
Full card for Sakura Genesis.
April 5th is the date of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Sakura Genesis special from Ryōgoku Sumo Hall. The company pushed out the full match card for the show which is going to be headlined by 2025 New Japan Cup winner David Finlay challenging Hirooki Goto for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
Konosuke Takeshita’s next defense of the NEVER Openweight Title is taking place and it is against T.M.D.K.’s Ryohei Oiwa. Another singles bout that is locked in is Shota Umino versus Hiroshi Tanahashi.
Below is the full Sakura Genesis lineup:
- IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Hirooki Goto (c) vs. David Finlay
- IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (c) vs. EVIL
- IWGP Tag Team Championships: Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi) (c) vs. United Empire (Jeff Cobb & Callum Newman)
- NEVER Openweight Championship: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Ryohei Oiwa
- NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championships: House of Torture (Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi & SHO) (c) vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Gabe Kidd, Drilla Moloney & Taiji Ishimori)
- Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shota Umino
- NJPW World Television Championship: El Phantasmo (c) vs. Great-O-Khan
- Yuya Uemura vs. SANADA
- Kickoff Match: Katsuya Murashima vs. Daiki Nagai