New Japan Pro Wrestling’s next event is known as The New Japan Cup and it is a tournament that will be taking place in a span of 12 days. The winner of said tournament will be taking on IWGP Heavyweight Champion “Switchblade” Jay White on April 6th at The G1 Supercard Event. The first night of action will go down later on tonight from The Legendary Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Below is the full lineup for the first night of action:
– Yuji Nagata vs. Tomohiro Ishii – NJ Cup Opening Round Match
– Tomoaki Honma vs. Taichi – NJ Cup Opening Round Match
– Manabu Nakanishi vs. YOSHI-HASHI – NJ Cup Opening Round Match
– Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Togi Makabe, Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Colt Cabana, Michael Elgin & Shota Umino
– SHO, Hirooki Goto & Kota Ibushi vs. Shingo Takagi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito
– BUSHI & EVIL vs. TAKA Michinoku & Zack Zabre Jr.
– Toru Yano, Toa Henare & Satoshi Kojima vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr., Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki
– Rocky Romero, Mikey Nicholls & Will Ospreay vs. Taiji Ishimori, HIKULEO & Bad Luck Fale
Tickets for an upcoming New Japan Pro Wrestling Show called Royal Quest will reportedly go on sale to the general public on March 14th at 12:00PM GMT. Pre-Sale tickets are said to be sold on March 12th for those who has signed up to the mailing list and a special code is said to be sent this coming Monday. Tickets will be priced at £30.00 (39 USD) and the highest ticket is said to be priced at £120.00 (157 USD). Royal Quest takes place on August 31st inside The Copper Box Arena in London.
In honor of Professional Wrestling Legend King Kong Bundy, who recently passed away, New Japan Pro Wrestling posted some matches of his with the company on Youtube and NJPW World. The match shown in the video below features a Six-Man Tag Team Match between King Kong Bundy, Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch vs. Antonio Inoki, Kengo Kimura & Tatsumi Fujinami.