The New Beginning in Osaka” and “The New Beginning in Sendai” are the next two major events from New Japan Pro Wrestling set to air live on the New Japan World streaming network.
The 2/11 show from Osaka will be headlined by Hiroshi Tanahashi defending the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against AJ Styles. Styles, the former champion, put himself back in contention with a huge win over Naito at Wrestle Kingdom, followed up with a pin over Tanahashi in a big 8-man tag match the following night.
The 2/14 show from Sendai will be headlined by Shinsuke Nakamura defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Yuji Nagata, following a phenomenal title defense at Wrestle Kingdom.
The full match cards for those shows have been officially announced:
Osaka – 2/11
Sho Tanaka vs. Yohei Komatsu
Captain New Japan & Jay White & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Mascara Dorada & Satoshi Kojima & Tiger Mask
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Jushin Liger vs. Chase Owens & Rob Conway
Kota Ibushi vs. Tomoaki Honma
reDRagon vs. Time Splitters vs. The Young Bucks (IWGP Jr. Tag Team Title Match)
Kenny Omega vs. Ryusuke Taguchi (IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title Match)
Bad Luke Fale & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada & Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano
Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & Yoshi-Hashi vs. Tetsuya Naito & Togi Makabe & Yuji Nagata
Hirooki Goto & Katsuyori Shibata vs. Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson (IWGP Tag Team Title Match)
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. AJ Styles (IWGP Heavyweight Title Match)
Sendai – 2/14
Captain New Japan & Manabu Nakanishi & Sho Tanaka vs. Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma & Yohei Komatsu
Mascara Dorada & Tiger Mask vs. reDRagon
Alex Shelley & Kushida & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks
Jushin Liger vs. Chase Owens (NWA Jr. Heavyweight Title Match)
Rob Conway vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan (NWA Heavyweight Title Match)
Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano vs. Kota Ibushi & Tetsuya Naito
Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada & Yoshi-Hashi
Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson & Toma Tonga vs. Hirooki Goto & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata
Togi Makabe vs. Tomohiro Ishii (NEVER Openweight Title Match)
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Yuji Nagata (IWGP Intercontinental Title Match)
“The Road to The New Beginning” continues this week, as the promotion tours around Japan hyping up the 2/11 and 2/14 events. The tour kicked off on 1/30 from the Tokorozawa Civic Gymnasium, and continued on 2/1 from Korakuen Hall.
Cody Hall, son of WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall (aka Razor Ramon) will make his debut with New Japan at the 2/2 show, as a part of a huge 10-man tag team match. Cody will be getting some excellent exposure in a match with world champion Hiroshi Tanahashi, as well as four other members of the Bullet Club.