Fujita vs. Master Wato Osaka Preview & NJPW BOSJ 33 Standings | Speaking of Strong Style

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are four nights into the best of the SuperGeneres tournament, and we have some surprise leaders and a couple of small injuries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thankfully, none of those turned out to be two serious.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The tournament has been in the Tokyo area so far, but the crew has had itself for a swing, and we expect the standings to be shaken up as the week rolls on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll take a look at what's happened so far on the tournament and preview the coming weeks action with Jeremy Feinstein, I'm Stephen Conway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is Speaking of Strong Style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome everyone to Speaking of Strong Style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We discussed the news issues and events surrounding new Japan pro wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are contributors to the fight game media network and Jeremy busy week for well three shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We did have night one as we went on the air last week, but three more nights of action all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: tournament match show, so either nine or 10 depending on the scheduling matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what we saw was mostly quick, fast-paced matches that were pretty entertaining for the most part.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not too many does this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've enjoyed what I've seen in the tournament so far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How are you feeling about it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, a lot of the guys were getting in and getting out there real quick with nine and ten match cards.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They they shaved a ton of time also significant amount of those matches, but maybe there's been like five at best bad matches, you know, they've been good, very good, and then I think yesterday we got our first really quick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, overall pretty good stuff and we're going to see a change this week and hopefully not from the good stuff, but just in the presentation, what we're going to be seeing this week for the first time is one block at a time in action with the rest in previews, just haven't seen that yet, everything has been boom boom boom, which might give the matches a little time to stretch out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: right now about the only thing that goes over 10 minutes is the semi-main event and the main event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's always seen so far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of these guys are working without a whole lot of ring time and having to tell their stories and the ring very quickly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And some have been quite successful in doing so.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have to say there there have been a couple of hiccups.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about those too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But again, after what's been a difficult year,

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[SPEAKER_01]: This has been a little bit on the better side and certainly refreshing change of pace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like the energy is up and for the most part fans have been responding to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the crowds have been enjoying what they're seeing as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just been a positive atmosphere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I felt mostly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They see some of these guys with stars, like really stars, like they will read these grounds love Robby apps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're really into co-safegida and, you know, Jun Kassai being there does not hurt things at all for the energy of this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, uh,

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[SPEAKER_00]: All in all, I think they just have the cocktail for a really potent, you know, mixture right now, and I'm enjoying it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like if you've been paying attention to kind of know where things are going, but it's a fun ride along the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you that much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now we had a couple of scarce here, Robbie X is working with a black eye that is improving day by day and he got kicked in the face by Nick Wayne accidentally.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody was being reckless.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just one of those things when you're flying around and Wayne kind of kicked him out of the air and it connected a little bit too hard, black and design, scratched up his face a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And for a couple of shows his eye was watering pretty bad during the match and he had to keep kind of wiping it off and

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he persevered through it and Robbie X has been having some of the very best matches in this entire tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it didn't affect that part of him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thankfully, the one that's a surprise.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you want to have something to say about right now.

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

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was just going to the back and forth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I know we're going next and I am not going to stop you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Valiente Jr. had a scare.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He did not wrestle the first night, Robert Junkissai wasn't available the very first night of the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had a scheduling conflict.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Valiente was going to be as opponent, so Valiente had the night off as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he began his tournament on night two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His match with Ryu's Gate to Gucci began.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was doing some lucha tumbling, nothing you don't see any other time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he just banged the back of his knee against to Gucci's knee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The front of to Gucci's knee went down and a heap grabbing his knee, waving the match off to the referee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach watching this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had no intention of continuing that match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't feel like he could.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They waved it off, but the X sign, which doesn't mean anything anymore in wrestling

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was worried he had blown out his knee completely and he was done for a few months.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It looked like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It looked like a ligament type of entry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Chris Charlton told us that as it turns out, it was just a hematoma that swelled his knee immediately.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He met him and so he was bleeding internally there on his knee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They drained it and he was able to continue and I'm sure it's

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[SPEAKER_01]: pretty good and they do a luchin at some walks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope I missed that whole explanation completely minor correction for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, please.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Valantio got off that first night, but his second match was against Daikin the guy on Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The injury happened some day pardon me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A couple of days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Completely unknown what was going at it happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sadder to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You wouldn't have had a match on Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even afraid about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I did copy a note from the best of the SuperJayers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm very good at it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he had the opener against aching the guy on night to my.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm all not the one to match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I haven't been looking as strong baby face, but the guy used to strong power moves against him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The guy made a mistake and value into one with the package face, but still can my notes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, what did me, my notes coming through in the clutch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he he and he's fine and he wrestled against Teton and he's able to continue that felt like they could on the show too Like yeah, you know he really couldn't get the guy and the guy and then he really didn't go very far to get you who yeah That's my touch at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really have taken you in the tournament I was like hey, you're not wrong.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was a better match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I see him from

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it was fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, and we'll get into more details.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we'll have to plot honestly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody go, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like nobody's out of the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no Gabe kid, like freak accidents or anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're just full steam ahead, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and there's a lot going on, of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Both Murray Gold and Stardom have major shows this weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I watched the Champion Carnival Finals this past weekend

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a really good tournament, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was some room terrific stuff in that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I enjoyed it thoroughly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So after a few weeks of New Japan, not quite being up to snuff, it was nice to see some good wrestling this past week and enjoy it and feel good about it again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And one of the things we did this week, though, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: was we uh... guessed it again with uh... top prognation in the guys there where we did a podcast dedicated to the katsuyuri shabada uh... kazuchka okata mash from twenty seventeen from saccharogenesis i went back and watch that entire show uh... just just to put it in the context and to see what else was on it

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned before that I worry that I look at the past with rose colored glasses sometimes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I wanted to watch the rest of it and to see if things have really changed that much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, yes, I guess they have.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is remarkable between the difference between 2017 and that was a very long time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But a couple of things really stand out is just the energy and sumo hall.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The pandemic had something to do with that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: gotten their enthusiasm back up in a lot of ways, true for sumo and some people have said it in baseball that there are the supporter sections that are still loud and singing and playing instruments of baseball games, so maybe the crowds aren't quite as loud.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, they may get something to do with that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, you really saw the difference.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we'll get into that more as Dominion approaches and the heavyweights come back in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it was a startling thing, Jeremy going back and watching that show from 2017 and seeing how well booked it was and how thoroughly booked it was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I look at the upcoming Dominion card, half of that card could be a house show, just multi-person tags in the first few matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Secured Genesis 2017, there was a young lion match that featured here I Kawato and Tomo Akiyoka, so great Ocon and Master Watto there in their young lion days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was another match that was just kind of to get guys on the card, granted everything else, either had a title or storyline to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're just not seeing that from New Japan right now, and the crowd was invested in just about everything on the show, and we're certainly not seeing that right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: New Japan is being booked differently and I would say in a way that is not beneficial and certainly the energy is totally different.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now that's that was a simple haul card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we need to compare it to another big event and it's not fair to compare that to a road to show and thanks, but it does show you that the things are indeed off course a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: which is why when I watched these shows this past week and saw a good energy and enthusiastic crowds, it made me feel much better and gave me a breath of fresh air.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I fear that it's going to go back the way it was when the heavy weights returned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But for now, we have some fun stuff to look at.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know exactly what you're talking about when you say you watch that show and you saw the energy different.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The relationship with the crowd, the crowd, like enthusiasm for what the promotion was bringing, the familiarity with stars that have been established and built in a way that like the audience was behind them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: all of these things are things that they're lacking right now, and it's just kind of just so obvious, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just so right there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And like you don't want to say it, like you want to say like, oh, it's even never.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they're just no way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's like they just, they don't have, they have not established these

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're at three, four years with Shota and Yoda and all of that and what was what was Okada doing, you know, three or four years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we know that Tonahashi and Nakamura spent a lot of time in that under 30, but these guys are 30 now, like what were they doing when they turned 30 and it's the same same

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Ocada was still in his 20s at that time, you know, and it's remarkable too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The other thing struck me, Jeremy, we talk all the time about how New Japan today struggles to just pick a guy and get behind him and that the top stars constantly fail, which means they're not top stars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And right now, nobody's a big star because the attendance is showing that nobody's drawn this company at the moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Main event of that one was Kazuchko Kada and Ketsu Yori Shibada.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Okada was in the middle of what would end up being a historic IWGP title run.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he would

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[SPEAKER_01]: be in multi-person matches and lose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That wasn't all that unusual, but he wasn't the one that was paned very often.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He almost never lost except in the G1, he would take a couple of losses.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He might get upset in the New Japan Cup.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His opponent was Katso Yuri Shabada who was just coming off of a never open-weight title run, which ended on, uh, restylating them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then he picked right back up and won

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the guy that had barely lost for half a year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They would get behind the guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So when they met, when they met, they had a credible challenger, a very, very credible champion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And today, like we're seeing, Callum Newman and Yoda Sushi, well, we've just seen Yoda Sushi lose both of his belts in the last few months.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen Callum Newman lose many times until he suddenly beats Sushi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, yes, Newman did when the New Japan Cup, that was, that was helpful, that was helpful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But none of these guys have that aura of an irresistible force meeting in a move of the blockjacked, and New Japan was just better at building guys back then, and I wish they would go back to this and look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: interesting stuff all the way up and down the card, not just the second half of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't just have to ask it with how show matches in the first bit of the card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The buildup of the challenger and with a dominant champion, but look, both guys looking strong going into the event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We can get back to this, but it takes them focus, and it takes them belief, and you can't just

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[SPEAKER_01]: 50 50 booking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've talked about it that when you have a 500 record, you're the least interesting thing going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A winning streak is interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Even a losing streak can be interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing's more boring than some days you win some days you lose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And right now, we've got a roster full of guys that are 500.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The mind of wandering a little bit today was thinking about this and it started leading me down with rabbit hole.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So for the last,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe since the pandemic ended and the audience was a lot to clap and cheer and do all the things that they've been doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: New Japan has been trying to find that hot, bold angle to reignite the fan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But hear me out here, hear me out here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: To find that, to find that thing, they did the Sonata thing to get night over again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They did the John Mops who run and now they're doing

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[SPEAKER_00]: the Callon Newman run, which you could all argue are bold initiatives by the promotion, but what we found out over and over and over is that bold initiatives don't matter if the audience doesn't care.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so when you were doing all of this, and then you, like, call back to this Ocotta run that was transformative in which the champion just defended the title over and over and over and over and over and didn't lose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And all of a sudden, you created this legacy of a wrestler, and then you look around and say, what could we possibly do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: to get another guy over and the answer is right there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But instead you're putting the title on an unproving guy like Kalenuman who, guys, he's great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he's not the guy to be the guy to be beat to make the next guy like him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yoda suits you beat them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like that fool Yoda suits you beat him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's still lost to him, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, yeah, there's just two steps back before you take one step forward with these guys and you're just perpetual motion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I just wish genuinely that we had gone in a direction where Yoda suits you with just hold on to that belt.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I don't know how hard anybody tried this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and then you go to rest with Kingdom and then a guy beat and then all of a sudden you got two guys at the top of the food chain they're going back and forth that all both have a claim the guy who could beat everybody and then the guy who beat the guy who could beat everyone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah well that's where we are unfortunately and we'll see if Dominion helps I'm skeptical on it and it's in a pretty big building so hopefully it's not an embarrassing

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[SPEAKER_00]: They got this great opportunity to be on TV and talking in real life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't have anything to offer for the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they're just running back wrestling kingdom and applying cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there's another note here about how uncreative New Japan has been lately.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like you mentioned, like they've tried all these angles, really what angles of the done, which another issue that I wanted to bring up, they haven't really done any flipping angles.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody in this company particularly hates anybody else or has mad about anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just, it's a bunch of matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And guys with belts being chased by guys without belts, which is fine, the belt and the chase for the belt

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[SPEAKER_01]: But nobody's really feuding, you know, that, oh, well, how's the torture people's just say, well, that's not over, or people don't enjoy it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And nobody's mad at anybody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we feel like Newman and Osprey is coming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if it's not, then they need to get their heads examined.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But who's mad at anybody?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I keep coming back to this idea that you have a number of angles involving the IWGP title, that involve AEW, that involve people in the U.S., involved in this, involved for this title for the last couple of years, when this is primarily been a Japanese promotion

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[SPEAKER_00]: where the audience expects that the big thing happened in the Japanese arena.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so there's almost been a cost of

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[SPEAKER_00]: dedication from the the lifelong fans who like everything that happened to Japan like I invested it and they don't want to be invested in what's going on in the state.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't want to care about what will offer you is doing in AEW, like all they care about is the IWGP title and they see you know, New Japan trying to

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[SPEAKER_00]: But even when you kind of look outside of the promotion, you still look like the kid brother will offspring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we still haven't gotten to that point where you've beaten him in every day that this path is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, you're building the anticipation for these two to have a match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But how much is this match really going to like have an effect on the infrastructure and the core of

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell a newman is still going to have to be some other guy in order to win the title and we'll all spray is going to go away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How does that help you out of Suji?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How does that help show to umina?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How does that help you out of Suji?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How does that get the interest for the fans for the home grown talent that they've invested in day one and think that these guys can be the ace when your

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[SPEAKER_00]: because we'll aspirate well and to come and work for the promotion of Celticians.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it is something that the last show at Simo Hall definitely asked for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was about the only guy on the car that fell in the start.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's like, that's the, that's the whole you dug yourself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You did not build any stars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now when the guy come around that isn't star and made the old

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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, how is that going to get your stars over?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, very true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, we'll have to, we'll have to see how the menu plays out and I am concerned.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But in the meantime, we do, I just have to add a bunch of here to just like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm I'm into a law spray.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love seeing a law spray come in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think you made that clear, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you made that there, but a little sad to see if they can get anything going out of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I think I will this conversation to be able to pursue.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be a you remember, right in the arena, real here, we were showed it up, you know, the knockout brothers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to have to go back and forth and talk about my column minimum and more loss, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because that's what the most important day seems happening in Newspend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where I'm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where I'm like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so we do need to get back to best of the super juniors, because that's actually what's going on at the moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we mentioned the couple of injuries that almost happened, but everybody seems to be okay, but in the meantime, let's take a look at the standings and then we'll go go through the leaders and some of the people that we expect.

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[SPEAKER_01]: that are not on the leaderboard to make a surge toward the second half of the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So in A-Block, the leader in the clubhouse, the only person in the tournament that's undefeated right now, Jeremy Teton, he is 4-0 on 8 points and after that, talk about a surprise, reuse gate to Gucci on 6 in second place, Masterwato, Robbie X,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jose Fugida, Nick Wayne and Jun Kassai sitting at four, two and two, or in some cases two and one, we'll talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not everybody's on the same number of matches due to those scheduling conflicts you mentioned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Valiente, Jr. and Francesco Akira on two, Diking a guy with the Gooseg so far on zero, basically, and there as a young lion for the most part.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's at least the way he's

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[SPEAKER_01]: For no, he defeated Master Watto on night one and a rematch to the finals from two years ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about that last week, really good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Night two, he had June, Kassai, which is very interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He won after using some chairs that used some chairs on the outside.

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[SPEAKER_01]: June tried to stab him with the skewers, the wooden skewers, but T Tom got them and used them on Kassai.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Both guys had rallies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: June tried the frog splash.

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[SPEAKER_01]: T Tom got the knees up, cut June and a pinning combination roll up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and that put Kassai, that was Kassai's first tournament match because he missed night one, put Kassai at O1-1, Teton at 2-1-0, then he opened night three with a win over Dahi Kina guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, the guy just out there basically putting people over he, and we'll talk about him in a bit, but Teton got the win there, and then on night four, he wrestled Valiente, and a match we weren't sure that was going to happen, but Valiente

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[SPEAKER_01]: another good match classic loose-a-stuff but that's kind of what people wanted out of it

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[SPEAKER_01]: even shorter than most CMLL matches again because we had to keep things moving with either 9 or 10 tournament matches a night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of these are quick ones and you'll hear the word quick, over-fast, that's going to be a theme of this one, but they had good energy when they had it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So T-Tom, Jeremy, I can see T-Tom being in this to the very end, they usually treat him with a lot of respect.

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[SPEAKER_01]: don't think he's going to win the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's going to have to cough up a couple of losses for dramatic purposes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I expect he's time to be part of this thing all the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Any he may be semi-finalist finalist type here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely good, big.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You look at him and you look at Matthew Wattow and the guys that you kind of might have to take seriously.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're the older states.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then you know, like, you got to talk a bit around like you

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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't think he's been here for like a long time, but what, how many tournaments has he been in?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's been like four or five six to the years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if just like, of course, he should be like doing really well, like coming out the gate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so not particularly shocked, but I also kind of think that he could get, he can go five and four and get squeezed out of the playoffs if he loses to the right games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you still have to carry out and you still have food, you know, you still have Robbie F's opponents.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that that five and four and unfortunately still ain't going to get you to the promised land feels like the direction of one T ton.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think he'll be, I think he's going to be in it to the very end, might make some us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, after that, we have re-escape to Gucci.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, interesting question here, night one, he beat Nagai with the doughed on straight forward match against basically a young white.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Night two, he got an upset win over Master Watto.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, very quick, two minutes, 10 seconds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They exchanged some submissions early.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Lots of pin scrambles, and to Gucci simply caught him in one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Fans got a kick out of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, what they're doing with him was telling the story that he is approaching, Jewish and Thunder Ligers, best of the super junior win record over the course of a career.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On night three, he went into his match with the valianta, one off of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll never know if valianta or Tagushi were supposed to win that match, but it is convenient for New Japan's storytelling that he is now tied with Liger in a match that never got started because less than a minute in valianta, valianta's knee went and he had thought he had blown it out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I felt like the look on, I felt like the look on to Gucci faith like I was supposed to win that match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The story, though, and the tension throughout the rest of this tournament is will he get one more win and break that record.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so on night four, he took the loss to Nick Wayne and Nick Wayne and that match did to Gucci's act more than to Gucci did to Gucci's been wrestling fairly seriously so far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Nick Wayne has apparently been watching a lot of Taguchi and he just did that act.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he used all of his moves.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hippotac did the his Taguchi's parody of Nakamura in the corner, all that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No one expects to go to you to win, but this chase for Liger's record adds something to his story in this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If this didn't give me a last tournament because like the way it is attention, the way the attention is building like this idea that I'll never win another match and the even what you managed to win three matches here, it's me think that like getting one more won't be that much of a problem in the entirety of this career.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but he maybe this is like the passive way of them saying like he ain't going to be doing the tournament much longer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he hasn't said that, but yeah, it's fair enough, but it is interesting just to think that he then his next win breaks the record and add something each one of his battles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's been around a long time and even though like Nick Wayne was dismissive of him, he should still show him a lot of respect at the very end.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think there's a lot of, there's a lot of the mindset of, like, I make sure we get this guy flatwards, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he was in the same young lion class as Nakamura, like they entered the dojo at the same time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And my favorite fact about Tagushi is that when they got there, he was so prepared, he was the only guy that could do the drills all the way through the first time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So like day one, he could do a thousand squats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: which is brutal for anybody, but he knew what was coming and had trained so hard that, you know, Nakamura, who was in good shape.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nakamura was a high school athlete and a good one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I went into the dojo and it was Taguchi that was the guy that could do everything day one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: While everybody else was, you know, barfing into trash cans in exhaustion to Gucci kept going.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I, I look at, you know, $5 a print of debit and they were side by side for years

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's looking a little bit older and you know, like he, he has an ability to show up and show out more than Degucci has that opportunity or even the desire to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, they're completely different pathways.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, but it is like interesting to see the intersections of all of these people throughout wrestling that Degucci had to you, like, molding cliff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he could pull a little more, should you get a little more

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so those are the people that are on six points in the A block.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we have a backup of guys here on four.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we've got a bottle in that here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And one of them is Master Watto, who I think is going to play a big part in this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned that Teton Lawson night one, then the Taguchi upset on night two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On night three, he and Robbie X added terrific match, but Robbie was struggling with the thigh quite a bit in that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He did get the win, uh, Watto did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then on night four, he defeated Francesco Akira and they really good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was lots of talk on that match of Watto not being mean enough, both in post match comments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And in the announcer's commentary, Walker Stewart was back this week with Chris Charlton.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: If the end of that a Kira match, watch a hit one of the prettiest German suit plexus with a bridge you will ever see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It will suit me and Kaku German to what they call it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: perfect.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was perfect.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so now that puts him at that tune to there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he is going back to Osaka, his hometown in the main event against Jose Fuji to tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I expect water to be a part of this one down the stretch too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to have a strong week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if he'll beat Fuji to look ahead to that a little bit later, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: I still feel like Watto has a big part to play in this thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's too many mentions of him by other wrestlers in the tournament for it to be a coincidence for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, that's a big match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have been building with Watto and Fudry to match at least three or four weeks before, you know, whatever the the two nights wrestling didn't talk to

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were you talking trash about watching all the way back then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was like, man, now I really want to see the match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this could be a really important match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like the the match that Robbie has had to food you know, was a big deal match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But this match, you know, that what it was, he's

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's something with him in this tournament where he's got a role to play and I'm not exactly sure what it is, because the A block if ridiculous was stepped and there are a number of people that can end up going on to that next like bracket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and I would be shocked if it ended up being what I would not be at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't be shocked at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we also have Robbie X of four points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had a wall saw a night one in Nick Wayne that injured his eye.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good action though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Since then, I had some of the best matches in the entire tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The night do Francesco Akira, great match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He worked it as though he couldn't do all of his flying because of the injury, like his equilibrium was off or he couldn't see well enough to cure and ended up missing his double knees and then X hit him with a kick to the head that looked really good and sort of flash knocked out Akira and got the pinfall on that one terrific match worth going back to see mentioned the loss to

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he defeated Jose Fuji in the main event in the second show at cortical and they were turned to cortical to that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those two of course we've mentioned in tag team matches and here in singles matches they're great together as always the fans loved this the fans love Robbie and I do too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've just become such a big fan of this guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: match that look like it could have gone either way, terrific near falls in the anti-hit X marks the spot and the X express to win a big match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he is now beaten Akira, he's now beaten Fujita and I'll tell you what, man, any time Robbie X isn't there ring, there's just something dynamic about the guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Every time he's in there, I'm just, I think he's great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to see him more and more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There were a couple of moves in moments of that match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, what, Robbie did a 540 tornado kick in the middle of the match, just a fantastic move there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Poison Rhonda out of a German souplets.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Was there one time, and then that finished, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were on the top rope, Robbie jumped down power bomb Fujia, goes for a pen, get to the one camp.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So then he goes for Esmerk's response and gets the two count and then he goes for the absence press off the job rope and gets the three and it's just one of those like that's exactly what you're supposed to do to put a guy away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're just you keep hitting him with more and more and then he's not going to get back out of the notes like that was a clean finish for a top star and Robbie and look like a stock top star more and more every time it's seen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just do

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say hello to Jordan from Canada and Fernando Zayas who have joined us here allowed to let you guys are here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jose Fusza let's talk about him because this is a guy that won the tournament last year and I still think it's going to be a big part of this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He got to win over Akira in the main event on night one night two he defeated Nick Wayne in the semi-final match of that show that one was constant motion and a really cool finish where Wayne jumped off the ropes and Fusza caught him in mid-air and hit thrill ride move looked really really good

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[SPEAKER_01]: chair shot to the head lead to I guess not everybody is comfortable bleeding themselves Jeremy the and that's always been true and sometimes you know you got somebody is experienced with it as June you have them do it the problem is it was the most blatant blade job I have seen in so long the Chris Charlton had to call it

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[SPEAKER_01]: at ringside.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had to talk about he seems to be scraping a blade across his forehead, you know, like there was no obvious.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, he had him in a headlock with and he would reaching for something on the ground in front of the announced table with the camera right there and he started deliberately gashing and he just had it like, oh yeah, he's cutting about right there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the referee is just like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was not great, not good work by anybody in that one, but the point of opinion with no and I think that this is one of those where you just have to go with the referee is going to give it a little bit wider birth because it's juke aside.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, whatever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Fositive survived.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the finish was a little stupid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Fositive survived every big move June because I had big move kick out, big move kick out, big move kick out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then he lost to an inside cradle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know a lot of people like this match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was not among them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just thought this was a little bit silly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Afterwards though, I just thought it was poorly put together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then there was a loss to Robbie X on night four, which we mentioned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Excellent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Excellent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Matt's one of the very, very best of the entire tournament of that match with Robbie X, but he's on a bit of a cold streak going into Osaka, which I think is interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's in the main event tomorrow, but he's on a two match losing streak and facing the hometown boy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there are several layers of subtext to that main event match coming up in Osaka.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even if,

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[SPEAKER_00]: cosy Fujita does not win the tournament, okay?

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[SPEAKER_00]: This tournament feels all about cosy Fujita.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's an all that is in the main event of the semi maims of nearly every show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They are making a point to speed run him to show that he can hang with like June because I and trying to show off that he can go toe to toe with Robbie Eps and there's a lot about this that they're just they're trying to wrap all of this around him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and when I'm watching it, I feel like it is very deliberate, but I don't know if other people are picking up on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, he's my favorite to win it because I feel like all rogue lead to Fujita, because they're, and like it all you're anger on one basket kind of thing, but even if he doesn't win, like going down the stretch, the story is going to be heavily Fujita leaning regardless of you win

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[SPEAKER_00]: the way that they've cultivated some of these cards and tried to make these spotlight matches about him, you know, like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jun can kind of really the first match that he did that got.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm to his super hard core.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it was specifically we're going to do this because say, you know, and when he had the Robbie

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[SPEAKER_00]: day, just said, all right, let's just go for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like gloves are off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just do the best match you guys can possibly have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to give you 20 minutes, just blow them all away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's very deliberate that I'm going to each one of these guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That master water on Fujita match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like in the in the scheme of things, without those promos that Fujita really calling them out,

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[SPEAKER_00]: but they put pepper on it all the way back a month ago in order to make you look forward to it to this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were like, oh, hey, that's a, that's a Jita water match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be something that'll determine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious what they do when they get to valiantage in here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious what happens, but we get to Teton, you know, I thought Akira and Fujita, when they had that match on the first night, it was going to go the other way because there were going to be traumatic tension.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, no, it's just Fujita.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's just so behind him from the way that I feel like they're booking him, even if you lose his He's winning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, see how it goes, but yeah, he's figured in all the way through the term almost every match he has almost every match he had is either a semi main or a main event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Fernando says he will win and break the small losing streak, and he also says sometimes belating is not needed in matches and I don't like it when it's forced.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you for Dando and this was an example of a being for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he wanted to do it, just to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm wrestling, June, because I want to believe a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I also don't know how to blade, so sometimes you have to have somebody else do it and that's, uh, it's, it's weird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, I would, I've done it in my very short time and wrestling, uh, well, not short time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did it for many, many years, but I didn't, I was mostly a manager.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't have a lot of matches, but I did a couple of times and it's, it's unpleasant.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, but I'm sure it's hell not going to let anybody else do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll handle myself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kochi Fujita calls himself the young punk.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What would be more punk rock than when somebody cut your forehead open for blood?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just because.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, Iggy Pap never needed anybody else to cut him open.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He just used the bottle of himself on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted to throw once more punk rock then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, speaking of Junsu Kessai, we mentioned he debuted on night two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He has four points also.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was to Teton.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the Fujita match we just mentioned that was a win for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he beat Dikina Guy on night three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting way they did that match, though Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No blood in that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did a thing where Dake and a guy hit a top A suicide on June to start the match just to kind of jump start it and give the impression that the guy so I got to go all out here and get a little crazy because

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[SPEAKER_01]: He gave the guy most of that match until the very end when I want to see what the transition move here was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They wrote it down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not lying.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The guy missed a splash off top.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the head.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and splattered and then, uh, June started running around and it revealed that he had been playing possum and was perfectly fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hit the lary it, then hit his finish, uh, to win the match and beat in the guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, then finish a small package.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a small package.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's funny that when you watch Jun Kassai do offense in a regular wrestling match, I want you to pay attention to something Jeremy I noticed this every single one of his moves every single one of them the way he does them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're all designed for his opponent to land on something that will cut him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Watch how he does it you'll see what I mean if you pay attention like every single movie does is so guys can take perfectly flat bumps onto light tubes or bar wire or something like that and like there almost nothing is rolling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nick, he does the small package and things like that, but all of his stuff, there's like blue thunder bombs and various versions of those things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the guy can land flat on something else safely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or as safely as you can do something like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As I was watching this, I was just thinking, he's wrestling the matches if there are weapons all over the place, they just aren't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's just ingrained in his noggin there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His scarred up noggin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, he's not bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't mean to sound like I was taking it away from him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a fun game to play at home as watch his offense and picture what might be under it normally.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've been incredibly selfish of a wrestler.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In this tournament, he's working really, really hard to put all the other guys over as much as possible, like within reason, and even the, even the co-save Fujita match, like he had to spell back at you, you know, like he.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fujita would not go down and he had to do wildly veteran strength to win, like even the dyke and a guy match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He gave the match in the guy until basically, like all of the new guy matches, the guy beat himself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the other guy just took advantage of, like, a mistake he made.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I took one of the match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just in one of those things that I'm watching this and I'm just like, wow, he's really just like, he's winning and moving and fine here or there, but he really giving himself to like the other guy in a lot of ways, even that Fujita match, it felt like you were teaching Jose stuff on in the match stuff that

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did you to might really need to know going forward if you want to be one of the top guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I just wanted to give him credit for that because I just I felt like what I've been watching is there there've been something to that with the way that he's been giving back in his magic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also on the points there, let's see, four points, Nick Wayne.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the win over Robbie X on night one, lost a food gun night two, lost to Akira on a roll-up where Akira was holding Wayne's tights on night three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was another pretty good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he beat Taguchi,

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[SPEAKER_01]: mentioned some of the overselling on night one didn't see that as much later in the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, maybe he was just a little jet lag maybe over caffeinated for that one or something that we have really seen the overselling as much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that to Gucci thing was its own weird form of entertaining in that to Gucci didn't do to Gucci's act, but Wayne did and beat him with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He, you know, throwing the hip attack doing all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So,

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's been wrestling well, he's here to mostly finish in the middle of the pack, I think.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I've enjoyed Nick Wayne.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I did also enjoy, by the way, that Walker Stewart pointed out one of his music players said, hey, it's Nick Wayne.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I started listening to the music, and I said, oh, no, that's the only lyrics in the whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just saying he's never read.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's such an indie guy thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't even mean that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: For years, you know, for a year or something like that, before you could join AEW after signing his contract, you had to stay in the Indies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And at that time, a thing when you're going to a national guard armory in front of people that aren't necessarily there to see you, it helps when your music is just saying your name over and over again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just just helps a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not everybody has a program.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought that was kind of, I got to kick out of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do think that Robbieette's is stealing a little bit and Nick Wayne's thunder and turns like the athleticism in the connection with the crowd.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, ex is far better as a worker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but Nick Wayne is younger and he's got a lot of potential down the line.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't think he's had those like blowaway matches in the tournament yet, but I'm kind of looking at that valley and to junior and to tawn matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think on June 2nd and May 29th,

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[SPEAKER_00]: for Nick Wayne.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, the over the two that are really going to have to like kick some butt and really just show up and show up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I don't really see the the water match as being anything other than just a good match and the dieting a guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like the dieting a guy match is an exactly the one that I'm going to rule that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if the valianty and Teton and with his athleticism and their background in lucha,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we'll say, the issue with Wayne to me is iron sharpens iron and he has leveled off in his improvement simply because having a match sometimes and other weeks not in AEW against

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm being in like a trios match against guys just being part of that guys doing stuff thing that I eat W has where let's just have a multi-person tag and just do moves for a while video game wrestling and he's not

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[SPEAKER_01]: Improving like he could if he were in with better workers consistently having matches with guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the iron there's no iron sharpening is iron unfortunately he's just kind of Hanging around in the case and the in the in the carrying case instead of having iron sharpening iron with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yes, no.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had a footage radio doubt for six months.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, there's that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He did just drop the ring of honor television title to AR Fox.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he'd come over today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you sample.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not going to get better recently.

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[SPEAKER_00]: AR Fox, but I'm saying he's been in ring of honor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's been doing the reps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's working.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's working the tours.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not against great workers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hear the iron sharpening iron.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think that he was sharpening against thought.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's actually doing some work over in Ring of Honor and you were defending that title and he was doing stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I was trying to do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was certainly doing stuff, which is like the thing, again, video game wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's guys and they're doing stuff, but not really telling a story you're doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's an epidemic right now around American wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And not exclusive to AEW, not exclusive to AEW.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But okay, also, a valianta and Francesco Kirer are only on two points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Akira is wrestling really well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His matches are almost always one of the very, very best to the night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, valianta is one match behind the rest because he missed

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[SPEAKER_01]: night one and they're going to make that up over the course of this weekend and he'll be back on pace with everybody else so he has one fewer match than everybody else but he seems to or I besides the scare with the Gucci so he never really got to wrestle that match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Akira is likely to start scoring points in a big way this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to have a strong week and get back into the thick of things and Valiente is there to

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, fill out the tournament, have good matches, but not be a factor in my opinion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of what I expect right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I'll be involved like on the last day, but I do think a cure will be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I can see a cure of getting some wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He has to Gucci, Valiente, Teton coming up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that could potentially Jeremy B, victory victory victory there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so he's locked Robby at the neglect to cocafe Fujita and he's locked to master what to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Fujita one is a bad tiebreaker, but he has a chance to have good tiebreakers against a couple other top contenders to be correct.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's got five matches left.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He could go six and three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that's not completely out of the question and when the next five, when you're looking at it, he's got to Gucci, that'll enter junior, Teton, Dakin, a guy in June, because I could see him beating all of those guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and the Teton match really stands out because it's on the final day of block play and that's the way they get it and kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it just feels like that's got huge consequences for both guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just has that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's in the air.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I might, you know, that's the wood that just feels like a big match in that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, yeah, I mean,

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm saying don't worry about him, folks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have something there at two points right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He'll be fine and this is a common thing in New Japan bracketing is that they just, they have a guy come from behind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes the guy you really want to come from behind to get in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the guy you really don't want to come out behind to get in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's the, the latter on this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's take a look at the B block then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is some parity here in that we have three people on six points three people on four points and four people on two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So no one is more than two matches away from the top.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's how tight it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And on six points, we have yo show and dice case isaki, which is a bit of a surprise.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't expect it to be a leader after week one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then on four points, right there, poised to make a move if they need to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Desperado, Ishimori, and Yoshinobu kind of maro.

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[SPEAKER_01]: sitting at two points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kushita, Jacob Austin Young, Hill, and the surprise to me in that group it only two is Robbie Eagles.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's go ahead and start at the top.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Similar to Francesco

53:10.105 --> 53:12.226
[SPEAKER_01]: And he has said an interesting term.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he lost on night one to Heo and again, and one of those deals where New Japan puts over the guests on night one just to show there's a reason they're here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then he beat Jacob Austin Young in a quick match.

53:24.672 --> 53:26.373
[SPEAKER_01]: Good, but it was fast again.

53:26.593 --> 53:30.315
[SPEAKER_01]: We're keeping some of those especially early in the night matches moving.

53:31.075 --> 53:39.798
[SPEAKER_01]: the semi-finals and the main event get a little bit more time, but those first four matches usually go by in a blur.

53:40.779 --> 53:41.899
[SPEAKER_01]: Hit the direct drive there.

53:42.639 --> 53:46.461
[SPEAKER_01]: He got a big win for himself over Taigi, Ishimori on night three.

53:46.941 --> 53:56.205
[SPEAKER_01]: Ishimori worked over Yo's taped up shoulder quite a bit, but Yo ended up surviving the bone lock, came back, hitting direct drive, good match, and a big

54:00.157 --> 54:10.240
[SPEAKER_01]: And in a match with a lot of comedy and a lot of silliness, he used Marty Asami, the referee at one point for Tahiris on show, lots of trickery with Marty.

54:10.260 --> 54:12.020
[SPEAKER_01]: Marty was very much involved with this one.

54:12.040 --> 54:15.601
[SPEAKER_01]: They kept shoving Marty into harm's way and Marty would manage to avoid it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He then hit a low blow and planted the wrench on show for a DQ finish.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yo, sitting there with three victories.

54:28.932 --> 54:39.419
[SPEAKER_00]: again, show in the match and the irony that show who actually didn't actually cheat.

54:39.600 --> 54:41.261
[SPEAKER_00]: He brought the wrench in but didn't use it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Didn't actually cheat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: for one in his life got disqualified without actually doing anything wrong.

54:51.216 --> 54:57.458
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, oh, the irony of this match, that was quite the Clemher House of Tortures for you.

54:57.978 --> 55:04.559
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, him, him saying, you know, the other guy cheated the whole time, and there's something like, no, I'm just trying how to deal with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was delightful.

55:11.701 --> 55:24.015
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like yellow is going to be that spoiler guy where he's just going to kind of ruin everybody's day to get into the tournament, but he's not really going to have that opportunity himself on the second the last night.

55:24.075 --> 55:27.819
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got El Desperado and on the last night he's got Dice

55:34.777 --> 55:47.440
[SPEAKER_00]: You can go five and four and still lose on tie breakers and costs both of those guys as well and I feel like that's kind of where I'm moving on that right now.

55:48.580 --> 55:51.381
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, and show, let's talk about the other half of that match.

55:51.541 --> 55:54.821
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he was three and oh, going into that match with yo.

55:54.901 --> 55:57.702
[SPEAKER_01]: So he was the guy that got out of the gate very quickly in this one.

55:58.182 --> 56:03.443
[SPEAKER_01]: He got the DQ win over kind of Maro when he tricked kind of Maro into spitting the whiskey into the referee's eyes on night one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then he beat Robbie Eagles, which was a good match until the House of Torture stuff started, and then it kind of went downhill.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But a good match until that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He hit a shock arrow after popping Robbie with the the mirror.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He beat the sheet on day three and this kind of blends into the next guy we're going to talk about, which is dice case of sake.

56:25.091 --> 56:28.774
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to describe what happened and then we'll get to why that matters later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He did this where he convinced Kushita who, of course, wrestled the first match of the tournament with no boots on an MMA style, right,

56:40.595 --> 56:45.859
[SPEAKER_01]: Cushita to do that again, and he says, I'm willing to go toe to toe with you, pardon the pun.

56:46.519 --> 56:51.343
[SPEAKER_01]: And when Cushita began to take his boots off, show a tactic.

56:52.324 --> 57:07.414
[SPEAKER_01]: And they fought with one boot on and then both, you know, that stuff he ended up taking off the the sock and stuffing it in to Cushita's mouth as he gave Cushita submission hold and got the victory

57:10.627 --> 57:13.448
[SPEAKER_00]: then he had the loss to you that we just discussed right there.

57:13.488 --> 57:27.572
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, most of his stuff has been house torture, crud, but that Robbie Eagles match Jeremy again, just reminds you how much they are wasting with show in that this dude can wrestle.

57:27.652 --> 57:29.593
[SPEAKER_01]: So well, when they friggin' let him.

57:31.622 --> 57:48.143
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I've been on the show train for a while because I've watched him and I watch him wrestle like a cowardly heel, but it's just kind of like he's more like evil in that you have to be good to wrestle.

57:48.990 --> 57:52.891
[SPEAKER_00]: the way that he does continuously and maintain entertainment.

57:53.172 --> 57:54.632
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.

57:54.672 --> 57:56.553
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, like you have to be good at this.

57:56.573 --> 58:00.434
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, otherwise you're chasing out like, you know what I mean?

58:00.454 --> 58:05.976
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you're just in painful and you're just like, this is the thing that guys.

58:06.436 --> 58:12.659
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's got the flashy jacket with the hair and all that stuff.

58:13.079 --> 58:14.179
[SPEAKER_00]: And all just kind of work.

58:15.139 --> 58:16.280
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're looking at this tournament.

58:17.552 --> 58:33.580
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, in each block, you kind of want to have a taste and a heal, and I think this guy's wind on the block, you know, I think I think show an LDF pirado, or probably my favorite to like move forward on this, because he still need to don't test pirado.

58:33.920 --> 58:37.962
[SPEAKER_00]: You still need to start powering it, but you need a good guy and you need a bad guy.

58:38.650 --> 59:00.143
[SPEAKER_00]: And even though dokey isn't around you still need a proxy for dokey you know like I'm going to win this tournament and still nobody's going to face dokey and I just think show is really position to go into the post block play to be that guy that's like oh they're really going to ruin this for us all the way to the very end so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's wrestling like he matters in the tournament, and I appreciate that.

59:07.599 --> 59:11.020
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the cloche thing to evil that we have in this promotion.

59:13.542 --> 59:17.263
[SPEAKER_01]: And well, why the way congratulations to evil and he owes guy.

59:17.283 --> 59:19.124
[SPEAKER_01]: It made public their marriage, by the way.

59:19.184 --> 59:20.325
[SPEAKER_01]: That was so, that was really cool.

59:20.345 --> 59:23.466
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about quite sure if they're married or not, it's now confirmed they're married.

59:24.444 --> 59:43.121
[SPEAKER_01]: certainly are now there's no doubt about that and the no doubt about that very cool very nice and even made the cover of some of the wrestling magazines over in Japan so they are a beautiful couple they've already had they might yes that is true uh yeah what's an obvious hair was looking really good for those shoot right there

59:43.221 --> 59:58.885
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, even the, you know, like hot towel with the cloaks shave the beard, I don't know, I can see what you see, I don't I see it now, now the other person on six points, nice case of sake.

59:59.365 --> 01:00:01.246
[SPEAKER_01]: our friend from DDT right there.

01:00:01.326 --> 01:00:09.351
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was looking a bit I have the best of the super juniors from 2011 program up behind me here just as our little program of the week.

01:00:09.871 --> 01:00:11.132
[SPEAKER_01]: And he was in that tournament.

01:00:11.172 --> 01:00:12.733
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy all the way back then too.

01:00:12.813 --> 01:00:16.395
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a reminder that this guy's been around for a minute and has a lot of experience.

01:00:16.796 --> 01:00:18.677
[SPEAKER_01]: He got the win over Despey on opening night.

01:00:19.357 --> 01:00:22.278
[SPEAKER_01]: which we talked about last week, on night two, he beat Koshita.

01:00:22.418 --> 01:00:23.999
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, how did he beat Koshita, Jeremy?

01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:35.003
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, before the match, he dared Koshita to take off his shoes again, like Koshita had in the first match and when Koshita took his boot off, dice cases are he attacked him?

01:00:35.563 --> 01:00:36.464
[SPEAKER_01]: Good then when they fought.

01:00:37.344 --> 01:00:41.447
[SPEAKER_01]: He gave him a mandible claw by taking off the sock and stuffing it in the Rashida's mouth.

01:00:41.888 --> 01:00:53.497
[SPEAKER_01]: If all of this sounds familiar to you, it is because somehow they manage to decide to do the exact same thing to consecutive nights.

01:00:53.977 --> 01:00:57.019
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the first time with Sasaki, the second time with show.

01:00:57.399 --> 01:01:07.384
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I know that New Japan is struggling to come up with anything creative, but holy God, they did the exact same thing, two nights in a row.

01:01:07.864 --> 01:01:14.427
[SPEAKER_01]: If these were house shows that weren't televised, I wouldn't say a peep, but you've got to be kidding me.

01:01:14.667 --> 01:01:17.148
[SPEAKER_01]: During a tournament, when people are watching this on

01:01:24.017 --> 01:01:38.053
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yes, but you could all to draw the conclusion that Coach Trainer Koshita has never been more Jeff to Guy than this year where he is Jeff to Guy.

01:01:38.774 --> 01:01:41.637
[SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, Koshita, to agree to that,

01:01:43.053 --> 01:01:45.814
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know how big of an idiot he looked after the show match?

01:01:46.094 --> 01:01:55.076
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing to be like, I'm gonna do the mandible claw gimmick through this entire like tournament is to Gucci level of commitment to being a jobner.

01:01:57.277 --> 01:01:58.637
[SPEAKER_01]: Puzzling to me, just puzzling.

01:01:58.677 --> 01:02:01.458
[SPEAKER_00]: He's taking the clock to the mouth of what twice now.

01:02:01.838 --> 01:02:02.118
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:02:04.238 --> 01:02:19.364
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I gave the I gave the recaps and Brian didn't get the content to the manimal claw and he was like, yeah, and then she'd got a, got a soft stuff, stuff that's about like, yeah, no, they're going to more context to that, but you didn't get a soft stuff to the foul.

01:02:19.424 --> 01:02:23.886
[SPEAKER_00]: So, factually correct, which is the best kind of correct.

01:02:25.907 --> 01:02:34.055
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, anyway, point being he then beat heo by submission on night three and lost ishimori on day four.

01:02:34.195 --> 01:02:38.699
[SPEAKER_01]: So it seems like Sasaki is going to be in it probably to the end.

01:02:38.739 --> 01:02:41.622
[SPEAKER_01]: My guess here, Jeremy is maybe on the last night.

01:02:42.043 --> 01:02:45.066
[SPEAKER_01]: He takes a bad loss to keep him from advancing, but

01:02:45.786 --> 01:02:51.207
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Sasaki, he's experienced is he on the level of the best New Japan workers.

01:02:51.547 --> 01:02:52.227
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not.

01:02:52.448 --> 01:02:52.688
[SPEAKER_01]: No.

01:02:53.068 --> 01:02:54.988
[SPEAKER_01]: But he knows how to work matches.

01:02:55.408 --> 01:02:58.249
[SPEAKER_01]: He perfectly acceptable matches here.

01:02:59.089 --> 01:03:02.430
[SPEAKER_01]: And as a heel, it kind of works.

01:03:02.730 --> 01:03:07.691
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not something that I'm doing cartwheels over, but he's he's fine in this role.

01:03:07.931 --> 01:03:10.792
[SPEAKER_01]: And a decent foil for the baby faces.

01:03:10.952 --> 01:03:11.952
[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's fine work.

01:03:12.899 --> 01:03:18.463
[SPEAKER_00]: His gimmick is that he had a hardcore drunk more than Santa Maro and that's how he wrestles number one.

01:03:19.043 --> 01:03:27.008
[SPEAKER_00]: And number two, I just wanted to congratulate him because in this tournament alone, he had managed to actually double his total wins.

01:03:41.291 --> 01:03:54.504
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking at this tournament from 2011, Jeremy, just you mind going off on a little bit of a, so I thought you'd be impressed that I, that I was a pretty cool, that's a pretty cool, but here's the competition he had before when he only got a few wins.

01:03:55.165 --> 01:04:00.710
[SPEAKER_01]: What reminded me, that's the, okay, well, who is beating him in 2011 over and over again, right?

01:04:01.431 --> 01:04:02.552
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say a decent list.

01:04:02.612 --> 01:04:02.993
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you ready?

01:04:04.272 --> 01:04:05.793
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Prince Devin.

01:04:06.473 --> 01:04:06.674
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:04:06.694 --> 01:04:08.074
[SPEAKER_01]: Code Jake Koji Kanemoto.

01:04:08.515 --> 01:04:08.755
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

01:04:09.495 --> 01:04:11.136
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the current Tiger Mask, Tiger Mask 4.

01:04:11.837 --> 01:04:12.857
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Taichi.

01:04:13.558 --> 01:04:15.079
[SPEAKER_01]: Our holy emperor and the juniors.

01:04:15.699 --> 01:04:23.504
[SPEAKER_01]: Jato, Davey Richards, Hayato, Kenny Omega, and TJP in one block.

01:04:24.624 --> 01:04:27.886
[SPEAKER_01]: Dice case isaki was in the other block, and this is the B block.

01:04:28.807 --> 01:04:30.268
[SPEAKER_01]: Juition Thunder, Friggin Lager.

01:04:31.563 --> 01:04:32.504
[SPEAKER_01]: reuse gay to Gucci.

01:04:32.684 --> 01:04:36.908
[SPEAKER_01]: So the two winningists wrestlers and best of the Super Junior's history.

01:04:38.289 --> 01:04:41.352
[SPEAKER_01]: Cushita, geto.

01:04:42.052 --> 01:04:50.420
[SPEAKER_01]: Notice how many of these people are still around 15 years and that might be part of the problem that a New Japan started to turn to Noah that everybody's going to be 45.

01:04:52.181 --> 01:04:52.982
[SPEAKER_01]: Great Sasuke.

01:04:54.683 --> 01:04:55.384
[SPEAKER_01]: All-time legend.

01:04:55.644 --> 01:04:56.465
[SPEAKER_01]: Talk on me, Chinoca.

01:04:57.720 --> 01:05:02.102
[SPEAKER_01]: Kota Ibushi, Sasaki, and the original Mascara de Rada.

01:05:04.343 --> 01:05:07.384
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty star-studded, best of the day, this is 2011.

01:05:07.444 --> 01:05:10.746
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a lot of whole of famous in that tournament right there.

01:05:10.786 --> 01:05:18.049
[SPEAKER_01]: So the fact that Daisuke Sasaki has a back then, young wrestler wasn't picking up too many victories, not too surprising when he looked at it.

01:05:18.069 --> 01:05:20.530
[SPEAKER_01]: He was kind of the dykeyne guy, that tournament in a way.

01:05:22.451 --> 01:05:26.473
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I didn't know much about it at the time, but like, watch it now,

01:05:28.186 --> 01:05:37.529
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, it's got to be kind of validating for the guy to come back in and be treated differently and just being giving wins and just kind of say it's like, all right.

01:05:37.549 --> 01:05:52.415
[SPEAKER_00]: That school, you know, really just coming in and losing a bunch of matches and being away for 14 years and then immediately like winning the amount of matches that you wanted to first place over two years within the first four nights and.

01:05:54.157 --> 01:05:55.077
[SPEAKER_00]: feel good, right?

01:05:55.557 --> 01:05:56.158
[SPEAKER_01]: I would think so.

01:05:56.738 --> 01:06:05.781
[SPEAKER_01]: Now let's move on to the people who are on only four points, which is poised to join the top tier anytime now, but L. Desperado, of course, right?

01:06:06.161 --> 01:06:07.741
[SPEAKER_01]: He lost a Sasaki on night one.

01:06:07.761 --> 01:06:09.602
[SPEAKER_01]: That was part of that whole night one thing.

01:06:09.622 --> 01:06:11.503
[SPEAKER_01]: We're just about every guest, almost every guest one.

01:06:12.581 --> 01:06:17.224
[SPEAKER_01]: He then beat Tejishi Mori in the main event of night two and that match was really really good.

01:06:17.264 --> 01:06:22.447
[SPEAKER_01]: He got out of the bone lock got Numerodos got the tap out really good match on night three.

01:06:22.527 --> 01:06:25.329
[SPEAKER_01]: Robbie Eagles beat him in the main event.

01:06:25.369 --> 01:06:26.430
[SPEAKER_01]: That was Eagles only win.

01:06:26.810 --> 01:06:28.591
[SPEAKER_01]: Eagles sold Eagles.

01:06:29.812 --> 01:06:37.275
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to ask you what you thought of this match, Jeremy, and the reason is there was one thing about the match that bugged me that I'm going to talk about.

01:06:37.895 --> 01:06:42.037
[SPEAKER_01]: And the other thing is, frankly, I wasn't in a great frame of mind overall.

01:06:42.157 --> 01:06:47.159
[SPEAKER_01]: There was something that had gone on and everything's fine now and all that, but I was having a bad day.

01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:48.540
[SPEAKER_00]: What match are we talking about?

01:06:48.700 --> 01:06:50.522
[SPEAKER_01]: Robbie Eagles and El Desparado.

01:06:50.542 --> 01:06:52.383
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's my, my big one, yeah, I'm 93.

01:06:52.903 --> 01:06:54.905
[SPEAKER_01]: Eagles was selling his leg, right?

01:06:55.085 --> 01:06:58.328
[SPEAKER_01]: And there was a time when he's outside the ring and he's talking to Hartley Jackson.

01:06:58.348 --> 01:06:59.209
[SPEAKER_01]: He was seconding him.

01:06:59.729 --> 01:07:02.771
[SPEAKER_01]: And he couldn't climb the turn buckles.

01:07:03.512 --> 01:07:05.434
[SPEAKER_01]: And he sold it like he couldn't climb the turn buckles.

01:07:06.775 --> 01:07:10.978
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you remember what his alternative was to climbing the turn buckles?

01:07:12.339 --> 01:07:15.582
[SPEAKER_01]: He hopped up and hit a springboard off the top row.

01:07:17.145 --> 01:07:21.488
[SPEAKER_01]: then landed on that did two more moves, then remembered he was selling his leg.

01:07:21.988 --> 01:07:29.934
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was Seth Rollins asked and only selling what it that was a good way to put it.

01:07:30.434 --> 01:07:32.095
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, they weren't saying.

01:07:44.803 --> 01:07:49.927
[SPEAKER_00]: five seconds of selling before you do one more move perfectly at five seconds of selling.

01:07:49.947 --> 01:07:50.608
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not selling.

01:07:50.628 --> 01:07:51.428
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not how it works.

01:07:51.688 --> 01:07:52.389
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not selling.

01:07:52.449 --> 01:07:53.970
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not selling.

01:07:54.010 --> 01:07:55.652
[SPEAKER_00]: You're way you can pay and you can't do things.

01:07:56.052 --> 01:07:56.712
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:07:56.732 --> 01:07:57.153
[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

01:07:58.013 --> 01:07:59.074
[SPEAKER_01]: Robin, you can do better than that.

01:07:59.094 --> 01:08:00.355
[SPEAKER_01]: You're one of the best workers in the world.

01:08:00.375 --> 01:08:01.476
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have a really good made event.

01:08:01.536 --> 01:08:01.837
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't.

01:08:01.857 --> 01:08:03.538
[SPEAKER_00]: The match was really good.

01:08:03.778 --> 01:08:04.899
[SPEAKER_00]: I validate what you're saying.

01:08:05.210 --> 01:08:06.551
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay, but other than that.

01:08:06.571 --> 01:08:07.772
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, it was well wrestled.

01:08:07.812 --> 01:08:08.353
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that stuff.

01:08:08.373 --> 01:08:08.793
[SPEAKER_01]: But come on.

01:08:08.933 --> 01:08:09.393
[SPEAKER_01]: Enough of that.

01:08:09.714 --> 01:08:10.714
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't stand that stuff.

01:08:10.754 --> 01:08:17.300
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's like when you somebody hits a big move and then they know sell it and do three more moves than fall over unconscious.

01:08:17.540 --> 01:08:18.280
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not selling.

01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:19.841
[SPEAKER_01]: Stop that.

01:08:19.882 --> 01:08:20.082
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.

01:08:20.102 --> 01:08:31.571
[SPEAKER_00]: When you're when you're a legive dying and you still manage to power through the numerodose to hit a kick a DDT or a lot of DDT and then another high period kick.

01:08:31.811 --> 01:08:32.311
[SPEAKER_00]: How bad we

01:08:35.040 --> 01:08:49.375
[SPEAKER_01]: video game wrestling night for he beat heo in a fast-paced match very good near falls and then numerodose finished there for desperate auto so All right, that's where desperate auto is but 100% expect him to be in it until the very end as well.

01:08:49.395 --> 01:08:54.259
[SPEAKER_01]: This guy is a contender probably going to the playoffs after that we have Thai HG issue morey

01:08:55.340 --> 01:09:02.689
[SPEAKER_01]: He beat Jacob Austin, young on night one, lost to that spale, like we just talked about on night two, lost to yo on night three.

01:09:03.410 --> 01:09:09.418
[SPEAKER_01]: He then wrestled the match against dice case of sake, and he just decided to have fun.

01:09:09.958 --> 01:09:11.000
[SPEAKER_01]: And so did society.

01:09:11.340 --> 01:09:12.922
[SPEAKER_01]: So the match, the other night,

01:09:13.943 --> 01:09:21.769
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, this one was, uh, back at Corkon, he beats a sake when Sasaki at one point went over the announced table and bumped Marada.

01:09:22.310 --> 01:09:25.292
[SPEAKER_01]: The play by play guy who almost never takes a bump at the announced desk.

01:09:26.513 --> 01:09:29.315
[SPEAKER_01]: So then he goes to help up Marada.

01:09:29.395 --> 01:09:30.476
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, oh my god, I'm sorry.

01:09:30.516 --> 01:09:31.537
[SPEAKER_01]: Dice gave it, right?

01:09:31.577 --> 01:09:33.238
[SPEAKER_01]: And Marada does DDT shows too.

01:09:33.478 --> 01:09:34.439
[SPEAKER_01]: Marada works for everybody.

01:09:34.819 --> 01:09:35.520
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, start him.

01:09:35.540 --> 01:09:37.761
[SPEAKER_01]: He does, TJPW.

01:09:37.781 --> 01:09:38.302
[SPEAKER_01]: He does DDT.

01:09:38.342 --> 01:09:39.303
[SPEAKER_01]: He is everybody.

01:09:40.237 --> 01:09:43.419
[SPEAKER_01]: So he helping Marada up like, oh my gosh, what did I do?

01:09:43.699 --> 01:09:45.079
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Ishimori moves in on him.

01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:47.861
[SPEAKER_01]: He grabs Marada and uses Marada like a human shield.

01:09:48.221 --> 01:09:49.642
[SPEAKER_01]: He's you're not going to hit Marada, are you?

01:09:49.682 --> 01:09:51.182
[SPEAKER_01]: And Ishimori is like, no, no, I'm not.

01:09:51.242 --> 01:09:53.944
[SPEAKER_01]: But are you going to hit Malano Collection AT?

01:09:54.404 --> 01:09:56.185
[SPEAKER_01]: And he pulls up Malano Collection AT.

01:09:56.465 --> 01:09:59.647
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's an announcer square off going on.

01:09:59.867 --> 01:10:05.229
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, ghetto is rubbing his temple, sitting there trying to do a commentary.

01:10:05.709 --> 01:10:06.670
[SPEAKER_01]: So they squared off of the announcer.

01:10:06.690 --> 01:10:07.570
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a lot of other

01:10:09.377 --> 01:10:12.459
[SPEAKER_01]: silliness in this match and a little goofing around but it was entertaining.

01:10:13.440 --> 01:10:29.510
[SPEAKER_01]: But so I'm not trying to say that it was a crap match there, but it was all right, low blow from Ishimori when the ref was distracted and a ghetto clutch, which a ghetto was really approved about there and seemed proud of his unbound company team mate.

01:10:30.070 --> 01:10:33.832
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is exactly the kind of stuff I don't normally like.

01:10:34.433 --> 01:10:36.014
[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of enjoyed this version of it.

01:10:37.083 --> 01:10:46.609
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I wrote for my notes on here, really good with Sasaki wrestling at Ishimori's level for the most part.

01:10:46.669 --> 01:10:54.314
[SPEAKER_00]: But the way you phrased it was that Ishimori was more wrestling at Sasaki's level, but making it look good.

01:10:55.234 --> 01:10:55.635
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:10:56.315 --> 01:10:56.895
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I thought so.

01:10:56.915 --> 01:10:57.736
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm saying?

01:10:57.856 --> 01:11:02.279
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I thought it was a more difficult to work with each other and make it look good.

01:11:02.619 --> 01:11:04.140
[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know if Ishimori,

01:11:05.711 --> 01:11:10.415
[SPEAKER_00]: went down to Suzuki level or Suzuki wrestle better because we would wrestle with this story.

01:11:10.875 --> 01:11:14.618
[SPEAKER_01]: What I'm saying is it's as close to a DDT match as we'll see if she morey work.

01:11:15.178 --> 01:11:16.339
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's there.

01:11:17.180 --> 01:11:21.223
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you just want to say it in the right, because I wrote a real good thing really good more, but kind of invert.

01:11:21.763 --> 01:11:25.246
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just thought this was this issue morey just saying, we can have a little fun.

01:11:25.466 --> 01:11:26.207
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

01:11:26.247 --> 01:11:27.168
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm with you on that completely.

01:11:28.190 --> 01:11:30.472
[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we have Yoshinoba kind of maru.

01:11:30.833 --> 01:11:34.036
[SPEAKER_01]: He's also one matchback because they said unbalanced schedule here.

01:11:34.076 --> 01:11:35.518
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's only worked three matches.

01:11:35.798 --> 01:11:41.223
[SPEAKER_01]: Had the DQ loss to show on night one, it wasn't on night two in Haji Haji.

01:11:42.184 --> 01:11:46.689
[SPEAKER_01]: He beat Austin, Jacob Austin, young on night three with a low blow in head scissors.

01:11:47.029 --> 01:11:50.073
[SPEAKER_01]: He beat Robbie, he was on night four with low blow.

01:11:51.492 --> 01:12:04.443
[SPEAKER_01]: My issue here, they're Jeremy, and I mentioned the low blow in the issue, morning match, that didn't have anything to do with kind of our low blow here, it's getting to the point where the low blow is about the only heel finish this entire company has now.

01:12:04.643 --> 01:12:07.786
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just hit people low, Yano does it constantly.

01:12:08.126 --> 01:12:11.849
[SPEAKER_01]: All house, not all of House of torture do it all the time.

01:12:12.269 --> 01:12:15.652
[SPEAKER_01]: United Empire is doing a low blow to set up a finish and things.

01:12:15.772 --> 01:12:16.012
[SPEAKER_01]: Again,

01:12:17.020 --> 01:12:24.467
[SPEAKER_01]: The lack of creativity in this company is startling, they just seem out of ideas, just you need to heal finish hit a low blow.

01:12:25.327 --> 01:12:26.188
[SPEAKER_01]: It's believable.

01:12:26.268 --> 01:12:26.829
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but

01:12:28.492 --> 01:12:32.835
[SPEAKER_01]: multitude of times, the number of low blows, then they have you on or doing it in the other card.

01:12:33.676 --> 01:12:45.045
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just guys, you've got to just sit down and if you can't think of anything else, if you are devoid of ideas, let's have some changes as far as who's in this room coming up with these things.

01:12:45.305 --> 01:12:54.132
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are that out of ideas that you're doing the exact same thing with Kachita, the exact same thing, two nights in a row, on TV, in matches people are going to see,

01:12:54.712 --> 01:13:02.897
[SPEAKER_01]: and you're doing low blow after low blow after low blow, if you aren't out of ideas, it's time to make a change in creative right there.

01:13:02.957 --> 01:13:05.359
[SPEAKER_01]: So that it is actually creative again.

01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:06.500
[SPEAKER_01]: Too much.

01:13:07.160 --> 01:13:09.602
[SPEAKER_01]: Too many low blows, but kind of Maroise, four points.

01:13:10.662 --> 01:13:11.483
[SPEAKER_00]: If you are not wrong,

01:13:12.259 --> 01:13:12.599
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:13:13.360 --> 01:13:14.020
[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate it.

01:13:14.061 --> 01:13:32.516
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it is it's just something that drives me crazy because we're in the soul often we're seeing repeats of things on cards and it's a place to be a variety show you're not so you don't go to a variety show and see four jugglers and just just one juggler then the magician then the singer I like us we're getting a lot of juggle in.

01:13:32.896 --> 01:13:36.437
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you make it, we lay it out like that at card to argue.

01:13:36.597 --> 01:13:50.783
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like, Kalam Newman has won the majority of his matches with a low-flow style approach, Kenomaro, like, lifted his knee up and got a springboard when Rob Eagles came through a springboard.

01:13:50.803 --> 01:13:52.783
[SPEAKER_00]: He lifted his knee up and got him right in the junk.

01:13:52.863 --> 01:13:56.805
[SPEAKER_00]: At least that one wasn't like the forearm straight to the tape.

01:13:57.245 --> 01:13:57.945
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

01:14:03.053 --> 01:14:04.634
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just over and over again.

01:14:05.095 --> 01:14:06.756
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we have a group of guys on two.

01:14:06.876 --> 01:14:11.199
[SPEAKER_01]: So Cashita's on two, Jacobus and Young is on two, and he or on two.

01:14:11.279 --> 01:14:13.601
[SPEAKER_01]: I would argue that those three on two not a surprise.

01:14:13.641 --> 01:14:16.703
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't expect any of those three to be involved later in the tournament.

01:14:17.124 --> 01:14:19.165
[SPEAKER_01]: The one exception to that is Robbie Eagles.

01:14:19.846 --> 01:14:23.549
[SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned his only win so far over Desperado there.

01:14:23.569 --> 01:14:24.670
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a good win to have.

01:14:25.250 --> 01:14:29.231
[SPEAKER_01]: But I expect that he will get on a bit of a roll down the stretch.

01:14:29.471 --> 01:14:34.172
[SPEAKER_01]: And Eagles has what Jacob Austin, young, very winnable match.

01:14:34.272 --> 01:14:35.632
[SPEAKER_01]: He owe very winnable match.

01:14:35.652 --> 01:14:38.213
[SPEAKER_01]: Dice case, rocky, very winnable match.

01:14:38.633 --> 01:14:40.733
[SPEAKER_01]: He owe my being a little tricky.

01:14:40.793 --> 01:14:44.374
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm saying that there's at least three victories.

01:14:44.454 --> 01:14:50.655
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say coming for Eagles and that he will have something to do with deciding who goes to the playoffs.

01:14:52.156 --> 01:14:52.536
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:14:55.145 --> 01:15:16.889
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to be one of those like he's on a roll and he's close, but some of these matches earlier than he got robbed are going to cost him in the long run and I'm still I'm still waiting on Show and Desperado for the for that kind of weak on through thing and you know Eagles

01:15:21.649 --> 01:15:34.633
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, him winning at that very end, but hoping death borona loses is feels accurate, you know, I mean, yeah, okay, so we we expect Robby to be involved.

01:15:34.653 --> 01:15:39.054
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe suck you to fade a little bit here, but I'm almost far we're getting an idea.

01:15:39.074 --> 01:15:40.094
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're getting it.

01:15:40.154 --> 01:15:49.977
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'll have to five and four and four and five and five and tie breakers and it'll all, it all feel like it all just be very, very even with two guys.

01:15:50.117 --> 01:15:50.857
[SPEAKER_00]: We can have it's very,

01:15:51.467 --> 01:15:55.212
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're at that point of the tournament also when the two guys come out.

01:15:55.312 --> 01:16:03.303
[SPEAKER_01]: If one is one match ahead of the other, expect the one that's one match behind the lead problem in the day, yeah, one hundred percent.

01:16:04.008 --> 01:16:05.829
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, here's what's coming up this week.

01:16:05.849 --> 01:16:08.111
[SPEAKER_01]: We've been in the Tokyo area, the whole tournament so far.

01:16:08.151 --> 01:16:13.455
[SPEAKER_01]: Two matches at Corrigan Hall, one in Yoyogi, one in Haji Yogi.

01:16:13.475 --> 01:16:17.978
[SPEAKER_01]: If you remember Haji Yogi, that's where a rumble track of Hashi is from and promoting some shows there.

01:16:18.399 --> 01:16:23.983
[SPEAKER_01]: So they've been in metropolitan Tokyo for the most part, not for the whole, most part for the whole part.

01:16:24.003 --> 01:16:25.884
[SPEAKER_01]: But now we're drifting down south.

01:16:26.024 --> 01:16:33.225
[SPEAKER_01]: we're going to head down to Osaka tomorrow, Friday, the 22nd in the Osaka Municipal Central Gym.

01:16:33.285 --> 01:16:35.286
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is a different building than we're used to.

01:16:35.326 --> 01:16:41.447
[SPEAKER_01]: We're used to the gym number two in the eddy on arena complex, but that building is under renovation.

01:16:41.527 --> 01:16:48.848
[SPEAKER_01]: So in the Municipal Central Gym on Friday, the two main matches are home town boy, Master Watto against Jose Fujida in

01:16:54.569 --> 01:16:58.210
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, this is when we're back to single block actions.

01:16:58.310 --> 01:17:05.191
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is what in that one is only going to be the A block, right?

01:17:05.811 --> 01:17:09.212
[SPEAKER_01]: And with B block wrestlers in preview tag matches.

01:17:10.252 --> 01:17:15.793
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then I think the valianty Junior versus Francesco Kirimatch will be also interesting on that one.

01:17:16.533 --> 01:17:19.373
[SPEAKER_00]: And then then we have the one on the 23rd.

01:17:19.713 --> 01:17:22.914
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is five B block matches in one A block match.

01:17:23.172 --> 01:17:23.752
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

01:17:23.812 --> 01:17:26.614
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have Friday, Saturday, Sunday, three, boom, boom, boom.

01:17:27.334 --> 01:17:33.877
[SPEAKER_01]: And this one is going to be in Heogo, which is also down in that general vicinity of Osaka.

01:17:34.257 --> 01:17:38.479
[SPEAKER_01]: And the main event of that one will be Yo against Robbie Eagles.

01:17:39.459 --> 01:17:42.380
[SPEAKER_01]: And Desperado against Show in the semi final.

01:17:42.480 --> 01:17:48.723
[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, that's when they are going to do the valiantage in your Junkeshai match that they couldn't do at Kentucky.

01:17:50.062 --> 01:17:53.465
[SPEAKER_00]: and then we're back to five matches on Sunday.

01:17:53.545 --> 01:18:01.252
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, on the people on those matches that night, let's see, what, what's got you inside it on that one?

01:18:02.172 --> 01:18:05.756
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, are you, are you here for Tahie G, she's more able to just can't amaro Steven?

01:18:06.636 --> 01:18:11.601
[SPEAKER_01]: I would be, but there's gonna be, it's gonna be mostly shenanigans, how's the torture shenanigans?

01:18:11.681 --> 01:18:14.223
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you here for, are you here for Kishita versus Yale?

01:18:15.951 --> 01:18:16.632
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be fine.

01:18:17.492 --> 01:18:18.153
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be fine.

01:18:18.453 --> 01:18:22.717
[SPEAKER_01]: The one that I am looking forward to is I think yo and Robbie probably will be motivated.

01:18:22.737 --> 01:18:23.598
[SPEAKER_00]: I was getting there.

01:18:23.658 --> 01:18:25.299
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just gonna ask you one by one.

01:18:25.319 --> 01:18:25.760
[SPEAKER_01]: He told me.

01:18:25.780 --> 01:18:26.440
[SPEAKER_01]: Excuse me.

01:18:26.500 --> 01:18:28.682
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because she did yo, that'll be entertaining.

01:18:28.742 --> 01:18:29.363
[SPEAKER_01]: The next one.

01:18:29.683 --> 01:18:31.345
[SPEAKER_01]: Jacob Boston, Young and Sasaki.

01:18:31.385 --> 01:18:32.406
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be fine.

01:18:33.367 --> 01:18:37.911
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you got to House of Torture matches, which probably won't be as good as they should be.

01:18:38.372 --> 01:18:42.015
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Yo and Eagles, they get a carry a lot of freight.

01:18:42.095 --> 01:18:46.500
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they'll be motivated because it's not the sexiest lineup of the tournament.

01:18:46.560 --> 01:18:51.304
[SPEAKER_01]: Heows presence notwithstanding, but they pretty much need to carry this show.

01:18:52.138 --> 01:18:52.658
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the truth.

01:18:53.679 --> 01:18:53.979
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:18:54.059 --> 01:19:03.465
[SPEAKER_00]: So we had that A-block line up that you mentioned with Wato and Fujita on Friday, a couple of the other matches were at Sintu and Kassai.

01:19:03.865 --> 01:19:06.126
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we go to Sunday with the A-block returning.

01:19:06.927 --> 01:19:14.351
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to list out some of the magic freaks even I'm going to ask you, would tonight sound better to you, what all they had to consider?

01:19:14.631 --> 01:19:19.254
[SPEAKER_00]: So on the A-block, we got opening up, digging a guy in French, just go a cure up.

01:19:19.800 --> 01:19:20.380
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be good.

01:19:20.440 --> 01:19:22.542
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Akira is going to win, but it'll be a good match.

01:19:22.642 --> 01:19:25.403
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, master, Wato versus valianti Junior.

01:19:25.423 --> 01:19:26.484
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm kind of into that one.

01:19:26.864 --> 01:19:27.224
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:19:27.324 --> 01:19:29.185
[SPEAKER_01]: Wato can dust off some of the lucha.

01:19:30.546 --> 01:19:42.473
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of to good cheaper, because Teton on Friday, you're going to have to get cheaper, because to see Fujita in one of the only matches that Fujita has not semi-main, semi-main or main of edging on the card.

01:19:43.188 --> 01:19:50.622
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I feel like the story is going to go maybe to the very last day of the tournament whether to go she can get that final record breaking victory or not.

01:19:50.662 --> 01:19:52.345
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's going to happen over food today.

01:19:53.688 --> 01:19:54.828
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.

01:19:55.568 --> 01:19:58.749
[SPEAKER_00]: Fujina seems like he's on a momentum for a particular year.

01:20:00.109 --> 01:20:02.169
[SPEAKER_00]: He's nice, but he's not that nice.

01:20:02.189 --> 01:20:04.230
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to want to get you in the club.

01:20:04.270 --> 01:20:07.710
[SPEAKER_00]: Teton and Robbie S. Yes, please.

01:20:08.671 --> 01:20:09.671
[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to deliver.

01:20:09.811 --> 01:20:11.811
[SPEAKER_00]: It is an unbound company matchup.

01:20:12.371 --> 01:20:15.192
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's going to be the best match in the night, too.

01:20:15.572 --> 01:20:20.973
[SPEAKER_00]: It is an intrafact film matchup of what I was getting out there because they're both in unbound company.

01:20:23.593 --> 01:20:25.394
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a Darby, a Darby.

01:20:26.094 --> 01:20:33.957
[SPEAKER_00]: And the made of Ed, we have June Cousin versus Nick Wayne, which, okay, let's see what it goes.

01:20:34.197 --> 01:20:46.742
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it will be as good as June Cousin and cocafujita, although I think it'll be kind of a similar match in terms of what Nick Wayne's going to want to get out of it.

01:20:47.582 --> 01:20:55.587
[SPEAKER_00]: But I also think that his proclivities and Western wrestling will probably make him much more open to get a little growth of this match.

01:20:56.323 --> 01:20:57.003
[SPEAKER_01]: probably so.

01:20:58.024 --> 01:20:59.324
[SPEAKER_01]: I am curious to see what they're going to do.

01:20:59.344 --> 01:21:09.507
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, that one is in KBS Hall in Kyoto, which is a small, small-ish room, but it's one of my favorites because it has that really cool staying glass wall.

01:21:10.768 --> 01:21:16.750
[SPEAKER_01]: The at the entrance right there, and I just think it's one of the coolest looking buildings that allows wrestling in.

01:21:17.390 --> 01:21:19.311
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a neat looking

01:21:20.303 --> 01:21:25.686
[SPEAKER_01]: venue and I was very close to it and I'm kicking myself when I was in Kyoto.

01:21:25.726 --> 01:21:27.347
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't just walk down and take a picture of it.

01:21:27.727 --> 01:21:40.274
[SPEAKER_01]: Although I have seen pictures of the outside of a Jeremy, it's pretty non-descript from the outside, but then you go inside and there's this very elaborate stained glass wall that just catches your attention through the first couple of matches.

01:21:40.294 --> 01:21:44.956
[SPEAKER_01]: You tend to let your eyes drift over to that and just look at this cool piece of artwork on the walls

01:21:47.616 --> 01:21:56.768
[SPEAKER_00]: Stephen, did you watch you catch the news that they're going to be a fan meet and greet and some antclosed up for the G1 on the 10th in Chicago?

01:21:57.369 --> 01:22:02.335
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, we have one more show to talk about, so we talk about the G1 thing in just a moment.

01:22:02.616 --> 01:22:04.018
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I just wanted that with all I had for you.

01:22:04.178 --> 01:22:05.119
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want you to put your hand on.

01:22:05.139 --> 01:22:05.780
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm taking a look like.

01:22:06.393 --> 01:22:21.203
[SPEAKER_00]: So when we go to G1, there's if you get there on the shows on Saturday, but if you get there on Friday, there's a stuff going on at some five to eight that night just wanted to throw that out there because I'm sure the company wants people to know did it say where that's taking points.

01:22:27.787 --> 01:22:28.207
[SPEAKER_00]: location.

01:22:28.508 --> 01:22:38.653
[SPEAKER_00]: It would be awesome if it was at the hotel I'm at, because that's where they did the Russell Con convention when I was there last time, but they had all the sleeps for the Russell Con convention.

01:22:38.673 --> 01:22:43.756
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm like, that would be a good location for a thing, and I can check into my hotel room at the same time.

01:22:44.296 --> 01:22:45.197
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe maybe maybe.

01:22:45.757 --> 01:22:46.437
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe so.

01:22:46.678 --> 01:22:49.959
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still looking at flying in probably on the Saturday of the show.

01:22:49.979 --> 01:22:51.060
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's most like that.

01:22:51.628 --> 01:22:51.828
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:22:51.848 --> 01:22:54.689
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we got on Wednesday, May 27th.

01:22:54.709 --> 01:23:03.792
[SPEAKER_01]: So the day before our next show, they're in Shizuoka, and that is going to be mostly B block matches with an A block main event.

01:23:04.273 --> 01:23:05.253
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, an unbalanced schedule.

01:23:05.273 --> 01:23:07.774
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not a valley and a match thrown in there.

01:23:08.194 --> 01:23:11.097
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's June, Kassai, Francesco Akira.

01:23:11.237 --> 01:23:15.161
[SPEAKER_01]: Because remember, there is a second date the Kassai can't make.

01:23:15.602 --> 01:23:15.862
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

01:23:16.403 --> 01:23:20.467
[SPEAKER_00]: So another value in T-Match that was like thrown off for some reason, too.

01:23:20.487 --> 01:23:23.089
[SPEAKER_00]: But I, you know, it's all in that first night.

01:23:23.730 --> 01:23:24.471
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

01:23:24.511 --> 01:23:25.992
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because you're supposed to risk a Kassai.

01:23:26.353 --> 01:23:28.655
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it'll, there'll be some movement here.

01:23:28.675 --> 01:23:30.477
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, you're in all work yourself out.

01:23:30.967 --> 01:23:35.249
[SPEAKER_01]: The main event of that is the A-block match, the only A-block match, June, Kassai in Francesco, Akira.

01:23:35.829 --> 01:23:44.752
[SPEAKER_01]: And then after that, the semi-main event, Ishi Mori versus Robbie Eagles, again, part of that best tag team rivalry in wrestling right now.

01:23:45.473 --> 01:23:47.594
[SPEAKER_01]: Ishi Mori in X versus Eagles in Fujida.

01:23:48.214 --> 01:23:55.397
[SPEAKER_01]: And Kushita, yo, Desperado against Jacob Austin, young, heel versus show, and Sasaki and kind of Maro.

01:23:55.477 --> 01:23:56.977
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a top heavy card.

01:23:57.017 --> 01:23:58.378
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the last three matches.

01:23:59.078 --> 01:24:05.244
[SPEAKER_01]: and Shizuoka will be really good, Kishita and Yo will be nice, Ishimori and Eagles to build the liver.

01:24:05.725 --> 01:24:10.930
[SPEAKER_01]: Kasi and Akira, again, it just depends on what Francesco wants to do with this maniac.

01:24:12.530 --> 01:24:13.510
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it would be open to it.

01:24:13.850 --> 01:24:23.773
[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen him bleed a couple of times and I always feel so adorable when he bleeds, you know, you, US VA guys looking forward to the KBS all show as well.

01:24:23.833 --> 01:24:26.374
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I'm going to see you here and he's just lots of stuff planned.

01:24:26.454 --> 01:24:34.576
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I, they seem to be going all out with this Chicago G1 and then, I think there's going to be a lot to that weekend.

01:24:34.596 --> 01:24:35.937
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm looking forward to it.

01:24:37.016 --> 01:24:37.836
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's the tournament.

01:24:37.876 --> 01:24:40.597
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have all that coming up this week.

01:24:41.037 --> 01:24:42.818
[SPEAKER_01]: It should be a lot of good matches again.

01:24:43.598 --> 01:24:56.183
[SPEAKER_01]: The shows have slowed down a little bit, so expect the tournament matches to have a little bit more time just because the first half of their show will be preview tags and might allow a little bit more time for the actual tournament matches.

01:24:56.243 --> 01:24:59.804
[SPEAKER_01]: And let's hope because there's a lot of talent in this tournament.

01:25:00.004 --> 01:25:01.925
[SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned the A-Bock being absolutely loaded.

01:25:01.965 --> 01:25:04.386
[SPEAKER_01]: It seems like every time I look at a NA-Bock match,

01:25:04.906 --> 01:25:10.136
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a it's a tasty match up between two guys who are really working well at the moment.

01:25:10.156 --> 01:25:14.023
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm I've been happy and I think this week's going to deliver again.

01:25:14.564 --> 01:25:15.707
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, come on.

01:25:16.674 --> 01:25:19.116
[SPEAKER_00]: we'll be back next Thursday, right?

01:25:20.718 --> 01:25:27.844
[SPEAKER_00]: I will be back on Sunday with Garrett to recap double or nothing for AEW for the site game media channel.

01:25:28.885 --> 01:25:40.155
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, Steven and I were guests with Jesse the last guess of top rotation and we recapped the Shabbard versus O'Connor match from 2017.

01:25:40.235 --> 01:25:42.557
[SPEAKER_00]: It's you want to go back and recap that.

01:25:42.657 --> 01:25:51.059
[SPEAKER_00]: We weren't necessarily positive about that match, even though we recognized that it was a much more robust and healthier time for the promotion.

01:25:51.899 --> 01:26:12.563
[SPEAKER_00]: And the only other thing is, a week ago, Garrett and I got together and we discussed the movie, they live for the YouTube program popcorn and pilot drivers for fake game media, which is our monthly program where we are going to pick a movie, adjacent to pro wrestling and talk about it.

01:26:14.286 --> 01:26:19.416
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still holding out for all those El Santo movies like El Santo versus the Aliens and El Santo versus Frankenstein.

01:26:19.456 --> 01:26:23.504
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the day we're going to be able to cross-check the Obgermur and El Santo.

01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:25.880
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:26:25.900 --> 01:26:27.622
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, with that in mind, we're going to wrap things up.

01:26:27.642 --> 01:26:30.103
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be we'll be doing more of the Tiger Mass Biography.

01:26:30.964 --> 01:26:32.044
[SPEAKER_01]: This week ran out of time.

01:26:32.785 --> 01:26:35.627
[SPEAKER_01]: But we will be doing more of a week.

01:26:36.167 --> 01:26:37.068
[SPEAKER_01]: We will exactly.

01:26:37.108 --> 01:26:39.709
[SPEAKER_01]: And so with that in mind, enjoy the action.

01:26:39.729 --> 01:26:43.972
[SPEAKER_01]: This week folks foreshows Friday Saturday Sunday and Wednesday.

01:26:43.992 --> 01:26:45.173
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't Thursday.

01:26:45.593 --> 01:26:46.974
[SPEAKER_01]: Guess we'll be back to talk about it.

01:26:47.354 --> 01:26:47.855
[SPEAKER_00]: Bye.

01:26:48.155 --> 01:26:48.815
[SPEAKER_00]: It cuts.

01:26:48.935 --> 01:26:49.476
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back.

01:26:50.445 --> 01:27:06.941
[SPEAKER_01]: And I also want to say thoughts and wishes are best wishes are with Sam and her family from power bombshells as they recently experienced a family emergency and we just hope that everyone's doing as well as they can be their Sam and her family.

01:27:06.961 --> 01:27:09.663
[SPEAKER_01]: So thoughts out to the power bombshells family.

01:27:10.264 --> 01:27:13.006
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, you said it well.

01:27:13.026 --> 01:27:13.347
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

01:27:14.105 --> 01:27:16.206
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we love our siblings show, so we hope they do well.

01:27:16.246 --> 01:27:20.128
[SPEAKER_01]: So with that in mind, for Jeremy Feinstein, this is Stephen Conway.

01:27:20.148 --> 01:27:27.852
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks to everybody here who joined his life and to everybody who's listening to this or watching us here on YouTube, our podcast, we appreciate your time.

01:27:28.173 --> 01:27:30.314
[SPEAKER_01]: And we will talk to you again real soon.