NJPW Sakura Genesis live results: Yota Tsuji vs. Callum Newman
New Japan Pro-Wrestling presents Sakura Genesis on Saturday, April 4 at Ryogoku Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Four championship matches and the return of Will Ospreay are advertised for the show.
The main event will see Yota Tsuji defend the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against 2026 New Japan Cup winner Callum Newman.
In the semi-main event, IWGP Tag Team Champions Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI) will defend their titles against Ryohei Oiwa and Zack Sabre Jr. of TMDK.
The full lineup is as follows:
- IWGP Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji defends against Callum Newman
- IWGP Tag Team Champions The Knock Out Brothers (Oskar & Yuto-Ice) defend against Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa
- NJPW World Television Champion Konosuke Takeshita defends against Shota Umino
- NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champions Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Oleg Boltin defend against Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens
- Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan & HENARE vs. Yuya Uemura, Taichi & El Desperado
- Tiger Mask, Aaron Wolf, YOH & Toru Yano vs. DOUKI, Don Fale, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- Shingo Takagi, Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X vs. Jake Lee, Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young
- Togi Makabe & Master Wato vs. Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita
- Pre-show: KUSHIDA & Masatora Yasuda defeated Tatsuya Matsumoto & Taisei Nakahara
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Pre-show
KUSHIDA & Masatora Yasuda defeated Taisei Nakahara & Tatsuya Matsumoto
Nakahara defiantly struggled through KUSHIDA’s headlocks, eventually locking in one of his own. Matsumoto wasn’t so easy for KUSHIDA to pin down, slamming the veteran to escape a particularly stubborn armbar. Nakahara soon tapped out to Yasuda’s unrelenting Boston Crab.
Main Card
Sakura Genesis’s main card will start soon. Stay tuned for updates.
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