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The Road to Power Struggle continued after the tour opener on October 23, 2020. With New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) moving towards Wrestle Kingdom 15 on January 4th and 5th of next year, the importance of title matches are even higher.

The October 30, 2020 episode of New Japan Strong introduced the New Japan of America (NJoA) Showdown tour. The ‘Road to’ events will lead to a tour finale, in the same vein as the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) tours that take place in Japan.

Finlay is chasing an opportunity to face Kenta for the right to make the V3 challenge of the second reign of IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Jon Moxley. He could guarantee his position by gaining a fall over Kenta in the marquee.

The marquee match of the October 23, 2020 Road to Power Struggle event saw CHAOS members Hirooki Goto, “Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii, and Yoshi-Hashi make their V2 defense of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship against the Suzuki-Gun team of Dangerous Tekkers (Zack Sabre Jr/Taichi), who are the reigning IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and Douki.

Former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion (as Black Tiger) Rocky Romero faced former IWGP Heavyweight, IWGP Intercontinental Champion, IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion, and Bullet Club member “Switchblade” Jay White in the marquee.

Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) Sanada was able to earn his spot after defeating his former Cold Darkness tag team partner, Evil. The duo won the 2017 & 2018 World Tag League tournament and also were two-time IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.

Over the past few months, there has been a main event feud in NJPW between EVIL & Tetsuya Naito. It…

NJPW is fantastic at building up stars within their roster. They bring promising rookies into their dojo, and train them…

There is just one major stop between us and the huge double tournament that is Best of Super Juniors &…

Earlier this year, New Japan Pro Wrestling made one of the best choices they’ve made in years. Instead of being…