NJPW legend Hiroshi Tanahashi could replace the injured Will Ospreay at the upcoming Multiverse United pay-per-view from Impact Wrestling and NJPW.
Ospreay was supposed to face Mike Bailey in singles action, but he is currently out with a shoulder injury. Tanahashi put himself forward today as his replacement for the match against Bailey. Neither promotion has officially announced the match or pulled Ospreay.
The Impact x NJPW “Multiverse United: Only The STRONG Survive” pay-per-view is set to take place on Thursday, March 30 from a sold-out Globe Theater in Los Angeles, CA, as part of WrestleCon and WWE’s WrestleMania 39 Weekend. The event will be broadcast live on FITE at 11pm ET.
The updated card is as follows:
Impact World Title Match
Kushida vs. Josh Alexander (c)
Fatal 4 Way for the Impact World Knockouts Title
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Gisele Shaw vs. Miyu Yamashita vs. Mickie James (c)
Impact X-Division Title Six-Way Scramble
Kevin Knight vs. Frankie Kazarian vs. Rocky Romero vs. Rich Swann vs. Clark Connors vs. Trey Miguel (c)
Fatal 4 Way for the Impact World Tag Team Titles
Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher, Mark Davis) vs. NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin) vs. TMDK (Shane Haste, Bad Dude Tito) vs. The Bullet Club (Ace Austin, Chris Bey) (c)
Jeff Cobb vs. Moose
Hiroshi Tanahashi (replacing the injured Will Ospreay) vs. Mike Bailey
Not confirmed
NJPW Strong Openweight Champion KENTA vs. NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champion Minoru Suzuki
PCO, Fred Rosser, Sami Callihan and Alex Coughlin vs. Tom Lawlor, JR Kratos, Eddie Edwards and Impact Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry
