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• Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shingo Takagi, IWGP Junior Title Bouts Set For NJPW Road To Sakura Genesis Events
New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced lineups for NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis. The April 2nd event will be headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi taking on Shingo Takagi. On April 4, junior heavyweights will take center stage as El Desperado defends the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title against Clark Connors. The co-main event has TMDK (Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita) defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Te...2025
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• NJPW New Japan Cup Night Two Results (3/8): Gabe Kidd And More Advance
New Japan Pro Wrestling held their second night of the New Japan Cup on March 8th at Korakuen Hall. The first night of the tournament was postponed due to issues with the ring. The show aired on NJPW World. You can check out the full results (courtesy of POST Wrestling) and highlights from the show below. NJPW New Japan Cup Night Two Results (3/8) - Katsuya Murashima def. Daiki Nagai - Yuji Naga...2025
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• NJPW “53rd Anniversary Event” results (3/6): Vetter’s review of Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, El Desperado vs. Francesco Akira for the IWGP Jr. Hvt. Title
By Chris Vetter, ProWrestling.net Contributor... The post NJPW “53rd Anniversary Event” results (3/6): Vetter’s review of Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, El Desperado vs. Francesco Akira for the IWGP Jr. Hvt. Title appeared first on Pro Wrestling Dot Net....2025
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• NJPW 53rd Anniversary Show Results (3/6): Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, El Desperado vs. Francesco Akira
New Japan Pro-Wrestling held its NJPW 53rd Anniversary Event on March 6th from Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. The event aired on NJPW World. Full results and highlights are below. NJPW 53rd Anniversary Show Results (3/6) - NJPW World TV Championship: El Phantasmo (c) def. Master Wato - BULLET CLUB (Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens) def. TMDK (Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa) - BULLET CLUB ...2025
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• Clark Connors Enjoys Bringing The Energy As The Opening Match, Then Watching The Show With Some Drinks
For the past two years at Wrestle Kingdom, Clark Connors has been part the opening contest. At NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19, Connors and Drilla Moloney defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles against Catch 22 (Francesco Akira & TJP). One year later, he and Drilla teamed in a ladder match against Catch 22, Ichiban Sweet Boys (Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles), and Intergalactic Jet Setters (K...2025
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• Clark Connors: I Hate El Desperado
El Desperado is the reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and he's set to defend Francesco Akira at NJPW 53rd Anniversary. If El Desperado gets past Akira, Clark Connors will be waiting in the wings. "I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, I hate El Desperado," stated Connors in an interview with Jeremy Lambert & SP3 on In The Weeds. "Every time we get in the ring with each other, there are g...2025
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• Bullet Club civil war breaks out, and a Shooter shaves his own head

@njpw1972 Some more newsworthy items from New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Feb. 11 The New Beginning in Osaka show, along with full results. New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Feb. 11 event, The New Beginning in Osaka, featured two titles changes that we already told you about, but they were far from the only newsworthy things that happened in EDION Arena today. Before the card’s championship matches, Gre...2025
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• NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka Results (2/11): Zack Sabre Jr vs. Hirooki Goto, Yota Tsuji vs. Gabe Kidd
New Japan Pro-Wrestling held its NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka event on February 11 from EDION Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan. The event aired on NJPW World. Full results and highlights are below. NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka Results (2/11) - United Empire (Francesco Akira & Jeff Cobb) def. El Desperado & Katsuya Murashima - Akira and Desperado have a staredown. - Hiroshi Tanahashi def. Togi Ma...2025
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• Several new champs crowned in the Tokyo Dome today

@njpw1972 Seven of Wrestle Kingdom 19‘s ten matches were for a title or titles, so it should come as no surprise that several of them changed hands. We’ve already covered Konosuke Takeshita adding the NEVER Openweight championship to his AEW International one, and the unfortunate circumstances around El Desperado reclaiming the IWGP Junior Heavyweight belt. In addition to those, three othe...2025
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• Jon Moxley’s first IWGP World title defense is set

njpw1972.com Ren Narita gets the first shot at the new champ at Wrestling Dontaku, a two-night event that will also feature the rescheduled Nic Nemeth/Hiroshi Tanahashi clash. We unofficially knew who Jon Moxley’s first IWGP World Heavyweight title defense would be against within minutes of his winning the belt at New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Windy City Riot show in Chicago last Friday night ...2024
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• Mox’s match at New Japan’s Chicago show is now for the IWGP World title

NJPW Global’s X New Japan Pro-Wrestling held off on crowning one of their young stars at Sakura Genesis today (April 6) in Tokyo, and in so doing made the main event of their Windy City Riot event next Friday in Chicago even bigger than it already was. After Tetsuya Naito outlasted New Japan Cup winner Yota Tsuji in a 30+ minute main event to retain his IWGP World Heavyweight championship,...2024
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• Jack Perry joins New Japan’s most hated faction

njpw1972.com At Mar. 6’s 52nd Anniversary show, the AEW exile won his first NJPW match and became a member of House of Torture. New Japan Pro-Wrestling held their 52nd Anniversary event on Mar. 6 in Ota. Among other things, the show featured the in-ring debut of AEW’s Jack Perry. Perry, who was suspended by AEW following his role in the incident which led to CM Punk’s firing at All In: Lo...2024
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• Gabe Kidd Not Cleared To Compete At RevPro High Stakes
Gabe Kidd is sidelined. Revolution Pro Wrestling announced that Gabe Kidd suffered injuries at NJPW New Beginning in Osaka in the United Empire vs. Bullet Club WAR DOGS cage match. As a result of the injuries, Kidd has not been cleared to compete at RevPro High Stakes on February 18. Kidd was scheduled to face Shingo Takagi. Trent Seven will take his place. Unfortunately, as a result of injur...2024
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• Danielson & Moxley matches official for Wrestle Kingdom

NJPW Global’s X New Japan Pro-Wrestling typically makes it clear what direction they’re headed in when it comes to their championships programs and what their stars will be doing at major shows. Their upcoming Wrestle Kingdom 18 event at the Tokyo Dome on Jan. 4, 2024 is certainly no exception. The IWGP World Heavyweight title match is basically set when the late summer G1 Climax tournamen...2023
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• MJF Is A Burberry Bloke, WWE Uploads Full Bray Wyatt Matches To YouTube, More | Fight Size
Here is your fight size update for Friday, August 25, 2023. - MJF is the... Burberry British Bulldog?: This Burberry Bloke got a bloody good Pump in today. I’m not Faffing around and if you think I’m losing on Sunday you’re taking a piss, Bruv. Aussie open and Adam Cole are in for some Barney Rubble, Mate. #BurberryBritishBulldog pic.twitter.com/U36NHe3o7b — Maxwell Jacob Friedman (@The_MJF) Augu...2023
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• Multiverse United 2 recap & reactions: Impact dominates NJPW

Fite Impact and NJPW rumbled for a joint event in Multiverse United 2: For Whom the Bell Tolls (Aug. 20, 2023) in Philadelphia, PA. Not all the contests were straight up competition between promotions, however, Impact mopped the floor with NJPW in the matches that were. Out of the ten contests on the card, I think eight could qualify to varying degrees for the sake of this argument. Impact...2023
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"On Tuesday, February 11, New Japan Pro Wrestling hosted The New Beginning at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan Pre-Show: United Empire (Francesco Akira & Jeff Cobb) def."

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"Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji) • United Empire (Callum Newman, Francesco Akira & TJP) def."

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"Francesco Akira, Mike Bailey one on one at ASJF 2023! 【NJoA】"

• Bullet Club civil war breaks out, and a Shooter shaves his own head
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• Jack Perry joins New Japan’s most hated faction
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• Will Ospreay On His Final NJPW Match: I Never Thought That This Day Was Ever Going To Come
Will Ospreay discusses his emotions ahead of his final match in NJPW. Will Ospreay signed with AEW back at AEW Full Gear 2019 but he was allowed to finish his run in NJPW on his terms. His final match takes place on February 11, at NJPW New Beginning in Osaka, in what will be a 5-on-5 Steel Cage Match between United Empire (Francesco Akira, HENARE, Jeff Cobb, TJP & Will Ospreay) and Bullet Club: ...2024
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• Nemeth, Riddle & Danielson headed to Japan for NJPW New Beginning shows

njpw1972.com Unlike how companies often do it here in the United States, New Japan Pro-Wrestling sets their event cards well in advance. Today (Jan. 9), NJPW announced key matches for their New Beginning shows happening across their country in January & February — and some of those matches that will feature prominent American talent. On Feb. 11 at New Beginning in Osaka, Will Ospreay will ...2024
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• Ospreay/Moxley showdown sets up Tokyo Dome match, likely for new title

New Japan’s X Going back to its set-up, AEW’s Jon Moxley was looming over the main event of New Japan Pro-Wrestling Power Struggle. Will Ospreay only agreed to defend his IWGP United States/United Kingdom championship against Shota Umino if Umino’s mentor Mox would face his United Empire teammate The Great O-Khan on the show, which happened today (Nov. 4) in Osaka. That match quickly went...2023
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• Impact finalizes NJPW Strong women’s title bout for Multiverse United 2

Photo by Etsuo Hara/Getty Images Deonna Purrazzo wanted the best Stardom has to offer, and that wish was granted. Giulia is coming to the Impact and NJPW joint event Multiverse United 2: For Whom the Bell Tolls. Giulia’s presence on the August 20 PPV has been brewing all week ever since she declared her intention to come to Philadelphia. ジュリアが米国に殴り込み宣言‼️ #STARDOM pic.twitter.com/R2qI9PuS...2023
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• Jon Moxley Challenges El Desperado To ‘Final Death’ At 7/5 NJPW STRONG Event, Jun Kasai Appears In NJPW
El Desperado gets an answer from Jun Kasai regarding July 4 and receives an ominous challenge from Jon Moxley concerning July 5. It was previously revealed that El Desperado wanted to team with Jun Kasai against Jon Moxley and Homicide on July 4 at NJPW STRONG Independence Day. However, Despe would not get his answer until the June 17 New Japan Road event when "The Crazy Monkey" appeared in New J...2023
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• Mercedes Moné’s first New Japan title defense will be a three way
njpw1972’s Twitter New Japan Pro-Wrestling unveiled most of the card for their April 8 Sakura Genesis earlier this week. It included four title defenses, but the IWGP Women’s championship wasn’t among them. Weeks ago, Mercedes Moné received a challenge from AZM, a 20 year old Stardom (the all-women’s promotion owned by New Japan parent company Bushiroad) talent, and that was reportedly the...2023
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• Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shingo Takagi, IWGP Junior Title Bouts Set For NJPW Road To Sakura Genesis Events
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• NJPW New Japan Cup Night Two Results (3/8): Gabe Kidd And More Advance
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• NJPW “53rd Anniversary Event” results (3/6): Vetter’s review of Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, El Desperado vs. Francesco Akira for the IWGP Jr. Hvt. Title
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• NJPW 53rd Anniversary Show Results (3/6): Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, El Desperado vs. Francesco Akira
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• Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi Headlines NJPW 53rd Anniversary, Full Card Revealed
New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced the lineup for their 53rd Anniversary Show on March 6. The night will be headlined by Hirooki Goto defending the IWGP World Heavyweight Title against Hiroshi Tanahashi. The co-main event sees El Desperado defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title against Francesco Akira. The full lineup is below. NJPW 53rd Anniversary (3/6) - IWGP World Heavyweight Champions...2025
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• Bullet Club civil war breaks out, and a Shooter shaves his own head
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• NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka Results (2/11/25)
On Tuesday, February 11, New Japan Pro Wrestling hosted The New Beginning at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka. You can check out the complete results from the show below: Pre-Show: United Empire (Francesco Akira & Jeff Cobb) def. El Desperado & Katsuya Murashima Main Card: * Hiroshi Tanahashi def. Togi Makabe * Drilla Moloney def. […] The post NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka ...2025
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• NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka Results (2/11): Zack Sabre Jr vs. Hirooki Goto, Yota Tsuji vs. Gabe Kidd
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• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Bout Official For NJPW Anniversary Event
El Desperado will defend his IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Francesco Akira at NJPW 53rd Anniversary on March 6th. Akira made the challenge on February 4th at NJPW Road to The New Beginning. From NJPW: After an explosive challenge was made on February 4 in Korakuen Hall, Francesco Akira will take on IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion El Desperado March 6 at NJPW's 53rd Anniversary....2025
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• Jeff Cobb: Maybe It's Time To Take My Bags And Go Somewhere Else, I Don't Know
Jeff Cobb doesn't know what's next. At NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19, Jeff Cobb unsuccessfully challenged for the NJPW World Television Championship. He then lost to El Phantasmo in a title match at the NJPW Road to the New Beginning event on February 3rd. In his post-match comments, Jeff Cobb shared his thoughts following his loss. “Nothing to say. Nothing to say. Tonight, the better man won. El Phanta...2025
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• Several new champs crowned in the Tokyo Dome today
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• Jon Moxley gets to beat the crap out of Jack Perry on WrestleMania weekend

AEW Dynamite Jon Moxley was curiously left out of AEW’s tag team championship tournament and has been missing from AEW programming ever since he and Claudio Castagnoli defeated FTR earlier this month at the Revolution pay-per-view. Jon’s three week absence from AEW Dynamite and Collision has left me wondering, where the f*** is this guy? Well, if you are just like my 68-year-old mother and...2024
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• An emotional Tama Tonga seemingly says goodbye at New Japan show

NJPW World’s X After Wrestle Kingdom 18 on Jan. 4, New Japan Pro-Wrestling stalwart Tama Tonga announced that January would be his last month with the promotion. The Bullet Club founder had just won NJPW’s NEVER Openweight title at the Tokyo Dome show, which meant there was one loose end to tie up before he took his next job. That was dealt with today (Jan. 20) in Nagoya as New Japan start...2024
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• Multiverse United 2 recap & reactions: Impact dominates NJPW
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• Impact finalizes NJPW Strong women’s title bout for Multiverse United 2
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• Busta Rhymes & 50 Cent Gifted WWE Title Belts, Ziggler Celebrates #HunkAppreciationDay | Fight Size
Here is your fight size update for Tuesday, August 15, 2023. - 50 Cent and Busta Rhymes were recently gifted with WWE Championship belts for selling over a million tickets on their current tour: -- In honor of the Final Lap Tour selling over a million -- we honored @50cent & @BustaRhymes with custom WWE Championship belts for the Sell Out! Hartford turned all the way up -- pic.twitter.com/VOTtgeW...2023
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• Willow Nightingale vs. Giulia Added To NJPW Strong Independence Day Night Two, Tag Bout Set For Night One
Two new matches have been added to NJPW Strong Independence Day. NJPW confirmed that Willow Nightingale will defend her NJPW Strong Women's Championship against Giulia at night two of NJPW Strong Independence Day on July 5. At STARDOM SUNSHINE 2023 on June 25, Giulia stated that she would like to head overseas and compete on NJPW STRONG, calling out Nightingale for the NJPW Strong Women's Champi...2023
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• Two heavyweight titles change hands at New Japan Sakura Genesis
Chris Carlton’s Twitter New Japan Pro-Wrestling closed out their Sakura Genesis event today (April 8) in Tokyo with five championship matches. None disappointed, and two saw challengers win the belts in question for the first time. That should cement the new champs in those respective scenes — including the main event one. It was in the main event of today’s show from Tokyo that SANADA fin...2023
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• Francesco Akira, Mike Bailey one on one at ASJF 2023! 【NJoA】

One night tournament bracket set All Star Junior Festival 2023 August 19 2300 Arena TICKETS LIVE on NJPW World PPV! After the announcement last week of the All Star Junior USA one night four man tournament, we now have the other half of our four man bracket. Joining Clark Connors versus Kevin Knight, we will […]...2023
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• Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada And More Made Official For NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18
Four bouts have been made official for NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18. New Japan Pro-Wrestling confirmed four new matches for NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 on January 4, including the rematch between Kazuchika Okada and Bryan Danielson. Plus, Will Ospreay will defend his IWGP US Championship against Jon Moxley and David Finlay in a three-way bout. The Juniors will be on the line as Hiromu Takahashi defends ...2023
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• Willow Nightingale vs. Giulia Added To NJPW Strong Independence Day Night Two, Tag Bout Set For Night One
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• Jack Perry joins New Japan’s most hated faction
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• Alex Coughlin Claims He's Retired From Pro Wrestling
Alex Coughlin retires from pro wrestling. Bullet Club War Dogs member Alex Coughlin took to X (Twitter) to announce that he was retired from professional wrestling. In his tweet, Coughlin stated that it sucked that he had to retire and alluded to selling gear and more merchandise in the future. Yeah I’m retired and it sucks now leave me the fuck alone Actually I have some merch and gear to sell s...2024
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• The card for Wrestle Kingdom 18 is set

njpw1972.com One year after Mercedes Moné debuted in New Japan’s annual Jan. 4 Tokyo Dome extravaganza, there are no women’s matches on the show, New Japan Pro-Wrestling recently announced two additions to the card for the biggest event on their calendar — Jan. 4’s Wrestle Kingdom at the Tokyo Dome. One is a tag match pitting Shota Umino and Kaito Kiyomiya of Pro Wrestling NOAH against EVI...2023
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• Mox gets skewered, Willow shines & titles change hands at Independence Day
New Japan’s Twitter New Japan Pro-Wrestling brought their United States-based Strong brand to Japan for the first time on July 4 with the first of two Independence Day shows at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall. Tuesday’s show was headlined by an “Exciting Encounter Doomsday No Disqualification match” between Jon Moxley & Homicide and El Desperado & Japanese Deathmatch legend Jun Kasai — and even thou...2023
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• Jon Moxley Challenges El Desperado To ‘Final Death’ At 7/5 NJPW STRONG Event, Jun Kasai Appears In NJPW
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• Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shingo Takagi, IWGP Junior Title Bouts Set For NJPW Road To Sakura Genesis Events
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• Hirooki Goto vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi Headlines NJPW 53rd Anniversary, Full Card Revealed
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• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Bout Official For NJPW Anniversary Event
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• NJPW & Stardom’s Historic X-Over II to include intergender hardcore match

njpw1972.com Since 2020, New Japan Pro-Wrestling shows have included the occasional women’s match, featuring joshis (the Japanese term for women wrestlers) from its sister promotion Stardom. In 2022, the two Bushiroad-owned brands co-promoted their first show tgether — Historic X-Over. The event wasn’t held last year, but Historic X-Over II is happening this year. It’s in just a few weeks,...2024
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• Jon Moxley’s first IWGP World title defense is set
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• NJPW Announces Full Lineup For Wrestling World 2024
Check out the lineup for Wrestling World 2024. New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced that a one-night tournament to crown new NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions will headline Wrestling World on April 14. Los Ingobernables De Japon (BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi), HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SHO), Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano & Boltin Oleg, and United Empire (Great-O-Kha...2024
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• Jon Moxley gets to beat the crap out of Jack Perry on WrestleMania weekend
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• Gabe Kidd Not Cleared To Compete At RevPro High Stakes
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• Okada’s final NJPW matches are set after an emotional show in Osaka

NJPWWorld’s X It was an eventful Sunday for Kazuchika Okada. At New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s The New Beginning in Osaka yesterday (Feb. 12), the crowd had Okada looking tearful before his match with Hiroshi Tanahashi even began. RAIN MAKER @rainmakerXokada Sign up Now & Stay tuned to https://t.co/CeQLGjTmZ5#njnbg #NJPW #njpwworld pic.twitter.com/7AybC5KYqR— NJPW WORLD (@njpwworld) February ...2024
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• Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada And More Made Official For NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18
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• NJPW & Stardom’s Historic X-Over II to include intergender hardcore match
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• MJF Is A Burberry Bloke, WWE Uploads Full Bray Wyatt Matches To YouTube, More | Fight Size
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