NJPW NJ Cup and 51st Anniversary Show Review: Bullet Club Problems

NJPW NJ Cup and 51st Anniversary Show Review: Bullet Club Problems #davidfinlay #nj51st #njpw The New Japan Cup 2023 edition kicks off with a quartette of first round matches full of hard hitting action and a few surprises. El Phantasmo and Tetsuya Naito clash in the first match of the tournament with the winner a likely candidate to be in the finals at the end. SANADA took on Taichi in a match where Cold Skull needed a bit of inspiration from his old friend to get out of the funk he’s been in for months. Then we have the 51st Anniversary show for New Japan Pro-Wrestling where a mystery surfaced about a new member of Bullet Club in the wake of Jay White’s departure from NJPW. Who would it be? And to top off everything, the dream team of Hiroshi Tanahashi and IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada challenged current IWGP World Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Bishamon (Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI) who are also members of Okada’s own faction, Chaos.