New Japan Pro-Wrestling's biggest show of the year, Wrestle Kingdom 20, is emanating out of the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan!
Welcome to The Ring Report's live coverage of this pay-per-view, wherein all the winners of the matches will be posted, along with any other highlights and information you need to know as the event is going on.
The event will begin with a pre-show at 1:15 a.m. ET with the main card starting at 2 a.m. You can check out the event through NJPWWorld.com (for around $10 for new subscribers) or TrillerTV (for $29.99)
Here are your results for New Japan Pro Wrestling's Wrestle Kingdom 20:
- Katsuya Murashima and Masatora Yasuda defeated Shoma Kato and Tatsuya Matsumoto by pinfall.
- Singles Match for the NJPW World Television Championship: El Phantasmo (c) (with Jado) retained over Chris Brookes by pinfall.
- Ranbo Match for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship: Toru Yano and Spiritech (Master Wato and Yoh) (c) vs Tiger Mask, Togi Makabe, and Ryusuke Taguchi vs Boltin Oleg and Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi) vs Team 150 (Tomohiro Ishii, Taichi, and Satoshi Kojima) vs House of Torture (Ren Narita, Sanada, and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) vs TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa, and Hartley Jackson) vs Kaisei Takechi and RoughStorm (Shota Umino and Yuya Uemura) vs Bullet Club War Dogs (Clark Connors, Oskar, and Yuto-Ice) was won by TMDK
- Winner Takes All Match for the IWGP Women's Championship and the Strong Women's Championship: Syuri (IWGP) defeated Saya Kamitani (Strong) by pinfall
- United Empire (Andrade El Ídolo, Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan, Henare, and Jake Lee) (with Jakob Austin Young) defeated Bullet Club War Dogs (David Finlay, Gabe Kidd, and Drilla Moloney) and Unaffiliated (Shingo Takagi and Hiromu Takahashi) (with Gedo) by pinfall
- Four-Way Match to Determine the #1 Contender for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: El Desperado defeated Kosei Fujita, Taiji Ishimori, and Sho by pinfall
- Singles Match for the NEVER Openweight Championship: Aaron Wolf defeated Evil (c) (with Dick Togo and Don Fale) by technical submission
- Winner Takes All Match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship and the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (Global) defeated Konosuke Takeshita (World) (with Rocky Romero) by submission
- Singles Match: Kazuchika Okada defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi by pinfall — Stipulation: This was Tanahashi’s retirement match
What did you think of the pay-per-view? Was this a fitting end to Tanahashi's career? Drop your thoughts in the comments section below to keep the discussion going!
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