Wrestle Kingdom 12 and New Year’s Dash are in the books! The next major shows are The New Beginning in Sapporo and the New Beginning in Osaka. This morning New Japan announced the cards for the three big shows. Both nights in Sapporo and the New Beginning in Osaka will air live on New Japan World with English commentary available. Here are the full cards for the shows:
The New Beginning in Sapporo (night one, January 27th)
IWGP Intercontinental Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi defending against Minoru Suzuki
Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs. Jay White & Roppongi 3K (Sho & Yoh)
Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Gedo vs. SANADA, EVIL & BUSHI
Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi vs. YOSHI-HASHI & Will Ospreay
Cody, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page vs. Kota Ibushi, Juice Robinson & David Finlay
NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa defending against Togi Makabe, Henare & Ryusuke Taguchi
Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs. Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens
Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask IV & KUSHIDA vs. Takashi Iizuka, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi, El Desperado & Taka Michinoku
Michael Elgin vs. Katsuya Kitamura (second match in Kitamura’s trial series)
The New Beginning in Sapporo (night two, January 28th)
IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega defending against Jay White
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks defending against Roppongi 3K (Sho & Yoh)
Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, Will Ospreay & Gedo vs. SANADA, EVIL, Tetsuya Naito, Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI
Cody, Marty Scurll & Hangman Page vs. Kota Ibushi, David Finlay & KUSHIDA
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Michael Elgin vs. Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka
Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Chase Owens vs. Togi Makabe, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Henare
Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs. Yujiro Takahashi & Leo Tonga
Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask IV, Ryusuke Taguchi & Shota Unno vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Taichi, El Desperado & Taka Michinoku
Juice Robinson vs. Katsuya Kitamura (third match in Kitamura’s trial series)
The New Beginning in Osaka (February 10th)
IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada defending against SANADA
NEVER Openweight Champion Hirooki Goto defending against EVIL
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay defending against Hiromu Takahashi
Tetsuya Naito vs. YOSHI-HASHI
Gedo vs. BUSHI
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, KUSHIDA & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka, Taichi & Taka Michinoku
Michael Elgin, Juice Robinson & David Finlay vs. Jay White, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano
Roppongi 3K (Sho & Yoh) vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado
Yuji Nagata vs. Katsuya Kitamura (sixth match in Kitamura’s trial series
