More Wrestle Kingdom 17 Betting Markets Published

The oddsmakers from BetOnline have published markets for the new matches that have been announced for January 4th's NJPW Wrestle Kingdom.

Kairi, who was crowned the first-ever IWGP Women's Champion at Historic X-Over a few days ago, will defend her title against Tam Nakano in the Tokyo Dome event. 

As of the time of writing, BetOnline has the champion as a -400 favourite. A decision in favour of her challenger will pay out at odds of +250.

Another first-time champion will be crowned in as many weeks when the tournament final - for the NJPW World Television Championship - will also take place on January 4th. 

The finalists, Zack Sabre Jr. and Ren Narita, are -500 and +300 respectively.

Also at the recent Historic X-Over show was a segment which saw Kenny Omega make a video challenge to Will Ospreay for the IWGP United States Championship.

Omega, who last competed for New Japan at Wrestle Kingdom 13 - on January 4 2019 - has been priced as the bookmakers' underdog at odds of +200 while the champion has a price of -300.

These markets have been added to BetOnline's coverage which began in October when markets for two of the earliest announced matches were created.

As of the time of writing, Taiji Ishimori remains a -200 favourite to retain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match in a four-way with El Desperado, Hiromu Takahashi and Master Wato as his challengers.

There has been a change in roles in the market for the main event.

When the market for Jay White's IWGP World Heavyweight Championship defence against G1 Climax winner - Kazuchika Okada - was first priced up, BetOnline listed the champ as its favourite. 

As you can see, Kazuchika Okada has gradually fallen into favouritism. As noted, when I first wrote about the market on October 19, I gave reasoning for my belief that Okada should have been installed as the fave, so seeing his price descend from +160 into -180 over the five weeks has not surprised me. Especially if the punters shared the same opinion as I in regards to who should have been the early favourite and underdog.

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