El Phantasmo, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuya Murashima vs. Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.: NJPW World Tag League 2025 Day 7 (11/29/2025)

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00:00.

00:21It was one of the last remaining undefeated streaks in this year's world.

00:25Exactly, that sharply kicked to a close just 24 hours ago.

00:29Thanks to Retina and Sonata, the aforementioned House of Torture,

00:33back in Alboni.

00:36It's about putting the past behind us, looking ahead to new ventures.

00:41And the greener water may very well lie in fair country.

00:44Coming up in Akita, Zack Sabre Jr. and Ryohei Oiwa on four points.

00:49Jack Sao!

00:54The Clip, Oren, Ryohei!

01:02The Frontman, Zack Sabre Jr.

01:08.

01:17.

01:19.

01:21Go, go, go, go, go.

01:27Go, go, go, go.

01:39E. O. D.

01:51It is Young Lion Katsuya Urishima alongside your Block B entrance of LP and Tanahashi.

02:21It was a main event last night, right on the other side of Albori City.

02:30Where El Fantasma and Hiroshi Tanahashi would step to the challenge of the IWGP Tag Team Champions.

02:35And sadly for the A's and the World Television Champion,

02:38these two men would fall short.

02:40New Japan World認定 TV Champion, The Head Banger ELP!

02:53For the last 36 days, 181cm and 101kg, Tanahashi Hiroshi!

03:10As we continue to count down the clock for the end of the Ace, and the end of one of the greatest eras of professional wrestling overall,

03:32Hiroshi Tanahashi says goodbye January 4th, 2026 at the Tokyo Dome.

03:38Tokyo Dome, Tanahashi vs. Okada, one final time.

03:44Oh, and we'll get to talking about that in just moments time, but for right now...

03:50Oh, we talked about hurting your knee pads, hurting your elbow pads, how about hurting your glasses?

03:55Oh ho ho ho, those things sparkle more than Tanah and LPs do.

04:01Oh ho ho, quite a nice surprise for young lion Katsuya Morishima, works them a lot better than Chris Charlton does, that's for sure.

04:15Yes, we are gonna be getting right into six-man tag team competition, and ho ho ho ho!

04:22Oh ho ho ho!

04:24Whoa!

04:25Transformative experience, that always is.

04:27Better than yesterday, Tanah, you wanna see me?

04:29Yeah.

04:30Yeah, physique check here tonight, the best at professional wrestling right here.

04:39Better than yesterday!

04:41Whoa!

04:46Whoa!

04:52Oh, if there's one thing Katsuya Morishima does take after from his senior in Hiroshi Tanahashi, it is, oh, body definition.

05:09Yeah, Hartley Jackson, you're the only one rocking that body style in TMDK.

05:14I believe the New Japan concourse though has come relatively early here tonight.

05:32Let's get things started.

05:35Young Lion Katsuya Morishima wants a challenge, and that challenge is gonna come right here.

05:44Bell sounds are underway, Mirage Run, Hartley Jackson.

05:51We flash back to G1 Climax 35, a 19-night series that lasted over the course

05:57from July to August of this year.

06:00Katsyia Morishima and Hartley Jackson, one of the most enthralling stories

06:04of the undercard throughout that year's tournament.

06:08And it is Mirage Run and Jackson who are going to come back to that point

06:11here tonight as the big men come to implode in a New Japan Pro Wrestling ring.

06:22Hartley Jackson really has been serving as the glue guy, you could call him,

06:26for TMDK overall in New Japan Pro Wrestling.

06:30Has been holding it down when Zack Sabre Jr. has faced leaves of absences

06:35when men like Shane Haste, Mikey Nichols, Bad Dude, Tito are nowhere to be seen

06:39in NJPW. Hartley Jackson has been serving as almost that senior force

06:44for these younger cats.

06:46Guys like Kosei Fujita, men like Ryohei Oyoa as well.

06:50And that is certainly serving well for Oyoa in this year's World Tag League.

06:57As Zack Sabre here looking to muscle up.

07:01Katsyia Morishima, but it's not going to happen easily as now Sabre

07:04transitions out.

07:05That is less of the lifting hold and more of the choke technique.

07:11But Morishima turns it around.

07:14Suplex here for this young lion.

07:21Tag made in the red corner.

07:23Here comes El Phantasmal.

07:25Walks in.

07:26Yet another day.

07:28Alive.

07:28Yet another day.

07:29NJPW World Television Champion.

07:32And as far as Del Phantasmal is concerned, those are two things to be grateful for.

07:36214 days reigning over the course of three defenses this year as World Television Champion

07:43in this iteration.

07:44And now you look from the current World Television Champion to the greatest first ever

07:48World Television Champion of all time.

07:50Reigned for 365 days.

07:52And who was it, wrestling fans?

07:54A little trivia question from a few years ago.

07:56Who was it that put down Zack Sabre Jr. for that World TV title?

08:00It was none other than El Phantasmal's own tag team partner, Hiroshi Tanahashi.

08:05Last bit of singles gold Tanahashi has and more than likely will ever hold in his career.

08:11So another layer added to this matchup.

08:14A main event set to come tomorrow at Akita.

08:18As a tag made in the blue corner, we welcome back in Riohei Oyewa.

08:26You know, when I have to think about this matchup, you could look toward the incredible G1 Climax 35 bout.

08:34El Phantasmal's best bout of the entire G1 35 this year.

08:38Again, Zack Sabre Jr.

08:40You could look to Riohei Oyewa's incremental improvements ever since his return from Excursion back at Destruction in Kobe 2024.

08:48But I, for one, am very interested to see what Riohei Oyewa and Hiroshi Tanahashi locking up inside this ring.

08:55As much growth as Oyewa has shown over the past year plus.

09:00In this year's World Tag League, I cannot wait to see it.

09:03And we are not going to have to wait much longer.

09:0424 hours from now, and Akita cover here for Jackson.

09:08Two count only.

09:17As it is, Zack Sabre Jr. who is back into the conversation here tonight.

09:22Two-time IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, multiple-time IWGP Tag Team Champion.

09:27But here tonight, competing in what is his sixth World Tag League tournament in NJPW.

09:33And has never won World Tag League in his career.

09:39The only tag team tournament success for Zack Sabre Jr. in what has been an illustrious career.

09:45Coming back in WXW back in Germany.

09:47The World Tag Team Tournament in 2015.

09:50Alongside Walter.

09:51And that was a hell of a combination.

09:54But there is a Walter-esque vibe to Riohei Oyewa.

09:58You were talking about a big, meaty power hitter in Riohei Oyewa.

10:03And that power and that technique employed on him by Sabre Jr. himself.

10:08It could be very dangerous for Fantasmo and Tanahashi tomorrow.

10:14That's Oyewa.

10:15Watch this.

10:15Right back into the corner here.

10:17Fantasmo takes out all of TMDK.

10:18Can he take out Oyewa in the same breath?

10:21Up and over.

10:22Here comes the ace.

10:27And this is what I want to see.

10:29Tanahashi versus Riohei Oyewa.

10:32Live and in living color.

10:34Oh, but Zack Sabre Jr.

10:36Tried to play interception.

10:38And there is no playing when it comes to this man.

10:41Oh, bye-bye.

10:45Waves away the ace.

10:46Yeah.

10:46And a huge drag-and-screw leg whip to Riohei Oyewa as well.

11:09Watch this.

11:10Off the ropes now.

11:11Oh, no, Oyewa turns it around here and finds a dropkick of his own.

11:22Oyewa wants that Tenzan suplex.

11:24It's got to be coming sooner rather than later.

11:27Only if he can find it here on Tanah.

11:31Oyewa up and over.

11:33No, no, no, twist and shout from Hiroshi and Tanahashi.

11:48Well, Tanahashi has all the momentum behind him here tonight.

11:52Let's test what the Young Lion has here out of the red corner.

11:55Tag made.

11:56Tag made.

11:57It's Katsumar Shiba.

12:03Allow Murashima to call a player to learn it on the job, certainly right now.

12:12As Murashima full power on that forearm.

12:16Fantasma with the corner line.

12:17And Tanahashi, a full body attack.

12:20Yes!

12:22And it's all the way down the grip of Riohei Oyewa.

12:30Taking it from the middle.

12:33Huge daunting senton.

12:36Oh, wait a minute.

12:42Fantasma playing the guitar here tonight.

12:45And it's around the neck, folks.

12:47Whoa!

12:50A little bit of power here.

12:54What can Katsumar Shiba do here with it?

13:03Oh, and right out of the way.

13:06No longer music to our ears, but rather.

13:10Well, music has faded very, very quickly.

13:13Double left.

13:14Oh, and a double lariat.

13:24Riohei Oyewa makes the tag.

13:25Here comes Hartley Jackson.

13:27Here comes Hartley Jackson.

13:27Oh, and right out of the way again.

13:40We're back down to these two men, Katsumar Shiba Hartley Jackson.

13:44Katsumar Shiba Hartley Jackson coming out of here tonight.

13:58And look at, no, Jackson always number one.

14:04But it's Fantasma who's going to turn that conversation around.

14:10Saber Jr. has Fantasma with the clutch.

14:13Oyewa on the outside with Hiroshi Tanahashi.

14:15And now watch this, Jackson.

14:23No!

14:24No!

14:25Dropkick slows down Mirashima.

14:28And another.

14:31Oh!

14:32Watch it!

14:34Watch it!

14:34Can you believe it?

14:36You can feel it in the energy.

14:41It's time.

14:42No!

14:43So, so many attempts falling short here for Katsumar Shiba against Hartley Jackson.

14:52Could tonight be the one?

14:54No, no, no, Jackson immediately out of it here.

15:07Oh, Mirashima, cover, cover, two.

15:11Mirashima again beheading Lariat by Hartley Jackson.

15:22Watch Jackson now, setting up for it.

15:28Jacket edge, Jacket edge, Jackson number one, and it only takes three, it's over.

15:52It is certainly gonna be a hell of a main event coming up tomorrow.

16:05It is certainly going to be a hell of a main event coming up tomorrow in Akita.

16:19Whether it's El Phantasmo and

16:26Zack Sabre Jr. bumping uglies, or

16:28Toroshi Tanahashi and Ryohei Oiohwa going to war.

16:32This isn't smart.

16:35Well, better luck next time for

16:47Katsumar Shiba.

16:48But Hiroshi Tanahashi is going to aid in his young lion's recovery.

16:53And it's going to look ahead to tomorrow, our main event to come in Akita.

16:57I cannot wait to see Hiroshi Tanahashi and El Phantasmo battle TMDK's Zack Sabre Jr.

17:04and Ryohei Oiohwa, four points on the board for TMDK.

17:08One more, two more, two more, two more, two more, two more.

17:12We have one more time.

17:16From all the battles wait between Sabre Jr. and Tanahashi, we get one more tomorrow.

17:25We have one more time since that time!

17:27Oh right, oh good kid, Mm LOOK!

17:27We have one more, three more, two more!

17:28Hut, viii, tut è mater, otru, viii, ut e du oi.

17:36We have come to the soils in the first place!

17:42Well.

17:43So

17:50wrestling fans coming up next,

17:55we kick off with our first of four Block A matches in World Tag League 2025.

18:12Kicks off with this, the Lord Dragons,

18:14Trilla Maloney and Shingo Takagi at two points.

18:18Take on House of Tortures, Chase Owens and Ujero at zero.

18:23The kickoff right here, live on NJPW World.

18:42Take on House of Tortures, Chase Owens and Ujero at zero.

18:49I'm going to take on House of Tortures.

18:52Take on House of Tortures, Chase Owens and Ujero at zero.

18:57Take on House of Tortures, Chase Owens and Ujero.

El Phantasmo, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuya Murashima vs. Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.: NJPW World Tag League 2025 Day 7 (11/29/2025)

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