New Japan Pro Wrestling presents King of Pro Wrestling on Monday. The show will be headlined by the third Three Way Match in the history of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. Marty Scurll will face KUSHIDA for the vacant IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship. Also, Hiroshi Tanahashi will defend his IWGP Heavyweight Championship Challenge Certificate against Jay White.
The big story headed into King of Pro Wrestling is the news that Los Ingobernables de Japon will add a new member to their popular faction. LIJ Leader Tetsuya Naito says that the new member is someone that he’s had his eye on. Speculation has ranged from former-Dragon Gate wrestler Shingo Takagi to Roppongi 3K’s YOH.
The show is set to air at 4am EDT on NJPWWorld.com
- IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado) (c) vs. Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask.
- Great Bash Heel (Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe) vs. Juice Robinson & Toa Henare
- Bullet Club Elite (Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Hangman Page & Chase Owens) vs. Bullet Club OGs (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale & Taiji Ishimori)
- CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto & Will Ospreay) vs. Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Taichi & Takashi Iizuka)
- CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano, SHO & YOH) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, SANADA, BUSHI & X)
- Special Singles Match: EVIL vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
- IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match: Marty Scurll vs. KUSHIDA
- IWGP Heavyweight Championship Challenge Certificate Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Jay White
- IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Kota Ibushi vs. Cody
Coming up October 8 Monday, KING OF PRO-WRESTLING will take place at Ryogoku Sumo Hall!
Triple threat match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship: @KennyOmegamanX vs @ibushi_kota vs @CodyRhodes
and more!!https://t.co/bZNRE8F4qx#njpw #njkopw pic.twitter.com/jeygecrkTo— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) October 7, 2018