Former Bullet Club member Bone Soldier is scheduled to return to New Japan Pro Wrestling in the near future after a vignette aired advertising his comeback at a recent show. The original Bone Soldier was played by Mitsuhide Hirasawa, but he was fired by the promotion last March for gambling, which is illegal in Japan save for a few exceptions. While nothing is for certain at this point, the leading rumor locally is that Bone Soldier will be Taiji Ishimori, and that he’s being brought into New Japan as a new juniors star that will work the upcoming 2018 Best of the Super Juniors tournament.
Ishimori just recently announced his departure from Pro Wrestling NOAH, a three-time GHC Jr. Heavyweight Champion, and is currently apart of the IMPACT Wrestling X-Division. He competed at IMPACT Redemption this past weekend and the first two IMPACT television tapings, but he did not appear at the third taping on Wednesday and those shows are expected to be his last with the promotion.
This report and the original report from Dave Meltzer are based on rumors being discussed by numerous reporters in Japan.