NJPW The New Beginning in Niigata 2016: Live stream, start time, match card and more
Full match card, live stream info, and more for NJPW The New Beginning in Niigata 2016 on Sunday, Feb. 14
New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) is still venturing into a world after AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura and The New Beginning in Niigata 2016 will be a major step in the right direction for the company. Throughout the card, NJPW is laying the groundwork to keep the promotion prominent in the professional wrestling landscape.
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The main event of The New Beginning in Niigata will be a titanic matchup for the vacant IWGP Intercontinental Championship (vacated by Nakamura) between Bullet Club’s new leader in Kenny Omega and the “Japanese John Cena” Hiroshi Tanahashi. With what these two are capable of in the squared circle, this match has definite five-star potential.
There’s more reason to watch than just that, though, as the rest of the members of the Bullet Club—including The Young Bucks, Doc Gallows, and Karl Anderson—will also be in action on the card. Moreover, KUSHIDA will put his title on the line and the likes of Kazuchika Okada will be in action.
The full match card for NJPW The New Beginning in Niigata 2016 looks like this:
Match for Vacant IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kenny Omega
IWGP Tag Team Championship Match: Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma) (c) vs. Bullet Club (Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Match: KUSHIDA (c) vs. Bushi
CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Yoshi-Hashi) vs. Hirooki Goto, Juice Robinson & Katsuyori Shibata
NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship Match: Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Yujiro Takahashi) (c) vs. The Briscoes & Toru Yano
Los Ingobernables de Japon (Evil, Tetsuya Naiton) vs. Jay White & Michael Elgin
David Finlay, Manabu Nakanishi, Ryusuke Taguchi & Yuji Nagata vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Matt Sydal, Ricochet & Satoshi Kojima
CHAOS (Gedo, Kazushi Sakuraba) vs. reDRagon (Bobby Fish, Kyle O’Reilly)
Bullet Club (Cody Hall, The Young Bucks) vs. Captain New Japan, Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask
Details for Sunday’s show are below:
Date: Sunday, Feb. 14
Start Time: 2 a.m. ET
Location: Nagaoka, Japan
Arena: Aore Nagaoka
Live Stream: NJPW World