The New Japan Cup is down to its final four, with the semi-finals set for Friday as the promotion has released the full lineup for the penultimate show.
Nagaoka will host the two semi-final contests to determine who advances to Saturday’s final for the chance to challenge for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
Yuya Uemura and Oleg Boltin will face off on one side of the bracket, and Shota Umino meets Callum Newman.
Umino went to the final of last year’s tournament and lost to David Finlay.
The full lineup has been released for Friday’s show, which streams at 4 a.m. ET on New Japan World.
New Japan Cup – Friday, March 20:
- New Japan Cup – Semi-final: Shota Umino vs. Callum Newman
- New Japan Cup – Semi-final: Yuya Uemura vs. Oleg Boltin
- Yota Tsuji, Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Gedo vs. Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa, Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita
- Aaron Wolf, Toru Yano & Tomoaki Honma vs. Ren Narita, Don Fale & Dick Togo
- Shingo Takagi, Drilla Moloney, Taiji Ishimori & Daiki Nagai vs. Jake Lee, HENARE, Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young
- DOUKI, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. El Desperado, YOH & Master Wato
- Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Taichi, Satoshi Kojima & Masatora Yasuda
- Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Taisei Nakahara
