New Japan ran Day 10 of the World Tag League today, with Day 5 of Block B.
Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 952, a legit sellout.
Pre-show Match: DOUKI beat Shoma Kato.
Match 1: Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima. Ishii pinned Nakashima after a sliding lariat.
Match 2: Boltin Oleg, Toa Liona & Bishop Kaun beat Callum Newman, HENARE & Great-O-Khan. Kaun pinned Newman after Fall From Heaven.
Match 3: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & EVIL beat Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin. Sho pinned Gedo.
Match 4; Master Wato, Ren Narita & Shota Umino beat Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls. Umino pinned Fujita after Blaze Blade.
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Match 5: El Phantasmo & Hikuleo beat Jack Bonza & Bad Luck Fale. Hikuleo pinned Bonza after Super Thunder Kiss 86.
Match 6: Yuya Uemura & Taichi beat Soberano Jr. & Atlantis Jr. Uemura pinned Atlantis.
Match 7: Minoru Suzuki & Yuji Nagata beat Alex Zayne & Lance Archer. Nagata pinned Zayne with a backdrop hold.
Main Event: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Zandokan Jr. & Yota Tsuji. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Zandokan after Shoto.
Despite their post-match proclamation of breaking the champions’ jinx and 3-peating, Bishamon’s chances are still on life support after today. The top 2 advance to the Semifinals and they are 3 points out of 2nd with just 2 matches left. But they’ve got Nagata/Suzuki who are out and finally got a win today and Uemura/Taichi left and the latter may very well be for a top 2 spot after Archer/Zayne took their first loss today. Fale/Bonza are now OUT and Tsuji/Zandokan are on life support with their only hope being an absolute must-win coming against Archer/Zayne to have any tiebreaker hopes.
The next event is tomorrow at Arcrea Hiimeji in Hyogo with Day 6 (the penultimate day) of Block A. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.
For the week ahead, the Tag League Semifinals (top 2 in each block) will be Friday in Kagoshima and the Finals will be 12/10 in Kumamoto (for those on the US west coast, this is a Saturday night start on 12/9).
