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All-Japan News: Title Matches Official, Personnel Change

Some All-Japan news with the World’s Strongest Tag League in the books:

The Davey Boy Smith Jr.-Jun Saito Triple Crown match expected for 12/31 is now official. 12/31 will also have All-Asia Tag Team Champions MUSASHI & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Kento Miyahara & Ryo Inoue for the titles. With regards to the tag league, the Saitos winning marked the first time in All-Japan history the All-Japan World Tag Team Champions going into the tournament won it.

A press conference was also held today regarding a personnel change-Suwama, who had been Senior Managing Executive Officer of All-Japan Pro Wrestling (as his full real name, Kohei Suwama), will step down from the position and become Non-Executive Director (basically a pert-time position) effective January 1, 2025 and also become the president of Evolution Pro Wrestling. He will remain a member of All-Japan but his participation will be cut back to 1-2 events per month. Suwama, now 48, has been with All-Japan for over 20 years since debuting in 2003 at 27 so this is taking a small step back but it sounds like Evolution & All-Japan have formed a good working relationship and will continue to work together (Evolution is a women’s promotion). Over the past year or so he’s mostly been part of a comedy team of sorts with Hideki Suzuki, who splits his time between All-Japan, Pro Wrestling NOAH and working as a freelancer (and posting cat photos on the socials). The press conference can be watched on YouTube.

Evolution’s next event is Saturday and will have Dan Tamura participation.

BREAKING: Dragon Gate Investigation, Titles Vacated

Major breaking news from Dragon Gate-BIGBOSS Shimizu has been suspended indefinitely amidst a suspected serious breach of contract. No further details have been released, but as a result the Open The Triangle Gate Championship Shimizu held with Strong Machine J & U-T is now VACANT. Determination match between BxB Hulk, Susumu Yokosuka & Kagetora and KAI, ISHIN & Yoshiki Kato to crown new champions will be held Sunday at THE FINAL GATE 2024 in Fukuoka.

More as it becomes available.

Stardom 12/7/24-12/8/24 Results

Stardom wrapped up the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League this weekend with a doubleheader in Shizuoka.

Both events were held at Twin Messe Shizuoka Exhibition Hall Block 2. Saturday’s event can be watched on demand on Stardom World. Sunday’s event can be watched on demand as a PPV until Wednesday morning-you can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

Saturday:
The announced paid attendance was 572.

Match 1: Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara beat Aya Sakura & Yuna Mizumori. Nakano pinned Sakura with a tiger suplex hold. After the match, Sayaka Unagi returned to Stardom after 2 years away as a freelancer (and, apparently more recently, injury). Challenge issued to Nakano for a match. That match will happen on 1/3.

Goddess Of Stardom Tag League:
Match 2: Red Block: Maika & HANAKO beat Natsuko Tora & Ruaka. HANAKO beat Ruaka with egret. As a result, Maika & HANAKO advance to the Semifinals.
Match 3: Blue Block: Hanan & Saya Iida beat Starlight Kid & Suzu Suzuki. Iida pinned Suzuki after Iidabashi. As a result, Hanan & Iida advance to the Semifinals.

Match 4: Waka Tsukiyama beat Rian.

Match 5: AZM, Mei Seira & Miyu Amasaki beat Mayu Iwatani, Momo Kohgo & Matoi Hamabe. AZM beat Hamabe with Numero Uno.

Match 6: Momo Watanabe, Konami, Saya Kamitani, Rina & Fukigen beat Syuri, Saki Kashima, Ranna Yagami, Hina & Lady C. Konami beat Syuri with a sleeper hold. This apparently has set up Konami vs. Syuri on 12/29. This wa also the return match for Fukigen after the woman underneath the clown paint & outfit-Kaori Yoneyama-had been out a few months due to injuries.

Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Semifinals:
Match 7: Red Block: Maika & HANAKO beat Hazuki & Koguma. HANAKO pinned Koguma after JP Coaster.
Main Event: Blue Block: Hanan & Saya Iida beat Saori Anou & Natsupoi. Hanan pinned Anou with a backdrop hold.

Sunday:
The announced paid attendance was 790, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Hazuki beat Matoi Hamabe by submission.

Match 2: Koguma beat Waka Tsukiyama & Ranna Yagami in a 3-way by pinning Yagami.

Match 3: Natsuko Tora beat Rian. This apparently set up Tora vs. Maika on 12/29.

Match 4; Momo Watanabe, Ruaka & Fukigen beat Saki Kashima, Hina & Lady C. Fukigen pinned Hina.

Match 5: In a 2/3 Falls match, Starlight Kid, AZM, Mei Seira, Suzu Suzuki & Miyu Amasaki beat Natsupoi, Saori Anou, Yuna Mizumori, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara 2-1. Fall 1: Kurara pinned Amasaki. Fall 2: AZM pinned Sakura. Fall 3: Kid beat Natsupoi. These results have set up 2 more title matches: Kurara vs. Amasaki for the Future Of Stardom Championship on 12/24 and Kid vs. Natsupoi for the Wonder Of Stardom Championship on 12/29.

Match 6: Mayu Iwatani beat Momo Kohgo.

Match 7: Saya Kamitani & Konami beat Tam Nakano & Syuri. Kamitani pinned Nakano after a Frankensteiner.

Main Event: Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Finals: Hanan & Saya Iida beat Maika & HANAKO to win the tournament. Iida pinned HANAKO after Be A Master! As a result, Hanan & Iida will face Goddesses Of Stardom Champions Momo Watanabe & Thekla for the titles on 12/29. What a way to cap a true breakout year for Hanan. Although she & Iida did lose the New Blood Tag Team Championship this year and she missed out on her current stated goal-the Wonder Of Stardom Championsip-Hanan did win the annual Cinderella Tournament in the spring and now this, which should catapult her much closer to the superstardom that is expected of her as she is widely considered one of Stardom’s future torch-bearers along with her sisters Hina & Rina. The only thing that briefly kept her down this year was an injury that caused her to miss a few weeks. Young Lioness is a very appropriate nickname for the 19-year-old, and it seems like 2025 is going to be her year. Maybe even World Of Stardom Champion by this time next year?

The next event is Saturday at G Messe Gunma Exhibition Hall A in Gunma. Broadcast plans TBA (live or on demand determination has apparently not been made yet).

In other news, it was just announced today that Syuri will be part of a theatrical performance of a play called “The Woman Without A Shadow” scheduled from 3/24-3/31 at Kichijoji Theater in Tokyo. There will be 10 total performances over that week with shows each day except 3/25. Tickets will go on sale on 1/11.

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.

Pro Wrestling NOAH 12/8/24 Results

Pro Wrestling NOAH wrapped up the never-ending SUNNY VOYAGE 2024 Tour today with the last house show of the year.

Today’s event was held at Kira Messe Numazu in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 365.

Match 1: Ulka Sasaki beat Daiki Odashima by ref stoppage (technical submission).

Match 2: Shuji Kondo beat Black Menso-re.

Match 3: Daga beat Eita & Shuhei Taniguchi in a 3-way by beating Eita.

Match 4; Naomichi Marufuji & Takashi SUgiura beat Titus Alexander & Tadasuke. Sugiura beat Alexander with a neck lock.

Match 5: Manabu Soya, HAYATA & YO-HEY beat Masa Kitamiya, AMAKUSA & Junta Miyawaki. Soya beat AMAKUSA with a dragon sleeper.

Main Event: Kaito Kiyomiya, Kenoh, Alejandro, Kai Fujimura & Harutoki beat Go Shiozaki, Mohammed Yone, Atsushi Kotoge, Hajime Ohara & Yu Owada. Alejandro pinned Owada after Zero Gravity.

The next event is 12/19 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo for the final STAR NAVIGATION 2024 event of the year. Roughly half of the matches (4 of 8) will not be announced in advance (including 2 matches where participants, except for Kaito Kiyomiya & Manabu Soya in a 6-man tag, will be determined by fan lottery the day of the event) while the announced matches include Go Shiozaki vs. Yuji Nagata (New Japan). Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

DDT 12/8/24 Results

DDT began their year-ending Road To Ultimate Party 2024 Tour today in Nagoya.

Today’s event was held at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 324, a legit advance sellout.

Match 1: Yukio Naya & Takumi Saito beat Keigo Nakamura & Yuki Ishida. Naya pinned Ishida after a chokeslam.

Match 2: Tetsuay Endo & Toru Owashi beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata. Owashi pinned Hirata.

Match 3: Jun Akiyama & MAO beat HARASHIMA & Tomomitsu Matsunaga. Akiyama pinned Matsunaga after Exploder.

Match 4: Akito beat Takao Soma.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno & To-y beat Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku. To-y pinned Koroku after a Frankensteiner.

Main Event: In an elimination match, Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul, KANON, Demus & Illusion beat Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi, Antonio Honda, Takeshi Masada & Munetatsu Nakamura. Order of elimination: Honda by Sasaki, Demus by Brookes, Illusion by Nakamura, Nakamura by Paul, Masada by Sasaki, Paul by Brookes, Brookes & Sasaki together, Takanashi by KANON. KANON is the only winner left.

The next event is Wednesday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

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.

All-Japan Pro Wrestling 12/8/24 LIVE Results

All-Japan wraps up the World’s Strongest Tag League today with the Semifinals and Finals. The Semifinals will lead off the event as Block A & B winners face the opposite block runners-up. First up will be Block B winners Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Block A runners-up Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai. The second Semifinal will be Block A winners and sole unbeatens so far Jun & Rei Saito vs. Block B runners-up Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. The winners will meet in the Finals in the main event and the eventual champions will get a potential rematch with the Saitos for the All-Japan World Tag Team Championship. Unless, of course, the Saitos win as they are the current champions. There will also be a GAORA TV Championship match before the main event.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on AJPW.TV in Japanese. Atsuki Aoyagi, who is currently out due to injury, will be a special guest on commentary. It will also be available at a later date (12/19) on GAORA SPORTS in Japan. The event is a legit advance sellout including standing room. There will be an intermission after the 4th match. The GAORA SPORTS broadcast is scheduled for a total of 3 1/2 hours so whether or not that includes intermission and other happenings is hard to day, but with 3 matches being no time limit I think it’s safe to predict the running time will be close to 3 hours, so if you plan to watch today’s New Japan event live you may need to split-screen at the beginning of that.

Today’s lineup:
World’s Strongest Tag League Semifinals:
Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai
Jun & Rei Saito vs. Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe
Ryo Inoue, Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo vs. Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao
Makoto Oishi, Mike D. Vecchio & Senor Saito vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan
Intermission
Hokuro Omori, Kumaarashi, Cyrus, Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy vs. Suwama, Yuma Aoyagi, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato
GAORA TV Champion Seigo Tachibana vs. Yuko Miyamoto for the title
World’s Strongest Tag League Finals

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Updates below will begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

6:25 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will begin when the matches do with our host whose name I will hopefully catch, along with Kagehiro Osano and special guest Atsuki Aoyagi.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s a legit advance sellout including standing room so the actual number will depend on the setup but 1500+ is virtually guaranteed. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance, a legit advance sellout, was 1517)

The matches should begin in 10-15 minutes.

The matches begin at 6:33 PM PT/9:33 PM ET.

Match 1: World’s Strongest Tag League Semifinals: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai. No time limit
Result: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. beat Rising Hayato & Yuma Anzai. Miyahara pinned Anzai with a shurdown suplex hold. As a result, Miyahara & Smith advance to the Finals, where they will face the winners of the next match in the main event.

Match 2: World’s Strongest Tag League Semifinals: Jun & Rei Saito (now clean-shaven, no more goatee) vs. Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. No time limit
Result: Jun & Rei Saito beat Ryuki Honda & Ren Ayabe. .Rei Saito pinned Ayabe after BBQ Bomb. As a result, the Saitos advance to the Finals and will face Miyahara & Smith in the main event.

Match 3: Ryo Inoue, Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo vs. Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ryo Inoue, Daisuke Sekimoto & Kengo Mashimo beat Shotaro Ashino, Dan Tamura & Taishin Nagao. Sekimoto beat Nagao with a Boston crab.

Match 4: Makoto Oishi, Mike D. Vecchio & Senor Saito vs. MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. 30 minute time limit
Result: :Makoto Oishi, Mike D. Vecchio & Senor Saito beat MUSASHI, Seiki Yoshioka & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan. Vecchio pinned MUSASHI after a moonsault press. This may be Vecchio’s last appearance for now with the tour over and he got a great ovation from the crowd to wrap up his All-Japan debut.

After a brief video, Atsuki Aoyagi leaves commentary to hit the ring for the announcement-he will return to action on 12/31. And did some flips & cartwheels to show he apparently is 100% healthy again. He then returned to commentary.

Intermission. Updates will resume after the break.

The matches resume at 7:50 PM PT/10:50 PM ET.

Announced for 12/31 is Dan Tamura vs. Daisuke Sekimoto (corrected, not Taishin Nagao) then announced for 1/2 is Nagao vs. Suwama and a battle royal. On 1/3 is Yuma Anzai vs. Shotaro Ashino.

Match 5: Hokuro Omori, Kumaarashi, Cyrus, Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy vs. Suwama, Yuma Aoyagi, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato. 30 minute time limit. And apparently Daisuke Sekimoto is one of the “ring boys” for this match…
Result: Suwama, Yuma Aoyagi, Hideki Suzuki, Fuminori Abe & Hikaru Sato beat Hokuro Omori, Kumaarashi, Cyrus, Hartley Jackson & Jack Kennedy. Aoyagi beat Kumaarashi with a modified guillotine choke. Afterwards, Aoyagi with microphone. Challenge issued for the All-Japan 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Abe & Sato as his partners. Accepted by Omori as Suzuki & Suwama left doing their usual odd couple bickering. Then more comedy as the challengers-to-be stole the belts before taking off.

Match 6: GAORA TV Champion Seigo Tachibana vs. Yuko Miyamoto for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Yuko Miyamoto beat GAORA TV Champion Seigo Tachibana to win the title. Miyamoto becomes the 28th GAORA TV Champion.

Main Event: World’s Strongest Tag League Finals: Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Jun & Rei Saito. No time limit
Result: Jun & Rei Saito beat Kento Miyahara & Davey Boy Smith Jr. to win the tournament. Jun Saito pinned Miyahara after a chokeslam. A perfect run for the Saitos as they didn’t lose a single match. Since this means no All-Japan World Tag Team Championship shot for the winners as the Saitos hold the belt, Jun Saito instead called Smith back out to issue a Triple Crown challenge. Accepted for 1/31. Afterwards, the Saitos finished their in-ring celebration to end the show. (Correction: 12/31 if it happens as mentioned, not 1/31)

The next event is 12/15 at AQUASTUDIO in Chiba. There will be no live broadcast.

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.

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