• Kosei Fujita & Yasutaka Yano wrestle to a time-limit draw
• TenCozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) & Yuji Nagata def. Akitoshi Saito, King Tany, & Muhammad Yone
• CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, & YOSHI-HASHI), Master Wato, & Ryusuke Taguchi def. Daiki Inaba, Daisuke Harada, Hajime Ohara, Kinya Okada, & Yoshiki Inamura
• SHO def. Atsushi Kotoge
• HAYATA & Seiki Yoshioka def. Bullet Club (Gedo & Taiji Ishimori)
• Suzuki-gun (DOUKI & El Desperado) def. NOSAWA RONGAI & YO-HEY
• Kazushi Sakuraba, Takashi Sugiura, & Toru Yano def. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, & TAKA Michinoku)
• Go Shiozaki & Masa Kitamura def. Bullet Club (Dick Togo & EVIL)
• Naomichi Marufuji & Yoshinari Ogawa def. Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Zack Sabre, Jr.)
• Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA, Shingo Takagi, & Tetsuya Naito) def. ALEJA, Katsuhiko Nakajima, Kenoh, Manabu Soya, & Tadasuke vs.
• Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada def. Keiji Muto & Kiyomiya Kaito

DATE: January 8, 2022 12:00 am
LOCATION: Yokohama Arena, Kanagawa, Japan
AVAILABLE ON: NJPW World

* Pre-show: Kosei Fujita vs. Yasutaka Yano

* Pre-show: Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima) and Yuji Nagata vs. Funky Express (King Tany, Muhammad Yone, Akitoshi Saito)

* NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champion Sho vs. Atsushi Kotoge

* The Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori, Gedo) vs. Stinger (Seiki Yoshioka, GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion & GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion Hayata)

* Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, Douki) vs. Yo-Hey and Nosawa Rongai

* Chaos (NEVER Openweight Champion Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto, Yoshi-Hashi), Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Daisuke Harada, Hajime Ohara, Daiki Inaba, Akitoshi Saito and Kinya Okada

* Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, IWGP Tag Team Champion Zack Sabre Jr.) vs. Yoshinari Ogawa and GHC Tag Team Champion Naomichi Marufuji

* House of Torture (NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champion Evil, Dick Togo) vs. Go Shiozaki and Masa Kitamiya

* IWGP Tag Team Champion Taichi, Minoru Suzuki and Taka Michinoku vs. Kazushi Sakuraba, Takashi Sugiura and TBA

* Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kaito Kiyomiya and GHC Tag Team Champion Keiji Mutoh

*Los Ingobernables de Japón (IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito, Sanada, Hiromu Takahashi, Bushi) vs. Kongo (GHC Heavyweight Champion Katsuhiko Nakajima, GHC National Champion Kenoh, Manabu Soya, Tadasuke, Aleja)

IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Flying Tiger (Robbie Eagles & Tiger Mask) (c) defeated Bullet Club (Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo) vs. The Mega Coaches (Ryusuke Taguchi & Rocky Romero)

Tam Nakano & Saya Kamitani defeated Mayu Iwatani & Starlight Kid

PROVISIONAL KOPW 2022 TROPHY
Minoru Suzuki defeated Chase Owens, Cima, and Toru Yano

NEVER OPENWEIGHT 6-MAN TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
House of Torture (Evil, Yujiro Takahashi & Sho) (c) (w/ Dick Togo) defeated Chaos (Hirooki Goto, Yoshi-Hashi & Yoh)

Sanada defeated Great-O-Khan

Tetsuya Naito defeated Jeff Cobb

NO DQ MATCH FOR THE IWGP UNITED STATES HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated KENTA (New IWGP United States Champion)

IWGP WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Kazuchika Okada (c) defeated Will Ospreay

Pro-Wrestling NOAH made its presence felt during New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s flagship event. Members of the NOAH roster briefly occupied the ring during Night 2 of Wrestle Kingdom 16 on Wednesday.

A large contingent of NOAH wrestlers was led to the ring by Keiji Mutoh. Speaking during the English language broadcast on New Japan World, Chris Charlton said it was Muto’s first time in Tokyo Dome since Wrestle Kingdom 8.

Keiji Mutoh is a former IWGP Heavyweight Champion from his years in New Japan. Early last year, Mutoh signed a contract with Pro-Wrestling NOAH, where he won the GHC Heavyweight Championship. Mutoh is currently one-half of the GHC Tag Team Champions alongside Naomichi Marufuji.

Kaito Kiyomiya and Kenoh took the microphone and addressed the crowd at the Tokyo Dome. They were eventually confronted by New Japan’s Shingo Takagi, Hiromu Takahashi, and BUSHI. The trio exchanged words with the NOAH wrestlers inside the ring but left without any physical interaction.

Keiji Mutoh took a picture while the NOAH wrestlers were in the ring. He later posted it on Twitter, along with words explaining that NOAH had occupied the ring at New Japan’s biggest event of the year.

Members of the Pro-Wrestling NOAH and New Japan Pro-Wrestling rosters are preparing to meet in matches on Night 3 of Wrestle Kingdom 16. That card will be held at Yokohama Arena on Saturday.

DATE: January 5, 2022 12:00 am
LOCATION: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
AVAILABLE ON:NJPW World

CARD

– IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Tiger Mask & Robbie Eagles (c) vs. Rocky Romero & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori

– Starlight Kid & Mayu Iwatani vs. Saya Kamitani & Tam Nakano

– KOPW 2022 Four Way

– NEVER Six-Man Tag Team Championship: SHO, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL (c) vs. YOH, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto

– SANADA vs. Great-O-Khan

– Tetsuya Naito vs. Jeff Cobb

– IWGP US Heavyweight Championship: KENTA (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi in a No DQ Match

– IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Will Ospreay

Yoh defeated Sho w/ Dick Togo

Bullet Club (KENTA, Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and The Mega Coaches (Ryusuke Taguchi & Rocky Romero)

United Empire (Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, Sanada & Bushi)

Katsuyori Shibata defeated Ren Narita

NEVER OPENWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Evil (with Dick Togo) defeated Tomohiro Ishii  (new NEVER Openweight Championship)

IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
El Desperado defeated Hiromu Takahashi

IWGP WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION
Kazuchika Okada defeated Shingo Takagi (New IWGP Heavyweight Champion)

DATE: January 4, 2022 12:00 am
LOCATION: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
AVAILABLE ON:NJPW World

CARD

– New Japan Ranbo: Final Four Advance to KOPW 2022 Four-Way Match on Night Two

– YOH vs. SHO

– Rocky Romero, Ryusuke Taguchi & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. El Phantasmo, Taiji Ishimori & KENTA

– BUSHI, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito vs. Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb

– Katsuyori Shibata vs. X in a Catch Wrestling Rules Match

– NEVER Openweight Championship: Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. EVIL

– IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi (c) vs. YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto (World Tag League Winner)

– IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Desperado (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi (BOSJ Winner)

– IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Shingo Takagi (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada (G1 Climax Winner)

During today’s NJPW Wrestle Grand Slam, it was announced Wrestle Kingdom 16 will be a three-night event on January 4, January 5, and January 8, 2022.

The first two show are set to take place in the Tokyo Dome and the third night happens in Yokohama Arena. This is in celebration of NJPW’s 50th anniversary with the company being founded in 1972 by Antonio Inoki.

Typically, New Year Dash is right after Wrestle Kingdom, but no word yet on if that event is still going to happen in 2022.

Up until 2020, Wrestle Kingdom has been a one-night event where it then jumped to two nights.

You can check out the video announcement below:

🚨特報🚨

なんと2022年の『WRESTLE KINGDOM 16』は史上初の“3連戦”👏👏👏　

・1月4日(火)、5日(水)は東京ドーム2連戦🏟‼️

・1月8日(土) には横浜アリーナでも開催決定‼️

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— NJPW WORLD (@njpwworld) September 4, 2021

Source: Wrestling Inc.