NJPW Announces Three-Night Wrestle Kingdom for 2022

[Chris]

Source: f4wonline.com

NJPW has announced Wrestle Kingdom 16 as a three-night event for January 4, January 5, and January 8, 2022.

Nights one and two will be in the Tokyo Dome, while night three will be in Yokohama Arena. The announcement was made at intermission during today's Wrestle Grand Slam in MetLife Dome event.

New Year Dash has been held the day after Wrestle Kingdom every year since 2014, but no announcement was made as to what the three-night format means for the future of that show.

NJPW ran Tokyo Dome for Wrestle Kingdom 15 on January 4 and January 5 of this year, then returned to the venue for a Wrestle Grand Slam show on July 25.

Traditionally a one-night show, Wrestle Kingdom became a two-night event beginning with Wrestle Kingdom 14 in 2020. Tetsuya Naito defeated Jay White for the IWGP Intercontinental title on night one of that event, then defeated Kazuchika Okada on night two to win the IWGP Heavyweight title and complete the Double Gold Dash.

 

[Marty McFourth]

3 nights of wrasslin

Good chance I'll be watching this as WrestleKingdom has always been quite high on my radar and I've always enjoyed what NJPW does with it.

 

[CakeWalker]

drooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooools

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Just like Squirrels stocking up on Nuts for the Winter I might need to stock up on Dew getting ready for this. 3 Nights of Wrestling which should be around 3 Hours or so every Show so fuck off to my Sleep during those days.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

WWE: WrestleMania going to be two nights again.

NJPW: WrestleKingdom will be three.