{"id":26413,"date":"2016-07-20T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=26413"},"modified":"2016-07-20T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T15:05:18","slug":"720-super-j-cup-tournament-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/20\/720-super-j-cup-tournament-results\/","title":{"rendered":"7\/20 Super J Cup Tournament Results &#8211; KUSHIDA, Ospreay, Sydal, Jushin Liger, more Jr. Hvt. stars in First Round matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2724142162\" 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><strong>Super J Cup Tournament Results &#8211; Night 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>July 20, 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tokyo, Japan at Korakuen Hall<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Results reported via <a href=\"http:\/\/puroresuspirit.net\/2016\/07\/super-j-cup-results-for-july-20-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">PuroresuSpirit.net<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Super J Cup returned Wednesday in Japan featuring matches from several promotions and factions. The event aired on <a href=\"http:\/\/njpwworld.com\" target=\"_blank\">New Japan&#8217;s &#8220;New Japan World&#8221; streaming service<\/a> and is <a href=\"http:\/\/njpwworld.com\/feature\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\">now available on-demand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Matt Sydal (ROH) beat Tomato (Kaientai Dojo) in the opener. Tomato tried to protect his stuffed toy\u00a0tomatoes from Sydal, not trusting the American opposition. Sydal eventually won with a top-rope Air\u00a0Sydal. Respect was shown afterward. A good opener to kick off the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Kenoh (NOAH) beat\u00a0Gurukun Mask (Ryukyu Dragon) in a hotly-contested second match with strong crowd interest.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Taichi (SuzukiGun) beat\u00a0Yuma Aoyagi (AJPW). Taichi&#8217;s ring entrance was almost as long as the match.<\/p>\n<p>(4) Jushin Liger (NJPW) beat Eita (Dragon Gate) with a vertical brainbuster.<\/p>\n<p>(5) Will Ospreay (CHAOS\/NJPW) beat Titan (CMLL) with the OsCutter.<\/p>\n<p>(6) GHC Jr. Hvt. champion\u00a0Yoshinobu Kanemaru (NOAH) beat BUSHI (L.I.J.\/NJPW) with the Touch-Out.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3638479877\" 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<p>(7) Ryusuke Taguchi (NJPW) beat\u00a0Daisuke Harada (NOAH) with Dodon. Taguchi celebrated via dance afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>(8) IWGP Jr. Hvt. champion KUSHIDA (NJPW) beat Taiji Ishimori (NOAH) via submission to the Hoverboard Lock. KUSHIDA closed Night 1\/2 by declaring that he will be the face of Jr. Hvts. worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Show &#8211; August 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Round 2: Jushin Liger vs. Taichi<\/li>\n<li><strong>Round 2: Will Ospreay vs. Matt Sydal<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Round 2: Taguchi vs.\u00a0Kanemaru<\/li>\n<li>Round 2: KUSHIDA vs. Kenoh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Semi-Finals: Liger-Taichi winner vs. KUSHIDA-Kenoh winner<\/li>\n<li>Semi-Finals: Ospreay-Sydal winner vs. Taguchi-Kanemaru winner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>FINALS: Semi-Finals Winner #1 vs. Semi-Finals Winner #2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2038776680\"><div id=\"pwtor-3299252249\"><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>Super J Cup Tournament Results &#8211; Night 1 July 20, 2016 Tokyo, Japan at Korakuen Hall Results reported via PuroresuSpirit.net The Super J Cup returned Wednesday in Japan featuring matches from several promotions and factions. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/20\/720-super-j-cup-tournament-results\/\" title=\"7\/20 Super J Cup Tournament Results &#8211; KUSHIDA, Ospreay, Sydal, Jushin Liger, more Jr. Hvt. stars in First Round matches\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19221,"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":[9,14],"tags":[87,404,625,167,1837],"class_list":["post-26413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-results","category-results_japanliveevents","tag-new-japan","tag-njpw","tag-noah","tag-roh","tag-super-j-cup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/05\/SuperJCup2016.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26424,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413\/revisions\/26424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}