Wrestle Kingdom 16 Discussion - January 4, 5, and 8, 2022 on NJPW World

[Chris]

Updated the OP to have the full cards for January 4th and 5th

 

[Marty McFourth]

Nice looking card. Looking over I'd say KENTA vs Hiroshi Tanahashi is match I'm most interested in seeing. No DQ, and I like both of those guys. Should be a blast.

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Watching the Finals for the Super Juniors/Tag League Show and man I'm so happy to see Shibata apart of the Show officially. If KENTA wasn't facing Tana I would of said that is the Match and Sabre JR is locked in as well so I'm wondering who could be his opponent. Is Ibushi ready to come back yet because I'm starting to think that might be the play to have those two kill each other and own WK.

 

[Chris]

Oh shit the January 8th NJPW vs NOAH card has also been finalized. Added that to the (now very large) OP as well

 

[Comrade Khan]

Tag match main event for n3 looks sick. Dick Togo and gedo wrestling on ppv tho

 

[Chris]

Yeah my only real complaint is I feel Shiozaki is wasted here and he was a guy I was looking forward to seeing what he'd do on the show. That better be a NOAH win at least

 

[FatBagzJones]

Yeah my only real complaint is I feel Shiozaki is wasted here and he was a guy I was looking forward to seeing what he'd do on the show. That better be a NOAH win at least

So if Shiozaki wins on January 1st, we would get HOUSE OF TORTURE vs GHC champ and masa? What fucking weird match. Seing Go selling for Dick Togo will ne weird to watch.

Sent from my ELE-L29 using Tapatalk

 

[Chris]

Oh just a heads up, you can buy a Wrestle Kingdom bundle (only N1 and N2) for $30 on Fite. I won't be since I have World but cool for those that only wanna watch WK. $30 is more than fair I'd say too with $15 being a standard price for like one GCW show lol

The NOAH one is different, gonna be on some iPPV provider called Adema. You can apparently purchase the PPV and watch anywhere on Adema, the issue is....the website is only in Japanese but NJPW has instructions on their English website

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Daddy like. Shibata wants to show the roots of Wrestling rip opponent.

 

[TigerDriver91]

I'm a little bit disappointed with the day 3 card. It is too politically correct, there are too many tag team matches and it gives me the feeling that it really is just for one night and there won't be any kind of follow-up.
Honestly, KENTA vs Tanahashi is the most interesting match they booked in the first two nights.
Also where is Jay f'n White? You can't have your biggest show of the year without Jay on the card.
I hope The Dangerous Tekkers lose the tag titles and ZSJ and Taichi goes singles. NJPW needs a top gajin wrestling full-time in Japan and that can only be Zack. He proved himself in the G1 and I think he should take the NEVER Openweight title from Ishii at the first show after WK.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Jay isn't on any of the cards? damn

 

[Chris]

Yeah I dont think Jay is going to Japan anytime soon

 

[TigerDriver91]

Yeah I dont think Jay is going to Japan anytime soon

This is strange. At the beginning of the year it was reported that his contract is up and WWE is interested in him. They also played some kind of leaving angle for him. Then he comes back, signs new contract, wins the NEVER title, goes to US, misses G1 and now misses WK.
I understand he doesn't want to get involved in a long term feud in Japan but I think one appearance in a high profile match at WK was mandatory.
They invested too much in him for this to happen. Since returning from excursion he was in the main event or semi main event every WK.

 

[Alexa]

Day 3 does look kind of interesting, so I may watch it.

 

[Comrade Khan]

So apparently evil had an awful match vs ishii n ppl think it might be one of the worst 1v1 match in wk history lol.

In better news

RAIIIIIIIIIIIINMAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!