Wrestle Kingdom Archives

The event essentially serves as the beginning of their road to Wrestle Kingdom in January, as the winner of the G1 gets a shot at the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship on January 4th, the same way the Royal Rumble winner gets a shot at the title at WrestleMania in WWE This weekend had a few[...]

The actress took to social media as Varnado introduced her new ring persona Mercedes Moné quote tweeting NJPW's post while tagging her, "Now THIS is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥" for Wrestle Kingdom 17. Mercedes Moné (Marcedes Varnado) Screencapped from YouTube courtesy of NJPW Sadly, Varnado is not returning for season three of The Mandalorian, but that doesn't mean she[...]

After months, or by some perspectives, years of trash-talking, Kenny Omega defeated Will Ospreay at Wrestle Kingdom 17 to win the IWGP United States Championship The AEW star made his big return to the company after leaving to co-found AEW in 2019 Since that time, Omega claimed, Ospreay failed to carry the torch for the[...]

And while Varnado's series of tweets heading into the historic pro-wrestling event appeared to pretty much confirm one of the worst-held secrets, it diminish the debut of Mercedes Moné during NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 17 After a successful title defense of her IWGP Women's Championship against Tam Nakano, KAIRI was confronted (and quickly dropped) by "The[...]

We already know that Sasha Banks is set to appear at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom in January But it looks like this could be more than a simple act of rebellion… it could be a full-fledged coup! Haw haw haw haw! On an episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that Banks demanded a ridiculous amount[...]

And The Chadster feels it was oh so unfair! The Chadster thought he was finally going to be rid of AEW after CM Punk destroyed the company, only for it to rise from the ashes and be reborn even more offensive to everything The Chadster believes in than before! And now, it looks like AEW[...]

The two men with the highest totals at the end of each block go onto a semifinals match, and the winner of each block then battle for a shot at the champion at Wrestle Kingdom (their WrestleMania) in January The next evening of matches happens tonight at around 2:30 a.m PDT if you want to[...]

The King of Strong Style (who held the IWGP Intercontinental Championship at the time) and the former leader of The Bullet Club met up for their very first singles (and title) match at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in 2016 New Japan recently posted the match in its entirety on YouTube, and I sincerely urge you to go watch[...]

Just a few hours ago at a New Japan Pro Wrestling's "Power Struggle" event, the "Twitter feud" between Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega finally reached the first checkmark, as it was announced the two would be having a match in two months at NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom 12 at the Tokyo Dome For those of you[...]