NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 Night Eight Results(3/18):Shizuoka, Japan
NJPW recently held Night Eight of their New Japan Cup Event which emanated from Act City Tower Hamamatsu in Shizuoka, Japan.
Night Eight’s action was headlined by the second semifinal tournament match in which SANADA took on Zack Sabre Jr., the winner of which will head to the finals on Wednesday, March 21. Below are the results from the show:
– Shota Umino def. Ren Narita by submission with a Boston Crab.
– Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Tanga Loa & Yujiro Takahashi) def. Toa Henare, Togi Makabe & Tomoyuki Oka by pinfall with Pimp Juice from Takahashi on Oka.
– Chaos (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano) def. Suzuki-gun (Taichi & Takashi Iizuka) by disqualification after Taichi attacked the referee to stop a schoolboy pin from Yano on Iizuka.
– Juice Robinson & Michael Elgin def. Chase Owens & Kota Ibushi by pinfall with Pulp Friction from Robinson on Owens.
– Killer Elite Squad (Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Lance Archer) def. Chaos (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) by pinfall with Killer Bomb on YOSHI-HASHI.
– Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito) def. Suzuki-gun (El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) by pinfall with Destino from Naito on Desperado.
– David Finlay & Hiroshi Tanahashi def. Chaos (Chuckie T & Kazuchika Okada) by pinfall with a backslide from Finlay on Chuckie T.
– Zack Sabre Jr. def. SANADA by submission with the leg-trap, leg-assisted Ode to Jim Breaks (New Japan Cup 2018 Semifinal Match).