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2 - EVIL and Hiroshi Tanahashi have 1st Round Byes. 3 - There will be no Jr. Heavyweights in the tournament.   Last year, the tournament was pushed from March 2020 to June 2020 due to COVID-19.  They used Jr. Heavyweights to make up for missing wrestlers who were in other countries and unable to travel to Japan. 4 - Tetsuya Naito and The Great O-Khan will have tough first round match on the Anniversary Show.   Both Naito and O-Khan battled in hard matches which took a toll on their bodies....

The biggest and most-talked about issue of the year, the 2020 awards issue, is out today.  The issue covers the awards winners as voted on by the readership in these categories.  It also has all the top place winners for every category, comments on the awards for this year as well as a listing dating back to 1980 of all the awards winners in all the different categories. We also have the performer and match of the week. WWE Elimination Chamber show, with notes on direction, business, interest...

It’s that time of year again – the New Japan Cup is back to it’s usual March window, having been delayed last year due to the pandemic. Once again, the winner of the New Japan Cup gets a title shot – this time at Sakura Genesis on April 4, and it’ll be for the new IWGP World Heavyweight Championship that the winner of Kota Ibushi vs. El Desperado at the 49th Anniversary Show will receive. Unlike last year, we’ve got an all-heavyweight field, with some familiar names returning after ...

NJPW Unifies Titles And A New One To Be Established Soon Author: Feb 28, 2021 Tonight at Night Two of Castle Attack 2021 Kota Ibushi who is the current IWGP  Heavyweight and Intercontinental Champion defeated Tetsuya Natio in the main event. With this win in only his third defense of the Intercontinental Title he officially unified both belts.  Here is a quote from Tokyo Sports: The history of IWGP will change! At the IWGP Intercontinental (IC) Championship (28th, Osaka-jo Hall) of New Japan...

Participants Announced For This Year’s NJPW New Japan Cup Logo Credit: NJPW Graphic Credit: Robert DeFelice New Japan Cup full lineup, preview 30 to compete in single elimination tournament starting at 49th Anniversary ); ); The full lineup for New Japan Cup 2021 has been revealed, with 30 wrestlers participating in single elimination action starting on March 4 at the 49th Anniversary Event, and running through to March 21 in Sendai. The winner of the cup will be the first to challeng...

Without further ado, let’s list the field out and break it down, shall we? Bad Luck Fale (Competing in his seventh New Japan Cup, former finalist) Chase Owens (Competing in his second New Japan Cup, he fell in the second round in 2019) David Finlay (Competing in the New Japan Cup for the first time) EVIL (Competing in his fifth New Japan Cup, he won last year’s tournament) Gabriel Kidd (Competing in the New Japan Cup for the second time, he didn’t make it out of the first round last year)...

After turning back Tetsuya Naito’s challenge to split them at Castle Attack, reigning Intercontinental & Heavyweight champion Kota Ibushi gets his wish.

  NEW IWGP JUNIOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION CROWNED: 2/28 NJPW CASTLE ATTACK NIGHT 2 IN OSAKA, JAPAN RESULTS By James Kurokawa on 2021-02-28 03:01:00 2/28/21 Results from New Japan’s Castle Attack, New IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion crowned in Osaka, Japan Satoshi Kojima and Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay.  Kojima pinned Cobb after a lariat. Chase Owens, EVIL, Jay White, with Gedo and Dick Togo vs. Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii and Kazuchika Okada.  Ishii was still hurting from his...

Jay White and Tomohiro Ishii also square off today in Osaka.

NJPW Castle Attack Quick Results Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb pinned Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroshi Tanahashi in 10:22 (**¾) Tanga Loa pinned YOSHI-HASHI in 12:51 (***) Hirooki Goto pinned Tama Tonga in 6:42 (*¾) Toru Yano defeated Chase Owens in a YTR-style Texas Strap Match in 12:49 (*) Jay White pinned Tomohiro Ishii in 25:42 (****) Kazuchika Okada pinned EVIL in 28:09 (***) This really is a weird card, huh? Almost all CHAOS vs. Bullet Club, as the feuds from that alm...