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NJPW, 12/8/13 (TV Asahi ch5/iPPV)
Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
7,500 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. Katsuyori Shibata beat Yohei Komatsu (3:28) with a crab hold.
2. TAKA Michinoku & Taichi beat KUSHIDA & BUSHI (5:52) when TAKA pinned BUSHI after the Michinoku Mephisto.
3. Rob Conway & Jax Dane beat Manabu Nakanishi & Strong Man (7:06) when Conway used the Ego Trip on Nakanishi.
4. World Tag League – Semi Final: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma (8:38) when Gallows pinned Honma after the Magic Killer.
5. World Tag League – Semi Final: Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima beat Lance Archer & Davey Boy Smith Jr. (12:54) when Tenzan used a moonsault press on Smith.
6. Prince Devitt & Bad Luck Fale beat Kota Ibushi & Captain New Japan (10:12) by referee stop (Fale beat Captain).
7. Special Tag Match: Yuji Nagata & Kazushi Sakuraba beat Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI (8:28) when Sakuraba used the Sakuraba Lock on YOSHI-HASHI.
8. Special Tag Match: Toru Yano & Tomohiro Ishii beat Minoru Suzuki & Shelton Benjamin (13:02) when Suzuki was DQ’d.
9. Special 10 Man Tag Match: Tetsuya Naito, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask & La Sombra beat Kazuchika Okada, Shinsuke Nakamura, Masato Tanaka , Yujiro Takahashi & Gedo (13:07) when Sombra used the Shadow Driver on Gedo.
10. World Tag League – Final: Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows beat Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima (18:57) when Anderson pinned Tenzan after the Magic Killer.

* On their first tour as a tandem, Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows have won the 2013 World Tag League! The American duo won the first semi final today over Makabe & Honma, while Tenzan & Kojima earned some revenge over the IWGP Tag Team Champions, Killer Elite Squad, in the other, setting up a rematch from 12/3 in Hakata where Anderson & Gallows beat TenKoji. And they did again! Anderson, for the third time in his career with his third different partner, won the tag league by pinning Tenzan following the Magic Killer. The new team then demanded an IWGP Tag Team Title shot so could face Archer & Smith at the Tokyo Dome on 1/4!

* Hirooki Goto appeared during the show and announced he will be returning to action very soon. Goto was injured during the G1 Climax, where he was impressing, and nominated Katsuyori Shibata, his former university classmate, as his return match opponent. The two were embroiled in an intense series of matches before Goto’s injury.