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NEW JAPAN TAG LEAGUE DAY ONE RESULTS, FORMER WWE STAR INJURED

By Matthew Macklin on 2014-11-22 10:40:00
NJPW World Tag League Day 1 Results

Day 1 of the 2014 World Tag League took place this morning at Korakuen Hall I'm Tokyo. Teams are split into two block, with each team wrestling once. Teams gain two points for a victory.

In non tournament matches:

*Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows, Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga (Bullet Club) defeated Captain New Japan, Tiger Mask, Ryusuke Taguchi & Jushin Liger.

*Mike Bennett & Matt Taven defeated BUSHI & KUSHIDA.

*Toru Yano, Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii (CHAOS) defeated Tomoaki Honma, Togi Makabe & Kota Ibushi.

Tournament matches:

Block A:

*Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima defeated Rob Conway & Jax Dane. Tenzan declared his intentions to challenge for the NWA World championship.

Block B:

*Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith, Jr defeated Takashi Iizuka & Minoru Suzuki in a meeting of Suzuki-Gun members.

Block B:

*Yuji Nagata & Manabu Nakanishi defeated Katsuyori Shibata & Hirooki Goto.

Block A:

*Tetsuya Naito & La Sombra defeated Yujiro Takahashi & AJ Styles.

Block A:

*Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI (CHAOS) defeated Yoshitatsu & Hiroshi Tanahashi. After the match Okada hit Tanahashi with a tombstone and stood over the IWGP Heavyweight Champions.

NJPW announced that Yoshitatsu is out of the remainder of the World Tag League due to a neck injury, presumably caused by the Styles Clash as Power Struggle where Yoshitatsu landed on his neck similarly to Roderick Strong earlier on the year in ROH.

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