Get to Know NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18, New Year Dash Results

On Thursday, New Japan Pro Wrestling organized its most prestigious annual show, Wrestle Kingdom, in the iconic Tokyo Dome.

This year's edition was number 18, and it was the first after the appointment of the new NJPW President Hiroshi Tanahashi who reflected that he would continue his career as a pro wrestler, along with his office roles. Tanahashi faced ZSJ and captured the IWGP World TV title in an impressive technical contest against the best technical wrestler in the world.

Moreover, NJPW's star and the leader of the iconic Bullet Club David Finlay defeated NJPW/AEW star Jon Moxley, and the latest AEW men's signing Will Ospreay in a 3-way match to be the first ever IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion.

Okada managed to beat the American Dragon Bryan Danielson in the match of the generations.

NJPW legend Naito finished his story and captured his first win at the Wrestle Kingdom main event after long years of failure, he also captured the highest NJPW title, IWGP World Heavyweight after defeating his former LIJ mate SANADA in an iconic match.

The activities of the Wrestle Kingdom week were concluded on Friday with the NJPW New Year Dash.

During the event, a new KOPW was crowned, in addition, the iconic NJPW faction Chaos teamed up the iconic AEW's Blackpool Combat Club in a tag team match.

Will Ospreay announced that his final NJPW commitment for the current run will be at Battle in the Valley against Okada. 

Former WWE Superstar Matt Riddle confronted Tanahashi for a match for the TV title at Battle in the Valley.

Battle in the Valley will take place on January 13 in California.

The Full Results of NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18

Great-O-Khan, Taiji Ishimori, Toru Yano, and Yoh won the New Japan Ranbo to determine a challenger for the Provisional KOPW 2024 Championship at New Year Dash

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: Bullet Club War Dogs (c) lost to Catch 2/2

NJPW World Television Championship: Zack Sabre Jr. (c) lost to Hiroshi Tanahashi

Yota Tsuji lost to Yuya Uemura

Tag Team Match: Shota Umino & Kaito Kiyomiya lost to House of Torture's Evil & Ren Narita

NEVER Openweight Championship: Shingo Takagi (c) lost to Tama Tonga

IWGP Tag Team Titles & Strong Openweight Tag Team Titles (Winners Take All) Match: IWGP TG Champions Bishamon lost to Strong Openweight TG Champions Guerrillas of Destiny

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Hiromu Takahashi (c) lost to El Desperado

3-Way Match for the inaugural IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: David Finlay defeated Will Ospreay and Jon Moxley 

Kazuchika Okada defeated Bryan Danielson

IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Sanada (c) lost to Tetsuya Naito

New Year Dash Results

NJPW World Television Championship: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) defeated Ryusuke Taguchi 

Tag Team Match: Bishamon defeated Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa 

Tag Team Match: Guerrillas of Destiny defeated Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima 

12-Man Tag Team Match: Shota Umino, El Desperado, Master Wato, Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe & Tama Tonga defeated House of Torture 

10-Man Tag Team Match: United Empire vs. Bullet Club War Dogs ended in a no-contest 

10-Man Tag Team Match: Just 5 Guys defeated Los Ingobernables de Japon 

4-Way Match for KOPW 2024 Championship: Taiji Ishimori defeated Great-O-Khan, Toru Yano and Yoh 

8-Man Tag Team Match: TMDK defeated Chaos's Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii and Blackpool Combat Club's Jon Moxley & Bryan Danielson