Update: Done the show, updated below with the spoilers! Also will pin for the day for visibility.
Original:
In the world of NJPW, it’s time for the big show! 2:30AM EST (convert as needed) marks the bell for Wrestle Kingdom 18 live from the Tokyo Dome and live on NJPW World!
The card shall be as follows:
Pre-Show NJPW King Of Pro-Wrestling Title 2024 Right To Challenge / New Japan Rambo Match
??? vs. ???
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match
BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney) © vs. Catch 22 (Francesco Akira & TJP)
NJPW World Television Title Match
Zack Sabre Jr. © vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Singles Match
Yota Tsuji vs. Yuya Uemura
Tag Team Match
Kaito Kiyomiya & Shota Umino vs. House Of Torture (EVIL & Ren Narita)
(Note: Piss break match. It’s House Of Shit what do you expect)
Not the finish, but it coulda been!
NEVER Openweight Title Match
Shingo Takagi © vs. Tama Tonga
SUDDENLY, A WILD SPOILER APPEARS!
IWGP Tag Team Title / NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team Title Match
Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) © vs. Guerrillas Of Destiny (El Phantasmo & Hikuleo) ©
The ref struggles with the 4 titles…so much…
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match
Hiromu Takahashi © vs. El Desperado
IWGP Global Heavyweight Title Three Way Match (vacant)
Jon Moxley vs. David Finlay vs. Will Ospreay
A confrontation after the match
Singles Match
Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada
Okada and Danielson’s entrances.
IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match
SANADA © vs. Tetsuya Naito
Post main event has an EVIL appearance, but who cares lol.
For those who’ll be staying up to watch the event, feel free to use this as your discussion thread. Let us know what you’re looking forward to! As usual I’ll have spoilers up some time tomorrow for those who can’t watch.
So… I just read the Nemeth brothers appeared during a tag match sitting ringside… I’m all in on a Dolph Ziggler/The Nemeth Brothers run as a tag team in Japan. Dolph/Nick has never had any run outside WWE or its development territories, and I’m very interested in this.
Finlay got right in Nics Face after his bout. So I’ll guess we see at least Nic Nemeth pretty soon in the ring.
Oooh I’d be down for that…
Watched it (and uploaded clips above), Nick is def doing something in NJPW. Ryan may just be in his corner cause brothers look after brothers, but we’ll see.