NJPW recently held The Finals of their New Japan Cup Event which emanated from Nagaoka City Hall Aore in Niigata, Japan.
Night Nine’s action was headlined by The Finals in which Hiroshi Tanahashi took on Zack Sabre Jr. Below are the results from the show:
– Shota Umino def. Tetsuhiro Yagi by submission with a Boston Crab.
– Taichi def. Tomoyuki Oka by pinfall with a superkick.
– Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tanga Loa & Yujiro Takahashi) def. Michael Elgin, Toa Henare & Togi Makabe by pinfall with Apeshit from Loa on Henare.
– Killer Elite Squad (Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Lance Archer) def. Chaos (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano) by pinfall with Killer Bomb on Yano.
– David Finlay & Juice Robinson def. Chaos (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) by pinfall with Pulp Friction from Robinson on Goto.
– Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, SANADA & Tetsuya Naito) def. Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Takashi Iizuka & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) by submission with Skull End from SANADA on Iizuka. After the match, the juniors brawl once again and Roppongi 3K show up to clear house.
– Chaos (Chuckie T & Kazuchika Okada) def. Chase Owens & Kota Ibushi by submission with the cobra clutch from Okada on Owens.
– Zack Sabre Jr. def. Hiroshi Tanahashi by submission with Orienteering With Napalm Death (New Japan Cup 2018 Finals). After the match, TAKA Michinoku asks Sabre Jr. what’s next and he thinks about it for a moment before saying that he wants Okada. The match is now official for Sakura Genesis on April 1. Okada and Gedo make their way down to the ring and TAKA gives them his “YOU JUST TAP OUT” schtick but Gedo cuts him off and says that Sabre can’t tap Okada out because he’s on another level, and TAKA cuts him back off and takes the mic back to finish his hype man duties. The show comes to a close.