Yuji Nagata’s Injury Breakdown for AJPW Championship Match – Wrestling Co., Ltd.
Recently, NJPW has loaned out some of the older wrestlers who can still enter the ring at a high level, such as Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Satoshi Kojima and All Japan Pro Wrestling’s Yuji Nagata to other promotions. Nagata’s excursion became especially significant as he won AJPW’s top belt, the Triple Crown Championship, from Kento Miyahara at Korakuen Hall. With this, Nagata, 54, joins Kojima (who won the GHC title last year) and Kensuke Sasaki for Japan’s three major world titles: the Triple Crown, NOAH’s GHC Heavyweight title, and NJPW’s IWGP Heavyweight title. became the fifth wrestler to do so. , Yoshihiro Takayama and Keiji Mutoh. On March 21, he made his first defense against Shuji Ishikawa, and on Wednesday NJPW’s website published an interview to promote the match.
Nagata said, “I hurt my left knee in the Real World Tag League last year, and now I’m hurting my right knee.” He said that Japan’s biggest promotion, NJPW, has athletic trainers to help wrestlers on the road, but the current iteration of AJPW is much smaller and less so, so he “I think I wasn’t taking care of myself enough and letting things slip. Things were definitely rough during the time, and I had to use a cane for a while.”
Not only did he need a cane, he also drained about 75 milliliters of fluid from his knee. “I didn’t want to have a bad match. Both my fans and Miyahara’s fans turned up,” he added, adding that the positive reaction of the crowd to the match was “definitely a huge relief.”
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