New Japan Cup Announced!

This fresh from the NJP Facebook page:

"New Japan has just announced 16 wrestlers who will participate New Japan Cup 2011. MVP, Kojima, Tanaka etc. are included. The opening matches are held at Korakuen on Mar. 6 (Sun.) and they come to Ohta, Kasukabe, Hamamatsu. Tsubame, Mito, Kumagaya, Nagoya, and will end in Amagasaki on Mar. 20."

Here are the standings as reported by http://www.njpw.co.jp/

Togi Makabe
Shinzuki Nakamura
Hirooki Goto
Toru Yano
Takayuki Iizuka
Hiroshi Tenzen
Yuji Nagata
Takahashi Yujiro
Wataru Inoue
Tetsuya Naito
Manabu Nakanishi
Giant Bernard
Masato Tanaka
Satoshi Kojima
"Machine Gun" Carl Anderson
MVP

This year is bound to be one of the best on record.  I'm sure that most of us expected MVP to make the list this year, even though he's just debuted for the company.  I'm sure everyone has heard by now the ironic happenings of MVP's partner Nosawa being arrested for being drunk and stealing a taxi cab, after all of the hell MVP went through to get a work visa in Japan.  Yeah, the irony really sticks out there as Nosawa turns out to be the criminal of the two.  Yeah...

I'll have photos up as soon as possible of the standings of the New Japan Cup and I'll be sure to track it week to week, as this year's NJ Cup also marks one year of Rising Sun Sports in blog form.