At the beginning of the new year of 2022, the world's major wrestling leagues are scrambling to launch their own New Year paid events, WWE's Day 1 just two days after the end, the "Wrestling Kingdom" of the new day wrestling has quickly taken over!
As a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the NJPW, this year's 16th Wrestling Kingdom Tournament for the first time adopted the format of "three nights and two places", the evening matches on January 4 and 5, Beijing time, were traditionally presented at the Tokyo Dome Sports Center, and the additional matches on January 8 will be staged at Yokohama Stadium, and all the blockbuster championship matches are all in the first two nights, such as the much-anticipated IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Battle
After Okada and Kazumi regained the right to challenge last year, he resolutely chose to brave the world and invited the old IWGP belt that had been retired again, which made his duel with Takagi Nobugo add a layer of "champion unity battle"
After 35 minutes of fighting, Okada and Mitsuru finally won the game with the finishing skill Rainmaker! It was also the first time he had won the title after the IWGP Heavyweight Champion and the IWGP Intercontinental Champion were combined to form the "IWGP World Heavyweight Champion"!
After the match, the new day wrestler, now the unquestionable pillar, paid tribute to the old belt in the center of the ring and made it a completely past, of course, a new challenger was ushered in - "King of the Air" Will Ospreay .
Hong Kong Zhen, Will is indeed the most qualified player in the entire New Day Wrestling to attack the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, not only because he is a former champion, but also because he has never lost this belt. Infected with the new crown last May and forced to give up the title, it is now making a comeback, holding its own golden belt to the stage, and even making a big fuss that Okada Andmu has only one day of tenure as the champion
Yes, the two will compete on 16 Night 2 of the Westling Kingdom on the evening of January 5, and if Okada and Eagle wood's "championship united battle" is still a bit far-fetched, then the confrontation between "Picturesque" and "Empty King" is a winner-take-all, and we will wait and see who kills the deer
In addition, later that night, Chaos, composed of Yoshinori Fuji and Nobuo Yoshihashi, successfully defeated the "Dangerous Tekkers" to win the IWGP doubles title, and the Dangerous Connoisseur was ranked No. 3 in the PWI 2021 doubles combination last month, and the significance of this victory is not insignificant for Chaos
Evil also defeated Tomohiro Ishii to become the winner of the new category indiscriminate class, of course, compared to the "no neck" with a record of 6 championships and a 514-day championship rule, Evil still has a long way to go
On the first night, there were already three changes of gold belts, and Takagi Nobugo also became the longest champion of the belt after the merger of the belt with a record of 211 days, I don't know what the situation will be on the second night, and can Okada Harmony, who is a pillar of the platform, break this record?