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Opening Matches Added To NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14, Updated Cards



Three matches have been added across both nights of NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14.

On night one (Jan. 4), the action will kick off with a veterans tag team match pitting Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi against TenCozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima). Also added to night one is an eight-man tag featuring the Young Lion’s as Yuya Uemura, Yota Tsuji, Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe take on Alex Coughlin, Clark Connors, Karl Fredericks, & Toa Henare.

On night two (Jan. 5), a NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Title gauntlet has been added to open the show. Champions Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe & Toru Yano will defend against CHAOS (Robbie Eagles, YOSHI-HASHI & Tomohiro Ishii), Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & EVIL), Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Taichi) and Bullet Club (Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi & Bad Luck Fale).

The Jan. 4 event will be headlined by an IWGP Heavyweight Championship bout pitting Kazuchika Okada against Kota Ibushi and an IWGP Intercontinental Championship match with Jay White against Tetsuya Naito. On Jan. 5, the two champions will collide in Double Gold Dash with the winner walking away with both titles.

Here is a look at the cards for both nights.

Wrestle Kingdom 14 – Night One

IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kota Ibushi

IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Jay White (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Will Ospreay (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi

IWGP United States Championship – Texas Deathmatch
Lance Archer (c) vs. Jon Moxley

IWGP Tag Team Championships
Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa) (c) vs. Juice Robinson & David Finlay

YOSHI-HASHI, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto vs. Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, Bad Luck Fale & KENTA

BUSHI, Shingo Takagi, EVIL & SANADA vs. El Desperado, Taichi, Minoru Suzuki & Zack Sabre Jr.

Jushin Liger Retirement Match
Jushin Thunder Liger, Tatsumi Fujinami, The Great Sasuke & Tiger Mask (w/ El Samurai) vs. Naoki Sano, Shinjiro Otani, Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Ryusuke Taguchi (w/ Kuniaki Kobayashi)

Yuya Uemura, Yota Tsuji, Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe vs. Alex Coughlin, Clark Connors, Karl Fredericks, & Toa Henare

Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi vs. TenCozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima)

Wrestle Kingdom 14 – Night Two

Double Gold Dash – IWGP Heavyweight & Intercontinental Championships
Winner of Kazuchika Okada vs. Kota Ibushi (c) vs. Winner of Jay White vs. Tetsuya Naito (c)

Chris Jericho vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

Runner Up Bout
Loser of Kazuchika Okada vs Kota Ibushi vs. Loser of Jay White vs. Tetsuya Naito

NEVER Openweight Championship
KENTA (c) vs. Hirooki Goto

IWGP United States Championship
Winner of Lance Archer vs. Jon Moxley vs. Juice Robinson

RevPro British Heavyweight Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. SANADA

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships
Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo (c) vs. SHO & YOH

Jushin Liger & Naoki Sano vs. Ryu Lee & Hiromu Takahashi

NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championships – Gauntlet
Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe & Toru Yano (c) vs. Robbie Eagles, YOSHI-HASHI & Tomohiro Ishii vs. BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & EVIL vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado & Taichi vs. Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi & Bad Luck Fale

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