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NJPW News: Results From Today’s World Tag League In Tokyo (11/30/18)
Results from today’s tenth NJPW World Tag League event!
The seventeen event World Tag League Tour for New Japan Pro Wrestling is approaching some of its final shows over the next week with its tenth event taking place today back at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.
Following yesterday’s show (see those results here), today’s event once again featured seven more World Tag League matches such as EVIL and SANADA against The Guerrillas Of Destiny, as well as Minoru Suzuki and Takashi Iizuka versus Hangman Page and Yujiro Takahashi among others. We also has a big 8-Man Tag Team main event as Kazuchika Okada again tried to get some retribution on ‘Switchblade’ Jay White and The Bullet Club. Below are the results with the next show coming up on Sunday in Osaka:
- World Tag League: Toa Henare & Togi Makabe defeated Shota Umino & Ayato Yoshida
- World Tag League: Best Friends defeated Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi
- World Tag League: Juice Robinson & David Finlay defeated Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan
- World Tag League: Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka defeated Yujiro Takahashi & Hangman Page
- World Tag League: Killer Elite Squad defeated Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr.
- World Tag League: Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano defeated Michael Elgin & Jeff Cobb
- World Tag League: The Guerrillas Of Destiny defeated EVIL & SANADA
- Taiji Ishimori, Jay White, Gedo & Bad Luck Fale defeated Rocky Romero, KUSHIDA, Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi
Results c/o WrestleZone
11.30後楽園大会!第5試合 #njwtl 公式戦!@LanceHoyt & @DBSmithjr VS @zacksabrejr & @taichi0319 !鈴木軍対決!
逃げるタイチ!追うランス!サムライTV実況席も巻き込み場内を大混乱!
この試合は一体どうなってしまうのか⁉︎
視聴&登録▷https://t.co/Tj7UBJ4PjP#njpwworld #njpw pic.twitter.com/OLrbcXvtAU— njpwworld (@njpwworld) November 30, 2018
.@Tama_Tonga & @TangaloaNJPW 'Super Powerbomb'#NJPWWorld Watch now▶︎https://t.co/Tj7UBJ4PjP
Nov 30th #njwtl #njpw pic.twitter.com/8IJHPClIrO— njpwworld (@njpwworld) November 30, 2018
#njwtl 後楽園大会(11/30)を公開!@tanahashi1_100 &@rainmakerXokada の黄金タッグが今宵も #BULLETCLUB と直接対決!激しい攻防が繰り広げられるこの試合! 果たして今宵の勝者は⁉︎
視聴&登録▷https://t.co/duDL8gvgzS#njpwworld #njpw pic.twitter.com/2BdiMCo0B8— njpwworld (@njpwworld) November 30, 2018
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Did your picks win points?
The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!
Here are your Gold League standings!
- Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
- Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
- Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
- Rush: 0-1, 0 points
- Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
- Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points
Here are your Blue League standings!
- Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
- Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
- Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
- Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
- Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
- Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete
My Thoughts:
Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.
Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.
In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.
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Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”
Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:
Blue League
- Bryan Danielson
- Andrade El Idolo
- Brody King
- Claudio Castagnoli
- Daniel Garcia
- Eddie Kingston
Gold League
- Jon Moxley
- Swerve Strickland
- Rush
- Mark Briscoe
- Jay Lethal
- Jay White
Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:
- Every match has a 20 minute time limit
- The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
- EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action
Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!
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