Hiromu Takahashi Leaves NJPW! New Beginning in Osaka Preview | Speaking of Strong Style

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[SPEAKER_01]: Another week, another departure, Hiromu Takahashi, is leaving New Japan after New Beginning in Osaka.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And his sendoff is not the only one going on that night, although it's the only one that seems to be close to kind of permanent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about that, plus two core can haul shows, and hit some significance, and we'll preview that new beginning in Osaka show, which should be pretty consequential.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot going on, so with Jeremy Feinstein, I'm Stephen Conway, this is Speaking of Strong Style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome everyone to speaking a 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're contributors to the fight game media network.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we got the news earlier this week, Jeremy, that Haromu Takahashi has indeed decided to leave New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've been here in this in the wind a little bit for the last couple of weeks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it became real and I have to say.

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[SPEAKER_01]: we talked about it here in the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when the announcement finally came, I have to say that I had some feelings about this because more so than evil, more so than some of the others who have departed,

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[SPEAKER_01]: one time at his peak, probably my favorite wrestler in the world.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And certainly has been one of my favorite New Japan characters since this resurgence in New Japan that we saw.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we, you know, we started with Tana Hash, we talked about a lot, Nakamura and all the rest.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The second stage of that a little bit was guys like Desparado and Hiromu coming back from their excursions and really lighting up the junior heavyweight division and the rivalry with Koshita and everything else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this one hits me more than most is like, wow, really, Hiromu's not going to be in New Japan anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we've talked about how maybe he has been

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[SPEAKER_01]: identified with this company, Jeremy, I'm struggling with this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How are you feeling in the wake of this official announcement?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not like that in all honesty.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm totally cool with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's one of my favorite guys, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's one of my favorite guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she's getting the bag.

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[SPEAKER_00]: from the work sounds like you've getting the back, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you have the states and you might be going to WWE and SuperJacass seems to think that that's a strong likelihood that he's joined an evil over in WWE and I don't know, man, I I'm happy for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got complex feelings about horror.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was at the

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that one was a tough one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was a tough night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And a tough like, I was really glad to see him back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was very much like of all the possible outcomes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had the best possible outcome from that broken next scenario in the States.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that he's healthy, he's doing what he wants to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not held back by New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like he wants to wrestle with a junior.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You want to wrestle his style, I give people his size.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And New Japan wanted him to go heavyweight and they were at an impasse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we talked about the last week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's probably number five on the depth chart at this point in the junior heavyweight division.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's done everything that you could do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They talked about all of the stuff, you know, like all of his credit winning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the super junior multiple times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Junior heavyweight prodigy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the top four, you know, like they really went hard on it

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I'm, I'm okay with Romo being gone because I feel like we're just going to get diminishing return with him from here on out a few days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He spent a lot of this past year in Noah and in a lot of ways was more in their mix than he was in the New Japan mix.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I understand the time passes and things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know one point, one of my favorite guys in the Robostoma,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Watch and he has a good match every now and then, but I don't really care about all that much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I understand that room was kind of heading more that direction than going back to his ace days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just difficult for me because some of my favorite matches are shows of all times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of my favorite shows of all time from New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Had a heromotocache classic in the middle of them that helped make it one of the best shows I've ever seen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that was a regular occurs with a pissed off a dragon Lee was otherworldly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He made Elvis Barado.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... don't forget the desparado was just kind of a guy on the card until heromo had that super junior final with him where the mass came off and desparado showed his true fighting spirit going right through a taking taking that the rest of the way off after her own wood ripped it you're talking like it to you would you not dead

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just that he's not going to be in any Japan anymore, and it's very, very strange, and this has been a guy who I've really looked forward to and kept an eye on for ever since he came back as the time bomb, and I remember the hype about that coming back that this was going to be him, we kind of knew it was going to be him before he walked out that first day, the time bomb thing was not a big secret, and when he came back, he was he was a really good young lion,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when he was on excursion, didn't see him a whole lot, you know, Kamayatachi was in Mexico, but he was very good there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when he came back, we felt like, okay, this could be a real.

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[SPEAKER_01]: addition to the roster what we did not expect was to get somebody who was going to frankly blow past Kushita in terms of charisma and terms of working ability and take over that division the way he did and it's just strange to me but especially if he especially if he goes to WWE I always thought it was a weird fit for him to try to make him a heavyweight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's just not

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not that guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's very, very fast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a perfect junior heavyweight, which is why I'm wondering what in the world WWE is going to do with him, but, you know, they're, well, you know, that's that's the different conversations that I'll get back to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that he could actually thought about that a little bit, but for the last ten years, yeah, he's been one of the last ten years kind of guy as two has been reliable and he's been exciting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like when Horma gets in the ring, there was always a sense of unpredictability, a little bit of like, okay, now we're now we're getting the weird whenever the fantastic a mania would come around and you can buy a taqi and you get all the weird music and Horma was just a different guy, you know, he was just, you walked to the beat of his own drum in this promotion and he's not someone you can replace.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you can, you can find someone that has that same spirit and that energy, but they're only one for a mootaka, and he leaves it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we just have to be okay with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was under the assumption for a while that he was going to do some Noah stuff, and he may still, but you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, some of these new Japan wrestlers that are like traditional Japanese wrestlers, it's super interesting because I'm starting to think that WWE is feeling comfortable with.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the homogenization of Japanese talent in the states.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We got to catch up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got Ocata over in AEW.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got the Kabuki Warriors and you got EOS guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And everyone seems to be totally familiar and fine if they're speaking Japanese on the screen or doing whatever they're doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, in AEW, you've got the work rate talented Japanese wrestlers going on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No wonder WWE's looking at us like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why don't we bring in a couple of like new Japan guys that can really work and we'll put them all together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can kind of see it, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's 2026.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I get that it's not Chenzo Tsutsuki and, you know, Jimmy weighing in and Kushita even a couple of years ago, where they just basically tried to make Kushita do the same thing and it just didn't fit within the WWE roster.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do think Karomo is way more charismatic and imaginative and inventive enough that he can just kind of

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[SPEAKER_00]: get by even if you want to end up seafers you don't mean like he blows through everyone and then at t and just be the wacky segment ever until they get to a point where he's just kind of there and I won't watch and at t for a room or talk about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I tell you guys that right now it will not happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wish him well or watch maybe some YouTube stuff but I will not spend

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[SPEAKER_00]: 80 minutes of my life a month a week watching the CW's NFT just to give you guys tabs and won't go on with her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even able.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not even able range to purchase enough to get you to join to join in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't I don't think I've watched an episode of NFT in a year and a half.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I mean, the recaptured fine for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was a boy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's like

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[SPEAKER_00]: You got knock the murder there already you have Jeff Cobb you have to you have all the the tongue getting over there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's like they've rated YouTube and it's not going to stop.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if they need guys on the lower part of the card that can work, I mean, offered New Japan a ton of money, New Japan guys a ton of money because they have a ton of money to offer whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've heard people say that this is part of a big plan for WWE to expand into Japan and I would hold off on that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying they won't because that was the idea that Triple H had for a while when he was running NXT was NXT UK and there was going to be an NXT global territories and.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying he's totally given up on that, but there are other priorities for that company right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And evil, Hiromu, those aren't the guys you would build a new company around in Japan and try to run.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not quite the star power you would need.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And where they're portrayed right now within New Japan, doesn't quite fit the idea of going into the territory with

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[SPEAKER_01]: The other guys stars, this isn't what Vince McMahon did with the AWA in 1983, where he basically took, we're going to take your announcer, your best heel, and your best baby face, and then a run-in-all in your town.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not quite that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I do feel like they think there's something to do, and I keep in mind that her omitted WWE thing, there's smoke, there isn't fire yet on that, just smoke at this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: beforehand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But in the other direction, what are your thoughts about AJ Styles and New Japan?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What do my thoughts about AJ and New Japan?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a great top heal for a while.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A great top healer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about in 2026.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If he does, it would be one off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's he's retiring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think because he wants to spend more

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[SPEAKER_00]: had the row rubble in the kingdom study Arabia.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he lost and he had no retirement ceremony.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He did nothing to indicate that he was leaving his boots, his gloves, or anything in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was about if under ceremonious a retirement, as you could possibly have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then he said on some podcasts, I think, step in the fan, or whatever, that he said, everyone go out, you know, like one unretirement, you know, one retirement that's not really retirement.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I am more convinced than ever that this dude is not retired.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he is coming out to do some shows and some matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think it's out of the question, did he wrestles one match or two matches?

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[SPEAKER_00]: New Japan here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if he did, wouldn't be able to suit you in like Dominion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe, I mean, it could be an instrument.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you don't bring him in to wrestle on the world like anything else on the world.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'll be huge.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It would be a huge match and it would be in a major show, but I don't expect him on any road to anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I think it'll just be, and one or two of them at the most, I just think that that would be about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not going to rejoin things full full time on that, but if he wants to come back, I'd be thrilled.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This guy is going to get paid a lot of money to do one match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean, like, and that's, that's, I mean, maybe yeah, who knows everybody come back retirement's mean nothing in pro wrestling historically nothing there are number of people who are losing their minds that this guy could come back and rest a little some dream matches in AEW and I'm sure that he would get paid a ton of money to wrestle a very, very

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[SPEAKER_00]: small schedule.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But to me, if you were to come back to Newspin, you're only one match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if the World Title match against you, whoever the World Title guy is, and he puts him over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's it's a one-and-done kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if WWE, if you're a fair game to talk about,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, anybody who's not under a full time exclusive WWE contract could come back for one big mansion and anybody, anybody can maybe Kenny someday, maybe anybody someday will someday, maybe, like I said, anybody, Jericho, it's, there are no rules against it and in wrestling, anything can happen like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can always come back for one more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: David, I were talking on the weekend and this came up and you're like, do you know how hard it is to work in New Japan right now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like these guys that are this old and coming back, it's not like what it was when they were younger.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so hard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so tough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just thinking about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, yeah, it's good coming in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to run so in one or two matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not doing the tour schedule and putting the body through that at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, you just say, if that was it, if you wanted to work full time, just stay in WWE, you can be home more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, that's all, that's all bizarre.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can't check.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a medical, and we don't even know that we don't even know that Rome was going to WWE, but we do know that he is leaving New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sad about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What can I say?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of my favorite guys, and I know he's not dying or anything like that, but if he goes to WWE, I'm not going to see him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just am out on American wrestling right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll get back to it someday, but I'm not in it right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm

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[SPEAKER_01]: Japan and Mexico has all my attention at the moment and all my spare time that I put aside for wrestling is in Japan and in Mexico.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if he does go over there, then I'll be sad I didn't see because I actually liked his Noah stuff this past year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I enjoyed that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I'm sad to see him go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am satisfied with my general mentality, though, is, you know, we cover the stage pan and my favorite promotion of all the stuff that I watch in all honesty.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, I am thankful for the records whose matches that I enjoyed who then go off in some form of healthy state to apply their trade and make more money elsewhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can wish him nothing but the best and be happy for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want to get tribal about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to get into it with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just, I'm just glad you, you walk in a way out of zone terms.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like you're getting called in a happy situation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's interesting to me, too, that a lot of these people that go over to WWE and succeed, like Nakamura and all that, even Koshita who's done all right in the States, really, worked for a bunch of different people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't come back full time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do they?

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't come back to Japan full time, you're like, boy, I can make that kind of money and work a much lighter style over here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have to do nearly as much in the United States, and I don't have to put my body through nearly as much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So,

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I see a guy leave new Japan and head over to either WWE or AEW, I'm just thinking probably not getting him back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just because who wants to get the who wants to beat themselves up?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And look at what we saw at Tana Hash's retirement ceremony.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look at what this style does to human beings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's hurt.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I fly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like he walking away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a tone to feet like Evil walking away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He may not make a whole lot of money in WWE, but if wife sure is and he can laugh.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He can be happy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, it was Haromo, he's not 40, he's about 36 or 37 or something like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that range right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, once again, you know, a three or four year deal gets to do your 40s with more money than you used to have in an economy where dollars work very well in Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was just there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Twice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was, believe me, your dollar goes quite a long way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy was there recently.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not an expensive place to be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought, you know, the dollar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you want to, I thank you much.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, I thought the top.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yes, I spent too much money, too, but I got a lot of stuff for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, absolutely, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very nice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, back to wearing my death barato a bit of collection shirt right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, all right, there you go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the Romo Takahashi fair.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, his last match will be at New Beginning in Osaka.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm getting, I'm yet, well, we'll mention it when we get to the preview Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm getting my dream tag team for one night before one of them leaves and it'll be the last time I get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, all right, you know, your bucket list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, uh, draw a Maloney, part of Tricep, but if you need to keep on going, but that's something to watch out for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the news is that there's no news is that he heard himself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to keep wrestling, which I think makes him like every other person in the company.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not trying to not drill them alone, but I thought that was a weird black and white lion mark to put up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess they're preparing us for the, maybe it's an angle or, yeah, because they do, remember, I'm not saying the drill is tries to up his K-Fay, but it might be incorporated woven into a story line because they have done K-Fay with that lion mark before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not, they're not under oath on their roller right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you notice, uh, did you notice their premature routine and one of the matches where Dr. Ella did not participate in the, uh, in the group, uh, whatever, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've given up on trying to figure that stuff out for the most part.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure that New Japan is organized enough or 100%.

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[SPEAKER_01]: planned out enough to put a lot of stock in every single little thing like that because I used to and they used to be in a position where everything meant something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That hasn't really been the case in a couple of years and I felt like we have chased a lot of red herrings that just turned out to be guys saying things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... in post-match comedy used to be if something was said post-match comments you should really pay attention to it and that's not true at all anymore guys just kind of throw stuff out there but uh... it's you when you hear more than once is what you got to pay attention to so if maloney missed the group you know uh... high five at some point did you could be that his mind is wandering a little bit uh... not everything means something any more a new japan

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[SPEAKER_00]: my angle where it's coming up is they just did this thing with shingo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shingo like hurt his ribs and they made a production out of it on the show and then they did the black and white line mark.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, uh drill a not participating with the unbound company right before, you know, right after shingo being injured.

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[SPEAKER_00]: then putting the black and white line mark out for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure what this all is, but it seems highly suspect once you start lining all that stuff up and knowing that those two are incorporated with each other if the wardrobe and adjust.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's weird.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It could very well be a way just to put over United Empire.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that they're going on this tearing injury guys before the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If they, if that comes into play where they do damage to shingo's ribs and they work drill his arm in Osaka and win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: then you we have a little bit of an answers that these guys are not just here to win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're looking to hurt people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are very angry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're very frustrated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to injure now in addition to just trying to win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That could be the story for United Empire.

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[SPEAKER_01]: having a resurgence, but there's a cool streak to them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're looking to put guys out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a way of getting heal over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that might just be it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the mentioned our sibling program, Power Bombshells, and a lot of ways to show the kind of inspired this one, because I was a watcher of Power Bombshells, and we had the idea that, hey, we should do something like this for Japan's centric at first, and I narrowed it down even further to New Japan, and that kind of put Jeremy and I together in a roundabout way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the about to have their 200th episode.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, we.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we started after them, but because we have done a lot of special episodes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are sure in rest of Kingdom and all that kind of stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have done more episodes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they have there about to have their 200th as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had our spec.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They do some way more hours worth of content that we do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they do three hour each week and we do like I lose my mind if I did three hours each week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But congratulations to them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sam has been getting some really cool interviews late.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So make sure you check them out every Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I wanted to mention and wanted to mention this as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This a little out there back now in addition to Sam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, both of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Mel made this a little out for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I just that's on screen here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a little gift from one of the one of the cows.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ow, what her no, you displayed it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So now it's a congratulations them looking forward to that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course we have the dynamite show all those other shows here on the fight game media network at the end of the day down the day down and show the wrap All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of rap.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we'll deal and stop W and WWE paper view recap whatever those happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can't wait to recap revolution whatever that show is whatever that show is whatever that show is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The rap by the way, is the rap is how I keep track of WWE these days, because Caleb has got to do such a good job with Keith.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it keeps me from watching what is 15 hours of programming a week or whatever this right there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually have watched and followed WWE last night, I ever have before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I watched Raw and I watched the rivalry, even I watched Raw rumble, but I don't watch anything else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been keeping up with Stardom, Murray-Gold, TJPW has a tag team tournament going right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like in that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All Japan is building toward another triple crown title.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Defense can't tell me a horror.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just had a successful defense against Talos, a former WWE guy that's in all Japan right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're building to a match for June Saito.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the main event of the show I saw last year as part of the Champion Carnival.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going at it again for that triple crown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the last two triple crown champions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They have a big show coming up there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No is rolling along.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Japan's keeping me plenty business.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will I will tell you what of all the guys that I've been watching wrestle so far in 2026.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Man and Draude is just something like what a fire under his ass.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ever since he got like go from WWE and able to wrestle again, he you a great at Tokyo dome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was great on the last couple episodes of Dynamite, where he wrestled against Swerve and Kenny Omega.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got this match coming up with Gabe Kid that I'm now really looking forward to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like this dude,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he knows it's a life-chanted wrestling because he ain't ever going back to WWE.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's got something to prove and my god this dude is wrestling out of his mind right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He has few bridges left to burn.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, he needs to make something work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, what's the deal in McKay line from 902 would know that our friend Garrett liked to say, let the bridges we burn along the way like our path.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, boy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And boy, that's some deep, deep air and spelling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't you want to style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so I want to say hello, Brad is here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The ace of Josie, Brad is with us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy Orris here, glad to see both of you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And hello to Colin and home, glad to see you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're easier every week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We always get a comment from him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If anybody wants to, by the way, if you have questions, like we interact with the people here that watch live, but we understand that not everybody can do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you have a question, ring side replay at gmail.com.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That'll get to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The year's strong style at gmail.com.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I send you questions, isn't you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you haven't, we're happy to answer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're happy to answer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad has an update for us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's very important.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have a lion mark to put up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he said to Gucci announced that he burned the inside of his mouth, but that he is going to continue eating his dumpling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank God.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually had a coworker that had the same issue.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he told me about it this morning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He burned his mouth eating a dumpling last night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, oh, to Gucci.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he looked at me and he said, what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said nothing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate Tahichi's announcement as well, which is that Tahichi has an important announcement, and then the announcement was, there's nothing important to announce.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can all add one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so Jeremy says it feels like we're losing many key guys right now and and you are that's not just you the evil thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're probably be more this is the time of year the first quarter of the year when a lot of the one year deals are up and they're either going to be renewed or not and we go through this every single year it feels like but again with a rough 20 25.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... decent start twenty twenty six will get to that but a rough twenty twenty five maybe not the budget that they've had the past for for for talent and it does mean that that are for any talent for that matter and it does mean that some some people are are going to be leaving we had the w e rate a few years ago when a j the good brothers and knock them were all left pretty much at once the stuff like that

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[SPEAKER_01]: But then we had Osprey in O'Cotta and fairly quick succession.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now we've got evil in Hiromu and fairly quick succession.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes it just works out that way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of the contracts get the guys through Russell Kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They end in the end of January or in February or March, so that they can have them under contracts so that the company can know what they're going to do with them through Russell Kingdom will at least go all the way through to the big show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: then there's some turnover.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Chase O and said he resigned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll get chase back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just not surprising.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who else he would sign with.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not trying to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, no, did you hear about that contract, actually?

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually paying New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, now stop that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the key to me, the key to that, Jeremy, of course, I think like if he were one of the guys that were going to work for AEW, that would have happened by now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And without,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Chase Owen's provides the valuable service of having good matches and being a guy that can be beaten on the card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a valuable service, but he's not he doesn't have the the size and frankly the build that would interest WWE.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's also a little bit older than what WWE's looking for right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think if a WWE were going to happen to what happened, he's not a lucha guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So kind of like who else is Chase going to sign with?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's either this or Indies, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's the Brooklyn brawler for New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's he's a guy that shows up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You you pay him per day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You might make money off of this merch and he gets on fire both both both the promotion and him prosper on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if he's just a guy, he's just a guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's just a guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like he's fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't wish him ill.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't wish that he never worked at New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got annoyed with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can take it or leave it with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just doesn't matter to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I get annoyed with some of the just the venom on him and say it's not like putting a motor for the world championship.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like he's he's on the car taking losses a lot of the time for the he's the snake bite where you don't want to see your favorite young up-and-commer lose the chase elements on there like a sent-out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You want that you want to know that he's someone that they'll get past quite easily because

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you just the low level jobber and when you get what on you and the G1 or some of that, it just kind of just kind of annoys the audience and I get it, but you know, you need to know us a job you need plot driven losses for some of these guys that you know you can either avenge or come back from and you know prolong the career and the storytelling aspect of progress like 101.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so let's get to these Corican Hall shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't have two of those, and they set up the New beginning of Osaka, which we're going to preview in a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And February 1st, the Corican Hall, Jeremy and I last week played the over-under game where I put the over-under of attendance at 1100, based off of the previous two Corican shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they had one over and one under.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a push, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the first night, they had about 1200, which is not full, still a couple hundred short of full.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The one headline by Goto and OEW uh, uh, a little uh, a good bit less than that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Only around a thousand years here here where you got to look at it, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's 1,307 total.

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[SPEAKER_00]: between two nights.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you divide that by two, it's the over of 150 per night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or two thousand, three hundred, two thousand, three hundred seven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yes, so yeah, so they went under one night over the other night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was looking at a tennis fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's not, it's not good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They should be able to fill that building.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the startup did about 1,400 that started and rolled into it and had a good crowd.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The,

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[SPEAKER_01]: between wrestling them, New Year's Dash, which was an older ward, also in Tokyo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then four quirk and halshows, they ran Tokyo six times in the span of 33 days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's an awful lot to ask.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when I looked at the attendance of the road two shows, they're at about what they've been doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've been steady.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've just did two days in Fukushima just doing preview text, stuff that's not on NJPW world.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's about this in the 700's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What they always do in those smaller towns in Fukushima, and most of them pretty small-ish metropolitan areas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And two years ago, they were doing a little better, like New Beginning 2024, they did about 900, but it's been a rough couple of years, and they've lost a few.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But this is about what they do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tokyo seems a little exhausted right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: New Japan, and if they just aren't dry much, New Beginning and Osaka almost sold out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's not that you can get like some single scatter tickets.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just looked before the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can buy a couple of tickets for a variety on on the New Japan page, but it's it's basically down to single scattered stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There there are not big blocks of tickets left at any on arena.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, Eddie on Arena is the first weekend is like the first time wrestling has been really back in the big room in Eddie on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They shut it down after the March Sumo Tournament last year for refurbishment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Start them is going to run its pay per view there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Saturday, New Japan's going to run new beginning there on February 11th.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm the, you know, when the place, if you go with a minimalist presentation, meaning a ring in an aisle, you can get, I think something like seven or eight thousand in there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you block off that one section because you have a stage in a video screen and all that, I think it's more of a five thousand seeter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, the way that good crowd is coming next Wednesday on in Osaka and around the rest of the towns things are fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just Tokyo that's hurting right now and I wonder if they just aren't worn out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: just a lot of shows in a short amount of time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they they aren't well attended so far the these cork and it's but they had a hot crowd on Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The the 1200 that showed up were into everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I felt there was good energy on the Sunday show Monday felt a little bit more like a had a house show feel to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go into this one that was attended by 1234 people on the February 1st.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Young Lion Cup finals led it all off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was Katzzi and Marashima and Shama Kato, the two most senior ones.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One about 11-15, it was a good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was really fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the fans were really excited about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kato is Kato, rather, is a noticeably larger, and even Chris Charles had mentioned it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he is bulked up a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and they had a terrific spot in the middle of the best part of the match was a real struggle where Shoma had Marashima in a Fujua arm bar and there was a struggle for him to get to the ropes or tap and things and that could have gone either way they made it look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Marashima came back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He got the Boston crab and then was jumping up and down in the crab Which was that one actually really painful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I oh and it shut him down and that was it Show my head to tap out and Marashima won the the young line cup and at that point Tana Hashi came in president Tana Hashi and presented him the trophy

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[SPEAKER_01]: And after that, he said that he was going to go on his overseas excursion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to go and just overseas is all he said.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we don't know if that means England, we don't know if it means the United States.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think the gate probably going to rip pro.

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[SPEAKER_01]: that makes sense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That would make sense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's you that there aren't a lot of dance partners over here like in a ring of honor is possible, but Rev Pro feels a little more possible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like if it were a ring of honor, a UW, that would be immediately announced.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think you're right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you can work way the way they do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was Shomakato going to see a mallet, which is also announced in this thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what they did the whole advertisement and the whole deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I was about to say.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So here's what's going on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Marashima is going to leave right after new beginning in Osaka also.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to, that's going to be his final match as a young lion in New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kato is staying around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to work the fantastic Mania tour when the CMLL guys come over here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to work those shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when fantastic Mania is over, he's going to get on a plane with him and go back to Mexico and start working in CMLL.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I do too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's a really good chance, Kato ends up being on the next Tiger Mask if they decide to continue with the character.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's the guy for

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But a good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was nice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we will see one final sendoff match for Marashma coming up next week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're wrestling on some of these road two shows too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After this one was unbound company, this was ghetto Oscar and you do ice against Shoma Shota, Umano, Tiger Mask and you you way morea.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They won with the the knockout.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... the k l b the knockout bomb on tiger mask uh... get a was probably the most over person this match that was a stared out afterwards set up the tag team title match not a whole lot say about some of these matches on this show uh... but uh... jerry if you have something to go ahead and jump in uh... no i don't act we did something on my screen and i can't find anything to keep on going uh...

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Brad is saying he loves that the young lions all got their own merch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's kind of fun too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like that they like they did that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Brad just says really fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Final that the jumping Boston crab is a great rendition.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe saying this, but I've been watching wrestling for 40 some years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I've ever seen that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I've ever seen somebody just jump up and down, like leave their feet in the Boston crab to put over the idea that it's a more fierce move.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He also is asking, I don't think I've ever seen it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's also asking if they're going to change taking title.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get to that preview.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, that was an interesting way of finishing that match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't think I've ever seen it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Mike, Mike, do you need to be?

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[SPEAKER_01]: T.M.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I really enjoyed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really enjoyed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got everything figured out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what happened to her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I pressed a button and like, this, uh, crow screen went right and my other screen went last and I just had like the blank thing and I could hear you and I was talking about like, I don't know what happened here, uh, but yeah, I know I just, I enjoyed all of it keep going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, I'm going to stop for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: TMDK, Hartley Jackson, co-save Fujita, real-hey, we went and Zach Saber Jr. against Bishop on, that's go-to on Yoshihashi, Bolton, and they added in re-escape to Gucci.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, we were one this one with a half crap on to Gucci and went to Gucci wasn't in the action and this match was fine, but again, just to preview.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Another one came after that where we have Gradocon, Hinaray, and St. J, facing unbound company that being Dahi Kina-Gai, Dr. Meloni and Robbie X. Robbie X.

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[SPEAKER_01]: is the guy I want to see more in New Japan if Haromu is leaving, he is the perfect guy to slide right in that I'm going to go up and off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This guy is really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Henara ended up beating Nagai with the Lagerbomb.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember what they decided to call Henara's version of, but it's a Lagerbomb.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm surprised Christian called it at first, but just the, it's a power bomb where the guy giving the power bomb sits out,

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just that's the Lagerbomb and addition Lager was one of the did it pretty good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Robby was excellent again in the match like I said and Jeremy is asking are we doing predictions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and then Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so we're going to do the predictions and we'll do the preview to end it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to go over these cork and shows here first.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we had Master Watto, Toriano and Io, teaming up with Aaron Wolfe to face the House of Torture, Dictogo, Doki, Rennerita and Yuturo Takahashi and Jeremy, this one had the surprise ending.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They wanted a great match or anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a very House of Tortureish with the interference and distracting the referee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It came down to the end where the pipe was in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Doki's pipe was in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The referee was distracted.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Master Watto found the pipe in the ring, picked it up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thought about it for a while.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then it was waffled Doki's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this got one of the pops of the night everyone was like finally somebody is just acting like a man here is so to speak just, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and the crowd was chanting what to what to what it's good to see some stones on some baby faces that's up a good challenge I this was a breath of fresh air to me Come from I know they always make the baby faces look like such weenies in New Japan and this was like what are just going No screw this guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hitting in the head with a pipe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that whole moment of should I or should I?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like oh you're not gonna Yeah, yeah, yeah

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad says the water looks great and he's ready for the title.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said do it ghetto and gang wouldn't bother me wouldn't bother me, but I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how that happens when that match happens that water they're putting around water, but we know who knows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I was happy to see it anyway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was a nice old twist.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, after that we had a pretty darn good match right here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: David Finlay and Heroma Taka Hashie against Calum Newman and Jacob Austin Young.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This one went away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was almost a 20-minute long match, but I enjoyed it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was an overkill finish on Jacob Austin Young.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Finlay got the win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, they did the usual thing where they were trying to use one another, Finlay and Heroma as weapons, basically, the including of

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[SPEAKER_01]: was that they were up on the top rope and Hiromu tried to superplex Finlay onto their opponents.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Instead, Finlay had butted him and knocked him off the ropes all the way down on to him, and it was Hiromu that took the ball afterwards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hiromu says, I just can't tag with Finlay anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just can't do it anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you won't have to, I guess.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but I think both of them feel like they're on their way out at this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That promo will be ultimate in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just have a good time because it doesn't mean anything in a month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we had Francesco Akira and Jake Lee in the main event against Ijishimori and Yota Suji.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The stuff with the juniors was really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Ishimori and Akira worked very well together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like how Suji and Lee are kind of working together here a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the docs, but I am enjoying their interactions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I understand that Lee is not to everyone's taste, but I kind of like him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll stand up where I thought this was interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And afterwards, Akira hit, well, not afterwards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The finish was Akira hitting the crown fall, his version of a driver, and he won it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he pinned Taijiishimori,

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... it did its job right there putting a little more heat on united empire french escola kira being pushed up the card is excellent i'm happy about it him pinning ishiamori was uh... good for him here and his wrestling in it was outstanding we know ishiamori's great we know what here is great for that matter but it's fun to see it and a kira taking this more aggressive heel approach is working for me so far and i think he's going to be a nice fit in this

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[SPEAKER_00]: feels like it's finally it's time, you know, like he's been spent there a while, you know, he's tagging with TJ key for a while and they were trying to get him going last year and then he broke his hand or broke his wrist or whatever and when he came back, he came back with the vengeance, he's come back aggressive and ready to take the spot that's been given him and I'm really happy to see him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He has progressed so nicely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like they have handled him intelligently.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned the injury, and that did set him back, yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But when he first came in, he was doing jobs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just like everybody else does, just like Jacob Austin Young was doing now they have Zane J that can do it for him and I don't think we're going to be seeing young loose as often as before and he kind of moved up to that tag team with TJP where TJP was carrying a lot of the freight at first and then slowly a gear came up to meet him and then he might even say that in times I felt like TJP was letting him shine a little bit and

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[SPEAKER_01]: By the end of that team, I thought that Akira was the guy and he was the better wrestler and in a lot of it because I felt like TJP was allowing that to happen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then he goes singles and he has blossomed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like they brought him on it exactly the right place and he feels ready for this, not just that he's thrust into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like this is exactly where he should be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's time for him to be a force in that division on the singles end.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I'm happy for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm happy for New Japan because I think this guy can have some dynamite matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just keep thinking about the young talent they have here with

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Jose Fujida, Diking a guy is on the way, uh, a cure, uh, there's a nice generation underneath that layer of desparado and Watto and yo and show that's common.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's going to be good to watch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Think about Akira up until about probably just now actually it's the confident factor if completely changed his appearance persona for the longest time he just came off is like, oh, he looks like such a good kid, you know, I mean like as a junior heavyweight like, oh, you know, like he he's not like the run of the winner, but he just felt like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At the end, like one of the guys that you picked middle to last on the team, if you were going down the line as opposed to like, no, I want that guy first on the team now, I feel like he's like varsity, like he's the store and he's it's his time to shine him and food you to really feel like they are the two guys that need to

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get some comments about this and some of the guys in this match, Brad mentioned that he's getting closer and closer to liking Jay Glee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's pulling him in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he's doing good stuff in this field with Sergei.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going on here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's bringing the weird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there is an awkward strange charisma to the guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Even when he doesn't look like he's doing a whole lot, you're watching him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I liked him and and no, I liked him in all Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm down with this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Heat the lecture at the Joker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you do?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe there's a little bit of that in there, that's fair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just completely unbalanced, like you can't tell what I'm doing, but I've got a master plan just laughing and like the big smiles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's definitely like socio-pathie in there that I kind of appreciate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he's going to win or anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But like I said, for a good first opponent, for Suji, and probably a continuing opponent for him,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Jeremy or mentioned he heard family may get a dual contract with the new Japan and AEW.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, where did you hear that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So those dual contracts don't tend to work out well for new Japan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I heard that there is another guy that might get a dual contract.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but the AEW part of David Finley is something that I've been starting to

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[SPEAKER_00]: He might not be and some of the stuff that they've been doing with mentioning the war dogs by name on dynamite last night and having corners and gave kid together there kind of made me think that they might actually bring thinly in there as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, counters and counters assigned with the AWS.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We know that too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see, Brad mentions at Watto and to Akira for the Junior title sounds like a good plan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I await their feud for Akira Wins, best of Super Junior's, and he gets the title shot, I'd be down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That.

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[SPEAKER_01]: is a very real possibility that a Kira wins Super Junior's this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That can be part of this push.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He might, and then Jordan from Canada is here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Jordan, what do you want to say?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He says Lee has something special going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His psychology and grasp of characters really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's tall, menacing, and a little unstable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: which is a nice combo for a heel and wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he also says great athleticism by Francesco, very impressive.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's fluid in Italian and Japanese and English.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he made speaks three languages effectively.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He is Italian.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He is Italian.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think English and Japanese are second and third languages.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not ready to pull the trigger on water, beating Doki just yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like what I see so far.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But even more so water is behind up to this point, you felt like he was on the back end of the depth chart of the Junior Heavyweight Division.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I like what I see, but if he were suddenly thrust is the champion of the division, I almost think that that would set the division back more than Tokyo being the champion right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I see your point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing I could think of with Watto becoming the champion would be if the story is just the sinking of the house of torture.

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[SPEAKER_01]: because the part of the continued.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like there's something there to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like Wato, I don't think anyone would argue would be seen as a transitional champion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if he held the title until Akira got it, that's the super junior, is the winner of the best of super junior.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you want to Karen Fuji, like at the end of the year, again, I'm down with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm all those in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jess.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it feels like it's coming out of a field to suddenly like put the belt onto water with like one defiant moment and then we'll be running into that field.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just wanna see more, I wanna see, I just wanna see more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's one more very subtle thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I'm reading into a too much on the second night, too, that I'm going to bring up when it comes to that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: OK.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, no, I understand your point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It would certainly be an underdog in that match under any circumstances, any circumstances.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we also don't know when that match is going to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, it hasn't been a new one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, we do not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: February 2nd, though, the next day, they were back at Cork at Hall, a few fewer people in the crowd right there, only about 1,073.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they saw some decent stuff, and this was a more subdued crowd, but it was a work day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... we had yes to the umino and oi mora defeating uh... negai asker you know ice umino hit the larry into a dragon super ex i was on baking the guy to win that post-mash brawl with

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[SPEAKER_01]: K will be afterwards.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then we have my brain fart comment that I meant from the last time last match that you told last time we talked about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really like the intensity of the feud between Uemura and Umino and the knockout brothers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that the backstage comments, everything have really like coalesced into a strong feud in which they are,

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[SPEAKER_00]: really trying to get this over with the backstage comment where our show doesn't just like, look, these guys are the best tag team chat, packed tag team in the world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know what it looked like that we've lost twice and we're trying to go at it again, but Tai Chi and she, you know, they gave us their strength and we beat them and now we're ready again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, I'm here for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm absolutely here for all of this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The next one was another win for Master Watto overhouse torture to get the bendable on Dictogo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is the point I was making here, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did something they don't normally do, and again, not everything has to mean everything, but.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dictogo was going to use the Garrett in this match and second moto, the referee saw it and stopped him, which almost never happens.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he got eaten alive by Watto, got him in the Vendival and tapped out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just these little subtle hints that house the torture is getting crushed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, they're losing, they lost evil.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've lost a lot of matches lately.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They barely won anything really since kingdom, except for Doki.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it just kind of keeps piling up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We expect the reader to lose to Aaron Wolfe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just feels like they're setting something up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's usually when a group's search is when they've been torn down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Steven, you know what they say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not easy being an evil.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, all those other guys trying to be evil.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You just can't be the guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't coordinate it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't you can't get that Garrett out with the referee looking like you got to be better than that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They had a guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They've told them when to pull this crap and now he's gone and look at him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shambles, Campbell, Steven, this is one of those things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not easy being evil.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had United Empire beating unbound company again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the next match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good action in this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was Newman, Akira, and young, beating Romo Geto and Finlay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Once again, Akira with the crown fall, meaning he pinned Ishmori and Haromo within two days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So again, more signals being sent that he is on the ascension.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jacob Austin, young stole the rumours.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jack at Ruff Day for the baby faces all around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: United Empire booked to look very strong.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You probably brand match at the night because he loves him, some Jacob often young.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He even had himself a t-shirt of the of the lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is a big J.A.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Y. fan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And more unbound company against the United Empire, this time drill in the Lonnie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: here at the Drilla Killer on Jacob Austin young in the next match to win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was an interesting part in the post-match comments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This match itself wasn't anything too wild, but the interesting post-match kind of just seemed Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I tried to get to him today, but uh this was the match beginning that I thought was so interesting too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you do your part and I'll do my part.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Afterwards, in post match comments, you know, the sushi brought over two folding chairs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Jake Lee was doing his comments or about to not do his kind of shit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He put one out, sat down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, let's talk like adults.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They sat down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They chatted about what the match meant.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, and he asked, like, what are you trying to do?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He asked Lee, this is sushi asking Lee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What are you trying to do?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what statement are you trying to make?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, you feel like there needs to be a revolution in New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You feel like there needs to be some sort of change.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they said, I think you could do that more with unbound company than United Empire.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, Lee thought about it for a while and said, oh, you're trying to poach me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so as you just said, we're over here fighting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We could do more interesting things together than while fighting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Lisa, can I give you an answer on that later?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You don't need it now, do you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, no, of course not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't say no.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought that was intriguing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what this is leading to if it's going to lead to anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it was an interesting little interview segment where Sueji just kind of says, I know you're trying to do something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know you feel like this company needs a shake up, but you're with the wrong guys to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't just dismiss that out of hand, which I thought was in training.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's leading to something in the match or whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm curious to see where that went, just because I haven't seen that before in a new Japan setting in the post-match comments where the guy just pulls up a chair or he says here, let's sit down and talk about this like a grown-ups and they have a little back and forth that wasn't about, I'm going to destroy you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to kill you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to take everything you've got.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You've got a plan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't think you have the right henchmen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I meant to watch this and I saw some images of them sitting in chairs across each other.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, oh, that looked intriguing, but I don't want dog losing my mind losing its mind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it has been for the last couple of weeks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I took them for a really long walk right for the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I meant to fire it up, but I watched the backstage cover from the first.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's dead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This to me said more about Suji at the top baby face leader at the company because he's the guy trying to unite like all of New Japan into one like, you know,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like we're all in this together, like I'm the leader of the first time the champion, like I want us all to like compete with each other, but feel like you're trying to tear this portion down where I'm trying to lift it up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, it's interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, I think you think, this is Suji talking to Lee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you think that we need

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[SPEAKER_01]: a breath of fresh air like we need something new we need a revolution.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't sound to me like sushi was accusing him of trying to ruin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You want you want to lift this company up too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're better together than fight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you want you want you want to bring all of these like

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[SPEAKER_00]: people together into a competitive world, but it's not like driven by hatred.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's different by competition and like join us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We can do this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've got a leader supposed to do like I'm like, oh, I'll watch like benevolently and the way that people like bring together instead of trying to divide and

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like to me that just that's the energy of like a ton of hockey or an okada or one of these like all time or it's like saying like no we are a new Japan you are a new Japan join us and we can you know make this better than it has ever been before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm still not convinced I'm bound company is going to be the long-term name of that group just like I'm affiliated with the long-term name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just

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[SPEAKER_00]: don't care.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't like it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I'm not convinced that J.C. Lee is going to suddenly turn on United Empire and join me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I am curious to see where it goes with that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it is an interesting point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just thought it was something different than

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[SPEAKER_01]: some existential battle between two men for their souls and fighting spirit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just something too guys I and each other up just like I think we're trying to do the same thing aren't we?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know it's the I thought that was intrigue.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So beginning to get a match all the odd-bound company guys come out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and they're in their corner of the ring and they've got their new like hand gesture where they all put their fist in the air and they all do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not quite the L.I.

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[SPEAKER_00]: J thing but it's kind of in tribute of it instead of putting their hand on their chest and going out they just put their hand up in the air and Robbie, Robbie Eck, Tagey Schumering, Yota Suji, all did it, trilogy stared at them and did not participate in like the hand gesture and if went over to the

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[SPEAKER_00]: and got ready for to be tagged in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, you end up winning the match, all that, I just thought that was incredibly curious that they didn't know about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, have to see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so then we had a series of three singles matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad says the top three matches in their show were a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The two trio teams have made those titles fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I look forward to the defenses.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good job by them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I will agree.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought these were three fairly strong matches in a row.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought there were two one quality, not the best one matches, but if they were in the G1, you wouldn't even bat nothing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The first one was Oleg Bolton and Hartley Jackson, one of about 12 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all they needed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't mean that in a negative way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got a lot done in these 12 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They fought in the orange seats for a while.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hartley took a terrific looking bump over two rows of chairs, putting over Bolton's power.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He took a two-plex onto the chair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't let him tell that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He went flat back into a row of chairs and it looked roachously painful.

01:00:29.658 --> 01:00:58.753
[SPEAKER_01]: And later on, he even kicked out of a kamikaze, although not the full on from the corner running one, but he kicked out of a kamikaze, he hit the DVD on Bolton Bolton kicked out of that, it all led to a superplex and then a full kamikaze to win.

01:00:59.071 --> 01:01:00.954
[SPEAKER_00]: a Japanese version of a meat match.

01:01:01.455 --> 01:01:06.643
[SPEAKER_00]: These two just slap and meet against each other for like 12 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just power moves and just drop and slam and paint.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the right guy won.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything made sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They both looked like they were in an event about a pain afterwards.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But their pain was for a pleasure and I think them for this this match happened and it was everything that I wanted it to be so awkward.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so afterwards we had Zach's favorite.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's biggie right the meat slapping thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of things I would prevent if I could go back in time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be probably 80 if on the list.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's on the list.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's on the list.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of other things I would stop first.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, you didn't want to thought time to be, oh, I don't think that's so weird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, as Zach said, Virginia or New York, she has she was next.

01:02:01.438 --> 01:02:02.639
[SPEAKER_01]: This one went about 20 minutes.

01:02:02.780 --> 01:02:04.902
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually thought the start of this one was a little slow.

01:02:05.243 --> 01:02:08.126
[SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't enjoying like first eight or nine minutes of this match.

01:02:08.447 --> 01:02:09.147
[SPEAKER_01]: Then it built though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I felt like the way Zach was something

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[SPEAKER_01]: put the match into first year where it took a while to get out of.

01:02:16.792 --> 01:02:25.643
[SPEAKER_01]: But it made sense that he was doing that because Yoshi has she is, I for all the headhunter, you know, and so the neck breakers makes up for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.

01:02:25.904 --> 01:02:28.107
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, it turned into a terrific match.

01:02:28.447 --> 01:02:30.449
[SPEAKER_01]: Once they kicked in the gear, this is very, very good.

01:02:30.469 --> 01:02:32.732
[SPEAKER_01]: In the end, Zack beat him by submission.

01:02:32.752 --> 01:02:36.637
[SPEAKER_01]: So the first two matches, when exactly the way they thought they were going to go on paper.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Zack is a little bit higher up on the pecking order than Yoshi has she.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You would think that Bolton is a little higher on the back of your order than Hartley, and that sets us up for the last match to be the deciding one in this two out of three series.

01:02:50.759 --> 01:02:51.280
[SPEAKER_01]: So to speak.

01:02:52.283 --> 01:02:59.578
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, that's exactly what it was, but Yoshi how she jackwork well together here once the max Zach once the match got going.

01:03:00.098 --> 01:03:06.506
[SPEAKER_00]: Yoshi Hashie, slightly heel, got favor, slight baby face in peril for a portion of this match.

01:03:06.586 --> 01:03:08.849
[SPEAKER_00]: It was kind of a weird dynamic.

01:03:08.969 --> 01:03:19.662
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember watching the match and watching Zach taking a bump against the, we inside Gargrail and him just being on the ground and Yoshi Hashie just kind of being the crap out of him down there.

01:03:19.702 --> 01:03:25.690
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, wow, this is not really kind of what I'm used to seeing with you Yoshi Hashie and that's a pretty good match.

01:03:26.050 --> 01:03:27.091
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm not against it.

01:03:27.452 --> 01:03:28.333
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just,

01:03:28.313 --> 01:03:36.563
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they had to have that dynamic where it wasn't exactly if Dreamer beat the crap out of them for the entirety of the match, if you could end up winning in the end.

01:03:36.583 --> 01:03:36.984
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?

01:03:37.004 --> 01:03:38.246
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess that's probably it.

01:03:38.426 --> 01:03:40.869
[SPEAKER_01]: I was expecting the match.

01:03:41.590 --> 01:03:42.411
[SPEAKER_01]: I said it was a good match.

01:03:42.671 --> 01:03:52.143
[SPEAKER_01]: Once I got going, I did think it was slow in the beginning, but what I was expecting is the usual Yoshi Hashie barely hanging on because Zach spends the first 10 minutes turning into a pretzel.

01:03:52.584 --> 01:03:53.525
[SPEAKER_01]: And they didn't do it that way.

01:03:53.565 --> 01:03:56.869
[SPEAKER_01]: They had Yoshi Hashie kind of get the jump on him.

01:03:57.406 --> 01:04:06.917
[SPEAKER_01]: Zach Selling on it was just a little off for me, but once they started doing their usual thing and trading the big moves back and forth, I was really into it.

01:04:07.157 --> 01:04:08.419
[SPEAKER_01]: I liked it.

01:04:08.439 --> 01:04:15.367
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just don't want a bit of a flip of the general convention, but once you look at it like that, it's like, oh, yeah, everything makes sense on this match.

01:04:15.387 --> 01:04:20.933
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I was like, they were all just kind of slightly g one quality that I just, I just, I just,

01:04:21.200 --> 01:04:35.040
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I enjoy random singles matches on these undercurrents to the big new Japan like shows that have meaning and you're just like, yeah, this is a good singles match that we're having on here.

01:04:35.581 --> 01:04:42.691
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not just tacked like undercard multi-ment tack, undercard multi-ment tack, undercard multi-ment tack over and over and over again.

01:04:42.711 --> 01:04:43.933
[SPEAKER_00]: I've really glad about that.

01:04:44.791 --> 01:04:48.717
[SPEAKER_01]: Brad mentioned that Hartley shared a picture of Homer Simpson when he fell in the fire hydrant.

01:04:48.737 --> 01:04:51.602
[SPEAKER_01]: He was bent in half and said, same picture and boy did it hurt.

01:04:51.642 --> 01:04:53.425
[SPEAKER_01]: And it probably did.

01:04:53.485 --> 01:04:55.688
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, those orange seats are rock solid by the way.

01:04:55.768 --> 01:04:56.429
[SPEAKER_01]: I've said them.

01:04:56.449 --> 01:05:00.416
[SPEAKER_01]: They are rock solid seats and not large either.

01:05:00.957 --> 01:05:08.248
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's, it's so that would be a pretty tight space to get suplexed into, let alone a very hard surface to land on awkwardly on your back.

01:05:08.328 --> 01:05:12.655
[SPEAKER_01]: So tough bump.

01:05:13.343 --> 01:05:15.306
[SPEAKER_01]: This one went 15 minutes, 38 seconds.

01:05:15.727 --> 01:05:17.250
[SPEAKER_01]: It was pretty good at times.

01:05:17.671 --> 01:05:19.253
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a good match overall.

01:05:19.835 --> 01:05:21.958
[SPEAKER_01]: Go to end it up winning it with the GTR.

01:05:22.359 --> 01:05:29.452
[SPEAKER_01]: And for me, Jeremy, there wasn't a whole lot to it other than being a good match, which is all that really needs to be at it.

01:05:29.472 --> 01:05:32.297
[SPEAKER_01]: But storyline wise, there wasn't a whole lot to this.

01:05:32.437 --> 01:05:38.187
[SPEAKER_01]: Other than another guy from that generation, falls short and fails in a made about setting.

01:05:38.285 --> 01:05:47.642
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think what they were going for was the happy ending with the top level baby face sending everyone home with the speech at the end.

01:05:47.802 --> 01:05:50.727
[SPEAKER_01]: And he also mentioned that it was the anniversary of his father's passing.

01:05:51.389 --> 01:05:56.458
[SPEAKER_01]: So we had that whole dynamic going there where maybe it would have been a little weird for, oh, we would have get the win.

01:05:57.219 --> 01:06:00.445
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, that whole group, like, you know, home at all.

01:06:00.863 --> 01:06:04.670
[SPEAKER_01]: Uemora, Nareda, oh, you were.

01:06:04.730 --> 01:06:06.634
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, they always freak and fail.

01:06:06.934 --> 01:06:10.561
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just like, boy, it's still isn't a wee was time, isn't they?

01:06:10.581 --> 01:06:11.963
[SPEAKER_01]: Still don't want to give them a big win.

01:06:12.324 --> 01:06:17.233
[SPEAKER_01]: Although sending the proud home of the baby faces, pro wrestling, right?

01:06:17.273 --> 01:06:22.703
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not going to complain about go to a winning, but sometimes you just wish that a wee wouldn't get something someday.

01:06:25.079 --> 01:06:28.704
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I really wanted him to win this match.

01:06:28.884 --> 01:06:31.307
[SPEAKER_00]: I really, really, really wanted him to win this match.

01:06:31.808 --> 01:06:33.951
[SPEAKER_00]: But I understood why he didn't go to.

01:06:33.991 --> 01:06:45.246
[SPEAKER_00]: It's still important for go to what's strong as a former champion and him losing a single match out of in this situation probably wasn't the best idea.

01:06:45.286 --> 01:06:49.652
[SPEAKER_00]: He can maybe lose in the cup and there'd be a scenario there where he's just kind of

01:06:49.632 --> 01:06:53.438
[SPEAKER_00]: not going to make it all the way then or he could win the cup who knows.

01:06:54.519 --> 01:06:55.541
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just one of those.

01:06:56.242 --> 01:06:58.946
[SPEAKER_00]: I really want to know where you want to win, but I understood why he did.

01:06:59.687 --> 01:07:07.498
[SPEAKER_01]: It's interesting, too, because this is a match that Goto could have lost two years and two months ago.

01:07:08.239 --> 01:07:17.192
[SPEAKER_01]: But since he had that push, right, when it went, since he had the push in the New Japan Cup, you know, he won the, I guess it was about a,

01:07:17.695 --> 01:07:22.481
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, maybe a year ago, because you won the thing, hold on, now I'm doing it all in my head.

01:07:22.501 --> 01:07:26.006
[SPEAKER_01]: 15 months ago, he could've lost the smash it wouldn't have made that big a difference.

01:07:26.026 --> 01:07:33.435
[SPEAKER_01]: But he won the gauntlet at rest of Kingdom 19, then had his run with at the world title and won the world title and all that.

01:07:34.116 --> 01:07:37.300
[SPEAKER_01]: Now he can't lose to Rio, way away without a meaning a lot, right?

01:07:37.320 --> 01:07:39.403
[SPEAKER_01]: And you don't want him to lose all that often.

01:07:39.423 --> 01:07:47.213
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is a match he could've lost 15 months ago and it would've elevated a little bit, but now they can't have go to lose to the guy anymore.

01:07:47.193 --> 01:07:58.384
[SPEAKER_01]: Just another example though of that generation being hitting a ceiling anyway, whether it's glass or anything else right now, I just think it's kind of concrete at the moment, let's something else happens, but that needs to happen soon.

01:07:58.617 --> 01:08:02.986
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I don't think you're going to go the rest of this year was in matches like this.

01:08:03.066 --> 01:08:04.750
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we what I mean, but I don't know.

01:08:04.930 --> 01:08:05.431
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

01:08:05.712 --> 01:08:06.053
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

01:08:06.073 --> 01:08:10.783
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if the year and this is this is going to make a break here for a lot of these guys.

01:08:11.023 --> 01:08:11.885
[SPEAKER_00]: Even you know to suit you.

01:08:12.346 --> 01:08:12.767
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

01:08:12.787 --> 01:08:15.433
[SPEAKER_00]: Like do you guys go to Suji?

01:08:15.513 --> 01:08:16.695
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, do you want to know?

01:08:16.715 --> 01:08:17.437
[SPEAKER_00]: You go, you remember?

01:08:17.457 --> 01:08:19.461
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do what even Ren Rita.

01:08:20.656 --> 01:08:25.008
[SPEAKER_00]: you're going to figure out a decade where who they're going to be for the rest of their career.

01:08:25.028 --> 01:08:25.890
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also this year.

01:08:26.472 --> 01:08:31.425
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how I feel about this because the void

01:08:31.658 --> 01:08:32.359
[SPEAKER_00]: in there.

01:08:32.780 --> 01:08:35.043
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the absence of the top is gone.

01:08:35.063 --> 01:08:44.857
[SPEAKER_00]: Nighto, Ocada, Tana-Hashi, Evil, Knota, all of these guys that were taught guys at one point or another, in this promotion aren't here right now.

01:08:45.218 --> 01:08:46.179
[SPEAKER_00]: There is a vacuum.

01:08:46.199 --> 01:08:51.827
[SPEAKER_00]: There are spaces to take and people should be hungry and ready to like climb that brass ring.

01:08:51.807 --> 01:09:02.083
[SPEAKER_00]: If these guys aren't able to elevate themselves at this point with the void of talent that has just left the company and the opportunity that they're, I don't know what to tell you.

01:09:02.604 --> 01:09:06.731
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and I'm not sure what you mean, the elevate themselves and they don't get to choose if they win or lose.

01:09:07.051 --> 01:09:10.477
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's still, but they still have to connect with the audience.

01:09:10.817 --> 01:09:12.840
[SPEAKER_01]: They still have to take everything we want to do.

01:09:12.860 --> 01:09:15.124
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's I don't think this is what we will year it all.

01:09:15.164 --> 01:09:16.466
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty convinced it's not now.

01:09:16.706 --> 01:09:19.671
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I thought it should have been, but I don't think it's going to be.

01:09:19.651 --> 01:09:21.376
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm more they're all going to have great years.

01:09:21.737 --> 01:09:23.121
[SPEAKER_00]: That's my that's my prediction.

01:09:23.161 --> 01:09:25.909
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's oh this guy is going to have to wait another year.

01:09:25.949 --> 01:09:33.610
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like I think that each one of them are going to have various levels of success and they're going to be the one focused on this year.

01:09:33.877 --> 01:09:35.940
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my guess is that OE was going to have to wait another year.

01:09:36.060 --> 01:09:37.041
[SPEAKER_01]: That's my family.

01:09:37.902 --> 01:09:45.893
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, and that was the end of that cork haul show, like I said, well, attended, but it was a pretty good action there toward the end.

01:09:46.153 --> 01:09:47.936
[SPEAKER_01]: Larry, yeah, it says OE was ready right now.

01:09:48.537 --> 01:09:49.918
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he was the kind of he doesn't think so.

01:09:50.499 --> 01:09:53.523
[SPEAKER_01]: But they just keep beating him in those big situations.

01:09:53.543 --> 01:10:00.272
[SPEAKER_01]: So you can connect with the crowd all you want, but that connection's going to fade away when they see you fail over and over and over again.

01:10:00.753 --> 01:10:02.415
[SPEAKER_01]: That's booking.

01:10:02.817 --> 01:10:04.901
[SPEAKER_01]: This week, let's talk about what's coming up this week.

01:10:04.921 --> 01:10:07.726
[SPEAKER_01]: We have two house shows, by the way, all of them are in the Osaka area.

01:10:07.806 --> 01:10:15.019
[SPEAKER_01]: This is an interesting little run here for Bushy Road, because I mentioned the start of the paper view is an eddy on arena this weekend.

01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:24.876
[SPEAKER_01]: And then New Japan is running two house shows in Osaka, including one in eddy on arena gym number two.

01:10:24.940 --> 01:10:28.364
[SPEAKER_01]: just before the pay per view, which is in the big room there.

01:10:28.484 --> 01:10:35.814
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're running the same building twice this week and another place in Osaka, the day before the small gym show.

01:10:36.074 --> 01:10:39.799
[SPEAKER_01]: So basically, Bushi wrote his camping out in Osaka for the week.

01:10:39.819 --> 01:10:46.387
[SPEAKER_01]: So you got startup, New Japan, New Japan, New Japan, all in the third largest city in Japan.

01:10:46.407 --> 01:10:50.172
[SPEAKER_01]: It turns out Tokyo Metro is so big, by the way, that Yokohama,

01:10:50.152 --> 01:10:50.954
[SPEAKER_01]: is the number two.

01:10:51.797 --> 01:11:01.765
[SPEAKER_01]: Second largest city in Japan and that's just right south of Tokyo right there and then Osaka it's so big, it's crazy so.

01:11:02.504 --> 01:11:04.787
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what's going on before we get to this.

01:11:04.807 --> 01:11:06.649
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's notable, there's one notable match.

01:11:06.769 --> 01:11:11.155
[SPEAKER_01]: Those two shows I mentioned, the two house shows in Osaka, not going to be on NJPW World.

01:11:11.616 --> 01:11:19.446
[SPEAKER_01]: The only notable match, Master Tori Yasada will face Haromu Chakahashi on Sunday the 8th at the prefectural gym number two there at Ediana Arena.

01:11:19.766 --> 01:11:25.153
[SPEAKER_01]: Yasada had said back in December that he wanted to follow Haromu as well as Taichi.

01:11:25.133 --> 01:11:36.935
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a thing, he wanted a chance to learn from Hiromu Savli, it looks like he won't get the chance to do that, but he does get a singles match as Hiromu talk about how she's second to last match in New Japan for now.

01:11:37.296 --> 01:11:39.480
[SPEAKER_01]: That's something that I noticed there looked at.

01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:40.682
[SPEAKER_00]: Are they telling that?

01:11:40.702 --> 01:11:42.906
[SPEAKER_00]: I heard something that they might tell that, that one match.

01:11:42.970 --> 01:11:45.333
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not, oh, maybe they will do that one match.

01:11:45.354 --> 01:11:48.799
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, but that is not currently scheduled to be on NJPWA.

01:11:48.979 --> 01:11:54.207
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, I saw something where they were going to do something about that one match and I can't.

01:11:54.828 --> 01:12:02.599
[SPEAKER_00]: I read it if sounded weird, so I'm not, I don't want to say for sure, but there is a possibility that that match might end up on one.

01:12:03.338 --> 01:12:19.288
[SPEAKER_01]: So on foundation day in Japan, which is Wednesday, the 11th, we will have new beginning in Osaka, foundation day, by the way, at National Holiday, Japan, that's why it's on a Wednesday, it commemorates the ascension of the first emperor of Japan, sort of like a founding day for the country.

01:12:19.268 --> 01:12:23.959
[SPEAKER_01]: Japan's government has evolved more than it was created.

01:12:24.220 --> 01:12:28.771
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have a fourth of July type of declaration of independent type of thing.

01:12:28.791 --> 01:12:33.582
[SPEAKER_01]: But they decided like the the essential of the first emperors when Japan became Japan as we know it today.

01:12:34.344 --> 01:12:37.632
[SPEAKER_01]: And they commemorate that day on February 11th.

01:12:37.612 --> 01:12:53.241
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's that is foundation day, which is why everyone has day off and they're running this big show in Osaka as we mentioned we're down to only some scattered tickets other than that and play places pretty much sold out it will begin look.

01:12:53.221 --> 01:12:54.843
[SPEAKER_01]: It will begin, yeah, absolutely.

01:12:54.944 --> 01:12:59.070
[SPEAKER_01]: It will begin with a young lion's send-off match, which is Toriano and Togi Makabe.

01:12:59.450 --> 01:13:02.174
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to show Makato, and I can see a Marashima.

01:13:02.194 --> 01:13:05.299
[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned Kato is not leaving yet.

01:13:05.379 --> 01:13:07.101
[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to do the Fantastic Amaniator.

01:13:07.482 --> 01:13:13.511
[SPEAKER_01]: Then head back to Mexico with that CMLL crew that comes over for Fantastic Amaniac.

01:13:13.531 --> 01:13:14.933
[SPEAKER_01]: But Marashima, is it?

01:13:14.953 --> 01:13:15.333
[SPEAKER_01]: Dooses.

01:13:15.434 --> 01:13:17.777
[SPEAKER_01]: He said it overseas after this one.

01:13:19.681 --> 01:13:24.312
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, kind of it's like Marashima to win again, but he won the cup.

01:13:24.392 --> 01:13:29.023
[SPEAKER_00]: So Shomekata wins on the way out, or they go to a draw, you know, maybe they go to a draw.

01:13:29.163 --> 01:13:30.567
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, then I wrestling each other.

01:13:30.587 --> 01:13:31.128
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I thought they were.

01:13:31.228 --> 01:13:31.569
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.

01:13:31.589 --> 01:13:35.759
[SPEAKER_01]: No, they're wrestling Makabe and it's Makabe and Yano.

01:13:35.779 --> 01:13:36.521
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're losing.

01:13:36.721 --> 01:13:37.403
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be fun.

01:13:39.155 --> 01:13:45.066
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Yishi Mori and her own will talk about how she will face Jacob Austin young and Francesco, I care this is her almost send off match.

01:13:45.767 --> 01:13:49.333
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't imagine my finding it my dream junior heavyweight tag team for one night.

01:13:49.914 --> 01:13:50.655
[SPEAKER_01]: They're probably going to lose.

01:13:52.138 --> 01:13:53.721
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think her will be taking the pin on the way out.

01:13:53.741 --> 01:13:54.362
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think?

01:13:54.629 --> 01:13:55.490
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, probably so.

01:13:55.630 --> 01:13:58.234
[SPEAKER_01]: And it'll probably be a care, a deal on it out to it.

01:13:58.254 --> 01:13:59.536
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be young.

01:14:00.277 --> 01:14:01.439
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be Jacob Austin.

01:14:01.459 --> 01:14:07.347
[SPEAKER_01]: You could have them be Jacob Austin young and have her almost say a happy farewell to everybody on the way.

01:14:07.367 --> 01:14:09.590
[SPEAKER_01]: You could do that and it wouldn't really hurt anything.

01:14:09.850 --> 01:14:10.912
[SPEAKER_01]: Just don't be to Kira.

01:14:11.332 --> 01:14:13.135
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's really no reason to be the issue more.

01:14:13.255 --> 01:14:16.019
[SPEAKER_01]: It should really either be her own or a young just by putting them in.

01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:22.408
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the idea of United Empire winning all of their

01:14:23.063 --> 01:14:27.888
[SPEAKER_00]: They might have been a quiet until the syrup hitting her rumble on this one after that.

01:14:27.928 --> 01:14:32.353
[SPEAKER_01]: We have Shinko Tagagi and Drill Maloney against Great O'Conan and Henare.

01:14:32.373 --> 01:14:36.978
[SPEAKER_01]: They've set this up that Shingo has been quote unquote injured for a while.

01:14:36.998 --> 01:14:39.000
[SPEAKER_01]: He hasn't been part of the road to shows.

01:14:39.060 --> 01:14:40.041
[SPEAKER_01]: This has been taken some time off.

01:14:40.061 --> 01:14:41.563
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not actually heard some worked injury.

01:14:42.123 --> 01:14:44.866
[SPEAKER_01]: Maloney perhaps actually hurt.

01:14:45.567 --> 01:14:49.631
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not, you know, it could be a work injury as well with his triceps.

01:14:49.831 --> 01:14:52.294
[SPEAKER_01]: So we don't know for sure.

01:14:52.274 --> 01:14:59.179
[SPEAKER_01]: could be all part of a bit of an angle going into this match as O'Conan and Hinarre.

01:14:59.446 --> 01:15:00.407
[SPEAKER_01]: likely to win.

01:15:00.447 --> 01:15:06.492
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, look at this Jeremy, this could double as number one contenders match the tag team plan, too.

01:15:07.093 --> 01:15:07.973
[SPEAKER_00]: It very much could.

01:15:07.993 --> 01:15:15.120
[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of assumed that, you know, an empire going to win the club, could I just think it to the United Empire night.

01:15:15.740 --> 01:15:25.809
[SPEAKER_00]: And to me, I think that if I want to continue making an RA look good, since these come back from the thing, and I wouldn't be shocked to see an RA get one over on Shingo.

01:15:26.089 --> 01:15:29.352
[SPEAKER_00]: And because Shingo still will injured.

01:15:29.956 --> 01:15:31.982
[SPEAKER_01]: I would really like to see an R. I have a big year.

01:15:32.023 --> 01:15:39.747
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just seems like he's so snake but when it comes to injuries, I would like to see him actually get a full year on the roster because it's such a talented guy.

01:15:40.233 --> 01:15:42.256
[SPEAKER_01]: And after that, we have a title match.

01:15:42.276 --> 01:15:43.597
[SPEAKER_01]: Never openweight six man titles.

01:15:43.938 --> 01:15:47.062
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a rematch of the previous title match.

01:15:47.102 --> 01:15:51.688
[SPEAKER_01]: Bolton, Goto, and Yoshi Hashie against Jackson, O'Weewa, and Zack Saber, Jr.

01:15:52.329 --> 01:15:56.274
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hoping for a retention here, Jeremy, just because I'm tired of these belts bouncing around.

01:15:56.595 --> 01:16:02.382
[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like Beishaman and Bolton are exactly the kind of team that could put some prestige back on these things.

01:16:06.528 --> 01:16:08.350
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean,

01:16:09.494 --> 01:16:14.522
[SPEAKER_00]: Between the two teams, I really don't care who has them because they're both really great teams.

01:16:14.582 --> 01:16:27.742
[SPEAKER_00]: They could have the title and then going back and forth with it, it's just going to kind of put them on ice until after the New Japan Cup and whoever has them is probably going to be setting up views with whoever it is after the New Japan Cup.

01:16:28.143 --> 01:16:37.577
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's just a matter of who do you think is more viable to be doing a bunch of long-term fumes with and what is what is the general state of

01:16:38.755 --> 01:16:46.664
[SPEAKER_00]: I would lean toward having that San Bernard Jr. out of the world title picture for the foreseeable future, so I'm kind of waiting towards them having the title.

01:16:47.085 --> 01:17:03.784
[SPEAKER_00]: But again, go to also a world title picture, so you're you're just kind of, there's a lot of parity between these two teams, and if either one of them, this is an

01:17:03.764 --> 01:17:08.889
[SPEAKER_00]: kind of like whoever went, whoever went, but I think this magic could be fricking fantastic.

01:17:09.090 --> 01:17:10.891
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's really no wrong answer here.

01:17:11.032 --> 01:17:12.273
[SPEAKER_01]: Both these teams are very, very good.

01:17:12.293 --> 01:17:21.623
[SPEAKER_01]: I just like the idea of a retention because I think, again, if somebody keeps it a while, it tends to mean more once.

01:17:21.683 --> 01:17:23.725
[SPEAKER_01]: It went at bounces all over the place, it means less.

01:17:24.225 --> 01:17:27.189
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jordan from Canada says, if I were Tony Khan, I'd go out for him already.

01:17:27.269 --> 01:17:33.315
[SPEAKER_01]: As a wild man, he's he's a talented guy,

01:17:33.295 --> 01:17:41.127
[SPEAKER_01]: And after that, we have Andrade El Idleo against Gabe Kid and Jerry this match feels like kids spent parachuted in from another company.

01:17:41.447 --> 01:17:42.369
[SPEAKER_01]: And it kind of has been.

01:17:43.070 --> 01:17:47.276
[SPEAKER_01]: Neither of these men have been mentioned much on New Japan programming for most of the month.

01:17:48.158 --> 01:18:00.096
[SPEAKER_01]: If you look at these road two shows, barely spoken either of their names, Andrade should probably win since this is first one in like this, this is first singles match in like this, but I'm not totally sure it matters.

01:18:01.645 --> 01:18:09.354
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it does kind of matter because I think whoever wins is going to end up challenging for the global title at the new beginning show.

01:18:09.695 --> 01:18:15.021
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be on the jersey and I think it's in draw, you know, he could be a good global champion.

01:18:16.222 --> 01:18:19.647
[SPEAKER_00]: He could have that title right now.

01:18:19.707 --> 01:18:30.960
[SPEAKER_00]: He's kind of in the world title picture of AEW, but he could be a sub-world champion, L-chloric, because I don't expect him to beat M.J.

01:18:30.940 --> 01:18:53.083
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think there go a little bit of steam on Adrona right now and he might, he have he do a contract, give kid probably has a dual contract, but in terms of freshness and all that, I feel like it's time to really have kid put some other people over on his way becoming part part part timer.

01:18:53.519 --> 01:18:59.868
[SPEAKER_01]: to me for new beginning USA and that global title, Andrade right now is the more interesting of the two.

01:19:00.208 --> 01:19:02.011
[SPEAKER_01]: Not, not, not, not on Gabe.

01:19:02.331 --> 01:19:06.156
[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen Gabe and Surgey a couple of times in 2025.

01:19:06.176 --> 01:19:07.458
[SPEAKER_01]: The matches were good.

01:19:08.159 --> 01:19:12.124
[SPEAKER_01]: It wouldn't be a bad match to have right there, but Andrade is kind of the fresh face.

01:19:12.465 --> 01:19:14.768
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it would.

01:19:15.457 --> 01:19:19.426
[SPEAKER_01]: hurt him to lose to Gabe, but wouldn't hurt him to lose to Syngi.

01:19:20.008 --> 01:19:21.270
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's probably the way to go.

01:19:21.732 --> 01:19:23.816
[SPEAKER_01]: He can beat Gabe and lose to Syngi.

01:19:23.836 --> 01:19:32.757
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't love either option because I don't want you to

01:19:33.783 --> 01:19:37.847
[SPEAKER_00]: At all, especially not lose the first time he comes to the States.

01:19:38.107 --> 01:19:39.588
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he's not going to win a title.

01:19:39.829 --> 01:19:40.790
[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to retain this.

01:19:40.810 --> 01:19:41.550
[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to retain this.

01:19:41.570 --> 01:19:51.340
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just, like, there is an error here where I think they want to digest themselves of the global title in him, but I, I want to make sure that it's done kind of the right way.

01:19:51.420 --> 01:19:54.723
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, I really just kind of want to see and draw it and get a suit.

01:19:54.743 --> 01:19:54.843
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

01:19:55.764 --> 01:19:58.326
[SPEAKER_01]: Drawing says if I'm trying to keep going at this rate, it's P.W.I.

01:19:58.346 --> 01:20:00.028
[SPEAKER_01]: 500 numbers will sure that's the kind of chemical.

01:20:00.048 --> 01:20:01.309
[SPEAKER_00]: It's exactly accurate.

01:20:01.643 --> 01:20:05.807
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Brad says, I'm driving to bring the CMLL title for some defenses too, possibly.

01:20:05.968 --> 01:20:10.653
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, maybe so could suit you any day global title, so could suit you.

01:20:10.673 --> 01:20:11.313
[SPEAKER_01]: She could do it.

01:20:11.353 --> 01:20:13.596
[SPEAKER_01]: He was a CMLL guy too for a little while.

01:20:13.616 --> 01:20:14.977
[SPEAKER_01]: Not like I'm driving was granted.

01:20:15.478 --> 01:20:17.440
[SPEAKER_01]: The last somber was one of the biggest stars in the whole company.

01:20:17.680 --> 01:20:17.901
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:20:18.661 --> 01:20:18.902
[SPEAKER_01]: Next.

01:20:21.544 --> 01:20:23.987
[SPEAKER_01]: David Finlay and Calum Newman.

01:20:24.167 --> 01:20:27.651
[SPEAKER_00]: So if this is a lot about thinly speech, I'll tell you that much.

01:20:28.103 --> 01:20:34.596
[SPEAKER_01]: If this is going to be a clean sweep until the main event for United Empire, we know it's going to happen here and it makes sense.

01:20:35.438 --> 01:20:40.849
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like Newman needs this win more than Finn Light does to establish what he's trying to do.

01:20:41.670 --> 01:20:43.935
[SPEAKER_01]: It also sets up the classic.

01:20:43.915 --> 01:20:53.317
[SPEAKER_01]: winner of the special singles match makes the challenge to the winner of the main event and puts that in a pretty good spot and it makes a lot of sense here.

01:20:54.018 --> 01:21:01.215
[SPEAKER_01]: So I could definitely picture in my head, Newman winning this match getting that victory over Finlay and then.

01:21:01.195 --> 01:21:20.554
[SPEAKER_01]: either after the main event or during the post match, if you don't want to, if you just want the eddy on arena crowd to go home happy and then you can do the angle and the post match thing when they have all the beer around them for the sponsor logo stuff, then you could have Newman step up to him, bad type of thing, feels like that's a direction to me.

01:21:21.310 --> 01:21:26.381
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, now get to inside, Stimly has put an over Newman the way that Offspray put over Fimly.

01:21:27.022 --> 01:21:34.538
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like he's going to make this guy look like a million buck can try and do everything he can to make him look viable going forward because we'll all offspray left.

01:21:34.558 --> 01:21:40.230
[SPEAKER_00]: You did everything in his power to just give Fimly all the opportunity to take that ball and run with it.

01:21:40.210 --> 01:21:46.280
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we're in that same situation where that net courtesy has been handled.

01:21:46.641 --> 01:21:48.464
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is Newman's time.

01:21:48.524 --> 01:21:50.928
[SPEAKER_00]: They set up the feud with Osprey.

01:21:51.209 --> 01:21:53.012
[SPEAKER_00]: I think thinly it's out the door.

01:21:53.192 --> 01:21:59.423
[SPEAKER_00]: I think all of these things are just a perfect scenario for the next man up.

01:22:00.485 --> 01:22:01.767
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jeremy Orr is asking.

01:22:02.047 --> 01:22:03.069
[SPEAKER_01]: And here's your answer.

01:22:03.089 --> 01:22:05.914
[SPEAKER_01]: Who is the next young guy put in the main

01:22:06.518 --> 01:22:06.999
[SPEAKER_01]: Kelly.

01:22:07.339 --> 01:22:07.680
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:22:07.720 --> 01:22:08.321
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be.

01:22:08.581 --> 01:22:11.044
[SPEAKER_01]: He's my early favorite to win the New Japan Cup.

01:22:11.685 --> 01:22:16.812
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, although if he gets the title shot on sushi before that, that makes a little bit less sense.

01:22:16.833 --> 01:22:22.240
[SPEAKER_01]: Since the cup winner usually gets a title shot, often does anyway, but semantics.

01:22:22.260 --> 01:22:22.681
[SPEAKER_01]: See the way.

01:22:22.901 --> 01:22:25.725
[SPEAKER_01]: You're asking who the next young guy in the main event scene is, it's Kelly Newman.

01:22:25.705 --> 01:22:31.141
[SPEAKER_01]: He's pretty young guy and as a longer term contract with New Japan than most do so.

01:22:31.582 --> 01:22:33.649
[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad has an interesting fancy booking scenario.

01:22:33.689 --> 01:22:39.225
[SPEAKER_01]: Gave versus Andre goes to a draw or double DQ to set up a three way, so Suji doesn't get pinned.

01:22:40.403 --> 01:22:44.129
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I still don't think they want to take that global title off of him yet.

01:22:44.550 --> 01:22:57.390
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they want to, if he's going to establish that I'm a double champion and these two belts are separate and I'm going to defend them, I think they're going to want him to look strong and successful doing so for at least a while before they take either one of them off of him.

01:22:57.671 --> 01:22:58.632
[SPEAKER_01]: That's my thought on that.

01:23:00.670 --> 01:23:01.872
[SPEAKER_00]: Brad, they could totally do that.

01:23:02.373 --> 01:23:03.094
[SPEAKER_00]: They could.

01:23:03.114 --> 01:23:05.658
[SPEAKER_00]: They absolutely could do it three way.

01:23:06.719 --> 01:23:08.963
[SPEAKER_00]: The reality is to me, I don't like it.

01:23:09.163 --> 01:23:11.988
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels more Western wrestling than it does NutriPan.

01:23:13.049 --> 01:23:19.219
[SPEAKER_00]: And for that reason, I hope they don't do it, but it will solve a lot of problems if they decide to go that route.

01:23:19.857 --> 01:23:20.558
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

01:23:20.578 --> 01:23:21.740
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure they have a problem.

01:23:22.121 --> 01:23:29.153
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I like the idea of the world title being a home thing and global title being outside of Japan thing, but they need someone to establish that.

01:23:29.253 --> 01:23:30.735
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that they want surgery to do it.

01:23:30.775 --> 01:23:31.116
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.

01:23:31.757 --> 01:23:35.203
[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we have the never open-way title, Aaron Wolfe and Ren Narita.

01:23:35.623 --> 01:23:39.330
[SPEAKER_01]: They are out of their freaking minds if they beat Wolfe here.

01:23:39.910 --> 01:23:42.034
[SPEAKER_01]: I do expect a lot of housing torture.

01:23:42.605 --> 01:23:45.328
[SPEAKER_01]: They I expect a lot of house a torture baloney.

01:23:45.989 --> 01:23:51.936
[SPEAKER_01]: There will be someone that helps out wolf or maybe he just fights them all off himself and looks like a Superman.

01:23:52.377 --> 01:23:56.262
[SPEAKER_01]: They are out of their damn minds if they beat Aaron will right here.

01:23:56.682 --> 01:24:00.407
[SPEAKER_01]: I would bet most of my house that he wins this match somehow.

01:24:00.427 --> 01:24:05.013
[SPEAKER_01]: If Narita walks out of this is the never open way title, this company's out of just lost his way.

01:24:05.253 --> 01:24:07.836
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what the hell they would be thinking.

01:24:07.985 --> 01:24:10.210
[SPEAKER_00]: house tortures in the down cycle right now.

01:24:10.230 --> 01:24:11.453
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, please.

01:24:12.315 --> 01:24:14.079
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not the way to heat them up.

01:24:14.099 --> 01:24:15.783
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not time to heat them up.

01:24:16.244 --> 01:24:16.364
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

01:24:16.384 --> 01:24:17.667
[SPEAKER_00]: They need to regroup.

01:24:17.807 --> 01:24:27.529
[SPEAKER_00]: They need rendering to figure himself out if a leader of this faction before they shoot a belt on him and tell him, I take the ball and run with it over.

01:24:27.509 --> 01:24:34.649
[SPEAKER_00]: the national hero that if Aaron Wolfe, having when now would be setting him up for failure.

01:24:35.210 --> 01:24:43.172
[SPEAKER_00]: And I firmly believe that, I think Digis need to have a match, make it a good match and rebuild from there.

01:24:43.591 --> 01:24:48.377
[SPEAKER_01]: Aaron Wolf's first loss should be a much, much, much bigger deal than this.

01:24:48.397 --> 01:24:52.763
[SPEAKER_00]: Aaron Wolf's first loss needs to be like in the New Japan company, like on the way to winning the whole thing.

01:24:52.783 --> 01:24:55.407
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's like, oh, you did that to me.

01:24:55.507 --> 01:25:00.253
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he didn't go get a revenge in another ready-made feud after after that.

01:25:00.694 --> 01:25:06.161
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he can have a couple of losses of the G1 make it to, you know, the post-walk play.

01:25:06.201 --> 01:25:11.708
[SPEAKER_00]: If he doesn't make it a post-walk

01:25:11.890 --> 01:25:13.753
[SPEAKER_00]: You've kind of patterned him out for the rest of the year.

01:25:14.014 --> 01:25:17.199
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll be fine, but he can hold that belt for a while.

01:25:17.720 --> 01:25:21.506
[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad mentioned this could be a huge match to show how well wolf is progressing.

01:25:21.646 --> 01:25:24.551
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and we've seen them do a few more things in the ring.

01:25:24.571 --> 01:25:25.653
[SPEAKER_01]: He still isn't doing a lot.

01:25:26.194 --> 01:25:27.196
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't have to quite yet.

01:25:27.496 --> 01:25:32.284
[SPEAKER_01]: He said Brad goes on and says his debut had evil and tons of smoke and mirrors things really good.

01:25:32.665 --> 01:25:34.027
[SPEAKER_01]: Rensha, that was working shoes on.

01:25:34.568 --> 01:25:36.131
[SPEAKER_01]: He should, I think he will.

01:25:36.692 --> 01:25:38.134
[SPEAKER_01]: He knows how big a deal this is.

01:25:38.114 --> 01:25:42.789
[SPEAKER_01]: and he knows if he ends up making Wolf look bad that it'll look worse on him.

01:25:43.290 --> 01:25:46.520
[SPEAKER_01]: He wise in the locker room anyway with the office.

01:25:46.561 --> 01:25:47.744
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's gonna be working hard.

01:25:48.587 --> 01:25:51.195
[SPEAKER_01]: There will be a lot of smoking mirrors here because Wolf

01:25:52.542 --> 01:26:14.820
[SPEAKER_01]: Reminds me of a, reminds me of an entertainer with five minutes of material, but a one hour show to do there's there's got to be a lot of help and so he's he's got about five moves he's doing regularly probably has a few more that he's going to pull out here, but they're going to need a lot of spoken mirrors to get through this one as well before he has long singles matches on his own.

01:26:14.902 --> 01:26:17.010
[SPEAKER_00]: in a total stroke of irony.

01:26:17.312 --> 01:26:23.697
[SPEAKER_00]: This is now Rem's opportunity to show what it takes to teach someone how to wrestle.

01:26:24.858 --> 01:26:25.579
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.

01:26:26.100 --> 01:26:28.663
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, and after that, we have a match that I am really looking forward to.

01:26:28.723 --> 01:26:31.486
[SPEAKER_01]: So it is the IWGP tag team championship match.

01:26:31.506 --> 01:26:32.528
[SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned it too Jeremy.

01:26:32.568 --> 01:26:39.116
[SPEAKER_01]: They've done a good job of hyping this one up, both team Seth, Oscar and you know, I against you, yet way more and show to Omeno.

01:26:39.136 --> 01:26:40.378
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to say this right now.

01:26:41.099 --> 01:26:42.801
[SPEAKER_01]: This has to be one of two things.

01:26:42.821 --> 01:26:43.902
[SPEAKER_01]: There are only two choices here.

01:26:43.962 --> 01:26:53.194
[SPEAKER_01]: The see there has to be the tag team title switch and

01:26:53.174 --> 01:26:56.780
[SPEAKER_01]: Or there has to be an angle where one of these two turn on each other.

01:26:57.140 --> 01:26:58.763
[SPEAKER_01]: That is the only thing I will accept.

01:26:59.244 --> 01:27:02.128
[SPEAKER_01]: If they beat you, you and Shota.

01:27:02.449 --> 01:27:09.821
[SPEAKER_01]: And afterwards, you and Shota were just like, well, I'm just going to pull myself up by the bootstraps and lead New Japan into the next step.

01:27:09.841 --> 01:27:10.542
[SPEAKER_01]: Stop!

01:27:10.522 --> 01:27:13.267
[SPEAKER_01]: the company has screwed it all up.

01:27:13.407 --> 01:27:21.080
[SPEAKER_01]: If that's what happens, they have to do something else other than have these guys fail and say, I'm just going to try again.

01:27:21.100 --> 01:27:22.983
[SPEAKER_01]: The crowd isn't buying it.

01:27:23.103 --> 01:27:27.510
[SPEAKER_01]: They have to either succeed or they have to split up and feud.

01:27:27.851 --> 01:27:29.153
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the only two things that work.

01:27:29.293 --> 01:27:35.263
[SPEAKER_01]: Anything else is malfeasance and a failure of booking by New Japan, a company that has

01:27:35.243 --> 01:27:38.706
[SPEAKER_01]: of booking failures in the last 18 months.

01:27:38.827 --> 01:27:40.628
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to do better than that here.

01:27:41.389 --> 01:27:47.315
[SPEAKER_01]: They cannot, cannot, cannot have these guys just look like a couple of little losers or shucky darts.

01:27:47.735 --> 01:27:50.979
[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't do it again, but believe in us, look to me in the future.

01:27:51.119 --> 01:27:51.980
[SPEAKER_01]: No, we won't.

01:27:52.580 --> 01:27:53.982
[SPEAKER_01]: You're losers at that point.

01:27:54.002 --> 01:27:54.762
[SPEAKER_01]: Tired of both of you.

01:27:55.443 --> 01:27:58.186
[SPEAKER_01]: No one's lost more steam in the last year, really, than OEMora.

01:27:58.927 --> 01:28:01.369
[SPEAKER_01]: Show to the lost at a long time ago.

01:28:01.349 --> 01:28:03.532
[SPEAKER_01]: has to be something different coming out of this match.

01:28:03.952 --> 01:28:07.537
[SPEAKER_01]: Either win the damn titles and look like a real team or feud.

01:28:08.959 --> 01:28:10.341
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, though, they're right.

01:28:10.361 --> 01:28:11.963
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't disagree with anything you said.

01:28:11.983 --> 01:28:15.407
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are the two outcomes that I think are pretty much required here too.

01:28:16.188 --> 01:28:27.643
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm at the point where actually kind of think that showed a new year and up winning the titles here and knock out

01:28:28.855 --> 01:28:30.299
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's been a really strong feud.

01:28:31.001 --> 01:28:41.551
[SPEAKER_00]: It's done a lot to rebuild the credibility of all the guys involved, especially after some weird booking, going into restful kingdom for all of them.

01:28:41.611 --> 01:28:43.877
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's all behind them.

01:28:43.857 --> 01:28:55.656
[SPEAKER_00]: They've had an excellent campaign for January 20, 26, and this is one of the matches I'm most looking forward to for the last month and they've done an excellent job building it.

01:28:56.338 --> 01:29:08.818
[SPEAKER_00]: I am very ready for it and I'm really, really curious as to what direction they take because it should be one of the most consequential matches for the entire promotion.

01:29:09.676 --> 01:29:19.504
[SPEAKER_01]: It should because I am of the opinion, if one of these guys turn on the other, whoever's heel should win the New Japan Cup.

01:29:19.524 --> 01:29:24.478
[SPEAKER_01]: And that should be the catalyst of them just taking off like a rocket and saying the hell that

01:29:25.488 --> 01:29:32.139
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, then turning that into a few between the two of them of course, but that needs to be, I'm changing everything.

01:29:32.339 --> 01:29:35.243
[SPEAKER_01]: This good-y two-shoes stuff trying to please you fans didn't work for me.

01:29:35.604 --> 01:29:39.210
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go my own way and mow people down.

01:29:39.290 --> 01:29:42.535
[SPEAKER_01]: So if, oh, a more a turns on Umino,

01:29:42.515 --> 01:30:11.982
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... because he didn't kneel on the line market or whatever uh... that's fine as long as he wins the new japan cup and all of a sudden he's a major contender and he's got a new attitude same thing with the homino saying i tried you people rejected me and i just made me realize i need to bring a little bit more moxley in the me than then uh... ton of hashi that's that was where i was most successful is uh... because i i mentioned a long time ago he had the little moxley double in the ton of hashi and well on his shoulders and uh... maybe the other should win

01:30:12.367 --> 01:30:20.717
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel strongly with that, but if you wanted to make them the tag team champions, they'll make them look like they're at least competent, then that would be a step forward and so.

01:30:20.817 --> 01:30:23.240
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I would.

01:30:23.260 --> 01:30:25.103
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how many they hope to add on this one.

01:30:25.123 --> 01:30:26.264
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, super right for this match.

01:30:26.925 --> 01:30:27.946
[SPEAKER_00]: Really looking forward to it.

01:30:28.247 --> 01:30:29.348
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably watch your show life.

01:30:30.169 --> 01:30:36.737
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the main event will be Yoda Suji against Jake Lee for the world title, the IWGP heavyweight title.

01:30:37.898 --> 01:31:02.337
[SPEAKER_01]: We do not expect them to cut Yoda as soon as you off at the knees, I expect him to retain it'll be an interesting test to see if he can get a IWGP heavyweight title match level performance on Lee that is part of your job in that role is to take guys who maybe wouldn't normally have I likely I think he's interesting.

01:31:02.317 --> 01:31:10.971
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not somebody I think of when I think big time, hard-hitting, world title matches, so you're just going to have to do some heavy lifting here to get him there.

01:31:11.312 --> 01:31:17.322
[SPEAKER_01]: But that is your job as the IWGP champion, curious to see how he does with Jake Lee, but I fully expect a retention here.

01:31:18.128 --> 01:31:23.414
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like these overs have shown my goal.

01:31:24.596 --> 01:31:25.657
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking forward to it.

01:31:26.157 --> 01:31:31.624
[SPEAKER_00]: I really, this is gonna be Jankway first test in like two years, you know?

01:31:31.644 --> 01:31:35.649
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like he had the FG one match in, they were fine, they were whatever.

01:31:35.689 --> 01:31:39.293
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to get a sense of what this match might be like.

01:31:39.273 --> 01:31:44.881
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe go dig out those G1 matches from two years ago and kind of watch some of those matches.

01:31:45.402 --> 01:32:05.770
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be similar to that, but he's also, I feel a lot more confident of himself and of his abilities in New Japan in this run right now, but he's feeling himself and if character a little bit more, rather than just being more of a cipher kind of like, I'm a big man, I will kick you in the face kind of thing.

01:32:05.952 --> 01:32:06.894
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think you're right.

01:32:06.934 --> 01:32:11.464
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this United Empire character suits him better than the Wardoggs version of it did.

01:32:11.904 --> 01:32:13.127
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Bulloclad version of it did.

01:32:13.167 --> 01:32:14.911
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jordan for Candidment is a great.

01:32:14.931 --> 01:32:16.815
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think he's talking about the tag team title matches.

01:32:16.835 --> 01:32:20.442
[SPEAKER_01]: Story here capitalizing on the pressure, talents may feel to step up.

01:32:20.502 --> 01:32:20.803
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that.

01:32:21.144 --> 01:32:21.244
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:32:21.224 --> 01:32:27.034
[SPEAKER_01]: back in absolutely be the story that the pressure you either rise to it or it just gets to you and destroys you and changes you.

01:32:27.514 --> 01:32:31.761
[SPEAKER_01]: But yes, definitely a pressure-pack match there for the people involved.

01:32:31.781 --> 01:32:36.609
[SPEAKER_01]: And he says, I can't remember a major roster being stripped of talent at this rate since WWF in 1996.

01:32:38.012 --> 01:32:44.262
[SPEAKER_01]: It must be tricky realigning a roster after all the transactions still a lot of work to do and I feel for new Japan.

01:32:44.242 --> 01:32:52.237
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, like they have so much talent and so much opportunity that they can just go for it at this point.

01:32:52.798 --> 01:32:55.423
[SPEAKER_00]: But if not like they have a shitty roster.

01:32:55.583 --> 01:32:56.204
[SPEAKER_00]: They're wrong.

01:32:56.224 --> 01:32:57.627
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm loaded with talent.

01:32:57.843 --> 01:33:01.489
[SPEAKER_01]: I also feel like 10 years ago when they lost not come more in H.A.

01:33:01.509 --> 01:33:02.530
[SPEAKER_01]: that was a bigger blow.

01:33:02.590 --> 01:33:06.577
[SPEAKER_01]: And the good brothers, which were perennial tag team title contenders there.

01:33:06.637 --> 01:33:09.441
[SPEAKER_01]: That was probably a rough or month of departures.

01:33:09.942 --> 01:33:13.367
[SPEAKER_01]: And believe me, Osprey and O'Cotta within three much of each other didn't feel great either.

01:33:13.407 --> 01:33:14.749
[SPEAKER_01]: Those remain event guys.

01:33:15.390 --> 01:33:18.495
[SPEAKER_01]: Evil was sometimes main event, but not always.

01:33:18.896 --> 01:33:22.922
[SPEAKER_01]: And Hiromu had kind of slid down the cards a little bit.

01:33:22.902 --> 01:33:32.942
[SPEAKER_01]: So I understand what you're saying Jordan, especially last year this year, they've had some, they've had some big names move out, but they've done it before, and they've recovered before.

01:33:33.182 --> 01:33:38.312
[SPEAKER_01]: And all, all AJ meant was we got Kenny on top, that worked out pretty well.

01:33:38.292 --> 01:33:52.646
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be that we're looking at, well, we've lost Osprey, we've lost Socata, and within in a few years now, we've got Callum Newman, who's in his mid-20s, and Yoda Sushi, who's a little bit older, but is feels different.

01:33:52.986 --> 01:34:08.080
[SPEAKER_01]: And now we have, we may have lost Hiromu, but we still have Desperado, and we have Jose Fugida, he can a guy, and then, you know, there's, I feel a little bit better about things that I did 10 years ago when you're like, oh gosh, who's going

01:34:08.482 --> 01:34:11.066
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, guys did, and I feel like guys will hear.

01:34:13.931 --> 01:34:14.993
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm good.

01:34:15.013 --> 01:34:16.215
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.

01:34:16.235 --> 01:34:21.584
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, next week, the show's on Wednesday, which means it'll be pretty fresh.

01:34:21.624 --> 01:34:29.918
[SPEAKER_01]: When we come back next Thursday to talk about the new beginning in Osaka and we will be tearing apart that match, that show piece by piece.

01:34:30.278 --> 01:34:34.064
[SPEAKER_01]: And talking it over, also a preview of Fantastic Amaneo, which is all coming up.

01:34:34.145 --> 01:34:35.046
[SPEAKER_01]: Wanted to mention one of the things.

01:34:35.026 --> 01:34:39.774
[SPEAKER_01]: One other match was announced this week for New beginning USA, which will be a paper to be coming up.

01:34:40.115 --> 01:34:45.043
[SPEAKER_01]: Surey and Athena will be facing off for the IWGP Joshi Championship.

01:34:45.063 --> 01:34:46.786
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be a hell of a good match.

01:34:47.428 --> 01:34:50.693
[SPEAKER_01]: Will of course be previewing that show as it grows closer.

01:34:50.773 --> 01:34:55.802
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's a nice, that's a nice little bonus for the people there.

01:34:55.782 --> 01:34:56.683
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:34:56.703 --> 01:34:57.965
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited about that one.

01:34:58.246 --> 01:35:02.613
[SPEAKER_01]: And when we come back, we're going to go over this thing piece by piece.

01:35:02.633 --> 01:35:10.225
[SPEAKER_01]: Should be a pretty consequential show, give us an idea of what they have in mind for the New Japan Cup and anything going forward.

01:35:10.245 --> 01:35:14.652
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're going to have a lot of information coming out of New Beginning in Osaka.

01:35:16.032 --> 01:35:23.104
[SPEAKER_00]: I am looking forward to the result of this show and breaking it down with you.

01:35:23.124 --> 01:35:31.057
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the idea of being able to figure out what the Jersey card is going to be and before we know it, we're going to be in March.

01:35:31.318 --> 01:35:37.568
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be out of town and we're going to be bringing you Anniversary card in the

01:35:37.987 --> 01:35:41.272
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, absolutely, so make sure you join us for that.

01:35:41.973 --> 01:35:43.636
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to wrap it up here for now.

01:35:43.656 --> 01:35:45.519
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to thank everybody that joined us here live.

01:35:45.679 --> 01:35:52.470
[SPEAKER_01]: All of you who are listening later, either to this show on YouTube or the podcast version were grateful for your time.

01:35:52.770 --> 01:35:57.818
[SPEAKER_01]: For Jeremy Feinstein, this Stephen Conway, this has been Speaking of Strong Style, and we'll talk to you again real soon.