Wrestle Kingdom 18 was a professional wrestling event promoted by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 4, 2024, at the Tokyo Dome, in Tokyo, Japan. It was the 33rd January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the 18th promoted under the Wrestle Kingdom name. Wrestlers from NJPW partner promotions All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) were featured at the event. This was the first Wrestle Kingdom event to feature Hiroshi Tanahashi as the new president of New Japan Pro-Wrestling. This was the first Wrestle Kingdom since Wrestle Kingdom 13 to have a one-night format, as the previous Wrestle Kingdoms had been held across multiple nights in a row.
Eleven matches were contested at the event, with one taking place on the pre-show. In the main event, G1 Climax winner Tetsuya Naito defeated Sanada to win the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. In other prominent matches, Kazuchika Okada defeated Bryan Danielson, David Finlay defeated Will Ospreay and Jon Moxley to become the inaugural IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion and Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Zack Sabre Jr. to win the NJPW World Television Championship.
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The January 4 Tokyo Dome Show is NJPW's biggest annual event and has been called "the largest professional wrestling show in the world outside of the United States" and the "Japanese equivalent to the Super Bowl".[3][4] The show has been promoted under the Wrestle Kingdom name since 2007.[5]
Wrestle Kingdom 18 featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[7]
On August 19 2023, Tetsuya Naito won the G1 Climax, thus earning an IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match. On October 9, 2023 at Destruction in Rygoku, Sanada successfully defended the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against Evil in a Lumberjack match, officially setting up himself and Naito for the world title as the main event of Wrestle Kingdom 18.[8]
On June 25, 2023, at the AEW and NJPW partnered event, Forbidden Door, Bryan Danielson defeated Kazuchika Okada in the main event, despite Danielson suffering a broken arm midway through the match. On the October 25, 2023 episode of AEW Dynamite, Okada teamed with Orange Cassidy in a losing effort against Danielson and Claudio Castagnoli; towards the end of the match, Danielson suffered a broken orbital bone. On November 4, 2023 at Power Struggle, Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Tomohiro Ishii successfully defended the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship against TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste). After the match, the lights went off and Danielson appeared on the titantron to challenge Okada to a rematch at Wrestle Kingdom, which Okada accepted, making the rematch official.[9]
At the same Power Struggle event, Hiromu Takahashi successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Taiji Ishimori. After the match, Takahashi challenged El Desperado for the title, which Desperado accepted. The match was then made official for Wrestle Kingdom 18.[10]
Also at Power Struggle, Will Ospreay defeated Shota Umino in the main event to retain the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship (though referred to by Ospreay as the IWGP United Kingdom Heavyweight Championship with his own custom belt). After showing respect to Umino, Ospreay called out Umino's former mentor, AEW's Jon Moxley, and both men were attacked from behind by Bullet Club leader David Finlay, who took a mallet and smashed both the U.S. and Ospreay's custom UK belt. It was then announced that Ospreay, Moxley, and Finlay would fight a three-way match at Wrestle Kingdom 18.[11] At a press conference on November 6, 2023, NJPW chairman Naoki Sugabayashi announced that a new championship would replace the U.S./U.K. championship.[12] On December 11, 2023, Sugabayashi revealed the name of the new championship as the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship with the winner becoming the inaugural champion.[13]
From October 21 2023 until November 2 2023, the 2023 Super Junior Tag League tournament matches took place during the Road to Power Struggle Tour. Catch 2/2 (Francesco Akira and TJP) defeated Intergalactic Jet Setters (Kushida and Kevin Knight) in the semi-finals to advanced to the finals while House of Torture (Sho and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defeated El DespeWato (El Desperado and Master Wato) to also advance. Both teams finished the tournament with a record of six wins and three losses, setting up the finals of the tournament. In the finals Catch 2/2 defeated House of Torture to win the Super Junior Tag League, thus earning an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match against Bullet Club War Dogs (Drilla Moloney and Clark Connors) at Wrestle Kingdom 18.[14]
At Fighting Spirit Unleashed, Shingo Takagi defeated Tama Tonga to win the NEVER Openweight Championship. At Lonestar Shootout, Takagi defeated Trent Beretta to retain the NEVER Openweight title.[15] After the match, Takagi called out anyone to challenge him for the title. Tonga then came out and said that he wanted a rematch for the title. Takagi accepted and said that the match will take place at Wrestle Kingdom.[16]
After successfully defending his NJPW World Television Championship against Mike Bailey at Lonestar Shootout, Zack Sabre Jr. called out Hiroshi Tanahashi and challenged him to a match at Wrestle Kingdom. NJPW then announced that Sabre Jr. will defend his title against Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom 18.[17]
In the 2023 edition of the World Tag League, IWGP Tag Team Champions Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi) won in Block A while Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions Guerrillas of Destiny (Hikuleo and El Phantasmo) won in Block B, leading them to face each other in the finals. In the finals on December 10, Bishamon won for a third year in a row, allowing them to use their champion's privilege to choose their opponents for Wrestle Kingdom. Bishamon challenged the Guerrillas of Destiny to a rematch, but with both the IWGP and the Strong Openweight Tag Championships on the line in a winner-take-all match.[18]
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Running every January since 1992, these matches (Wrestle Kingdom 17) at Tokyo Dome will see top wrestlers from across the globe come to Japan and battle it out. It will also be the first year to crown the winner of the NJPW World Television Championship.
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Within the past few months the WWE's main roster product has been... slipping, to put it nicely. Almost every Monday my friends come to me disappointed and complaining about it, and honestly, I'm getting kind of sick of it. There are so many alternatives out there guys! So I'm here to give you a very basic guide to the biggest event of my personal favorite wrestling promotion; New Japan Pro Wrestling's Wrestle Kingdom 9, in hopes of some people discovering some fantastic pro wrestling they haven't had the chance to before.
The main reason why I feel it's important to do this is because one of the most common things I hear when I try to get people interested in NJPW is either "But it's on so late!" or "Well you see the language barrier..." and I'm here to laugh at you because well, those don't matter anymore. Thanks to Jeff Jarrett's Global Force Wrestling, not only is Wrestle Kingdom being broadcast outside of Japan live, it's also getting another broadcast at 7 PM eastern time and it's got English commentary with Jim Ross (yes, that Jim Ross) and Matt Striker calling the action. So there's those excuses taken care of, now you've just gotta know who's who.
That's where I come in! I'm going to give you a run down of the card, some context to who everyone is and why they're competing. Don't worry I'm going to keep things simple; I'm not going to bombard you with stuff about every competitor aside from what's relevant. Before we start, if you are only interested in the title matches feel free to skip through to them. I've listed everything as to be comprehensive but it's a huge show so this is a little lengthy. Without further ado let's get started!
The first broadcasted match on the card is one that's got the most familiar faces to fans of the North American independent scene. It is a four-way tag match for the Jr. Heavyweight IWGP Tag Team titles between the current champions and also reigning RoH champions, ReDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly), The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson), Time Splitters (Alex Shelley and KUSHIDA) and Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov and Rocky Romero). If you keep up with the American indies you probably recognize some of those names but I'll do a quick run down.
Let's start with who's competing. ReDRagon are the current IWGP (International Wrestling Grand Prix, it's the name of most of their titles) Jr Heavyweight Tag champions, after having challenged unsuccessfully for the title in August they went on to win the IWGP JR Tag League. They will challenge the Time Splitters for their titles again at NJPW's Power Struggle show in November. ReDRagon is made up of Kyle O'Reilly (who's had a fantastic year with PWG and is one of my personal faves) and Bobby Fish; on top of that they are also the current ROH tag champions. 152ee80cbc
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