Dave Meltzer Star Ratings – NJPW New Japan Cup 2020

The 2020 edition of the New Japan Cup took place from June 16th to July 11th. This page will be your hub for all of the Dave Meltzer star ratings from the tournament.

Dave Meltzer Star Ratings – NJPW New Japan Cup 2020

The ratings are from his Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscribe here). He rates them on a 5-star scale [here are all of the five-star ratings that he has ever given out].

June 16

Togi Makabe vs Yota Tsuji

  • Rating: 3.25 stars

Tomohiro Ishii vs El Desperado

  • Rating: 4.25 stars

Toru Yano vs Jado

  • Rating: -1 star

Tomoaki Honma vs Hiromu Takahashi

  • Rating: 3.5 stars

June 17

Kazuchika Okada vs. Gedo

  • Rating: 1 star

Yuji Nagata vs. Minoru Suzuki

  • Rating: 4.5 stars

Yuya Uemura vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru

  • Rating: 2.5 stars

Gabriel Kidd vs. Taiji Ishimori

  • Rating: 2.25 stars

June 22

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Taichi

  • Rating: 3.25 stars

Kota Ibushi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.

  • Rating: 4.25 stars

Ryusuke Taguchi vs. SANADA

  • Rating: 3.0 stars

SHO vs. Shingo Takagi

  • Rating: 4.5 stars

June 23

Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. YOSHI-HASHI

  • Rating: 3.5 stars

YOH vs. BUSHI

  • Rating: 3.25 stars

Satoshi Kojima vs. EVIL

  • Rating: 4 stars

Hirooki Goto vs. Yujiro Takahashi

  • Rating: 3 stars

June 24

Taiji Ishimori vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru

  • Rating: 2.75 stars

Tomohiro Ishii vs. Makabe: 

  • Rating: 4.25 stars

Hiromu Takahashi vs. Yano

  • Rating: 2 stars

Yuji Nagata vs. Kazuchika Okada

  • Rating: 3.5 stars

July 1

BUSHI vs. YOSHI-HASHI:

  • Rating: 2.25 stars

SANADA vs. SHO

  • Rating: 3.75 stars

Ibushi vs. Taichi

  • Rating: 3.5 stars

EVIL vs. Goto

  • Rating: 3.5 stars

July 2

Hiromu Takahashi vs Tomohiro Ishii

  • Rating: 4.75 stars

EVIL vs. YOSHI-HASHI

  • Rating: 1.25 stars

Taiji Ishimori vs. Kazuchika Okada

  • Rating: 3.75 stars

SANADA vs. Taichi

  • Rating: 3.5 stars

July 3

  • T.B.D

July 11

  • T.B.D

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