Wrestle Kingdom Opening

This is the stellar opening to the January 4th, 2007 mega puroresu show held at the world-famous Tokyo Dome. It is a beautifully made video highlighting the histories and stars of the two most storied puroresu companies, All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling. It is a wonderful tribute to all of those who played pivotal roles in Japanese Pro Wrestling, from home grown stars to foreign talent. After that, the actual Wrestle Kingdom opening that started the show with the trademark WK theme music.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• WrestleKingdom
• puroresu
• Japanese
• NJPW
• AJPW

[anfclwin05]

What an awesome opening for WK...I think it missed a lot of the juniors, though...

[bfsnorlax]

I agree. The 10-man tag match was not the best usage of those wrestlers. Especially when you have New Japan and All Japan's junior champs on that match. It's a bit of a waste of talent, when you had the potential to make two dream matches.

[armandotrinidad]

At 0:29, the dude on the right looks like a monster.

[bfsnorlax]

That's Shohei "Giant" Baba. He was pretty monstrous. The poignant thing about that picture is that the one on the left is Antonio Inoki, the founder of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Giant Baba was the founder of All Japan Pro Wrestling. Those are the two companies that were represented on that wrestling card.

Thanks for the comment, chief!

[MitsiMits]

Beautiful...simply beautiful

[saturdaynightjordan]

wrestling in japan is by far the best wrestling in my opinion next to lucha libre

anyone agree?

[FightsAndWrestling]

@hkkane2008

Yume Densetsu - Stardust Revue

[FightsAndWrestling]

beautiful video the golden years of puroresu.

[ebeneezzer]

They are in trouble, you moron.

Compare the business in Japan today to where it was ten years ago. Do you think that they are giving away tousands of free tickets to Tokyo dome events out of charirty?

All the major wrestling promotions in Japan have lost their prime time tv slots as well, which has done terrible damage.

[LigerbusaFPC]

@DarkPascual Not really. I mean..it's 2009, they're hardly rivals.

[drunkensailor112]

wrestling in japan is in huge trouble that's why they become desperate and work together.

[DarkPascual]

The fact that 2 rival promotions (and even more since this year) decide to get together and pull such a show, should tell yout that this is not as much as money as it is about love for Wrestling...

[anfclwin05]

True. But the main focus of the event was on Mutoh/Chono vs. TenKoji, Suzuki vs. Nagata, Tanahashi vs. Kea and Kawada vs. Nakamura.

However, I'm also referring to the opening itself, I was expecting to see more of the juniors in it than Tiger Mask, especially taking in fact how many of them reach success, not only at Japan, but also in a worldwide scale. Liger, Sasuke, Guerrero, Jericho, Benoit...

[bfsnorlax]

You get no argument from me sir.