NJPW confirms full Wrestle Kingdom 20 card, teams for Ranbo
New Japan Pro Wrestling has confirmed a new match and the teams for the Ranbo match at Wrestle Kingdom 20.
In an official preview for the January 4 event in the Tokyo Dome, NJPW confirmed that El Phantasmo will defend his New Japan World TV title against Chris Brookes on the show. The title defense was set up at the Road to Tokyo Dome show at Korakuen Hall on Sunday when Brookes accepted ELP’s open challenge by attacking him from behind.
NJPW has also confirmed the teams that will challenge for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championships in the Ranbo match on the show. Champions Master Wato, YOH, and Toru Yano will defend the belts against the below seven teams:
- Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask & Togi Makabe
- Kaisei Takechi, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura
- Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) & Oleg Boltin
- Team 100 (Satoshi Kojima & Taichi) & Tomohiro Ishii
- House Of Torture (Ren Narita, SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
- TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.)
- Clark Connors & The Knockouts Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice)
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20 (Sunday, January 4, 2026 on NJPW World) —
- Hiroshi Tanahash’s retirement match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada
- Winner-take-all match: IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita vs. IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji
- NEVER Openweight Champion EVIL defends against Aaron Wolf
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight title number one contender’s match: El Desperado vs. SHO vs. Kosei Fujita vs. Taiji Ishiimori
- David Finlay, Shingo Takagi, Gabe Kidd, Drilla Moloney & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman, Henare, Andrade El Idolo & A Mystery Partner
- Winner-take-all match: IWGP Women’s Champion Syuri vs. NJPW Strong Women’s Champion Saya Kamitani
- NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions YOH, Master Wato & Toru Yano defend in a multi-team ranbo against Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask & Togi Makabe, Kaisei Takechi, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura, Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) & Oleg Boltin, Team 100 (Satoshi Kojima & Taichi) & Tomohiro Ishii, House Of Torture (Ren Narita, SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru), TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.), and Clark Connors & The Knockouts Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice)
- NJPW World TV Champion El Phantasmo defends against Chris Brookes
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