NJPW has its World Tag League finalists. It will be Yota Tsuji and Gabe Kidd versus The Mighty Don’t Kneel team of Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa this Sunday.
Yota Tsuji and Gabe Kidd defeated the IWGP Tag Team Champions, The Knock-Out Brothers (Yuto-Ice and Oskar) to cement their place in the finals. Despite being the champions, The Knock-Out Brothers have been defeated four times in the tournament by Finlay and Hiromu, Narita and Sanada, Monster Sauce (Lance Archer and Alex Zayne) and now Yota Tsuji and Gabe Kidd. That doesn’t really bode well for their future.
In their match, it didn’t take long for the fight to hit the floor. Yuta and Kidd ripped apart security barricades to fight in the crowd. Oskar whipped Tsuji into about ten rows of chairs. With Kidd taken out on the floor, Tsuji had to do a lot of the heavy-lifting in the match. Tsuji goes for his spear but Oskar snares him in a sleeper hold. Oskar chokeslams Tsuji. An Ice High, PK Kick by Yuta sends Tsuji rolling to the outside. Kidd crashes to the mat victim of a Knock-Out Bomb. Kidd kicks out!
Kidd escapes an attempted Tombstone Piledriver from Oskar. He shoves the Knock-Out Brothers into each other. A punch to the face, a forearm to the back of the head and a back suplex takes Oskar down. As Oskar lifts Kidd up for the Tombstone and Ice rushes over to complete their tag team finisher, Tsuji spears Ice. Kidd piledrives Oskar. Oskar kicks out!
Tsuji and Kidd nail Oskar with a double knee strike to the head. Oskar misses a double clothesline. Tsuji and Kidd hit War Blaster for the win. After the match, Sabre Jr. and Oiwa came down to the ring to get in Tsuji and Kidd’s faces but they weren’t intimidated at all.
NJPW World Tag League Night 16 Results
A Block
B Block
Shingo Takagi, Drilla Moloney and Daiki Nagai versus Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI and Tatsuya Matsumoto
Nagai makes Matsumoto submit to a Boston Crab.
Winners: Shingo Takagi, Drilla Moloney and Daiki Nagai
Monster Sauce (Lance Archer and Alex Zayne) versus Oleg Boltin and Zane Jay
Archer clocks Jay with a jumping knee in a corner. Jay is pinned by Archer’s Blackout. Can Monster Sauce please stay in Japan? It is so great seeing them back in NJPW.
Winners: Monster Sauce (Lance Archer and Alex Zayne)
El Desperado, Shuji Ishikawa and Shoma Kato versus House of Torture (SANADA, Ren Narita and Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
Narita makes Young Lion Kato tap out.
Winners: House of Torture (SANADA, Ren Narita and Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
House of Torture (EVIL, Chase Owens, Don Fale, Yujiro and SHO) versus Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura, Toru Yano and Katsuya Murashima
Katsuya has Evil in a Boston Crab. Sho chokes Katsuya with Dick Togo’s garotte as Yujiro distracts the official. Fale gives Katsuya The Grenade. Evil makes him submit to the Darkest Scorpion. Evil refuses to let go after he taps. The House continues to beat on Katsuya. Evil is about to bash him with Never Open Title belt he stole but Toru Yano shows up to rip it out of his hands. Sanada and Narita attack Yano from behind. Evil takes the belt back.
Winners: House of Torture (EVIL, Chase Owens, Don Fale, Yujiro and SHO)
The United Empire (Great O-Khan, Callum Newman and Jakob Austin Young) versus The Bullet Club War Dogs (David Finlay, Hiromu Takahashi and Gedo)
The United Empire attacks The War Dogs as they are coming down to the ring. They brawl all over the arena. When things finally make it into the ring, Young and Newman double team Gedo. Newman has Gedo stunned after a penalty kick but instead of pinning him pulls him up for Excalibur and then puts him away. Newman puts a chair around Gedo’s neck. He is about to stomp on it but Finlay makes the save with his shillelagh.
Finlay gets on the microphone.
“I know Calum that you have been talking some s–t. You and that homeless looking man you call a partner want a rematch against me and Hiromu. Well, you’ve got my attention now. You want a rematch? Well, you’ve got my attention now and you’ve got it,” he says.
Winners: The United Empire (Great O-Khan, Callum Newman and Jakob Austin Young)
TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa and Hartley Jackson) versus El Phantasmo, Taichi and Satoshi Kojima
Sabre pins Kojima with the Zack Driver.
Winners: TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa and Hartley Jackson)
Yota Tsuji and Gabe Kidd versus The Knock-Out Brothers (Oskar and Yuto-Ice)
Winners: Yota Tsuji and Gabe Kidd
