The opening night of New Japan Cup 2022 took place on March 2, 2022, at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, marking the start of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)’s annual heavyweight single-elimination tournament and featured eight first-round matches.
Kazuchika Okada
El Desperado
Yujiro Takahashi
Tetsuya Naito
Hiroshi Tanahashi
YOH
Toru Yano
Taichi
Togi Makabe
Jeff Cobb
Yuji Nagata
Hirooki Goto
Tomoaki Honma
YOSHI-HASHI
TAKA Michinoku
CIMA
El Lindaman
Issei Onitsuka
T-Hawk
