Today the first entrant was announced when Kota Ibushi returned and said he was staying in NJPW and entering the tournament.
The winner will face the 68th IWGP Heavyweight Champion Switchblade Jay White in the main event of G1 Supershow in Madison Square Garden.
Okada's winning the belt back in the Garden then, right? I wonder if ROH get desperate with the AEW thing chopping their roster in half, and they double down on the NJPW deal by putting their World title on Tanahashi or something.
Tbh White winning feels like a devaluation of the title
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I would not be shocked if Ibushi won and they did a TanaKada tag title challenge at MSG
I figured they would get to White being champ at some point but I don't think it was the right time yet. I don't know. He has grown on me and all but meh.
Tana once said that so long as NJPW has Ibushi's, it has a future. Tana just lost and Ibushi agreed to be exclusive.
Just saying...
Here is the first round
Yuji Nagata vs Tomohiro Ishii
Juice Robinson vs Chase Owens
Manabu Nakanishi vs Yoshi-Hashi
Taichi vs Tomoaki Honma
Kazuchika Okada vs Michael Elgin
Mikey Nichols vs Hikuleo
Will Ospreay vs Bad Luck Fale
Toa Henare vs Lance Archer
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Shota Umino
Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs David Finlay
Tetsuya Naito vs Kota Ibushi
EVIL vs Zack Sabre Jr
Colt Cabana vs Togi Makabe
Hirooki Goto vs SANADA
Satoshi Kojima vs Minoru Suzuki
Toru Yano vs Davey Boy Smith Jr
Once again of one these 32 men will challenge Jay White for the IWGP Title in the main event on April 6th in Madison Square Garden.
Nick Miller: "I'm leaving to start a family."
*shows up in the first round of the NJ Cup*
To be fair, Japan is closer to Australia than Florida isOriginally Posted by Psycho666Soldier
Due to injury David Finlay is being replaced by Ryusuke Taguchi
Somehow I missed that Shota Umino's in this. Too bad he's against Tanahashi. Wanted to see him make it to the second round. But Tanahashi is going to make him look great in that one match. That's a dream opportunity as a young lion.
El Phantasmo is joining Bullet Club
Hell of a match this morning
catchin up. just finished second round. loved ospreay/archer and colt/yano.
i like how tanahashi won his 3 matches all with different moves, neither of which was the high fly flow.
Okada vs Ishii is match of the tournament so far
okada/ishii was one of the best matches of the year, and i liked tanahashi/SANADA a lot too. those would be the two best matches of the tournament. the final was good but not at the level of the semi-final matches; plus that god awful dragon sleeper okada locked has to count against the whole match, it was so bad. SANADA needs to drop that move, it's embarrassing.
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