Dominion Review, G1 Participants Announced & Blue Justice Preview | Speaking of Strong Style

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dominion 2026 is in the books and while it had some good matches, there was also some bad stuff but we also saw the advancement of a few story lines that has me feeling cautiously optimistic again about the future.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some people went off into totally new directions, and there were other people making returns.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's plenty to talk about here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Plus, Fantasco Mania coming up in Mexico City, another blue justice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we have more information about the G1 tournament, including most of the participants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Plenty to get into today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With Jeremy Feinstein, I'm Stephen Conway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Speaking of Strong Style.

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[SPEAKER_00]: professional broadcasters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're very fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm Stephen Conway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to speaking of strong style.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We discussed the news issues and events surrounding New Japan, pro wrestling, welcome everyone regardless you are here watching.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Head spinning a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The nicks of won the title.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a nicks fan, but I'm happy for that team and their fan base, which is not something I want to move to New York.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's getting done if you're like, can we go to New York?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like our mayor here in San Jose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He tried to run your governor or whatever, just just the vibe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's all she's all about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's all about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know I understand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, normally being the fan of the team, of which I am a fan, I normally hate the next, but I can't hate that team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And between Bronson and Carl Anthony Towns and the heart.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All those other guys, man, there's a lot to like about the players on the next anyway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So congratulations to them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The world cup has been wonderful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really enjoyed, wow, I've been watching the heck out of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if Colin is here with us live, but if he's watching later, big congratulations, Colin, on this Scotland winning the first match-up of their tournaments.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we know that he's a big Scotland supporter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got a, I got a guy that I would request.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go to Google.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's because that's his name, Google.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he has tickets to a world cup game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So why four of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I have $100.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he had been getting offers like crazy to buy out these tickets at the day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the game is in San

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I believe it is the knockout round game featuring the United States bracket.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if the United States makes it, it could game that everyone is going to want to go to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he just by chance just locked into that game and it all kind of worked out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's kind of hoping that he gets this USA game in a knockout round scenario.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we have a knockout round game ticket also.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, important I opened Dallas and it is the United States bracket, but it is the second place finisher in that bracket versus the second place finisher from a different group.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it could possibly, it won't be, but it could possibly be Iran, which is terrifying for a lot of reasons.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That hopefully, Iran won't finish second in that bracket, but we figured it'll be, you know, USA, Australia,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, somewhere in there, either finishing first or second in out of that group and we'll see them in Dallas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, we have to it's July 3rd in Dallas will be going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm very excited there, but what I heard about like, kiddo what?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, I've been to the like the wrestling version of somebody in that kind of show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope you have a great time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so it's going to be an experience that this has been a bucket list item for quite a while.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to attending a World Cup match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I honestly don't care which two countries end up playing in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's going to be a thrill to go there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've never been to AT&T Stadium where the Cowboys play.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've never been in that jury world as we call it here in Texas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: To call, I've been there once.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I'm excited to see it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited to go in there and see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've been to all those other stadiums in that plaza because the Rangers play there and their old stadium is still there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've been to see the Mavericks that they're arena, but I just haven't been to that football stadium there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fernandez-Lais is here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hello Fernando.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to talk for bitten door to Fantasca Mania tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to mention also that when I mentioned my trip up to Dallas for the World Cup, it's official now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have booked my trip to Japan, along with my partner for a couple of weeks around

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[SPEAKER_00]: The New Year's and we'll be there during Wrestle Kingdom Week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So my intention is to buy Wrestle Kingdom tickets, see Dream, Queen them for Stardom, pick up some other tickets to things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm excited and we will for the third year in a row have live speaking of strong style coverage from Tokyo during Wrestle Kingdom Week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So wait until you show off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been in the plans for a while finally got the hotel reservations and the plane tickets set up and so going in Tokyo a couple of days after Christmas can't wait.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I am legitimately happy for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the fact that not only did you get to go one time, but your partner had such a great time that it was part of a driving like it's really, you know, what are we talking about going back?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's what's in the dream there, brother?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's a healthy, that's how the relationship with what you both prosper.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, she loves it too and then she's got a list of things that she wants to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Nick Reeves this here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He says he'll be an LA when the knockout game on the 28th is happening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He says my friend and I are hoping to get lucky with some fairly reasonable tickets, but not holding my breath.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You never know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You do it until the until the day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's always possible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can get in for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not an arm in a leg perhaps maybe not an arm maybe a couple fingers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a risk definitely a toe a toe would have to be thrown in there risk or an ankle might come down to their maybe not an arm a mothy bone, but baseball players don't need to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they just have surgery never moved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How do you play fantasy baseball for when you don't pay attention to the sport?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Really?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I guess.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like third place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is, uh, you're, you're like the person who wins the NCAA pool by filling out their bracket, according to which mascot would win in a fight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're not, not invalid argument because it just showed to go to show how dedicated their organization is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, fine, I got this all right, well, anyway, so a lot of good things coming up there for for all of us, but we had to give up with a, I came up with a really stupid joke at work before we go on that dominion, you know the similarities between corn and porn, Steven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm afraid to ask go ahead.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the reality is it's hard to describe that you know when you see it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm sorry, I had to get the joke out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are people that are laughing right now because they know exactly what I meant by that joke and then I'm just like you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that was the definition wasn't it for a long time, but like one of the legal definitions of porn in the United States anyway was, you know, the most known, the most known because the movie, the people versus Larry Flint with Courtney Love and that's right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they introduced that whole, uh, that whole doctor to, like, you can't find it, but you know, when you see it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for my advice, for an end as I said, that was a good one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Please don't encourage him for an end.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I, I was dealing with a lot of corn and I'm like, how do you describe corn and then you know what he's like, you can start to describe it, you know, what you can't do anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, yeah, but they're, if we move on to dominion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We will move on to dominion now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dominion was an interesting show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I enjoyed it first of all off the top.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said in the beginning, there was some bad stuff and there was a couple of things didn't quite work, but overall Jeremy, I was pretty happy with the direction that sent people in because it did finish up a couple of things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It established a couple of things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for the most part, I am interested in the directions for, and we'll talk about each one obviously piece by piece here,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Aaron Wolf for Shota Umino, and for the knockout brothers, I'm excited about what is ahead for them and curious about other things like yo, and so it's a catch-toe for instance, and it's so

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[SPEAKER_00]: coming out of this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am interested in seeing what is ahead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Last year at Dominion, I was in a bit of a new Japan existential crisis to the point that similar to other protesters, I considered getting out of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we didn't really talk about it that much on the air here, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we have to add a privately at all if I get over it after that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know, but to be serious after Dominion last year, I considered whether I wanted to continue on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You were so mad about how to torture.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you were so mad about the same thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wasn't wrong, but it the Evan flow of like the wrestling business.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like I'll be honest with you right now, like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am less engaged with wrestling than I've been in a long time, like I'm I haven't watched any WWE since the last PLE and I don't really stare like I'm so proud of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just won't watch it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I won't pay for a cable package when the only thing that I would need to watch on their SmackDown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not basically saying $40 to watch SmackDown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when Raw is all known a Monday on my day off where I'm doing all these things, sometimes I just don't get around to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like three-day plan plans go really that important.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then AEW, I really like

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know that it creatively and really fulfilling for a lot of people right now, but I'm not locked in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not connected to it the way that like everyone else is like, oh, man, this run up to all in on just, who made it like I see where everything going, and I and I, I think objectively for all of it, like I think it's all really, really good, but,

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[SPEAKER_01]: am I connecting on an emotional level with it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not so much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then with New Japan, I just feel like that promotion is going through the motion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like even with the prospect of really good potential booking coming down the line, I don't think that we have trade from the directions that have got us here enough for me to say, okay,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now we're turning on the jet that we're going in a direction that we're going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, this is all good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, Dominion was a good show, but the booking coming out of it and some of these decisions are like, New Japan is one of the best promotions in the world by making their talent look less than special.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's fair that the key to me for this and I do not sit here and say that I think the booking has improved or turned around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have not earned that kind of trust yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They absolutely are more likely to watch this and not they have been poor all the year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It should not write it if what I'm trying to say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am excited about a couple things that in

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[SPEAKER_00]: a couple of things going on that I am more interested in than I was in what was previously happening with those resolution.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean it's going to be earthshattering.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean we're in for a new hot period.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying that what comes next for several guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm more into than what has been going on over the last half a year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so in that case, I'm like, okay, let's see how this goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I was flat out Maros one year ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's better anyway, I guess.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're in a better place now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I will copy off that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're absolutely in a better place, but I'm looking at the landscape and one of our guys that is a top heel right now,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now has dislocated shoulder and could potentially be out of the G1.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You got hurt in that match with Yoda.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to rely on some feather.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if people were going to be on board with me on this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm just done with gay kid like he just it back to the well with the same stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I think for as amazing as that Omega match was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: what he tried to portray himself as an avatar of New Japan did more damage to him as a character in the long run because it exposed that he really wasn't, that he was just playing a role rather than authentic about it at the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So as a result, everything since then doesn't feel authentic because you just feel like he's just, he's just playing at something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like this doesn't show

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just feels like a caricature of a pro wrestler rather than like this is top guide in pro wrestler game kid coming in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'll say this because I don't think he's top guy Jen and I think he is the set-up man for something else Nick Reeves mentioned with the exception of the Omega match I've been done with Gabe kids since I started watching again in 2024 I mean it's a fair criticism I'm frankly as far as the my engagement goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm engaged in different ways.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm big into CMLL and we're going to have coverage of what looks like a really good fantastic committee card in Mexico City that's taking place tomorrow night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm into that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am into a lot of the other stuff going on in Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm enjoying all Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm enjoying Joshi big time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Marigold is going through a rough period with injuries, real rough period and departures.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Start them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How does a firecracker love and start them right now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And joining just about everything they're doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: American wrestling, I'm done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm puzzled by this small bit of the minority of the internet that thinks that AEW is strong right now, just because all evidence is that they're turning people off again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just, and when I look at it, or even hear a recap, it just sounds like that heap of hot garbage.

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[SPEAKER_00]: so boring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a dull slog of six hours of bad wrestling television and it's just like American wrestling, I'm out of American, I'm out of American pro wrestling now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have this out of American pro wrestling since the 1990s.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Three of you this, let me ask you this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This kind of dovetail to something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, that's not true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There were a couple of years in the mid 2000s when I was out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was just like there's WWE stock and there wasn't anything else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But go ahead.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, MLW is now going to be airing episode on the New Japan world every Monday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's something that we need to pay attention to or it's just kind of like watch it if you feel like it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If there's anything don't really to mention bring it up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: they pulled they pulled a w off so they want to have something else for the Japanese fans I don't I don't think it's I don't think it's I think it's a coach you could gym if they're all the time, you know?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look at Burr There is enough of an adjacent New Japan presence, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it makes any real difference to the greater New Japan product.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted to address it now, so if anyone had questions, we just kind of established where we stand on this right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am interested in watching it to see exactly what the presentation of MLW is, but I'm not prepared to commit to watching it every week and then talking about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, thanks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just said that Mercedes had an excellent match against Hazuki apparently.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's turned it over up, Hazuki had some flubs on the rope in the beginning, but they gave them way more time than I expected, and it really was a good match by the end.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Jeremy or says, no, mostly CMLL and MLW.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there is a lot of crossover there too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, there's it's a thing that used to show CMLL on NJPW world for people in Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't watch it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whenever I would click on it, it'd say it was geoblock.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but they used to do that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they've had other programming on NJPW world before and all that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fernando says Mercedes has a key was one of the best women's matches on Dynamite Ever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He felt.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he really enjoyed it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Has a key is a great worker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Has a key is a great great worker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In the chat there's a reason she's on the wall here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I think she is there are other

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[SPEAKER_00]: Josie wrestlers who are objectively better than Hazuki and Mayu Iwitani might be the best of all time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm coming around to that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm still hanging on to Monami Toyota a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's...

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, my, you, uh, Syah Kamatani is just on another level as far as star power goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there are plenty of people on the start of the process.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the deepest rosers mobile watch and not Bay is back and all that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's something about how's the key she's just like favorite.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like I, I just have more fun watching her matches than anybody else.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a big fan of hers on the ledge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She did well in night off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to, I was going to mention with Mark Sadie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think she's interesting because she had her really big run that kind of ended at the end of the year and she was around and about kind of dropping those titles all around the world.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And she actually went back and dropped these titles to all these people, which number all the one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then that one, it was just impossible, not because Matt respects for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, number two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was away from AEW and there was total speculation about what was going on, which she heard, what's she this, what's she that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now she was just taking her break for her own mental health and getting right in the head.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And number two, I'm going to give her credit for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She has the ability to advocate for herself and take herself out away from the situation and then come back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and feel like she hasn't missed a step and honestly battery to fresh.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then number three, she came back when she wasn't supposed to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was clearly Willow's tournament to win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was clearly Willow being fed up for Tecla.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they needed somebody big to jump in that spot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And she came back and she's likely going to lose Tecla in old and said and done with this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that made it could even more impressive to me the fact that she's coming out and doing this and doing all this work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Being the wrestler at that company needs to supplant that women's division when you can read between the line, why a bunch of other people are gone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And let's see, here, Maria Grassella's size is here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This Mercedes is the best women's wrestler in the world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: disagree hard disagree on that one, but she's good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's she's good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's the best women's wrestler in the US hands down, but Steven would watch it way too many.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think between presentation and all the things that she does and the fact that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you've got works nearly as many matches at the level that we're Sadie does.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Go to CageMatch and go look at the last two years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, listen to me, listen to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Go to CageMatch and you see how many matches that Mercedes Monet wrestled.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Single matches in the last two years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you go to CageMatch and you see how many singles matches the EO skywork to the last year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is 100% on WWE.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the work rate and what they're doing, like I think EO skywork, one of the best wrestlers in the world,

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[SPEAKER_01]: but she's being slaughtered in the end re-usage and allowing her to really shine work rate rise and they're not even pushing her if one of the top stars of the promotion which you know like all their other ones are falling off y'all can re-earn it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was a pretty big start.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was a pretty big start.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't book her broke.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't even have a match on reclamania this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, it's like they can be doing more with her and saying that would be good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's terrible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, but, but when we're saying who's better or who gets the better presentation and I'm making my argument as to why Mercedes, I'm looking at her and saying like she's wrestling this catalog of amazing talent around the world and he'll sky up wrestling the same eight people WWE.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, remember, Sadie's really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, let's talk about Dominion for good and say, let's get started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm going to talk about the wasteland of American wrestling, and here we go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With Dominion, though, we were at Osaka, Joe Hall, that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They drew 6,890.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that is up from 6,500 last year, which was still on the low end of Dominions that don't involve a pandemic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This was not great, but it's still on the low end, but better than last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: better than the last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll take that last year, it was headline by Goto and Shingo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this did a little bit better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And no champions retained their titles on this show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Every title match ended with a title switch except for Takeshita.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In the television title match, these so the important ones basically, is what I'm saying, the ones that matter, other wrestlers are sent off into different directions and we'll get into that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the first one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kenos Gate to Keshta and Sonata.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we were wondering what kind of Sonata we were going to get?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I noted right here on this show last week that what all of this pre-match hype about Sonata's return did not mention was that he is physically better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that he has healed it all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the intro had a succession of people that were dressed like Sonata at various points in his career with belts that he's won in the past.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for me, Jeremy, this mostly reminded me of when Sonata was actually good instead of now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if that's the effect that they were looking for, but I remember looking at that just going, oh yeah, he used to be good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They did a cool quick change thing on the ramp.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The entrance was Sonata's best work of the night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He did it right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He did a flip off the top.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had a couple of moments early, but then absolutely fizzled out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He can't wrestle anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's not physically capable.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He took the raging fire after some smoke and mirrors house of torture stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They had to really get creative to get even eight minutes out of this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sonata is not physically capable of being a good wrestler.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His body has betrayed him, it's done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not a good sign, it's over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's always, well, I don't think it's always, but recently, I've noticed this trend with New Japan, where they front load a heel in some way, shape, or form, with the mistaken pattern tree, all up front, because they know once they get in the ring, it's done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're not gonna be able to pull that off in the future.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Jim and A was putting Jake Lee into the ring with Yota Suji, immediately upon return because if you put him in the ring with anyone else, and then you put him in the ring with Yota Suji, you knew what you were going to get, and you were immediately disappointed that this was the decision.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But there was still some little bit of mistake, and maybe we can pull one over on these guys and get Jake

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[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't really work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No one really is coming back and verbalized what a bang or that match was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, they did it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now Jake Lee is kind of settled into settled into that role.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I kind of looked at this amount of things the same way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what he is at this point and you can't do this spectacle in like two years because no one's going to care But this is the highest moment of his interest as a guy on the roster literally a body, you know, like You know, some of the, some of the other, other part of guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I totally blanked on a thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You had to stroke.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he always wants to be in the G1.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... you didn't have a stroke it was uh... he got paralyzed but that was you're talking about uh... uh... yeah i thought he had a stroke as well when he got paralyzed uh... i don't know about that i have to look at them but he is it a reason why like half of the side of the body uh... wasn't uh... like that's not the mobilization of uh... half of the body or whatever

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, it's like, there's a, there's a, there's a Hanma, like the Hanmas, but I'm worried he's almost like, that could be his name.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like he's, he's one of the older guys that can't really move that well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's just gonna be in there doing stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like the company is going to give him as many opportunities to make a living with them as possible until there's a separation that is mutual.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, listen, we are, we're literally watching the price that it paid for greatness in the ring for goodness, I mean, he had, he had an opportunity in the main event of the Tokyo dome at rest of Kingdom, which not everyone get that quiet called an opportunity for greatness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, opportunity for greatness, maybe not seized.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, after that, we had a no disqualification of this show started off rough in the rank.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So no disqualification match between Jake Lee and L fan Tasmo, this was a really strange match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we thought on here that ELP was the type of guy who could get something out of Jake Lee.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But instead, they went with a very strange narrative that did not serve the match or the show, this was bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At the beginning, they tried to get over the no-deque thing by having ELP jumping off a ladder onto the floor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At one point, he had lead down and he played Aragashar after a move for a long time until Lee got up and clobbered him from behind after what seemed like forever, so he looked like an idiot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: ELP spent a very long time setting up a chair pyramid and then he could firm the Kevin Owens theory while getting chokeslam into it, saying that if you build that structure, that incredibly elaborate structure, the year the one that's going to go into it, then he took forever loading his boot, intentionally forever by the way, not just because it took him a long time, but the story was it took him forever to load his boot and jakely hit him with his own big boot,

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh, leading to the the choke and the referee stopped the match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why in a no DQ match, you didn't just have the boot loaded.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The entire match Jeremy was intentionally making ELP looks stupid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I puzzled by that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where it's going, why they did it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the entire purpose of this match,

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[SPEAKER_00]: was to make ELP look like a moron.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It even talked about like, he took forever playing Aragatar, which he doesn't do, so that Lee could slowly get up and hit him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The idea of not loading your boot and a notice qualification match and then getting caught while stumbling around trying to load it, building the chair thing and then getting knocked into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He just looked stupid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The entire time, intentionally.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where this is going,

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's made me really excited to say, but I feel like we're seeing the de-enticizing of ELP in New Japan for a wrestling, he's been gone from the majority of the year after the Tonahashi like retirement, you know, like he's done a match here there, you know, the TV title matches and whatnot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he came back and he immediately had this match in which didn't seem like either guy was particularly up for it, but they knew they had to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would literally say they found it, you know, like the both of these guys kind of just kind of did a hardcore match and knew that they had to do some things and like even the chair building thing it was just it was all padding time, you know, just a little bit like milking it just a little bit more than they need to until they got to the amount of time they needed to get to finish in the match and

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not I'm looking at that I'm looking at that like playing I you watch the G1 announced later on in the night ELP is not in it you can be using in the plan and you see who is again drawing and so we're going to go all the way to September without ELP really figured into all those plans because he's not in the G1 like this is what I'm this is the writing on the wall here and it's like

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy who's getting pay and he's like he's got a contract for the year, but I think everyone is just kind of telling each other and like, hey, make other plans because we're looking at other people in those spots right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After that, uh, we had a tag team match Tahichi and you get way more against Reo Heo Ewan's ex-Aber Jr.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is where the show picked up and quality as far as the wrestling goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The crowd was pretty quiet for the first part of it until Tahichi tagged in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then they'd pop for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The match was pretty good enough itself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: OEO was trying to get in a side headlock over as a finisher, which seems really derivative after

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's been such a part of MGF's, JF's thing to pin somebody with a side headlock.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's trying to do it in a different way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's trying to make it out like he has a side headlock that you would submit to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not convinced that's working.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Taichi ended up rolling up OEwood to get the pin.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And at that point, I figured that OEwood and...

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[SPEAKER_00]: Zach wouldn't move on to something else in the Tahitian way more a would challenge whoever one The tag team match later, which is indeed what happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this was all just kind of to set things up for a little bit later, but we would does the job here and Tahitia gets to pin.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So once again we're not involved in much of anything and really made no impression.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I'm just beating this guy down a week after week, but he just makes no impression for someone who's allegedly a star.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And with the way a New Japan books, he might win the G1, which I think is going to fall flat on his face if he does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And OE will might not even even be in the G1 possibly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's strange times, but that's where we are.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And OE more anti-E, she look like they're headed for a tag team title match before much else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So,

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[SPEAKER_01]: When this match ended, and Taichi got the pin on OU, I was like, why are we giving Taichi the pin here?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I realized, I can answer that in a bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You might have found the answer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, why, wait, are on?

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[SPEAKER_01]: We saw some of the graphics that came up and we'll get to that at that point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you were on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's still just one of those, like, this is what I'm talking about about the booking, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were losing going into a play in match and Tai Chi winning going into a play in match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's supposed to create tension and certainty and uncertainty.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I get that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But this is the second big fucking show of the year, put your young guys over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, have you your humor and get the pin on it, we will?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then later on, have all we would get a pin on you, we will, we will, we will.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What are we waiting for here?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why do we have to make sure that Tahichi and Zat Saber Jr

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[SPEAKER_01]: still protected to the extent that they are when you're just not going to use them the way that they need to be used to get these guys over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Treat them like a guy on the roster, not like these top guys that you don't treat like top guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like is that Saber Jr is going to

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the last five months, they're going to use, they're going to use that camera Jr to get over Kenny Omega, who's then going to win the title because he's going to be in a world champion and then face M. J. F. That's another world champion and the win the belt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is a valuable use of that camera Jr and looking at Kenny Omega does absolutely no damage to that camera Jr at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they don't even have the imagination and the creativity to put that saber-changer into high quality fumes with some of the young guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're all just doing musical chairs with each other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, use these guys for a reason.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't just have them in tabs and then protect them because you don't want to

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're right, we've been banging the drum for a long time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There aren't any bleep and feuds in New Japan right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now there's one, now there's one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get to it in a minute.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they're really, we're really not even like in New Japan, so you're required to AEW people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not trying to argue with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to point out that you're right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, one of the weaknesses of New Japan right now is that nobody really hates anybody until this past week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now somebody does, we'll see if it pans out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if like you said, it involves AEW people in order to get that done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The issue is, when you don't have any fuse, you can't have everybody infuse, they don't mean anything, but if you don't have any, then it's just guys with belts and guys who don't have belts wrestling each other and there isn't a whole lot of substance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there has to be that variety of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was something Jeremy I mentioned too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I always think about this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a piece of paper framed up on the wall in Jerry Jarrett's office when he owned Memphis the Memphis territory, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the most successful weekly territories that there's ever been.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jerry Lawler built on to you all those guys, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Personal issues sell tickets is what was on this thing that was framed in his office.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he never lost sight of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And low and behold, there are no personal issues and New Japan 8 sellers may take us as they used to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, a bunch of good guys who all have a professional rival with each other and no actual animosity.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just like, pay each other, draw some blood, put them in the hospital.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a strange thing, but you're right, what that leaves though is if you are not either a champion or the number one contender, you're not really got much of anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're saying, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: not doing much of anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of guys are just kind of not doing much of anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These are not doing anything, not doing anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, after this, they're so desperate for drilling money.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like you're doing your right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they're given, they're like the audience is telling you what they want and they have been telling you what they want and they continue to be like, but you're what, but I like this over here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, after that, we had a single smash for no reason at all, except it was between two really good wrestlers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was interested.

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[SPEAKER_00]: El Desparado against Mystico.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, of course, these two are the junior heavyweight tag team champions, but they decided to just have a single smash because as we suspected Desparado can just do whatever he wants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And basically he's booking himself for thinking at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he has, he's got, hey, but he is not booking that division.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't these book in the division.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's booking himself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's doing what he wants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This was really fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a good match as you would expect from these two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Desperado managed to avoid Lemistica.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Got in Numerodose and Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mistica, quit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Submit it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mystico does not lose a lot at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, Chris Charlton was really savvy in working in just how few losses Mystico has met.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's the biggest hero in CMLL and since that is a mostly tourist driven show where people aren't necessarily

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[SPEAKER_00]: following week to week to week usually he just wins and there's nothing wrong with obviously they're going through one of the hottest periods they have in a very long time it's working and you know again put the star over and low and behold people believe in the star right so his losses mean something and losing to desperate out of we talk all the time Jeremy about how New Japan's partnerships seem to benefit the other company more than New Japan sometimes not all the time but we've we've we've complained about this

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[SPEAKER_00]: Desparado tapping out Mystico, that's that's pretty unselfish from CMLL who probably could have just said no, if they really wanted to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Desparado getting a win over Mystico might lead to a remash, and I'm fine with it if it does, these two are terrific together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like Mystico Mystico losing in a band, if you're one of the things, I'm not going to get back to CMLL really.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it looks like it's totally way easier than like trying to pull that shit in AEW kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the people Desparado is selling tickets to

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do enjoy the fact that they used the opportunity that Mystico was legitimately injured for like the last month or you came back and that really like golden to like, yeah, I'm not getting out of this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm tapping one of these things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: With that said, even this was the most ordinary Desperado versus Mystico match, I think I've ever seen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it was fine, but I was expecting more than time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm not sure, Mystico's 100% yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's all well and good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm still telling you, like, when you advertise this match on Domingon, and you have a dream match at Desperado versus Mystico, like I just was expecting more and taking into account that he was, you know, coming in recently recovered if not fully healed from some type of knee injury and he's got many more dates to fulfill.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The match will find wasn't even bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm just thinking about just for a hot and I'm thinking about me sticking out and I'm just thinking about like these two guys that are going to talk to Joe Hall and It looks just fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they seem to have no intention of trying to steal the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After that, we did have a never open weight title match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mentioned that Takeshda retained his title.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No one else on the show did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So here we had Aaron Wolfe and Renderate, and now we figured that part of the point of this whole Dominion card was to have Aaron Wolfe and a featured match on TV, winning the title back again, because they figured, well, that was a good formula for wrestling, and we'll just do the same thing here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The House of Torture Stuff came right from the start.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yano and Takeshda notably ran into help Wolfe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wolfe's forearms are better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He actually threw a couple of pretty good forearms in this one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a little concerned that Wolfe's offensive arsenal hasn't changed in a few months.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dave.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And getting away from House of Torture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got one more at Blue Justice with House of Torture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But getting him to hell away from House of Torture and in with some good workers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because there are no good workers in House of Torture will help a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Iron sharpens iron, and right now he's trying to sharpen a sword with a sponge with House of Torture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to get any sharper.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got to get away from that bunch of slugs, bad workers laziness, that House of Torture brings, and you have to get in there with somebody who can wrestle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's about to do that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got one more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I blew just as

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[SPEAKER_00]: but so I would like to see a little bit more from Wolf right here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not a great match by any shape or form.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When I mentioned earlier, there are a couple of new directions that I am encouraged by.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would much rather see Aaron Wolf working against better workers than House of Torture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like that's where it's headed now and because the commentary was all about how he has finished.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He has overcome House of Torture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is on to better things with the never title.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what a future will bring for Aaron Wolfe, but I think it has a better chance of succeeding with other people than it did with House Church.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you are more optimistic than I am.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm just saying that we certainly don't want to see Wolfe against HOT anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, absolutely not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just...

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[SPEAKER_01]: This dude came back and on TV, saw he, they broadcast him winning the never openweight title.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They follow that up with a melting that he is in a play in match to be in the G1.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The never openweight champion is in a play in match to be in the G1.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is a cognitive dissonance here about how they are approaching this because now,

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[SPEAKER_01]: This whole frame is that not he's the never open way champion going in there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like he's going to go in there and he is going to wrestle these guys for the first time in this block.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe if he can get past this guy, we'll get on to all this later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's just like the the disconnect of the way that they're booking him with like we.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have all of these first time matches that are coming and the G wanted loaded with all of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you have him in one half of the block, you have one block in one half of the entire roster, there's an entire other half of that roster that you could have had him wrestle throughout the year in like an opportunity here or there just to get some reasoning, but for whatever reason, they just didn't feel comfortable doing that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the part where I'm just like, it's tricky though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: important to remember he is not one year into his wrestling training yet and most people are in that dojo for at least a year before they ever see the light of day let alone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some guys more than that not Kahara has been in there was what two years to you know longer so he's going on less because of his name because not training with these guys like every day before the show

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[SPEAKER_01]: I express my reservations earlier, I just, like, I'm verbalizing it because it's just one of those, like, I hear the reasoning and I'm like, no, I'm going to push back it, you know, to be like, not that you're right or I'm wrong or anything like that, but just you and I.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For all intent to purposes have watched more Aaron Wolfe than a lot of other people have in this world.

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[SPEAKER_01]: his talent and his usage, it's just really concerning, not because they're being conservative and protecting these matches, but they're being conservative because they don't know what to do with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just doesn't seem like he's coming along all that much, just doesn't look like he's improving a whole lot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there are moments and there are things that they've spoken mirror to these matches, but like

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[SPEAKER_01]: you have to put them in situations where he is going to either survive or not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How you do it in a rough way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not everybody has the aptitude for this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but like how long are we going to do this and give chances?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was brought in and meant to bring deliverable to this company, like more audience, like an increased fandom, you know, like an all in approach to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you'll look at him, you could tell he's lost weight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You'll look at him and you could tell that he is picking up on mannerisms that he feels comfortable doing in the ring each time, you know, the roar, the kind of the...

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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of like the that primal scream that he does in the middle of the ring, almost reminding you of a wolf like those are all good things over all very pro wrestling characteristic things, but it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, the pressure for him to be Bolton-Oleg right now when it took Bolton-Oleg five years to become the Bolton-Oleg that he is is unfair to Aaron Wolff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that was also all baked in to when they brought him in because of what he had done prior to progress.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, after that, he has never opened a title now, and he has a play in match for the G1.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about that when we get to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After that was probably the best match on the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: United Empire, the Great O'Con, and Henare against the knockout brothers for the IWGP.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Heavyweight tag team titles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is very good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good offense early from the United Empire.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Henare was awesome in this match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the knockout brothers were selling a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was an artist in absolute monster in this one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He could tell he was just turned all the way up to 11 and he did great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He and I, like, roughly, you know, I think you really like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He and I traded some really stiff punches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They pulled off a couple of good heel spots.

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[SPEAKER_00]: O'Con pulled off a good chair spot from the outside where one of the knockout brothers went into the ropes and O'Con hit him with a chair while the referee was distracted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oscar took the boot to the face with the chair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought that Empire did a good job of hiding it from the rep, not perfect, but better than the usual heel tactics in New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They made it effort anyway to keep the referee from seeing an imperial bomb for three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, they mentioned that the winners of this match would not only become the tag team champions, but they would also punch their tickets for the G1

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[SPEAKER_00]: to an extent, KOB were protected.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't a clean win for United Empire, but I was good with the result.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was looking over the roster, and I realized that KOB is already very, very over, and they had kind of cleaned out the tag team division before this match had even started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just thought, well, there aren't a whole lot of opponents for them to defend against coming up without starting to recycle a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm okay, especially since it wasn't a totally clean win of taking the belts off of them because they're over enough and ice in particular, Oscars well, but especially ice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: has shown that he can make something out of any confrontation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have to have a belt on the line to be interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought he proved that when he got into it with O'Weewa, I think he proved it when he any time, he kind of faces off against somebody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You kind of think, oh, I kind of like to see this match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they can challenge again any time and it would be credible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this also makes world tag league a real possibility for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they would even be the favorites going into real world tag league.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that could be parlayed into a featured match at Wrestle Kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm okay with this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, again, I think that's just a team now that is made.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't need the belt.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If they wanted to do something where he's getting into it with either an older guy or somebody else from his generation that he has some kind of problem with.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think you took and talk us into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the tag team division takes the back seat for a couple of months anyway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think this is fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I wanted them to have a run, you know, kind of do the thing that they didn't do with the Oto Fuji, and kind of stayed dominant throughout the year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they didn't do that, that's fine, you know, it's like great accounting and RA are totally fine tag team, like people and they can chase and other people can win the belt from them, you know, ice and Oscar, if they had the belt's going into the G one, they're feeling is kept.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I do kind of see you know why this is someone that makes it in a post block play in a singles match, you know, I see him as somebody that they teed is someone they can go all the way and into the finals, which would also help like shore up the tag division, you know, you have this guy that almost goes really far and now he and he's like dangerous in the tag division.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's good stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I see why they divested them of the bells.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was one of those things that, you know, at the time of like, they just did that to you, uh, uh, whatever, uh, but the match was great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I get the watching behind it and, uh, yeah, really, no complaints.

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[SPEAKER_00]: net brought us to the global heavyweight title.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a three-way match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Andre L. E. Delo defending against Drillamologi and showed it umano.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This was pretty good too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fans were really into Drillamologi here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were the ones.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they did a nice job, I thought, of making smooth transitions into keeping two guys in the ring in a way that didn't look too contrived.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought most of the time when people switched in and out,

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[SPEAKER_00]: it made sense for what was going on rather than do some big spot where a guy's laid out for ten minutes on the outside or something like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought the way that they moved in and out of things to keep it one-on-one, it worked well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In this, I thought it was a good version of that type of match, which can get very clunky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen

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[SPEAKER_00]: too many three ways in the United States, for instance, to for the it's kind of lost its any semblance of specialness and Japan is still kind of worked, especially when it's done correctly like this, they booed shoulder for breaking up a Maloney pin.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Osaka has always been skeptical of shoulder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were the first ones that kind of turned on him a little bit, but more on that later.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't end up hitting the second chapter to win and he hit it on L. Edole.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You always worry when there is a championship match in a three way that the whole point is not beating the champion but taking the title off of him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In this case, Andre did the took a loss, lost to Shota Umino.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This match was definitely worth seeing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a good version of a three way match and this is Shota's first championship and the crowd was disappointed that

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just to see what's about to speak afterwards, though, Gabe Kid rushed out and cobbered him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kid then got on the microphone and trash talked to him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He definitely made it about the death writers, which I think is going to become important down the road.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kid told Maloney on the ramp and looking at kids skeptically, but he said, don't buy into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These people will turn on you in a heartbeat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He spit on the Lion Mark.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't disagree with your criticisms of Gabe Kid

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[SPEAKER_00]: The trajectory of his career has taken some of the steam off of him because, you know, what looked like intense partial authenticity was kind of upended by him signing with AEW and again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: On the show, we believe in wrestlers getting whatever money as much money as they can get for putting their bodies on the line like this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No one on this show says the gate kid shouldn't assign with AEW.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think anyway, but you make a fair point after doing the whole Lion's Mark thing and going all in and making kind of Hashie cry over New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Doing the complete 180 here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: feels a little contrived compared to that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he did well enough here, Jeremy, that he baby face Shota, because they were behind Shota by the end of this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it seems to set up kid versus Shota with other death writers matches to come.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they are setting up kid as the top guy general.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think what they are doing is setting up Shota to battle the death

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[SPEAKER_00]: with the ultimate payoff of him finally facing and hopefully beating John Moxley.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have to be smooth sailing, but if this all leads to him defeating Moxley at either rest looking them or another huge show at some point, then I think it will be worth it and it will help show to Omeno.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're already going to see him defending what against Pock, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if this leads to show to, working his way through the death writers to get to Moxley,

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[SPEAKER_00]: So long as you wins that feud, that can help New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's always been Shota and Malkley.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think, the boy has been years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, and that's why I'm just like, are they really heading in that direction?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, maybe I'm trying to will it into existence.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Here's who I want to give credit to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Josh from we work stiff revealed that prior to the injury, Calam was supposed to wrestle John Malkley at forbidden door.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it made a lot of sense, you know, both of these guys like rivalry over Balkley and Balkley is now going to wrestle Bandito, which find, you know, Malkley versus Bandito.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm from it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't want to have, and that would also have the subtext with the tension between

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[SPEAKER_01]: It sounds like the angel in the devil on off-break shoulders, fighting each other for who really has kind of the thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, coming off of being an IWGP champion in a WWE show, or you can read for the line to count them in a problem.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to win that match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, mockly looking strong, off-break looking strong, going into their mutual thing and all these things happen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been announced that

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[SPEAKER_01]: Spoiler alert people, collision, announced that Shota will now be rathling Pock at forbidden door.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did a promo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're actually deep cut here, Steven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to throw this on the screen right here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: OK?

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[SPEAKER_01]: a match for several years ago, and what we talked with a champion and showed it in a challenged him for the all-Atlantic championship, which is a title that was now folded into the title that John Moccley has, the continental champion, through various contributes and headache inducing logic that I do not want to make your chest and head birthed like an alien

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[SPEAKER_01]: The reality of this is I like this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like that we're doing this match with Shota Umano and Park.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are actually getting a global title match on this forbidden door.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, presentation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like that Shota Umano is getting FaceTime in America because it will get to that John Malkley confrontation eventually.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Does that happen at rest of the kingdom one year?

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is the year we're in January.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You should be having all these young guys like dispatching their ghosts, you know, if you if you really wanted to like for whatever reason you just decided we're not going to do you get Louis Mara this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Would you really be shocked with the way that all the sales have gone down and the way that, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything has been done that the rest of the kingdom made event this year is nightovers is Suji.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you're thinking about all these young guys and like you want Suji versus Ui Murrah, but a Suji at that level yet does he need to have like that visual I have beaten Tetsuya Naito and the Tokyo dome in the main event like I am him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That kind of thing or does the company think that, you know, you already is him and now we're going to have the winner of the G1 and these are two top guys and all these things and so like the show to think figures into that because like what are you going to do with show to Umano a restful kingdom to get him over the hump and make him one of the top stars for the future.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It got to be marked after all this time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: got to be mock.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's the biggest show to uminomash there is right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and and has been for a while and it's a mountain he needs to climb.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Moxley, I think maybe not what it would have been three years ago, but I think he still means something to New Japan fans.

57:52.293 --> 57:57.915
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think they remember the whole, you know, shooter and the deathwriter thing and the alliance and the team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it would matter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there aren't a whole lot of things that would matter more than that right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what I hope it goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I would recommend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see what New Japan does because goodness knows they've left things on the table.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After that we had the junior heavyweight title match with yo and dokey and this was almost 18 minutes

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[SPEAKER_00]: with a lot of smoke and mirrors a lot of house torture stuff way too much and Jeremy had just made me think as I was watching this the dokey ain't healthy and he just can't do as much as he'd like and they need to cover this up show work almost as much of the matches dokey did and it made me think that he just isn't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: quite up to being back in a full match yet, but they got to do dominion, they've got to do this when they did it, they didn't have time to wait.

58:47.930 --> 58:51.051
[SPEAKER_00]: Because really, what are the junior heavy weights going to do until who knows when, right?

58:51.731 --> 58:54.231
[SPEAKER_00]: Tana Hashi, even jumped in and fought with show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That wasn't great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, hmm, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when Tana Hashi came out, I pointed it him out to my girlfriend, who's seen him,

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[SPEAKER_00]: 100 tops, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she saw him and she just said, oh, oh, no, I'm trying to ask him for a rough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, floods ability.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, they don't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the 30 ever, you've seen like the old ladies of a street power walking, the, he was doing that in a business, like that's how we got into the ring was the, was the power walk stiff.

59:33.314 --> 59:50.148
[SPEAKER_00]: when Yoko Zuna Taruna Fuji retired a while back because issues from complications for diabetes and his health was not good and he couldn't, you just couldn't perform at the level that Yoko Zuna's suspected or form so he stepped out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He became the stable master of his own state.

59:54.954 --> 01:00:05.161
[SPEAKER_00]: not packing in the chonko and the rice and the incredible amount of food that these summa wrestlers put on in order to get that bulk.

01:00:05.782 --> 01:00:07.903
[SPEAKER_00]: He has slimned down tremendously.

01:00:09.724 --> 01:00:12.686
[SPEAKER_00]: All the weight tier in a food she lost, Tana Hashie seems to have found.

01:00:13.327 --> 01:00:16.529
[SPEAKER_00]: He seems to have picked it up himself because he is at least 30 pounds heavier.

01:00:16.589 --> 01:00:19.031
[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't anywhere, and he ain't moving well at all.

01:00:19.351 --> 01:00:20.712
[SPEAKER_00]: And he wasn't moving well to begin with.

01:00:21.593 --> 01:00:22.053
[SPEAKER_00]: He...

01:00:24.307 --> 01:00:31.248
[SPEAKER_01]: The best way to put it in, I feel like he was shamed into posting that, uh, oh, that's not good.

01:00:32.069 --> 01:00:36.249
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I, you know, I have to be healthy for a long time, and I believe you.

01:00:36.589 --> 01:00:37.009
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe you.

01:00:38.670 --> 01:00:48.531
[SPEAKER_01]: Then did you give his body to pro wrestling, and uh, he had a good run, uh, being a maniacal heel champion that that didn't actually deserve to be championed.

01:00:48.551 --> 01:00:49.772
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a good role for him to play.

01:00:50.112 --> 01:00:51.332
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, what were we talking about?

01:00:51.352 --> 01:00:51.932
[SPEAKER_01]: I apologize.

01:00:52.617 --> 01:00:59.079
[SPEAKER_00]: No, we were talking about the show working as much of the match as Doki did, and here's the thing.

01:00:59.139 --> 01:01:01.580
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Tonahashi, that's a lot of tonahashi jumping in.

01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:08.043
[SPEAKER_00]: The last couple of minutes of this match were good, but it was so much smoke and mirrors to cover up Doki's injuries and things.

01:01:09.443 --> 01:01:11.906
[SPEAKER_00]: In the end, the last couple of minutes kind of picked up a little bit.

01:01:11.926 --> 01:01:13.768
[SPEAKER_00]: They sucked it up and put together some decent stuff.

01:01:14.128 --> 01:01:15.610
[SPEAKER_00]: Yo hit direct drive for the win.

01:01:15.670 --> 01:01:17.732
[SPEAKER_00]: Yo is finally the junior heavyweight champion.

01:01:17.752 --> 01:01:19.734
[SPEAKER_00]: The fans like this quite a bit.

01:01:20.335 --> 01:01:25.601
[SPEAKER_00]: Show attack after and Watto Fujida Akira.

01:01:25.661 --> 01:01:27.142
[SPEAKER_00]: They all ended up getting involved.

01:01:28.063 --> 01:01:38.190
[SPEAKER_00]: Yo got on the microphone and showed that he has some brains underneath the weirdness when he said, you guys play the yo games where you will square off in a four way to get the title shot.

01:01:38.230 --> 01:01:39.831
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's correct booking.

01:01:40.112 --> 01:01:40.952
[SPEAKER_00]: That's smart booking.

01:01:40.992 --> 01:01:42.213
[SPEAKER_00]: The champion's not a moron.

01:01:42.253 --> 01:01:43.974
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, yo, all of you want to fight me?

01:01:44.134 --> 01:01:46.176
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, all of you fight each other and the winner fights me.

01:01:46.756 --> 01:01:50.899
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a correct answer as a babyface and based on the finals and the shows and

01:01:52.160 --> 01:02:14.472
[SPEAKER_00]: based on the super junior finals I got ahead of myself and the shows in which yo appeared in the main event there's a little bit of evidence there Jeremy that this guy does indeed sell some tickets now we'll get to really find out I don't know if Doki's healing up he's on the cards coming up he's not he's not he's booked on shows coming up so he's not taking time off as it stands right now

01:02:16.294 --> 01:02:20.859
[SPEAKER_00]: But the junior heavyweight champion has frequently headline their own shows now.

01:02:20.879 --> 01:02:23.242
[SPEAKER_00]: They've done junior heavyweight night leading up to a big show.

01:02:23.983 --> 01:02:28.007
[SPEAKER_00]: Yo's going to get the chance to sell tickets, which is all we asked isn't it?

01:02:28.027 --> 01:02:34.535
[SPEAKER_00]: When we talked about it, he was surprised us because they hadn't booked him as anything important until super juniors and then suddenly wins the thing.

01:02:36.075 --> 01:02:39.116
[SPEAKER_01]: And what I mean by that is he was kind of a comedy figure, second or third match.

01:02:39.136 --> 01:02:40.717
[SPEAKER_00]: That type of stuff and suddenly went super junior.

01:02:40.777 --> 01:02:42.478
[SPEAKER_00]: So, however, the fans liked it.

01:02:42.818 --> 01:02:44.799
[SPEAKER_00]: The fans bought tickets when he was on top.

01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:46.819
[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to get a chance to show.

01:02:47.420 --> 01:02:59.224
[SPEAKER_00]: And my thing is if you can still do his kind of avant-garde style of wrestling where he's doing strange stuff and then strange outfits and acting bizarrely and all this, fans seemed to dig it.

01:03:00.625 --> 01:03:05.207
[SPEAKER_00]: If he still wrestles like he cares about winning, it could work.

01:03:06.206 --> 01:03:08.767
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be captivating, and he is a good wrestler.

01:03:09.348 --> 01:03:10.628
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll have a chance to draw now.

01:03:11.029 --> 01:03:13.470
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything that sells tickets for a new Japan should be pursued.

01:03:14.350 --> 01:03:15.411
[SPEAKER_00]: There's evidence that he can.

01:03:16.291 --> 01:03:17.292
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm in favor of this.

01:03:17.432 --> 01:03:24.076
[SPEAKER_00]: Certainly, if Doki is so banged up that he's struggling to do a singles match, then it's definitely the right to say that.

01:03:24.096 --> 01:03:25.076
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a time to do that, right?

01:03:25.136 --> 01:03:27.738
[SPEAKER_00]: You're more active, gender champion, and maybe someone who can draw.

01:03:28.118 --> 01:03:28.398
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:03:29.218 --> 01:03:31.880
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, again, I am not,

01:03:33.138 --> 01:03:36.199
[SPEAKER_00]: saying that everything is a 100 degree turnaround that's all great now.

01:03:36.859 --> 01:03:40.200
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think this is a better situation for that title than it was a week ago.

01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:58.424
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you catch the note that when yo won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title, he became a grand slam junior heavyweight champion?

01:04:00.465 --> 01:04:21.102
[SPEAKER_01]: I suppose he has I suppose he has so he of one world tag league or junior during the junior tag league certainly he won the junior tag titles yeah he has one best of super gingers Yes now and he is now won the IWGP junior heavyweight title and then there are only a few people that have done that and I think LIGER of one of them

01:04:22.897 --> 01:04:23.498
[SPEAKER_01]: And a couple other.

01:04:23.538 --> 01:04:41.356
[SPEAKER_01]: So credit regretting to the company really felt like that was something that they needed to put on his plate before they, you know, really focused all their intensity on some of the other guys in the division and I see it.

01:04:41.757 --> 01:04:42.317
[SPEAKER_01]: I see.

01:04:45.279 --> 01:04:57.456
[SPEAKER_01]: I see why the company has invested the way that they have with him because of the connection that he has with with the audience, whereas I find it a little

01:04:59.597 --> 01:05:01.718
[SPEAKER_01]: pedestrian and immature.

01:05:01.898 --> 01:05:11.502
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess the way that his wrestling persona comes off, I am still not the primary audience for what new Japan is trying to accomplish.

01:05:12.282 --> 01:05:17.544
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I still have to have that little bit of humility of like it's not for me, but it doesn't matter if it's not for me.

01:05:18.720 --> 01:05:26.546
[SPEAKER_01]: and for the members of the audience that are paying for these tickets that are buying the merch.

01:05:26.987 --> 01:05:33.192
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess to both say, you know, I used to eat a big with the fandom last year.

01:05:33.272 --> 01:05:38.196
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're a part of us that kind of did not take that as seriously as we should.

01:05:38.296 --> 01:05:41.119
[SPEAKER_01]: And I can respect it.

01:05:41.980 --> 01:05:45.282
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't necessarily agree again.

01:05:46.488 --> 01:05:58.471
[SPEAKER_01]: about the booking because I didn't love cocafujitas sitting there like a door in the announcer's like with the announcer's like, oh, I could have been me in that ring, but I guess I'm just here doing this instead.

01:05:58.951 --> 01:06:09.434
[SPEAKER_01]: And it had it memes to an end and I get all of that, but that's part of what I was saying earlier about this booking doing a spectacular job of making some of their

01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:21.061
[SPEAKER_01]: could have been many, many opportunities up to this point and didn't do this.

01:06:21.301 --> 01:06:23.743
[SPEAKER_01]: And we could have been moving toward the future.

01:06:24.163 --> 01:06:25.184
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a means to an end.

01:06:25.444 --> 01:06:29.466
[SPEAKER_01]: There is going to be somebody that's going to be yo for this title.

01:06:29.646 --> 01:06:31.467
[SPEAKER_01]: And people are going to be really bad about it.

01:06:32.088 --> 01:06:34.129
[SPEAKER_01]: And then somebody else is going to be that guy.

01:06:35.109 --> 01:06:35.349
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:06:35.489 --> 01:06:42.734
[SPEAKER_00]: And we still have, there's still the thing we show, he's a heel that can have a good match with yo, although I dread the house torture thing.

01:06:44.248 --> 01:06:55.834
[SPEAKER_00]: If Jose Fujita can play a jerk heel, like he did in the finals, and that could draw with yo, Francesco Akira really good heel wrestler that could draw with yo.

01:06:55.914 --> 01:06:57.935
[SPEAKER_00]: So he has opponents.

01:06:59.155 --> 01:07:03.518
[SPEAKER_00]: He has guys that can give him a good match and not split the crowd.

01:07:04.605 --> 01:07:06.308
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe that may be that'll help.

01:07:06.969 --> 01:07:17.007
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to find out, I don't want to go nuts until we see a show with Yoha on top as a junior heavyweight champion and see how a draw is compared to past shows.

01:07:17.981 --> 01:07:45.112
[SPEAKER_01]: all that but it's coming and we're gonna find out it'll be more information than we had before the company likes people on top with a with a level of whimsy you know like there's not a whole lot of difference between the whimsy that heroma represents and the whimsy that like yo represents it's just a different like kind but they do like those kind of guys you're right you're right and the key to this is you never doubted that heroma really wanted to win

01:07:46.145 --> 01:08:08.751
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes with yo he was more interested in being silly than competitive sometimes the way the way that he presented that character you always knew the aroma wanted to win if yo can take that part of her own and keep it he looked like he wanted to win at dominion look like he wanted to win during super juniors keep that nice formula and as far as something else to add he said the key with yo is he can be trusted.

01:08:09.011 --> 01:08:09.411
[SPEAKER_00]: Fair enough.

01:08:09.811 --> 01:08:18.433
[SPEAKER_00]: He says through the years, she has always been mentally tough, and he has had some injury issues, but always comes back and is very personal with staff and with fans.

01:08:19.313 --> 01:08:19.873
[SPEAKER_00]: Not to be disappointed.

01:08:19.893 --> 01:08:20.613
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't underestimate that.

01:08:21.113 --> 01:08:22.413
[SPEAKER_00]: No, not to be discounted.

01:08:22.674 --> 01:08:23.014
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

01:08:23.674 --> 01:08:26.054
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's the junior heavyweight title match.

01:08:26.694 --> 01:08:28.515
[SPEAKER_00]: It led to the heavyweight title match.

01:08:28.555 --> 01:08:29.835
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a synergy in Kalimnuma.

01:08:29.875 --> 01:08:35.756
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I think we got the result we were always going to get, just not the way we went to do it.

01:08:36.689 --> 01:08:40.313
[SPEAKER_00]: it were they were to slower main event style pace at first and it went over 24 minutes.

01:08:41.154 --> 01:08:47.521
[SPEAKER_00]: However, there may have been an injury at the, well, there was certainly an injury at the end and may have ended up changing the finish around a little bit.

01:08:47.881 --> 01:08:52.466
[SPEAKER_00]: Newman, before all that, jumped off the ramp and hit a summer-salt cent on the sushi on the floor.

01:08:52.506 --> 01:08:53.347
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a nice spot.

01:08:53.367 --> 01:08:56.870
[SPEAKER_00]: They got a wow type of response from the crowd.

01:08:58.215 --> 01:09:15.235
[SPEAKER_00]: He did a double stop like a thin baller style double stop that came down on Suji's right arm Ouch didn't get his chest got his right arm Orio that had hurt like a son of a gun Suji laid her spirit him right out of the air when he tried another flip in the ring that looked horrific

01:09:16.400 --> 01:09:19.842
[SPEAKER_00]: Match was moving along pretty well, and it was still a good match.

01:09:20.442 --> 01:09:32.228
[SPEAKER_00]: Suji though did Hiromu Takahashi's overhead belly to belly when Newman charged him head and tore the core and Newman immediately grabbed his shoulder and something was kind to wrong the rest of the match.

01:09:32.708 --> 01:09:41.533
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it sent them home a little earlier than they meant and the finishing move was a different version of the Jean Blaster to win it.

01:09:41.573 --> 01:09:43.374
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't hit a full Jean Blaster on it.

01:09:43.414 --> 01:09:44.915
[SPEAKER_00]: It was almost like a twisting one.

01:09:45.835 --> 01:09:46.437
[SPEAKER_00]: It was good.

01:09:46.457 --> 01:09:54.356
[SPEAKER_00]: I would be curious to see how they would have done the finish without the entry, but it was a good match 24 minutes doesn't feel like.

01:09:54.972 --> 01:09:56.654
[SPEAKER_01]: the length that they wanted it to go.

01:09:56.794 --> 01:10:01.758
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's pretty clear that Newman's shoulder was pretty pretty messed up.

01:10:01.878 --> 01:10:12.727
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and hopefully Newman can work the G1 as we are recording this right now on Thursday the 18th and of course it's incredibly early in the morning in Japan right now on Friday morning.

01:10:13.367 --> 01:10:17.191
[SPEAKER_00]: As of recording, he is not announced as withdrawing.

01:10:17.231 --> 01:10:17.791
[SPEAKER_00]: He's still in.

01:10:17.931 --> 01:10:18.692
[SPEAKER_00]: He's still in as we

01:10:22.730 --> 01:10:24.011
[SPEAKER_00]: And we don't we don't know for sure.

01:10:24.551 --> 01:10:32.958
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be keeping in the eye on that he wrote a he wrote a fiery declaration that you would do it even with one arm.

01:10:32.978 --> 01:10:35.860
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if you come to that point, it's not really up to him.

01:10:36.580 --> 01:10:36.840
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

01:10:37.161 --> 01:10:37.361
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

01:10:37.401 --> 01:10:37.601
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:10:37.861 --> 01:10:52.362
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be somewhat devastating and I think you really need to move heaven and earth to try and be in the G1 because I think that there were things going to be put into motion during the G1 that was going to lay out his future plans and.

01:10:53.415 --> 01:11:01.819
[SPEAKER_01]: He's their top heel right now, but you legitimately the only guy that no one like, uh, you know, yeah, fair enough.

01:11:01.859 --> 01:11:03.680
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's doing a good job as the top heel, too.

01:11:03.740 --> 01:11:04.380
[SPEAKER_00]: So it'd be a shame.

01:11:04.421 --> 01:11:05.621
[SPEAKER_00]: We got the battle on them.

01:11:06.021 --> 01:11:06.542
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all.

01:11:06.622 --> 01:11:06.962
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all.

01:11:06.982 --> 01:11:07.422
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all.

01:11:07.442 --> 01:11:08.923
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the result that we like you said.

01:11:09.603 --> 01:11:10.163
[SPEAKER_01]: we're going forward.

01:11:10.184 --> 01:11:14.226
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, he did that belly to belly into the corner.

01:11:14.306 --> 01:11:15.587
[SPEAKER_01]: He landed on a shoulder.

01:11:15.607 --> 01:11:22.792
[SPEAKER_01]: It wretched you if did that hide the conversation from the camera, kind of thing that they were doing that.

01:11:23.332 --> 01:11:28.436
[SPEAKER_01]: And then it was literally like, Newman did one or two moves, Yoda hit a spear.

01:11:29.176 --> 01:11:32.438
[SPEAKER_01]: Newman did do one or two moves, Yoda hit a spear.

01:11:32.718 --> 01:11:32.959
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:11:33.639 --> 01:11:35.801
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he had that like kind of

01:11:37.066 --> 01:11:58.162
[SPEAKER_01]: tackle spear where it was more like he he's fearing him and then like fearing him into a roll-up right and kind of got the pin and it was just it was a protection rather than a definitive like win like a few to go for it feels over it feels like Yoda's the champion again but like you said

01:12:04.641 --> 01:12:05.081
[SPEAKER_00]: Fair enough.

01:12:05.102 --> 01:12:07.204
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you can see afterwards a little bit too.

01:12:07.244 --> 01:12:23.081
[SPEAKER_00]: He got the pen and and shingo was seconding sushi and he slid in and the camera caught them having a little bit of a talk where shingo is like what happened and you can see sushi kind of out of the corner of his mouth say something to him and the look on shingo's faces out of that sucks man.

01:12:23.581 --> 01:12:24.761
[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

01:12:25.162 --> 01:12:27.762
[SPEAKER_01]: I do need to say this and I think that you would agree with this.

01:12:28.563 --> 01:12:30.263
[SPEAKER_01]: Calmedum and tough set of bench.

01:12:30.663 --> 01:12:30.963
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.

01:12:31.164 --> 01:12:31.424
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:12:31.604 --> 01:12:36.265
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like separated shoulder, dislocated it, popped it back in, finished the match.

01:12:37.106 --> 01:12:45.408
[SPEAKER_01]: You could tell, but the pain threshold, the adrenaline definitely helped, but do not for one second look at that.

01:12:45.488 --> 01:12:47.429
[SPEAKER_00]: I've heard from over again that, uh,

01:12:59.468 --> 01:13:00.109
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you hear me there?

01:13:00.569 --> 01:13:01.671
[SPEAKER_01]: I can hear you now.

01:13:02.532 --> 01:13:07.278
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I guess that, just look at the shoulders, one of the painful injuries that you could possibly have.

01:13:07.498 --> 01:13:12.605
[SPEAKER_01]: And I've just seen people go through it and it gets frustrating.

01:13:14.155 --> 01:13:21.721
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely as so sorry if there were a technical issue on our and their to those of you who are watching and listening so I think we're back now.

01:13:22.081 --> 01:13:28.707
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, yeah, that was Dominion and you know for the most part in the eventful show let's say that in an eventful show.

01:13:29.087 --> 01:13:36.353
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't gotten word on how the TV special did or anything like that, but Subbed the down or subbed to the middle, Steven.

01:13:38.540 --> 01:13:47.104
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say up because I think they came out of it with some better directions than before, but not way up closer to the middle than straight up there.

01:13:47.164 --> 01:13:50.305
[SPEAKER_00]: But I still think it's an improvement, certainly an improvement on last year.

01:13:51.388 --> 01:13:57.231
[SPEAKER_00]: both in a slight, slightly in attendance about 5%, but quality, I think it was better.

01:13:57.291 --> 01:13:59.052
[SPEAKER_00]: There was some bad stuff on the show.

01:13:59.092 --> 01:14:03.974
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no getting around that, but less bad stuff than we usually get on a new Japan's show now.

01:14:04.455 --> 01:14:09.317
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am happy about a couple of the new directions.

01:14:09.537 --> 01:14:13.839
[SPEAKER_00]: There's something going, there's a few now, we didn't have a feud before, we have a real feud.

01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:20.323
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that Yo behaved intelligently as a champion, babyface, that's good.

01:14:21.230 --> 01:14:28.092
[SPEAKER_00]: I think putting the belt on Yoda was a good move and something would have happened anyway, if he's hurt badly.

01:14:28.132 --> 01:14:34.815
[SPEAKER_00]: Calam is the knockout brothers I'm okay with, especially because I think at least one of them may be both will end up in the G1.

01:14:34.895 --> 01:14:38.056
[SPEAKER_00]: So we also got the announcement of the G1 overall.

01:14:38.096 --> 01:14:39.696
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this was a decent show.

01:14:39.716 --> 01:14:41.217
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a decent show.

01:14:41.237 --> 01:14:42.037
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take a look.

01:14:42.457 --> 01:14:44.378
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go stumbled in the middle, but that's just me.

01:14:45.756 --> 01:14:52.698
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't have cards yet for Chicago, which they really should buy now, because that's coming up quick.

01:14:52.858 --> 01:14:53.558
[SPEAKER_00]: They need to get on it.

01:14:54.578 --> 01:14:55.778
[SPEAKER_00]: But here they are.

01:14:55.838 --> 01:14:58.979
[SPEAKER_00]: So Block A, the here are the people that are in.

01:14:59.179 --> 01:15:01.780
[SPEAKER_00]: Block A, can I just get to catch that?

01:15:02.480 --> 01:15:05.641
[SPEAKER_00]: Yoda Suji, Sonata, terrible decision.

01:15:06.661 --> 01:15:11.082
[SPEAKER_00]: Shingo Takagi, Jake Lee, Bolton Oleg,

01:15:14.980 --> 01:15:18.522
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there are two play and matches for those final two spots.

01:15:18.542 --> 01:15:24.305
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you notice that there were only eight people mentioned right there on June 23rd.

01:15:24.385 --> 01:15:28.408
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll know the finish of this one when we come back next week.

01:15:28.448 --> 01:15:31.129
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be Tai Chi against Utah Ice.

01:15:31.649 --> 01:15:38.233
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we will have Elfantazmo against Rio Heo Iwa on July 6th.

01:15:38.713 --> 01:15:40.154
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is interesting.

01:15:40.194 --> 01:15:42.816
[SPEAKER_00]: One of those two, not going to be in the G1 this year.

01:15:43.938 --> 01:15:45.138
[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't look good for Fantasm.

01:15:45.158 --> 01:15:45.718
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, overall.

01:15:45.738 --> 01:15:45.978
[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't.

01:15:47.379 --> 01:15:48.999
[SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't look good for Fantasm.

01:15:49.479 --> 01:15:51.720
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know what's good for, you know, either.

01:15:53.100 --> 01:16:01.882
[SPEAKER_00]: It does look good or doesn't look good for you know, I kind of think they want to each year to do the Cinderella of sentimental favorite story here, but maybe not maybe they'll cut them up.

01:16:02.662 --> 01:16:05.543
[SPEAKER_01]: I just have a hard time believing, Tai Chi to get a flight of Chicago.

01:16:07.084 --> 01:16:11.845
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, although they don't, maybe they don't do a full 10 cards and

01:16:13.577 --> 01:16:14.618
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the question there, Jerry.

01:16:14.638 --> 01:16:16.019
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they said there was going to be a full car.

01:16:16.119 --> 01:16:16.419
[SPEAKER_00]: I got.

01:16:16.519 --> 01:16:18.060
[SPEAKER_00]: I had we had a little context.

01:16:18.100 --> 01:16:26.885
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's what, let's let Chris Charles and Chris Charles and said, Taiichi got his passport for the first time this past month.

01:16:26.945 --> 01:16:31.688
[SPEAKER_01]: You can just say that to introduce that you don't did we see him with the passport?

01:16:31.949 --> 01:16:34.390
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I didn't check it.

01:16:34.430 --> 01:16:38.613
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's also playing into the people who are like, Taiichi's not coming to the state.

01:16:38.893 --> 01:16:39.213
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:16:39.493 --> 01:16:39.733
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:16:39.773 --> 01:16:40.034
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:16:40.174 --> 01:16:41.875
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's still one shot.

01:16:42.390 --> 01:16:44.631
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think Taiichi won that tag match.

01:16:44.671 --> 01:16:46.732
[SPEAKER_01]: I got that pin because he's about to do the job.

01:16:47.112 --> 01:16:47.732
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what?

01:16:48.073 --> 01:16:48.893
[SPEAKER_00]: Spare about it.

01:16:48.913 --> 01:16:50.994
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I just, like I look at that.

01:16:51.174 --> 01:16:53.215
[SPEAKER_00]: Or they're building momentum for him to beat you to us.

01:16:53.235 --> 01:16:54.575
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just say that.

01:16:54.615 --> 01:16:55.696
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't take this away from me, Jeremy.

01:16:55.896 --> 01:16:57.437
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't take this away from me.

01:16:57.477 --> 01:17:03.900
[SPEAKER_01]: The linguistics of a full card in Chicago does not mean that we're getting 10 matches.

01:17:04.100 --> 01:17:05.840
[SPEAKER_01]: A full card can be nine matches.

01:17:06.181 --> 01:17:06.741
[SPEAKER_00]: How dare you?

01:17:09.738 --> 01:17:17.020
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to see my holy emperor in person, I tell you, all right, in the B block, we will have Calam Numen for now.

01:17:17.380 --> 01:17:19.440
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully he will be able to, but we'll see.

01:17:20.280 --> 01:17:22.341
[SPEAKER_00]: The canesiology tape budget just went up a little bit.

01:17:23.241 --> 01:17:33.323
[SPEAKER_00]: Zach Saber Jr. Show to Umanoh, you eat Uemora, Rennerita, Drillamoloney, Gabe Kid doing the full tournament.

01:17:34.219 --> 01:17:50.459
[SPEAKER_00]: Henry, and then the last two spaces, Yoshi Hashie is going to be facing, uh, that's Aaron Wolf, and then Oscar is going to be in there with, and let me make sure I get this drill here.

01:17:51.059 --> 01:17:52.581
[SPEAKER_00]: Yuduro Takahashi.

01:17:52.641 --> 01:17:52.922
[SPEAKER_00]: So,

01:17:54.604 --> 01:18:05.675
[SPEAKER_00]: If Oscar doesn't win that match, I'm canceling my subscription and JPW world, but so Oscar against usual feeling real strong that Oscar is going to get in there.

01:18:06.896 --> 01:18:10.640
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Yoshi has she Erin Wolfe, haha.

01:18:11.769 --> 01:18:15.712
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like Aaron Wolfe just because he is the champion already.

01:18:16.173 --> 01:18:20.136
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess you could have Yoshi how she went to have the better G1 matches.

01:18:20.156 --> 01:18:21.998
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure they're really worried about that.

01:18:22.678 --> 01:18:26.902
[SPEAKER_00]: And have him get the title shot against Wolfe later.

01:18:26.922 --> 01:18:29.604
[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't feel like what they're going to do.

01:18:29.624 --> 01:18:32.487
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we'll see if Yoshi hockey rental Aaron Wolfe.

01:18:33.207 --> 01:18:34.588
[SPEAKER_01]: and not win the title as well.

01:18:34.808 --> 01:18:37.309
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean, it's not a G1 match.

01:18:37.369 --> 01:18:38.470
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a play in match.

01:18:38.790 --> 01:18:39.130
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:18:39.170 --> 01:18:41.471
[SPEAKER_01]: The play in match, the title should be on the line.

01:18:41.911 --> 01:18:44.432
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, everything about like it's a G1.

01:18:44.532 --> 01:18:46.493
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a G1 qualifier title on the line.

01:18:47.494 --> 01:18:49.535
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, but like it's not a G1 match.

01:18:49.575 --> 01:18:50.555
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a qualifier.

01:18:50.695 --> 01:18:51.235
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd be cool.

01:18:51.536 --> 01:19:00.560
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, it would be added to like, it's something to be your Shihachi, but it will suck even more to be Aaron Wolff and lose the match.

01:19:02.486 --> 01:19:06.629
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, that's why I don't think he's going to, I don't think Wolf's going to lose the match.

01:19:06.729 --> 01:19:10.271
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think so I direct just the dynamics here, just so it's all.

01:19:11.112 --> 01:19:15.055
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I said it's, we're still, we're still working on this right now.

01:19:15.075 --> 01:19:20.298
[SPEAKER_00]: Like right now, the creative and new Japan is not great at all.

01:19:20.418 --> 01:19:22.420
[SPEAKER_00]: It's, it's not inspired inspiring.

01:19:22.480 --> 01:19:23.921
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the world is going to use.

01:19:24.494 --> 01:19:36.435
[SPEAKER_00]: But Oscar and Aaron Wolfe in there would probably fill out that side of it, but we'll know both, we'll know a couple of them next week after that will be, and we won't know until July 6th, just before the tournament.

01:19:36.870 --> 01:19:46.461
[SPEAKER_01]: So those matches are next Wednesday, Steve and Tuesday, Tuesday, but we have a show before that.

01:19:47.042 --> 01:19:48.383
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a couple of things going on.

01:19:48.423 --> 01:19:49.605
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take a look at the week ahead.

01:19:49.845 --> 01:19:52.468
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a house show in Nagano on Friday.

01:19:52.508 --> 01:19:53.649
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no TV for that one.

01:19:53.669 --> 01:19:55.231
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not going to be on NJPW World.

01:19:55.711 --> 01:19:59.934
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's all tag matches, how's show stuff with the exception of one, which I thought was interesting.

01:20:00.274 --> 01:20:07.379
[SPEAKER_00]: Heartly Jackson, not in the G1 mix, sadly, will be wrestling two young lions at a time doing handicap matches Jeremy.

01:20:07.439 --> 01:20:07.819
[SPEAKER_00]: How about that?

01:20:07.839 --> 01:20:09.500
[SPEAKER_00]: A little different.

01:20:09.760 --> 01:20:17.185
[SPEAKER_00]: And then tomorrow night, fantastic a mania Friday on CMLL at Arena, Mexico on their YouTube channel.

01:20:17.725 --> 01:20:22.008
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to read off the card here real quick, because I think there's some really interesting stuff here.

01:20:22.108 --> 01:20:24.430
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me ask you, does it sound fantastic, Steven?

01:20:24.770 --> 01:20:25.330
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it does.

01:20:25.611 --> 01:20:38.500
[SPEAKER_00]: And those demonios summarized the samurai demons, Okamura and Yutani, and Shoma Kato, our boy, against Futuro, Max Star, and Valiente, Jr.

01:20:39.447 --> 01:20:39.988
[SPEAKER_00]: Not bad at all.

01:20:40.228 --> 01:20:40.428
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:20:40.448 --> 01:20:51.743
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a CMLL, Japan, women's title match, India Sue is the current CMLL, Japan champion, and she would be facing Rina from the hate group in Stardom.

01:20:52.760 --> 01:20:58.143
[SPEAKER_00]: six-man tag match, mascara de rada, neon and templario.

01:20:58.543 --> 01:21:00.845
[SPEAKER_00]: Nice combination there, against, get this.

01:21:01.085 --> 01:21:04.847
[SPEAKER_00]: So mascara de rada, neon and templario against them.

01:21:04.867 --> 01:21:05.728
[SPEAKER_00]: If she

01:21:16.302 --> 01:21:22.785
[SPEAKER_00]: Kirby enthusiasm, Los Romano's Chavez, and onheld the oro, and able a rohob, both excellent, excellent, excellent.

01:21:22.885 --> 01:21:26.286
[SPEAKER_00]: The Chavez brothers against Dictogo and Sonata.

01:21:26.606 --> 01:21:27.166
[SPEAKER_00]: Good luck boys.

01:21:27.866 --> 01:21:28.547
[SPEAKER_00]: Just do it again.

01:21:30.187 --> 01:21:33.749
[SPEAKER_00]: Single smash with Barbaro Cvernario and Elfantezmo.

01:21:35.269 --> 01:21:40.811
[SPEAKER_00]: Tag Team match with Hetsu Cero and Tequesta against Gran Guerrero and Ultimo Guerrero.

01:21:40.992 --> 01:21:41.852
[SPEAKER_00]: That'll be really good.

01:21:42.636 --> 01:21:58.351
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the main event, six man tag match Tiger Bask's final match in Mexico are in Mexico and on Friday night in a rain in Mexico, the whole thing Tiger mask, Mystico and Blue Panther, another legend, Blue Panther coming back, he can still go.

01:21:58.732 --> 01:22:05.018
[SPEAKER_00]: He can still go Blue Panther against Voldor Jr. Black Tiger, remember that's Magnus, now is Black Tiger.

01:22:05.498 --> 01:22:06.058
[SPEAKER_00]: and a fair no.

01:22:06.499 --> 01:22:07.199
[SPEAKER_00]: So heck of a good match.

01:22:07.780 --> 01:22:13.284
[SPEAKER_00]: I am actually bumping up my subscription to CML to the land as level so that I can watch this live tomorrow night and I will report back next week.

01:22:13.324 --> 01:22:14.184
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm excited about that card.

01:22:14.224 --> 01:22:16.166
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to say that I will report back next week.

01:22:16.186 --> 01:22:17.607
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm excited about that card.

01:22:17.627 --> 01:22:18.848
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to say that I will report back next week.

01:22:18.868 --> 01:22:19.488
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited about that card.

01:22:19.508 --> 01:22:20.749
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to say that I will report back next week.

01:22:20.769 --> 01:22:21.490
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited about that card.

01:22:21.510 --> 01:22:30.036
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say that I have to say

01:22:30.470 --> 01:22:32.492
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I would rather get a root canal than what you need to be.

01:22:32.632 --> 01:22:32.832
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:22:32.872 --> 01:22:33.653
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, next second.

01:22:33.673 --> 01:22:34.714
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a root canal recently.

01:22:34.994 --> 01:22:38.578
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I might still get my idea.

01:22:38.938 --> 01:22:41.681
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a root canal, Steven.

01:22:41.821 --> 01:22:44.664
[SPEAKER_01]: It is deeply unplossed and it is less.

01:22:45.285 --> 01:22:47.527
[SPEAKER_01]: And my A, W, it's in fact more pleasant.

01:22:48.628 --> 01:23:05.038
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what, if it came to that decision, I would probably choose A, W, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R,

01:23:15.863 --> 01:23:19.487
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Eugene Agada, Aaron Wolf and Josh Barnett.

01:23:19.927 --> 01:23:38.585
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw that as a team against, you know, how these blue justice shows go, this is straight up, good guy, bad guy, thing at the end and it's kind of our usual and rennerita, so the match isn't going to be good, but it'll be interesting, I guess maybe won't be, I don't know, but it's a weird team anyway.

01:23:39.628 --> 01:23:41.389
[SPEAKER_01]: uh, Barnett really liked Wolf, right?

01:23:41.729 --> 01:23:48.331
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you just keep I think that part of why this is happening and he just wants to be in a match with uh, with their wolf, it's like, yeah, it's my chance.

01:23:48.351 --> 01:23:49.052
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do it.

01:23:49.172 --> 01:23:49.912
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's right.

01:23:50.392 --> 01:23:54.934
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of the trio's matches earlier, if the guys bring their working boots, they don't always, they don't always.

01:23:55.374 --> 01:24:02.716
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, there is some interesting stuff underneath, for instance, Yoda, shingo, and ghetto facing yo, yo shihashi, and godo.

01:24:03.217 --> 01:24:06.418
[SPEAKER_00]: So be shaman and yo again, I mean, ghetto is going to do the loss on that one, but

01:24:07.333 --> 01:24:07.954
[SPEAKER_00]: the rest would be good.

01:24:08.354 --> 01:24:15.720
[SPEAKER_00]: Another one, Taichi Uimura and Desperado against knockout brothers and Dahi Keena Guy, probably be pretty darn good.

01:24:17.781 --> 01:24:24.847
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's see, Jose Fushita Hartley Jackson and O'Weewa against Jacob Austin, Young, Great O'Con and Henare, that'll be all right.

01:24:25.907 --> 01:24:32.933
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, if the guys show up, ready to work and deciding to work, there could be some good stuff on their show.

01:24:34.439 --> 01:24:38.483
[SPEAKER_00]: And after that, there are a couple other shows that aren't going to be on world.

01:24:38.503 --> 01:24:44.950
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to Hokkaido on Sunday, Togi Makabe is in the main event of that one Jeremy, it's his homecoming show.

01:24:45.410 --> 01:24:52.777
[SPEAKER_00]: Tuesday, back at Corrican, the Chiba show will be in Japanese only live English will be added later.

01:24:53.358 --> 01:24:55.080
[SPEAKER_00]: Back at Tuesday at Corrican,

01:24:55.792 --> 01:24:57.193
[SPEAKER_00]: We were both English and Japanese.

01:24:57.213 --> 01:24:58.614
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd imagine this going to be Chris Charlton.

01:24:58.954 --> 01:25:03.937
[SPEAKER_00]: And that Jeremy, it's a show with the qualifying matches on it.

01:25:04.637 --> 01:25:11.742
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's going to be an interesting test of momentum to see how many people come to that show in

01:25:25.372 --> 01:25:39.439
[SPEAKER_00]: On Tuesday, Yoshi Hashie versus Aaron Wolf, winner goes to the G1, the main event, Taiichi versus Yuto Ice, winner goes to the G1, and the junior heavyweight number one contenders four-way match is on this show.

01:25:39.519 --> 01:25:44.282
[SPEAKER_00]: Masterwato versus Francesco Akira versus show versus Jose Fugida.

01:25:45.302 --> 01:25:46.623
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't say they ain't trying.

01:25:46.723 --> 01:25:49.005
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not a house show car for Korkin.

01:25:49.105 --> 01:25:55.729
[SPEAKER_00]: They're taking this seriously and giving people a reason on a week night to travel down to Tokyo, Don't City.

01:25:57.470 --> 01:26:09.739
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, everything you said true, they're putting out these shows, but you know, like you're also the week after, or I don't know.

01:26:11.545 --> 01:26:23.451
[SPEAKER_01]: they are just shows, but you also have some of your, like, I get showed us going to be in the states and Sonata and a couple of the other guys are in CMLL and, you know, it's like you've got a divided roster.

01:26:23.471 --> 01:26:32.416
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're not even, you're not even got everybody there, even though what talks to everybody may still be lacking for some.

01:26:32.536 --> 01:26:32.796
[SPEAKER_01]: So,

01:26:34.540 --> 01:26:36.662
[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I want to be engaged by this.

01:26:36.682 --> 01:26:45.808
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go right back to the beginning of the show and the conversation that we had about Western wrestling, Japan, and all this stuff.

01:26:45.848 --> 01:26:51.993
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, I know that I've signed up to show up for this every week.

01:26:53.094 --> 01:26:59.058
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want the people who are making this stuff every week to recognize that my time is important.

01:26:59.138 --> 01:27:00.459
[SPEAKER_01]: And there could come a point.

01:27:01.518 --> 01:27:04.943
[SPEAKER_01]: where I'm not showing up every week if they don't show up every

01:27:06.420 --> 01:27:11.482
[SPEAKER_00]: The effort needs to be there, especially from the heavy weights, then it has not been through most of 2026.

01:27:11.542 --> 01:27:13.742
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to see that.

01:27:13.862 --> 01:27:18.343
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get a little bit more information about that this week with the cheaper show and then Cork and Hall.

01:27:18.904 --> 01:27:21.484
[SPEAKER_00]: The Cork and Hall show, I think the main event is going to be really good.

01:27:21.564 --> 01:27:26.206
[SPEAKER_00]: Taichi and Euto Ice will have the emotions of the crowd to play with and I think they'll both do a good job with that.

01:27:26.806 --> 01:27:29.286
[SPEAKER_00]: The four way can number one contenders match.

01:27:29.346 --> 01:27:32.587
[SPEAKER_00]: If there's not too much house torture bull crap, that could be really, really good.

01:27:32.927 --> 01:27:34.348
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are four pretty good workers.

01:27:35.148 --> 01:27:36.991
[SPEAKER_00]: Wolf and Yoshi Hashie is a story match.

01:27:37.031 --> 01:27:39.294
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see what they want to do with that.

01:27:39.855 --> 01:27:41.457
[SPEAKER_00]: Yoshi Hashie is a heck of a wrestler.

01:27:42.178 --> 01:27:43.560
[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to pull a lot out of wolf.

01:27:44.261 --> 01:27:45.062
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see what he does.

01:27:45.302 --> 01:27:49.928
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the idea of a Yoshi Hashie and Aaron Wolf match in which

01:27:50.629 --> 01:28:16.384
[SPEAKER_01]: Yoshi Hachi is definitely trying to put this guy away and Aaron Wolfe just won't quit and it's almost like a passing of the torch kind of thing it's like, okay, you know, like, because it can't be good guy bad guy Yoshi Hachi just can't be a bad guy and you don't want to position Aaron Wolfe as a bad guy, so it has to be something other than that and and just one of those Yoshi Hachi just can't put this guy away feel great.

01:28:18.062 --> 01:28:18.722
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with you.

01:28:18.742 --> 01:28:19.162
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.

01:28:19.222 --> 01:28:25.404
[SPEAKER_00]: So we have the blue just to show not the interesting main event but mostly how show Corrican consequential.

01:28:25.804 --> 01:28:30.926
[SPEAKER_00]: There's one more show next week that's not on NJPW World being site site Tom on Thursday.

01:28:31.006 --> 01:28:35.147
[SPEAKER_00]: So a couple of how shows start the week as they move close and closer to the G1 climax.

01:28:35.167 --> 01:28:38.848
[SPEAKER_00]: So when we come back next week, we will know two more entrants in the G1.

01:28:39.975 --> 01:28:45.040
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully, we'll know we'll have a pretty good idea at that point of Calumnum and can do this because I have a feeling he's getting checked out.

01:28:45.060 --> 01:28:53.209
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably as we speak, or at least as, you know, as being an I is being kept on the former champion there to see if he can do the G1.

01:28:53.349 --> 01:28:54.070
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully, he can.

01:28:54.430 --> 01:28:58.174
[SPEAKER_00]: He says he can, but that's also what he'll would say anyway.

01:29:01.433 --> 01:29:02.973
[SPEAKER_00]: Did I do you lose me the video?

01:29:03.314 --> 01:29:03.554
[SPEAKER_00]: I went.

01:29:03.594 --> 01:29:04.474
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I did.

01:29:04.514 --> 01:29:04.834
[SPEAKER_01]: You're.

01:29:04.914 --> 01:29:05.694
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't know how to.

01:29:05.714 --> 01:29:06.034
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:29:06.074 --> 01:29:07.495
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, last video we got audio.

01:29:07.515 --> 01:29:08.495
[SPEAKER_00]: We're signing off now.

01:29:08.575 --> 01:29:11.015
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, we have run out of time for Tiger mask again.

01:29:11.035 --> 01:29:11.896
[SPEAKER_00]: Doug on it next week.

01:29:11.936 --> 01:29:14.036
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to make a priority of getting to the Tiger mask stuff.

01:29:14.696 --> 01:29:17.077
[SPEAKER_00]: But maybe that's just a sign we should wrap this thing up.

01:29:17.197 --> 01:29:22.338
[SPEAKER_00]: So anything else before we go Jeremy that you wanted to add before we kick in next week.

01:29:22.678 --> 01:29:23.078
[SPEAKER_00]: Fantastic.

01:29:30.262 --> 01:29:35.185
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, I'm just happy that we made it out of here in 90 minutes and I get a home man.

01:29:35.205 --> 01:29:35.885
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see you next three.

01:29:35.905 --> 01:29:36.285
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody.

01:29:36.986 --> 01:29:37.366
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:29:37.406 --> 01:29:40.828
[SPEAKER_00]: So with that in mind, I'm Stephen Conway.

01:29:41.308 --> 01:29:41.988
[SPEAKER_00]: He's Jeremy.

01:29:42.168 --> 01:29:43.669
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I got I came back just for the end.

01:29:44.089 --> 01:29:44.830
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Stephen Conway.

01:29:44.850 --> 01:29:45.870
[SPEAKER_00]: He's Jeremy Feinstein.

01:29:45.910 --> 01:29:47.331
[SPEAKER_00]: This has been speaking of strong style.

01:29:47.351 --> 01:29:48.091
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for your time.

01:29:48.111 --> 01:29:50.412
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're watching us live here, thank you for your comments.

01:29:50.453 --> 01:29:51.453
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone who joined in.

01:29:51.813 --> 01:29:55.635
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're listening to us later, we appreciate your time there as well.

01:29:55.655 --> 01:29:58.857
[SPEAKER_00]: This has been speaking of strong style and we will talk to you again real soon.