will be coming to Melbourne on June 29. Register NOW for our special ticket pre-sale on April 24! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njAUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njAUS<\/a><br \/>Pre-sale registration: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iVKEpCz3As\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/iVKEpCz3As<\/a><br \/>Event details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BdYEi1q0yL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/BdYEi1q0yL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HZ35O29qFl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/HZ35O29qFl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/njpwglobal\/status\/1116596954610290688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>NJPW Southern Showdown is the follow up to the <b><i>Fallout Down Under <\/i><\/b>tour which took place in February 2018. The newly announced tour appears to be a slightly condensed version though, as the previous tour featured stops in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.<\/p>\n<p>As stated in the press release, \u201cAustralian wrestling fans are among the most passionate in the world. Their vocal support during last year\u2019s Fallout Down Under tour did not go unnoticed, and everyone at NJPW is thrilled to meet immense fan demand to see the world\u2019s best pro wrestling in the country once more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Australian presence within NJPW has continued to grow over the last two years with the additions of <b>Robbie Eagles, Mikey Nicholls<\/b> and <b>Gino Gambino<\/b> to their roster.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>In a separate but related announcement, Gambino is set to join the English commentary team for the upcoming <b><i>Road To Dontaku <\/i><\/b>events.<\/p>\n<p>The NJPW Southern Showdown tour continues NJPW\u2019s global expansion, which has also seen them venture to the United States and England.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can register now for ticket pre-sale on April 24th at 12-noon AET by <a href=\"https:\/\/willap.jp\/p\/acc_2374\/njpwau\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">following this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets will go on general sale on April 26th at 12-noon AET through Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Japan Pro Wrestling has today announced a return to Australia. The tour which will be dubbed NJPW Southern Showdown is set to take place in Melbourne at Festival Hall on June 29.\u00a0The company has also said there will be a further announcement later of a date and location for a show in Sydney as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2893,"featured_media":44135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3317,2,13,14],"tags":[3982,1712,4398,385,188,4980,2659,4979,2672],"class_list":["post-44087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-fallout-down-under","tag-gino-gambino","tag-mikey-nicholls","tag-new-japan-pro-wrestling","tag-njpw","tag-road-to-dontaku","tag-robbie-eagles","tag-southern-showdown","tag-wrestling-dontaku"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}