New Japan IWGP Tournament brackets

Alot of commotion at the press conference where all 16 particiapants in the tournament to draw their numbers for the tournament. Kazuyuki Fujita showed up thinking the final spot would be his, but received a huge shock when it was announced that Togi Makabe would be the 16th man in! Fujita demanded to know why he wasn't included in the tournament, and President Kusama answered that he hadn't wrestled in ages, and Makabe has shown he's more than worthy with all the gutsy showings he's had in the past few tours. Fujita stormed out vowing revenge. The number drawing led to some surprising match ups for the opening round, and guarantees an almost "everyone has a chance" feel. NJPW "King of IWGP" 9/26/2004 Naofumi Yamamoto & Toru Yano VS Mitsuya Nagai & Kazunari Murakami IWGP Title Tournament – Shinsuke Nakamura VS Hiroshi Tanahashi IWGP Title Tournament – Yoshihiro Takayama VS Kensuke Sasaki IWGP Title Tournament – Tadao Yasuda VS Manabu Nakanishi IWGP Title Tournament – Osamu Nishimura VS Scott Norton IWGP Jr Tag Team Titles – Jado & Gedo VS Tiger Mask IV & Curry Man IWGP Title Tournament – Masahiro Chono VS Katsuyori Shibata IWGP Title Tournament – Yuji Nagata VS Togi Makabe IWGP Title Tournament – Blue Wolf VS Yutaka Yoshie IWGP Title Tournament – Hiroyoshi Tenzan VS Koji Kanemoto The card and date of the second show where the quarter-finals up to the finals will be held will be announced next monday.