Tenryu Project Released Bracket For Ryūkon Cup

The entire bracket for this year’s Ryūkon Cup was released by Tenryu Project on Monday, about a week after they initially announced the men who would be taking part.

This year’s Ryūkon will be fought over two shows on November 21 from Tokyo’s Shin-Kiba 1st RING. There were will 16 men competing, which means the winner will have to weather a total of four matches.

Starting in the top left hand corner and working our way down, 2024 Ryūkon Cup Champion, Hideyoshi Kamitani will take on Dragon System legend, Kenichiro Arai. The winner of that match will then challenge the winner of Mizuki Watase vs. Koji Iwamoto.

The second quadrant will feature Sportiva’s wunderkind, Ali Najima, taking on Satsuki Nagao, while Kazumasa Yoshida will battle Kohei Sato.

Heading over to the right side of the bracket, the prolific Masaaki Mochizuki will have his hands full against the son of Shinya Hashimoto, BJW’s Daichi Hashimoto, while SUSHI will compete against Takuro Niki.

The final quadrant of this tournament, the bottom right hand corner, will see Ayumu Honda going one on one with the masked teenager, Van Vert Jack, and finally, Masayuki Kono will go against 2022 winner and 2021 and 2023 finalist, Keita Yano.

The winner of this year’s Ryūkon will receive 500 thousand yen.

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As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on this year’s Ryūkon Cup as soon as we hear more.