NJPW World Tag League 2023 Finals Results – Dec. 10, 2023 – Bishamon vs. Hikuleo & El Phantasmo

December 10, 2022
Mashiki, Japan – Grand Messe Kumamoto

Quick Match Results

1. Pre-show: Frontier Zone match – Boltin Oleg & Ryusuke Taguchi defeated Asosan & Kodai Nozaki via Gedo Clutch (pinfall 5:53)
2. Master Wato, Soberano Jr., & Atlantis Jr. defeated TMDK (Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, & Mikey Nicholls) via Tsutenkaku German Suplex (pinfall 8:34)
3. Monstersauce (Alex Zayne & Lance Archer), Minoru Suzuki, & Yuji Nagata defeated Bullet Club (Gabe Kidd, Alex Coughlin, Jack Bonza, & Bad Luck Fale) via Blackout Sauce (pinfall 8:49)
4. United Empire (Callum Newman, HENARE, Great-O-Khan, & Jeff Cobb) defeated Oskar Leube, Yuto Nakashima, Toru Yano, & Tomihiro Ishii via Tour of the Islands (pinfall 6:55)
   • Following the match, a brawl broke out between HENARE and Ishii that lead to Ishii attacking all of United Empire and him getting laid out in return. Great-O-Khan grabbed Ishii’s NEVER Six-Man Tag Team title belt and stood over the fallen Ishii teasing United Empire wanting a shot at Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi, & Kazuchika Okada’s titles.
5. SHO & Ren Narita defeated Tiger Mask & Shota Umino via Pinfall (0:37)
6. Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Yujiro Takahashi, & EVIL defeated Tomoaki Honma, Ryohei Oiwa, & Kaito Kiyomiya via Everything Is Evil (pinfall 11:01)
   • Following the match, House of Torture attacked Honma, Oiwa, and Kiyomiya. Fellow HoT members RenNarita and SHO came out to join in on the beatdown. This led to Shota Umino running out chasing away HoT and ran after Narita to the back.
7. Hiroshi Tananashi & Kazuchika Okada defeated The Gates of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) via Rainmaker (pinfall 11:54)
8. BUSHI, Zandokan Jr., Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi, & Tetsuya Naito defeated Just 5 Guys (Taka Michinoku, DOUKI, Yuya Uemura, Taichi, & SANADA) via MX (pinfall 16:04)
   • Following the match, all of the members of Los Ingobernables de Japon stood around in the ring . After a little while, Naito did LIJ’s fist bump pose and everyone else in the group joined in but held their pose as if they were waiting for someone to join in as well. This someone ended up being Zandokan Jr. who realized he was finally being offered membership in the group and joined in with the fist bump making him the official newest member of the group.
9. World Tag League 2023 Finals – Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) defeated Guerillas of Destiny (Hikuleo & El Phantasmo) via Naraku (pinfall)
   • Following the match, Goto gave a brief promo praising Hikuleo and ELP for their hard fought effort and picked them to be his and YOSHI-HASHI’s opponents at Wrestle Kingdom 18. Goto also stated that he wants the match to be Title vs. Title with both Bishamon’s IWGP Tag Team and Hikuleo & ELP’s NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team titles on the line. After Hikuleo & ELP left, Goto and YOSHI-HASHI gave speech to the crowd and asked them to join in with the clapping for their show closing send off routine.