The biggest show of the Japanese-wrestling season will now be available, LIVE, on your television screen.
You can thank Jeff Jarrett.
The speculation we previously reported has been confirmed, as Global Force Wrestling announced yesterday that it will broadcast New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 9 under the GFW name on January 4, 2015. The show is basically NJPW’s WrestleMania.
Here’s an excerpt from the press release:
GFW Presents New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 9” will air live in North America at 2 a.m. ET on Jan. 4, which is 4 p.m. in Tokyo. The four-hour telecast also will air in primetime in North America at 7 p.m. ET on your pay-per-view provider, including DirecTV, Dish, AT&T U-verse, Comcast, Verizon Fios and all cable systems in the United States, and in Canada on Bell ExpressVu TV, Rogers, Shaw, Sasktel and Telus. Check your local listings for availability. The show also will be available on the “Flipps” app on iTunes or Android.
“Wrestle Kingdom 9” will be the 24th consecutive year for the Jan. 4 dome event, which kicks off the year in Japan and annually is the largest wrestling show in the world outside of the United States, drawing in excess of 40,000 fans.
This year, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada will headline the show in a IWGP Heavyweight title match.
Click here for the full press release.
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u write any wrestling for the inquirer
I’d love to, Larry. But at the moment, The Inquirer doesn’t cover wrestling as part of its sports section.
But as a reader, you can always express your interest in having the paper cover it, and maybe give me a vote of confidence as the man to do it.