MMA Rules are incoming.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced that Shingo Takagi will defend his 2023 King of Pro Wrestling Provisional Championship against Great-O-Khan in a MMA rules bout at NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya. Great-O-Khan suggested the stipulation, which won the vote against Shingo’s proposed stipulation of a 30 count fall match, 60.7% to 39.3%. Shingo’s shot at the IWGP World Heavyweight Title will also be on the line. Shingo is supposed to challenge Kazuchika Okada for the title at NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka, but O-Khan could take that.
This past weekend saw Great-O-Khan and Shingo Takagi go to the Twitter polls in order to determine the stipulations for their meeting Sunday in Nagoya.
With Takagi proposing a return of the 30 count fall match he had with Taichi last spring, and O-Khan requesting a mixed martial arts rules match, 29,617 votes were cast worldwide with the following results:
Shingo Takagi: 11,625 (39.3%)
Great-O-Khan: 17,992 (60.7%)
-NJPW
O-Khan has won the poll, and Sunday the KOPW 2023 will be contested under mixed martial arts rules with gi! Additionally, per Takagi’s own suggestion, O-Khan’s victory in the vote means that Shingo’s number one contendership status to the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship will be on the line as well as the KOPW belt Sunday!
Sunday is fight day.
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