New Japan Pro Wrestling continued their dual-tournament marathon with World Tag League on Thursday. The show was headlined by SANADA & Shingo Takagi getting a shock win over the IWGP Tag Team Champions, despite the LIJ tandem’s relative inexperience as a team. Takagi even took to the mic to let SANADA know that if they lost the tournament, it’s on Takagi.
Shingo: Now we're 2-1. And it looks like we just beat the tag champions! I think we can do this! SANADA, you've won two in a row, three time finalist. If we don't make it to the end, that's on me, so I'll do all I can!
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Elsewhere on the show, intra-faction competition took center stage as Bullet Club and CHAOS had to battle among themselves. Guerrillas of Destiny got a heated win over EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi to even things with their BC brethren. YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto fell to fellow-stablemates (and fellow NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Champions) Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano.
Plus The Empire continue to coalesce and FinJuice go to war with former-mentor Hiroshi Tanahashi. The show is available on NJPWWorld.com.
NJPW World Tag League: Night 3
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- Satoshi Kojima & Tomoaki Honma def. Yuji Nagata & Yota Tsuji by pinfall. (10:16)
Satoshi Kojima pinned Yota Tsuji via Lariat. - The Empire (Great-O-Khan & Jeff Cobb) (4) def. Bullet Club (Chase Owens & Bad Luck Fale) (0) by pinfall. (6:47)
Jeff Cobb pinned Chase Owens via Tour of the Islands. - FinJuice (David Finlay & Juice Robinson) (4) def. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toa Henare (0) by pinfall. (11:18)
David Finlay pinned Toa Henare via Doomsday Device. - Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa) (4) def. Bullet Club (EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi) (4) by submission. (8:36)
Tanga Loa submitted Yujiro Takahashi via OJK. - CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano) (4) def. CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) (2) by pinfall. (15:08)
Tomohiro Ishii pinned YOSHI-HASHI via Vertical Drop Brainbuster. - Los Ingobernables de Japon (SANADA & Shingo Takagi) (4) def. Suzuki-gun (Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi) (4) by pinfall. (20:36)
Shingo Takagi pinned Taichi via Last of the Dragon.
NJPW returns with Best of Super Juniors: Night 3 on 11/20 at 4:30am ET on NJPWWorld.com
