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New Japan Pro Wrestling “STRONG STYLE EVOLVED” 2024 LIVE Results (12/15/24) (Updated)

New Japan runs their final US event of the year, STRONG STYLE EVOLVED 2024, today, and the event may have implications for Tokyo Dome as well as their next US event in January (which I will be attending). In addition to plenty of Tokyo Dome previews, 3 title matches headline the event-first is STRONG Tag Team Champions Grizzled Young Veterans defending the titles against West Coast Wrecking Crew. The second title match sees STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd defend against Ryohei Oiwa. And in the main event, after pulling off quite the upset to earn this spot Hazuki will try to win the STRONG Women’s Championship from Mercedes Mone, and frankly ruin January for me as I really want to see the C.E.O. in person as champion, not having the title go to Stardom yet. We’ll see.

Today’s event will be held at Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, CA and can be watched LIVE on New Japan World in Japanese and English. It will also be available as a PPV on TrillerTV/FITE for $19.99. There also will be a pre-show with one match 30 minutes before the event. Including that and with all the main card matches being 30 minute time limit I anticipate this being a “standard” PPV with a total running time of about 3 1/2 hours (not much longer as it’s a Sunday night event).

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show: Matt Vandagriff vs. Zane Jay

PPV:
Mina Shirakawa vs. Johnnie Robbie
STRONG Tag Team Champions James Drake & Zack Gibson vs. Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs for the titles
Clark Connors vs. KUSHIDA, TJP & Kosei Fujita in a 4-way
Lio Rush vs. Hechicero
Titan & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Jacob Austin Young & Templario
STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd vs. Ryohei Oiwa for the title
Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste & Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Fred Rosser, Tom Lawlor & Shota Umino
Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Jack Perry
STRONG Women’s Champion Mercedes Mone vs. Hazuki for the title

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Updates below will begin at 4:30 PM PT/7:30 PM ET.

4:30 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, CA. Your hosts are Haruo Murata & Milano Collection A.T. Your English hosts are Walker Stewart & Veda Scott.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The setup is for just under 2800 and the latest estimate on ticket sales I had was Friday afternoon and was roughly 1900. Mostly empty now as the crowd is slowly filing in but I’m thinking the final number will be around 2000. (Early main show note: The crowd looks smaller than that, or in some sections it’s a very late arriving crowd. Looks closer to maybe 1500 from what I can see after the first match. Typical late-arriving LA area crowd as it grew a bit over the first hour) (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 2435. That number definitely sounds overstated. Didn’t look like that much on livestream)

You can also watch the pre-show FOR FREE on YouTube.

Pre-show match: Matt Vandagriff vs. Zane Jay. 20 minute time limit
Result: Zane Jay beat Matt Vandagriff by submission. Vandagriff’s “STRONG Survivor” run is over.

Updates will resume when the PPV/main show begins.

PPV/main show:
Match card order opening video starts things off.

The matches begin at 5:04 PM PT/8:04 PM ET.

Match 1: Mina Shirakawa vs. Johnnie Robbie. 30 minute time limit
Result: Mina Shirakawa beat Johnnie Robbie

Match 2: STRONG Tag Team Champions James Drake & Zack Gibson vs. Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs for the titles. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jorel Nelson & Royce Isaacs beat STRONG Tag Team Champions James Drake & Zack Gibson to win the titles. Nelson & Isaacs become the 11th STRONG Tag Team Champions. Isaacs pinned Drake. Long time coming win for West Coast Wrecking Crew. Afterwards, Rocky Romero came out. With microphone. He greets the crowd then congratulates the new champs while putting them over. Then the Vice President gets to business…challenge issued with Yoh as his partner for 1/11 in San Jose (SWEET!!! When I’ll be there in person!). Accepted. When Romero leaves, Isaacs drags him back in for a suplex.

Match 3: Clark Connors vs. KUSHIDA, TJP & Kosei Fujita in a 4-way. 30 minute time limit
Result: TJP beat Clark Connors, KUSHIDA & Kosei Fujita in a 4-way by pinning KUSHIDA. Rollup while Fujita had Connors in a submission hold to steal it with a 3 count. VERY CLEVER!!!

Match 4: Lio Rush vs. Hechicero. 30 minute time limit
Result: Hechicero beat Lio Rush

Match 5: Titan & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Jacob Austin Young & Templario. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jacob Austin Young & Templario beat Titan & Hiromu Takahashi. Templario pinned Titan.

Match 6: STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd vs. Ryohei Oiwa for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: STRONG Openweight Champion Gabriel Kidd beat Ryohei Oiwa to retain the title. V4 for Kidd. Afterwards, Kidd with microphone. He cursed out the crowd and a particular fan in the crowd with some uncensored language. He then turned his attention to Kenny Omega, who Kidd is scheduled to face at the Tokyo Dome in January. He finished by calling out Tomohiro Ishii for his next title defense on 1/11 when I’ll be there. OOOOOOOOOOOH!!!

Match 7: Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste & Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Fred Rosser, Tom Lawlor & Shota Umino. 30 minute time limit
Result: Bad Dude Tito, Shane Haste & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Fred Rosser, Tom Lawlor & Shota Umino. Tito pinned Lawlor after a piledriver.

Match 8: Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Jack Perry. 30 minute time limit
Result: Konosuke Takeshita & Jack Perry beat Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuhi. Perry pinned Tsuji after a running knee strike. Afterwards, Takagi went back in for more but got the heel beatdown until Hiromu Takahashi made the save, only to then get blindsided by Matt & Nick Jackson with a Suprekick Party. The Young Bucks will face Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito for the vacant IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship at Tokyo Dome. After they sent Perry to the back, Matt Jackson with microphone. Took some working up the crowd to try and get half a near-hometown pop (the Jacksons are from nearby Rancho Cucamonga) before Nick stated they came back to play politics…oh wait, to win the tag titles on 1/5 one more time before they retire. Despite trying to be heels they got a mixed reaction.

Main Event: STRONG Women’s Champion Mercedes Mone vs. Hazuki for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: STRONG Women’s Champion Mercedes Mone beat Hazuki to retain the title. V3 for Mone. But many very close calls over the 25+ minutes. Afterwards, Mone with microphone. She began talking about May 2023 when, in the first title match, she was stretchered out after being injured during the match and now she’s back at champion. Then she stated her first goal for 2025-Tokyo Dome on 1/5. So I may not get the C.E.O. as champion on 1/11…but perhaps…next up…Mina Shirakawa came out. Rather skimpily dressed too but she’s a diva after all. Shirakawa with microphone. Of course she started in English playing the HLAEW card but then she got serious. Challenge issued for 1/5. In return, Mone said she wants a double title match for one of the Europe-based titles Shirakawa holds. So I’m gonna have to hold my breath for 3 weeks to see if I get my Mone worth or if I have to settle for some HLAEW…they did a little synchronized strutting & showing off in the ring to end the event.

End Show.

The next event is the Road To TOKYO DOME Tour, the year-ending series, starting Wednesday at Tokorozawa Municipal Gym in Saitama. There will be no live or on demand broadcast. (No broadcasts for the first 3 events then back live on New Japan World for the final 2 events of the year at Korakuen Hall)

UPDATE: It’s now official-Mone vs. Shirakawa for the STRONG Women’s Championship is set for 1/5. If Shirakawa retains the RevPro British Women’s Championship in her next defense against Dani Luna before then, it’s for both titles. Also added to 1/5 is a Lucha Gauntlet Match with 8 TBA participants, 4 from New Japan and 4 from CMLL. 2 start then a new wrestler enters every minute, first pinfall wins. The participants will not be announced in advance.

New Japan 12/14/24 Results (Special Mini-Event)

New Japan held a TAKA Michinoku & Taichi Produced special mini-event today, the first such event for the duo in about 2 years (this was the 3rd such event they have done in New Japan). It could be called a mini-event as it had just 2 matches and was not on the New Japan schedule.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Presumably there is/was no live or on demand broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Tetsuya Musashi (Just Tap Out, TAKA’s latest independent promotion) & Tomoaki Honma beat Ryoma Tsukamoto (Independent/Freelancer) & Abdullah Kobayashi (Big Japan). Honma pinned Tsukamoto after Kokeshi.

Match 2: In a 3 Falls Match, TAKA MIchinoku & Taichi beat SANADA & Gedo 2-1. Fall 1: Taichi pinned Gedo after Holy Emperor’s Cross Mausoleum. Fall 2: SANADA beat TAKA with Skull End. Fall 3: TAKA pinned Gedo after Michinoku Driver 2. Afterwards, Taichi challenged SANADA to a single match.

They considered the event to be a great success and plan to do more in the future.

New Japan News: STRONG Title Defense In Ring Of Honor

New Japan posted on the socials a short time ago about an unmentioned-before title defense on today’s Ring Of Honor TV program (only available online on the HonorClub subscription service)-the episode saw Grizzled Young Veterans successfully defend the STRONG Tag Team Championship against MxM in a faceoff of former WWE tag teams. V1 for the champs. This means their scheduled defense Sunday at STRONG STYLE EVOLVED will now be their 2nd defense instead of 1st.

News: Tokyo Sports Awards Announced

The top Japanese newspaper/website Tokyo Sports, which tends to take a more gossip-like approach to wrestling compared to other established sources like Weekly Pro, Nikkan Sports, Daily Sports and others, has announced its annual Year-End Awards. Here are the winners:
MVP (Best Wrestler)-Zack Sabre Jr. (New Japan)
Match Of The Year-Hirooki Goto vs. Yota Tsuji, New Japan Cup Finals
Newcomer (Rookie Of The Year)-Boltin Oleg, New Japan
Skill Award-Shinya Aoki (DDT)
Fighting Spirit Award-Kaito Kiyomiya (NOAH)
Special Achievement-Award-Yuma Anzai (All-Japan)
Women’s Grand Prize-Sareee (Marigold)
Best Tag Team-Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan)
Hot Topic Award-Dump Matsunoto (popularity & career revival thanks to new Netflix series about her life & early career), Bull Nakano (first Japanese woman inducted into WWE Hall Of Fame), Mayu Iwatani (approaching 2 years as IWGP Women’s Champion)
Special Award-Each of the 8 Japanese wrestlers who won gold medals at the 2024 Olympics
Also of note: The Saitos were a runner-up in the MVP category.

BREAKING: New Japan Tag Titles Vacated, Title Match Changes

As part of a number of changes for the second Tokyo Dome event on 1/5, New Japan has announced that the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship is now VACANT. Great-O-Khan & HENARE have vacated the titles due to a HENARE injury. They were supposed to defend the titles against The Young Bucks. It will now be Khan & TBA (partner of his choice) vs. the Bucks for the vacant titles. Although Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi won the World Tag League and should get a title shot, it won’t happen until after Tokyo Dome.

It was also announced that on 1/5, whoever is the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion and IWGP Global Champion after 1:4 eill defend the titles that day. That means either Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ricochet or Shota Unino vs. Claudio Castagnoli will be for the World title and David Finlay vs. Brody King or Yota Tsuji vs. Jack Perry will be for the Global title.

Injury Report: Bad Nai(eye)to

At a press conference today, New Japan announced some bad news for Tetsuya Naito after his World Tag League win with Hiromu Takahashi: He’s headed to the sidelines again. Left eye surgery. Out the rest of the year but will compete at Tokyo Dome. That means he will miss the Road to Tokyo Dome tour (5 events, only the last 2 televised). He was not on the card for STRONG STYLE EVOLVED this coming weekend in the US. This actually happened last year too before Naito won the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship on 1/4. His match with Hiromu Takahashi this year will be the 8th match of 9 on the card.

New Japan Pro Wrestling 12/8/24 LIVE Results (Updated)

New Japan wraps up the World Tag League today with the Finals, which we got to in quite dramatic fashion. What will make most foreign fans happy is, for the first time this decade (if you don’t count 2020), Bishamon won’t win as Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI saw their bid for a 4-peat end in their final match. Instead it’ll be Gabriel Kidd & SANADA who bested them facing Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito, who got in because originally it was a 4-way tie in the block after Takahashi/Naito’s last win was a forfeit due to a HENARE injury, meaning HENARE & Great-O-Khan, and Takahashi/Naito were in a 4-way tie. With the current IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions out that meant a 3-way tiebreaker where L-I-J beat Ren Narita & EVIL and (thankfully) Toru Yano & Boltin Oleg to advance. The winner today will get a future tag team title shot, the question is when. And now, depending on the HENARE injury situation, perhaps if. (They will either way but the circumstances may change). Also no updates yet on Callum Newman, who also is out with, like HENARE, a knee injury.

Today’s event will be held at Grand Messe Kumamoto in Kumamoto and can be watched LIVE on New Japan World in Japanese and English. It will also be a live broadcast on ABEMA in Japan. The card has 8 matches with all but the main event having 20-30 minute time limits (no time limit for the main event), which suggests an event that will wind up running about 3 hours, so not quite an all-nighter for those like me on the US west coast but might have me fighting to avoid dozing off at the end.

Today’s lineup:
Tiger Mask vs. Daiki Nagai
Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato vs. Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls
YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. Tome & Stevie Filip
TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI & Taichi vs. Jacob Austin Young, Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan
BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi vs. Gedo, Chase Owens & KENTA
Jado, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL
Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne & Shota Umino vs. Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.
World Tag League Finals: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Gabriel Kidd & SANADA

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Updates below will begin at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

8:15 PM PT UPDATE You will also be able to watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

8:35 PM PT UPDATE: While it will be 85 minutes before it actually begins, the live stream on New Japan World has started in pre-show mode. They did show a few seconds at ringside as they tested the video feed.

10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Grand Messe Kumamoto in Kumamoto, Japan. Your hosts are someone I’m not familiar with and Milano Collection A.T. No guest on commentary yet. Your English hosts are Walker Stewart & Chris Charlton.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue has multiple configurations (convention hall/center space) and the closest thing to potential capacity I could find was a little over 2100 but it’s probably closer to 3000. It already sounds like a good crowd based on noise during the opening video so for now I’ll start with a guess of around 2500. Not sure if it’s a sellout but from what I could see that wasn’t in the dark it looked mostly full. (Update: Not a sellout, there were some mostly empty sections, but not many) (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 2232)

The matches begin at 10:05 PM PT/1:05 AM ET.

Match 1: Tiger Mask vs. Daiki Nagai. 20 minute time limit
Result: Tiger Mask beat Daiki Nagai

Match 2: Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato vs. Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls. 20 minute time limit
Result: Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Haste pinned Murashima.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 3: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs. Tome & Stevie Filip. 20 minute time limit
Result: YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Tome & Stevie Filip. YOSHI-HASHI pinned Stevie Filip after Shoto.

Match 4: TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI & Taichi vs. Jacob Austin Young, Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan. 30 minute time limit
Result: TAKA MIchinoku, DOUKI & Taichi beat Jacob Austin Young, Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan. DOUKI beat Young with Italian Stretch 32. Afterwards, Taichi refused to release a submission hold on Khan and appeared to issue a KOPW 2024 Championship challenge while posing with the belt. With only 3 weeks left in the year there may not be time for another match, but we’ll see.

Match 5: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi vs. Gedo, Chase Owens & KENTA. 30 minute time limit
Result: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Gedo, Chase Owens & KENTA. Tsuji pinned Gedo after Pumping Blaster.

Hirooki Goto is now the guest on Japanese commentary.

Match 6: Jado, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita & EVIL beat Jado, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi by DQ. Tanahashi DQ’d. Chair use (attempted murder of EVIL with it). Nobody was really complaining though. Afterwards, Tanahashi with microphone. Sounds like a new stip requested for 1/4 at the Tokyo Dome against EVIL, I think he said Lumberjack Match. Will confirm later today if possible. (UPDATE: It’s now official. Lumberjack match)

Match 7: Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne & Shota Umino vs. Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne & Shota Umino. Oiwa pinned Taguchi after The Grip.

Main Event: World Tag League Finals: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito vs. Gabriel Kidd & SANADA. No time limit
Result: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Gabriel Kidd & SANADA to win the tournament. Takahashi pinned SANADA. As a result, Takahashi & Naito will get an IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match in the near future, but when may depend on the status of the injured HENARE. It could wind up being a determination match for the titles if HENARE & Great-O-Khan have to vacate the titles because of the injury.

The next event is STRONG STYLE EVOLVED on 12/15 at Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, CA. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET. It will also be available live as a PPV on TrillerTV/FITE. (It is not a PPV on New Japan World so monthly paid subscribers can watch without additional fees)

UPDATE: No word on tag title shot for the main event winners, but instead it will be Naito vs. Takahashi on 1/4.

New Japan 12/6/24 Results (Updated)

New Japan ran the penultimate day of the World Tag League today, finishing up a shaken-up Block B.

Today’s event was held at Sun Arena Sendai in Kagoshima and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1128.

There were last-minute changes to the event due to HENARE & Callum Newman being off the event. Knee injuries suffered yesterday. The former had a direct effect on the World Tag League.

Match 1: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato. Takahashi pinned Kato.

Match 2: Chase Owens, KENTA, SANADA & Gabriel Kidd beat Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. KENTA pinned Taguchi. Afterwards, Kenoh (Pro Wrestling NOAH) appeared. He is to face TBA, which he calls “his beloved” and an “anchor of NOAH” on the 1/1 NOAH event at Nippon Budokan. That TBA he called out here is KENTA. Accepted. It’s now official per NOAH. Kenoh vs. KENTA on 1/1.

Match 3: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Jacob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb. Takagi pinned Young after MADE IN JAPAN.

Match 4: Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma & Shota Umino. Oiwa pinned TM 4 after The Grip.

David Finlay scene where he’s having a phone chat with Gedo. He accepts Brody King’s challenge for a match on 1/5 at the Tokyo Dome.

World Tag League Block B:
Match 5: Tome & Stevie Filip beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Stevie Filip pinned TAKA after Mother Of All Bombs.
Match 6: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano beat Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls. Oleg pinned Haste after Kamikaze.
Match 7: Ren Narita & EVIL beat Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi. EVIL beat Tanahashi with a scorpion deathlock.
Main Event: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat HENARE & Great-O-Khan by forfeit. HENARE injury.
That meant a 4-way tie for the top spot, but with HENARE/Khan out that left a 3-way tie with no tiebreakers. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano and Ren Narita & EVIL in a 3-way when Naito pinned Oleg. As a result, Takahashi/Naito win Block B and advance to the Finals to face SANADA & Kidd.

The Final is Sunday at Grand Messe Kumamoto in Kumamoto. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin Saturday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET. This will also be a live ABEMA broadcast in Japan. A pre-event presser & Tanahashi talk show event, which is open to the public, will be held tomorrow.

UPDATE: It’s now official…Finlay-King has been added to 1/5 and, assuming Finlay is still IWGP Global Champion after 1/4, at this time it would presumably be a NON-TITLE match.

New Japan 12/5/24 Results (Updated x2)

New Japan wrapped up Block A of the World Tag League, which would set the first half of the Finals.

Today’s event was held at Athlete Town Nobeoka Arena Sub Arena in Miyazaki and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 611.

Pre-show match: Shoma Kato beat Daiki Nagai.

Match 1: DOUKI, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi beat Gedo, Tome & Stevie Filip. DOUKI beat Gedo with Italian Stretch 32.

Match 2: Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat Tiger Mask, Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano. Nicholls pinned TM 4 after Electric Blue.

Match 3: Dick Togo, Ren Narita & EVIL beat Katsuya Murashima, Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Narita beat Murashima with a kneebar.

Match 4: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Jacob Austin Young, HENARE & Great-O-Khan by ref stoppage (TKO/injury). HENARE right knee injury.

After Match 4, a Brody King promo was shown. Challenge issued to David Finlay for a match on 1/5 at the Tokyo Dome.

World Tag League Block A:
Match 5: Ryusuke Taguchi & Alex Zayne beat Chase Owens & KENTA. Taguchi pinned KENTA.
Match 6: Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa beat Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb by ref stoppage (TKO/injury). Newman knee injury.
Match 7: Shota Unino & Tomoaki Honma beat Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi. Unino pinned Tauji with Death Slider.
Main Event: Gabriel Kidd & SANADA beat YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. SANADA pinned YOSHI-HASHI after Deadfall. As a result, Kidd & SANADA win Block A and advance to the Finals. The Bishamon 4-peat bid is over. New champions of the tournament for the first time since 2021.

More on the HENARE injury when/if it becomes available because that has main event and tournament implications for Block B.

The last day of Block B is tomorrow at Sub Arena Sendai in Kagoshima. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

UPDATE: It’s now official-King vs. Finlay has been added to 1/5. If Finlay is still the IWGP Global Champion it will be for the title (Finlay is scheduled to defend against Yota Tsuji on 1/4).

UPDATE 2: HENARE & Newman are now both off tomorrow. For the former, that means Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi will win their World Tag League match against HENARE & Great-O-Khan by forfeit and get 2 free points. That also means LIJ will advance to the finals if Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano lose their last match tomorrow (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls). If Oleg/Yano win AND Ren Narita & EVIL lose (Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi), Oleg/Yano advance. If both Oleg/Yano AND Narita/EVIL win, there will be a 3-way match as the tiebreaker.
Takahashi/Naito will now face Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato in the first match.

New Japan 12/4/24 Results

New Japan continued the World Tag League today with the penultimate day of Block B.

Today’s event was held at Karatsu City Gym in Saga and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.

The announced paid attendance was 1004

The scheduled pre-show Young Lions match was cancelled due to a Maaatora Yasuda injury. Before the event began, a special collaboration project ceremony was held with an appearance by Hall of Fame wrestler Jushin Thunder Liger

Match 1: Chase Owens & KENTA beat Katsuya Murashima & Alex Zayne. KENTA beat Murashima with GAME OVER.

Match 2: Gedo, SANADA & Gabriel Kidd beat Shoma Kato, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto. Kidd pinned Kato after Drill-A-Hole Piledriver.

Match 3: BUSHI, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi beat Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma & Shota Umino. Tsuji pinned TM 4 after Gene Blaster.

Match 4: Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. beat Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb. Oiwa pinned Young after The Grip.

World Tag League Block B:
Match 5: Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls beat TAKA Michinoku & Taichi. Nicholls pinned TAKA after Electric Blue.
Match 6: HENARE & Great-O-Khan beat Tome & Stevie Filip. Khan pinned Tome Filip after Imperial Drop.
Match 7: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano beat Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi. Yano pinned Jado.
Main Event: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Ren Narita & EVIL. Naito pinned Narita after Destino.
With one day left HENARE/Khan lead at 5-1, 10 points with LIJ, H.O.T. and Oleg/Yano tied for 2nd at 4-2, 8 points. In case of toes, HENARE/Khan have all tiebreakers except LIJ, which is their last match. Only the winner advances to the Finals. That means H.O.T. is technically eliminated because they lose all tiebreakers so the HENARE/Khan-LIJ winner advances. Yano/Oleg also mathematically have a chance but their only tiebreaker win is LIJ so both they and LIJ must win. In Block A, it’s a 3-way tie but Bishamon have all tiebreakers. Whoever wins between them and Kidd/SANADA advances unless both Kidd/SANADA and Tsuji/Takagi both win, then LIJ has the tiebreaker. If Bishamon/Bullet Club is a draw, LIJ advances with a win, otherwise it’s Bishamon.

The final day of Block A is tomorrow at Athlete Town Nobeoka Arena Sub Arena in Miyazaki. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

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