NJPW ‘New Beginning Tour’ Cards Announced

New Japan’s biggest event of the year Wrestle Kingdom has now come and gone…however that is not the only show that you can expect from the company in January.

If you subscribed to NJPWWorld.com for the January 4th spectacular then you can catch the whole of FantasicaMania as well as some of the upcoming ‘New Beginning’ tour.

Some of the biggest matches on offer from January 27th to February 10th include IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay taking on the hugely popular Hiromu Takahashi, Kazuchika Okada and Hirooki Goto challenging SANADA and EVIL for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships and Okada defending his IWGP Heavyweight Title against SANADA on February 10th live on NJPWWorld.com.

Here is the breakdown of the biggest matches on offer over the tour:

The New Beginning in Sapporo 2018 (Day 1)

January 27 (English Commentary Available) @ Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center, Sapporo

• Katsuya Kitamura 7-Match Proving Series (Match 2): Katsuya Kitamura vs. Michael Elgin
• NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship Match: Bad Luck Fale & Guerrillas of Destiny (c) vs. Togi Makabe, Toa Henare & Ryusuke Taguchi
• Jay White & Roppongi 3K vs. The Elite (Omega & Young Bucks)
• IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Minoru Suzuki

The New Beginning in Sapporo 2018 (Day 2)

January 28 (English Commentary Available) @ Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center, Sapporo

• Katsuya Kitamura 7-Match Proving Series (Match 3): Katsuya Kitamura vs. Juice Robinson
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: The Young Bucks (c) vs. Roppongi 3K
• IWGP US Heavyweight Championship Match: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Jay White

Road to The New Beginning 2018

February 5 @ Korakuen Hall, Tokyo

• Katsuya Kitamura 7-Match Proving Series (Match 4): Katsuya Kitamura vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan
• David Finlay vs. Jay White
• Ten Man Elimination Tag: CHAOS (Okada/Goto/YOSHI-HASHI/Ospreay/Gedo) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Naito/EVIL/SANADA/BUSHI/Hiromu)

Road to The New Beginning 2018

February 6 @ Korakuen Hall, Tokyo

• Katsuya Kitamura 7-Match Proving Series (Match 5): Katsuya Kitamura vs. Satoshi Kojima
• IWGP Tag Team Championship: SANADA & EVIL (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada & Hirooki Goto

The New Beginning in Osaka 2018

February 10 (English Commentary Available) @ EDION Arena, Osaka

• Katsuya Kitamura 7-Match Proving Series (Match 6): Katsuya Kitamura vs. Yuji Nagata
• Gedo vs. BUSHI
• Tetsuya Naito vs. YOSHI-HASHI
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi
• NEVER Openweight Championship: Hirooki Goto (c) vs. EVIL
• IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. SANADA

Credit to r/njpw for the listings