NJPW: HENARE & Callum Newman Suffered Knee Injuries, Brody King Accepts David Finlay’s Open Challenge Match for Wrestle Dynasty, BC War Dogs Wins A Block in World Tag League 2024

HENARE & Callum Newman Suffered Knee Injuries at Thursday’s NJPW World Tag League 2024 Show

Thursday’s World Tag League 2024 event for New Japan Pro Wrestling in Nobeoka, Japan featured HENARE and Callum Newman suffering knee-related injuries

HENARE suffered the injury during his Six-Man Tag Team match with fellow United Members tag partners Jakob Austin & Great-O-Khan against Los Ingobernables De Japon (BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, & Tetsuya Naito).

During the match, Naito hit an arm whip to HENARE resulting in HENARE landing awkwardly on his right knee. While the match continued on for a little bit more, HENARE was unable to get up and continue resulting in the referee calling for the bell to end the match.

Later in the show, Newman suffered the injury during his World Tag League A Block tournament match with Jeff Cobb against TMDK’s Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.

During the match, Oiwa attempted to hit an avalanche brainbuster to Newman off the top rope only for Newman to escape but landed awkwardly on his leg. This led to Newman clutching his knee and went out of the ring. This then led to the referee checking on Newman and called for the bell after Newman was unable to continue.

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Brody King Makes Surprise Appearance at Thursday’s World Tag League 2024 Event & Accepts David Finlay’s Challenge for Wrestle Dynasty

Thursday’s NJPW World Tag League 2024 event also featured Brody King making a surprise video appearance.

Following Hiromu Takahasi & Tetsuya Naito’s victory over HENARE & Great-O-Khan due to an injury stoppage, the lights went out and a video aired featuring the House of Black logo. King then appeared on the screen and talked about David Finlay and the Bullet Club War Dogs. During his speech, King accepted Finlay’s open challenge for his IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship at NJPW’s co-promoted Wrestle Dynasty event, which takes place on January 5, 2025 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo.

A message from the House of Black!@brodyking is answering @thedavidfinlay's open challenge for #wrestledynasty!#njpw #njwd pic.twitter.com/M5NqaphznH

— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) December 5, 2024

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Bullet Club War Dogs Wins A Block for World Tag League 2024

Thursday’s NJPW World Tag League 2024 event also featured Bullet Club War Dogs’ SANADA & Gabe Kidd emerging as the winner of A Block for this year’s World Tag League tournament.

War Dogs topped the group with a record of 5 wins and two losses for 10 points in total.

War Dogs will be facing off against the winner of B Block in the Finals of this year’s tournament at NJPW’s World Tag League 2024 Finals event on December 8th in Mashiki.