Days before their match at Wrestle Kingdom 18, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Zack Sabre Jr. will wrestle for Pro Wrestling NOAH.
The promotion announced a tag match with the two rivals on opposite sides for NOAH’s ‘The New Year 2024’ on January 2 at Ariake Arena.
📣 OFFICIAL – NEW MATCH for 2 January at Ariake Arena! @tanahashi1_100 HAYATA
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ZSJ, Y. Ogawa📺 LIVE on #wrestleUNIVERSE
🎙 English commentary #noah_ghc#njpw @njpwglobal pic.twitter.com/Akf3R6WAWM— Pro Wrestling NOAH Global (@noahglobal) November 24, 2023
ZSJ will reunite with Yoshinari Ogawa to take on Tanahashi & HAYATA in a match being promoted as ‘Wrestling Symphony’. Sabre and Ogawa previously teamed in September losing to Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa on the final night of the N-1 Victory Tournament in Osaka.
ZSJ and Ogawa held the GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles on two occasions in December 2013 and April 2014. Ogawa went on win the same version of tag titles seven more times in his tenure with NOAH with a variety of partners.
Sabre will defend the NJPW TV Championship against Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom 18 on January 4 at the Tokyo Dome.
Pro Wrestling NOAH ‘The New Year’ will stream live on Wrestle Universe and includes English commentary with the following matches announced:
*GHC Heavyweight Championship: Kenoh © vs. Manabu Soya
*Wrestling Symphony: Zack Sabre Jr. & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & HAYATA
*GHC Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles: Dragon Bane & Alpha Wolf © vs. Tadasuke & YO-HEY vs. Ninja Mack & Alejandro
*GHC Jr. Heavyweight Championship: Daga © vs. Eita
