NJPW New Japan Cup – Quarter Finals, Night 2
Date: March 18, 2021
Venue: Twin Messe Shizuoka
Time: 6:30pm JST
New Japan Cup Bracket Update
UNDERCARD MATCHES:
First Match: Yuya Uemura vs. Gabriel Kidd
Second Match: Yota Tsuji, Yuji Nagata vs. Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb
Third Match: Juice Robinson, Toa Henare vs. Bad Luck Fale, KENTA
Fourth Match: BUSHI, Shingo Takagi, Tetsuya Naito vs. Chase Owens, EVIL, Taiji Ishimori
Fifth Match
New Japan Cup 2021 Quarter Final
David Finlay vs. Jay White
Sport of Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup Bracket Challenge
- 18.9% of brackets entered at Sport of Pro Wrestling have Jay White winning the entire tournament.
- 99.05 % of brackets entered into the Sport of Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup Bracket Challenge have picked Jay White to advance past David Finlay in their quarter final matchup.
New Japan Cup History
Jay White
- First New Japan Cup appearance.
David Finlay
- First New Japan Cup appearance
- In this year’s tournament, only Toru Yano’s average match length has been shorter than David Finlay’s 12 minutes and 16 seconds.
- In this year’s tournament, only Shingo Takagi’s average match length has been longer than Jay White’s 22 minutes and 20 seconds.
- Jay White’s 22 minute and 20 second average match length currently sits as the second longest average in New Japan Cup history. Only Kenny Omega’s average is longer, and his was just a single match (29 minutes and 45 seconds).
Recent History – Singles (Last 365 Days)
- David Finlay’s victory over Chase Owens in the first round of this year’s New Japan Cup was his first singles victory in Japan since November of 2017 when he defeated Katsuya Kitamura at NJPW Power Struggle 2017.
- David Finlay’s two matches to begin the New Japan Cup are his first two-match singles winning streak in Japan since November of 2016.
- So far in 2021, Jay White’s singles matches have averaged 29 minutes and 27 seconds. Only Kota Ibushi’s 31 minute and 8 second average is longer. (Ibushi’s matches have all been IWGP Heavyweight or Intercontinental Championship matches).
- With a win tonight, Jay White would be tied with the third most singles wins in NJPW over the course of the last 365 days and he will match Kota Ibushi’s NJPW leading .778 winning percentage as the best in that time period.
Head To Head History
- David Finlay and Jay White have wrestled in ten singles matches and this will be their first singles match in almost three years.
- David Finlay defeated Jay white in their first singles match on September 4th, 2015. Since then, Jay White has defeated David Finlay in 10 straight singles matches, including their last meeting, a 26 instead and 49 second United States Heavyweight Championship match at Korakuen Hall in 2018.
Main Event
New Japan Cup 2021 Quarter Final
SANADA vs. Will Ospreay
Sport of Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup Bracket Challenge
- 90.11% of entries to the Sport of Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup Bracket Challenge correctly predicted this match at this stage of the tournament.
- 77.2% of entrants selected Will Ospreay to advance past SANADA in this round.
- Just 1.1 % of entries to the Sport of Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup Bracket Challenge picked SANADA to win the entire tournament.
- 31.2% of entries to the Sport of Pro Wrestling New Japan Cup Bracket Challenge have Will Ospreay winning the whole tournament, by far the most among the pool.
New Japan Cup History
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.
Will Ospreay
- Second New Japan Cup appearance
- 2019: Eliminated by Kazuchika Okada in the quarter-finals.
- SANADA has at least reached the semi-finals in three straight New Japan Cup tournaments.
- This is Will Ospreay’s second New Japan Cup tournament. He was eliminated in this round by Kazuchika Okada during the 2019 tournament.
- SANADA’s 12 New Japan Cup wins in the last 5 years is the most among all New Japan Cup competitors. Second highest over that period of time is EVIL and Kazuchika Okada with 9 wins each.
- After tonight’s match, it is very likely that SANADA will sit fifth all-time in Total New Japan Cup Match length, He will surpass Togi Makabe and Kazuchika Okada with less than 20 minutes of ring time tonight.
Recent History – Singles (2021)
Recent History – Singles (Last 365 Days)
- With a win tonight, SANADA would tie Kazuchika Okada for most in NJPW with 16 singles victories over the last 365 days.
- This will be SANADA’s 23rd singles match in the last calendar year. That is the most in NJPW, one ahead of EVIL.
Head To Head History
- Will Ospreay and SANADA have met once in a singles match. Ospreay defeated SANADA in 17 minutes and 6 seconds at Ota City Gymnasium during the 2019 G1 Climax Tournament.