AJPW’s Rei Saito To Undergo Surgery On Right Shoulder

Surgery incoming for Saito.

All Japan Pro Wrestling’s Royal Road tournament is set to kick off on August 24th, but there has been a change in the field as Rei Saito is sidelined.

Saito will miss the tournament due to right shoulder surgery. A timetable for his return is not known as of this writing. After competing on August 3rd, Saito gave backstage comments that hinted that he’d be taking some time off. Saito is being replaced in the Royal Road tournament by Naruki Doi.

All Japan was planning to run a show on October 13th from Rei and Jun Saito’s hometown, but that has since been postponed in the wake of Rei’s injury. Jun is the reigning Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion.

The schedule for the Royal Road tourney is listed as follows:

August 24th at Korakuen Hall

• Yuma Aoyagi vs. Naoya Nomura
• Kento Miyahara vs. Kengo Mashimo
• Naruki Doi vs. Daisuke Sekimoto

August 30th at Kunibiki Messe

• Shotaro Ashino vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr.
• Hideki Suzuki vs. Odyssey Jones

August 31st at Kobe Sambo Hall

• Jun Saito vs. Ren Ayabe
• Ryuki Honda vs. Kuma Arashi
• Hokuto Omori vs. XYON (f.k.a. Xyon Quinn)