On November 29th, New Japan Pro-Wrestling held it’s eighth night of the World Tag League tournament at the Twin Messe Shizuoka North Hall with over 500 fans in attendance.
The main event saw the current IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto go to a 30 minute time limit draw with Soberano Jr. & Atlantis Jr.. Each team earned 1 point.
Lance Archer and Alex Zayne continue to roll as the remained undefeated as they were victorious over Taichi & Yuya Uemura to improve to 4-0 in the tournament with 8 points.
Here are the full results courtesy of purolove.com for NJPW World Tag League Night 8:
- Oskar Leube defeated Katsuya Murashima (4:04) with a Crab Hold.
- “King of Darkness” EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi & SHO defeated Bishop Kaun, Toa Liona & Yuto Nakashima (6:18) after SHO’s Snakebite against Nakashima.
- Kaito Kiyomiya , Ryohei Oiwa & Oleg Boltin defeated Mikey Nicholls, Shane Haste & Kosei Fujita (10:02) after a Modified Shining Wizard by Kiyomiya against Fujita.
- Alex Coughlin, Gabe Kidd & Taiji Ishimori defeated Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Callum Newman (7:47) after a jackhammer by Coughlin against Newman.
- Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano, YOH & Master Wato defeated Shota Umino, Ren Narita, Ryusuke Taguchi & Tiger Mask (7:28) after Wato’s Vendaval against Tiger.
- World Tag League – Block B: Bad Luck Fale & Jack Bonza [2] defeat Yota Tsuji & Zandokan Jr. [6] (8:35) as Bonza pinned Zandokan.
- World Tag League – Block B: Hikuleo & El Phantasmo [4] defeated Yuji Nagata & Minoru Suzuki [0] (11:34) after Phantasmo’s CR II against Suzuki.
- World Tag League – Block B: Lance Archer & Alex Zayne [8] defeated Taichi & Yuya Uemura [6] (11:54) as Archer pinned Uemura after the blackout sauce.
World Tag League – Block B: Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI [3] vs. Atlantis Jr. & Soberano Jr. [5] – Time Limit Draw (30:00).
Here are the updated standings:
A Block
- TMDK (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls) (3-1-0, 6 pts)
- Shota Umino & Ren Narita (3-1-0, 6 pts)
- BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Alex Coughlin & Gabe Kidd) (2-2-0, 4 pts)
- Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa (2-2-0, 4 pts)
- CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano) (2-2-0, 4 pts)
- United Empire (Great-O-Khan & HENARE) (2-2-0, 4 pts)
- HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi) (1-3-0, 2 pts)
- Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) (1-3-0, 2 pts
B Block
- Monstersauce (Lance Archer & Alex Zayne) (4-0-0, 8 pts)
- Just 5 Guys (Taichi & Yuya Uemura) (3-1-0, 6 pts)
- Soberano Jr. & Atlantis Jr. (2-1-1, 5 pts)
- Yota Tsuji & Zandokan Jr. (2-2-0, 4 pts)
- Hikuleo & El Phantasmo (2-2-0, 4 pts)
- Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) (1-2-1, 3 pts)
- BULLET CLUB Rogue Army (Bad Luck Fale & Jack Bonza) (1-3-0, 2 pts)
- Yuji Nagata & Minoru Suzuki (0-4-0, 0 pts)
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