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ICYMI: The card has changed due to last night’s injuries to Callum Newman and HENARE.
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Tetsuya Naito (full suit t-shirt version) & Hiromu Takahashi def Shoma Kato, Katsuya Murashima — (5:46, Boston crab)
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The Young Lions kickstart the match by simultaneously dropkicking Naito.
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Chase Owens, KENTA, SANADA & Gabe Kidd def Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne, Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) — (8:37, nut shot into roll up)
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The faces preemptively jump Bullet Club during their entrance announcement.
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Post-match, Kenoh of NOAH, who has an announced singles match against “a mystery man worthy of NOAH’s 25th Anniversary” on NOAH’s 1/1 show, comes out. Everyone but KENTA clears the ring.
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Kenoh says KENTA is the man he was thinking of, and formally challenges him. KENTA accepts in a very KENTA way. Kenoh milks his mic time to shill the NOAH show and try and book himself into a future NJPW match.
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BUSHI, Yota Tsuji (Mascara Kantansu Tomato version), Shingo Takagi def Jakob Austin Young, Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan — (9:18, Made in Japan)
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Early in the match, Cobb unmasks Tsuji and briefly becomes Mascara Cobbtansu Tomato.
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During his Backstage Comments, Great-O-Khan announces he must vacate the IWGP Tag titles due to HENARE’s injury. The Young Bucks match at Dynasty is now cancelled. (I’m assuming they will at some point set up different opponents for the Bucks.)
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Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa, Zack Sabre Jr. def Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma, Shota Umino — (8:11, The Grip)
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During his entrance, Umino (who has his regular pants back tonight) is given a homemade version of the IWGP WHC by a young fan.
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Post-match, Shota and Zack exchange words. Zack says he wants Shota to rest up so he’s 100% at the Tokyo Dome and will have no excuse when he loses to Zack.
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They once again play the Brody King accepting Finlay’s Dynasty challenge promo from yesterday.
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When the feed comes back to the venue, Gedo is in the ring. He has Finlay on the phone. Finlay says sending in videos isn’t his style. He cuts a promo on Brody in English, accepting Brody’s acceptance. The only thing that gets a reaction is Finlay swearing and Gedo cutting a promo in Japanese after Finlay hangs up.
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WTL B Block: Natural Classics (Stevie Filip & Tome Filip) def TAKATaichi (TAKA Michinoku & Taichi) — (13:17, Mother of All Bombs)
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WTL B Block: Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano def TMDK (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls) — (10:22, Kamikaze)
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An Oleg/Yano win keeps them in contention. If HoT lose, Oleg/Yano win the Block. If HoT win, there will be a three-way match of HoT, Oleg/Yano, and LIJ as our new main event to determine the Block winners.
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WTL B Block: Ren Narita & EVIL (w/Dick Togo) def Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi — (11:22, Scorpion Deathlock)
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Post-match, Tana is hit with a Double Cross and then an EVIL.
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EVIL cuts a promo, thinking the House has just won B Block. Red Shoes and Ring Announcer Abe are calculating the results.
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We now have a three-way tie, meaning our new main event is HoT vs Oleg/Yano vs LIJ to determine the winners of B Block.
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WTL B Block Finals 3-Way Tornado Tag Match: Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito (t shirt version) def Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano, Ren Narita & EVIL (w/Dick Togo) — (17:16, roll up)
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Early in the match, HoT handcuff Naito, Yano, and Oleg to turnbuckles/barricades; leaving Hiromu on his own. Eventually Hiromu tells the Young Lions to go backstage to find the handcuff keys. The Young Lions come back out empty-handed, and it’s revealed that Dick has the keys.
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BUSHI comes out to take out Dick and get the keys. He frees Naito, but smartly leaves Oleg and Yano bound.
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Two more referees come out, having found more keys somewhere, and free Yano and Oleg.
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After a rally from Hiromu, he and Naito handcuff EVIL and Narita to the turnbuckle/barricade and Dick is taken out.
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Naito & Hiromu are your B Block winners, and will face SANADA & Gabe Kidd in the League finals.
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Naito starts his customary post-match speech, but Gabe & SANADA interrupt. From the ramp and without a mic, Gabe cuts a Gabe promo, then he and SANADA leave to drink some highballs.
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Naito gets back to his speech and roll call.
——Block Results——
A Block:
Winners: War Dogs— 10 points (5-2)
——— Eliminated ———
- Bishamon— 8 points (4-3)
- LIJ (T&T)— 8 points (4-3)
- BC— 6 points (3-4)
- Cobb/Newman— 6 points (3-4)
- BC— 6 points (3-4)
- TMDK (Z&O)— 6 points (3-4)
- Zayne/Taguchi— 6 points (3-4)
- Shota/Honma— 6 points (3-4)
B Block:
Winners: Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi— 10 points (5-2) won 3-way Finals Match
——— Eliminated ———
- EVIL/Ren— 10 points (5-2) lost 3-way Finals Match
- Oleg/Yano— 10 points (5-2) lost 3-way Finals Match
- HENARE/O-Khan— 10 points (5-2) injury withdrawal
- TMDK (S&M)— 6 points (3-4)
- Tana/Jado— 4 points (2-5)
- Natural Classics— 4 points (2-5)
- TAKATaichi— 2 points (1-6)
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by EffingKENTA