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NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Day 1
| Date: Tue, Jan 4th 2022 | Pay Per View: yes |
| Venue: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Tokyo | Promotion: NJPW |
| Attendance: 12,047 |
Matches for Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Day 1
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chase Owens & CIMA & Minoru Suzuki & Toru Yano | def. | Aaron Henare, Bad Luck Fale, DOUKI, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Kosei Fujita, Master Wato, Ryohei Oiwa, Satoshi Kojima, TAKA Michinoku, Tatsumi Fujinami, Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yuji Nagata, Yuto Nakashima | 27:14 | New Japan Rambo Match | **¾ | |
| 2 | YOH | def. (pin) | SHO | 12:32 | *** | ||
| 3 | El Phantasmo & KENTA & Taiji Ishimori | def. (DQ) | Hiroshi Tanahashi & Rocky Romero & Ryusuke Taguchi | 08:40 | 6-person tag | **¼ | |
| 4 | Great O-Khan & Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay | def. (pin) | BUSHI & SANADA & Tetsuya Naito | 09:27 | 6-person tag | *** | |
| 5 | Katsuyori Shibata | def. (pin) | Ren Narita | 11:46 | ***½ | ||
| 6 | EVIL | def. (pin) | Tomohiro Ishii (c) | 12:09 | NEVER Openweight Championship (title change) | * | |
| 7 | Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI | def. (pin) | Taichi (c) & Zack Sabre Jr. (c) | 15:27 | IWGP World Tag Team Titles (title change) | ****¼ | |
| 8 | El Desperado (c) | def. (pin) | Hiromu Takahashi | 16:18 | IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title | ****¼ | |
| 9 | Kazuchika Okada | def. (pin) | Shingo Takagi (c) | 35:44 | IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (title change) | ****¾ | |