Tanahashi facing Miyahara in tag match at Baba's Memorial Show

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Source: f4wonline.com

The main event for the Giant Baba Memorial show has been set.

IWGP Heavyweight champion Hiroshi Tanahashi will team with Yoshitatsu (who has been regularly wrestling for All Japan) to take on the team of Triple Crown champion Kento Miyahara and Big Japan’s Daisuke Sekimoto. It will be the first time that Tanahashi and Miyahara will be in the same ring.

The event marks the 20th anniversary of Giant Baba’s death, as he passed away from liver failure on January 31, 1999. It will also have the official retirement ceremony for Abdullah the Butcher, who wrestled regularly for All Japan for a number of decades.

Here is the full, likely final card for the memorial show which will take place on February 19 at Sumo Hall. Broadcasting information is currently unknown:

Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yoshitatsu vs. Kento Miyahara and Daisuke Sekimoto

Mil Mascaras and Dos Caras vs. NOSAWA Rongai and Kaz Hayashi

Naomichi Marufuji and Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Masaaki Mochizuki and Shun Skywalker

Satoshi Kojima, Yuji Nagata and Omasu Nishimura vs. Jun Akiyama, Takao Omori and Taiyo Kea

Atsushi Onita, Kendo Kashin, Hideki Suzuki and Hideki Hosaka vs. Great Kojika, Mitsuya Nagai, Shuji Ishikawa and Hikaru Sato in a street fight tornado bunkhouse deathmatch

SANADA and BUSHI vs. Jake Lee & Koji Iwamoto vs. Ayato Yoshida & Shota Umino in a three way match

Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Taka Michinoku vs. Masanobu Fuchi, Yoshiaki Fujiwara and Yuma Aoyagi

Kazushi Miyamoto, Tomohiko Hashimoto, Daichi Hashimoto and Takuya Nomura vs. Tomoaki Honma, Yuji Okabayashi, Naoya Nomura and Ren Narita

Giant Baba Memorial battle royal featuring Mitsuo Momota, Kim Duk, Joel Deaton, MEN’s Teioh, TARU, Ryuji Hijikata, Yuto Aijima, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, Masahito Kakihara, Masao Inoue, Tamon Honda and Yasu Urano

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Tana vs both Miyahara AND Sekimoto!

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Tana vs both Miyahara AND Sekimoto!

The match sounds cool, but It'd be nice if it wasn't so f*cking obviously who was taking the pin, killing most of the false finishes.

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Tana vs both Miyahara AND Sekimoto!

The match sounds cool, but It'd be nice if it wasn't so f*cking obviously who was taking the pin, killing most of the false finishes.

Are you telling me that Daisuke Sekimoto is not putting over WWE Legend and leader of the Hunter Club Yoshi-Tatsu?

It's a memorial show with tons of promotions, i have to imagine the politics about it all was a long meeting. Most matches have really specific fall guys. I mean, even Umino and Narita made the show.

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Tana vs both Miyahara AND Sekimoto!

The match sounds cool, but It'd be nice if it wasn't so f*cking obviously who was taking the pin, killing most of the false finishes.

Are you telling me that Daisuke Sekimoto is not putting over WWE Legend and leader of the Hunter Club Yoshi-Tatsu?

It's a memorial show with tons of promotions, i have to imagine the politics about it all was a long meeting. Most matches have really specific fall guys. I mean, even Umino and Narita made the show.

Yeah, but at least I can get excited about Umino and Narita. Yoshitatsu... not so much.

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Yeah, but at least I can get excited about Umino and Narita. Yoshitatsu... not so much.

he's going to be babyface in perfil for 80% of the match i imagine, but once Tana and Kento find themselves in the ring for the first time, Evangelion's Second Impact will happen.