10 Reasons To Get Into NJPW In 2019

10. Wrestle Kingdom 13

Wrestle Kingdom 13's card is another stacked potential classic, and if NJPW's record at the Tokyo Dome this decade is anything to go by, it'll be another shoo-in for show-of-the-year nominations by the end of the annum. More on the headliners in a moment, but the below battles deserve almost as big a billing:

- Kota Ibushi and Will Ospreay will endeavor to make life for their peers as hard as possible with an opener that will likely force unfathomable efforts from others to try and top it.

- Tomohiro Ishii and Zack Sabre Jr were two of the best wrestlers of 2018 and engaged in a beautifully brutal scrap during last year's G1 Climax. Can the British submission specialist bend and contort a 'Stone Pitbull' yet again?

- Juice Robinson's career reinvention in NJPW was temporarily parked when Cody took his United States Championship following ALL IN, so he'll want a crowd four times the size of the Chicago turnout to see him win it back.

- Jay White should be little more than the buzzing of flies to Kazuchika Okada, but what if the record-breaking former Champion can't reconcile the 'Rainmaker' within to overcome 'The Switchblade'?

-Chris Jericho is a rebooted and reborn monster on the other side of the Pacific. Can he tease a less-'Tranquilo' side out of Tetsuya Naito or will the Los Ingobernables de Japon leader finally put the mouth of the North in his place?

And that's all before the main event...