NJPW’s first-ever coffin match added to Road to Tokyo Dome event
NJPW will hold its first-ever coffin match on the Friday, December 22 Road to Tokyo Dome event, the go-home show for Wrestle Kingdom 18.
Bullet Club’s War Dogs (Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney) will face Catch 2/2 (TJP & Francesco Akira) in a tag team coffin match on Friday’s Road to Tokyo Dome show. Catch 2/2 issued the challenge for the coffin match at Thursday’s Road to Tokyo Dome event, and the match has officially been added to Friday’s lineup in place of what were originally slated to be singles matches with Akira vs. Moloney & Connors vs. TJP.
Connors & Moloney hold the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships and will defend them against TJP & Akira at Wrestle Kingdom 18 at the Tokyo Dome on Thursday, January 4.
Here is the updated card for Friday’s Road to Tokyo Dome event, the Wrestle Kingdom go-home show. The event will air for free on NJPW World at 4:30 a.m. Eastern time:
- SANADA, Taichi & Yuya Uemura vs. Tetsuya Naito, Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji
- Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Kosei Fujita
- Coffin match: Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney vs. TJP & Francesco Akira
- Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI vs. El Desperado & Master Wato
- Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. Yuto Nakashima & Oskar Leube
- Tomohiro Ishii vs. Callum Newman
- Masked Horse & Masked Boltin vs. Toru Yano & YOH
- Togi Makabe & Shoma Kato vs. Satoshi Kojima & Katsuya Murashima
