Tomorrow Japanese promotion NJPW are celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of their stars, Togi Makabe with a special show. Makabe has held a host of accolades for the NJPW promotion including IWGP Heavyweight Champion, IWGP Tag Team Champion, NEVER Openweight Champion and G1 Climax Champion.

A trainee at the infamous NJPW Dojo, Makabe made his in-ring debut against Shinjiro Otani on 15th February 1997. 20 years later and he is still going strong on the main card of the roster, last competing at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in a three-way tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Titles.

The main event will see Makabe team up with Tomoaki Honma to take on IWGP Tag Team Champions Toru Yano and Tomohiro Ishii in a non-title match. Also on the card, all five major members of Los Ingobernables de Japon will be in action against Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, Kushida, Ryusuke Taguchi and David Finlay.

The show takes place live on New Japan World and starts at 9:30am GMT.

Here is the full card for the NJPW Togi Makabe 20th Anniversary Show Card;

Henare vs Tomoyuki Oka
Jado & Gedo vs TAKA Michinoku & El Desperado
Tiger Mask, Jushin “Thunder” Liger, Yuji Nagata, & Katsuyori Shibata vs Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Takashi Iizuka, & Minoru Suzuki
David Finlay, KUSHIDA, Ruysuke Taguchi, Juice Robinson, & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, EVIL, SANADA, & Tetsuya Naito
Manabu Nakanishi, Satoshi Kojima, & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto, & Kazuchika Okada
Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe vs Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano.

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