NJPW announces full card for New Japan Cup finals
NJPW has announced the full card for tonight’s New Japan Cup finals.
As had already been confirmed, the top two matches on the show will be Kazuchika Okada vs. SANADA in the New Japan Cup finals and IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Juice Robinson defending his title against Chase Owens.
The winner of Okada vs. SANADA will challenge for Jay White’s IWGP Heavyweight Championship at G1 Supercard at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, April 6.
Tag matches round out the rest of the card for the New Japan Cup finals. White is teaming with Bad Luck Fale & Hikuleo against Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Mikey Nicholls, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Will Ospreay are taking on Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi, and IWGP Intercontinental Champion Tetsuya Naito and Kota Ibushi will again be facing off in an eight-man tag match.
The show will begin at 2 a.m. Eastern time overnight tonight and will air live on New Japan World. Here’s the full card:
- Kazuchika Okada vs. SANADA in the New Japan Cup finals (winner challenges for Jay White’s IWGP Heavyweight Championship at G1 Supercard)
- IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion Juice Robinson defending against Chase Owens
- Jay White, Bad Luck Fale & Hikuleo vs. Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Mikey Nicholls
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & Will Ospreay vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi
- Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, BUSHI & Shingo Takagi vs. Kota Ibushi, Tomohiro Ishii, Ryusuke Taguchi & Ren Narita
- Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & Tomoaki Honma
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Shota Umino vs. Michael Elgin, Colt Cabana & Toa Henare
- Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi vs. Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura