An adjustment has been made to New Japan’s Sakura Genesis card as Tiger Mask and Master Wato are swapping places in their respective matches.
On Thursday’s Road to Sakura Genesis card, the soon-to-be retiring Tiger Mask confronted IWGP junior heavyweight champion, DOUKI. Tiger Mask laid out his plan to win the title before retiring on July 7 with a future match lined up, although no date was announced.
On Saturday, Tiger Mask will swap places with Master Wato and participate in an eight-man tag against a House of Torture team featuring DOUKI. Wato remains on the show, teaming with Togi Makabe against TMDK’s Hartley Jackson and Kosei Fujita.
The show streams early Saturday at 3 a.m. ET from Ryogoku Kokugikan on New Japan World.
Karen Peterson and Bruce Lord will have a review of the show on Saturday on the POST Wrestling Café.
NJPW Sakura Genesis – Saturday, April 4 at 3 a.m. ET:
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji © vs. Callum Newman
- IWGP Tag Championship: Knockout Bros. © vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa
- World Television Championship: Konosuke Takeshita © vs. Shota Umino
- NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Championship: Oleg Boltin, Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI © vs. Ren Narita, Yujiro & Chase Owens
- Will Ospreay, HENARE & Great O-Khan vs. Yuya Uemura, Taichi & El Desperado
- Aaron Wolf, Tiger Mask, YOH & Toru Yano vs. DOUKI, SHO, Don Fale & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- Shingo Takagi, Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X vs. Jake Lee, Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young
- Master Wato & Togi Makabe vs. Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita
- KUSHIDA & Masatora Yasuda vs. Tatsuya Matsumoto & Taisei Nakahara (pre-show)
