Below are complete results from Saturday’s NJPW Wrestle Kingdom Night 1 Event:
Pre-Show
- Alex Coughlin, Clark Connors, Karl Fredericks, & Toa Henare def. Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma, Yota Tsuji, & Yuya Uemura via pinfall.
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima def. Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata via pinfall.
Main Card
- Naoki Sano, Shinjiro Otani, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and Ryusuke Taguchi def. Jyushin Thunder Liger, Tatsumi Fujinami, The Great Sasuke, and Tiger Mask via pinfall.
- This was the first of two retirement matches for Jyushin Thunder Liger.
- Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr., and El Desperado def. Evil, Sanada, Shingo Takagi, and Bushi via submission.
- Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano, and Yoshi-Hashi def. Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, Kenta, and Yujiro Takahashi) via pinfall.
- IWGP Tag Team Championship Match: Juice Robinson and David Finlay def. Tanga Loa and Tama Tonga (c) via pinfall to become new IWGP Tag Team Champions.
- IWGP United States Champion Texas Death Match: Jon Moxley defeated Lance Archer (c) via count out to become the new IWGP United States Champion.
- Moxley calls out Robinson and says that he is ready to defend his title against Robinson tomorrow night.
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Match: Hiromu Takahashi def. Will Ospreay (c) via pinfall to become the new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion.
- IWGP Intercontinental Champion Match: Tetsuya Naito def Jay White (c) via pinfall to become the new IWGP Intercontinental Champion.
- IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: Kazuchika Okada(c) defeated Kota Ibushi to retain IWGP Heavyweight Championship.
- IWGP Intercontinental Champion Tetsuya Naito came out to face-off Okada. They will have a match tomorrow night on night 2 of Wrestle Kingdom
See here for the Wrestle Kingdom Night 2 Card.
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