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3/17 Results from New Japan Cup 2023 from Korakuen Hall, Tokyo Japan:
1 - Kosei Fujita and Zack Sabre Jr. vs. SHO and Yujiro Takahashi
Yujiro pins Fujita after hitting Pimp Juice.
2 - Oskar Leube, Tomoaki Honma, Ryusuke Taguchi and Togi Makabe vs. Kyle Fletcher, Aaron Henare, Great O-Khan and Jeff Cobb
Fletcher pins Oskar after a Grimstone.
3 - Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima and Tama Tonga vs. Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI and Hirooki Goto
Yano pins Tenzan after a low blow.
They played a video announcing the Best of the Super Junior 30 beginning on May 12 running till May 28. I would expect an announcement of participants in the next few weeks.
4 - Lio Rush, YOH and Tomohiro Ishii vs. BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi and Shingo Takagi
Rush blocks BUSHI’s Codebreaker and rolls him up for a quick flash pin
5 - Shota Umino, Ren Narita, El Desperado and Minoru Suzuki vs. David Finlay, Chase Owens, El Phantasmo and KENTA
Wild match. Suzuki headbutted KENTA and hit a Gotch Piledriver.
Suzuki pins KENTA!
Suzuki just beat the New Japan Strong Openweight Champion. Suzuki posed with the belt over KENTA. I would like to see more between these two.
New Japan Cup 2023 Matches:
6 - Quarter Finals: Mark Davis vs. EVIL
House of Torture comes out with EVIL. United Empire comes out with Mark Davis.
Davis hits a tope suicida on EVIL who took the House mic and was talking trash. Davis hammered him with forearms and a running knee. House of Torture attack United Empire. EVIL beat on Davis with a chair and whips him into a guardrail.
Referee kicks everyone out of ringside. This allows EVIL to cheat and attack Davis’ lower back. EVIL with a single leg crab. Rope break. They trade strikes. They fight to the floor and EVIL throws Davis into Kevin Kelly’s desk. EVIL applies the Darkness Scorpion. Rope Break. Davis hits two Lariats. Referee takes a bump. EVIL with a low blow on Davis. House of Torture hits the ring. Crowd boos like crazy. They hate House of Torture. United Empire comes to help. Will Ospreay with his arm in a sling leads the way. United Empire takes out House of Torture. Davis hits a Water Slide on EVIL.
Davis pins EVIL.
Mark Davis moves on into the Semifinals.
Big pop from the crowd for Davis’ win.
United Empire stands tall in the ring supporting Mark Davis’ signature win in New Japan.
7 - Quarter Finals: SANADA vs. Tetsuya Naito
Both men showed respect to each other. Massive pop for both men. Both started grappling and wrestling on the mat. They go aerial tactics but SANADA takes a spill to the floor. Naito throws him against the guardrails. Naito attacks SANADA’s neck with elbows and submissions. SANADA counters with a back suplex. Naito keeps attacking SANADA in the neck. SANADA with a Magic Screw. Naito with a tornado DDT. Naito follows with Esperanza. SANADA avoids Destino and traps Naito in Skull End. SANADA goes for the moonsault but Naito gets his knees up. The exchange elbows. They trade reversals on pins. Naito hits a Destino. SANADA kicks out at two. Naito goes for another Destino but SANADA reverses into his new modified DDT.
SANADA pins Naito.
SANADA moves on to the Semifinals to face Mark Davis.
After the match, Taichi who was on commentary goes to the ring. Taichi lost to SANADA in the first round. The Just Four Guys faction of TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI and Yoshinobu Kanemaru hit the ring. Taichi hugs SANADA. Big gasp from the crowd. SANADA hugs each member of Just Four Guys. Naito is still stunned in the ring. BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi and Shingo Takagi come to the ring.
SANADA gets the mic and says he is no longer in Los Ingobernales de Japon. He is now with Just Five Guys. He tells the rest of LIJ to get out of his ring. LIJ leaves the ring. SANADA says he did not make this decision lightly, he wanted a change, he wants to get to the top and he will do if with this group.
TAKA announces the group as Just Five Guys.
Interesting twist. SANADA and his group never attacked LIJ so they are not full heels. To be blunt, Just Five Guys are jobbers. If this group were to make an impact, SANADA will need to win the New Japan Cup to make this turn have more meaning. If SANADA loses, even in the Finals, this twist will be meaningless.
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