{"id":194111,"date":"2025-03-06T18:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=194111"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:43:22","slug":"njpw-announces-field-and-first-round-matches-for-njpw-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/03\/06\/njpw-announces-field-and-first-round-matches-for-njpw-cup-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NJPW announces field and first round matches for NJPW Cup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2512913134\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>NJPW has announced the complete field and match lineups for the first round of the NJPW Cup, which starts on March 7 with two tournament matches.<\/p>\n<p>The New Japan Cup begins on March 7 and will see Yota Tsuji vs. Evil and Yuya Uemura vs. Sanada take place in first round action. The rest of the first round matches will take place on March 8 and March 9. The tournament concludes on March 20.<\/p>\n<p>The entire tournament has 24 wrestlers with eight wrestlers randomly getting a first round bye. The wrestlers receiving a first round bye are David Finlay, Yoshi-Hashi, Zack Sabre Jr., Taichi, Shota Umino, Jeff Cobb, TJP, and Shingo Takagi.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the tournament will face Hirooki Goto on April 5 at Sakura Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the entire announced schedule for the NJPW Cup below:<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup (First Round), March 7, Korakeun Hall. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yota Tsuji vs. Evil (winner faces David Finlay)<\/li>\n<li>Yuya Uemura vs. Sanada (winner faces Yoshi-Hashi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup (First Round), March 8, Korakeun Hall. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ryohei Oiwa vs. Chase Owens (winner faces Zack Sabre Jr.)<\/li>\n<li>Gabe Kidd vs. Ren Narita (winner faces Taichi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup, March 9 (First Round), Baycom\u00a0Gymnasium. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1791994051\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ELP vs. Great-O-Khan (winner faces Shota Umino)<\/li>\n<li>Tetsuya Naito vs. Callum Newman (winner faces Jeff Cobb)<\/li>\n<li>Tomohiro Ishii vs. Drilla Moloney (winner faces TJP)<\/li>\n<li>Boltin Oleg vs. Bad Luck Fale (winner faces Shingo Takagi)9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup, March 11 (Second Round), Zip Arena Okayama. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Finlay vs. Yota Tsuji vs. Evil winner (March 7)<\/li>\n<li>Yoshi-Hashi vs. Yuya Uemura vs. Sanada winner (March 7)<\/li>\n<li>Zack Sabre Jr. Ryohei Oiwa vs. Chase Owens winner (March 8)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup, March 12 (Second Round), Uwajima-city General Gymnasium. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taichi vs. Gabe Kidd vs. Ren Narita winner (March 8)<\/li>\n<li>Shota Umino vs. Great O-Khan vs. ELP winner (March 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup, March 12 (Second Round), Kanaoka Park Gymnasium. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeff Cobb vs. Tetsuya Naito vs. Callum Newman winner (March 9)<\/li>\n<li>TJP vs. Tomohiro Ishii vs. Drilla Moloney winner (March 9)<\/li>\n<li>Shingo Takagi vs. Bad Luck Fale vs. Boltin Oleg winner (March 9)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup, March 15 (Quarterfinal Round), Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup, March 16 (Semi-final Round), Shizuoka. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup, March 17 (Semi-final Round), Fukushima. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NJPW New Japan Cup Final, March 20. Ao-re Nagaoka, Ota-ku Gymnasium. (Airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary).<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3631938739\"><div id=\"pwtor-2402674252\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NJPW has announced the complete field and match lineups for the first round of the NJPW Cup, which starts on March 7 with two tournament matches. The New Japan Cup begins on March 7 and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/03\/06\/njpw-announces-field-and-first-round-matches-for-njpw-cup-2025\/\" title=\"NJPW announces field and first round matches for NJPW Cup 2025\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":194112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_japan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2025\/03\/IMG_7552.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194113,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194111\/revisions\/194113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}