Night 2 of New Japan Pro Wrestling’ Wrestle Kingdom 15 is now underway. The card for the second show of the event again has some massive Championship matches, including the now confirmed main event between Kota Ibushi and Jay White. That match will be contested for the IWGP Heavyweight & Intercontinental Championships.
One of the Championship matches on the night saw Suzuki-Gun (El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) defend their IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships against One or Eight (Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato).
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles
NJPW1972.com hyped the match as follows. “After the young Master Wato was able to pin both El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru in singles and tag competition in recent weeks, and with a pinfall win for Taguchi over Kanemaru on December 22 to boot, Ryusuke taguchi and Master Wato will challenge for IWGP Jr. tag gold on January 5.”
Result – Suzuki-Gun retain their titles after Desperado hit Taguchi with the Pinche Loco
Here’s the full card for Wrestle Kingdom 15 Night 2:
- Double IWGP Heavyweight & Intercontinental Championships – Jay White vs Kota Ibushi (c)
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship – Taiji Ishimori (c) vs Hiromu TakahashiÂ
- EVIL vs SANADA
- NEVER Openweight Championship – Shingo Takagi (c) vs Jeff Cobb
- IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championships – Suzuki-Gun (El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) (c) vs One or Eight (Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato)
- KOPW 2021 – Bad Luck Fale vs Chase Owens vs BUSHI vs Toru Yano
Here’s the International Start Times for Night 2:
- Jan 3 11:00 pm (PST)
- 2:00 am (EST)
- 7:00 am (GMT)
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