Grizzled Young Vets win Strong Tag Team titles at NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed

The Grizzled Young Vets are new champions.

James Drake and Zack Gibson defeated TMDK (Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls) to capture the titles Friday at NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed. GYV won the titles after Haste was choked out by a towel and was given the high low for the win. 

TMDK had held the titles since June, when they defeated Bishimon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI), Chase Owens & KENTA, and Hikuleo & El Phantasmo at Dominion to capture both the Strong titles and the IWGP Tag Team titles. They lost the former titles only days ago at Power Struggle, where the United Empire (Great-O-Khan and Henare) defeated them to win the titles.

GYV recently made their AEW debut back in April shortly following a run in TNA. Since then, the team has mainly worked on AEW Collision and Ring of Honor. They also participated in a number one contenders match at NJPW Capital Collision in August, losing to Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tomohiro Ishii in a three-way match that also involved Bad Dude Tito and Robbie Eagles.