New Japan ran the penultimate event of the New Japan Cup today with the Semifinals.
Today’s event was held at Aore Nagaoka in Niigata and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 1906.
Match 1: Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi beat Taisei Nakahara & Ryusuke Taguchi. Takahashi pinned Nakahara.
Match 2: Tatsuya Matsumoto, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Masatora Yasuda, Satoshi Kojima & Taichi. YOSHI-HASHI beat Yasuda with Butterfly Lock.
Match 3: Master Wato, El Desperado & Yoh beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho & DOUKI. Yoh pinned Kanemaru after Direct Drive.
Match 4: Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, HENARE & Jake Lee beat Daiki Nagai, Taiji Ishimori, Drilla Moloney & Shingo Takagi. Young pinned Nagai after Bite The Dust.
Match 5: Dick Togo, Don Fale & Ren Narita beat Tomoaki Honma, Toru Yano & Aaron Wolf. Narita beat Honma with Hell’s Guillotine.
Match 6: Kosei Fujita, Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Gedo, OSKAR (The Grouch), Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) & Yota Tsuji. Jackson pinned Gedo after Death Valley Bomb.
New Japan Cup Semifinals:
Match 7: Yuya Uemura beat Boltin Oleg.
Main Event: Callim Newman beat Shota Umino.
As a result, the Final is Uemura vs. Newman.
The Final is tomorrow. Live streaming on New Japan World OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY will begin TONIGHT at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. This will be an exclusive TV Asahi broadcast in Japan. (It may begin 30 minutes earlier though for a pre-show match)