The lineup for NJPW’s Windy City Riot event keeps growing. The wrestling event will be held on April 11 at Chicago’s WinTrust Arena.
Zack Sabre Jr. will be going head to head against David Finlay. Meanwhile, El Phantasmo and Rocky Romero will join forces to challenge Tetsuya Naito and Titan. Additionally, Jorel Nelson and Royce Isaacs will put their STRONG Openweight Tag Team titles on the line against Kevin Knight and KUSHIDA.
Here is the revised match list for the NJPW Windy City Riot 2025:
* NJPW Strong Openweight Championship — 30-Minute Iron Man Match: Defending champion Gabe Kidd confronts Tomohiro Ishii
* NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team Championships: West Coast Wrecking Crew’s (Royce Isaacs and Jorel Nelson) will defend their title against Intergalactic Jet Setters (KUSHIDA and Kevin Knight).
* Hiroshi Tanahashi versus Konosuke Takeshita
* Zack Sabre Jr. fights against David Finlay
* Tetsuya Naito & Titan will take on Rocky Romero & El Phantasmo
The Munoz family dynasty of Dragon Lee, Rush, and Dralistico will be honored by Masked Republic with new merchandise including action figures, a t-shirt, and a book aimed at middle-grade readers.
This company announcement discusses their celebration of the wrestling family:
“Masked Republic Celebrates the Muñoz Family Dynasty of Dragon Lee, Rush & Dralistico With New Action Figures, T-shirt and Middle Grade Book
New officially licensed products from Boss Fight Studio, Mad Engine and Future House Publishing To Be Released Over The Next Month
And in other wrestling news, CMLL star KUSHIDA has been announced as a competitor for the Battle Riot match at MLW Battle Riot VII. The event will take place on April 5 in Los Angeles, CA.
Details of his participation were released in the following statement:
“LOS ANGELES – Major League Wrestling (MLW) today announced KUSHIDA will step into the ring for the 40-wrestler Battle RIOT match at MLW Battle RIOT VII on Saturday, April 5 at Thunder Studios Arena in greater Los Angeles, CA, and will be presented live on YouTube.
40-wrestler Battle RIOT match for Matt Riddle’s MLW World Heavyweight Championship. Participants:
•Matt Riddle (champion)
•Donovan Dijak
•Satoshi Kojima
•Barbaro Cavernario
•Hechicero
•Paul Walter Hauser
•Paul London
•”Filthy” Tom Lawlor
•Atlantis Jr.•BRG
•Bobby Fish
•Blue Panther
•MLW National Openweight Champion Matthew Justice
•Kushida
•Alex Kane
•Brock Anderson
•Okumura
•Juicy Finau
•Jesus Rodriguez
•Anthony Greene
•Virus
MLW World Middleweight Championship:
Místico (champion) vs. Templario
MLW Women’s World Featherweight Championship:
Delmi Exo (champion) vs. Shoko Nakajima
CMLL Trios Match!
Atlantis, Atlantis Jr., and Star Jr. vs. Último Guerrero, Bárbaro Cavernario, and Magnus
HIMAWARI vs. Janai Kai
Card subject to change.”