Raziel Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Official with Match order: 1/4/2018 Tokyo Dome, Tokyo Japan. Main Event: IWGP Heavyweight Championship "Rainmaker" Kazuchika Okada (c) (CHAOS) vs. Tetsuya Naito (G1 Climax 26 Winner) (Los Ingobernables de Japon) Semi-Final (Co Main Event ) IWGP United States Championship - No Disqualifications "The Cleaner" Kenny Omega (c) (Bullet Club) vs. Chris Jericho (FREE) IWGP Intercontinental Championship Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. "Switchblade" Jay White IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Four Way Match "The Villian" Marty Scrull (c) (Bullet Club) vs. Will Ospreay (CHAOS) vs. Hiromu Takahashi (L.I.J.) vs KUSHIDA NEVER Openweight Championship - Hair vs. Hair - No Interference Allowed Minoru Suzuki (c) (Suzuki-gun) vs. Hirooki Goto (CHAOS) IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Killer Elite Squad (Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr) (c) (Suzuki-gun) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (EVIL & SANADA) (2017 World Tag League Winners) Special Singles Match "The American Nightmare" Cody (Bullet Club) vs. Kota Ibushi NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship - Gauntlet Match Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga & Tango Roa) (c) vs. Taguchi Japan (Ryusuke Taguchi, Juice Robinson & Togi Makabe) vs. CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii, Toro Yano & Beretta) vs. Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr) vs. Michael Elgin & War Machine (Hanson & Raymond Rowe) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Roppongi 3K (Sho & Yoh) (CHAOS) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) (Bullet Club) Pre-Show: New Japan Rumble, featuring the rest of the roster that's not on the main card, and some surprise guests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 The buzz on Twitter immediately was Kota Ibushi vs. Minoru Suzuki for NEVER We shall see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Tanahashi vs Switchblade would seem a lock too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 ...and yet we never got our Jericho/Takayama match. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: ...and yet we never got our Jericho/Takayama match. That was my first thought when I saw the Jericho announcement. .... Then i immediately remembered what happened to Takayama and was bummed all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Omega vs. Jericho is pretty cool. I don't expect a MOTYC candidate, but I think it will be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Jericho's last run started off kinda rough in-ring but I felt he picked it up as time went on. He had some great stuff in there such as the tag match with AJ against New Day. I think Omega and Jericho will be a fun spectacle to be sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beech27 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Ibushi will be challenging for a US belt of sorts it appears—just not the one we expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Hasn't Jericho said in the past that He Would not wrestle for anyone else but Vince ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I vaguely recall recently watching a match on NJPW World for the ROH TV title that was basically the junior heavyweight with Ospreay subbed out for Dalton Castle. I'm not sure if I'm remembering the exact details correctly. Match was the tits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 1 hour ago, odessasteps said: Hasn't Jericho said in the past that He Would not wrestle for anyone else but Vince ? Yes - even repeated it in his new book. Though in the book at least he kinda played it off as only wanting to work places he was comfortable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 Updated with the IC and RoH matches. If both NEVER titles and the Heavy Tags are defended, that's 9 matches there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 5 hours ago, odessasteps said: Hasn't Jericho said in the past that He Would not wrestle for anyone else but Vince ? If we hold every wrestler to everything they say, we'd have nobody left. (Myself included.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Maybe we can get a Lionheart/American Dragon vs Negro Casas/Blue Panther match in Arena Mexico next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 On 11/5/2017 at 1:48 PM, odessasteps said: Hasn't Jericho said in the past that He Would not wrestle for anyone else but Vince ? Yeah. And Terry Funk said he was going to retire in 1997. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyuubi Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Kind of wanted Ibushi vs Omega for the US Title, but hey next year. So anyone else felt like that Ospreay vs Scurll match was a rehash of one of their many matches together? I am "eh" on the Fatal Four Way. It seems weak. I caught up on the history of Okada and Naito and I am kind of looking forward to the match. I don't know who Switchblade is. I'll look him up. This is my first Wrestle Kingdom and the card looks promising. I think Ibushi and Rhodes is going to steal the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 16 minutes ago, Kyuubi said: This is my first Wrestle Kingdom and the card looks promising. I think Ibushi and Rhodes is going to steal the show. Nah. Should be a good match, but they're not going to get enough time to steal the show. Naito vs Okada will probably be the match of the night. Though White vs Tanahashi has a lot of potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 I don't know if the crowd is going to buy White enough for it to reach classic level. He has a lot of potential but I hope they have him work his way up after a failed attempt rather than just give him instant success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Sweetser Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 I like that people are questioning if Jericho and Omega will have a decent match, yet expect Cody and Ibushi to tear it down. Cody's had one good match in New Japan and it was against Okada in Long Beach, and that was only because of the crowd heat of nobody wanting Cody within a mile of the IWGP title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Hahahahahahahaha Cody tear the house down hahahahahahahahahahahaha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Who is expecting Cody to tear it down? Last year, the worst parts of WK were Cody's debut and the heatless ROH title match, so I'm glad those two things have been consolidated into one match, and maybe Ibushi will make the crowd give a shit about it. Bix is making me paranoid on Twitter, suggesting Jericho might be politicking to usurp Omega's spot as the face of New Japan's American expansion. Dear lord, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 Cody shouldn't even be trying to tear the house down. He should be working like Roode in NXT. Make the face look good, and don't do any moves to pop the crowd. Dunno why that's so hard for anyone in Bullet Club to understand, outside of egotism . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 1 hour ago, EVA said: Who is expecting Cody to tear it down? Last year, the worst parts of WK were Cody's debut and the heatless ROH title match, so I'm glad those two things have been consolidated into one match, and maybe Ibushi will make the crowd give a shit about it. Bix is making me paranoid on Twitter, suggesting Jericho might be politicking to usurp Omega's spot as the face of New Japan's American expansion. Dear lord, no. Mistake number 1 is taking any of Bix's "Vince and WWE are destroying wrestling " paranoia without a mountain of salt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyuubi Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 6 hours ago, Michael Sweetser said: I like that people are questioning if Jericho and Omega will have a decent match, yet expect Cody and Ibushi to tear it down. Cody's had one good match in New Japan and it was against Okada in Long Beach, and that was only because of the crowd heat of nobody wanting Cody within a mile of the IWGP title. It's more that I have faith in Ibushi than him. But as someone already pointed out, they aren't going to get time. and Cody lacks the ability apparently And honestly, I don't know what Jericho is going to do. He's been inconsistent in WWE as far as I can recall. He hasn't really been the guy to watch if you catch my meaning, but it could be interesting to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Dynamite Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 There's a lot of workrate question marks in three of the big four singles title matches. Jericho, Jay White and Cody are likely not going to bring it at the level we expect from the last few Wrestle Kingdoms. The IWGP Junior Heavyweight title match resets things from last year's all-Japanese no-bullshit star-making glory right back to the old clusterfuck booking of juniors on big shows. The NEVER match is going to have to *bring* *it*. What the show will likely lack in match quality compared to the last few years I expect to be made up for in spectacle, which NJPW isn't always the best with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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