Update: Done the show, updated below with the spoilers! Also will pin for the day for visibility.

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In the world of NJPW, it’s time for the big show! 2:30AM EST (convert as needed) marks the bell for Wrestle Kingdom 18 live from the Tokyo Dome and live on NJPW World!

The card shall be as follows:

Pre-Show NJPW King Of Pro-Wrestling Title 2024 Right To Challenge / New Japan Rambo Match
??? vs. ???

FINISH

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match
BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney) © vs. Catch 22 (Francesco Akira & TJP)

FINISH

NJPW World Television Title Match
Zack Sabre Jr. © vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

FINISH

Singles Match
Yota Tsuji vs. Yuya Uemura

FINISH

Tag Team Match
Kaito Kiyomiya & Shota Umino vs. House Of Torture (EVIL & Ren Narita)

(Note: Piss break match. It’s House Of Shit what do you expect)

Not the finish, but it coulda been!

FINISH

NEVER Openweight Title Match
Shingo Takagi © vs. Tama Tonga

FINISH

SUDDENLY, A WILD SPOILER APPEARS!

IWGP Tag Team Title / NJPW STRONG Openweight Tag Team Title Match
Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) © vs. Guerrillas Of Destiny (El Phantasmo & Hikuleo) ©

The ref struggles with the 4 titles…so much…

FINISH

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match
Hiromu Takahashi © vs. El Desperado

FINISH

IWGP Global Heavyweight Title Three Way Match (vacant)
Jon Moxley vs. David Finlay vs. Will Ospreay

Ospreay’s entrance

FINISH

A confrontation after the match

Singles Match
Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada

Okada and Danielson’s entrances.

FINISH

Post match respect

IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match
SANADA © vs. Tetsuya Naito

Main Event Entrances

FINISH

Post main event has an EVIL appearance, but who cares lol.


Event Page - Cagematch Page


For those who’ll be staying up to watch the event, feel free to use this as your discussion thread. Let us know what you’re looking forward to! As usual I’ll have spoilers up some time tomorrow for those who can’t watch.

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    10 months ago

    So… I just read the Nemeth brothers appeared during a tag match sitting ringside… I’m all in on a Dolph Ziggler/The Nemeth Brothers run as a tag team in Japan. Dolph/Nick has never had any run outside WWE or its development territories, and I’m very interested in this.

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      10 months ago

      Watched it (and uploaded clips above), Nick is def doing something in NJPW. Ryan may just be in his corner cause brothers look after brothers, but we’ll see.

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      10 months ago

      Finlay got right in Nics Face after his bout. So I’ll guess we see at least Nic Nemeth pretty soon in the ring.

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    10 months ago

    Just started (saved it for last after AEW and Stardom), but this gonna be a good show and nothing was spoiled for me yet but Nemeth’s appearance! lol

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    10 months ago

    I tried posting via feddit.de this morning the comment never federated over to kbin.

    This is what I tried to send to kbin:
    The joy of living in Germany. It’s 07:27 am and Wrestle Kingdom 18 will start soon. Feels good not to get up in the middle of the night to watxh wrestling.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah ernest is still working on things. kbin is working much better since yesterday but things are still a bit flakey.

      A nice advantage tho!