New Japan releases full card for Best of Super Juniors finals

YOH vs. Fujita
YOH vs. Fujita (Image credit: NJPW)

We have known for a while now what the finals of New Japan’s Best of the Super Juniors would be. Now we know the full card for that night’s show. 

New Japan released the card and hyped up the main event in a press release on their website. 

“For the second consecutive year, the final of Best of the Super Jr. has come down to YOH and Kosei Fujita,” the release states. “While rivals have crossed paths across multiple finals in the past, this is the first time in Best of the Super Jr. history that the same final has taken place in consecutive years, and the first time in an NJPW tournament such an event has taken place since EVIL and SANADA took on the Guerrillas of Destiny in 2017 and 2018 World Tag League finals.”

Fujita went 6-3 in the A Block of the tournament to finish with 12 points, with losses to Master Wato, Robbie X, and Jun Kasai. The 12 points left him tied with Wato and Francesco Akira at the top of the standings; with tiebreakers, Wato won the block, but Fujita still advanced to the knockout stage, where he defeated Robbie Eagles in the first round.

YOH also finished 6-3 with 12 points, with losses to KUSHIDA, Robbie Eagles, and Hyo. Eagles and YOH finished in a five-way tie atop the B Block, along with El Desperado, Taiji Ishimori, and SHO. Eagles finished atop the tiebreakers but lost to Fujita in the knockout stage. YOH also advanced and defeated Wato to reach the finals. 

The full card: 

  • Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Tiger Mask IV & Masatora Yasuda & Taisei Nakahara
  • Shota Umino & El Phantasmo & Jado vs. United Empire (Jake Lee & Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young)
  • Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi & Daisuke Sasaki & Nick Wayne & Valiente Jr. vs. Unbound Company (Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X & Titán & Gedo & Daiki Nagai)
  • El Desperado & Hyo vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
  • Yuya Uemura & Taichi & KUSHIDA vs. T.M.D.K. (Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson & Robbie Eagles)
  • Aaron Wolf & Toru Yano & Jun Kasai vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita & Yujiro Takahashi & Dick Togo)
  • Unbound Company (Yota Tsuj & OSKAR & Yuto-Ice) vs. United Empire (Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan & Zane Jay
  • Best of the Super Jr. 33 Final: Kosei Fujita vs. YOH

The show takes place Sunday, June 7, at Ota-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. It will stream in English and Japanese on NJPW World.  

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