New Japan Pro Wrestling 12/14/2025 World Tag League 2025 Day 17

New Japan Pro Wrestling 12/14/2025 World Tag League 2025 Day 17

NJPW World Television Title Match - El Phantasmo (c) vs. Hartley Jackson

Hart pushes him backwards off the lock up twice. They shoulder battle. ELP hits forearms and is shouldered over. ELP is sent into and over the corner. Hart rams ELP's back into the post outside. Hart is pushed into the post. ELP is caught off the rails and then death valley drivered on the floor. 

Hart tries pins in the ring and chops him. ELP hits chops back and a step up enzugiri. Hart suplexes him. Hart misses a senton. ELP hits forearms and leg kicks. ELP 2nd rope twisting crossbodies him and then does an asai moonsault for 2. ELP russian legsweeps him then 2nd rope elbow drops him. ELP step up enzugiri's him from behind and tornado ddt's him.

ELP superkicks him twice. Hart lariats and sentons him for 2. Hart death valley drivers him for 2. Hart is on the 2nd rope and is hit with superkicks. ELP burning hammers him for 2. ELP hits a straightjacket gordbuster and springboard splashes him to win.

Thoughts: ELP got the win as expected here. ELP did his usual moves. I thought the death valley driver on the floor should have counted for a bit more than it did. It was average.

Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI), Katsuya Murashima, Oleg Boltin & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Monster Sauce (Alex Zayne & Lance Archer), Team 100 (Satoshi Kojima & Taichi) & Masatora Yasuda

KM = Katsuya Murashima

KM side headlock takeovers Yasuda to start. He then side headlocks him. KM shoulders him over. Yasuda flying headscissors him. Alex bites KM's hand when he gets in. Alex shoulders him over. Alex running corkscrew ssp's him for 2. Tai gets in and kicks KM in the back. KM hits forearms then shoulders him over.

Goto gets in and corner lariats Tai. Goto backdrops him for 2. Tai hits chops to the neck. Goto and Yoshi double shoulder Tai then Goto hiptosses Yoshi onto Tai. Lance is double tripped onto Tai. Kojima then takes a four person clubbering.

Tai running lariats Goto. Lance and Oleg get in. They lariat battle. Oleg shoulders him over and hits karelin's lift him on him. Oleg misses a corner splas hand takes corner attacks. Alex headscissors Lance into Oleg in the corner.

Kojima hits chops in the corner on Oleg. Kojima flying forearms him then ddt's him. Oleg belly to belly suplexes him. Tatsuya gets in and forearms Kojima over. Kojima takes a russin legsweep + headhunter combo. Goto's team all dogpile on Kojima but the ref won't count the pin. 

Tatuya shoulders Kojima over and slams him. Tatsuya elbow drops him for 2. Kojima lariats Tatsuya and pins him.

Thoughts: It wasn't a super serious tag and this didn't get a lot of time. Everyone got their segment in and not much else. It was okay.

El Desperado, Shoma Kato & Shuji Ishikawa vs. House Of Torture (Don Fale, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)

Sho talks on the mic before the match and the heels attack. They fight outside. Despy is sent into the rails. In the ring, Shuji double shoulders the heels over. Shuji and Fale trade shoulders. Shuji corner lariats him. Shuji 2nd rope double stomps him for 2. 

Fale shoulders Shuji over. Despy shoulders over Sho twice then eye rakes him. Sho sends Despy's shoulder into the exposed buckle. Sho then armbars Despy. Sho sends Despy into the exposed buckles. Despy backdrops him. 

Kato and Kanemaru get in. Kato flying headscissors him. Kato flying forearms him in the corner and slams him. Kato armdrags and suplexes Sho for 2. Kato crabs Sho and Sho ropebreaks. Fale comes in and hits a samoan spike chokeslam. Sho then pins Kato.

Thoughts: It was short one and a waste of time. We barely got to see any of anyone here before it ended.

War Dragons (Drilla Moloney & Shingo Takagi) & Taiji Ishimori vs. House Of Torture (Chase Owens, DOUKI & Yujiro Takahashi)

TI = Taiji Ishimori

Douki and TI go at it. TI gets distracted by Douki's partners then he is stomped on. TI handspring corkscrew kicks Douki. TI fist drops Douki and hits punches. TI is thrown out and send into the post. Douki is sent crotch first into the post. 

Yujiro foot chokes TI in the corner and Yujiro's partners help out. Yujiro eye rakes TI. Yujiro hits leg drops for 2. Douki comes in and double stomps TI for 2. Douki corner lariats him. TI drops Douki chest first onto the knees. Drilla and Chase come in. Drilla chops him and Yujiro. Chase forearms Drilla. Drilla dropkicks Chase out. Drilla dropkicks Chase and Yujiro through the ropes.

Drilla corner spears Chase then suplexes him for 2. Chase takes corner lariats from Shingo and Drilla. Drilla and Shingo hit stereo top rope elbow drops on their opponents. Yujiro reverse ddt's Drilla and TI springboard la silla's Yujiro. Shingo takes a pumping knee from Chase then a pepsi twist. Chase pumping knees Shingo on the ropes. 

Chase takes shots from his opponents and goes down. Chase takes a double team in Japan from Drilla and Shingo and is pinned.

Thoughts: It wasn't too much of note. It was another shorter bout. Drilla and Shingo did their stiffer offense here and TI and Douki went at it some in this. It was average.

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura vs. Knockout Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice) & Daiki Nagai

Shota and Os go at it. Shota hits forearms and they shoulder battle. Os boots him in the gut then shota dropkicks him in the knee. Shota dragon screws him. Shota hits chops and forearms. Shota running euros him then Os hits a big slam. 

Ice hits Shota in the gut and chokes him with his knee. Os knees Shota in the gut and clubs his back. Ice hits a chest kick flurry on Shota then running meteora's him in the corner. Shota dropkicks Os down. Yuya gets in. Ice facekicks him. Ice then slaps Tana down.

Yuya and Ice trade forearms. Ice forearms him then Yuya flying forearms him. Yuya hits chops on Ice. Yuya goes up and over then hiptosses Ice. Tana gets in and flying forearms Ice. Tana slams Ice and 2nd rope flipping sentons him for 2. Ice hits slaps on Tana.

Os is pushed into Ice. Tana dropkicks Os in the knee. Nagai tags himself in. Nagai suplexes Tana for 2. Nagai spinebusters him. Tana dragon screws him. Ice fights off a 2v1 then takes a triple dropkick. Os then takes one as well.

Tana slaps Os and Os takes a lariat into a dragon suplex. Nagai rolls up Tana for 2. Tana slingblades Nagai. Tana top rope frogsplashes Nagai and pins him.

Thoughts: It was another shorter bout. What we got was fine but not much else. I liked the faces doing triple dropkicks and the lariat + dragon suplex combo was cool.  

ICe has words for Tana after. Tan then talks on the mic and poses with babies. 

David Finlay & Hiromu Takahashi  vs. United Empire (Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan) 

Khan's team is jumped in the aisle way before it starts. HT chops CN and Khan's face is banged off the apron. CN chokes HT with a shirt. CN sends Ht into the rails. CN is then sent into the seats. DF pushes Khan into the seats and whips him into the wall. HT's head is banged off the apron then he is sent into the rail. 

The match finally starts. CN stomps on HT then hits mounted forearms. HT chops him and dropkicks him in the knee. CN bangs HT's face off the buckles then sends him into the rails. Khan hits punches on HT. Khan comes in. HT hits chops on him then Khan mongolian chops him. HT kicks him then hits a running lariat. 

Khan claws HT. HT rolls him up for 2. HT running lariats him. DF gets in and shoulders over Khan. He flying euros him. DF back elbows CN then lariats him over the top. DF hits a lariat flurry on Khan in the corner and suplex throws him. DF hits double boots on Khan out of the corner. Khan claws him. DF running lariats him. DF powerbombs Khan. CN throws a chair at DF's head and gets DQ'd.

Thoughts: The ending was dumb with Newman throwing a chair at Finlay's head right in front of the ref. The match was pretty much all brawling before that without anyone bleeding or anything, so it wasn't that interesting. I didn't enjoy this that much.

CN sends DF into the post after and sends HT into the rails. CN then hits HT with a GHC title belt.  CN then curbstomps him on the belt. Gedo comes in and CN soccer kicks his head. DF hit Jakob Austin Young with a shillelagh after and hits overkill. DF is busted open. DF thanks CN for reminding him who he is. He says CN is marching down a dangerous road. DF tells him to come get revenge or get killed at the Tokyo Dome.

NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Title Match - Master Wato, Toru Yano & YOH (c) vs. House Of Torture (EVIL, Ren Narita & SANADA)

The heels attack before the bell as usual. Everyone goes out to fight. Fale hits Wato in the gut and Ren throws water at Yano. Sanada eye rakes Yoh in the ring. Yoh trips him into a baseball slide. Yoh double eye rakes Ren and Evil. Yoh goes for the paradise lock on Sanada. Sanada then tries the paradise lock on him. Yoh backrolls Sanada into a bridge for 2. Evil pulls the ref out. Kanemaru then comes in and puts a ref shirt on. Yoh is put in skull end and Kanemaru claims Yoh submitted.

Sho then announces that his team are the winners. House of Torture beat up the faces in the ring and leave them laying. Evil says they re the new champs and HoT go to leave. Yoh gets on the mic and says let's restart this. The ref comes back out with Aaron Wolf and sends HoT back in.

The faces then get hit from behind again when they get in the ring Evil eye rakes Wolf outside. The heels all stomp the faces. Fale and Kanemaru also openly interfere and the ref doesn't care. The ref rings the bell to restart this.

Yano is sent into the exposed buckles and Ren hits him with something. Evil chairs Yano in the gut outside. Sanada gets a 2 count on Yano. Evil chokes Yano with a weapon. Ren back elbows Yano for 2. Ren rolling leglocks Yano. 

Yano pulls Ren down by the hair. Wato knocks the heels off the apron. Wato flying headscissors Ren out then does it to Evil and Sanada. Wato tope con hilos the heels outside. Wato top rope dropkicks Ren for 2. Wato zig zags Ren. 

Evil trips Wato. Wato takes corner attacks from the heels. Sho 2nd rope chops Wato in the crotch. Wato leg lariats Sanada. Yoh gets in. Ren is sent into the rails outside. Yoh basement dropkicks Sanada. Sanada goes down and kicks Yoh in the crotch off of it. Sho chokes yoh with a weapon. Sanada misses a guitar shot in the corner on Yoh. Yoh drops down and kicks Sanada low. Yoh cradles Sanada and pins him.

Thoughts: It wasn't good as expected and was filled with House of Torture shenanigsn. The refs saw the heels cheat multiple times and did nothing about it and HoT trying to declare their own pin and victory was silly.

Evil and Aaron Wolf fight after the bell outside. 

World Tag League 2025 Final Match - Gabe Kidd & Yota Tsuji vs. TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.)

Yota and Oiwa go at it. They wristlock each other. Yota snapmares him and Oiwa wristlocks him. Oiwa side headlocks him then takes him over. Yota armdrags him and side headlock takeovers him. Oiwa headscissors him on the mat. 

Gabe and Zack go at it. Zack wristlocks him. Gabe reverses it. Zack takes him down by the wrist. Gabe headflips out and misses a chop. Zack straightjacket chokes Gabe. Zack backrolls him and Gabe gets a 2 count on him. Zack ducks a chop and they stand off. 

Gabe side headlocks Oiwa. They shoulder battle and butt heads. Oiwa armdrags him into an armlock. Gabe misses a corner charge and is armdragged. Zack top wristlocks Gabe. Gabe takes a double back elbow then a double armbar. Yota's arms are then stomped into the mat.

Zack wroks on Gabe's arm. Gabe chops Zack and chops him down. Gabe pushes Zack into the rails and chops him down. Zack gets back in and takes more chops. Yota gets in. Yota hits more corner spears on Zack. Yota chinlocks Zack.

Zack takes a superkick into a dropkick. Zack then takes a tilt-a-whirl side slam. Gabe chops Zack in the corner then on the ropes with Yota. Gabe double pele kicks his opponents arms. Oiwa come in and hits a double lariat. Oiwa dropkicks both opponents. Oiwa suplexes Gabe.

Yota's headscissors are caught and Oiwa sitout powerbombs him. Yota sunset flips him then does a curbstomp combo on him. Oiwa headbutts Yota down from the 2nd rope. Gabe top rope superplexes Oiwa for 2. Gabe and Yota kick each other on accident. Yota is pushed into Gabe then Oiwa dropkicks Yota.

Zack does an octopus on Yota but is back body dropped off. Yota flatliners him. Gabe comes in and chops over Zack for 2. Zack then stomps Gabe's arm into the mat. Zack PK's Gabe twice for 2. Zack does a bridge pin on Gabe for 2. Gabe reverses a pin attempt Zack. 

Gabe hits chops and forearms on his opponents. He is held for an enzugiri then takes a chaos theory german for 2. Yota pumping knees Oiwa then headtwists Yota with his feet. Gabe and Zack trade facekicks and Gabe knees him in the face. 

Yota drives Zack's face into the mat. Yota misses a marlow crash on Zach. Yota then crabs him. Zack and Oira put their opponents in submissions at the same time. Zack hits euros on Oiwa. Yota backslides him and knees him in the face off of it. Yota pumping knees him in the corner. Yota then hits a marlow crash on Zack. Zack michinoku drivers Yota. 

Gabe and Oiwa get in. They trade forearms. Gabe drops him twice with forearms. Oiwa then drops him with one. Gabe hits slaps on Oiwa and forearms him. Gabe seemingly loses a tooth. Gabe hits a big punch on Oiwa then sitout powerbombs him for 2. Gabe runs at Oiwa and is hit with a doctor bomb. Gabe and Oiwa trade slaps. Oiwa takes a running spear + lariat combo. Zack takes a double knee to the face. Yota topes Zack outside. Gabe piledrivers Oiwa for 2. 

Oiwa stops Gabe's rebound lariat. Oira spinning lariats Gabe. Gabe no sells it and forearms him. Oiwa spinning lariats him and pins him.

Thoughts: It got 32 minutes so it had enough time to play out but it wasn't that good. Zack was kind of doing his own thing seperate of the other three. I didn't think they did a good job in the first of this and mostly just ate up time. I thought this was an average to acceptable 32 minute match and not much more.

Oiwa talks on the mic after. TMDK gets streamers and their trophies as they pose. 

Overall thoughts: I never enjoy the final day of NJPW tournaments as they do what they did here - put a bunch of meaningless throwaway matches on and then do the tournament final. I can't say I really loved anything on here that much and I really just didn't think anything was that great here. I'd give this a 4 out of 10 as the show really did underperform and was far from NJPW's best. The main was the only thing on here that I thought even had a chance at being good. I would not recommend this one.