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New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling held its fourth New Japan Cup tour show today in Sandan-ike Park Gymnasium.

The full results were:

• Bad Luck Fale, EVIL and Yujiro Takahashi def. Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI and Yuya Uemura
• Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay def. Gabriel Kidd, Satoshi Kojima and Tomoaki Honma
• David Finlay, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson and Toa Henare def. Chase Owens, Gedo, Jay White and KENTA
• Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada and SHO def. BUSHI, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito
• First round match (top right bracket): Yuji Nagata def. Yota Tsuji
• First round match (top right bracket): SANADA def. Tomohiro Ishii

 Yuji Nagata defeated Yota Tsuji in their New Japan Cup first round match. He will face SANADA in the second round, who defeated Tomohiro Ishii in their tournament match today.

New Japan will hold its fifth New Japan Cup tour show tomorrow in Sandan-ike Park Gymnasium. The full card is:

• Bad Luck Fale, Dick Togo, EVIL and KENTA vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson, Toru Yano and Yuya Uemura
• Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay vs. Satoshi Kojima, Tomoaki Honma and Yuji Nagata
• BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito vs. Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada, SHO and Tomohiro Ishii
• First round match (bottom right bracket): Chase Owens vs. David Finlay
• First round match (bottom right bracket): YOSHI-HASHI vs. Yujiro Takahashi
• First round match (bottom right bracket): Jay White vs. Toa Henare

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the full card for its shows on April 2 in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring, April 3 in Shizuoka and and April 4 in Sendai PIT.

The full cards are:

April 2 in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
• Daichi Hashimoto and Takuho Kato vs. Kazuki Hashimoto and Takuya Nomura
• Abdullah Kobayashi and Yuji Okabayashi vs. Yuya Aoki and Yuko Miyamoto
• Kazumi Kikuta and Kota Sekifuda vs. Kosuke Sato and Yasufumi Nakanoue
• Deathmatch: Akira Hyodo, Drew Parker and Kankuro Hoshino vs. Hideyoshi Kamitani, Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito
• Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor C block: Masashi Takeda vs. Minoru Fujita
• Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor D block: Isami Kodaka vs. Yuki Ishikawa

April 3 in Shizuoka
• Kazumi Kikuta and Kosuke Sato vs. Masaki Morihiro and Takuho Kato
• Manami Katsu vs. Mari Manji
• Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Kota Sekifuda
• Daichi Hashimoto, Yuji Okabayashi and Yuya Aoki vs. Kazuki Hashimoto, Takuya Nomura and Yasufumi Nakanoue
• Deathmatch: Akira Hyodo, Drew Parker and Yuko Miyamoto vs. Abdullah Kobayashi, Jaki Numazawa and Ryuji Ito
• Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor C Block: Kankuro Hoshino vs. Minoru Fujita
• Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor C Block: Hideyoshi Kamitani vs. Yuki Ishikawa

April 4 in Sendai PIT
• Kota Sekifuda vs. Takuho Kato
• Hardcore: Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa vs. Jaki Numazawa vs. Yuko Miyamoto
• Issei Onizuka and T-Hawk vs. Kazushi Hashimoto and Takuya Nomura
• Abdullah Kobayashi, Daisuke Sekimoto and El Lindaman vs. Daichi Hashimoto, Kosuke Sato and Yuji Okabayashi
• CIMA vs. Yuya Aoki
• Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor D block: Akira Hyodo vs. Hideyoshi Kamitani
• Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor C block: Kankuro Hoshino vs. Ryuji Ito
• BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship: Yasufumi Nakanoue (c) vs. Kazumi Kikuta

All Japan Pro Wrestling

SUWAMA has revealed he began a new role as an executive in All Japan Pro Wrestling on March 1 in an interview with Tokyo Sports.

SUWAMA previously held an executive role from July 2014 to November 2015. He told Tokyo Sports he wants All Japan to return to venues like Ry?goku Kokugikan, the Nippon Budokan and the Tokyo Dome but the company needs to hold shows in venues with 4,000-5,000 fans first.

Tokyo Sports’ article on the news can be read here.

Pro Wrestling NOAH

NOAH has released a new roster chart after Katsuhiko Nakajima and Masa Kitamiya won the GHC Tag Team Championships from Kazushi Sakuraba and Takashi Sugiura at Great Voyage 2021 in Yokohama. The updated chart can be viewed on NOAH’s website here.

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