On January 4th, 2026 NJPW is having their 20th annual Wrestle Kingdom live in Tokyo Japan inside Tokyo Dome so here is the lineup & my predictions for the show.
Note: Bold means who I think is gonna win.
Tag Team Match
Tatsuya Matsumoto & Shoma Kato vs. Katsuya Murashima & Masatora Yasuda (Pre Show)
Television Title Match
El Phantasmo (c) vs. Chris Brookes (Pre Show)
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Titles 8 Team Tornado Rambo Match
Chaos (Toru Yano & Yoh) & Master Wato (c) vs. Bullet Club War Dogs (IWGP Tag Team Champions Yuto Ice & Oskar & Clark Connors) vs. TMDK (2025 World Tag League Winners Zack Sabre Jr & Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson) vs. House Of Torture (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Ren Narita & Sanada) vs. Team 150 (Tomohiro Ishii, Satoshi Kojima & Taichi) vs. Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & Yoshi Hashi) & Boltin Oleg vs. Tiger Mask IV, Ryusuke Taguchi & Togi Makabe vs. Kaisei Takechi, Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino
Winner Takes All Match
Syuri (IWGP Women’s) vs. Saya Kamitani (Strong Women’s)
10 Man Tag Team Match
United Empire (Andrade El Idolo, Great O Khan, Callum Newman, Henare & TBD) vs. Bullet Club War Dogs (Drilla Moloney, David Finlay & Gabe Kidd) & Los Ingobernables De Japon (Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi)
Junior Heavyweight Title #1 Contenders Fatal 4 Way Match
Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion Sho vs. El Desperado vs. Taiji Ishimori vs. Kosei Fujita
NEVER Openweight Title Match
Evil (c) vs. Aaron Wolf
Winner Takes All Match
Konosuke Takeshita (IWGP World Heavyweight) vs. Yota Tsuji (Global)
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada
Extra Predictions
Karl Fredericks or Kyle Fletcher is the mystery partner for United Empire
Kosei Fujita wins the Junior Heavyweight Title on this show.
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