NJPW announces Sakura Genesis card change
To help build toward an upcoming Junior Heavyweight title match, NJPW has made a slight change to the Sakura Genesis card.
Tiger Mask IV and Master Wato have swapped places on the April 4 lineup, with Tiger Mask now set to compete in an eight-man tag match opposite IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion DOUKI. The match pits Tiger Mask, Aaron Wolf, YOH & Toru Yano against DOUKI, Don Fale, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru.
As for Wato, he will now team up with Togi Makabe against Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita.
The change comes after Tiger Mask confronted DOUKI earlier this week and challenged him to a title match. A date for that bout has not been set yet. Tiger Mask, who only has three months left before the end of his in-ring career, wants to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title and retire as champion.
Sakura Genesis is being held at Sumo Hall in Tokyo and will stream live overnight at 3 a.m. Eastern/midnight Pacific.
NJPW Sakura Genesis 2026 (Saturday, April 4) —
- 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 vs. Tatsuya Matsumoto & Taisei Nakahara
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