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NJPW Cup 2021 Update: Nights 1 and 2

The NJPW Cup is underway with the winner getting a chance to challenge champion Kota Ibushi for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. The finals of the tournament are on March 21st. Both Evil and Hiroshi Tanahashi received byes into the second round. Evil is the defending NJPW Cup winner and Tanahashi is the current NEVER Openweight Champion. Here is today’s update, minus the extraneous tag team matches that are on every card.

NJPW Cup Night 1 

Event Highlights

Evil and Togo pull a sneak attack on Cobb. Courtesy: NJPW.

Results

Toru Yano versus Bad Luck Fale

Yano escapes being counted out. Fale does not. Courtesy: NJPW.

Fale strikes before Yano can even remove his ring attire. He smashes the KOPW trophy out of Yano’s hands rolling him up. Yano kicks out. Fale tapes Yano’s hands around a steel post hoping he will get counted out. When Yano sidesteps Fale’s charge, Fale hits the steel post. Yano kicks him in the “lower abdomen” for good measure. Yano is able to slide back into the ring to beat the count despite being tied up. Fale is down and out. He doesn’t make it back into the ring.

Winner: Toru Yano

Hirooki Goto versus Taichi

In this war of attrition Goto survives to put out Taichi with two GTRs.

Winner: Hirooki Goto

NJPW Cup Night 2  Results

Event Highlights

Results

Tomoaki Honma vs Minoru Suzuki

Suzuki mauls Honma. Courtesy: NJPW.

Honma and Suzuki just batter and bruise each other with every strike imaginable. Suzuki pins Honma with the Gotch Style Piledriver to move on.

Winner: Minoru Suzuki

Juice Robinson vs Kenta

Kenta wallops Juice in the head with the ring bell. Naturally, the official doesn’t see a thing. Juice slams Kenta’s head into the timekeeper’s table. Kenta backdrops Juice over the railing and onto the table. Kenta makes Robinson tap to his Game Over submission.

Winner: Kenta

Kazuchika Okada vs Shingo Takagi

Some would say this is a massive upset but Okada has admitted that he has been wrestling with two slipped disks in his back. Shingo slams Okada’s head into the ring apron and then DDTs him on the floor. Okada absorbs a lot of damage but try as he might he cannot pin Shingo. Shingo blocks the Rainmaker Clothesline to pin Okada with Last of the Dragon.

Winner: Shingo Takagi

In Round Two we will now have:

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