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The updated lineup for New Japan Pro Wrestling's 1/4/26 Wrestle Kingdom event at The Tokyo Dome:
*Retirement Match: Hiroshi Tananashi vs. AEW's Kazuchika Okada.
*IWGP Global Champion Yota Tsuji vs. & IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita.
*NEVER Openweight Champion EVIL vs. Aaron Wolf in Wolf's debut match.
*SHO vs. El Desperado vs. Taiji Ishimori vs. Kosei Fujita to determine the top contender to the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
*David Finlay & Shingo Takagi & Gabe Kidd & Drilla Moloney & Hiromu Takahashi vs. The United Empire.
*IWGP Women's Champion Syuri vs. NJPW Strong Women's Champion Saya Kamitani.
*NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champions Toru Yano Master Wato & Yoh defend the titles in a Tornado Ranbo against Kaisei Takechi & Yuya Uemura & Shota Umino, Boltin Oleg & YOSHI-HASH I & Hirooki Goto, TMDK's Hartley Jackson & Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Tiger Mask & Togi Makabe vs. The War Dogs' Clark Connors & OSKAR & Yuto-Ice vs. Team 150's Satoshi Kojima & Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii vs. House of Torture's Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SANADA & Ren Narita - Eliminations by pinfall, submission over by being thrown over the top rope.
*Kickoff Match: NJPW World TV Champion El Phantasmo vs. Chris Brookes
The 1/5/26 New Year's Dash event will be main evented by IWGP Tag Team Champions The Knock Out Brothers, Oskar and Yuto-Ice, defending against 2025 World Tag League victors Zack Sabre Jr. and Ryohei Oiwa.
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