A look at all the action that you will see on Sunday with Wrestle Kingdom 9 taking place, one of the biggest events of the year in professional wrestling.Ā
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As 2015 gets underway, Sunday will be a special day for both New Japan Pro Wrestling and the upstart Global Force Wrestling and we will be treated to Wrestle Kingdom 9.
For those that are unfamiliar with the event, itās pretty simple; more or less, this is the WrestleMania for New Japan Pro Wrestling, Held inside the famed Tokyo Dome every year, this is the biggest stage that these wrestlers can possibly get in their company.
With that being said, here is a look at the amazing card that has been put together this year, including the IWGP Heavyweight championship match between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada.
IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada
IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Kota Ibusha
AJ Styles vs. Tetsuya Naito
IWGP Tag Team Championship
Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) (c) vs. Meiyu Tag (Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Ryusuke Taguchi (c) vs. Kenny Omega
NEVER Openweight Championship
Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. Togi Makabe
Match Can Only End By KO Or Submission
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Minoru Suzuki
8-Man Tag
Suzukigun (Shelton X Benjamin, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr, & Takashi Iizuka) vs. Mikey Nicholls, Naomichi Marufuji, Shane Haste & Toru Yano
Six-Man Tag
Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Jeff Jarrett & Yujiro Takahashi) vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojimo & Tomoaki Honma
Four-Way Tag Team Match
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
ReDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle OāReilly) (c) vs. Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov & Rocky Romero) vs. Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & Kushida) vs. The Young Bucks
Pre-Show Match
15-Man New Japan Rumble
Jushin Thunder Liger, Manabu Nakanishi, Tiger Mask, Yuji Nagata as confirmed participants
Again, Jeff Jarrett and Global Force Wrestling will be getting involved in the event this year, helping themselves get some exposure before they kick off their full existence later this year.
What are your predictions for Wrestle Kingdom 9? Let us know in the comments below.
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