NJPW World Tag League 2024 Finals – Los Ingobernables De Japon vs. Bullet Club War Dogs

December 8, 2024
Mashiki, Japan – Grandmesse Kumamoto
English commentary: Walker Stewart and Chris Charlton

Quick Match Results

1. Tiger Mask defeated Daiki Nagai via Tiger Suplex (pinfall 5:43)
2. TMDK (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls) defeated Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato via Shane-ing Wizard (pinfall 8:31)
   • Haste pinned Murashima after hitting the Shane-ing Wizard to give TMDK the victory.
3. Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) defeated The Natural Classics (Stevie & Tome Filip) via Shoto (pinfall 9:11)
   • YOSHI-HASHI pinned Stevie Filip after Bishamon hit their double team Shoto finisher for the victory.
4. Just 4 Guys (TAKA Michinoku, DOUKI, & Taichi defeated United Empire (Jaokb Austin Young, Jeff Cobb, & Great-O-Khan) via Italian Stretch #32 (submission 8:44)
   • DOUKI submitted Young after locking in the Italian Stretch while Michinoku locked in a Just Face Lock to Cobb and Taichi locked in a Seitei Jujiryo to Khan to prevent a save for the tap out victory.
   • Following the match, Taichi refused to let go of his hold on Khan resulting in several Young Lions rushing into the ring and tried to pull Taichi off and eventually causing Taichi to let go of Khan. Taichi then grabbed the Provisional King of Pro Wrestling title and challenged Khan to a match, which Khan accepted.
5. Los Ingobernables De Japon (BUSHI, Yota Tsuji, & Shingo Takagi) defeated BULLET CLUB (Gedo, Chase Owens, & KENTA) via Curb Stomp (pinfall 10:29)
   • Tsuji pinned Gedo after hitting the curb stomp to give LIJ the victory.
6. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Yoshinobu Kanemaru, SHO, Yujiro Takahashi, Ren Narita, & EVIL) defeated Jado, Tomoaki Honma, Boltin Oleg, Toru Yano, & Hiroshi Tanahashi via Disqualification (10:28)
   • Near the end of the match, HoT did their usual HoT style cheating shenanigans leading to EVIL attempted to strike Tanahashi with a chair only for Tanahashi to block the attack and grabbed the chair. Tanahashi then repeatedly attacked EVIL with the chair resulting in the referee calling for the bell.
   • Following the match, Tanahashi continued his attack on EVIL and was supplied another fresh chair to use by Yano. After finally being stopped by the Young Lions and the referee, EVIL managed to get out of the ring. Tanahashi grabbed a microphone and gave some heated words stating that if EVIL wants to retire him that much at Wrestle Kingdom 19, then he will give him that chance. Tanahashi then issued a challenge for their match to be held as a Lumberjack match and he would put his career on the line.
7. TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa, & Zack Sabre Jr.) defeated Ryusuke Taguchi, Alex Zayne, & Shota Umino via The Grip (pinfall 13:39)
   • Oiwa pinned Taguchi after hitting The Grip to secure the victory for TMDK.
   • Following the match, Sabre Jr. and Umino got into a confrontation at ringside and exchanged some words. Umino tried to show Sabre that his ankle was fine enough for their upcoming match at Wrestle Kingdom 19 leading to Sabre walking away at first. Sabre returned with Umino’s paper IWGP title and smacked him in the face with it and even gave him a new one made out of his wrist tape as a gift. This led to the two exchanging some more words before both guys headed to the back.
8. World Tag League 2024 Finals – Los Ingobernables De Japon (Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito) defeated BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Gabe Kidd & SANADA) via Hiromu Roll (pinfall 27:12)
   • Takahashi pinned SANADA after catching him in a leg capture roll-up to give LIJ the victory to become the winner’s of this year’s World Tag League tournament.
   • Following the match, Naito gave a victory speech talking about their tournament victory and working as a team of late. Naito then talked about instead of challenging for the IWGP World Tag titles, how about the one thing Hiromu has wanted from him for quite some time. Naito asked Takahashi about finally having that singles match against each other at Wrestle Kingdom 19. Takaahshi responded accepting the match and gave his thanks to Naito for teaching him wrestling.