NJPW New Beginning Tama Tonga EVIL
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NEVER Openweight Title Match, More Set For NJPW New Beginning In Nagoya

Tama Tonga will defend the gold at NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya.

NJPW announced that EVIL will challenge Tonga for the NEVER Openweight Championship at the January 20 event. Tonga regained the gold at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18 but said January would be his last month with the company.

Plus, Taiji Ishimori will defend the KOPW 2024 Title against Great-O-Khan. Elsewhere on the show, Los Ingobernables De Japon will battle Just Five Guys.

Additionally, Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe, and Tomohiro Ishii will face TMDK/

The full card is as follows:

  • NEVER Openweight Championship: Tama Tonga (c) vs. EVIL
  • KOPW 2024: Taiji Ishimori (c) vs. Great-O-Khan
  • Los Ingobernables De Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito) vs. Just Five Guys (TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi & SANADA)
  • Togi Makabe, Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada vs. TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Zack Sabre Jr.)
  • Guerrillas of Destiny (Hikuleo & El Phantasmo) vs BULLET CLUB (Chase Owens & KENTA)
  • El DespeWato (Master Wato & El Desperado) vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) 
  • United Empire (Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, TJP, HENARE & Jeff Cobb) vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gabe Kidd, Alex Coughlin & David Finlay) 
  • Tomoaki Honma & Shota Umino vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita & Yujiro Takahashi)
  • Kickoff Match: Shoma Kato vs. Katsuya Murashima

WrestleZone will have coverage of NJPW New Beginning in Nagoya once it airs.

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