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Tournament for NEVER Six-Man titles set for NJPW Wrestling World 2024

Posted on by Bryan Rose

New NEVER Six-Man Champions will be crowned in Taiwan.

NJPW announced on Tuesday that a one-night tournament to crown new champions will take place at Wrestling World 2024 in Taiwan on April 14 at the Zepp New Taipei in New Taipei City. 

The titles have been vacant since the end of January, when Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Tomohiro Ishii successfully defended the titles against The Mighty Don’t Kneel (Kosei Fujita, Mikey Nicholls, and Shane Thorne). With Okada announcing his departure from the company, the titles were vacated following the title defense. Okada has since joined All Elite Wrestling.

Wrestling World 2024 will be a collaboration of the Asia-Pacific Federation of Wrestling group, which consists of NJPW, Stardom, Dragon Fighting Wrestling (China), Puzzle (Taiwan), SetUp (Thailand) and GrappleMax (Singapore). On Monday, it was announced that a match featuring Stardom talent will take place on the show. 

This will be the first time NJPW held a show in Taiwan since Wrestling World 2016.

NJPW announces Wrestling World 2024 for Taiwan

Posted on by Ian Carey

NJPW has officially announced its return to Taiwan. 

The promotion will present Wrestling World 2024 on Sunday, April 14, 2024, at the Zepp New Taipei in New Taipei City. 

The event will kickstart the Asia Pacific Federation of Wrestling (APFW). The federation was announced in January “with the aim of broadening professional wrestling across Asia and worldwide.” 

From NJPW1972.com:

As first promised at the press conference announcing the Asia Pacific Federation of Wrestling this January, the first major event promoted under the APFW banner will see NJPW returning to Taiwan for the first time since 2016. April 14 will see Zepp New Taipei host Wrestling World 2024, presented by Weicker. 

APFW includes six promotions from Japan (NJPW, Stardom), China (DFW), Taiwan (Puzzle), Thailand (SetUp), and Singapore (GrappleMax). 

The federation first revealed in January that it planned to run an event in Taiwan this April. It will be the first NJPW show there since Wrestling World 2016. 

At January’s press conference announcing the APFW, Yuji Nagata spoke about the importance of increasing their reach in Taiwan. 

Nagata said:

In 2012 I went to Taiwan as part of a joint All Japan and New Japan event. NJPW was on TV there, on Z Channel, and that meant the fans knew us and were really thrilled to see us out there, greeting us in the airport and everything. There was this singer Wu Bai, really famous over there. I met him at the building and he was really excited. It went to show for me that they know us overt in Taiwan and there’s a lot of potential for NJPW over there.