It may have slipped under the radar with the WWE Black Sunday news and subsequent Hall Of Fame announcements, but New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the full Wrestle Kingdom 14 two day card. There are some doozies on there but I’ll talk about that at the end in my Blake’s Take. So without further ado, here are the cards!
Night 1 – Saturday, January 4
Eight-Man Tag Team Match
Jyushin Thunder Liger, Tatsumi Fujinami, The Great Sasuke, and Tiger Mask vs. Naoki Sano, Shinjiro Otani, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and Ryusuke Taguchi
Eight-Man Tag Team Match
Los Ingobernables de Japon (Evil, Sanada, Shingo Takagi, and Bushi) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr., and El Desperado)
Eight-Man Tag Team Match
Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano, and Yoshi-Hashi) vs. Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, Kenta, and Yujiro Takahashi)
IWGP Tag Team Championship
Guerrillas of Destiny (Tanga Loa and Tama Tonga) (c) vs. FinJuice (Juice Robinson and David Finlay)
IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship Texas Death Match
Lance Archer (c) vs. Jon Moxley
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Will Ospreay (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Jay White (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito
IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kota Ibushi
Night 2 – Sunday, January 5
Jyushin Thunder Liger Retirement Match
Jyushin Thunder Liger and Naoki Sano vs. Ryu Lee and Hiromu Takahashi
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo) (c) vs. Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh)
British Heavyweight Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Sanada
IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship
US Champion (Archer or Moxley) vs. Juice Robinson
NEVER Openweight Championship
KENTA (c) vs. Hirooki Goto
Loser of Okada/Ibushi vs. Loser of White/Naito
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Chris Jericho
IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Double Championship Match
IWGP Heavyweight Champion (Okada or Ibushi) vs. IWGP Intercontinental Champion (White or Naito)
Blake’s Take – I said it at the top didn’t I? Some of these matches are amazing! What a Wrestle Kingdom card! Day One itself has four title matches that could be a main event on any given night. Archer vs Moxley for the US title? Yes, please! In a Texas Death Match?! Oh hell yeah! Ospreay vs Takahashi? The emotions will be off the scale here. And Ibushi vs Okada? WOWOWOW!
Whatever Day One can do, Day Two basically says “hold my beer”…Jyushin Thunder Liger’s retirement match. ZSJ vs SANADA. Goto vs KENTA (OMG am I looking forward to this one). Plus the double IWGP title match. Man oh man, Wrestle Kingdom 14 is going to be mine, and many other’s Xmas 😉
