NJPW Announces Cards For Road To Sakura Genesis

NJPW is on the road to Sakura Genesis, which will take place on April 4 in Tokyo’s Ryogoku Sumo Hall. Callum Newman will challenge Yota Tsuji for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at that event, along with defenses of the IWGP World Tag Team Championship, the NJPW World TV Championship & the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship.

Several shows will take place on the road to that event, and NJPW announced two full cards over the weekend. The first will take place on March 28 in Ibarki:

• Masatora Yasuda vs. Tatsuya Matsumoto
• KUSHIDA vs. Taisei Nakahara
• Yuya Uemura, Taichi & El Desperado vs. Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Tiger Mask
• Aaron Wolf, YOH, Toru Yano & Master Wato vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Don Fale, DOUKI, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
• Boltin Oleg, Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Shota Umino vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens & Dick Togo)
• Unbound Company (Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Gedo) vs. T.M.D.K. (Ryohei Oiwa, Zack Sabre Jr. & Hartley Jackson)
• Unbound Company (Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi, Taiji Ishimori, Robbie X & Daiki Nagai) vs. United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee, Francesco Akira, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay)

The second announced card will take place on April 2 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo:

• Shota Umino & Tiger Mask vs. KUSHIDA & Masatora Yasuda
• Konosuke Takeshita vs. Tatsuya Matsumoto
• Yuya Uemura, Taichi & El Desperado vs. Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Master Wato
• Boltin Oleg, Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, Aaron Wolf & Toru Yano vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, Don Fale & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
• Unbound Company (Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Gedo) vs. T.M.D.K. (Ryohei Oiwa, Zack Sabre Jr. & Hartley Jackson)
• Unbound Company (Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Daiki Nagai) vs. United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee & Zane Jay)
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori (c) vs. United Empire (Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young)
• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: DOUKI (c) vs. YOH

You can find the rest of the Road to Sakura Genesis events on NJPW’s website.