New Japan Cup Quick Results
Yota Tsuji pinned Yuya Uemura in 6:56 ( ¾)
Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan pinned Tomoaki Honma & Satoshi Kojima in 12:00 ( ¾)
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, Henare & Ryusuke Taguchi pinned Dick Togo, Jay White, EVIL & KENTA in 13:11 ( ¾)
Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & BUSHI pinned SHO, Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii in 13:28 ( )
New Japan Cup 2021 – First Round: Zack Sabre Jr. submitted Gabriel Kidd in 17:21 ( )
New Japan Cup 2021 – First Round: Will Ospreay pinned Hiroyoshi Tenzan in 13:36 ( ¼)
The Aimesse Yamanashi in Yamanashi is the stop for what feels like a rare, non-Tokyo show on NJPW World… and it’s a six-match card as opposed to the fivers we’ve had lately.
Here are the results and a report on the Cup matches.
Yota Tsuji defeated Yuya Uemura (6:56)
Tsuji won by trapping Uemura s legs and flipping over into a cradle for the pin.
Tsuji takes on Yuji Nagata in a first round Cup match on Tuesday, March 9.
Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb defeated Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma (12:00)
Cobb pinned Honma after hitting a Tour of the Islands.
Cobb faces EVIL in a second round Cup match on Thursday, March 11. O-Khan faces Yano in a second round Cup match the same night.
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, Toa Henare & Ryusuke Taguchi defeated EVIL, Jay White, KENTA & Dick Togo (w/Gedo) (13:11)
Quick Results
Hirooki Goto, Gabriel Kidd, Tomoaki Honma & Master Wato pinned DOUKI, Minoru Suzuki, Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi in 10:29 ( )
EVIL, Jay White, Chase Owens, KENTA & Taiji Ishimori pinned Ryusuke Taguchi, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Toa Henare in 7:39 ( ½)
SHO, Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii pinned BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & SANADA in 9:00 ( ¾)
New Japan Cup 2021 – First Round: Jeff Cobb pinned Satoshi Kojima in 11:49 ( ½)
New Japan Cup 2021 – First Round: Great-O-Khan defeated Tetsuya Naito via referee stoppage in 20:20 ( ¾)
Kota Ibushi pinned El Desperado in 20:36 to retain the IWGP Heavyweight & IWGP Intercontinental Championships ( )
We’re at Budokan Hall in Tokyo for this one, with English commentary via studio from Kevin Kelly, Gino Gambino and Chris Charlton. Poor Chris blew out everyone’s eardrums.