The announcement was made Thursday via a highlight package on Impact s TV show, seen below.
The 50-year-old last worked for New Japan at April s Sakura Genesis, tagging up with Hiroshi Tanahashi in a winning effort against Jay White and Bad Luck Fale. He had worked regularly for New Japan post-pandemic, but mostly in tag team matches.
Kojima is the fourth New Japan talent to compete in Impact Wrestling the last few months, joining current Tag Team Champions FinJuice (David Finlay and Juice Robinson) and El Phantasmo who failed in his bid to unseat X-Division Champion Josh Alexander at last Saturday s Under Siege.
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Karl Anderson of The Good Brothers recently spoke about the team not winning the Impact Tag-Team Titles back at Rebellion. For those unaware, Anderson and Gallows lost to FinJuice (David Finlay & Juice Robinson), failing to recapture the titles.
“I think it’s a great idea that we don’t get them,” Anderson said. );
Anderson also noted that they already have plenty of accomplishments as a team and it was better to keep them on the NJPW team right now.
Gallows added to the above by saying,
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By Oliver Taylor on 2021-04-29 22:28:00
Impact Wrestling announced during tonight’s show that New Japan Pro Wrestling junior heavyweight star El Phantasmo will debut next week.
El Phantasmo joined New Japan as a member of Bullet Club in 2019, pinning current IWGP World Heavyweight Championship holder Will Ospreay in his first match.
Since then, he has won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships twice with Bullet Club stablemate Taiji Ishimori - who also made regular appearances for Impact throughout 2017 and 2018.
El Phantasmo is originally from Vancouver, Canada but was a regular face on the British wrestling independent wrestling scene before joining New Japan. He lost to Hiromu Takahashi on the first night of Wrestle Kingdom 15 on January 4 in his biggest match to date.