Wrestle Kingdom IV featured ten
professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and
storylines. Wrestlers portrayed
villains,
heroes, or
less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Yoshihiro Takayama, who challenged for the
IWGP Heavyweight Championship in the main event of the show Wrestle Kingdom IV was main evented by
Shinsuke Nakamura defending the
IWGP Heavyweight Championship against
Yoshihiro Takayama. This was the first match between the two in six years and was billed as a rematch from the
2004 January 4 Tokyo Dome show. That match saw Nakamura defeat Takayama for the
NWF World Heavyweight Championship, which was afterwards retired, leading to Takayama announcing that if he were to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Kingdom IV, he would immediately retire the title. The show would also feature the return of
No Limit, the tag of
Tetsuya Naito and
Yujiro, following their ten-month overseas learning excursion, spent in the Mexican
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and American
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotions. No Limit had previously wrestled in NJPW's
junior heavyweight tag team division, but would now work as heavyweights after making the transition in Mexico. Their return match would see them challenge for the
IWGP Tag Team Championship in a three-way
hardcore match involving defending champions and TNA representatives
Team 3D (
Brother Devon and
Brother Ray) as well as
Bad Intentions (
Giant Bernard and
Karl Anderson). ==Event==