NJPW Announces Opening Matches For Wrestle Kingdom 14

Prior to Wrestle Kingdom 14 going live, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced several matches for the pre-shows an hour before the main shows. Night one on January 4th will feature an eight-man tag team bout featuring Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Yuya Uemura and Yota Tsuji v. Alex Coughlin, Karl Fredericks Clark Connors and Toa Henare. Another match announced was Satoshi Kojima and Horoyoshi Tenzan v. Yuji Nagata and Manabu Nakanishi.

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On night two, the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Titles will be on the line in a gauntlet match. Champions Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe and Toru Yano will be defending the titles against the following teams: Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI and Robbie Eagles | EVIL, BUSHI and Shingo Takagi | TAICHI, El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale and Yujiro Takahashi.

Below is the complete lineup for Wrestle Kingdom inside the Tokyo Dome:

Day 1

* Kazuchika Okada (c) v. Kota Ibushi (IWGP Heavyweight Championship)
* Jay White (c) v. Tetsuya Naito (IWGP Intercontinental Championship)
* Will Ospreay (c) v. Hiromu Takahashi ( IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship)
* Lance Archer (c) v. Jon Moxley (IWGP United States Championship)
* The Guerrillas of Destiny (c) v. David Finlay and Juice Robinson (IWGP Tag Team Championship)
* YOSHI-HASHI, Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii, and Hirooki Goto v. Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, Bad Luck Fale, and KENTA
* BUSHI, Shingo Takagi, EVIL, and SANADA v. El Desperado, Taichi, Minoru Suzuki and Zack Sabre Jr.
* Jushin Thunder Liger, Tatsumi Fujinami, The Great Sasuke, and Tiger Mask (with El Samurai) v. Naoki Sano, Shinjiro Otani, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and Ryusuke Taguchi (with Kuniaki Kobayashi)
* Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Yuya Uemura and Yota Tsuji v. Alex Coughlin, Karl Fredericks Clark Connors and Toa Henare
* Satoshi Kojima and Horoyoshi Tenzan v. Yuji Nagata and Manabu Nakanishi

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Day 2

* IWGP Champion v. IWGP Intercontinental Champion (Title vs. Title Match)
* Hiroshi Tanahashi v. Chris Jericho
* Taiji Ishimori and El Phantasmo (c) v. Roppongi 3K (IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship)
* Loser of Okada v. Ibushi v. Loser of White v. Naito
* KENTA (c) v. Hirooki Goto (NEVER Openweight Championship)
* Winner of the Lance Archer/Moxley Match (c) v. Juice Robinson (IWGP United States Championship)
* Zack Sabre Jr (c) v. SANADA (RevPro British Heavyweight Championship)
* Jushin Liger and Naoki Sano v. Ryu Lee (Dragon Lee) and Hiromu Takahashi (Jushin Liger's Retirement Match)
* Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe and Toru Yano (c) v. Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI and Robbie Eagles | EVIL, BUSHI and Shingo Takagi | TAICHI, El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru | Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale and Yujiro Takahashi (Gauntlet match for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Titles)

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