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NJPW CUP TOUR KICKS OFF, ALL JAPAN, DRAGON GATE AND TONS MORE FROM JAPAN

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling began its New Japan Cup tour today in Korakuen Hall.

The full results were:

• DOUKI, Minoru Suzuki and Zack Sabre Jr. def. Gabriel Kidd, Tomoaki Honma and Yuya Uemura
• Chase Owens, EVIL, Taiji Ishimori and Yujiro Takahashi def. David Finlay, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tiger Mask and YOSHI-HASHI
• Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay def. Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Master Wato and Satoshi Kojima
• First round match (top left bracket): Toru Yano def. Bad Luck Fale via countout
• First round match (bottom right bracket): Hirooki Goto def. Taichi

Toru Yano defeated Bad Luck Fale via countout in their New Japan Cup first round match. He will face Great-O-Khan in the second round.

Hirooki Goto defeated Taichi in their New Japan Cup first round match. He will face the winner of Kazuchika Okada versus Shingo Takagi.

New Japan will hold its second New Japan Cup tour show tomorrow in Ota City General Gymnasium. The full card is:

• Chase Owens, Jay White and Taiji Ishimori vs. David Finlay, Toa Henare and Yuya Uemura
• BUSHI, SANADA and Tetsuya Naito vs. Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay
• First round match (bottom right bracket): Minoru Suzuki vs. Tomoaki Honma
• First round match (bottom right bracket): Juice Robinson vs. KENTA
• First round match (bottom right bracket): Kazuchika Okada vs. Shingo Takagi

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate will hold the first night of Champion Gate 2021 tomorrow in EDION Arena Osaka #2.

The full card is:

• Eita, Kaito Ishida and KAZMA SAKAMOTO vs. Jason Lee, La Estrella and Shun Skywalker
• Gamma and Ultimo Dragon vs. Punch Tominaga and Shuji Kondo
• Bokutimo Dragon and Kota Minoura vs. Don Fujii and U-T vs. Masaaki Mochizuki and Takashi Yoshida
• Ben-K, Dragon Kid and YAMATO vs. BxB Hulk, KAI and SB KENTo
• Open the Brave Gate Championship: Keisuke Okuda (c) vs. H.Y.O
• Open The Triangle Gate Championships: Genki Horiguchi, Kzy and Susumu Yokosuka (c) vs. Dia Inferno, Diamante and HipHop Kikuta

Keisuke Okuda will attempt his third defense of the Open the Brave Gate Championship against H.Y.O while Genki Horiguchi, Kzy and Susumu Yokosuka will attempt their first defense of the Open The Triangle Gate Championships against Dia Inferno, Diamante and HipHop Kikuta.

Dragon Gate has also announced the full cards for the second night of Champion Gate 2021 on March 7 in EDION Arena Osaka #2 and the next Glorious Gate 2021 tour show on March 8 in Fukui Sangyokaikan. The full cards are:

March 7 in EDION Arena Osaka #2
• Don Fujii, Kzy and U-T vs. Jason Lee, Kota Minoura and La Estrella
• Bokutimo Dragon, Ryo Saito and Ultimo Dragon vs. Dia Inferno, Diamante and H.Y.O
• Gamma and Shuji Kondo vs. Kagetora and Yosuke Santa Maria
• Ben-K, Dragon Kid and Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO vs. Eita, HipHop Kikuta, KAZMA SAKAMOTO and SB KENTo
• Open the Twin Gate Championship: BxB Hulk and KAI (c) vs. Masaaki Mochizuki and Takashi Yoshida
• Open the Dream Gate Championship: Shun Skywalker (c) vs. Kaito Ishida

March 8 in Fukui Sangyokaikan
• Jason Lee and Kota Minoura vs. Takashi Yoshida vs. Yosuke Santa Maria
• Bokutimo Dragon and Ryo Saito vs. Genki Horiguchi and Susumu Yokosuka
• Diamante, H.Y.O and HipHop Kikuta vs. Don Fujii, Ultimo Dragon and Yasushi Kanda
• Kzy and U-T vs. La Estrella and Shun Skywalker
• Ben-K, Dragon Kid, Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO vs. Dia Inferno, Eita, Kaito Ishida and SB KENTo

All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling will begin its Dream Power Series tour in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring tomorrow.

The full card is:

• Francesco Akira vs. Rising HAYATO
• Black Menso~re and Takao Omori vs. Ryuki Honda and Yoshitatsu
• Kuma Arashi vs. Shuji Ishikawa
• Atsuki Aoyagi, Kento Miyahara and Yuma Aoyagi vs. Izanagi, Shigehiro Irie and Zeus
• Elimination: Dan Tamura, Hikaru Sato, Koji Iwamoto, Shotaro Ashino and SUWAMA vs. Hokuto Omori, Jake Lee, Koji Doi, TAJIRI and Yusuke Kodama

Enfants Terribles betrayed Shotaro Ashino at All Japan’s last show on February 23 and seemingly formed a new spinoff group with Jake Lee and TAJIRI. Lee also betrayed his JIN partner Koji Iwamoto in the same angle. Tomorrow’s main event will be the new group’s in-ring debut.

Pro Wrestling NOAH

Pro Wrestling NOAH will hold a show in Yokohama Radiant Hall tomorrow.

The full card is:

• Kai Fujimura vs. Yasutaka Yano
• Ikuto Hidaka, Kotaro Suzuki and NOSAWA Rongai vs. THE LEAVE MASK 1, THE LEAVE MASK 2 and THE LEAVE MASK 3
• Kenoh vs. Kinya Okada
• Akitoshi Saito, Masao Inoue and Shiro Koshinaka vs. Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya and Yoshiki Inamura
• Atsushi Kotoge, Daisuke Harada and Junta Miyawaki vs. Hajime Ohara, Seiki Yoshioka and YO-HEY

THE LEAVE is a real estate company in Japan. It has sponsored NOAH since 2006.

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS

Pro Wrestling FREEDOMS has added five new matches to the card for its show on March 23 in Korakuen Hall.

The updated card is:

• Alejandro and Rekka vs. Dragon Libre and Tomoya Hirata
• Daisuke Masaoka and Kenji Fukimoto vs. Kengo and Yuya Susumu
• UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship: Kamui (c) vs. Brahman Kei
• King of FREEDOM World Tag Team Championships: Minoru Fujita and Rina Yamashita (c) vs. GENTARO and Tatsuhito Takaiwa
• Deathmatch: Jun Kasai, Mammoth Sasaki and Takashi Sasaki vs. Masashi Takeda, Toshiyuki Sakuda and Violento Jack
• King Of FREEDOM World Championship deathmatch: Toru Sugiura (c) vs. Takayuki Ueki

Kamui will attempt his fifth defense of the UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship against Brahman Kei while Minoru Fujita and Rina Yamashita will attempt their first defense of the King of FREEDOM World Tag Team Championships against GENTARO and Tatsuhito Takaiwa.

Violento Jack’s first match as a member of Empire Ruler Ends will be a six-man tag team deathmatch teaming with stablemates Masashi Takeda and Toshiyuki Sakuda against Jun Kasai, Mammoth Sasaki and Takashi Sasaki.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling has announced Yuji Okabayashi will compete at its show on April 18 in Niigata.

Okabayashi is set to team with HARASHIMA to challenge Kazusada Higuchi and Yukio Sakaguchi for the KO-D Tag Team Championships at DDT’s show on April 11 in Korakuen Hall.

 

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