NJPW reveals full lineup for New Japan Soul 2024 night one

  • Ian Carey
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The full lineup has been revealed for the first night of NJPW’s New Japan Soul tour.

The event takes place Sunday, June 16, 2024, at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center in Sapporo, Japan and will air on New Japan World.

Best of the Super Juniors 31 winner El Desperado will challenge SHO for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship on the show. Desperado lost the title to SHO in February at the New Beginning in Sapporo via count-out. To keep Sho’s House of Torture teammates from interfering in Sunday’s match, it will take place inside a steel cage.

After Shingo Takagi and HENARE’s match at Dominion ended in a double knockout, a rematch has been scheduled for Sunday in Sapporo. Another rematch from Dominion has the new NEVER Openweight Six Man Champions Yota Tsuji, BUSHI, and HIromu Takahashi defending against the team they beat for those belts Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano, and Boltin Oleg.

Young lions Masatora Yasuda and Daiki Nagai will also make their debuts against each other in the night’s opening contest. The full lineup is below.

New Japan Soul 2024 night one (Sunday, June 16, live on NJPW World) —

  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Sho defends against El Desperado in a steel cage
  • IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion David Finlay defends against SANADA
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Bullet Club War Dogs (Clark Connors & Drilla Moloney defend against Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles)
  • NEVER Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi defends against HENARE
  • NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Champions Yota Tsuji, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi defend against Toru Yano, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Boltin Oleg
  • Titan & Tetsuya Naito vs. TAKA Michinoku & Yuya Uemura
  • YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto & Shota Umino vs Dick Togo, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL
  • DOUKI & Taichi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Ren Narita
  • Katsuya Murashima, Shoma Kato, Tomoaki Honma, Tomohiro Ishii & Satoshi Kojima vs Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & TJP
  • Masatora Yasuda vs. Daiki Nagai