News and Notes from Japan

- New Japan booker Riki Choshu pulled former IWGP Heavyweight champion Hiroshi Tanahashi from the booking sheets due to a bad knee injury. NJPW has announced that Tanahashi's knee requires surgery, and would be taking time off to heal up.

- Shinjiro Ohtani held a press conference to update his condition. He said he suffered a concussion in a match with Takao Omori. Ohtani was taken to a Tokyo hospital after getting knocked unconscious. Ohtani denied reports of his impending retirement.

- D-Lo Brown and Bull Buchanan will receive their GHC Tag Team title match on 6/8 in Yokohama against Jun Akiyama and Takeshi Rikio.

- Bison Smith is slated to face Mitsuhara Misawa on 6/3 in Sapporo for the GHC Heavyweight title.


(source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

D-Lo and Bull Buchanan? How is D-Lo outside of a WWE ring? I imagine hes not too bad. Or at least better.

i heard he was owning the buisnes in puerto rico

last i saw of him was in tna. he looked pretty good

hopefully they injured people get better fast