NJPW World Tag League & Best of the Super Juniors finals lineup set
NJPW has revealed the full lineup for the Wednesday, December 15 World Tag League and Best of the Super Juniors 28 finals.
The BOSJ finals will main event, as Hiromu Takahashi takes on YOH. Hiromu will be trying for his third overall BOSJ crown, and his second consecutive. A win for YOH would be the first of his career.
In the semi-main event, Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI of CHAOS will face EVIL and Yujiro Takahashi from Bullet Club House of Torture to decide the 2021 World Tag League winner. Both Goto and EVIL have won the tournament twice before with different partners.
Also announced for Wednesday, Katsuyori Shibata is scheduled to make a “major announcement.”
A Wrestle Kingdom night one preview will take place in the sixth match of the night. IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Shingo Takagi will team with BUSHI against his Wrestle Kingdom challenger Kazuchika Okada and Robbie Eagles. Okada and Shingo will main event on January 4, 2022, with the winner defending the IWGP title against Will Ospreay the next night.
A hodgepodge of tag matches will fill out Wednesday’s undercard.
Here is the lineup:
NJPW World Tag League & Best of the Super Juniors finals, Wednesday, December 15, 4:30 a.m. Eastern time on NJPW World —
- Best of the Super Juniors 28 finals: Hiromu Takahashi vs. YOH
- World Tag League 2021 finals: Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi
- Shingo Takagi & BUSHI vs. Kazuchika Okada & Robbie Eagles
- Tetsuya Naito & SANADA vs. Jeff Cobb & Great-O-Khan
- Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata vs. Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale & Chase Owens
- Toru Yano, Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Master Wato vs. Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr., El Desperado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
- Tiger Mask & Ryohei Oiwa vs. Taiji Ishimori & El Phantasmo
- Ryusuke Taguchi, Yuto Nakashima & Kosei Fujita vs. Minoru Suzuki, DOUKI & TAKA Michinoku
- Katsuyori Shibata announcement