NJPW reveals full card for Best of the Super Juniors semifinals
NJPW has now revealed the full card for Friday’s Best of the Super Juniors semifinals.
In the main event of the show, A Block winner Master Wato takes on YOH, who finished second place in B Block. The semi-main will see Robbie Eagles, the B Block winner, take on A Block runner-up Kosei Fujita. These bouts will determine which two competitors advance to Sunday’s finals for a shot to become the next challenger for DOUKi’s IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
Both semifinal bouts are pitting tag team partners against each other. Eagles & Fujita, as the Ichiban Sweet Boys, are three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and held the titles as recently as last month. Wato & YOH are former champs as well.
After BOSJ, NJPW has Dominion coming up on June 14. That event is being headlined by Callum Newman vs. Yota Tsuji for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship — and those two are set to face off on Friday in an eight-man tag match.
NEVER Openweight Champion Ren Narita and his Dominion challenger Aaron Wolf will also collide in tag action.
The semifinals event is being held in Gunma and begins at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time, airing live on NJPW World with English and Japanese commentary.
NJPW Best of the Super Juniors semifinals (Friday, June 5) —
- Best of the Super Juniors semifinal: Master Wato vs. YOH
- Best of the Super Juniors semifinal: Robbie Eagles vs. Kosei Fujita
- Callum Newman, Francesco Akira, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay vs. Yota Tsuji, Taiji Ishimori, Robbie X & Daiki Nagai
- Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Aaron Wolf, Toru Yano, Ryusuke Taguchi & KUSHIDA
- El Desperado & Hyo vs. Daisuke Sasaki & Dick Togo
- Jun Kasai & Nick Wayne vs. Titan & Gedo
- Yuya Uemura & Masatora Yasuda vs. Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson
- Tiger Mask & Taisei Nakahara vs. Valiente Jr. & Tatsuya Matsumoto
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