Great-O-Khan, Yuya Uemura present KOPW stipulations for Road to Dontaku

Great-O-Khan and Yuya Uemura have chosen stipulations for their upcoming KOPW match. 

The two will meet for the provisional KOPW title at NJPW's Road to Dontaku event in Hiroshima on April 27. As per the KOPW rules, a fan vote will determine the set of rules the match is contested under. 

Great-O-Khan has proposed another Rural Revitalization match involving stipulations specifically geared to the city of Hiroshima. Uemura has proposed a catch-rules match. 

Yuya Uemura’s rules:

• 61-minute time limit, best of three falls, Catch Rules
• No strikes allowed. Grapples, throws, and submissions only for pinfall or submission.

Great-O-Khan’s rules:

• Rural Revitalization Rules
• No time limit, best two of three falls 
• First fall: Mazda Tire Carrying Contest
• Second fall: Hiroshima Lemon Eating Contest
• Third fall: Table Match

"Similar to his bout with Tanga Loa in Shizuoka last month, O-Khan’s pledge to ‘unite the fiefdoms’ across Japan has seen him put a Hiroshima spin on his choice of three stipulations," reads NJPW1972.com.

The Rural Revitalization rules are best two-of-three falls, with unique stipulations for each fall.  

Great-O-Khan explained the rules for the first fall at a press conference on Thursday:

What’s famous in Hiroshima? Mazda! Mazda cars and their tires are famous. Whoever can bring four tires into the ring will be the winner of the first fall. We pledge to please the peasants of Hiroshima and make them proud of local industry’. 

The second fall, much like the first Rural Revitalization match, will be an eating contest featuring a food the hosting region is famous for. This time, each competitor will try to eat more Hiroshima lemons than their opponent. 

The third fall will be standard tables match. 

A further proposed stipulation states that should Uemura lose, he "must buy 100 lemons, and drive a Mazda car going forward." 

Great-O-Khan said:

This is a prize for you as a loser! An honour! We will buy 100 lemons and drive Mazda cars either way! We will make the Hiroshima people proud!

Uemura has proposed a Catch Rules Match.

"The match would be contested with a 61-minute time limit, best two out of three falls. No strikes will be allowed in favour of purely throws and submissions," reads NJPW1972.com on the match rules. 

Uemura said at today's press conference:

I chose these rules because O-Khan is the champion. I have other reasons too, but I’ll tell you that when I win the title.

Uemura also stated that under his rules, the loser of the match must buy 20 of Hiroshima’s famed oysters for the loser.