[New Japan] 5 players (Hikuleo,lio, knight,Alex,Gabe) will be absent from the series due to poor physical condition All members are scheduled to participate in the title match at the Ryogoku Tournament Emergency situation.

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1. What? This isn’t even Forbidden Door season.

2. HUH? Wtf happened?

3. guys, stop kissing

4. Yesterday I got the Flu Vaccine

5. I’m just imagining Gabe Kidd trying to explain his situation to a doctor.

   “THERE’S PEOPLE I GOTTA KNOCK ABOUT, IM MAD FOR IT. GIMME SOME FOOKIN DAYQUIL”

6. Sounds like the gaijin had a wild night in tokyo

7. Damn. Fingers crossed all feel better by Monday.

8. I’m sorry, what? That title is hella confusing

9. Just to give the full picture of what’s gone on the past few days:

   The first show Lio was removed from was the 3rd. I noticed when looking at the results of the next show that they had pulled Kevin, and did assume it was due to being in close contact with Lio (either that he’d gotten sick as well or that the close contact itself was a concern). Alex was also off that show, but I hadn’t thought anything of it since it meant they had even numbers for the War Dogs matches with Kevin being out. All three of those people were again off last night’s show, then also Gabe and Hikuleo as well. So while obviously we don’t know for sure, it’s very safe to assume that whatever Lio has is spreading through that group.

   As of this writing, the only things NJPW has made online public statements about were Lio being pulled from the 4th and 5th (after he’d been absent on the 3rd, which they didn’t mention in the announcement) and Knight being removed from a [signing](https://x.com/njpw1972/status/1709841951783268533) he was supposed to do last night (but Knight himself [announced](https://x.com/jet2flyy/status/1709781212032897498) he would not be on the show at all).

   **NJPW have not yet removed any of these people from the [card](https://sp.njpw.jp/tornament/433044?showCards=1) for the next/final Road To on the 7th,** OP’s headline saying “will be” is just an AI translation error. They have also not given any specifics on anyone’s condition, just said that Lio and Kevin were “in poor health”; however Lio himself [revealed](https://x.com/iamliorush/status/1709434624236261644) that part of his symptoms is a high fever. There is no new information in this ToSpo article, nor does it indicate that ToSpo has been given any info from NJPW. It’s just them reporting what has gone on so far.

   Hopefully it is just the flu or something of that nature, and not anything more serious.

10. Get well soon, guys!