New Japan Cup 2026 night 7 live results: ZSJ vs. Ryohei Oiwa
The New Japan Cup continues with a show in Aichi on Saturday.
Two second-round matches are scheduled for the event. Two-time tournament winner Zack Sabre Jr. will face Ryohei Oiwa in the main event, while Shota Umino takes on Yujiro Takahashi in the other tournament bout. The winners of the two matches will meet each other in the quarterfinals on Tuesday, March 17 in Fukushima.
ZSJ is a two-time tournament winner, having won in 2018 and 2022. He was eliminated by David Finlay in the semifinals of last year’s cup.
Saturday’s card is the final event before the tournament moves into the quarterfinal round on Sunday with Yuya Uemura vs. Shingo Takagi and Oleg Boltin vs. Ren Narita. Hirooki Goto vs. Callum Newman is then scheduled for Tuesday after both men advanced out of the second round on Friday’s show.
Our live coverage begins at 4:30 A.M Eastern Standard Time.
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Main Card
United Empire (Great-O-Khan, HENARE, Franceso Akira, & Zane Jay) defeated Unbound Co. (Yuto-Ice, OSKAR, Drilla Moloney, & Daiki Nagai)
Ice started the night with a heated exchange with HENARE, resulting in the latter thwarting a Bomboclat with a shoulder tackle. Meanwhile, OSKAR and Akira tussled on the entrance ramp. Moloney reunited with former War Dog Akira, with the Italian using OSKAR’s short temper to blind the referee. This led to Akira stomping Moloney’s midsection. Nagai’s spry energy proved hard for Akira to handle, but the United Empire member vanquished him with his Fireball Knees.
Post-match: Ice and HENARE brawled while OSKAR chased Akira out of the arena and back.
Nagai is on fire, and Akira was a great foil for that—they would have a great time in the Best of the Super Juniors against each other.
House of Torture (Don Fale, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, & Chase Owens) defeated Aaron Wolf, Satoshi Kojima, & Masatora Yasuda
Once the dust had settled in the typical House of Torture ambush, Wolf gained control over Fale with an elbow drop. Owens snuck in some cheap shots, so that Fale could tenderize his prey. Kanemaru further excruciated the former judoka in the corner, pressing his legs into Wolf’s shoulder. Owens capitalized by stretching the Olympic athlete’s neck. Kanemaru sought to pick up where Owens left off, but suffered a Scoop and a Slam for his troubles.
Now unleashed, Kojima’s machine gun chops left a crater in Owens’s chest. Koji-Cutter foiled Owens’s aspired comeback, allowing Yasuda to collaborate with Wolf, the former landing a dropkick. Yasuda met a nearfall after a Last Testament. Owens rubbed salt in the wound with a C-Trigger and Last Testament to defeat the Young Lion.
On the bright side, at least it wasn’t a visual pinfall over Wolf’s body. I’m nearly soured on my hopes of Wolf’s booking in this company. I’ll give it another month. However, I don’t want it to be lost that Yasuda has so much upside; it’s ridiculous. He’s definitely among my favorites in this crop of Young Lions.
Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji versus Yuya Uemura & Tomoaki Honma
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