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So I don't know how many folks in here are planning on watching WK, and who among them care about anything beyond Omega/Jericho anyhow, but I figure I might as well do a preview post for anyone who's interested and knows little to nothing about NJPW.

First of all, here's a step-by-step guide to signing up for NJPW World.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/7nqds6/with_wrestle_kingdom_12_less_than_32_hours_away/

And here's a match-by-match breakdown:
Pre-Show Match: The New Japan Rumble
Think Royal Rumble except that superstars can also be eliminated by pinfall or submission. It's for the leftover guys that don't have a match on the show proper. It probably won't be good and there's not much reason to watch it.

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Titles: Roppongi 3K (c) vs The Young Bucks
The simplified version of New Japan's method of developing young wrestlers is to essentially make them jobbers in mostly meaningless matches for a year or two so they can learn from the experienced wrestlers on the card, and then, when they're ready, they're sent on "excursion" somewhere else in the wrestling world. Yohei Komatsu and Sho Tanaka were two very highly regarded young boys who spent an inordinate amount of time at the bottom of New Japan's cards before their excursion to Mexico, and when they returned as Roppongi 3K, they made an immediate impact. They won these titles in their first match back and, shortly thereafter, steamrolled through the Super Jr. Tag Tournament.

Here, though, they'll face their toughest task yet in the Young Bucks, who have held the titles a record six times. If you've seen the Bucks elsewhere, you may or may not be rolling your eyes already, but don't worry. They tend to tone down the goofiness and wrestle much more seriously in NJPW, especially on big shows like Wrestle Kingdom. This will be very good at minimum with the potential to be great if it gets time.

NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Titles Gauntlet: Bullet Club (c) vs Taguchi Japan vs CHAOS vs Suzuki-Gun vs War Machine and Michael Elgin
I'm not gonna waste my time or yours trying to break this down. It will have bright spots when certain wrestlers are in the ring (namely Tomohiro Ishii of CHAOS, Zack Sabre Jr. of Suzuki-Gun, and Juice Robinson of Taguchi Japan), but for the most part, this is a get-everyone-on-the-card match that probably will drag.

Cody vs Kota Ibushi
Along with the previous match, this is the other that doesn't have much of a story behind it, but there's a little more than there was before since Cody lost the ROH Title. See, originally, this was an ROH title match, and now that it's a regular singles match, Kota has publicly questioned a couple of times why they're even bothering. This, obviously, has rubbed Cody the wrong way, and it's become something of a grudge match now.

I'd much rather see Ibushi doing something else, but if anyone besides Okada can pull a good match out of Cody, it's probably the Golden Star. I expect Ibushi to win this, so if Cody's in a bad mood and doesn't bring his A-game, this could get ugly, but if he has his working boots on, it also could end up being very good. The biggest obstacle to overcome will probably be the crowd, because no one in Japan gives a damn about Cody, but he's standing across the ring from one of the absolute best in the world so I'm not writing it off.
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