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A. J. Styles officially removed from NJPW Tour

Posted: Dec 6th 2015 By: www.f4wrestling.com

New Japan Pro Wrestling today reported that A. J. Styles is officially off the rest of the current tour due to his herniated disc in his lower back.

It was reported in Japan that he has returned home to Gainesville, GA. At the show earlier today in Kobe, the company officially announced him as off the rest of the tour, while up until this point they had been acting as through the injury was a day-to-day thing.

ROH officials are hopeful that Styles will be ready on 12/18 for his title match with Jay Lethal on the Final Battle PPV.

New Japan announced today that Styles would return on 1/4 for his Tokyo Dome match with Shinsuke Nakamura.

New Japan likely had to re-book several B block matches to get to the ending that they wanted.

The final night of the round-robin tournament is tonight in Nagoya which airs live on New Japan World starting at 2 a.m. Eastern time. We will have live coverage of the show on the site.

The winner of the A block faces the winner of the B block on 12/9 in Sendai.

Currently, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Michael Elgin are "in the clubhouse" finishing with a 4-2 record and in first place in the A block. Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma face Kazuchika Okada & Yoshi-Hashi with both teams having 3-2 records. If Okada & Yoshi-Hashi win, then Tanahashi & Elgin go to the finals since they won the head-to-head match on 11/21 in Tokyo. If Makabe & Honma win, they go to the finals based on beating Tanahashi & Elgin on 11/27 in Hiroshima.

In the B block, both Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata and Tetsuya Naito & Evil have 4-1 records, and by the strangest of coincidences, they are wrestling tonight. So the winner of that match goes to the finals.