NJPW World Tag League & Best Of The Super Junior 27 Finals (December 11) Stats & Info

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NJPW World Tag League 2020 & Best Of The Super Junior 27 FINALS

Date: December 11, 2020

Venue: Nippon Budokan

Time: 6:00pm JST

Watch With Live English Commentary On NJPWWorld.com

WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2020 BLOCK RESULTS

WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2020 BLOCK TABLE

 

BEST OF THE SUPER JUNIOR 27 RESULTS TO DATE

BEST OF THE SUPER JUNIOR BLOCK TABLE

BEST OF THE SUPER JUNIOR 27 FINAL MATCH

Hiromu Takahashi [14] vs. El Desperado [14]

BEST OF THE SUPER JUNIOR 27 – BLOCK RESULTS

  • Only Will Ospreay’s 2019 BOSJ tournament was more arduous than Hiromu Takahashi’s tournament this year. Hiromu Takahashi’s 2 hours 59 minutes and 8 seconds is the second longest Total Match Length all time in Best of The Super Junior block competition.
  • El Desperado is the only wrestler in this year’s tournament with a negative Win/Loss Differential. El Desperado’s average win was 2 minutes and 23 seconds longer than his average loss.

BEST OF THE SUPER JUNIOR HISTORY

2020 RESULTS

  • Hiromu Takahashi has been in some of the most contested singles matches in NJPW this year. His 20 minute and 34 second average match length is third longest in NJPW through 2020, only shorter than Tetsuya Naito (27:22) and EVIL (21:03)
  • Pinning or submitting Hiromu Takahashi has been about as hard as it gets this year. Hiromu Takahashi’s overall +18 fall differential (Winning Falls – Losing Falls is third best in NJPW this year, only behind SANADA and Satoshi Kojima.

HEAD TO HEAD HISTORY

  • Dating back to their Young Lion Days, Hiromu Takahashi and El Desperado have met 22 times, El Desperado (Kyosuke Mikami) leads the series 18-3-1.
  • Since they both returned to NJPW, El Desperado and Hiromu Takahashi have wrestled in three singles matches. El Desperado leads the series 2-1 and both of his victories have been Best of The Super Junior matches.

WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2020 FINAL MATCH

Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa [12] vs. David Finlay & Juice Robinson [12]

WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2020 – TOURNAMENT TO DATE

  • At 6.9 Tags Per Match, no team in this year’s World Tag League traded places more frequently than David Finlay & Juice Robinson.
  • At 3.3 Tags Per Match, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa traded places 4th most in this year’s World Tag League.
  • Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa had the widest margin between Tags Per Loss and Tags Per Win in this year’s tournament. The less they tagged in and out, the more successful they were.

WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2020 – INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

  • Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa were the most balanced team in block competition in regards to Individual Legal Time, ending with a 52%/48% split.
  • Juice Robinson is the one of three wrestlers who did not take a losing fall in this year’s World Tag League block competition. The others were Jeff Cobb and EVIL.

WORLD TAG LEAGUE HISTORY

  • No team has more World Tag League wins than Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa (39).
  • David Finlay & Juice Robinson have the 5th most World Tag League wins of all time and the third best all-time winning percentage among teams who have participated in more than 10 World Tag League matches.

INDIVIDUAL WORLD TAG LEAGUE – ALL TIME

  • Only Tomohiro Ishii (46) has more career Individual World Tag League victories than Tama Tonga.
  • Tanga Loa has the 5th most individual World Tag League wins all time.
  • Juice Robinson has the 10th most individual World Tag League wins all time.

HEAD TO HEAD HISTORY

NIPPON BUDOKAN HISTORY

  • Guerrillas of Destiny are 1-0 in 2×2 tag team matches at Budokan in their career. They are 3-0 overall.
  • GoD defeated Gedo & Toru Yano in this building on the undercard of the 2017 G1 Climax’s final A Block Night.
  • Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa teamed with Taiji Ishimori to defeat Marty Scurll, Matt Jackson, & Nick Jackson to win the NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Championships during the 2018 G1 Climax’s final night.
  • Just last year, G1 Climax’s final night, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa teamed with Bad Luck Fale here at Budokan to defeat Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, & KENTA in a match that facilitated KENTA joining Bullet Club.
  • David Finlay & Juice Robinson are 0-2 when tagging at Budokan.
  • FinJuice lost against the team of Hirooki Goto & YOH and the team of Cody & Hangman Page during the final nights of G1 Climax 28 in 2018.

Kota Ibushi & Master Wato vs. BUSHI & Tetsuya Naito

SANADA & Shingo Takagi vs. EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi

WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2020 TOURNAMENT

WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2020 – INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

  • SANADA’s 1 hour, 17 minutes, and 26 seconds of Total Legal Time was the longest in this year’s World Tag League.

WORLD TAG LEAGUE HISTORY

2020 RESULTS

  • Shingo Takagi (57) and SANADA (55) have the first and second most victories in NJPW this year.
  • SANADA’s +26 Fall Differential is the best in NJPW in 2020.

HEAD TO HEAD HISTORY

  • These two teams met on the first night of World Tag League 2020, EVIL pinned SANADA in 12 minutes and 20 seconds.

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada & Toa Henare vs. Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay

  • Jeff Cobb was one of three wrestlers who was not a losing fall recipient for the entirety of World Tag League.
  • The last time Hiroshi Tanahashi won a fall was on October 25th when he submitted Gedo with the Texas Clover Leaf.

Robbie Eagles, SHO, & Toru Yano vs. Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens & Taiji Ishimori