Wrestle Kingdom 10
Wrestle Kingdom 10 | |||
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Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling | | ||
Date | January 4, 2016[1] | ||
City | Tokyo, Japan[1] | ||
Venue | Tokyo Dome[1] | ||
Attendance | 25,204[1] | ||
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Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 4, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Tokyo Dome. It was the 25th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show.[2][3] The event featured ten matches and was main evented by Kazuchika Okada defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi.
As part of the talent exchange partnership between NJPW and the American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion, the event featured a match for the ROH World Championship as well as the NJPW debuts of ROH wrestlers Cheeseburger, Jay Lethal, Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe.[4]
Production
Role: | Name: |
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Commentators | Kevin Kelly (English-language announcer) |
Matt Striker (English-language announcer) | |
Yoshitatsu (English-language announcer) | |
Ring announcers | Makoto Abe |
Referees | Kenta Sato |
Marty Asami | |
Red Shoes Unno
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Tiger Hattori |
Background
The event aired in Japan as a
Storylines
Wrestle Kingdom 10 featured ten professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[11]
Wrestle Kingdom 10 was main evented by
The second match for Wrestle Kingdom 10 was set up on November 7, 2015, after Shinsuke Nakamura had retained the
Both of NJPW's
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Jay_Lethal_Feb_27%2C_2016.png/170px-Jay_Lethal_Feb_27%2C_2016.png)
Wrestle Kingdom 10 also featured a match for the
The rest of the matches for Wrestle Kingdom 10 were announced on December 10,
Event
The pre-show featured the New Japan Rumble. Prior to the event, NJPW had announced eight participants for the match,
In the opening match of Wrestle Kingdom 10, The Young Bucks defeated defending champions reDRagon, Roppongi Vice and the team of Matt Sydal and Ricochet in a four-way match to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the fourth time.[43][45] In the second match, Toru Yano and the debuting Jay and Mark Briscoe became the inaugural NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions with a win over Bullet Club's Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga and Yujiro Takahashi.[1][46] In the third match of the event, Jay Lethal retained the ROH World Championship, pinning Michael Elgin after hitting him with his manager Truth Martini's book and a Lethal Injection.[43][47]
In the fourth match of the event, Kushida won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship for the third time by defeating Kenny Omega.
In the seventh match of Wrestle Kingdom 10, Katsuyori Shibata won his first singles title in NJPW by defeating Tomohiro Ishii for the NEVER Openweight Championship.[43][51] In the first ever singles match between Shinsuke Nakamura and A.J. Styles, Nakamura was victorious, retaining the IWGP Intercontinental Championship.[1] After the match, Nakamura and Styles showed respect to one another with a fist bump.[43][52] Finally, in the main event Kazuchika Okada defeated 2015 G1 Climax winner Hiroshi Tanahashi to retain the IWGP Heavyweight Championship,[1][53] marking his first ever Tokyo Dome win over Tanahashi and ending Tanahashi's Tokyo Dome main event win streak at five.[54][55]
Reception
The event drew 25,204 fans to the Tokyo Dome,[1] down from the previous year's announced attendance of 36,000.[56]
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter called the main event "incredible", stating that it felt like a "classic passing of the torch" from Tanahashi to Okada.[43] Overall, Meltzer called the show "fantastic", particularly praising the last three matches, although noting that he felt the show could not match the previous year's Wrestle Kingdom 9. He gave the main event a perfect five-star rating, the semi main event four and three quarter stars and the NEVER Openweight Championship match four and a half stars out of five.[57] At the end of the year, readers of the publication voted Wrestle Kingdom 10 the "Best Major Wrestling Show" of the year, while naming the main event the Pro Wrestling Match of the Year.[58]
James Caldwell of Pro Wrestling Torch stated that Wrestle Kingdom 10 was a "perfect example of how to build a card, especially leading to the final three matches with Shibata vs. Ishii hitting four-stars-plus, Nakamura vs. Styles going a little higher, and Tanahashi vs. Okada closing in epic fashion". He gave the main event a perfect five-star rating.[59] Sean Radican of the same site gave the show an overall score of 10.0, stating that "the quality of the big matches on the card more than delivered", while acknowledging that it was a "flawed show in some ways".[60] Mike Johnson of Pro Wrestling Insider stated that Wrestle Kingdom 10 was "far superior" to the previous year's Wrestle Kingdom 9.[54] Larry Csonka of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 9.25, calling it "excellent", stating that the final three matches "brought the show to another level". He, however, also criticized the first part of the show for its "lazy booking", noting how the first six matches all featured outside interference or weapon attacks with several also kicking off with pre-match attacks.[61]
Aftermath
Hours after the event had concluded, it was reported by multiple sources that A.J. Styles, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson and Shinsuke Nakamura had all given their notice to NJPW on the morning of January 4, announcing that they were leaving the promotion and joining WWE.[62][63] The notices reportedly led to no finishes of matches being changed by booker Gedo.[64] The following day, the rest of Bullet Club turned on Styles, kicking him out of the stable with Kenny Omega assuming leadership of the stable. Omega was also set up as the next challenger for Shinsuke Nakamura's IWGP Intercontinental Championship. This marked Styles' final appearance for NJPW.[65] Meanwhile, the other three were involved in angles setting up future title matches.[66] Anderson and Nakamura remained under NJPW contracts and were expected to finish off their contracted dates with the promotion before leaving.[64][67] On January 5, WWE released an article on its official website, discussing the rumors of Styles, Nakamura, Anderson and Gallows joining the promotion.[68] The following day, Nakamura confirmed in an interview with Tokyo Sports that he would be leaving NJPW at the end of the month and signing with WWE.[69] Styles officially made his WWE debut on January 24, 2016, at the Royal Rumble.[70] Nakamura wrestled his final NJPW match on January 30,[71] making his NXT debut two months later on April 1.[72] The departures led to NJPW scrapping its one-year contract system and starting to offer their wrestlers multi-year contracts.[73] In 2018, at WWE's Royal Rumble, Nakamura won the 2018 Men's Royal Rumble match to earn a World title match at WrestleMania, he chose a WWE Championship match against the champion at that time, AJ Styles (who had retained the title against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn earlier in the night). At WrestleMania, Styles defeated Nakamura to retain the championship. After the match, Nakamura turned heel and attacked Styles. After WrestleMania, the two continued to feud through Greatest Royal Rumble and Backlash with their matches ending in draws. At Money in the Bank, Styles retained the WWE Championship by defeating Nakamura in a Last Man Standing match, ending their feud.
The following month's New Beginning events featured several matches stemming from Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome. The New Beginning in Osaka on February 11 featured two rematches from the show, where Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga and Yujiro Takahashi defeated Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe and Toru Yano to capture the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship and Katsuyori Shibata successfully defended the NEVER Openweight Championship against Tomohiro Ishii. Also during the event, Matt Sydal and Ricochet won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship by defeating The Young Bucks and reDRagon in a three-way match, while the main event featured Kazuchika Okada successfully defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Hirooki Goto.[74] Three days later at The New Beginning in Niigata, the Briscoes and Yano defeated Fale, Tonga and Takahashi in the third title match between the two teams to regain the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. The event also featured Kushida successfully defending the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship against Bushi and Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma successfully defending the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a Wrestle Kingdom 10 rematch against Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson. In the main event of the show, Kenny Omega defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to capture the vacant IWGP Intercontinental Championship.[75]
In March, Tetsuya Naito won the
One year later, at
Results
No. | Results A.J. Styles Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship | 24:18 | | ||||
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10 | Kazuchika Okada (c) (with Gedo) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship | 36:01 | ||||
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New Japan Rumble
Results[43][54][59][82] | ||||
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Entry | Elimination | |||
Order | Name | Order | By | Time |
1 | Jushin Thunder Liger |
5 | Unknown | 14:57 |
2 | Yoshiaki Fujiwara | 2 | Multiple wrestlers | 10:32 |
3 | Tiger Mask | 3 | Saito | 14:05 |
4 | Cheeseburger | 14 | Yoshi-Hashi | 27:51 |
5 | Hiro Saito | 4 | Multiple wrestlers | 14:27 |
6 | Yoshi-Hashi | 15 | Taguchi | 28:19 |
7 | Máscara Dorada |
9 | Unknown | 23:18 |
8 | Captain New Japan | 1 | Fujiwara | 10:26 |
9 | Manabu Nakanishi | 6 | Unknown | 15:12 |
10 | Yuji Nagata | 7 | Haku | 22:39 |
11 | Satoshi Kojima | 8 | Haku | 22:58 |
12 | Hiroyoshi Tenzan | 11 | Taguchi and Yoshi-Hashi | 24:47 |
13 | Ryusuke Taguchi | 17 | Jado | 31:51 |
14 | Shiro Koshinaka | 16 | Jado | 31:30 |
15 | King Haku |
10 | Tenzan | 24:37 |
16 | The Great Kabuki | 12 | Disqualification | 27:02 |
17 | Kazushi Sakuraba | 13 | Taguchi | 27:19 |
18 | Jado | — | — | Winner |
See also
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