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Aside from the participants in the pre-show, the Wrestle Kingdom card appears to have been finalized
IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kenny Omega [Elite] (C)
IWGP Intercontinental Championship
Tetusya Naito [LIJ] vs. Chris Jericho (C)
Kazuchika Okada [Chaos] vs. Jay White [Bullet Club]
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club] vs. KUSHIDA (C)
IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship
Juice Robinson vs. Cody [Elite] (C)
IWGP Tag Team Championship
The Young Bucks [Elite] vs. EVIL and SANADA [LIJ] vs. Guerrilas of Destiny [Bullet Club] (C)
British Heavyweight Championship
Zack Sabre Jr. [Suzuki-gun] vs. Tomohiro Ishii [Chaos] (C)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship
BUSHI and Shingo Takagi [LIJ] vs. Roppongi 3K [Chaos] vs. El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru [Suzuki-gun]
NEVER Openweight Championship
Will Ospreay [Chaos] vs. Kota Ibushi (C)
Pre-Show - Gauntlet for #1 Contendership for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship
I would assume there will be at least five teams for the gauntlet. If I were to guess:
Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Beretta, Chuckie T)
Elite (Hangman Page, Marty Scurll, Yujiro Takahashi)
Taguchi Japan (Ryusuke Taguchi, David Finlay, Toa Henare)
GBH (Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Toru Yano...they've just had Yano and Makabe get on good terms again presumably for this)
Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr)...alternatively could be Taichi, Takashi Iizuka, and Minoru Suzuki...Suzuki on the pre-show feels weird and they might just have him do something at New Year's Dash instead)
Then again the gauntlet is replacing the New Japan Rumble, which was always like a 25-30 minute match so there might be more teams to get the New Japan Dads onto the show.
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