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NJPW reveals teams for NEVER Six-Man title tournament

Posted on by Joseph Currier

NJPW has revealed the four teams that will be vying for the vacant NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team titles.

New NEVER Six-Man champs will be crowned at Wrestling World 2024 in Taiwan on Sunday, April 14. A four-team, one-night tournament is taking place at the event.

Here are the first-round matches:

  • Shingo Takagi, Yota Tsuji & BUSHI vs. EVIL, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano & Boltin Oleg vs. Great-O-Khan, Francesco Akira & Callum Newman

Those will be the first two matches of the main card at Wrestling World 2024. The winning teams advance to the tournament final, which is main-eventing the show.

This January, the NEVER Six-Man titles were vacated due to Kazuchika Okada’s departure from NJPW. Okada, Tanahashi & Tomohiro Ishii were the champions at the time. They retained against Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls & Kosei Fujita in their final title defense.

Tanahashi is returning to action at Wrestling World 2024 after having been out since February due to an ankle injury.

Wrestling World 2024 is streaming live on NJPW World on April 14. Here’s the full card for the event:

  • NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team title tournament finals
  • IWGP Tag Team Champions Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI defend against SANADA & Yuya Uemura
  • DOUKI vs. Kosei Fujita
  • Starlight Kid vs. HANAKO
  • Satoshi Kojima & Tiger Mask vs. El Desperado & Shoma Kato
  • NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team title tournament first-round match: Shingo Takagi, Yota Tsuji & BUSHI vs. EVIL, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru
  • NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team title tournament first-round match: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano & Boltin Oleg vs. Great-O-Khan, Francesco Akira & Callum Newman
  • Touyuu vs. Axe Wang (wrestlers from Taiwan’s PUZZLE promotion)

NJPW crowns new NEVER Six-Man Tag Team Champions

Posted on by Ethan Renner

YOSHI-HASHI, Hirooki Goto and Tomohiro Ishii won the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championships in a tournament final today in Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall. 

YOSHI-HASHI, Goto and Ishii defeated Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano and SHO in the final match of an eight-team tournament that began this past Thursday. 

The trios titles had been vacant after EVIL’s defection from Los Ingobernables de Japon to Bullet Club.  The previous champions, EVIL, BUSHI and Shingo Takagi disbanded as a unit on July 11 when EVIL left the group. 

EVIL would go on to say that he had no interest in defending the titles with his former teammates at a press conference on July 12. NJPW officially vacated the titles on August 1. 

Today’s victory marks YOSHI-HASHI’s first title win in NJPW. This is Ishii’s second reign as NEVER Six-Man Champion, as he previously held the titles for one day in 2018 with Yano and Trent Beretta.

This is Goto’s first NEVER Six-Man title reign, but he has held the NEVER Openweight singles title five times, a record he shares with Ishii.