NJPW News: Opening Contest & Final Lineup For Friday’s Wrestle Kingdom 13

A final look at the lineup for NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 13!

The New Year has finally arrived and that means we are only three days out from New Japan Pro Wrestling’s massive Wrestle Kingdom 13 from the Tokyo Dome.

The card for the event has pretty well been set after a minor change was made to the Pre-Show following an injury to Michael Elgin a couple of weeks back, now being replaced by Yuji Nagata in the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Title #1 Contender’s Gauntlet.

Additionally, we also know that the opening contest of the main show will be for the NEVER Openweight Championship as Kota Ibushi defends against Will Ospreay. Here’s a look at the final lineup for Wrestle Kingdom 13, which you can catch live on FITE this Friday at 3AM EST. AXS TV will also be providing same-day coverage, airing two hours of the event at 8PM:

IWGP Heavyweight Championship
(C) Kenny Omega vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

IWGP Intercontinental Championship
(C) Chris Jericho vs. Tetsuya Naito

Kazuchika Okada vs. ‘Switchblade’ Jay White

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
(C) KUSHIDA vs. Taiji Ishimori

IWGP United States Championship
(C) Cody vs. Juice Robinson

Triple Threat for the IWGP Tag Team Championship
(C) The Guerrillas Of Destiny vs EVIL & SANADA vs. The Young Bucks

RevPro British Heavyweight Title
(C) Tomohiro Ishii vs. Zack Sabre Jr.

Triple Threat for the IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship
(C) El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Roppongi 3K vs. BUSHI & Shingo Takagi

NEVER Openweight Championship
(C) Kota Ibushi vs. Will Ospreay

Pre-Show: NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Title #1 Contender Gauntlet
Best Friends & Hirooki Goto vs. Killer Elite Squad & Minoru Suzuki vs.
Toru Yano, Togi Makabe & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. David Finley, Jeff Cobb & Yuji Nagata vs.
Marty Scurll, Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page