Stipulation added to NJPW King of Pro Wrestling match
On the road to King of Pro Wrestling, NJPW added a stipulation to one of the matches set for the event.
The grudge match between Drilla Moloney and SANADA at King of Pro Wrestling will be contested under a no DQ stipulation with no countouts. That was set up when the two faced off in tag action at a Road To event today — with SANADA walking out on the match and taking a countout loss.
It was Moloney & Clark Connors vs. SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru in today’s tag bout. While the referee was down, SANADA went for a guitar shot but got hit with a low blow by Moloney. When Moloney tried to strike him with the guitar, SANADA bailed on the match and took a countout, walking out into the crowd as the official counted to 20.
Moloney then got on the microphone and said there will be nowhere for SANADA to run at King of Pro Wrestling. Moloney vowed that their match will be SANADA’s funeral, calling for there to be no DQs or countouts.
The rivalry between Moloney and SANADA stems from when SANADA betrayed Bullet Club War Dogs and joined House of Torture.
King of Pro Wrestling — one of NJPW’s last major stops on the road to Wrestle Kingdom 20 — will take place at Sumo Hall in Tokyo on October 13 and stream live on NJPW World. Here is the updated card:
NJPW King of Pro Wrestling 2025 (Monday, October 13) —
- IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Zack Sabre Jr. defends against Konosuke Takeshita
- IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Gabe Kidd defends against Yota Tsuji
- IWGP Tag Team Champions Yuto-Ice & OSKAR defend against Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura
- NEVER Openweight Champion Oleg Boltin defends against EVIL
- NJPW World TV Champion El Phantasmo defends against Hiroshi Tanahashi
- Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & YOH vs. Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita
- No DQ, no countout match: Drilla Moloney vs. SANADA
- Shingo Takagi, Hiromu Takahashi & Titan vs. David Finlay, Taiji Ishimori & Clark Connors
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