NJPW announces Wrestling World 2024 for Taiwan

  • Ian Carey
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NJPW has officially announced its return to Taiwan. 

The promotion will present Wrestling World 2024 on Sunday, April 14, 2024, at the Zepp New Taipei in New Taipei City. 

The event will kickstart the Asia Pacific Federation of Wrestling (APFW). The federation was announced in January “with the aim of broadening professional wrestling across Asia and worldwide.” 

From NJPW1972.com:

As first promised at the press conference announcing the Asia Pacific Federation of Wrestling this January, the first major event promoted under the APFW banner will see NJPW returning to Taiwan for the first time since 2016. April 14 will see Zepp New Taipei host Wrestling World 2024, presented by Weicker. 

APFW includes six promotions from Japan (NJPW, Stardom), China (DFW), Taiwan (Puzzle), Thailand (SetUp), and Singapore (GrappleMax). 

The federation first revealed in January that it planned to run an event in Taiwan this April. It will be the first NJPW show there since Wrestling World 2016. 

At January’s press conference announcing the APFW, Yuji Nagata spoke about the importance of increasing their reach in Taiwan. 

Nagata said:

In 2012 I went to Taiwan as part of a joint All Japan and New Japan event. NJPW was on TV there, on Z Channel, and that meant the fans knew us and were really thrilled to see us out there, greeting us in the airport and everything. There was this singer Wu Bai, really famous over there. I met him at the building and he was really excited. It went to show for me that they know us overt in Taiwan and there’s a lot of potential for NJPW over there.