New Japan Pro Wrestling officially announced that Will Ospreay vs. Kota Ibushi for the NEVER Openweight Championship will open the 1/4/19 WrestleKingdom event in the Tokyo Dome.
NJPW also officially announced the pre-show match, which means the updated lineup for their biggest show of the year will feature:
*Pre-Show Gauntlet for NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championship: Rysuke Taguchi & Toru Yano & Togi Makabe vs. David Finley & Jeff Cobb & Michael Elgin vs. Best Friends & Hirooki Goto vs. Killer Elite Squad & Minoru Suzuki vs. Marty Scurll & Adam Page & Yujiro Takahashi.
*Pre-Show:
*Roppongi 3K vs. BUSHI and Shingo Takagi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado for the IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Tomohiro Ishii far the Revolution Pro British Heavyweight Championship
The Young Bucks vs. Evil and Sanada vs. The Guerrillas of Destiny for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Juice Robinson vs. Cody for the IWGP United States Championship
Taiji Ishimori vs. KUSHIDA for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship
Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White
Tetsuya Naito vs. Chris Jericho for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kenny Omega for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship
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