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Tajiri To Debut For MLW

Former ECW World Television Champion, WCW United States Champion and WWE Cruiserweight Champion Yoshihiro Tajiri is headed to Major League Wrestling.

MLW released a new video on Monday night to announce that The Japanese Buzzsaw will make his debut for the company at their Fightland TV tapings on Sunday, October 2 at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia.

Tajiri, who turns 51 next month, most recently worked for AJPW in Japan. He worked the WWE Cruiserweight Classic in 2016, and was eliminated in the second round by Gran Metalik. In December 2016 he signed a WWE contract to work 205 Live in early 2017, but left the company in April. He noted in an interview that WWE decided against using him due to his age. He had suffered from a knee injury but was cleared to compete.

Tajiri also held the WWE Light Heavyweight Title, the WWE Tag Team Titles, the WWE World Tag Team Titles, and the ECW World Tag Team Titles.

There is no word yet on who Tajiri will be facing at the MLW tapings, but we will keep you updated. The Fightland tapings will also feature the opening round and semi-finals of the 2021 Opera Cup tournament, the MLW debut if Nicole Savoy, and more.

Source: Wrestling Inc.

Tajiri Says He’s No Longer With WWE

Back in January it was announced Tajiri would be out of action with a knee injury when he teamed up with Shinsuke Nakamura against Bobby Roode and Samoa Joe at an NXT taping. Tajiri took to Twitter to give an update an his situation. Please note, this is roughly translated from Japanese.

Tajiri said he did have a knee injury, which wasn’t too big of an issue, but at his age (46) the company considered it risky to put him back in the ring. While he was waiting for clearance from the doctor, he did some coaching in NXT. After being in the WWE for about four months, he’s returning to Japan with no regrets. He thanked Triple H, William Regal, and the WWE for giving him another chance in the company.

Tajiri was initially brought back to the WWE for their 32-man Cruiserweight Classic tournament that took place last June. He was eliminated from the tournament by Gran Metalik in the Round of 16.

Source: WrestlingINC

Tajiri Suffers Knee Injury At WWE NXT Taping

WWE announced the following:

Tajiri suffered a right knee injury and is not currently medically cleared to compete, WWE.com has learned.

The Japanese Buzzsaw was injured during a recent NXT TV taping.

Tajiri had teamed with NXT Champion Shinsuke Nakamura at the show, which will air on January 25th.

In addition to the January 5th NXT television tapings, Tajiri had made his 205 Live debut on January 3rd, defeating Sean Maluta. He teased an angle with Brian Kendrick after the match, when he spit green mist into Kendrick’s eyes.

Tajiri WWE Return Update

Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion Tajiri will be coming to WWE 205 Live soon. We noted before that Tajiri recently announced on Twitter that he will be returning to the company full-time in early 2017.

Tajiri Headed Back To WWE

Source: WrestlingINC

Tajiri announced on Twitter that he will be finishing up his commitments in Japan this month and will be back with WWE full time early next year.

As noted, Tajiri teamed with Akira Tozawa in a losing effort to NXT Tag Team Champions Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa at this past Saturday’s NXT live event in Osaka. He was also a part of the WWE Cruiserweight Classic this past fall.

Below is Tajiri’s post, which translates to:

I gave you OK because I got OK from Regal GM yesterday ‘s NXT Osaka performance “I can announce it from tomorrow”. I will return to WWE early next year. 12/27 Kanemura Retirement box office will be the last game in Japan, and acupuncture activity will end in Japan this month. Thank you very much, everyone for 10 years! It is!

Dixie Carter Confirms Tajiri For Impact Tapings

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Dixie Carter confirms that Tajiri will be appearing at the next set of Impact tapings in New York City, August 5-7.