{"id":62707,"date":"2020-02-11T10:07:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=62707"},"modified":"2020-02-11T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:08:34","slug":"champion-carnival-2020-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/02\/11\/champion-carnival-2020-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Champion Carnival 2020 Participants Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All Japan Pro Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>kicks off its annual Champion Carnival event in the coming months.\u00a0 For those unaware, the Champion Carnival is a round-robin tournament contested between two blocks.\u00a0 The block winners face off in the final with the winner crowned the champion, the same as the G1 or 5STAR GP.\u00a0 At a recent show AJPW announced the official lineup for the tournament.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Triple Crown Champion Kento Miyahara<\/li>\n<li>Naoya Nomura, is currently injured so is a doubt for the tournament<\/li>\n<li>AJPW World Tag Team Champion Suwama<\/li>\n<li>All Asia Tag Team Champion Jake Lee<\/li>\n<li>Shigehiro Irie<\/li>\n<li>Zeus<\/li>\n<li>GAORA TV Champion Yoshitatsu<\/li>\n<li>Yuma Aoyagi<\/li>\n<li>AJPW World Tag Team Champion Shuji Ishikawa<\/li>\n<li>Ryoji Sai<\/li>\n<li>KAI<\/li>\n<li>2AW&#8217;s Ayato Yoshida<\/li>\n<li>BJW&#8217;s Hideyoshi Kamitani<\/li>\n<li>NOAH&#8217;s Takashi Sugiura<\/li>\n<li>Gianni Valletta<\/li>\n<li>Joel Redman<\/li>\n<li>Lucas Steel<\/li>\n<li>Davey Boy Smith Jr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The top talents from AJPW will meet top talent from other Japanese promotions like Sugiura and Yoshida as well as European talent&#8217;s like Joel Redman and former NJPW tag champion Davey Boy Smith Jr.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stay tuned to the<\/span><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. 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