New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) recently held the third night of their New Japan Cup Event which is a single elimination tournament that lasts for 12 days and the winner of the said tournament will get an opportunity to face IWGP Heavyweight Champion “Switchblade” Jay White for The IWGP Heavyweight Title at The G1 Supercard Event in New York City’s Madison Square Garden on April 6th. The show emanated from The Baycom Gymnasium (Amagasaki Memorial Park Gymnasium) in Hyogo, Japan and it was headlined by “The Golden Star” Kota Ibushi taking on Tetsuya Naito in a New Japan Cup First Round Match as the main event. Below are the full results from the show:
– Suzuki-gun (TAKA Michinoku & Minoru Suzuki) def. Yota Tsuji & Satoshi Kojima.
– Manabu Nakanishi, “Blue Justice” Yuji Nagata, “The Flamboyant” Juice Robinson & YOSHI-HASHI def. Bullet Club (“The Bone Soldier” Taiji Ishimori, HIKULEO, Bad Luck Fale & “The Crown Jewel” Chase Owens).
– Los Ingobernables de Japon (Shingo Takagi, BUSHI & “Cold Skull” SANADA) def. Ren Narita, Tomoaki Honma & Hirooki Goto.
– Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Lance Archer) def. “The Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano & “The Aerial Assassin” Will Ospreay.
– “Big Mike” Michael Elgin, Colt Cabana & Mikey Nicholls def. Toa Henare, Togi Makabe & “The Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada.
– Ryusuke Taguchi def. Hiroyoshi Tenzan (New Japan Cup First Round Match).
– “The Ace Of NJPW” Hiroshi Tanahashi def. Shota Umino (New Japan Cup First Round Match).
– Zack Sabre Jr. def. “King Of Darkness” EVIL (New Japan Cup First Round Match).
– “The Golden Star” Kota Ibushi def. Tetsuya Naito (New Japan Cup First Round Match).