When it comes to New Japan Pro-Wrestling, there is one show each year that matters the most — that show being Wrestle Kingdom. Friday, Wrestle Kingdom 13 is set to take place inside the usual venue of the Tokyo Dome with, once again, some amazing matches going down. The annual Jan. 4 extravaganza rarely fails to deliver, and this year should absolutely be no different. The card will be headlined with Kenny Omega putting the IWGP heavyweight championship on the line against the “Ace” of New Japan, Hiroshi Tanahashi.

Wrestle Kingdom 13 viewing information

Date: Friday, Jan. 4
Location: Tokyo Dome — Tokyo, Japan
Start times:  5 p.m. JST | 3 a.m. ET (pre-show starts at 2 a.m.) | 2 a.m. CT | 12 a.m. PT

Wrestle Kingdom 13 match card

• IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
• IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Chris Jericho (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito
• Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White
• IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: Kushida (c) vs. Taiji Ishimori
• IWGP United States Championship: Cody (c) vs. Juice Robinson
• IWGP Tag Team Championship: Guerrillas of Destiny (c) vs. EVIL & Sanada vs. The Young Bucks
• RevPro British Heavyweight Championship: Tomohiro Ishii (c) vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
• IWGP Jr. Tag Team Championship: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado (c) vs. Roppongi 3K vs. BUSHI & Shingo Takagi
• NEVER Openweight Championship: Kota Ibushi (c) vs. Will Ospreay
• NEVER Openweight Six-Man Championship No. 1 Contender Gauntlet (pre-show): Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Yuji Nagat, Jeff Cobb & David Finlay vs. Hirooki Goto, Beretta & Chuckie T vs. Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Hangman Page, Yujiro Takahashi & Marty Scurll

NFR 2018 Without precedent for the 65 years of the Cinch Roping Fiesta, the Calf Roping and Steer Roping occasions held at the Outdoor Fiesta Arena will be authorized with the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association.

Before this year, independent occasions, for example, the Roping Fiesta did not meet all requirements to be authorized, hence rewards that hopefuls earned at the occasion were not figured in the PRCA income to qualify them for different rodeos and, in particular, the National Finals Rodeo.The over $100,000 add up to tote for the two occasions is a colossal motivation as of now for challengers to take an interest, yet adding that to PRCA profit is an entire distinct advantage. This improvement will incredibly impact potential capabilities for the NFR, as well as possibly more significantly help shape which calf ropers will be welcome to contend in the absolute most extravagant rodeos this coming winter, including Denver, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston, just to name a few.Many of these rodeos are selective to the best positioning people in every occasion by a particular date. Ending up without a paycheck at Fiesta, and outside the field this winter would require a noteworthy rebound to meet all requirements for the NFR.

The 2017 Cinch Roping Fiesta rewards did not check in the 2018 NFR profit, and had they things would appear to be unique. For example, if everything else continued as before:

Tuf Cooper would be gone to the finals in the number one spot with a slight edge over Shane Hanchey, rather than the inverse.

A year ago’s Fiesta champion, Reese Reimer, would have profited the most in such a case that his $16,000 pay check had tallied, he would be made a beeline for the finals in fourth place rather than eleventh.

Possibly the most devastated is Blane Cox who gets himself the principal man out, and had his income for putting third in the third go-round tallied, he would outrank fifteenth place Ryan Jarrett.

Taking a gander at the 2018 Steer Roping Results, each of the 15 NFR qualifiers would continue as before, albeit some place swapping would happen among the contenders. Trevor Brazile would climb to third rather than fifth place, and most radically, Jarrett Blessing would be positioned seventh rather than 12th.Although numerous situations in Saturday’s calf reserving are viewed as invitational, six positions are up for gets for the individuals who end up outside the rundown or new to the sport.One position will be for the victor of the Young Guns Match Roping held Friday evening in the first Community Credit Union Spur Arena between Tyler West of Mertzon and Colton Green of Rocksprings.

The extra five spots are for the best five ropers in the normal of the Preliminary Calf Roping at 10 a.m. Friday in the first Community Credit Union Spur Arena. The Preliminary restricting fills in as a qualifier and enables the open door for anybody to contend and compete for a situation in Saturday’s reserving. An occasion of this size can truly dispatch a candidate’s career.Westyn Hughes of Caldwell, Texas, has seen that firsthand. He originally contended in the fundamental restricting at age 16 and completed in the main five, propelling him to the invitational reserving to go up against the folks he gazed upward to for such a long time.

“This will be one of the greatest paying rodeos, and it is decent to go some place that pays that much this season,” Hughes said of the Roping Fiesta. “Unfortunately that they allow folks to fit the bill for the enormous reserving, and the prelim is an intense restricting itself. You certainly acquire your spot to the huge reserving.”

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