{"id":13882,"date":"2016-03-22T00:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T05:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=13882"},"modified":"2016-03-22T01:39:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T06:39:39","slug":"new-japan-yoshi-tatsu-cleared-wrestle-big-return-match-announced-plus-six-title-matches-april-10-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/03\/22\/new-japan-yoshi-tatsu-cleared-wrestle-big-return-match-announced-plus-six-title-matches-april-10-show\/","title":{"rendered":"New Japan &#8211; Yoshi Tatsu cleared to wrestle again, big return match announced, plus six title matches on April 10 show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2791993382\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Former WWE wrestler Yoshi Tatsu (Yoshitatsu) has officially been cleared to wrestle again. New Japan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PuroresuSpirit\/photos\/a.297677646097.181869.189144446097\/10154055040531098\/?type=3\" target=\"_blank\">released a video from Yoshitatsu<\/a> announcing his return from a serious neck injury that sidelined him for all of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshitatsu&#8217;s first match back will be the big &#8220;Invasion Attack&#8221; show on April 10 in Tokyo. Yoshi is scheduled to team with Tanahashi and Michael Elgin to face Bullet Club&#8217;s Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks for the NEVER Openweight six-man tag match.<\/p>\n<p>(Yoshi is also taking independent bookings in the U.S. through Bill Behrens at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbibookings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SBIBookings.com<\/a>. Yoshi is splitting time between New Japan and Los Angeles.)<\/p>\n<p>New Japan also announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PuroresuSpirit\/photos\/a.297677646097.181869.189144446097\/10154055105431098\/?type=3\" target=\"_blank\">the full line-up for the big April 10 show<\/a>, where six out of nine matches will be for titles. After the first three undercard matches, the next six title matches include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IWGP World Title main event: Kazuchika Okada vs. Naito<\/li>\n<li>IWGP Tag Title match: Togi Makabe &amp; Honma vs. Tama Tonga &amp; Tanga Roa<\/li>\n<li>NEVER Openweight Title match: Shibata vs. Tenzan<\/li>\n<li>NEVER Openweight Six-man Tag Title match: Kenny Omega &amp; Young Bucks vs. Tanahashi &amp; Michael Elgin &amp; Yoshitatsu<\/li>\n<li>IWGP Jr. Hvt. 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New Japan released a video from Yoshitatsu announcing his return from a serious neck injury that sidelined him for all of 2015. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/03\/22\/new-japan-yoshi-tatsu-cleared-wrestle-big-return-match-announced-plus-six-title-matches-april-10-show\/\" title=\"New Japan &#8211; Yoshi Tatsu cleared to wrestle again, big return match announced, plus six title matches on April 10 show\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[87,2162,404,2208],"class_list":["post-13882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_japan","tag-new-japan","tag-new-japan-invasion-attack","tag-njpw","tag-yoshi-tatsu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NJPWdark_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13883,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions\/13883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}