Juice Robinson, Michael Elgin, Bad Luck Fale, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi, and Zack Sabre Jr. have advanced thus far in NJPW’s New Japan Cup 2018. Night 4 has taken placed and Sanada and Toru Yano 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:
El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru def. Ryusuke Taguchi & Ren Narita
Bad Luck Fale, Yujiro Takahashi & Tanga Loa def. Yuji Nagata, Shota Umino & Tetsuhiro Yagi
Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hashi def. Michael Elgin & Tomoyuki Oka
Tetsuya Naito & Bushi def. Zack Sabre Jr. & Taka Michinoku
Suzuki-Gun (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Takashi Iizuka & Taichi) def. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, David Finlay & Henare
Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii def. Kota Ibushi & Chase Owens
New Japan Cup First Round Match
Toru Yano def. Davey Boy Smith Jr.
New Japan Cup First Round Match
Sanada def. Chuck Taylor