12 December 2013

Wrestle Kingdom 8 Full Card And Match Order

New Japan Pro Wrestling have announced the full card and run order for their biggest show of 2014; Wrestle Kingdom 8, which will take place January 4th at the Tokyo Dome.

Over the last few months the promotion has been asking fans to vote on which match will main event the show - the G1 Climax Winner Tetsuya Naito challenging for the IWGP Heavyweight title against Kazuchika Okada OR Hiroshi Tanahashi challenging Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Intercontinental title.

The voting went pretty much as expected and the IWGP Intercontinental Championship match will go on last, which suggests that Naito isn't as over as New Japan would have hoped after the push they've given him.

Either way, this is an absolutely stacked card and will almost certainly turn out to be one of the best shows of the year, if not THE best.


Here's the announced card:

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
{4-Way Match}
The Young Bucks(c) vs. The Time Splitters vs. The Forever Hooliganz vs. Taichi & TAKA Michinoku

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
Killer Elite Squad (c) vs. Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson

NWA World Championship
{Special guest observer Harley Race}
Rob Conway (c) vs. Satoshi Kojima 

Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata vs. Rolles & Daniel Gracie

Toru Yano & TBA vs. Shelton X Benjamin & Minoru Suzuki

{No Pinfalls, No Countouts}
Togi Makabe vs. Bad Luck Fale

Hirooki Goto vs. Katsuyori Shibata

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship 
Prince Devitt (c) vs. Kota Ibushi

IWGP Heavyweight Championship
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito

IWGP Intercontinental Championship
{Special guest observer Stan Hansen}
Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

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