Karl Anderson retains NEVER title at NJPW Tag League finals

Karl Anderson is still the NEVER Openweight Champion.

At Wednesday’s NJPW World Tag League/Super Jr. Tag League finals, Anderson successfully defended the NEVER title, pinning Hikeuleo after a gun stun. After the match, he cut a promo saying that he was the greatest NEVER Openweight Champion of all time and would hold the championship for all of eternity.

After those comments, Tama Tonga came out to challenge Anderson. The two ended up getting into a brawl, wth Anderson gaining the upper hand by delivering a gun stun to Tonga. Anderson then told Tonga he would see him at Wrestle Kingdom.

Anderson, along with Luke Gallows, returned to the WWE in October despite Anderson having won the NEVER title back in June. After a match between Hikuleo and Anderson was taken off of a November 5 card due to Anderson being in Saudi Arabia for WWE, the match was instead moved to December 14.

NJPW has since pushed that Anderson and Gallows are in WWE, using the narrative that Jay White now has Bullet Club members in all of the major promotions.