Will David Finlay finally win the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship?
The Bullet Club War Dogs leader broke through the glass ceiling by securing a world title shot going through the New Japan Cup, and that wasn’t an easy task. Finlay comes in with the advantage as the 31-year-old has recently beaten Hirooki Goto.
These two had a match back at King of Pro-Wrestling 2024 for the IWGP Global Heavyweight title and Finlay came out on top. Can he do it again for the World Heavyweight Championship? Goto may be a new champion, but he has decades of experience over Finlay. This will surely be a match to remember.
For the IWGP Tag Team Championships, Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi will defend their titles for the first time against Jeff Cobb and Callum Newman. Ever since Cobb beat the former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion during the New Japan Cup, The United Empire has been getting the better of Naito and Takahashi leading up to this tag title match.
Naito and Takahashi have been partners for nearly a decade, so they have more experience when it comes to working together. Will the two veterans regain their momentum by beating two members of The United Empire?
The war between Bullet Club War Dogs and House Of Torture continues as Gabe Kidd, Drilla Moloney, and Taiji Ishimori will challenge SHO, Yujiro, and Takahashi for the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team titles. This will be House of Torture’s first title defense since winning the belts back in January.
Six championships will be on the line. New Japan Pro-Wrestling's second pay-per-view is a stacked card with several potential match of the year candidates. Below is the official line-up for Sakura Genesis on Saturday, April 5th. The start time is 4 a.m. EST (1 a.m. PST)
- IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Hirooki Goto vs. David Finlay
- IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji vs. EVIL
- IWGP Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Jeff Cobb & Callum Newman
- NEVER Openweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita vs. Ryohei Oiwa
- NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions SHO, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita vs. Gabe Kidd, Drilla Moloney & Taiji Ishimori
- Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shota Umino
- NJPW World TV Champion El Phantasmo vs. Great-O-Khan
- Yuya Uemura vs. SANADA
- Katsuya Murashima vs. Daiki Nagai