Promotional poster for the event, featuring various NJPW wrestlers
Promotion
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date
January 4, 2019
City
Tokyo, Japan
Venue
Tokyo Dome
Attendance
38,162 (paid)[1]
Tagline(s)
Professional wrestling's Winterfest! January 4th!! (Japanese: プロレス! 冬フェスト! イッテンヨン!!, Hepburn: Puroresu! Fuyufesuto! Ittenyon!!)
Event chronology
← Previous Wrestle Kingdom 13 Fan Festa
Next → New Year Dash!!
Wrestle Kingdom chronology
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Next → 14
Wrestle Kingdom 13 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 4, 2019 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. It was the twenty-eighth January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the thirteenth promoted under the Wrestle Kingdom name. The event was streamed live on NJPW World and FITE TV and was aired on tape delay on AXS TV.[2][3] Wrestle Kingdom is traditionally NJPW's biggest event of the year and has been described as their equivalent to WWE's WrestleMania.[4]
The card was composed of ten matches, including one occurring on the pre-show.[5] In the main event, G1 Climax 28 winner Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Kenny Omega to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship for a record eighth time. In other prominent matches, Tetsuya Naito defeated Chris Jericho to win the IWGP Intercontinental Championship, Taiji Ishimori defeated Kushida to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Tomohiro Ishii to win the British Heavyweight Championship, Bullet Club leader Jay White defeated Chaos leader Kazuchika Okada, and Juice Robinson defeated Cody for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship. All eight title defenses at the event were unsuccessful, marking the first time in Wrestle Kingdom history that every contested title changed hands; Tanahashi's win also marked the first time that the holder of the Tokyo Dome IWGP Heavyweight Championship challenge rights certificate won his Wrestle Kingdom title match.
^Joseph Currier (January 4, 2019). "NJPW NOTES: WRESTLE KINGDOM ATTENDANCE, SIX-MAN TAG TITLE MATCH". Wrestling Observer. Retrieved January 6, 2019.
^"NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 13 set to be available Live on FITE". FITE.TV. November 29, 2018. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
^Dave Meltzer (November 21, 2018). "TOP WRESTLE KINGDOM 13 MATCHES TO AIR ON AXS TV ON SAME-DAY DELAY". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
^Martin, Garrett (January 16, 2015). "Japanese Wrestling's Golden Age Comes to America". Paste. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
^"WRESTLE KINGDOM 13 in 東京ドーム" [Wrestle Kingdom 13 in Tokyo Dome] (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 November 2018. 全8～10試合予定
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