New Japan Cup Day 1 (3/5) Results: Two Major Upsets In First Round, Tanahashi, Okada In Action

By Sean Ross Sapp

New Japan Pro Wrestling's New Japan Cup kicked off early this morning in Japan, and saw major upsets right out of the gate. Both Bad Luck Fale and Toru Yano picked up huge victories over Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi respectively.

The New Japan Cup will continue through March 15, and we'll be bringing you the results with each event.

Sho Tanaka, Mascara Dorada, Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask defeated Jay White, Yohei Komatsu, KUSHIDA, Jushin Thunder Liger via pinfall

Tournament Match
Yujiro Takahashi defeats YOSHI-HASHI via pinfall

Tournament Match
Togi Makabe defeats Tomoaki Honma via pinfall

Tournament Match
Katsuyori Shibata defeats Satoshi Kojima via pinfall

Tournament Match
Hirooki Goto defeats Yuji Nagata via pinfall

Kazushi Sakuraba, Tomohiro Ishii, Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Captain New Japan, Manabu Nakanishi, Hiroyoshi Tenzan via pinfall

Tournament Match
Kota Ibushi defeated Doc Gallows via pinfall

Tournament Match
Tetsuya Naito defeated Karl Anderson via pinfall

Tournament Match
Toru Yano defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi via pinfall

Tournament Match
Bad Luck Fale defeated Okada via pinfall

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