Stardom Match Announced For NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14
As reported yesterday, Stardom will have a match at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14, which is on January 4 and 5. According to F4WOnline, it will be a dark match and take place on night one of NJPW's biggest show of the year.
Stardom has since announced it will be Mayu Iwatani and Arisa Hoshiki vs. Hana Kimura and Giulia.
As noted in October, Bushiroad, NJPW's parent company, had purchased the all-woman's Japanese promotion, which will be run separate from NJPW.
Below are the cards for each night:
Night One
IWGP HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kota Ibushi
IWGP INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Jay White (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito
IWGP JR. HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Will Ospreay (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
IWGP UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP
Lance Archer (c) vs. Jon Moxley
IWGP TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
The Guerrillas of Destiny (c) vs. David Finlay and Juice Robinson
YOSHI-HASHI, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii, and Hirooki Goto vs. Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, Bad Luck Fale, and KENTA
BUSHI, Shingo Takagi, EVIL, and SANADA vs. El Desperado, Taichi, Minoru Suzuki and Zack Sabre Jr.
Jushin Liger, Tiger Mask, Tatsumi Fujinami and The Great Sasuke (with El Samurai) vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Shinjiro Ootani and Naoki Sano (with Kuniaki Kobayashi)
PRE-SHOW
Yuya Uemura, Yota Tsuji, Tomoaki Honma, and Togi Makabe vs. Alex Coughlin, Clark Connors, Karl Fredericks, and Toa Henare
PRE-SHOW
Satoshi Kojima and Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Manabu Nakanishi and Yuji Nagata
DARK MATCH
Mayu Iwatani and Arisa Hoshiki vs. Hana Kimura and Giulia
Night Two
TITLE VS. TITLE
IWGP Heavyweight Champion vs. IWGP Intercontinental Champion
Loser of Okada / Ibushi vs. Loser of White / Naito
Chris Jericho vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
IWGP JR. HEAVYWEIGHT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo (c) vs. SHO and YOH
NEVER OPENWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
KENTA (c) vs. Hirooki Goto
IWGP UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP
Winner of the Archer / Moxley Match (c) vs. Juice Robinson
REVPRO BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Zack Sabre Jr (c) vs. SANADA
LIGER'S RETIREMENT MATCH
Jushin Thunder Liger and Naoki Sano vs. Ryu Lee and Hiromu Takahashi
PRE-SHOW – NEVER OPENWEIGHT 6-MAN TAG TEAM GAUNTLET MATCH
Ryusuke Taguchi, Toru Yano, and Togi Makabe (c) vs. Robbie Eagles, YOSHI-HASHI, & Tomohiro Ishii, and BUSHI, Shingo Takagi, & EVIL, and Yoshinobu Kanemaru, El Desperado, & Taichi, and Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, & Bad Luck Fale
— We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) December 25, 2019