Show starts at 4:30am EST / 9:30am GMT. 33 MINUTES TILL SHO-TIME
Opening VTR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS8l8pn62YI

Some things to go over
>Of course, the winner of NJC will challenge the IWGP Champion at Sakura Genesis. The champion however is still in question as Hirooki Goto will defend the title vs Yuji Nagata at Dolphins Arena in Nagoya, the same night that the 4 quarter-final matches will take place.
>None of the wrestlers with byes booked until Day 3. No Shota Umino until at least his tournament match.
>CHAOS and GBH have been annexed into Hontai. Both stables are dead and now Goto, Ishii, Yano, YOSHI-HASHI, YOH, Rocky, Lio Rush (yes, he counts), Makabe & Honma solely represent New Japan just as Tanahashi, Despy & Shota do.

>NEW JAPAN CUP 1st Round
Yota Tsuji vs EVIL
>NEW JAPAN CUP 1st Round
Yuya Uemura vs SANADA
>Tag Team Match
War Dogs (Drilla Moloney and Gabe Kidd) vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita)
>Tag Team Match
Los Ingobernables De Japon (Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito) vs United Empire (Jakob Austin Young & Callum Newman)
>Tag Team Match
TMDK (Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa) vs BULLET CLUB (Gedo & Chase Owens)
>6-Man Tag Match
Jado, El Desperado & El Phantasmo vs United Empire (Jeff Cobb, Francesco Akira & Great-O-Khan)
>8-Man Tag Match
Katsuya Murashima, Toru Yano, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Hirooki Goto vs Tiger Mask, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata