NJPW New Japan Cup – Night Four
Date: March 9, 2021
Venue: Zip Arena Okayama
Time: 6:30pm JST
Undercard Matches
First Match: Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI & Yuya Uemura vs. Bad Luck Fale, EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi
Second Match: Gabriel Kidd, Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma vs. Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay
Third Match: David Finlay, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson & Toa Henare vs. Chase Owens, Gedo, Jay White & KENTA
Fourth Match: Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada & SHO vs. BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito
Fifth Match
New Japan Cup 2021 First Round
Yuji Nagata vs. Yota Tsuji
New Japan Cup History
Yuji Nagata
- 14th New Japan Cup appearance, third consecutive. Two time winner: 2007, 2011
- 2020: Eliminated by Kazuchika Okada in the second round. 2019: Eliminated by Tomohiro Ishii in the first round. 2017: Eliminated by EVIL in the first round. 2016: Eliminated by Hirooki Goto in the first round. 2015: Eliminated by Hirooki Goto in the first round. 2013: Eliminated by Minoru Suzuki in the first round. 2012: Eliminated by Minoru Suxzuki in the first round.2010: Eliminated by Yujiro Takahashi in the first round. 2011: Defeated Shinsuke Nakamura in the final to win the tournament. 2009: Eliminated by Hirooki Goto in the semi-finals. 2007: Defeated Togi Makabe in the final to win the tournament. 2006: Eliminated by Giant Bernard in the finals. 2005: Eliminated by Hiroshi Tanahashi in the first round.
Yota Tsuji
- Second New Japan Cup appearance, second consecutive
- 2020: Eliminated by Togi Makabe in the first round
- Yuji Nagata’s 6 hours, 5 minutes, and 58 seconds of Total Match Length in the New Japan Cup is fourth all time. Only Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hirooki Goto, and Tomohiro Ishii have spent more time in the ring during New Japan Cup matches than Yuji Nagata.
- Nagata’ s 26 New Japan Cup Matches are good for fifth most all time. Only Hirooki Goto, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano and Togi Makabe have had more matches than Nagata.
- Nagata is just 6-7 in first round New Japan Cup matches. He’ll look to even his record out against the Young Lion, Tsuji tonight.
Recent History – Singles (365 Days)
- Only Yuya Uemura (36) has had more singles matches in the last 365 days than Yota Tsuji’s 28.
Head To Head History
- This will be the first time Tsuji and Nagata have wrestled each other in a one-on-one match.
History in Okayama
- Yuji Nagata hasn’t wrestled a singles match in Okayama since the summer of 2001 when he defeated Yutaka Yoshie during the Summer Struggle tour.
- This will be Yota Tsuji’s first match ever in Okayama.
Sixth Match
New Japan Cup 2021 First Round
Tomohiro Ishii vs. SANADA
New Japan Cup History
Tomohiro Ishii
- 13th New Japan Cup appearance, sixth consecutive
- 2020: Eliminated by Hiromu Takahashi in the quarter-finals. 2019: Eliminated by Kazuchika Okada in the semi-finals. 2018: Eliminated by Michael Elgin in the first round. 2017: Eliminated by Katsuyori Shibata in the semi-finals. 2016: Eliminated by Tetsuya Naito in the second round. 2014: Eliminated by Tetsuya Naito in the first round. 2013: Eliminated by Hirooki Goto in the second round. 2010: Eliminated by Togi Makabe in the first round. 2009: Eliminated by Yutaka Yoshe in the second round. 2008: Eliminated by Hiroyoshi Tenzan in the first round. 2007: Eliminated by Yuji Nagata in the first round. 2006: Eliminated by Yuji Nagata in the first round.
SANADA
- Fifth New Japan Cup appearance, fifth consecutive
- 2020: Eliminated by EVIL in the semi-final. 2019: Eliminated by Kazuchika Okada in the final. 2018: Eliminated by Zack Sabre Jr in the semi-final. 2017: Eliminated by Tomohiro Ishii in the second round.
- Among wrestlers with more than one New Japan Cup match loss, SANADA’s average losing match length (23:29) is the second longest. Only Kazuchika Okada (24:07) has been more challenging to put away in the tournament than SANADA.
- SANADA has the most New Japan Cup wins in the last five years with ten. That is one more victory than Kazuchika Okada and two more than tonight’s opponent, Tomohiro Ishii.
Recent History – Singles (365 Days)
Head To Head History
- Tomohiro Ishii and SANADA haven’t met in a singles match since the 2018 G1 Climax tournament. Ishii has won the last two meetings between himself and SANADA including SANADA’s second round elimination in the 2017 New Japan Cup.
History in Okayama
- SANADA has wrestled in one singles match in Zip Arena Okayama. He defeated KENTA in last year’s G1 Climax Tournament.
- Tomohiro Ishii has wrestled in one singles match in Zip Arena Okayama. He defeated Taichi in the second round of the 2019 New Japan Cup.