NJPW World Tag League Night 1 Results (11/22/22), Updated Standings

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Ethan Black
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NJPW World Tag League Night 1 Results November 22nd 2022

Location: Tokyo Japan
Venue: Korakuen Hall
Attendance: 700

Yuto Nakashima vs. Ryohei Oiwa

Match starts off with Ryohei Oiwa backs Nakashima into the red turnbuckle pad. Oiwa slaps Nakashima in the face. Nakashima with a double leg takedown. Nakashima transitions into a ground and pound attack. Nakashima repeatedly stomps on Oiwa’s chest. Oiwa blocks Boston Crab then they have a forearm exchange. Oiwa with a double leg takedown. Oiwa stomps on Nakashima’s chest. Oiwa applies a cross armbreaker. Nakashima puts his foot on the bottom rope which forces the break.

Oiwa hammers down on the left shoulder of Nakashima. Oiwa locks in the Fujiwara Armbar. Oiwa stomps on Nakashima’s back. Oiwa with a fireman’s carry position. Oiwa reapplies the cross armbreaker. Oiwa bodyslams Nakashima. Nakashima rocks Oiwa with a forearm smash. Nakashima scores the forearm knockdown. Nakashima repeatedly stomps on Oiwa’s chest. Nakashima with two forearm smashes. Nakashima whips Oiwa across the ring. Nakashima with a back body drop for a two count.

Nakashima applies the Boston Crab. Oiwa grabs the bottom rope which forces the break. Oiwa goes for a gutwrench suplex but Nakashima counters with a single leg crab. Nakashima transitions into a full Boston Crab. Oiwa refuses to quit. Nakashima goes back to stomping on Oiwa’s chest. Oiwa rolls Nakashima over for a two count. Nakashima slaps Oiwa in the face. Oiwa dropkicks Nakashima. Oiwa connects with the gutwrench suplex for a two count. Oiwa makes Nakashima taps out to Boston Crab.

Winner By Submission: Ryohei Oiwa (7:46)
Rate: 5

Tag Team Match
Great Bash Heel vs. Oskar Leube & Kosei Fujita

Togi Makabe & Oskar Leube kicks this match off with a lock up before Leube applies a side headlock. Makabe whips Leube across the ring. Leube runs into Makabe. Makabe kicks Leube in the gut. Leube drops Makabe with a shoulder tackle. Leube applies a front face lock. Kosei Fujita & Tomoaki Honma are tagged in & they do some standing switch. Fujita drop steps into a side headlock. Honma whips Fujita across the ring. Fujita runs into Honma. Fujita with a running shoulder tackle then he unloads 3 knife edge chops. Fujita whips Honma across the ring. Fujita goes for a dropkick, but Honma holds onto the ropes. Honma with a crossbody. Honma knocks Leube off the ring apron. Honma is lighting up Fujita’s chest. Honma tags in Makabe. Forearm Exchange. Makabe drives his knee into the midsection of Fujita. Makabe hammers down on the back of Fujita’s neck. Makabe bodyslams Fujita. Makabe applies a front face lock. Honma tags himself in.

Honma kicks Fujita in the gut. Honma with a knife edge chop. Honma whips Fujita across the ring. Honma scores the elbow knockdown for a two count. Honma toys around with Fujita. Fujita with forearms before Honma drives his knee into the midsection of Fujita. Honma punches Fujita in the back. Honma with a back chop. Honma goes for a suplex, but Fujita lands back on his feet. Fujita applies a waist lock. Honma decks Fujita with a back elbow smash. Fujita dropkicks Honma. Fujita tags in Leube. Leube with a running shoulder tackle before we get a 2nd shoulder block exchange. Makabe kicks Leube in the gut. Leube drops Makabe with a shoulder tackle. Leube stomps on Honma’s back then Leube reverses out of the Irish whip from Honma. Leube with a running elbow smash. Leube with a hip toss for a two count.

Honma blocks the Boston Crab. Leube repeatedly stomps on Honma’s chest. Leube with 2 forearm smashes. Honma kicks Leube in the gut. Honma drops Leube with a DDT. Honma tags in Makabe. Makabe knocks Fujita off the ring apron. Makabe with a corner clothesline. Makabe transitions into a corner mount. Leube block a northern lights suplex. Makabe clotheslines Leube for a two count. Fujita is putting the boots to Makabe. Fujita dropkicks Makabe. Fujita kicks Honma in the gut. Fujita unloads 3 knife edge chops. Fujita with a running elbow smash. Honma blocks the side belly 2 belly suplex. Fujita ducks a clothesline from Honma. Fujita slaps Honma in the face. Leube with a running leg drop for a two count. Leube with forearm shots before Makabe clotheslines Leube for a two count. Makabe bodyslams Leube then connects with King Kong Knee Drop to pickup the victory.

Winners: Great Bash Heel (8:28)
Rate: 4

6 Man Tag Team Match
Los Ingobnrables De Japon (KOPW 2022 Champion Shingo Takagi,Hiromu Takahashi & Bushi) vs. Suzuki Gun (Taichi,El Desperado & Douki)

Suzuki Gun attacks Los Ingobnrables De Japon before the bell rings then Taichi wraps a scarf around Shingo Takagi’s neck then they go back & forth with some forearms/hamstring kicks then they have a chop battle. Takagi with a forearm smash then Takagi with a back elbow smash. Taichi repeatedly kicks the left hamstring of Takagi. Taichi with a mid kick. Takagi tells Taichi to bring it then we get a 2nd chop/hamstring kick battle. Taichi kicks Takagi in the face. Lariat Exchange. Taichi with a Spinning Back Kick. Taichi with The Gedo Clutch for a two count. Takagi ducks a clothesline from Taichi.

Takagi with a Grounding Cobra for a two count. LIJ clears the ring. Taichi applies the Greco roman throat hold. Both guys spill to the outside. Taichi sends Takagi shoulder first into the steel ring post. Double Choke Hold then they go back & forth with a lariat exchange. Takagi blocks Dangerous Back Drop Driver. Taichi fights out of the fireman’s carry position. Takagi decks Taichi with a back elbow smash. Takagi scores a right jab. Taichi blocks The Ryukon Lariat. Taichi shoves Takagi into the steel barricade. Taichi goes into The Gedo Clutch on the floor then they were both counted out.

Winners: No One (Double Count Out) (3:10)
Rate: 2

2022 World Tag League Match
TMDK (0) vs. Alex Coughlin & Gabriel Kidd (0)

Mikey Nicholls & Alex Coughlin starts this match off and Nicholls hit a delayed vertical suplex. Shane Haste entered and hit a basement dropkick on Kidd’s back. Nicholls, while on the floor trips Gabriel Kidd, and that allowed TMDK to take over. Nichols whipped Kidd into the guardrail, and they took turns beating down Kidd in the ring.

Coughlin entered and suplexes TMDK then he hit a fallaway slam for a near fall on Nicholls. TMDK did a team suplex move out of the corner on Coughlin for a 2 count. Kidd re entered at and hit some chops and a head capture suplex on Haste for a near fall. Kidd hit a 2nd rope moonsault to the floor onto everyone. Kidd dragged Haste into the ring and nailed a brainbuster for a 2 count but Nichols made the save. Nichols hit a double clothesline. TMDK hit a team DDT move with one leaping off the 2nd rope before TMDK nails Kidd to the mat with Thunder Valley for the victory.

Winners: TMDK (2) (16:07)
Rate: 6

2022 World Tag League Match
Suzuki Gun (Minoru Suzuki & Lance Archer) (0) vs. Bullet Club (0)

Lance Archer & Bad Luck Fale starts this match off and traded shoulder tackles, with neither man budging. Chase Owens enters to face Minoru Suzuki, and they all immediately brawled to the floor. In the ring, Suzuki set up for a Gotch Style Piledriver but Owens escaped it. Suzuki dropped Owens with one forearm blow. Fale entered and hit several punches to Suzuki’s gut, then a running Stinger Splash in the corner.

Suzuki applied a cross armbreaker, and Fale immediately got his feet on the ropes. Fale & Archer tried to chokeslam each other. Chase hits C Trigger to Archer’s chest for a near fall. Owens set up for his Package Piledriver but Archer escaped. Archer nails a clothesline, then he hits Owens with Blackout to get the win for Suzuki Gun.

Winners: Suzuki Gun (2) (10:18)
Rate: 5

2022 World Tag League Match
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champions House Of Torture (0) vs. Bishamon (0)

House Of Torture attacks Bishamon before the bell, and they dominated early. Yoshi-Hashi hit a basement dropkick on Yujiro Takahashi’s knee. Hirooki Goto made the hot tag and hit a bulldog and a clothesline. The ref got bumped and Evil hit a low blow on Yoshi Hashi.

Dick Togo hopped in the ring and choked Goto with his wire then out of nowhere Yoh hopped in the ring and beat up Goto so Sho hopped in the ring and beat up Yoh. Lio Rush hopped in the ring and helped beat up Sho. Sho,Togo,Yoh & Rush left the ring, allowing Bishamon to hits Takahashi with Lights Out for the win.

Winners: Bishamon (2) (9:12) 
Rate: 1

2022 World Tag League Match
Be Bop Tag Team (0) vs. Aussie Open (0)

Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kyle Fletcher opened, then Toru Yano & Mark Davis squared off then they brawled to the floor where Davis whipped Yano into the guardrail. In the ring Davis hit a senton for a near fall. Aussie Open worked over Yano in their corner. Tanahashi entered and hit some dragon screw leg whips. Fletcher hit a half nelson suplex on Tanahashi.

Yano got a schoolboy rollup on Davis for a 2 count. Davis nailed a massive senton on Yano for a near fall. Aussie Open hit superkicks on Tanahashi’s jaw, then they hit front & back clotheslines then drills Yano to the mat with Coriolis to get the win.

Winners: Aussie Open (2) (12:37)
Rate: 7

2022 World Tag League Match
Los Ingobnrables De Japon (Tetsuya Naito & Sanada) (0) vs. United Empire (0)

Great O Khan & Tetsuya Naito opened with some silliness with O-Khan autographing a book for Naito then the bell rang and Naito immediately got a rollup for a near fall. They fought over the book, and this is more comedy than you’d expect from the main event slot. Aaron Henare & Sanada enters the match but Henare couldn’t figure out how to tie Sanada in the Paradise Lock.

United Empire began working over Naito & O Khan choked him with his braid. Sanada made the hot tag and he hit dropkicks on United Empire. Sanada hits Mongolian Chops and an airplane spin on O Khan Sanada was dizzy and collapsed hitting a low blow on O Khan. Sanada hit a mid ring hurricanrana on Henare  and he made the hot tag back to Naito. Naito hit a basement dropkick on O Khan’s back.

Sanada hit a back suplex and Naito immediately got a jackknife for a near fall. Naito tries for a tornado DDT but Henare blocked it. Henare nailed a Berzerker Bomb for a 2 count. Great O Khan hits a thrust to Naito’s throat. Naito hit a Destino out of nowhere on Henare for a near fall.

Henare nails Naito with Rampage. O Khan went to spray mist on Naito, but Naito ducked and it hit Henare in the face. Naito hit a Sanada assisted DDT then the Destino on Henare for the win.

Winners: Los Ingobnrables De Japon (2) (22:45)
Rate: 7

After the match the other members of Los Ingobernables De Japon entered the ring. Naito spoke on the mic, saying that all the wrestlers agree it is great to wrestle in front of vocal crowds. He thanked the crowd for being patient during this period. He said they’ll go all over the country in the next month. Naito led the crowd in saying the LIJ catchphrase, and Naito said they haven’t been able to do that since late 2019.

NJPW 2022 World Tag League Updated Standings:

  1. Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI (1-0, 2 pts)
  2. Tetsuya Naito & SANADA (1-0, 2 pts)
  3. Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher (1-0, 2 pts)
  4. Lance Archer & Minoru Suzuki (1-0, 2 pts)
  5. Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls (1-0, 2 pts)
  6. EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi (0-1, 0 pts)
  7. Aaron Henare & Great-O-Khan (0-1, 0 pts)
  8. Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi (0-1, 0 pts)
  9. Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens (0-1, 0 pts)
  10. Gabriel Kidd & Alex Coughlin (0-1, 0 pts)

(Thanks to Lewis Carlan for standings and highlights)

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