GFW To Present NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 9

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    Global Force Wrestling is proud to announce that the first event under its banner will be in conjunction with New Japan Pro Wrestling and its Jan. 4 show from the Tokyo Dome.

    “GFW Presents New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 9” will air live in North America at 2 a.m. ET on Jan. 4, which is 4 p.m. in Tokyo. The four-hour telecast also will air in primetime in North America at 7 p.m. ET on your pay-per-view provider, including DirecTV, Dish, AT&T U-verse, Comcast, Verizon Fios and all cable systems in the United States, and in Canada on Bell ExpressVu TV, Rogers, Shaw, Sasktel and Telus. Check your local listings for availability. The show also will be available on the “Flipps” app on iTunes or Android.

    “Wrestle Kingdom 9” will be the 24th consecutive year for the Jan. 4 dome event, which kicks off the year in Japan and annually is the largest wrestling show in the world outside of the United States, drawing in excess of 40,000 fans.

    “This is one of the great events on the wrestling calendar every year, and for GFW to have the opportunity to bring it to the American audience is an honor and a privilege,” GFW founder and CEO Jeff Jarrett said. “This event has a history that involves not only the greatest names in Japanese wrestling history but some of the greatest names in U.S. wrestling history.”

    NJPW founder and wrestling icon Antonio Inoki has appeared on the Jan. 4 dome show five times. Other legends to appear include Hulk Hogan, Dusty Rhodes, Sting, the Steiner Brothers, Big Van Vader, Randy Savage, Brock Lesnar, the Great Muta, the Great Kabuki, Masahiro Chono and Riki Choshu.

    This year’s card is headlined by an IGWP heavyweight title match between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada. The Bullet Club, of which Jarrett is a member along with A.J. Styles and IWGP tag team champions Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows, is expected to appear on the show as well.

    The show will be available in English and in Japanese via the second audio program (SAP) button on your TV. GFW will reveal the North American announcers for the event in the near future.

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    Aaah, Shin Nihon!!! It's awesome!!! Let's go. WrestleKingdom.
     
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    • Rocky Romero – ROH
    • Alex Koslov – ROH, WWE
    • reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly) – ROH – Current Ring of Honor tag team.
    • Alex Shelley – ROH, TNA – Former X Division Champion in TNA.
    • The Young Bucks - ROH – Current ROH tag team. One of the best duos on the independent scene.
    • Jeff Jarrett – WWE, WCW, TNA, GFW – Jarrett’s new promotion, Global Force Wrestling, will also be presenting Wrestle Kingdom 9.
    • Davey Boy Smith Jr. – WWE – Former WWE Tag Team Champion with Tyson Kidd in WWE.
    • Lance Archer – TNA, WWE – Had a stint in WWE’s version of ECW.
    • Shelton Benjamin – ROH, WWE – Most famous for being part of the “World’s Greatest Tag Team” in WWE with Charlie Haas.
    • Doc Gallows – TNA, WWE – You may remember him as part of CM Punk’s Straight Edge Society.
    • Karl Anderson – ROH – Had two brief stints with ROH.
    • A.J. Styles – TNA, ROH – Arguably the biggest name that American fans will know.
     
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    IWGP Heavyweight Championship
    Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada

    IWGP Intercontinental Championship
    Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Kota Ibusha

    AJ Styles vs. Tetsuya Naito

    IWGP Tag Team Championship
    Bullet Club (Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows) (c) vs. Meiyu Tag (Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata)

    IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
    Ryusuke Taguchi (c) vs. Kenny Omega

    NEVER Openweight Championship
    Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. Togi Makabe

    Match Can Only End By KO Or Submission
    Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Minoru Suzuki

    8-Man Tag
    Suzukigun (Shelton X Benjamin, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr, & Takashi Iizuka) vs. Mikey Nicholls, Naomichi Marufuji, Shane Haste & Toru Yano

    Six-Man Tag
    Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Jeff Jarrett & Yujiro Takahashi) vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojimo & Tomoaki Honma

    Four-Way Tag Team Match
    IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
    ReDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly) (c) vs. Forever Hooligans (Alex Koslov & Rocky Romero) vs. Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & Kushida) vs. The Young Bucks

    Pre-Show Match
    15-Man New Japan Rumble
    Jushin Thunder Liger, Manabu Nakanishi, Tiger Mask, Yuji Nagata as confirmed participants
     

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