Back to the Yokohama Arena | ||||
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![]() Promotional poster for the event, featuring Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada and Shinsuke Nakamura
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Theme song(s) |
"Back to the Yokohama Arena Theme" by Yonosuke Kitamura | |||
Information | ||||
Promotion | New Japan Pro-Wrestling | |||
Date | May 25, 2014 | |||
Attendance | 7,800 | |||
Venue | Yokohama Arena | |||
City | Yokohama, Japan | |||
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Back to the Yokohama Arena was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took take place on May 25, 2014, at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Kanagawa and marked NJPW's first event at the arena in eleven years. The event, considered one of NJPW's biggest of the year, following Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome and the finals of the G1 Climax, featured four championship matches and was headlined by a match for the promotion's top title, the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The event aired domestically as a regular PPV and internationally as an internet PPV.
On November 6, 2013, Bushiroad, the owners of NJPW, announced a special project celebrating their seventh anniversary; a return to Yokohama Arena with the Back to the Yokohama Arena event on May 25, 2014. This would mark NJPW's first event at the arena since November 3, 2003, and the Yokohama Dead Out show. The entire card for the event was released on May 4, the day after Wrestling Dontaku 2014.
Back to the Yokohama Arena featured ten professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension, and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Four of the matches were contested for championships.