Hiroshi Tanahashi believes Tetsuya Naito will be there for his retirement match: “I feel like Naito will be at the Tokyo Dome. When Nakamura came to Japan, I was talking about various things, and we were saying that we wanted to do it one last time, but well, there are a lot of things going on. Nakamura was always my rival, and Naito joined New Japan because he liked Tanahashi. I want them to think, ‘I wasn’t wrong.’ I want them to think, ‘I’m glad I was Tanahashi’s rival,’ and ‘I’m glad I admired Tanahashi,’ and I want all the fans to think, ‘I’m glad I supported Tanahashi,’ and I want it all to have a happy ending.”
Speaking of this morning’s Wrestle Kingdom 20 card here’s the final lineup, with the pre-show starting at 1:15 AM ET. (NJPW)
- Pre-Show: Shoma Kato & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Katsuya Murashima & Masatora Yasuda
- Pre-Show NJPW World TV Title Match: El Phantasmo (c) vs. Chris Brookes
- NEVER Openweight 6 Man Championship Tornado Ranbo: YOH, Master Wato & Toru Yano (c) vs. Kaisei Takechi, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura vs. Satoshi Kojima, Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Oleg Boltin, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa) vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe & Tiger Mask vs. Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Clark Connors vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
- IWGP Women’s & NJPW STRONG Women’s Double Title Match: Syuri (c) vs. Saya Kamitani (c)
- David Finlay, Shingo Takagi, Gabe Kidd, Drilla Moloney & Hiromu Takahashi vs. United Empire (Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan, HENARE, Andrade El Idolo, and Jake Lee)
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Number One Contender Four Way Match: SHO vs. El Desperado vs. Taiji Ishimori vs. Kosei Fujita
- NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Aaron Wolf vs. EVIL
- IWGP Global & IWGP World Heavyweight Double Title Match Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita (c)
- Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
UPDATE: And now that the show has taken place the winners have been highlighted in bold.
Hechicero earned a TNT Title shot against Mark Briscoe by defeating Komander on Collision. (AEW)
Matt Cardona relinquished his ACW World Title due to his WWE return.
Andrade El Idolo will be in action for HOG on January 30th.
Jonathan Gresham is working Beyond Wrestling on January 23rd, one week earlier than his originally expected in-ring return. He’s recovering from a pair of strokes suffered last year.
Talla Tonga beat Apollo Crews in an unaired match from SmackDown. (PWI)
Steve Borden Jr. had a ROH dark match before Collision on Saturday.
Here’s the updated card for Dynamite on Wednesday. (AEW)
- Jon Moxley (c) vs. Shelton Benjamin: AEW Continental Championship Eliminator
- Bandido vs. Sammy Guevara
- Toni Storm vs. Marina Shafir
- Swerve Strickland & Hangman Page vs. Powerhouse Hobbs & HOOK: Lights Out Match
Here are WWE house show results from Worcester, MA. (WBS)
- IYO SKY defeated Raquel Rodriguez
- Fraxiom (Axiom & Nathan Frazer) defeated The New Day (Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods)
- Carmelo Hayes defeated The Miz to retain the WWE United States Championship
- The Wyatt Sicks (Uncle Howdy, Joe Gacy, Erick Rowan, & Dexter Lumis) defeated The MFTs (Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa, JC Mateo, & Talla Tonga)
- Jade Cargill defeated Bayley to retain the WWE Women’s Championship
- Gunther defeated Sami Zayn
- Bron Breakker & Bronson Reed defeated The War Raiders (Erik & Ivar)
- Cody Rhodes defeated Drew McIntyre to retain the Undisputed WWE Title in a Steel Cage Match
