Will Ospreay Returning To NJPW At Sakura Genesis

Ospreay is back in NJPW.

Coming up on April 4th is New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Sakura Genesis show. It was announced that Will Ospreay is returning to in-ring action for NJPW at the event.

He’ll be teaming with United Empire’s Great-O-Khan and HENARE against Taichi, El Desperado, and Yuya Uemura.

Ospreay showed up at New Year Dash and told Callum Newman that he would be back in NJPW to help Newman guide the United Empire faction. Newman attempted to attack Ospreay from behind, but fellow United Empire members stopped him.

Newman is headlining Sakura Genesis by challenging Yota Tsuji for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

Below is the full lineup for the show:

• IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Callum Newman
• IWGP Tag Team Championship: Knock Out Brothers (Yuto-Ice & OSKAR) (c) vs. T.M.D.K. (Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa)
• NJPW World Television Championship: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Shota Umino
• NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship: Oleg Boltin, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto (c) vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi)
• Yuya Uemura, Taichi & El Desperado vs. United Empire (Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan & HENARE)
• Aaron Wolf, YOH, Toru Yano & Master Wato vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (DOUKI, Don Fale, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
• Unbound Company (Shingo Takagi, Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X) vs. United Empire (Jake Lee, Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young)
• Tiger Mask & Togi Makabe vs. T.M.D.K. (Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson)
• Kickoff Match: KUSHIDA & Masatora Yasuda vs. Tatsuya Matsumoto & Taisei Nakahara