NJPW VS NOAH | Kongo vs LIJ | Wrestle Kingdom 17 in Yokohama preview! | Speaking of Strong Style

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1. Jeremy Finestone is joined this week by Justin Knipper, who wears many hats as a stateside representative for NOAH_GHC, a podcaster/historian for “Write That Down” with Fumi Saito, and reviewer of New Japan Strong for WON/F4W. The pair discussed a brief overview of NOAH prior to the WRESTLE KINGDOM 17 event at the Yokohama Arena between NOAH and New Japan Pro Wrestling. Headlining the event will be singles matches between members of Kongo and Los Ingernobles de Japon. While touching on recent happenings out of NOAH’s “The New Year 2023” show, the pair contextualized the matches and explained why everything matters, including a timeline of the events between Kongo and LIJ.
   The Match listing for Wrestle Kingdom 17 in Yokohama is as follows:
   Tetsuya Naito vs Kenoh
   Shingo Takagi vs Katsuhiko Nakajima
   SANADA vs Manabu Soya
   Hiromu Takahashi vs Hajime Ohara
   Tadasuke vs BUSHI
   Kazuchika Okada & Togi Makabe vs Kaito Kiyomiya & Yoshiki Inamura
   Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi & Tiger Mask vs Alejandro, Junta Miyawaki & AMAKUSA
   El Desperado vs YO-HEY
   Takashi Sugiura, Satoshi Kojima, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toru Yano vs Gedo, El Phantasmo, KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji
   Oskar Leube & Tomohiro Ishii vs Masa Kitamiya & Daiki Inaba
   Kosei Fujita & Ryohei Oiwa vs Taishi Ozawa & Yasutaka Yano
   Following the preview, the pair discussed what they think will happen going forward for New Japan Strong, including whether joint ventures with other promotions were the way to go? A fun show as always!