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The second series match of the event saw CHAOS members and two-thirds of the reigning NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions Hirooki Goto (WTL 2012 & WTL 2014 winner) and Yoshi-Hashi against HenarAce (Hiroshi Tanahashi/Toa Henare). The CHAOS tandem came into the match after losing their November 19th WTL 2020 contest against CHAOS unit mates and former IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, one-third of the reigning NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions “Stone Pitbull” Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano. While HenarAce dropped their previous match to former IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and WTL 2019 winners FinJuice (Juice Robinson/David Finlay) on the same night.

The second series match of the event saw former IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions FinJuice (David Finlay/Juice Robinson) [1-1] take on HenarAce (Hiroshi Tanahashi/Toa Henare) [0-2]. FinJuice was coming off a win against the Bullet Club tandem of Evil/Yujiro on November 16th, while HenarAce was coming off a defeat on the same night at the hands of reigning IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions the Suzuki-Gun team of Dangerous Tekkers (Zack Sabre Jr/Taichi).

The marquee event of the New Japan Showdown 2020 Night 2 event and the tour finale sees former NEVER Openweight Champion, New Japan Cup USA 2020, and Bullet Club member Kenta defend his right to make the V3 challenge of Jon Moxley’s second reign with the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against David Finlay.