Wrestle Kingdom 8 - The Great Muta Returns!

Muta Returns!

New Japan have completed the line-up for their January 4th card, Wrestle Kingdom 8 by announcing an eight man tag-team match and Toru Yanos' mystery partner.

You can check out the participants of that eight-man below but far more importantly, that tag-team match featuring Yano will now be; Shelton X Benjamin & Minoru Suzuki vs Toru Yano and THE GREAT MUTA!

This will be Mutas first appearance for New Japan since the 2008 Tokyo Dome show.

Here's the full announced card:

Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Tomoaki Honma & Captain New Japan & Bushi vs. Tiger Mask & Jushin Liger & Manabu Nakanishi & Super Strong Machine

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 & The Great Muta 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