Several Titles Change Hands At NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19
01/04/2025 04:54 AM
Several new champions were crowned at New Japan Pro-Wrestlingβs Wrestle Kingdom 19 event.
First-up, Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita (Ichiban Sweet Boys) won the Four-Way Tokyo Ladder Match to capture the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, defeating defending champions Intergalactic Jet Setters (Kevin Knight and Kushida), Catch 2/2 (TJP and Francesco Akira) and Bullet Club War Dogs (Clark Connors and Drilla Moloney).
Ichiban Sweet Boys aka Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita win the TOKYO TERROR LADDER opener on WK19 to become the new IWGP Jr. Tag Team Champions!
THIS MATCH WAS BATSHIT CRAZY.
pic.twitter.com/tehu0pNL14β Drainmaker π§οΈ π΅ (@DrainBamager) January 4, 2025
Two matches later, after Mayu Iwatani retained her IWGP Womenβs Championship, the NJPW World Television Championship changed hands with El Phantasmo dethroning Ren Narita (and also beating Jeff Cobb and Ryohei Oiwa, as this was a four-way match).
El Phantasmo with the win, let's go!
Finally someone broke that damn push up board that Narita has been using for what feels like forever.
Still waiting for a match that feels like a Wrestle Kingdom match though. #njwk19pic.twitter.com/XVP3pvhyLz
β WrestleDrop (@wrestle_drop) January 4, 2025
After that, Konosuke Takeshita defeated Shingo Takagi to not only retain his AEW International Championship, but win Takagiβs NEVER Openweight Championship, as this was a Winner Takes All match. This means Takeshita will have to defend tomorrow night at Wrestle Dynasty against Tomohiro Ishii.
Konosuke Takeshita wins the Open-weight NEVER championship!!!! pic.twitter.com/Oc19NxOhcd
β ππ§ππ¨π©π‘π πππ§ππππ©ππ€π£ππ¨π©π¨ (@WrestlePerfect) January 4, 2025
At the time of this publication, the rest of the card has yet to play out. If any other titles change hands, this post will be updated.
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