The opening night of New Japan Pro Wrestling's annual junior heavyweight round-robin tournament took place on May 18, 2018, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Taiji Ishimori
William Ospreay
Tetsuya Shimizu
Yohei Komatsu
Albert Christian Hardie Jr.
Travis Gordon
Yoshihiro Yamazaki
Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Steven Owens
Martin Scurll
Takaaki Watanabe
Hiromu Takahashi
Ryusuke Taguchi
Aaron Henry
Kyosuke Mikami
Minoru Suzuki
Muñoz González
Tomoyuki Oka
Sho Tanaka
Nobuo Yoshihashi
Josh Harter
Ren Narita
Yujiro Kushida
Shota Umino
Kevin Foote