Juice Robinson, Michael Elgin, Bad Luck Fale, and Hiroshi Tanahashi have advanced thus far in NJPW’s New Japan Cup 2018. Night 3 has taken placed and Zack Sabre Jr. and Kota Ibushi have won their respective matches and advanced to the next round of the tournament.
The winner of this 16-man, single-elimination tournament gets to pick either a IWGP Heavyweight, Intercontinental, or NEVER Openweight title shot at Sakura Genesis 2018 on April 1. Check out the rest of the card matches here:
Yuji Nagata and Tomoyuki Oka defeated Ren Narita and Tatsuhiro Yagi
Desperado defeated Shota Umino
Bullet Club defeated Toa Henare, David Finlay, Juice Robinson, and Michael Elgin
Toru Yano, Tomohiro Ishii, and Hirooki Goto defeated Lance Archer, Davey Boy Smith Jr., and Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Taichi and Takashi Iizuka defeated Ryusuke Taguchi and Hitoshi Tanahashi
Chuckie T and Kazuckika Okada defeated BUSHI and SANADA
Kota Ibushi defeated YOSHI-HASHI (New Japan Cup 2018 First Round Match)
Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Tetsuya Naito (New Japan Cup 2018 First Round Match)