Line-up for the New Japan Cup 2nd Round on Saturday;
NJPW, "NEW JAPAN CUP - 2nd ROUND", 2014.03.22
Nagoya Congress Center
www.ustream.tv/njpw - $15
17:00 JST | 09:00 EU | 08:00 UK | 04:00 East Coast | 01:00 West Coast
1.
Sho Tanaka vs Yohei Komatsu
2.
Yuji Nagata, Jushin 'Thunder' Liger & Tiger Mask vs CHAOS (Toru Yano, Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI)
3.
G.B.H. (Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma) & Ryusuke Taguchi vs Bullet Club (Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & Tama Tonga)
4.
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Manabu Nakanishi, El Desperado & Captain New Japan vs CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Yujiro Takahashi & Jado)
5. New Japan Cup - 2nd Round:
Katsuyori Shibata vs Shelton 'X' Benjamin
6. New Japan Cup - 2nd Round:
Tetsuya Naito vs Bad Luck Fale
7. New Japan Cup - 2nd Round:
Hirooki Goto vs Minoru Suzuki
8. New Japan Cup - 2nd Round:
Shinsuke Nakamura vs Prince Devitt
Pretty standard undercard, but some of those tags should be fun and I always enjoy seeing the young lions get to battle it out. The New Japan Cup matches themselves look good, although Naito/Fale could go one of two ways (surprisingly good or, wow, that was bad) and Shibata/Shelton should be...interesting, but Goto/Suzuki & Nakamura/Devitt are what I'm in for. I definitely think Shibata's taking this, but with the loser of the final getting a shot at whichever belt the winner doesn't chose, it makes things a bit more interesting - I had predicted a Nakamura/Shibata final, but Meltzer thinks it'll be Suzuki/Shibata with Shibata winning to face Okada for the heavyweight title and Suzuki facing Tanahashi for the IC title. I like that idea.