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Wrestle Kingdom 8

Wrestle Kingdom 8
Wrestle Kingdom 8.jpg
Promotional poster for the event, featuring caricatures of various NJPW wrestlers
Information
Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Sponsor(s) Buddy Fight
Date January 4, 2014
Attendance 35,000
Venue Tokyo Dome
City Tokyo, Japan
Pay-per-view chronology
World Tag League 2013 Wrestle Kingdom 8 Fantasticamania 2014
Wrestle Kingdom chronology
Wrestle Kingdom 7 Wrestle Kingdom 8 Wrestle Kingdom 9

Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion, which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2014. It was the 23rd January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the eighth held under the "Wrestle Kingdom" name. Like the previous year, the event aired worldwide on internet pay-per-view (iPPV). Wrestle Kingdom is traditionally NJPW's biggest event of the year and has been described as their equivalent to WWE's WrestleMania.

The event featured ten matches, six of which were contested for championships. For the first time in twenty years, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Championship was defended during the event with NWA representative Rob Conway defending against Satoshi Kojima. The event was headlined by a double main event; Shinsuke Nakamura defending the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada defending the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against the winner of the 2013 G1 Climax, Tetsuya Naito. A fan vote decided the order in which the two matches took place during the event; the Heavyweight Championship match went first and the Intercontinental Championship match was the final match of the event. The event also featured outside participation from Wrestle-1 representative Keiji Mutoh, who worked under his Great Muta character. The event also featured appearances by Harley Race, Marty Friedman and Stan Hansen.


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