NJPW Announced First Event In Over 100 Days, Reveals New Japan Cup Brackets & More

Tonight New Japan announced they are back with a month of events.

Monday night New Japan Pro Wrestling held a 12-minute press conference there return to running events after being off for over 110 days. they announced a month’s works of events starting on June 15th and capping off on July 12th with Dominion. In that month we will get the 2020 New Japan Cup.

The first event on June 15th will be entitled “Together Project special” live on New Japan World with a mystery card.

NEW JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING IS BACK!

We return to action on Monday June 15 with a mystery card for Together Project Special, LIVE on @njpwworld!

Details: https://t.co/gYIZLpOGfe#njpw #NJPWTogether pic.twitter.com/7PpEmGVjEa

— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) June 9, 2020

The next night will kick off the New Japan Cup running from June 16th to July 11th. They stated that only wrestlers who live in Japan can compete in the tournament due to travel bans into the country.

The matchups and dates for the tournament are as followed,

June 16
Togi Makabe vs Yota Tsuji
Tomohiro Ishii vs El Desperado
Toru Yano vs Jado
Toki Honma vs Hiromu Takahashi

June 17
Kazuchika Okada vs Gedo
Yuji Nagata vs Minoru Suzuki
Yuya Uemura vs Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Gabriel Kidd vs Taiji Ishimori

June 22
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Taichi
Kota Ibushi vs Zack Sabre Jr.
Taguchi vs SANADA
SHO vs Shingo Takagi

June 23
Hiroshi Tenzan vs YOSHI-HASHI
YOH vs BUSHI
Sataoshi Kojima vs EVIL
Hirooki Goto vs Yujiro Takahashi

June 24 & July 1
Second Round

July 2
Quarterfinals

July 3
Semi-finals

July 11
Finals

New Japan has announced the 2020 New Japan Cup pic.twitter.com/aTIjciUigs

— PWUnlimited (@PWUnlimited) June 9, 2020

The finals of the New Japan Cup will take on July 11th from Osaka Jo-Hall. The winner of the tournament will then move on to the July 12 Dominion event the following night and challenge Tetsuya Naito for both the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships. All shows from June 15th through July 3rd will be wan with no live crowd in attendance. The two shows from Osaka Jo-Hall on July 11th and 12th will be ran with a 33% capacity crowd and all events will air live on New Japan World.

NJPW is set to welcome back our fans with two incredible nights in Osaka Jo Hall this July!

Saturday July 11: New Japan Cup final!

Sunday July 12: Dominion in Osaka Jo Hall!

Details: https://t.co/4gdC68vyWr#njpw #njcup #njdominion pic.twitter.com/TRvRqZtIet

— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) June 9, 2020

More information on all upcoming New Japan event over the next month can be found on both their website and their official Twitter account.