WWE officially sent out a release announcing the signing of Kanako Urai, better known as Kana, a Japanese woman wrestler who will start in Orlando at the end of the month.
Kana actually signed in early August and was shown with Ric Flair and Sgt. Slaughter at the NXT takeover event.
With Destruction now over, we focus on the next big New Japan show, King of Pro Wrestling, the last big show of the year before the Tokyo Dome show on January 4. The right to the IWGP title match at WrestleKingdom 9 will be defended on tonight’s show as Kazuchika Okada will face Tetsuya Naito in a rematch of sorts from the 2014 WrestleKingdom show. Okada beat Naito that night, but during the G1 Naito had Okada’s number by beating him in an excellent match.
by Bryan Rose, WrestlingObserver.com
Welcome to this morning's coverage of the New Japan Pro Wrestling show, taking place at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. We kick off the Road to Destruction tour as a eight man tag featuring the Bullet Club headlines, as well as the debut of former NXT star CJ Parker, now going under the name Juice Robinson.
David Finlay vs. Jay White
by Bryan Rose, WrestlingObserver.com
Today’s show is another look at the Destruction PPV event from last year, which took place on September 21, 2014 from Kobe Hall.
A.J. Styles will officially be challenging for the IWGP heavyweight title against champion Kazuchika Okada in the main event of New Japan's King of Pro Wrestling show on 10/12 at Sumo Hall in Tokyo.
King of Pro Wrestling is the company's biggest event between the G-1 finals and the Tokyo Dome show.
While the claim was made tonight at the ROH show in Philadelphia and reported that the ROH title would be defended for the first time in Japan in 2016, that is correct only related to New Japan Pro Wrestling.
Takeshi Morishima actually defended the ROH title twice in Japan on Pro Wrestling NOAH events.
--Thanks to Chris Arias