New Japan Pro-Wrestling revealed the first look at the IWGP Global Championship overnight at the Wrestle Kingdom 18 press conference.
The Wrestle Kingdom 18 press conference took place overnight in preparation for New Japan’s biggest event of the year.
During the event, we got our first look at the IWGP Global Championship, which you can see in the embedded tweet below.
This title will be on the line in a three-way match between Will Ospreay, Jon Moxley, and David Finlay. Here’s a recap of what went down, courtesy of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s official website.
Wrestle Kingdom 18 Press Conference recap
The IWGP Global Championship was shown to the public for the first time during the press conference, with David Finlay confident that he would be its first holder. Stating that he was wrestling ‘the bedrock (Jon Moxley) and the shiny new toy (Will Ospreay) of AEW,’ Finlay said ‘it’ll be my pleasure to beat both of you tomorrow’.
Finlay said that he had ‘engineered all of this,’ including attacking his opponents in Osaka and destroying both the IWGP US and UK Championships ‘without consequence, because the world is rigged, and I was born on the side where I get to do what I want.’ That led Moxley to retort that ‘it took balls for you to do what you did, but when you disrespected everything that came before you, it came time for you to learn what it’s like to take the heat’.
After conferring with Ospreay, Moxley took the Briton up on his offer of ‘a ceasefire’ in the opening five minutes of the three way match to take out Finlay and then ‘leave things to what the fans want to see, a singles match between Jon Moxley and Will Ospreay’. With some non alcoholic beer to sweeten the deal, Moxley and Ospreay thanked the Japanese fans for the positive mark they had made on the contender’s respective careers before departing.
Wrestle Kingdom 18 takes place on January 4 at the Tokyo Dome.
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