Jeff Jarrett came to terms with Matt Striker on Saturday as the analyst for the January 4th New Japan Wrestle Kingdom 9 pay-per-view from the Tokyo Dome.

As noted earlier, there was interest in having Mike Tenay do the show, but TNA refused to let him do the PPV, citing Global Force Wrestling as competition. Jarrett and Scott D'Amore also had talks with several people dating as far back as November, including Kevin Nash, Mauro Ranallo, Ron Neimi and former WWE Tag Team Champion Rene Dupree, who lives in Japan.