On November 25th, New Japan Pro-Wrestling held Night five of the ongoing World Tag League 2023 Tournament at the Fujisawa City Akibadai Bunka Gymnasium in front of nearly 1400 fans.
Night five featured matches from the A Block of the tournament. The main event saw Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls defeat Great-O-Khan & HENARE to remain undefeated.
Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa won their second match of the tournament as they defeated EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi.
Here are the full results courtesy of purolove.com for NJPW World Tag League Night Five:
- Yuto Nakashima defeats Katsuya Murashima (5:31) with a crab hold
- Atlantis Jr., Soberano Jr. & Oleg Boltin defeat Lance Archer, Alex Zayne & Oskar Leube (6:38) after a diving guillotine drop by Soberano against Leube.
- Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, YOH & Ryusuke Taguchi defeat Bad Luck Fale, Jack Bonza, Taiji Ishimori & Gedo (8:54) after a Thrust Kick by YOH against Gedo.
- SANADA, Taichi, Yuya Uemura & DOUKI defeat Yuji Nagata, Minoru Suzuki, Tomoaki Honma & Master Wato (11:05) after Taichi’s Seitei Juji Ryo against Honma.
- Yota Tsuji, Zandokan Jr. & BUSHI defeat Hikuleo, El Phantasmo & Jado (10:45) as Tsuji pinned Jado after the Vamos Amigo.
- World Tag League – Block A: Shota Umino & Ren Narita [4] defeat Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona [0] (10:30) after a Death Rider by Umino against Kaun.
- World Tag League – Block A: Alex Coughlin & Gabe Kidd [4] defeat Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano [2] (12:02) after a piledriver by Kidd against Yano.
- World Tag League – Block A: Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa [4] defeat “King of Darkness” EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi [2] (16:14) after a Frankensteiner from Kiyomiya against Takahashi.
- Main Event World Tag League – Block A: Mikey Nicholls & Shane Haste [6] defeat Great-O-Khan & HENARE [2] (15:15) as Haste O-Khan pinned after the Tank Buster.
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