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The second tournament match of the event saw the CHAOS team of two-thirds of the reigning NEVER Openweight 6-Man Champions Hirooki Goto/Yoshi-Hashi attempt to pick up their first points of the tournament against the Empire team of Jeff Cobb/Great-O-Khan.

The first tournament match of the event saw a battle between two Bullet Club teams. The former six-time IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and two-thirds of three NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion teams Guerillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga/Tanga Loa) [Guerillas of Destiny] took on the duo of “Rogue General” Bad Luck Fale/”Crown Jewel” Chase Owens.

The headline match of the event and fifth WTL 2020 match of the card saw former six-time IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, two-thirds of three NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions, and Bullet Club member Guerillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga/Tanga Loa) [GOD] face off against former IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and WTL 2019 trophy winners FinJuice (Juice Robinson/David Finlay).

The seventh match of the event and the fourth WTL 2020 match of the card saw the Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) team of reigning NEVER Openweight Champion “The Dragon” Shingo Takagi and Sanada face the Bullet Club tandem of Evil and Yujiro, who were accompanied by “The Spoiler” Dick Togo.

The fifth match of the event and the third WTL 2020 match saw reigning IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and Suzuki-Gun members Dangerous Tekkers (Zack Sabre Jr/Taichi) take on two-thirds of the reigning NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions and CHAOS members Hirooki Goto/Yoshi-Hashi.

The third match of the event and the second WTL 2020 match saw former two-time IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi and the returning Toa Henare take on Great-O-Khan and a mystery WTL 2020 partner.

The co Best of the Super Juniors (BOSJ 27) and World Tag League 2020 (WTL 2020) tournaments got underway on November 15, 2020. The event at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium drew a crowd of 2,558 (reduced crowd due to Coronavirus, 2019), and witnessed the largest card since New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) returned from the COVID-19 (Coronavirus, 2019) delay.

While this is the first World Tag Leauge entry for two-time winner Sanada and reigning NEVER Openweight Champion “The Dragon” Shingo Takagi, the Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) members are one of the favorites to win World Tag League 2020 (WTL 2020) trophies.

Reigning IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and Suzuki-Gun members Dangerous Tekkers (Zack Sabre Jr/Taichi) come into World Tag League 2020 (WTL 2020) with a lot of momentum behind them. Despite Dangerous Tekkers performing well during WTL 2018 & WTL 2019, their ascension to IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions came as a surprise to many New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) fans in the west.

The prolific six-time IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and Bullet Club members Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga/Tanga Loa) [GOD] come into World Tag League 2020 (WTL 2020) with a bit of something to prove. While they are tied for most all-time reigns with the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and are fifth in all-time defense rankings, the team has never won a WTL tournament nor claimed victory at Wrestle Kingdom.