NJPW announces return, New Japan Cup

It has been 110 days since their last live event but NJPW is returning next week.

“We guarantee that we will undertake all possible precautions in future shows with audiences,” promised NJPW Chairman of the Board, Naoki Sugabayashi announcing the upcoming schedule.

On June 15^th, NJPW will present the Together Project Special. Matches will be announced that night.

From June 16th to July 3^rd NJPW will hold the New Japan Cup, now called the NJPW World Special New Japan Cup 2020.

All of the events will be streamed live on New Japan Pro-Wrestling World at 7 PM JST. Only the finals of the tournament on July 12^th at Osaka-Jo Hall will have a live audience filling only one-third of the venue.

June 15

Together Project Special.

June 16

• Togi Makabe versus Yota Tsuji
• Tomohiro Ishii versus El Desperado
• Toru Yano versus Jado
• Tomoaki Honma versus Hiromu Takahashi
• A special match

June 17^th

• Kazuchika Okada versus Gedo
• Yuji Nagata versus Minoru Suzuki
• Yuya Uemura versus Yoshinobu Kanemaru
• Gabriel Kidd versus Taiji Ishimori
• A special match

June 22^nd

• Hiroshi Tanahashi versus Taichi
• Kota Ibushi versus Zack Sabre Jr.
• Ryusuke Taguchi versus Sanada
• Sho versus Shingo Takagi
• A special match

June 23^rd

• Hiroyoshi Tenzan versus Yoshi-Hashi
• Yoh versus Bushi
• Satoshi Kojima versus Evil
• Hirooki Goto versus Yujiro Takahashi
• A special match

June 24^th and July 1^st

• Second round of the tournament

July 2^nd

• Quarter-finals of the tournament.

July 3^rd

• Semi-Finals of the tournament.

July 11- Osaka-Jo Hall

• Finals of the tournament.

July 12^th – Osaka-Jo Hall

• Winner faces Tetsuya Naito for both the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships.

Ticket information for all of the events will be available soon.

Sugabayashi also made it known that the July Hokkaido Tour has been cancelled.

“We are deeply sorry to everyone who was excited for those events,” he said.

Hiroshi Tanahashi also lent his voice to the announcement expressing his excitement about returning to action soon.

 “The cancellation of schedule events hurt fans and pro-wrestling alike. I became concerned that our return would take longer than we could imagine. That’s why I am thrilled that we are able to return on June 15^th. You can count on us pro-wrestlers to give you everything that we couldn’t these past few months. We’re going to create and deliver a fresh NJPW to everyone,” said The Ace of NJPW.