Thursday, December 18, 2025

All Japan Pro Wrestling 11/23/2025 Real World Tag League 2025 Day 2

All Japan Pro Wrestling 11/23/2025 Real World Tag League 2025 Day 2

Day 1 is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-japan-pro-wrestling-11222025-real.html

Note - There's interviews after each match here. 

Yuma Anzai vs. Shota Kofuji

They lock up. Shota chops him. Yuma boots and clubs him. Shota hits a dropkick. Yuma slams him. Yuma forearms him down for 2. Yuma back elbows him then crabs him. Shota rolls into a dropkick on him.

Shota hits forearms in the corner. They trade forearms. Yuma knees him in the gut. Shota 2nd rope dropkicks him for 2. Yuma double underhook suplexes him for 2. They trade forearms. Shota rolls him up for 2 and backslides him. Shota la magistrals him. Shota then fisherman suplexes him for 2. 

Yuta flying dropkicks him then flying knees him for 2. Yuma then pins him.

Thoughts: It went as expected with Shota getting a little in and going even at times before put down as expected. Shota needed to show a bit more fire here.

Hideki Suzuki, Ryo Inoue & Yuma Aoyagi vs. Jun Saito, MUSASHI & Ryuki Honda

Yuma's team messes around and puts hats on each other. Yuma mocks Jun's hair taunt. They lock up. Jun backs him up on the ropes and does his hair taunt. Jun shoulders him over. Suzuki and Honda get in. Honda trips him and they both roll around. Honda chokes him on the 2nd rope.

Suzuki stalls and tags out. Musashi and Ryo get in. Musashi has hats thrown at him. Mu ducks Ryo's lock up. Ryo hits Mu from behind. Mu hits kicks on Ryo then atomic drops him. Ryo is then thrown down backwards. Suzuki hits Musashi with a towel outside. Everyone fights outside.

Musashi is sent into the rails then whipped with a towel. Musashi is hit with a double shoulderblock. Musashi boots Suzuki out of the corner and basement dropkicks him. Honda and Yuma come in and trade shots. Yuma dropkicks him then Honda corner lariats him twice. Honda spears him for 2.

Jun shoulders Yuma over then elbow drops him for 2. Yuma 2nd rope dropkicks Jun. Ryo comes in and hits chest kicks on Jun. Ryo facekicks him and hits a corner dropkick. Suzuki exploders Jun and Ryo chest kicks Jun for 2. Jun double lariats Yuma and Suzuki. 

Ryo takes corner attacks and a Jun facekicks for 2. Musashi plancha's out onto opponents. Ryo hits chest kicks on Jun then superkicks him in the gut. Ryo high kicks him then buzzsaw kicks him for 2. Ryo hits a strike flurry on Jun. He allows Jun to headbutt him and Jun drops him with one. Jun then pins him with a delayed jackhammer.

Thoughts: This was an absolute joke of a match and something I would have shut a show off over. They goofed around for the first half of this and Honda/Yuma put absolutely no effort into what they were doing. The finish was stupid with Ryo allowing Jun to headbutt him and getting pinned because of it. This was awful.

Real World Tag League 2025 Block A Match - Titans Of Calamity (Ren Ayabe & Talos) vs. Hokuto-gun (Hokuto Omori & Kuma Arashi)

Kuma and Rey lock up. Ren clean breaks him. Kuma then clean breaks him. They shoulder battle and Ren knocks him over. Omori and Tal get in. Omori eye rakes him then goes under the ring. Omori comes out the other side and dropkicks him in the back of the leg. Omori then goes under the ring again and dropkicks his leg from behind.

Tal hits a double suplex on his opponents. Tal chases Omori around the arena. Tal throws him in the ring and side slams him for 2. Omori is double foot choked by his opponents. Ren running back elbows Omori then slams him for 2. Ren crabs Omori.

Omori dropkicks Ren in the knee and short ddt's him. Kuma sentons Ren for 2. Kuma corner lariats Ren then 2nd rope sentons him for 2. Ren flying neckbreakers Kuma. Tal comes in and corner splashes Kuma. Tal facekicks Kuma. Tal backdrops Kuma for 2. 

Kuma dropkicks Tal. Tal misses a corner splash. Omori and Ren get in. Omori hits forearms and Ren hits one back. Ren running facekicks him for 2. Omori hits forearms on Ren for 2. Ren is hit with a double shoulderblock. Kuma slams Omori onto Ren for 2. Ren takes a corner lariat and a cutter. Kuma sentons Ren. Omori 2nd rope splashes Ren. 

Omori rolling armbars Ren while Kuma racks Tal. Omori hits spinning forearms on Ren then takes a half-nelson sitout slam. Kuma hits shots on his opponents then is held in the air and pressed down on a double team. Omori takes a double chokeslam. Ren pins Omori.

Thoughts: There was too much screwing around early on which hurt this. It got a little better as it went on and they had the idea right of the big vs small men, but I didn't like it. I also thought it went on a bit long. 

Tal and Ren are interviewed after. Tal says him, Omori and Kuma are supposed to be friends and they didn't want to have to destroy them. He says this isn't over with Omori. 

Real World Tag League 2025 Block A Match - Dan Tamura & Hikaru Sato vs. HAVOC (Go Shiozaki & Shotaro Ashino)

Go and Sato go at it. Sato leg kick him. Go takes him down and they grapple. Go hammerlocks him and they break on the ropes. Sato spin kicks and enzugiri's Go. Go takes a kick to the gut then a double suplex. Ashino is double teamed and thrown out. Sato kicks Go in the back. Sato chest kicks Go. Go exploders him.

Ashino gets in. He corner euros Sato then running euros him. Ashino karelin's lifts him for 2 then Sato enzugiri's him. Dan comes in. Dan hits shoulderblocks on Ashino for 2. Ashino germans Dan. Sato and Go get in. Go flying shoulders him. 

Go and Sato trade chops for chest kicks. Dan comes in and lariats both opponents. Dan samoan drops Go. Sato PK's Go for 2. Sato takes a lariat + german combo for 2. Go hits bolo punches on Sato then fisherman busters him for 2. Go running lariats Sato and wins.

Thoughts:
Go's team won as expected here. It was shorter bout and nothing too special. It was mostly all strikes but thankfully no comedy.

Real World Tag League 2025 Block B Match - Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Kento Miyahara vs. Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Takashi Yoshida

TY and Ken lock up. TY clean breaks him. TY tries to play nice then hits Ken in the throat. Jiro and Davey get in. Jiro is pushed down off the lock up and goes out. Jiro eye pokes Davey and side headlocks him. Davey shoulders him over then Jiro kips up. Jiro bows to Davey and takes a double underhook suplex. Ken headbutts Jiro outside. 

Jiro takes a double shoulderblock. Ken dropkicks Jiro in the knee then the side of the head. Jiro superkicks Ken. TY comes in and hits shots on Ken's throat. Davey comes in and gets some too. Ken hits shots on TY then TY slaps his nose. Ken pump kicks TY. Davey running dropkicks TY then flying knees him.

Davey suplexes TY for 2. Ty hits running corner throat thrusts on Davey. Davey lariats Ken on accident then Jiro springboard dropkicks Davey. Jiro asai moonsaults his opponents outside. Davey running slams TY for 2. TY rolls up Davey for 2. Davey takes shots from Jiro and TY Then a double enzugiri. Davey running lariats TY and slams him. Davey top rope splashes him and pins him.

Thoughts: It was another comedy based match here. Jiro played scared and Yoshida did little but throat shots. Jiro's team were the big underdogs throughout this one before going down. It wasn't that good. 

Ken and Davey talk on the mic after. Davey says he loves Zen Nippon.

Jiro's team does a promo backstage after then Davey's team does one. Davey says they won 2 matches so far and are the strongest. Davey says it doesn't matter who is in front of them. He says they will be the first place winners of the RWTL.

Real World Tag League 2025 Block B Match - Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising HAYATO vs. HAVOC (Oddyssey & Xyon)

Odd pushes AA off the lock up. He then does the same to Rising. Odd's opponents try to double shoulder him but get nowhere. Odd then double shoulders both of them over. Odd and Xy take dropkicks out. They catch their opponents plancha's and ram their backs together. AA and Rising are sent into each other outside. AA and Rising then get sent into the rails. 

Odd misses a corner splash inside. AA dropkicks Odd in the knee several times. Odd knees him in the gut. AA dropkicks him in the knee again then gets on his back with a sleeper. Xy comes in and running back elbows AA.

Xy hits running elbows on AA in the corner and drops him by sending him hard into the buckles. Xy camel clutches AA. AA 2nd rope dropkicks him. Rising is tagged in. He dropkicks Xy in the corner. Xy blocks his 2nd rope diving codebreaker but he hits it with help from AA for 2. 

Xy hits a double lariat. Rising takes a backdrop + neckbreaker combo for 2. AA corkscrew kicks Xy into a Rising roll up for 2. Rising gets another nearfall on him. Rising superkicks Xy. Xy takes a double superplex for 2. Odd catches AA's plancha outside but Rising plancha's onto them and they all go down. Xy takes a double top rope dropkick. Xy is lifted for a double suplex but is pendulum dropped backwards. AA tries to spanish fly himself and Rising onto Xy but Xy moves. Odd lifts both opponents at the same time and drops them.

Xy running lariats Rising. Odd black hole slams Rising and Xy top rope diving headbutts Rising for the win.

Thoughts: It was a big vs smaller man match. It was better than Xyon's usual efforts but nothing too exciting. It was a little slower than it needed to be and neither team really played up to their sizes like they could have. Oddysey was probably the best wrestler in this match. 

Xyon and Oddysey do a promo. They said they struck again. Xyon says they are the benchmark and say the tag titles look good on them. 

Overall thoughts: It wasn't that good of a show. There was a lot of comedy and no one was really going all out. I struggled to get through it. The main was maybe the best thing on here, but believe me, that's not saying much. I'd give this a 4 out of 10 and wouldn't recommend it.

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