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Royal Quest (2019)

Royal Quest was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It was the inaugural Royal Quest event and took place on 31 August 2019 at the Copper Box Arena in London, England and was streamed live on FITE TV. It was the first-ever event independently promoted by NJPW in the United Kingdom.

Eight matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Kazuchika Okada retained the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Minoru Suzuki. Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Zack Sabre Jr. to win the British Heavyweight Championship, Kenta defeated Tomohiro Ishii to win the NEVER Openweight Championship, and the Guerrillas of Destiny retained the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Aussie Open – the winners of Revolution Pro Wrestling's Road to Royal Quest tournament.

Royal Quest was the first-ever professional wrestling event independently promoted by NJPW in the United Kingdom. It was the first UK event produced by NJPW after Strong Style Evolved UK on 30 June – 1 July 2018 (in partnership with Revolution Pro Wrestling).

The event was streamed live on FITE TV and made available for on demand viewing on NJPW World in September.

On 17 July, Revolution Pro Wrestling announced the Road to Royal Quest tag team tournament, to be held during the month of August. It would include eight teams, with the winners challenging the IWGP Tag Team Champions Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) at Royal Quest. Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis) won the tournament, defeating the team of Josh Bodom and Sha Samuels in the final.

Royal Quest featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.

On 16 June, at Kizuna Road, the G1 Climax 29 tournament participants were announced and Minoru Suzuki was a notable absence. Suzuki ended up being a prominent part in the undercard matches of each G1 Climax 29 show, stating his anger towards the NJPW management in the press conferences. On 12 August, the tournament's last night, Suzuki pinned the IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada in a tag team match (also involving Zack Sabre Jr. and Hiroshi Tanahashi) and challenged him to a championship match.

On 6 April, at G1 Supercard, Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to successfully retain the British Heavyweight Championship. Tanahashi ended up taking a two-month absence due to an injury to his left elbow suffered in the match. When the G1 Climax 29 blocks were announced, Tanahashi and Sabre were drawn in the same block. Their tournament match happened on 18 July, the fifth night, where Tanahashi avenged his injury by defeating Sabre. On 11 August, Tanahashi would again record a pinfall victory against Sabre – this time in an undercard eight-man tag team match – and therefore is challenging the British Heavyweight Champion at Sabre's request.

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