{"id":194137,"date":"2025-03-07T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=194137"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:09:50","slug":"njpw-cup-2025-night-1-cancelled-due-to-broken-ring-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/03\/07\/njpw-cup-2025-night-1-cancelled-due-to-broken-ring-post\/","title":{"rendered":"NJPW Cup 2025: Night 1 cancelled due to broken ring post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4112229505\" 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 was forced to cancel the NJPW Cup 2025: Night 1 event earlier today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njpw1972.com\/559522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">due to a broken ring post.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first round matches scheduled to take place were\u00a0Yota Tsuji vs. Evil (winner faces David Finlay) and\u00a0Yuya Uemura vs. Sanada (winner faces Yoshi-Hashi). Those matches have not yet been announced for a new date by NJPW. The NJPW Cup continues tomorrow with night 2 taking place in Tokyo at Korakeun Hall.<\/p>\n<p>NJPW issued the following statement about cancelling the NJPW Cup 2025: Night 1 event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank you for supporting New Japan Pro-Wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a broken ring post tonight&#8217;s event in Korakuen Hall has been forced to be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>A talk show will take place in place of matches, with tickets to be refunded.<\/p>\n<p>NJPW deeply apologises for the abrupt cancelation of tonight&#8217;s event and the disappointment and inconvenience caused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3106557265\"><div id=\"pwtor-2424358708\"><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 was forced to cancel the NJPW Cup 2025: Night 1 event earlier today due to a broken ring post.\u00a0 The first round matches scheduled to take place were\u00a0Yota Tsuji vs. Evil (winner faces David <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/03\/07\/njpw-cup-2025-night-1-cancelled-due-to-broken-ring-post\/\" title=\"NJPW Cup 2025: Night 1 cancelled due to broken ring post\">[&#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-194137","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\/194137","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=194137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194138,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194137\/revisions\/194138"}],"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=194137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}