Quick Results
EVIL, KENTA, Bad Luck Fale & Dick Togo submitted Yuya Uemura, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano & Juice Robinson in 9:46 (**½)
Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan & Will Ospreay pinned Tomoaki Honma, Yuji Nagata & Satoshi Kojima in 9:13 (**¾)
BUSHI, Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & Shingo Takagi pinned SHO, Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto in 10:04 (***)
New Japan Cup 2021 – First Round: David Finlay pinned Chase Owens in 11:15 (***¼)
New Japan Cup 2021 – First Round: YOSHI-HASHI pinned Yujiro Takahashi in 15:50 (***)
New Japan Cup 2021 – First Round: Jay White pinned Toa Henare in 24:26 (***½)
The Sandan-ike Park Gymnasium in Kyoto’s hosting today, with Japanese-only commentary for the live feed. Let’s see how unstable the player is today, eh?
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EVIL, Bad Luck Fale, KENTA & Dick Togo defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano, Juice Robinson & Yuya Uemura (9:47)
EVIL submitted Robinson with a scorpion deathlock.
Great-O-Khan, Will Ospreay & Jeff Cobb defeated Satoshi Kojima, Yuji Nagata & Tomoaki Honma (9:10)
Cobb pinned Honma after hitting a Tour of the Islands.
Shingo Takagi, SANADA, Tetsuya Naito & BUSHI defeated Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto & SHO (10:04)
BUSHI pinned SHO with a la magistral.
New Japan Cup first round match: David Finlay defeated Chase Owens (11:20)
The work here was solid, but Owens is typically presented as a comedy guy and Finlay isn't all that over, so this didn't feel like it should be a tournament match.
Quick Results
Toru Yano, SHO & Kazuchika Okada pinned Dick Togo, Chase Owens & EVIL in 1:25 (NR)
Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tomohiro Ishii pinned Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Jay White in 10:00 (**½)
Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito & SANADA pinned Tomoaki Honma, Kota Ibushi & Yuji Nagata in 15:30 (**½)
El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru pinned Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships in 19:55 (***½)
After Hiromu Takahashi’s torn pectoral ruled him out of action for six months, we’ve got an enforced change to tonight’s main event – as the former champions El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru get a shot at the titles they dropped at the end of January.