Loser Leaves Bullet Club Stip Set for Dogpound Cage Match at NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 Night 1 Event

Tuesday’s Hizen no Kuni event for New Japan Pro Wrestling in Saga, Japan featured one newly updated match announced for the card of Wrestling Dontaku 2025 Night 1 event on May 3rd at the Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka.

This newly updated match announced was a Loser Leaves Bullet Club Dogpound Cage match of BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Taiji Ishimori, Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney, Gabe Kidd, & David Finlay) vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SHO, SANADA, Ren Narita, & EVIL).

This newly updated match was setup following a promo by HoT’s EVIL prior to the start of the 10-Man Tag Team match between War Dogs and House of Torture. EVIL stated that once they lose the Dogpound Cage match at Wrestling Dontaku 2025, they will be officially kicked out of Bullet Club.

“If I say you’re out of Bullet Club, you’re out. When you lose in the cage, you can never say the words Bullet Club again.”

Following the No Contest decision for the 10-Man Tag Team match, War Dogs’ David Finlay grabbed a microphone and responded to EVIL’s promo earlier and accepted the stipulation of the losing group being kicked out of Bullet Club for the Dogpound Cage match.

“Evil: As I understood you correctly, you want us to up the stakes of the Dogpound Steel Cage match. You want me to put it all on the line. You want to make it ‘Loser leaves Bullet Club.’ Well, as the one true leader of Bullet Club, I accept.”

After a challenge laid down and accepted, it seems as if either War Dogs or HOUSE OF TORTURE will be forever forced out of BULLET CLUB in the Dogpound Steel Cage!#njhizen report:https://t.co/NXyoR6qhPf

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— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) April 29, 2025

Updated card for NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 Night 1:

• Pre-show: Katsuya Murashima vs. Daiki Nagai
• Master Wato, YOH, Boltin Oleg, & Toru Yano vs. TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles, Hartley Jackson, & Ryohei Oiwa
• Just Four Guys (TAKA Michinoku, Taichi, & Yuya Uemura) & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Los Ingobernables De Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Tetsuya Naito, & Yota Tsuji)
• Ryusuke Taguchi & Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) vs. United Empire (Jakob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan, & Callum Newman)
• El Phantasmo & Jado vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Rocky Romero
• Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Road 〜Kinship match – Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
• Shingo Takagi vs. Shota Umino
• Loser Leaves Bullet Club Dogpound Cage match – BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Taiji Ishimori, Clark Connors, Drilla Moloney, Gabe Kidd, & David Finlay) vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SHO, SANADA, Ren Narita, & EVIL)

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com