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NJPW has released the entire card for the first night of the New Japan Cup.
The event will take place on March 4th and will be available to watch live or on demand on NJPW World.
The card is:
New Japan Cup 1st Round- Yuya Uemura vs Great-O-Khan
New Japan Cup 1st Round- Aaron Wolf vs Don Fale
Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, Yuto-Ice, Taiji Ishimori, Robbie X & Gedo) vs TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa, Robbie Eagles, Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson)
Taichi, Master Wato & Tomoaki Honma vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, DOUKI & Dick Togo)
Unbound Co. (OSKAR, Shingo Takagi, Drilla Moloney & Daiki Nagai) vs United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee, HENARE & Zane Jay)
El Phantasmo & Jado vs Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano
Shota Umino & Masatora Yasuda vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens)
Kickoff Match: Taisei Nakahara Debut- Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Taisei Nakahara
In the past, such superstars as Brody King, Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste, Matt Riddle, Shelton Benjamin and others have been surprise entrants.
The New Japan Cup is an annual single-elimination tournament with the winner getting a IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match at an event following the tournament. Hirooki Goto is the only wrestler in history to have won the tournament three times and two times in a row. Recent winners include David Finlay (2025), Yota Tsuji (2024), Sanada (2023), Zack Sabre Jr. (2022), Will Ospreay (2021), Evil (2020).
The success rate of a New Japan Cup winner going on to win the title match they earned is 42% overall, 8 out of 19.
