01:23It's a brand new empire, it's a new empire, right?
01:38I love you! I love you!
01:42I love you!
01:46何か個々の力でね、割り込んでいったっていう感じはしましたけど。
02:00Two blocks from 1 and 2 in the middle of the game
02:0612.10, Long崎 in the middle of the game
02:10In the middle of the game,
02:14Team DK's power and技術 of the match
02:20The 3 count
02:2412.12,鹿児島 in the middle of the game
02:28WGP Tag王者組 Knockout Brothers
02:32を辻とケイブが大ブラスターで仕留めた
02:38これにより今年のファイナルは
02:42大岩良平、ザック・セイバージュニア
02:46VSゲームキッド辻太太
02:50そして本日のセミファイナル
02:56では無差別級
02:586人タッグ選手権試合
03:02おい、あの!
03:04残念だったな!
03:06俺とサガネと成田でタイトルマッチ
03:10決定だ!
03:12ヨウの懇願により決定した
03:161.4東京ドームでのタイトルマッチを前に
03:20ベルトを掠め取ろうとする
03:22ハウスオブトーチャー
03:24王者チームはこの巨額を跳ねのけられるか?
03:30さらに本日のオープニングマッチ
03:34ニュージャパンワールド認定TV王者
03:38エルファンタズモに挑むのは誰だ?
03:42火の国熊本!
03:44ラストまで燃え上がっていこうぜ!
03:48ワールドタッグリーグ2025ファイナル
03:54KUMAMOTO!
04:24ハウスオブトーチマッチ
04:26ワールドタッグリーグ2025ファイナル
04:27この名がプレイオープニングマッチ
04:30オースカーレロウ!
04:31バラゴーと言ってる
04:33ワールドタッグリーグ2025…
04:36ウォースマイルトゥファンタズモ
04:39スマイルドタッグリーグ2025ファイナル
04:41オースマイルドタッグリイン
04:49ワールドタッグリーグルーチファン
04:52But now I have to refocus on the fact that I am the World Television Champion and restarting ELP's World TV Open Challenge.
04:59Since he's going to carry this on Walker, as long as he keeps defending the belt, all the way up to and including Wrestle Kingdom on January the 4th.
05:07Thank you, by the way, for selling out every last seat in that building in the Tokyo Dome Man, every seat tonight it looks like.
05:22Who is it going to be? Wait a second. Wait a second. Who is it going to be? Someone for TMDK?
05:29Oh, I know. Some of TMDK already wrapped up in our main event here tonight, but you take a look at this.
05:38Big Jag answering the challenge for the World TV title.
05:43Well, this isn't set up for the books. Everybody...
05:47Well, some disappointment that big ol' Harley Jackson, Nick Jag, wasn't in World Tag League itself, but could end up the turn a major way.
05:57He could be the new TV Chad Walker.
05:59Well, potentially so, and it might be an omen to set toward our main event here tonight.
06:03When Sabre Jr. and Oya will take on Tsuji and Kidd.
06:06I don't think Phantasmo was thinking a man of this size was going to be coming through the curtain.
06:11Harley Jackson set for World TV title action.
06:14And relatively fresh compared to LP.
06:17Oh, well, Jackson number one could be number one in television.
06:31Yeah, wrestling fans, as the rule set goes, one fall, 15-minute timer.
06:36And that is a 15-minute time limit that has certainly worked to the advantage for all Phantasmo.
06:48Throughout this World Television title reign multiple draws across his two reigns against men like Jeff Cobb,
06:54and, like, the IWGP World Champion Kowalski to catch them.
06:58Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, it could be the way Phantasmo would perhaps go with a larger opponent like Harley Jackson Walker.
07:05But at the same time, LP's been taking a lot of beatings over the course of this World Tag League Tour.
07:11A lot of mileage on that body.
07:13As the bell sounds were officially underway, it's a one fall, 15-minute time limit here at Grand Messe Kumamoto, your ex, Hartley Jackson.
07:25It was Hartley Jackson's last title match.
07:28I mean, firstly, it would be his first title match in New Japan, I wish, eh?
07:31Right.
07:32And his first singles match, and I believe, I mean, just off the top of my head, it may be close to a calendar year.
07:38I mean, you think back to Jeff Cobb back on the road to Tokyo Dome in 2024.
07:42That is the last time I remembered a New Japan ring, Hartley Jackson competing in a singles rank.
07:46There was a time when Hartley was the Spirit of Gambere pro wrestling champion a few years ago before he came into New Japan.
07:53Obviously, Hartley very well traveled up and down the highways and byways of Japan for a good many years before he came back into the New Japan fold a couple years ago.
08:05He said it felt good, that little nice little love tap there from Fantasma.
08:10Well, Fantasma, a former junior heavyweight, turned heavy, and you are looking at...
08:14Well, if you could believe it, at one point in his day, Hartley Jackson was a junior heavyweight.
08:18He certainly can't now.
08:19Well, at one point, Walker, you were a junior heavyweight.
08:21I mean, it was when you were...
08:22When I was 12.
08:23Yeah.
08:24About as young as that little baby we saw in the front row.
08:28As El Fantasma kick right to the midsection here, and it is Fantasma who's certainly going to have to figure out how to outpace the size of Hartley Jackson.
08:37If there's one thing that Jackson's going to do, he's going to lift you off your feet, toss you, go corner to corner.
08:42Oh, the old hammer throw.
08:43Yeah.
08:44And out goes LP to the floor here.
08:48What a turn up for the books here.
08:50What a crowd we've got here in Kumamoto.
08:52Grand Messe.
08:53I can't see a single empty seat in here.
08:56Jam-packed.
08:57We want to see Tanahashi's last match in Kumamoto coming up as well, of course, in a little bit.
09:03The first of two championship matches here tonight, Walker.
09:05Where's Hartley going?
09:06Oh, well.
09:07I'm not too certain.
09:08And Hartley Jackson going to have to be careful here.
09:11It wouldn't be the first time the World TV titles changed hands on a count out, but...
09:15That's right.
09:16Oh, Fantasma!
09:17Oh, head of steam.
09:18Driven right into that post.
09:20And we talked about the strength, the size of Hartley Jackson.
09:24Fantasma's not going to be able to outmaneuver Big Jag if and only if Jackson can keep this pressure on here.
09:34He's going to try and do it on that side as well.
09:36Yeah, well, maybe.
09:38Well, I appreciate.
09:39He should probably try and do it on the opposite corner and shift the ring back in the other direction, I think.
09:44Otherwise, our ring's going to be shifted about six inches to the left here.
09:47Oh, no!
09:48Good for logistics.
09:49Here we go.
09:50And El Fantasma.
09:51Oh!
09:52Oh!
09:53Sends Hartley Jackson right into that steel post.
09:56And Fantasma certainly adopting the Bob and Weave mentality here tonight.
10:01I think we need to check our ring walk.
10:02It wouldn't be the first time Hartley broke a ring.
10:04Oh, you're right about that.
10:07You know, we talked about the time limit factor.
10:10It's what makes this World Television Championship so special.
10:13That 15-minute time limit, the only title like that here in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
10:17And it was the last time Fantasma was set to defend that World TV title.
10:21Back against the ace himself in Tanahashi and Ryogoku.
10:24Went to that 15-minute limit.
10:26Mm-hmm.
10:27It's going to look for something a lot more definitive here tonight.
10:29And that's it.
10:30Oh!
10:31Oh, no!
10:32Good God!
10:33Jagged edge on the outside of the ring.
10:36Well, we brought it up earlier on.
10:38It was against Great O'Khan back in the spring that the championship changed hands on a count-out.
10:44I think we could have a new TV champion in Hartley if he can get back in the ring, Walker.
10:48Oh, this is a uncomfortable position here tonight.
10:51I mean, Jackson undefeated on the World Tag League undercard throughout 2025.
10:56And it's been thanks to that jagged edge putting down Young Lions.
11:00We're talking far from a young lion right now.
11:02And the World TV champion, but still banged and bruised all the same.
11:06This is the danger of having an open challenge.
11:09You truly cannot game plan.
11:12You cannot prepare.
11:13Harley Jackson knows that.
11:15Taking his shot and taking it will.
11:19As count its head, El Fantasmo back inside the ring.
11:25A cover here for Jag on the World TV Champion and a two count only.
11:30One more attempt here for Big Jag.
11:32Still not going to be enough.
11:33And, you know, as we look toward really the history of this World Television Championship
11:38brought to the forefront of New Japan Pro Wrestling by a TMDK member in Zack Sabre Jr.
11:43So that World TV title really no stranger to the black and orange here in New Japan.
11:48Pro Wrestling Jackson would like to keep that lineage going, it seems.
11:51Well, Harley Jackson really is, albeit only part of New Japan Pro Wrestling since 2024,
12:00but really the heart and soul of TMDK Walker trains pretty much everybody
12:05who's an active wrestler in Australia.
12:07Harley Jackson has had a hand in and had a huge hand in the development of TMDK
12:13through Shane Ace, Mikey Nichols up to the present day.
12:16One, two, three, three!
12:20One, two, three!
12:21One, two, three!
12:22Oh, one, two, three!
12:24Oh!
12:25Oh, FANTASMO trying to switch levels here and right to the very top of the elevator tonight,
12:29the Insecuri lands out for the World TV Champion.
12:32Oh, no.
12:33And FANTASMO's got to capitalize at this point, but trying to get his hips underneath them,
12:38this is a big-ask for anyone.
12:40God bless, not the smartest manoeuvre ends.
12:46Uh-oh, I think El Fantasma in a very dangerous place when he's on his back.
12:56Oh, what's Hartley thinking of here? I think I know what he's thinking.
12:59Oh, no!
13:10And Fantasma has Jackson rock for the time being.
13:14He's going to want to close this distance soon enough,
13:16that 15 minutes counting down here tonight
13:18for the World Television Championship.
13:25That's Fantasma. Oh, no, watch this.
13:26Jackson turned it around here.
13:28One in the lariat, up to the middle, cross-body.
13:31Caught now by L.P.
13:33And a follow-through, a thing of beauty tonight on that moonsault.
13:37Could it be enough here?
13:39Not going to be here.
13:41No, he didn't have enough on that back to have the luxury of time
13:46to even think about hooking the leg today, El Fantasma.
13:52A second reign for the World Television Champion.
13:54Walking in tonight, 230 days and counting,
13:57but will we be counting past that 230 mark?
14:00Oh, man, that's far too much to move one way or the other.
14:04Nice change of the game.
14:06Fantasma cover here again.
14:08Still not going to be enough.
14:09We're really seeing the greatest hits from L.P. here tonight.
14:15Watch it.
14:20Picture-perfect moment right off Brett's rope.
14:23That elbow drop lands out for the Vancouver native.
14:26Oh, wait a minute.
14:31Oh.
14:32Well, this isn't his bit.
14:33Well, it's his bit now.
14:35Well, it's certainly going to be up for grabs January 4th.
14:38That's true.
14:40Oh, Fantasma.
14:43Right to the back of the skull of Jackson.
14:45Off the middle here.
14:46And a tornado DDT.
14:48Oh, Harley.
14:49Oh.
14:50The bell rung, but you can tell the body not cooperating with the brain cover.
14:55No, no, no, no.
14:56Still not going to be enough just yet.
15:00Oh, Fantasma.
15:14Yeah, he's bound and determined.
15:16I don't think this is the smartest idea, Walker.
15:18Yeah, not entirely as we've seen it.
15:20Jackson, that is a heavy, heavy athlete we are talking about.
15:23And Fantasma, well, stronger than most that you'll find, but still not going to be able to lift up Big Jack.
15:33Oh, no.
15:34Got it.
15:35Oh, and the knees up.
15:36Cover here.
15:37Oh, and it's just two.
15:43And Fantasma here one more time.
15:45Canadian Revolution could be inbound.
15:47The world TV title up for grabs.
15:49Can't lace the fingers.
15:51Hartley Jackson doesn't want to budge.
15:53Sudden death.
15:54Massive back of Hartley.
15:56Massive arm of Hartley.
15:59Massive back of Hartley.
16:01Oh.
16:02Crushing the ribs of Fantasma.
16:05It's over.
16:06It's got to be.
16:08No.
16:12Hartley Jackson now.
16:14Oh, we saw it on the outside.
16:16And now on the edge.
16:17Jack and edge.
16:18Oh, I can't believe it.
16:19I can't believe it.
16:20Could we see it here?
16:22Oh.
16:23And still, El Fantasma survives.
16:28Just barely, but Hartley Walker has given Fantasma all his best shots.
16:34This crowd here tonight in a jam-packed Grand Messe Kumamoto wants to see El Fantasma back into it here.
16:45And Hartley Jackson on the other side of that equation has very different plans for the World TV Championship.
16:51What a precedent it would set for TMDK tonight.
16:54Walker, if Hartley can pick up the TV Champion.
16:57A huge spirit boost for Zack Sabre Jr. and Oira in the World Tag League Finals.
17:02Oh.
17:03Jackson.
17:04Jackson, this is dangerous here.
17:06Yeah, deadliest rope.
17:08Yeah, deadliest rope.
17:09Oh, and Fantasma, Fantasma now.
17:22Watch it.
17:23What's the sunset power, Bob?
17:25Jackson's not gonna budge.
17:26Has he got enough on that back?
17:28Oh.
17:29To the back of the knee, the back of both knees.
17:33Oh, I can't believe it.
17:34I can't believe it.
17:35Canadian hammer from El Fantasma.
17:38Could we see?
17:39No.
17:40Still survives the World Television Champion.
17:45From the hammer to the revolution led here tonight.
17:59El Fantasma inbound.
18:01Is it?
18:02CR2.
18:03CR2 would mean see you later.
18:06But El Fantasma wants to make double sure.
18:09Here we go.
18:10From the heavens.
18:12Thunder.
18:13Thunder.
18:14Kiss.
18:1586.
18:16One, two, three.
18:21And still, in JPW World, Television Champion.
18:26The fourth defense put up in the second reign for El Fantasma as
18:31NJPW World Television Champion.
18:32But Chris, you have to know right off the bat here,
18:36Hartley Jackson gave El Fia a run for his money.
18:39Hartley Jackson absolutely won.
18:41A fantastic effort.
18:42El Fantasma was able to survive all of Hartley's biggest shots.
18:56Well, he's really put himself under the gun for the remainder of 2025 and starting 2026 wants to run this open challenge right the way through Wrestle Kingdom and beyond.
19:11Three more events for New Japan Pro Wrestling this year as we're on the road to the Tokyo Dome live in English next week.
19:28December 22nd in Corakuin Hall, so there could be three more chances for Fantasma to defend that title walker.
19:38Well, Chris, it is a question that we are going to echo many a time throughout this broadcast and many a time as we kick off the Road to Tokyo Dome 2025 series.
19:50Coming up in just a matter of a week's time.
19:53Is there a path to the Tokyo Dome for Hartley Jackson?
19:57Is there a path to the Tokyo Dome for LP?
20:00LP wants this open challenge.
20:02We're going to have to await official confirmation soon enough.
20:08As it is El Fantasma victorious here on the evening.
20:11I for one cannot wait to see who's going to step up to the World Television Champion next.
20:20Hey!
20:22Now!
20:23Hey!
20:34Well, wrestling fans, we thank you so much for joining us here on the evening.
20:37Hashtag NJWTL.
20:39That is New Japan World Tag League.
20:41To talk all about the final action here tonight live in Grand Messe Kumamoto.
20:46Not an empty seat in the building from our line of sight.
20:50See this?
20:51We can't get it.
20:52All the way to the Tokyo Dome.
20:53Let's give this story for a lot of the last 10 for the World Tag League.
20:56It's going to be a story in the Tokyo Dome jam-packed and sold out.
21:00It will be the biggest event in professional wrestling in this country in the 21st century.
21:06When we start in 2026 off in a huge way, they are still tickets available internationally for New Year Dash, by the way.
21:12January the 5th.
21:13Won't be able to hop on NJPW1972.com.
21:16But that's all getting ahead of ourselves.
21:18We've got to talk about it tonight, my friend.
21:20Yeah, we have a lot more left on the deck.
21:23The World Tag League final.
21:24Yodosuji and Gabe's Kid takes on Tag Saber Jr. and Ryohei Oyewa.
21:29We're going to move right in now to 10-man tag team competition on the night.
21:33My name is Walker Stewart.
21:34I'm alongside Chris Charlton.
21:36We are blessed and honored to have you here on the evening.
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