New Japan Cup night 8 is complete, and the finals are set.
Hiroshi Tanahashi, New Japan's longtime "ace" will meet Zack Sabre Jr. this week in the finals of the tournament. Sabre managed to defeat SANADA in a semifinal bout to move on.
You can see quick results of night 8 below.
* Shota Umino defeated Ren Narita via submission with a Boston crab.
* Bullet Club's Tanga Loa, Yujiro Takahashi, & Bad Luck Fale defeated Togi Makabe, Tomoyuki Oka, & Toa Henare when Takahashi pinned Oka with a Pimp Juice DDT.
* Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano defeated Taichi and Takashi Iizuka by DQ when Taichi kicked the ref
* Michael Elgin and Juice Robinson defeated Kota Ibushi and Chase Owens when Robinson pinned Owens
* Killer Elite Squad defeated Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI when Lance Archer pinned YOSHI-HASHI
* Tetsuya Naito, BUSHI and Hiromu Takahashi defeated Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado
* Hirosh i Tanahashi and David Finlay defeated Kazuchika Okada and Chucky T when Finlay pinned Chucky.
* NJPW Cup Semifinal: Zack Sabre Jr. defeated SANADA via submission
Fightful.com will have full, live coverage and discussion of the NJPW Cup finals on March 21, which will air in the early hours of the morning. We will also discuss the finals on our mid-week NXT/205 Live wrap up.
