The finals of New Japan’s World Tag League are set.
Gabe Kidd & Yota Tsuji are advancing to the final after beating the IWGP World Tag Team Champions, OSKAR & Yuto-Ice, in Friday’s semi-final contest.
In front of 1,423 fans in Sendai, the teams had a twenty-minute match, climaxing with Kidd surviving the Knockout Bomb and striking OSKAR with the War Blaster with Tsuji to win.
Kidd & Tsuji advance to meet TMDK’s Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa in Sunday’s final in Kumamoto. The winning team traditionally challenges for the titles at Wrestle Kingdom, although Tsuji is already scheduled to challenge Konosuke Takeshita for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship on January 4. Oiwa is also scheduled to wrestle at Wrestle Kingdom in a four-way match.
It was the fourth loss of the World Tag League for the tag champions after round-robin losses to Hiromu Takahashi & David Finlay, SANADA & Ren Narita, and Alex Zayne & Lance Archer.
This will be Kidd’s second trip to the World Tag League final as he teamed with SANADA last year, losing to Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi.
RESULTS:
*World Tag League – Semi-Final: Yota Tsuji & Gabe Kidd over OSKAR & Yuto-Ice in 20:37
*Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson over El Phantasmo, Taichi & Satoshi Kojima in 10:20
*Great O-Khan, Callum Newman & Jakob Austin Young over David Finlay, Hiromu Takahashi & Gedo in 0:42
*EVIL, Chase Owens, Don Fale, Yujiro & SHO over Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura, Toru Yano & Katsuya Murashima in 9:08
*SANADA, Ren Narita & Yoshinobu Kanemaru over El Desperado, Shuji Ishikawa & Shoma Kato in 7:53
*Lance Archer & Alex Zayne over Oleg Boltin & Zane Jay in 10:03
*Shingo Takagi, Drilla Moloney & Daiki Nagai over Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Tatsuya Matsumoto in 7:48
The finals will take place late Saturday night (early Sunday) at 1 a.m. ET and streams on New Japan World.
