NJPW New Japan Cup 2026 Semifinals Preview & TJPW Texas Review | Speaking of Strong Style

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[SPEAKER_01]: Last week, Jeremy and I voiced our frustration with the New Japan product.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I voiced it a little bit louder, and he did, but he hit the point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We ended up with hope of better matches this week, though, and we did see a couple of really good ones.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the lackluster undercards continued, adds did the audience to climb.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to look at what we did see this week that we liked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to look ahead to a New Japan Cup final four that is pretty intriguing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to talk about seeing TJPW pro wrestling in person earlier this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So plenty to get to, with Jeremy Feinstein, I'm Stephen Conway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is Speaking of Strong Style.

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

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

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're contributors to the fight game, media, network.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy, we had four more shows to get through.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We made it through the quarter finals.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like I mentioned in the intro, when we left off last week, we tried to end on a hopeful note that we would see some better wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there were a couple of matches this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoyed how is your week been?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And what were your overall thoughts as we went through four more New Japan shows this week?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I had a pretty good week.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got through all the shows.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I watched Revolution and then I did a paper view recap with a Kila Cash for the very network of fake media.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you want to check that out, feel free long story short, very long paper view, lots of surprises.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Lots of one pin kickouts like a kickouts at one which you should do one in a show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They did like ten.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But on the whole it was admittedly one of the better pay reviews that AEW has put out in recent memory maybe taught five in the last two years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh boy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you know, I know

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[SPEAKER_01]: There were a couple of new Japan adjacent bits of news from that show, of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Will Osprey back and looks like he's up for physical contact again after his next journey.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, you had a match last night, Steven.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I horror and amazement at the same time, but after getting spinal fusion surgery, this due to back in the rain.

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[SPEAKER_02]: and it's unprecedented.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It is new technology and new medical procedure, apparently.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember talking to you six months ago and talking to you about how my wife ended up in a car crash about 10 years ago.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's living with the broken back and she had outpatient surgery one day to relieve a herniated disc and that when the doctor found out she had back fractures

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[SPEAKER_02]: basically shoot back on her feet 100% a month later.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, but that was her one more area.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the doof neck.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And well, not too far off, it's amazing how

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[SPEAKER_01]: surgery has come along in so many different ways.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I keep hearing about older people in their 70s and things getting cataract surgery and for the first time since they were kids not having to wear glasses.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've heard people that have gotten hip replacement surgery which used to be

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[SPEAKER_01]: and incredibly long and arduous battle to recover from.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the only thing they're complaining about is that they didn't do it sooner because it relieved so much pain and pressure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you just hear this stuff over and over again, they've come so far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The surgery that will last for a head,

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[SPEAKER_01]: No two people are like, no two surgeries are exactly like, no, but we all know wrestlers who have had neck fusion surgeries, Steve Austin, Kurt Angle, and various forms.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, not exactly, but gone for a year, an entire year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then limited when they did come back, it was a long time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you just see how far this is all come in the last 20 years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Will seems to have benefited from it six months.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's back wrestling again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course,

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[SPEAKER_01]: They started it all a little bit at New Year's Dash.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some business to be done with Calum Newman in the future.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we might be getting wheelbacks sometimes, soon, which is nice.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?

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[SPEAKER_02]: My window for the Rackel Kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not dominion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, let's hope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Fernando's here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Brand is here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Glad you guys are with us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course Kenny Omega also returned to AEW.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a New Japan adjacent guy in a lot of ways, Gabe Kid and the dogs were there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What are your impressions so far of David Finley, Gabe Kid and Clark Conner's AEW?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I think David Finley is going to be fine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Gabe kid is probably going to flame out at the level that people want him at and he's going to regress a little bit and he'll eventually get there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, but burning too fast to bright.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think court corners is the real job, though.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think court corners is going to do really, really well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, at New Year dash, they've got business to take care of the new and AWS first and, you know, last night, he had a match with Blake Christian and, you know, 50, 50 and it was a totally unremarkably amazing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean that, exactly as I say, it will ask very much, you know, he just came back and he had a match and he looked fine, he looked good, he said, you know, the post match beating right and brought up any attack park.

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[SPEAKER_02]: up the ramp and beat his ass all the way back to it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So they're wasting no time with the lock, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, apparently like when when they say there is no limitation, oh my god, it did not seem like there were any limitations to all this guy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I can see the pocket match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: happening soon.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then the main, the main crux for this John Markley sent him off to injury angle.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was the guy that Offpre had deal with before he could come back to New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if they check off the box around April, May, about double or nothing, then we'll can do the match with Calam after that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm thinking before the G1 to really

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm curious, style that's going to go just because moxley and the black pool combat club kind of turned baby face again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As much as anybody is a baby face for healer and it's super weird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It makes no sense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, again, the booking is so blacked out in that company, but so they turn the guys baby face and then immediately have will come back and attack them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So as Willaheele, no, Will's a baby face for happy to see him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so moxley and the black pool combat club are heals because they injured him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, because Tony got distracted by a shiny object and turned him before he could finish the story like he always does.

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[SPEAKER_02]: fundamental bad guys going into the match for Takeshita and John Marksley.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And Takeshita turning baby face, but in the whole build up to the feud, he was the heel.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So De facto John Marksley is their baby face.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And after the match, he and Takeshita shake hands.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you baby face with this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what he always does.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He will offer you to come out and attack John Marksley for

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, a reminder, he's been him packing and needed to get that final speech with flash, with flash, it, it, it could a lot, it could a lot in a little bit, and it will all make sense, but I don't know, I don't say it's all going to make sense.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's not going to make sense.

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[SPEAKER_02]: None of it makes sense.

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[SPEAKER_02]: okay okay in the way that you look at a kid grow and you see how he takes the entire mass and look into the closet and so they're like hey you know what that's clean what he told play with my friends

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, for Antosias, though, he has higher praise for Gabe Kid for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, he says that he mentioned the will last raise Wolverine because the healing powers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so he said the Gabe Kid was amazing in the coffin match last night.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think he's going to often match with the main thing, but I'm glad you thought of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he thinks he's a future world champion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for Antos, what's going on with Gabe over there?

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, well, that's subjective and there's a lot of mouth to feed and Gabe is going to have to get.

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[SPEAKER_02]: way better to be, hey, he'd be championed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, the thing, the thing too, and gay above set some New Japan people that don't quite understand the wrestling business.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to try to be insulting, but he did the whole thing, uh, at the press conference where he said, you know, F-Tonahashi and F, New Japan and all that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: people were a gas at that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It looked, he's playing a character.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was playing a character when he put the lion mark on his trunk.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that was all in service of the match with Kenny Omega.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Our whole thing with Gabe Kid, we mentioned that

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a bit of bad timing that he went all in on the I'm New Japan thing for the Kenny Omega match because Kenny to to make the contrast can he's the guy that left I'm the guy that's here 100% well then of course AEW liked him and wanted to get and so it

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[SPEAKER_01]: sort of muted all of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love New Japan thing when he starts popping up for the other company immediately, but that's just a business thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look, you know, Gabe needs to make a living.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now he's AEW and he's going to go in all in on AEW because

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[SPEAKER_01]: Gabe's character is a little bit of he is 300% at whatever he is into at that moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the character.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The character doesn't have a filter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The character doesn't really have an off button in that sense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like when he is, he wrestles like full steam ahead all the time, reckless,

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the Gabe Kid thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if he's an AEW wrestler, he's 100% an AEW wrestler.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If he comes back to New Japan, he's going to be saying, if AEW F Tony Khan, I'm a New Japan guy, because Gabe is the character he's portraying is a guy who is maniacal about whatever it is he's doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the only thing in his life at that time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's what he was doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's fine, everybody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if New Japan brings it back, it'll be okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody took that personally in the New Japan office.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you telling me, the Gabe Kid walked out that door and then said something for bid in about New Japan and said yeah well I mean exactly there's some of that and Brad brings it up here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: AEW hasn't had talent that's ready at NJPW for bid and door build now with the dogs to have that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and JPW talent has been going at AEW like they should, it's time to get back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yes, that, I mean, this is all in service of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I saw some New Japan fans that maybe didn't quite recognize the pattern there and just thought that he was turning on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, it's all in service of the story, everybody he's in character.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There, there are two ways that it can go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: way after Gabe Kid left and it's Neutropank and either not Neutropank fans can either not care about him or any more, or he could face stuff to piss them off and get heat for when the next time he comes back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he's going to be a bad guy even more so than the bad guy he played for the last two or three years, this is wheelhouse stuff for him, you know, and I mean, like you, you say the shit to get people like upset and then he loses to champion, yeah, and the match and we all go home happy and our honor itself it did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's fine, the, well, I mean, when you look at that, the one thing about Gabe is that he lost a lot of steam that year where he was in between companies and he, and it was a new Japan, there was a time when he was almost a folk hero to the new Japan fans and that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: ended up getting mecapped a little bit by the whole split fill thing where he's going back and forth for both companies.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like a politician who people call him or like the interest that he had, it's better if he does pick a side and he did and yeah on the side that's get up and pay him more money and you know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Not a whole lot of guys in talent.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you're gonna stay there forever, you know, like even that temperature, I don't think it's gonna be there forever.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Calum Newman is gonna be skyrocketed into Stardom over the net two or three years if I'll go well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then he's gonna go somewhere else and make more money like this is the way the world.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I guess this is going to our net thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're like,

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[SPEAKER_02]: The the bigger fish eat the smaller fish and now we got dragon daya and a couple other people coming to New Japan and New Japan if picking off talent from somewhere else

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there are a lot of rumors going around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing is popped up officially on the New Japan site, but it seems pretty set.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That dragon die is headed over to New Japan on a full-time base.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like the guy he's 27 years old.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen him for the last couple of years in the junior tournaments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's some possibilities for him there as New Japan begins to reload a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are

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[SPEAKER_01]: other rumors about some great wrestlers because that company is on death store.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that they're really struggling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but again, nothing officially yet, Kukai is likely to become full-time this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also, yeah, the heavyweight roster is pretty depleted if you really look at it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you look at two years ago, one year ago, now it's a increased shrinking list.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's time to reload

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the funny thing about Daya, Jeremy, 27 years old, has years of experience.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The new young lion, if you want the new lion, let's not call him young, he's 25 years old already.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ty say Nakahara, he's been in the dojo for three years, so they had him when he was 22.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't let him debut until he's 25.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now he's going to do two years of jobs, young lion match, there'll be 27.

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[SPEAKER_01]: then if he goes on excursion, that's another year or two, this poor dude is going to be 30 years old before New Japan lets him off the leash.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're taking too long guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If he needs three years in the Dojo today, but it's probably not there anyway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll say, I mean, it's too early to tell with him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But for the love of God, you had him a 22 and by the time all this is over with if he goes through that full process, he'll be 29, 30 years old, by the time he's ready to come back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: they've got to get better at getting these guys into the four-foot quicker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got to stop this six-year journey.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're not going to take guys when they're 15 and they're not, then that's too long.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just too long.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dragon Dia has been wrestling for years and he's 27 and ready to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, it doesn't have to take this flip and lawn all the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I got no disagreement on that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I did want to mention that our friend Joel from the Super J Academy, had mentioned that KUKai had dragged a dire sign and that he believes that the Super Nore Abe is on the way to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Abe, OK. Well, that'd be interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you know, he was pretty much accurate on the evil and their horrible stuff.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Did a really good job on rewarding all that stuff, getting ahead of time and getting ahead of that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: he might be in Chicago for that G1 thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Stephen, are you gonna go to Chicago for the G1?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's looking like it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's looking like it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's looking like it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't bought flights yet, but it's looking good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm gonna go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I hadn't mentioned it to you, but I think I'm gonna go too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, how about that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: We would be in the same place at the same time for the first time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're going to do this, man.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We are a friend of the show has decided to put in for a sweet and offered us both an opportunity to go and so we're going to do that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: However, if you're listening to this show and are interested in getting ticket and you are ahead of the game and

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[SPEAKER_02]: early adopter listener of the show and do want to go to the G1 in Chicago.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you want to go on sale for the pre-fail tomorrow at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 20th.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if you are listening to this, the pre-fail code of NJPW, so you can get in there and buy early tickets to your desire.

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[SPEAKER_02]: as a result of listening to this show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're welcome.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We love you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's at the Now Arena, which is in Hoffman, the States.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a nice part of Chicago, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The United Center.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the the basketball team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll sketch you over there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I, yeah, this is a burbia like the Now Arena, just in the middle of nowhere with like a beer garden off to the side.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been there all these more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no middle of nowhere in Chicago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is a very highly dangerous area.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a pile of, but like, you can't walk to a restaurant from there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like they're, they're not at the middle of that, just stretch of land.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, yeah, I know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've been there a couple of times.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's the, uh, the famous center of rollout, which, as you know, I love, uh,

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[SPEAKER_02]: reminding myself of that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I also was there one time with a hotel and with a John Mews and Gary Gonzalez and we were going to sit around and A

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[SPEAKER_02]: for a wrestler whose name you would know walked up to our table and like said hello to us is it like he remembered us and knew us and we all had never met him before in our lives and it was a super awkward moment in which we were happy to see him but we were in starstruck and so it was just like hey guys let's go it on!

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then all the rest of the people from the wrestling company that were apparently decided to meet there to have drinks after their show were there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a weird day in my life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was very much like the thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All of the things are now arena, which is why I'm so excited to go back and meet everybody in the niche fan world for a weekend and watch 10 G1 matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the other announcement that was made this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That the show in Chicago would be nothing but G1 matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we were seeing the full thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The full, the full compliment, no preview tags.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, when I saw the G1 in Dallas in 2019, I attended that show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that one did have preview tags.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just the one block.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that was headlined by Tana Hashie versus Ocarus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was pretty great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also, saw

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kentas, New Japan debut against Kota Abushi, which was exciting, and what was it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Osprey versus Lance Archer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Sanata and Zach was another tournament match there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was a good lineup.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the other block was in preview tag action before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No preview tags in Chicago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Every single match will count toward the G1 standing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So hope to see a lot of people there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw a lot of people at TJPW Road Wrestling on Tuesday here in Austin.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's talk about Tokyo, Jochi Pro Wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was so cool, so the South by Southwest Festival is going on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is a huge technology film, music conference that goes on here every year, of course, in the South by is a very big deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And last year, TJPW did a Texas swing and they went through Dallas and Houston.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This year, they added,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Austin during South by Southwest.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was in a convention center in not quite downtown us just south of downtown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're very close to the water that borders our downtown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the Palmer Events Center.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they got a big crowd Jeremy almost 2,000 people showed up for this thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Which would be a much bigger crowd than New Japan got this past week and then just about anywhere else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a mix of people that had the landiers from the festival that were just curious about this show coming in and probably about 20% of the fans who had some idea of what to expect from TJPW.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the people that weren't there as wrestling fans, but were, or maybe they were wrestling fans, but hadn't seen TJPW, you know, that type of thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There were a lot of people dressed up as anime characters and things, so they kind of touched on some of that Japanese idol culture fandom.

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[SPEAKER_01]: turned up everybody had a great time and I have to say that the TJPW wrestlers were excited about everything really enthusiastic I've been watching TJPW and it's a mix of things you know there are

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like every other company in Japan, the first couple of matches, they have some people that are very young in their careers and learning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's comedy, particularly with TJPW, their parent companies, the same parent company that DDT has.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the same.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're siblings with DDT in that sense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you get a little bit of wackiness.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had hypermissiles on the hyper cycle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They flew the the bicycle all the way over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was writing the bike around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: she made her own Tesla that that chased her around on the cycle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there was some there was some wackiness.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then later on you got people like me, you want to know, babe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You you must, uh, you know, you key a ride that the tag champs are there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also saw the the

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cassie Lee and Billy the Iconics.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were the Iconics in WWE, but they are working with TJPW now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They'll be challenging for the tag built soon.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They were part of the inspiration.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The inspiration they're heels now, of course, and you know, came off like the arrogance people that they portray.

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[SPEAKER_01]: a good night and the fans were into everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I brought a couple of friends that had never seen TJPW before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when the up-up girls came out for their song, because at the beginning of the show, always starts with a song, I saw the looks in their eyes, just like this isn't gonna be the whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is it, you know, they were a little bit worried.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But then once the wrestling got started, they really enjoyed it and had fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Six matches, it was a terrific time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's gonna,

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[SPEAKER_01]: they got a pretty good crowd the second night as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I only went to the first night, but good time had by all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they did a terrific job and made some new fans.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were also handing out QR codes that you can redeem for a seven-day trial for Russell Universe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: which I thought was a smart idea, and yeah, I was impressed, I was happy, and what I enjoyed about it was South by Southwest is a place to hear new bands that are on the way up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a place to see films before they hit the market.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there are people here trying to sell their films to distributor, so you see a lot of things before their famous at Southby.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think a lot of people

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just going to try it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've never heard seen this before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to go in cold and see what I get.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And their enthusiasm for everything was there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, every move got a new or something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If someone took a bump, there was a new from the crowd from the non wrestling fans are like, Wow, they just landed flat on her back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, you know, that type of stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the people that did enjoy TJ PW saw a good version of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So overall, the whole night was a winner and

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[SPEAKER_01]: Seeing everybody kind of experienced it for the first time was fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Most of the time when we go Jeremy is certainly to New Japan shows, that's for the hard course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody there knows everything about New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a real different perspective to see a crowd where 80% of them had no idea what they were about to watch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're just kind of there for whatever they wanted to show them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And for them to walk out just going,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh man, that was fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These, they were really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were, they were jumping around the athletics, they were really cool and the characters and the costumes and it was enjoyable to see wrestling from that perspective, which I don't get to do too often because most of the time when I go to something I'm there with hardcore fans.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is much more casual and they were excited to see what they were saying and refreshing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's like the carnival aspect, you know, it's like one of one of the attractions at the carnival kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I enjoy that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I'm glad you got the opportunity to do that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I, I know how much you like Yoshi wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so just it's being in your backyard.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you're like New Japan, being 10 minutes away by one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, at the clinic here whenever I go, I don't check like, that's great.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the best.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I went to the AEW Dynamite show last week and I walked home and I grabbed a couple of three dollar burgers to eat on the way home and I went home with Ben.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was great.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was nine o'clock in night and I was all done with my night.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, should we talk about the New Japan Cup?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I suppose if you if you teeth, it did get better it got better.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the action was good in the tournament matches for the most part.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, we have lackluster undercards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The guys weren't really working too hard on those, but that's what we've done.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Imagine killing me right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: March 13th, they were in Osaka.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the March, Sumo Basha was going on in Osaka right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they can't go to the Eddie on Arena, which is the gym where they normally appear at Osaka, but that's very busy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got the whole Sumo tournament going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, my guy on Asato had to withdraw, but hey, he's got a bad shoulder, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, went to a different building, and this one they drew 800 people, that was down from 1,069.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the same situation last year, the New Japan Cup is during that March sumo tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we can draw on Apple Stapples conclusion here, because they went to the exact same other arena in Osaka last year for the same tour.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Last year, they drew almost 1100 to 1069 this time 800.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So again, interest waning a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to bother with the undercard, because believe me, it was not worth the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the tournament matches, second round tournament matches, heartly Jackson, who was on a buy face, Calum, Newman, and then Heroic, he goto face Jake Lee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Newman and Jackson, Jackson had all of his big moves, created a little bit of heat for the underdog.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I have to say, Jeremy, no one really thought heartly was going to win this thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did get some heel heat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Newman hit a low-blow, X-Calibur to win, it was a bit flat, but it was fine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They ran it back, the Newman fought, getting bowling balled into the chair, in the magic well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the one thing that I will say is that Hurley Jatsen has really begun to get to that point where if they wanted to give them a little single push, I wouldn't mind.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, he does well in every match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this match was pretty good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you see him in the G1 this year, he's probably not going to make the cut, but if he is, he could have one of those big wins against somebody that, you know, he doesn't have a whole lot of wins, but a big win to help the math.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I could see that for him, just kind of uping his stock incrementally this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was his first New Japan Cup match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a matter of fact.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so after that, we had Heroic, you go to a Jake Lee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, goto got something out of him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Lee is not going to have a classic match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just not his wrestling style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a character more than he is a five star match having wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But goto pulls something decent out of this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It sent the fans home happy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got to see Goto get on the microphone afterwards and give us a speech center.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they enjoyed that part of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought Lee did his job just fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The plan was for GoToTo to face Newman because there's a story ready made for that matchup going back to last year when GoTo was a champion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think a lot of the people in Ossaca saw exactly where these two matches were going and they reacted accordingly, which was politely and they were happy to hear from GoTo, but not a pile of heat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, definitely the gatekeeper scenario started to play out and all these quadrant that we're talking about, the champions, the former champions, the young up in commerce.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And they're really, they're a strap and we are rocking to the young guys in this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And Calam is the first one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, his matches aren't clean wins, but they're definitive.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, he walked it away.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're like, yeah, that guy looks like he's the winner and the other guy's the loser.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Not even like cheating to win,

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[SPEAKER_02]: running away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's not winning with a speed on the ropes and sliding out the bottom of the re, you know, but sliding out under the rope and heading up the aisle.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's not like he's not afraid to stand in that ring with the guy he just like she did out of a win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he needs to be that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what that's what he needs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He needs that kind of, he needs that kind of gravitas.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He, he does and

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's gonna get there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he is, I am not convinced though that he is top heel.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We should bat him when this cup level yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, there's a scenario where he might, but I have a feeling it's not gonna go that direction, but I don't have fantasy booking, I could see a way to get there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I do too, and I just, mmm, it does not feel like you're here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Brad mentions a jake Lee in this role is easier to digest and challenging for the world title.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, that was to bring him in, give him a title shot, but mostly Jeremy, I think that was just to give Suji a match he could win clean.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The jake Lee thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: In addition to that, I'm like, and the highest he ever going to be, like his stock was the highest, like you weren't going to be able to do that match three months down the line after watching a bunch of Jake Lee matches and thinking, oh yeah, I can't wait for that guy to be at WGP Champion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This will take your medicine and swallow it and then we will all be happier after all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And now that he is,

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, down the line, beating Yoshihashi, losing to go to, probably get that wind back down the line, him being like, weirdo creep of the roster, like, greato con 2019 style, whatever, it's fine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like, you've got a role to play.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's not even the top guy in effect right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They may turn on the jet clip him down the line.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But right now, he's kind of a

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[SPEAKER_01]: that's very true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Moving on, March 14th, they went to Nagoya.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now this is a different arena than they usually run in Nagoya.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this one true, 1,449, which was way down from 2,700 last year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So almost cut in half.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's a combination of lack of interest in the product.

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[SPEAKER_01]: or if it was just the the new building not being a much of a help, but either way, this was almost in half from last year, which is pretty disastrous in the go ahead right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So 1449, Shota and Yujero.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this couldn't help draw.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Couldn't help draw.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We all know what Yujero talk about how she does, which is not a whole

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[SPEAKER_01]: come out with a baseball glove and try to appeal to Yujero saying I used to play catch with you when I was a kid and you know I want that uncle Yujero thing back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was quite pretty much with the dude.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you just wanted to like have an actual wrestling match with them rather than the house the tortures should end again.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And for a while there, Yujero like we

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I was going to say it's the normal thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They have done this 20 times over the five years that House of Tortures have been doing the same old stick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, at first he comes out, he takes the glove, he even waves off some of the other members of House of Tortures.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, I wanted to be one on one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Eutral, wrestles in slow motion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: a part of it is laziness, part of it is because his body is not in great shape, but he wasn't the quickest guy to begin with.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there was very, very little doubt that his tag team with Tetsuya Naito who was the star and who was the other guy in that tag team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: that was not in doubt at the time, and it's still not in any doubt now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Shota can only do so much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't good, but how could it really be?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, you know, he fake-like the glove, matter to him, and then later on, they did all the same house towards your stick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The poor Walker Stewart doing Yolman's work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to say, trying to sell the idea that he was surprised.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He thought Yuzero had turned to court or he tried.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Walker tried, but nothing can get this angle over, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Lance Russell, kind of got this angle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was trying.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But in the end, show to his second chapter, beat him, thank goodness, and move on to something else.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I understand what you're saying, but I will say that last week, go ahead and defend this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait to hear this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Last week, I walked by mind about that show to Umino and Cheyja with match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I said it was a 20 minute match, though it was a 20 minute duel.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I just brought you out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I stand by my words on this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like somebody heard me and said, okay, we can't let them say this about another show to match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That it can't be 20 minutes, the one 20 minutes too long.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So they knew that you'd rather wasn't going to be able to go 20 minutes, work great, rise.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So they came up with a story.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, something that's just like, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_02]: We get it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We've got to believe it's rockster, you know, L-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know those five minutes are really good wrestling in there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think that it's fun.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, maybe like 15 seconds here, I just ended in 12 there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of round God to 25% of a really good batch.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I'm generally going to give them that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we need Peter back with huge row.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That would take him back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He.

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[SPEAKER_02]: even even you'd grow and aged precipitously over the last five or six years, you know, like you can only squeeze so much blood out of the stone with some of these guys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And they're near in their shelf life, you know, like, even even did the shirt take off, you know, like you wanted to go, you wanted to go, like, really go toe to toe there and took the shirt off and then it came back on, you know, like, back on, okay, back on, yeah, I'm putting it back on now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If this is what we're going to get, I'm defending it because it's better than the 20 minutes of showed a match that we got in his last round.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the whole thing, his whole bracketing to the thing, I imagine it probably spoke to encourage some kind of, well, he had an easier path in the guy on the other side.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And going into the final, I wouldn't be curious.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't watch the press conference

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure that there are a couple of narrative storylines that they brought up in terms of heat right there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I will find with it and give in what we got in the match after I would especially find with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and that is it because this was all in service of the story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It showed it took a couple for the team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He got to take those in the first round, you drew in the second.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But all with the carrot on the stick that is his next opponent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After that match, we had Zach Saber Jr. and Rio Hale.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man, this was great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We figured it would be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is one of the matches we looked at last week and said, OK, everybody better.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Things are ahead.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Stay with us now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Matcha, determined to go far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's another contender we're going to talk about later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But we saw that we saw the two best certainly this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But this was really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What 28 minutes, they worked it like it was gonna go 28 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were, they worked patiently, but not dull.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Zack knows how to do this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He knows how to pace this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we will work Zack's knee, Zack works his arm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All that played in later when they were trying to do moves and the work that had been done on those limbs played into things because again, Zack knows how to work a main event long match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he knows how to keep you busy during it as a fan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he knows how to tell you the story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Down the stretch, big moves led to a Zack driver in a victory, you could see how the bracket was going that there was going to be a match that the re-match of the Russell Kingdom main event from a couple of years ago, Zack, and show to Umano, oh, we were excellent work again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I feel like his time is coming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just not quite yet, but he did terrific in this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, this is the match that we thought was going to cleanse the palette after all the garbage we had to sit through.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I left this one just feeling good after even after a showed a usual match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A Zach and real hay restored my faith a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we looked at the guide.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Kind of.

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[SPEAKER_02]: doesn't get lumped in with the rest of them when they're talking like the top three was showed a U.N. and Yoda, but he's pretty much undeniable at this point.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like every time he's in there and a single's match with somebody be, you know, I, sir, you know, whoever it is, the dude is aggressive, he's hungry, and he's really good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Mike, he's just

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[SPEAKER_02]: There, there's going to be a pantheon in like two or three years.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be OE was going to be showed up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be yo, yeah, it's going to be unit, it's going to be column, it's going to be OE.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It might be Aaron Wolf, not counting on it, but it might be, it'll be cocafujina.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't want to mean like the youth movement is getting there and would have become these guys on top all fighting for that title.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they moved on to March 15th in Yamanashi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now they drew about a 1,200 there, which is actually a good crowd for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was about the only good crowd of the whole week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: March 15th in Yamanashi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were on to the quarter finals this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the second round was done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody had had to buy everybody's one a couple of matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At least one or two matches at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We ended up with Oleg Bolton versus Ren Nareda.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this wasn't good, rend doesn't have good matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, of course, you have to deal with all of the house torture stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of house torture stuff in this New Japan cup tour, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There'd be a tournament match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There would be a couple of underneath matches that had them in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a lot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it got old very, very quickly, of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Bolton, Nareda Wolfeniano came out to help.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bolton and I have a question for a Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why the hell doesn't be shaman come out and help them?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't they hold the trio titles together?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe uh...

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[SPEAKER_01]: maybe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do they remember that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they remember that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I, well, admit it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We now either have to watch the undercard, so maybe something happened there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I watched it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're just not going to talk about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I said, I said through them, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, I took it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I took every single second.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I think there are one of my skipped.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if you're like, you know what, I'm just, I'm just, I think it was the day of revolution that I was just like, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just watching the two main matches on that day.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I'm moving on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of times the either one or both of them is in a team with Matsumoto who takes the fall early in the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But why isn't Bishop on coming out and helping him if they're all six man tag champions together?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Go to a neoshi hash you don't seem to give a crap, but Wolfeniano will go rolling in there and helping.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, both in front of me, you know what, you're the horse.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't you don't need our help.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they're like, yeah, you don't need clearly need their help.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's six guys began up on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to lose your titles because you got hurt?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, again, the logic of this stuff is like, come on, New Japan, you're better.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can be better than this if you want to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Bolton Fautemoff hit the kamikaze one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now, at this point, we are rid of House of Torture in the tournament itself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that was a sigh of relief.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The match wasn't good, but again, House of Torture and Renderita, it's not going to be good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Go ahead.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'd be chomping at the bit for the good happen.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think ranked doomed, like he didn't make the final four of the New Japan Cup.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They chose Oigborton in that bracket and booked him through.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is supposed to be the top heel of the top heel faction, and they wouldn't count a newman instead.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have three baby faces and a heel.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I maintain that there are no top heels in New Japan right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, that's very good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Cal Newman is not a top heel.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Redner Rita is not a top heel.

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[SPEAKER_02]: One of these guys that have orbiting the top has to turn.

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[SPEAKER_02]: One of the guys at top level in their promotion, we need the dynamic to get stronger, like there have to be a Japanese bad guy that could take the role of evil, and it has shown to us right now that neither the company nor Ren have the confidence in Ren to be that guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I would say the count of Newman, there's a yet after him as far as the top heel thing, because I think he's capable of it, but the build is still going, remember.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's actually a good year for all the fans to take him seriously.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Cal Newman, if the fake you tell you make it scenario right now, and he's thinking it really, really well, but he

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[SPEAKER_02]: He needs that, like, he needs that will offspring with to really cement him in the eyes, just like, oh, we really need to take this guy's series.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Because until he does that, people won't look at him and won't give him that credibility, either in New Japan or outside of New Japan as one of the viable top guys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He is essentially, as they say, a prince who has yet to take the throne.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine Jeremy, if they do have that match with Will and Calum and Will is motivated to get Calum over how good that could end up in?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I am really, really bullish on that match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that I'm bullish on Kalam Newman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to take time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not there yet.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He has to get some, but they're trying to tell you he's there now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if you're going to know, like if you have to do that, if he's going to get there, you've got to do that though.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's going to, it's going to, it's a coat of paint.

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[SPEAKER_02]: over like the old crack wallpaper you haven't primer it you haven't like done anything other than just like here's a quick codependent over it and we're telling you that it's done you got to come in there you got a you got a primer you got to seal it you got to do all the shit

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[SPEAKER_01]: Trust for the job you want, not the job you have.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They have to do the work and they're trying to tell us the work you've done.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'd be like, no, not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's some of it's in the process.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a chance there's a scenario in which he wins this thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll see.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if that is, like, I think a huge mistake.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, he is not.

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[SPEAKER_02]: what you're wondering the opportunity because you need you and you need to get showed uh like you need to get the the home's own talent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a way to do all of the journey.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll get to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let me get to we start about the final four.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a way to get there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they're going to do it, but I think there's a way to get there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You are in war versus Shingo Takagi was next now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yamanashi is a shingo's home area.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is his home and so he's he's the home team and Against you yet now I have to say that they didn't really boo you yeah, but it was a shingo crowd.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's local

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[SPEAKER_01]: match is really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shango and you are going to have a good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully it means something that you were more ended up winning this match with the deadbolt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, with the deadbolt, didn't pull any bull crap with a finishing move like they did with the Drillicula stupid guys here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Go figure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He won a big match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A guy you want to look good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He wins a big match with his move.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, and look how it worked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It went well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At the end, the crowd was pretty.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At least not happy for him because they were rooting for Schingo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they didn't hate you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, afterwards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was no resentment toward him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, well, you beat our guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Helps that Schingo also put him over and showed respect afterwards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So terrific match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: may mean something that because they don't beat Chingo in Yamanashi very often, not never, but they limit that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They do it only when they really feel like they need to, and that got you, you, you, you way more into the semi-fines.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So this is one of those really interesting layout matches because I think, well, I already knew who had won by the time I'd watch this match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was just that kind of day, the Sunday work, and then I had to, you know, long day.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, the layout of this match,

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[SPEAKER_02]: typically inclined with you uh being so heavily like beating up on shingo throughout the match and shingo playing that baby face in peril towards that crowd that was cheering him would typically we do like shingo gutting it out in the end and like

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, took the beating from the young, the young cub, but managed to overcome it and win it at home counter.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, you beat his ass for a lot of that, a lot of that match single was doing everything in a power to get out of that deadbolt crew plucks.

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[SPEAKER_02]: three or four times, and it was, it was Yuya overpowering him, and finally walking in it and winning it after he had gone oh and three and previous single magic with this guy and his career.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This was as dominant a win and you could get in a clean match like with two baby faces.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there were a few of those first-time beating this guys in this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So in fact, we're about to get to the next one because that was okay So I was the main event in Yemen actually they go to Fukushima on the 17th Fukushima had a crowded about 700 They do about what they do every time they go to that place.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of the most consistent towns for New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's about 700 people no matter what they do

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the couple of different tours goes to a big pallet and Fukushima, a lot of these arenas by the way, are just those big airplane hangar or rooms they have for conventions and stuff there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So not a ton of atmospheric either to be fair.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a challenging when you're just in a giant cube.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Fukushima on the 17th quarter final match, Calum Newman here, Oki Goro.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Last year, of course, Jeff Cobb was going to get a match against, uh, against Goto and Goto was the World Champion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeff ended up headed over to WWE, couldn't do the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't allowed to do the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever happened, they put Newman in its place.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Newman ended up having a terrific match with Goto that opened a lot of eyes to the possibilities of Count Newman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The positioning of this match was the clue.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the semi-main event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Newman needed a big win, he needed a win over Godo, who does not have the world title any more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when I saw that Godo was second from the top, I thought there's no way he's winning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because if Godo was going to win, you'd put it last so he could talk on the mic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Period.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you kind of have an idea that that's where it's going right here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the crowd sensed it as well, it was a tough crowd.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned that it's hard atmosphere in those buildings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are no bleachers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're sitting in the back, you're looking at the back of a lot of people's heads between you and that ring there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So wasn't the most of a cifters crowd of the tournament?

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[SPEAKER_01]: There haven't been a lot of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he hit the princess curse, won the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Numan's first singles win over Godo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He goes over to the semi finals.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Newman is on the way, but not there yet, and this is a step forward.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Go to is a made man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't need to be in the semi-finals.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cal, Newman needed this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was a correct call.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Nutshot, then the print is cursed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, fair enough, yeah, he's still a heel and he's working hard with that heel stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So sometimes, Zane J causes a distraction.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's hitting some low blows in there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She ran free out of the way, hit the nutshot, and hit the print is cursed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Got the 1, 2, 3.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yoshi, Hoshy, out there pleading the case for the referee of the cheating and Calvin Newman just smile like an asshole.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was a good, it was a Calvin Newman

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[SPEAKER_02]: If deserving of the role that he has and, you know, like he's come a long way.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We watched him in the match with Tomaharray, she and like December of 2024, just a random like single match, like down this dude is good, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like he stepped away, he was out of the limelight for a chunk of 2025 and when he came back, he was a different guy and he has, he has leaned in fully to this and I applaud him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we had Zach Saber Jr. and showed to Umano.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So of course, this was set up from a couple of days before when they each won their singles matches, one over usual talking about how she Saber had the terrific match with the Wii U.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was the reward for show to Umano after dealing with Chase and the huge row for the first couple of rounds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a split crowd in Fukushima, but I was encouraged that they were not hostile toward

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[SPEAKER_01]: showed up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So while there were people that were cheering for TMDK and sharing for Zack Sabre Jr., those people weren't booing showed up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we have seen in some of these matches and some of these big matches for him, some main events for showed up, where the crowd turned on him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not really what happened here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Zack had his fans, showed ahead fans, and nobody really crapped on the other one, which was good to see there and encouraging for New Japan, whatever they're going to do down the road for showed up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They again, another long match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They work well together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I know that a lot of people didn't care for that Tokyo domain event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did and I get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I liked it better than most did, but I think it also played differently to a live crowd than it did on TV.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought it was a better match to that though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was, it was, well, it was certainly better pace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They weren't going to go 40 some minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so they could do a little bit more early.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it didn't have to be as long as they go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Slow, you know what, I don't have that in front of me at the moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to look at that right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was 25 minutes and 38 seconds.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they needed to go 10 more minutes in the rest looking to match if or the rest of 20 more 20 more that thing was 40.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm saying it for an acceptable made of that need to go like 35 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I sure should mean that for what this match was, they need to go 10 more minutes to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 25 was right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 25 was right here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it was, but in the end, showed a basically overpowered him and got out of some holes, got out of some of Zach's big moves, but in the end he hit a hard laryat for two and then hit second chapter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was no threat of reversal or anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Zach was pretty much beaten after the laryat, just wasn't bent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: a managed to kick out, but he had nothing left.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So to speak, second chapter, pen decisive, really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And respect shown after Zack showed a little bit of sportsmanship toward Umano after the match, Umano bowed to him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: seemed a lot like what we saw with the way Morgan and Shingo to set us up for some things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we have our semi-finals and, but in the end, a show to got his win back over Zach.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there was a lot of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Newman getting his win back over Goro.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Owe Mura, beating Shingo for the first time, showed a beating Zach for the first time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are trying with this cup to tell us that these guys are on the way up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now they just have to follow the hell through for once.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Follow through.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you you went one and three now with Shingo.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Calm Newman, if now one and one with Goto, I believe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't think they'd had it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If they'd had a single smash, it wasn't a significant one before.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But show to Umino is now four and three.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Again, that's Saber Jr.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So this definitely felt like that Saber Jr. finally looking at show to Umino as is equal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like kind of, uh, all right, like no bones, no nothing big match scenario, you beat me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like this, this is a big one and you got it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're, I, I will say you're go for it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're the man.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, kind of like that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, you beat me now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Go win it all because if you didn't, you've listed it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we have, looking ahead now, going to the semifinals, which will be in negada, that running two consecutive shows in negada.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One is a Friday, that's tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the semifinals.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is you, you, you, you more versus olig, Bolton.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and show to Umenov versus Calum Newman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The finals will be in the same building on Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So consecutive shows Friday for the semi-finals finals finals on Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And those are the two shows this week that we have.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After that, nothing until the 28th.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Jeremy, look at this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They seem to be, seem to be, seem to be setting up OEM or versus Umano in the finals to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the T-Leaves I'm reading off of this here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that Oleg making the semis is a victory for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Father, this is gone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't we do this a little bit differently?

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, a little bit of time to kill.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't we make the argument for and against each guy making it to the final two and then winning?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's start with Oleg.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think is the biggest underdog of the four in this field.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I first of all, I don't really see him be beating away more up, but he might, if a different story line is being told.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you wanted to do that, him winning the New Japan Cup would set up a rather odd world title match with Yoda Suji.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess the message you would be sending is the Bolton is a future main eventer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just feel like he's fourth in line out of these four guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so of all of them, it's the least likely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The only story you're really telling here, is that olimora and either Umano and Newman fail again in a big situation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Bolton is more ready than you thought.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's absolutely the weakest argument of the three to go forward.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know a couple of people actually have him in their finals, which in Perth is the hell out of me that they had the fourth site to even get to that point, because I didn't think you'll get in path right in the arena, but apparently not in expert, so whatever.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The whole thing with him is that he is

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[SPEAKER_02]: 100% deserving of where he's at because he watched these matches he had with the sheet you with, you know, like a couple of years old, all the matches he's had with him are ready, and I'll sand tabs though, and the sheet in the last couple of days in the last like week or two, like, you know, this guy is where they want Aaron Wolf to beat and what they want him to end up being like at the very week, but the development and all that, and there

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you look at dog with little to Aaron Wolff, they're like, hey, you take this seriously.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This could be you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so they're positioning, go no leg, kind of as a proxy of like, look at how you'll be pushed if you take to the straining.

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[SPEAKER_02]: and do that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's not necessarily for old benefit in the long term, but it's like he benefits and they also motivate their big prospect to go forward.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's my argument for why they might want to do it with him because he has developed in what they want Aaron Wolf to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The U. U.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A. Mura argument the other side of that match up for the semi-finals is a more compelling one here, of course, U.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A. Mura beating both and so it's also important to look at the positioning of these matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, O.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A. Mura and Bolton is a semi-main, O. Mura and Newman is going last.

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[SPEAKER_01]: O. Mura, the case for him winning is

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[SPEAKER_01]: fair enough, you want to push the guy, you want to give him his first big tournament victory, and you want to set him off against Yoda's surgery.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be the thing with the company has here because they have that rivalry that goes all the way back, you know, the

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[SPEAKER_01]: One more is the sun, sushi is the moon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We can't both shine at the same time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they've touched on this every time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've wrestling each other in a big moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've wrestling each other in big tournament matches before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's coming down to that whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, you know, we trained together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were in the same bunk in the dojo together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were young lines together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have to be better than you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or else all this journey is for not, you know, is it's kind of that that's the that's their guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to be better than that guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what they are to one another.

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[SPEAKER_01]: With that said, Jeremy, it feels a little early to pop over to Oymour versus Suji immediately.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That feels like something a little bit further down the road.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You and I have talked about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There may be that thing comes a little bit later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that would be the story you're telling is that you just want Oymour to get his first major accolade, so to speak.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His first big,

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[SPEAKER_01]: trophy is his first trophy, there's first title, anything like that, we want this whole thing to end with Uemora on top and going for the world title in a way of saying, this is his realm now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He is a guy that might win these things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a guy that might win a championship and hopefully bring him a step further than the guy who gets there in fails, which has been the story of his career so far.

01:00:27.835 --> 01:00:56.644
[SPEAKER_02]: The thing that I went back to over and over about you or Mara and his pathway to the cup finals is that his strength of schedule is obscene compared to everybody else's or if you had to go grain of con, which you know, he's still a pain in the ass to like have to wrestle and big guy, lot of slams, then you got drill a mooney and regardless of what you say about

01:00:56.624 --> 01:00:57.445
[SPEAKER_02]: That was physical.

01:00:57.665 --> 01:00:58.286
[SPEAKER_02]: It was viral.

01:00:58.426 --> 01:01:01.128
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a good match with a crap finish, but it was a good match.

01:01:01.148 --> 01:01:05.293
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like you, you, U. E. Mura went through it in that match.

01:01:05.933 --> 01:01:14.602
[SPEAKER_02]: He then goes and faces Chingo to Kalki, which he's the drag, you know, he had to go hard against the fire breather.

01:01:14.622 --> 01:01:23.370
[SPEAKER_02]: That whatever you want to say, like he was dominant, but you like you have to have a massive clowning of energy to be dominant against the guy like that.

01:01:23.751 --> 01:01:25.973
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you're going against all

01:01:26.155 --> 01:01:35.749
[SPEAKER_02]: boat, no leg, oligotin, whatever, um, and if you was not, he's still got one more guy to face to do that.

01:01:36.189 --> 01:01:53.614
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think getting to the finals, edge of being absolutely worn down by all your opponents and losing at the end and then taking that lesson and then winning the G1 and then going to wrestle kingdom and wrestling Yota Suji, Yuga, or Emaura for the title there, that's the biggest match that they can do this year.

01:01:53.965 --> 01:02:00.494
[SPEAKER_02]: And you don't want them, you want to keep them apart as long as possible.

01:02:01.155 --> 01:02:09.667
[SPEAKER_02]: As much as I like you, we more are winning it and there's apparently a 47% of all the entries in the sport of pro wrestling.

01:02:10.087 --> 01:02:12.210
[SPEAKER_02]: Entry have him winning this thing.

01:02:12.427 --> 01:02:26.718
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it, it's an attractive, attractive pick, but it's much more attractive if you're way behind the guy winning and then you're heartbroken and then you go in the G1 play, I really want that guy to win.

01:02:26.738 --> 01:02:30.346
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, for Kalam Newman, there's a reason I'm saving shoulder for less.

01:02:31.228 --> 01:02:32.190
[SPEAKER_01]: For Kalam Newman,

01:02:33.200 --> 01:02:42.794
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the idea of them's giving him the new Japan cup win in this sense of saying that this is the leader of this fashion.

01:02:42.854 --> 01:02:43.635
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the guy.

01:02:43.675 --> 01:02:48.362
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of those big wins we talked about that he needs to have given the momentum going into.

01:02:48.722 --> 01:02:50.124
[SPEAKER_01]: Whenever that asks for it.

01:02:50.385 --> 01:02:50.705
[SPEAKER_01]: Who knows?

01:02:50.745 --> 01:02:54.010
[SPEAKER_01]: With his AEW schedule, that asks for a match might not happen till kingdom.

01:02:54.030 --> 01:02:54.451
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know.

01:02:54.551 --> 01:02:56.153
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know.

01:02:57.128 --> 01:03:00.452
[SPEAKER_01]: They might need Newman to do other things in the meantime.

01:03:00.612 --> 01:03:03.656
[SPEAKER_01]: And perhaps that could be getting his first big tournament win.

01:03:03.716 --> 01:03:05.138
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, his first big trophy.

01:03:05.499 --> 01:03:11.807
[SPEAKER_01]: And that win where we begin to take him seriously as someone who might get a main event victory.

01:03:11.887 --> 01:03:13.229
[SPEAKER_01]: And then send him into that match.

01:03:13.349 --> 01:03:15.992
[SPEAKER_01]: It's another match for Suji, that he could have.

01:03:16.012 --> 01:03:18.175
[SPEAKER_01]: That would be a good match that he could win.

01:03:18.458 --> 01:03:23.022
[SPEAKER_01]: And further cement sushi as your world champion, that's not a bad deal either.

01:03:24.123 --> 01:03:30.268
[SPEAKER_01]: I do, by the way, I don't think any of these guys are gonna beat you to sushi once they have their title shop because I think that story comes later.

01:03:30.709 --> 01:03:38.696
[SPEAKER_01]: I think sushi holds on to the thing, but that's for another time once we preview that match and with it's coming up two weeks, David's coming up.

01:03:38.716 --> 01:03:47.824
[SPEAKER_01]: It's coming up, Secretary Genesis is on the way, but meantime, for Calum Newman, it would just simply be about elevating him

01:03:48.192 --> 01:03:56.726
[SPEAKER_01]: to somebody you would take seriously in these situations and give your world champion a good match that he could win and stand tall with the streamers and the speech at the end.

01:03:57.286 --> 01:03:58.308
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a utility to that.

01:03:58.649 --> 01:04:02.435
[SPEAKER_01]: And for Newman, his big day, big, big day is coming later.

01:04:03.056 --> 01:04:08.204
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's your argument for calendar.

01:04:08.224 --> 01:04:10.748
[SPEAKER_02]: The fake it tell you make it argument that I mentioned earlier.

01:04:13.492 --> 01:04:15.195
[SPEAKER_02]: They could really try fake it.

01:04:18.314 --> 01:04:36.306
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a lot of people that saw the push it they were giving columnum in it and they're like David's family level, you know, like this is like they're they're pushing the sky and going hard and

01:04:36.286 --> 01:04:54.936
[SPEAKER_02]: And to track if, you know, like I had him in the final four, you know, like for me personally, he, he needs, he needed one, he got the winner record, I felt like that's what he needed, because beating showed a woman doesn't really do anything for him right now, because showed a woman out.

01:04:55.642 --> 01:04:56.283
[SPEAKER_02]: God bless him.

01:04:56.483 --> 01:04:57.245
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want any titles.

01:04:57.866 --> 01:05:02.493
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a, like, superstar, kingles, like, better.

01:05:02.793 --> 01:05:03.615
[SPEAKER_02]: He's very good.

01:05:03.695 --> 01:05:06.639
[SPEAKER_02]: He's booked very, like, he's booked as if he had a top guy.

01:05:07.120 --> 01:05:13.450
[SPEAKER_02]: But getting a win over him, it's not exactly like, I'm parading around a fly and saying, I beat Shota Umano.

01:05:14.572 --> 01:05:15.313
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

01:05:15.353 --> 01:05:21.082
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it, the feather in the cap is already there.

01:05:21.763 --> 01:05:22.965
[SPEAKER_02]: And like you said,

01:05:23.907 --> 01:05:32.379
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not going to happen with him like going to the finals with like winning the cup and beating Yota Suji.

01:05:32.599 --> 01:05:35.022
[SPEAKER_02]: Like he could win the cup, but he's not going to be Yota Suji.

01:05:35.383 --> 01:05:41.572
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you do that, you will essentially kneecap his role by saying like he's not going to win the world title.

01:05:41.952 --> 01:05:46.238
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, he could dust himself off and pick himself up again.

01:05:46.278 --> 01:05:52.767
[SPEAKER_02]: But you run the risk of the perception being he's not at that level

01:05:52.747 --> 01:05:56.051
[SPEAKER_02]: like he's ready, you know, he's beatin' off for a year.

01:05:56.551 --> 01:05:58.353
[SPEAKER_02]: He's heated up after the G1.

01:05:58.814 --> 01:06:00.696
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

01:06:01.136 --> 01:06:08.585
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a point here where it's like, let's go with Kyle Newman, but it isn't now.

01:06:08.845 --> 01:06:18.636
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you force it at the lack of service of one of these other guys that they really need to go with right now, I think they've made a mistake.

01:06:20.506 --> 01:06:23.489
[SPEAKER_01]: It's leads into the next guy, which is show to him, no, it's the last one.

01:06:23.529 --> 01:06:26.633
[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of ways, he's the most intriguing.

01:06:26.653 --> 01:06:28.134
[SPEAKER_01]: And here's my fantasy-booking thing.

01:06:28.155 --> 01:06:30.837
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you mentioned that we have three baby faces in the heel.

01:06:31.959 --> 01:06:36.784
[SPEAKER_01]: What if a show to him and no loses to Calum Newman, right?

01:06:37.465 --> 01:06:39.888
[SPEAKER_01]: And Newman goes into the finals, and he faces Uemora.

01:06:40.608 --> 01:06:41.990
[SPEAKER_01]: Uemora is beating Bolton, right?

01:06:42.070 --> 01:06:42.510
[SPEAKER_01]: Probably.

01:06:43.191 --> 01:06:46.615
[SPEAKER_02]: He's saying, Newman and Uemora go forward at show to loses.

01:06:48.012 --> 01:06:48.412
[SPEAKER_01]: correct.

01:06:48.893 --> 01:06:49.073
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:06:49.093 --> 01:06:52.016
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but let's just say I'm just I'm supposed to know I'm just I'm.

01:06:53.678 --> 01:06:53.859
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:06:55.260 --> 01:07:16.804
[SPEAKER_01]: What if what if what if finals come way more on Calum Newman maybe Zane J early on fantasy booking though we got time Zane J interferes a little bit right but she has he's kind of jumped up on the apron he's kind of made some noise and one of

01:07:17.948 --> 01:07:30.625
[SPEAKER_01]: And then later on, turns on you, you, Amora, lost in the semi-finals can't freaking stand the idea that Amora wins this cup without him, you know, or not over, or wins this cup and he doesn't.

01:07:31.145 --> 01:07:38.376
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I failed again and now this little and I'm begging for another a top heel, right?

01:07:38.656 --> 01:07:39.417
[SPEAKER_01]: This could be them.

01:07:39.437 --> 01:07:40.138
[SPEAKER_01]: They've done it before.

01:07:40.158 --> 01:07:41.741
[SPEAKER_01]: It's some out-as-done big turns.

01:07:41.781 --> 01:07:44.685
[SPEAKER_01]: They're evil turned in the New Japan Cup.

01:07:44.725 --> 01:07:47.349
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a history of people turning in the New Japan Cup.

01:07:48.130 --> 01:07:51.275
[SPEAKER_01]: It's happened a couple of times in fairly recent order.

01:07:52.496 --> 01:07:59.667
[SPEAKER_01]: It would keep Ueimura out of that New Japan Cup that he would rightfully have in storyline.

01:08:00.338 --> 01:08:03.623
[SPEAKER_01]: It would give him more motivation than ever for the G1.

01:08:03.923 --> 01:08:06.647
[SPEAKER_01]: It would give him a blood feud that the crowd would actually be.

01:08:06.847 --> 01:08:08.950
[SPEAKER_01]: And we said that that's the one thing missing for New Japan.

01:08:08.990 --> 01:08:11.314
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a good feud where the guys hate each other.

01:08:12.095 --> 01:08:15.099
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not saying, show to joins United Empire.

01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:19.225
[SPEAKER_01]: He could even flip off Kalon Newman afterwards and just say, you know, the hell with all of you people.

01:08:19.660 --> 01:08:24.167
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go and do my own thing because doing it your way hasn't worked for me a bit.

01:08:24.487 --> 01:08:26.611
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember what David Finlay told me last year.

01:08:27.272 --> 01:08:35.985
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, I need to do it my way and if that means not pleasing everybody and not taking a picture with all the kids and not being the idol of millions, that's fine.

01:08:36.085 --> 01:08:40.352
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have to be time-a-hushie, being trying to be time-a-hushie got me nowhere.

01:08:40.889 --> 01:08:41.491
[SPEAKER_01]: That could be it.

01:08:42.233 --> 01:08:44.158
[SPEAKER_01]: And now that that could accomplish a lot of things.

01:08:44.498 --> 01:08:45.702
[SPEAKER_01]: Calumnum can win the thing.

01:08:46.263 --> 01:08:47.125
[SPEAKER_01]: He could have his trophy.

01:08:47.466 --> 01:08:49.612
[SPEAKER_01]: He could have the title match where he could lose the sugey.

01:08:50.233 --> 01:08:52.961
[SPEAKER_01]: Buying more at and showed it could be at each other's throats.

01:08:53.502 --> 01:08:57.733
[SPEAKER_01]: And set that up for G1, King of Pro Wrestling all the way down the line.

01:08:57.983 --> 01:09:03.432
[SPEAKER_01]: and then set things up for the G1, just putting that out into the zeitgeist.

01:09:03.833 --> 01:09:07.920
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep in mind, the other intriguing thing is you way more are becoming a heel on all this.

01:09:07.980 --> 01:09:14.070
[SPEAKER_01]: And remember, he's the one that didn't bow down on the lion mark that time, but showed it to Umano and Tanahashi a little bit earlier.

01:09:14.110 --> 01:09:18.297
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's a little bit of something brewing either direction for these guys.

01:09:18.978 --> 01:09:20.160
[SPEAKER_01]: But to me,

01:09:20.495 --> 01:09:25.201
[SPEAKER_01]: you are exactly right that we've got the all these guys and too many baby faces and no top heels.

01:09:25.542 --> 01:09:39.841
[SPEAKER_01]: If either way more or show to turned on the other and kept them from winning the cup and you know said it off that way we would have that top heel and that feud that is lacking in New Japan currently.

01:09:39.962 --> 01:09:43.386
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, whether they'll do any of that, I'm not sure.

01:09:44.107 --> 01:09:47.532
[SPEAKER_01]: But I said back when they have the

01:09:47.512 --> 01:09:48.614
[SPEAKER_01]: tag team title mash.

01:09:49.134 --> 01:09:56.024
[SPEAKER_01]: If Shota and you just lose this again and then go back to saying, well, I'm just going to pull myself up from the bootstraps.

01:09:56.565 --> 01:10:00.651
[SPEAKER_01]: It just leaves some high and dry in the fans just aren't going to believe in them anymore.

01:10:00.871 --> 01:10:04.296
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there needs to be something else here.

01:10:04.337 --> 01:10:07.461
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, if Shota or OEMora, one of them's got to lose.

01:10:08.002 --> 01:10:13.570
[SPEAKER_01]: If that person just loses and says, well, gosh, gee, Wilkers, I guess I'll just try to pick myself back up.

01:10:13.988 --> 01:10:18.412
[SPEAKER_01]: Fans aren't going along for this ride and we're seeing the fans aren't showing up to the god dang events.

01:10:19.593 --> 01:10:21.314
[SPEAKER_01]: Needs to be something to shake the stuff up.

01:10:22.475 --> 01:10:31.883
[SPEAKER_02]: So your theory got caught a lot of boxes that need to be checked off in order to make the having, you know, Calvin and we get elevated.

01:10:32.063 --> 01:10:33.464
[SPEAKER_02]: You, you get screwed.

01:10:34.025 --> 01:10:34.906
[SPEAKER_02]: So to go heal.

01:10:38.709 --> 01:10:43.793
[SPEAKER_02]: The one thing that

01:10:44.313 --> 01:10:58.914
[SPEAKER_02]: it has to be established that he's jealous of you rather than frustrated that he has never had the success he had with the way that he is by record and composed himself and then he comes close and failing just causes him to break.

01:10:59.054 --> 01:11:04.021
[SPEAKER_02]: So one of those two things has to be really defined.

01:11:05.363 --> 01:11:10.590
[SPEAKER_02]: If they're going to create a hero out of Shota or you

01:11:11.330 --> 01:11:15.349
[SPEAKER_02]: What they have not done has laid the groundwork for the jealous.

01:11:15.413 --> 01:11:31.098
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, they've mentioned these things, but they have not, but there have not been like the moment other than like confusion on New York part about at that line mark dedication with Roshshana Hashimak at the World Tag League.

01:11:31.118 --> 01:11:31.839
[SPEAKER_02]: Or they did that.

01:11:32.460 --> 01:11:41.995
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, that was confusion, and to me, that was, Shota was going to do whatever he could to get him to get ahead.

01:11:42.498 --> 01:11:43.059
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

01:11:43.079 --> 01:11:52.661
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, he was going to take that opportunity and he was going to basically jump the line and say, hey, I want to lead Hauntai, like, hey, give it to me.

01:11:52.681 --> 01:11:56.329
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was something that he and it caught you your by surprise.

01:11:56.830 --> 01:11:59.797
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and you're like, this is not how I want to do this.

01:11:59.817 --> 01:12:01.080
[SPEAKER_02]: This is not how I want to do this.

01:12:01.060 --> 01:12:22.275
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that would play into the jealousy thing because you here could come back on that and just say, yeah, he could look at time on how she just go, you bow down to that little jerk that little failure that guy who trips up every single time I did everything right and you're the one and you bow down to him, please, you know, that whole thing.

01:12:22.255 --> 01:12:24.739
[SPEAKER_01]: his face work almost comes off as insincere to me.

01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:33.251
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, I've mentioned before that his promos are so weak that he does come off as insincere because he only has the two promos, that the two ones he's been doing since he was young.

01:12:33.772 --> 01:12:36.756
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you mentioned with Chris that he does the same promo over and over.

01:12:36.796 --> 01:12:38.759
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to give you a little more credit from that.

01:12:38.939 --> 01:12:40.382
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, John, not just one.

01:12:40.422 --> 01:12:40.862
[SPEAKER_01]: He has two.

01:12:41.183 --> 01:12:45.529
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the one where I'm lost and I'm going to pick myself up by the bootstraps.

01:12:45.509 --> 01:12:47.112
[SPEAKER_01]: by Cranky and I'm going to get better.

01:12:47.432 --> 01:12:53.944
[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's the one where he wins, where he just says, I am going to lead New Japan into the future and they all sound empty at home.

01:12:53.964 --> 01:13:04.903
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is my point on that is that he could just sit there and just say, after I did everything right, you bow down on the line, Mark in front of everyone, that little jerk, that little nipple baby, that's how you, you can say it.

01:13:05.044 --> 01:13:06.927
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, I'm not going along with that.

01:13:06.907 --> 01:13:09.776
[SPEAKER_01]: The reverse side of it is showed us like I failed again.

01:13:09.796 --> 01:13:19.667
[SPEAKER_01]: I failed and he's been saying that you know I my words I say things and then I fail that's he's mentioned that in comments if he does it again.

01:13:19.951 --> 01:13:23.456
[SPEAKER_01]: He could just be like, no, not you, you way more.

01:13:23.476 --> 01:13:28.683
[SPEAKER_01]: Not my tag team partner, not the guy that, no, like anyone but him, I can't do it.

01:13:28.723 --> 01:13:34.671
[SPEAKER_01]: He could be what Watson was to dokey, you know, like I kid you, no, like not that guy.

01:13:34.691 --> 01:13:38.676
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're boiling it down to you and showed in the finals.

01:13:40.078 --> 01:13:44.524
[SPEAKER_02]: One of those winning, neither of them of winning the title.

01:13:45.145 --> 01:13:51.139
[SPEAKER_02]: by of those two, one of them get a challenge for the title and that same person or the other person by turn heel.

01:13:51.220 --> 01:14:16.823
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, what I'm saying is that you could, you could, you could, you could, you could, you could, you could, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could have, you could

01:14:16.803 --> 01:14:25.946
[SPEAKER_01]: And then just have one of them win dirty low blow or whatever else I just mentioned that with the Newman thing because that would put Newman over if those two turn on each other.

01:14:25.966 --> 01:14:28.412
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't need a new Japan cup to make that have heat.

01:14:29.936 --> 01:14:32.803
[SPEAKER_01]: And so that would get Newman that win.

01:14:32.783 --> 01:14:34.885
[SPEAKER_01]: dirty, you know, a cheap win, but he's a heal.

01:14:35.406 --> 01:14:38.710
[SPEAKER_01]: He could lose to Suji and we could all move on to the next thing.

01:14:39.110 --> 01:14:43.796
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you have that blood feud because they host each other out of the cup in the first place.

01:14:44.116 --> 01:14:48.461
[SPEAKER_01]: But you could absolutely just put them in there in the finals and then have one of them just hit a low blow.

01:14:49.302 --> 01:14:54.889
[SPEAKER_01]: Go dirty, but enter the other smack him of the chair or do something and just say that they've turned that corner.

01:14:54.929 --> 01:14:56.631
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be showed us saying,

01:14:56.611 --> 01:15:00.456
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember what Finlay told me in your damn wrong and do anything to win this thing.

01:15:00.716 --> 01:15:05.883
[SPEAKER_01]: And for you, yeah, it could be the similar thing is just like I have to win this.

01:15:06.644 --> 01:15:08.506
[SPEAKER_02]: Because if two, there are two, I have two minds.

01:15:08.566 --> 01:15:09.347
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

01:15:10.008 --> 01:15:17.718
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that you need to wait until the very last moment in this tournament of consequences to do the turn.

01:15:17.738 --> 01:15:19.440
[SPEAKER_02]: If they're a turn.

01:15:19.460 --> 01:15:19.840
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:15:19.860 --> 01:15:20.121
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:15:20.141 --> 01:15:21.142
[SPEAKER_01]: It needs to be during the final.

01:15:21.162 --> 01:15:23.665
[SPEAKER_02]: It needs to be like in the final.

01:15:24.421 --> 01:15:40.119
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so that the two weeks that we have building up the current genesis, you have mystique about what this person is thinking and what they're doing, and then you have like a press conference a couple of days before, and then you go to town at the current genesis.

01:15:40.619 --> 01:15:40.819
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

01:15:40.859 --> 01:15:52.993
[SPEAKER_02]: And you like, you do the final, you do your hot angle, you do whatever, like whatever you have in mind for that final, and then you just go dark for like a week and just keep

01:15:52.973 --> 01:15:53.594
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the thing.

01:15:53.614 --> 01:16:02.969
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like beating showed early and then having him turn on you, accomplishes one other thing is that it gets you two matches, it's saccharogenesis.

01:16:03.130 --> 01:16:06.856
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got the world title match with Calumnum and Facing Suji.

01:16:06.956 --> 01:16:12.585
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you have some form of showed

01:16:12.565 --> 01:16:14.449
[SPEAKER_01]: And that could just go all over the place.

01:16:14.489 --> 01:16:14.970
[SPEAKER_01]: Throw it out.

01:16:15.010 --> 01:16:16.253
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't do a finish.

01:16:16.353 --> 01:16:20.141
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just like we're going to get rent and Bolton for the never open weight title.

01:16:20.161 --> 01:16:23.809
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, see now we're now we've got a card that somebody might be interested in here.

01:16:23.889 --> 01:16:27.536
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, so just just my just my thought on that because really good.

01:16:27.556 --> 01:16:28.739
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never changed no good fall.

01:16:28.779 --> 01:16:32.667
[SPEAKER_02]: Aversus Kay will be at that match.

01:16:33.524 --> 01:16:38.551
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm just saying that that's another way to put an interesting match with some steam on it on a card.

01:16:38.772 --> 01:16:44.500
[SPEAKER_01]: And when they're struggling for attendance, I like things with steam on it to bring people into the building personal issue.

01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:46.483
[SPEAKER_01]: So tickets.

01:16:46.503 --> 01:16:49.367
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we covered the gift of the possibility there.

01:16:49.587 --> 01:16:54.134
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we're both waiting to show to you in the finals and it could go either way.

01:16:54.955 --> 01:16:55.196
[SPEAKER_00]: Good.

01:16:55.236 --> 01:16:55.716
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll turn.

01:16:55.736 --> 01:16:56.137
[SPEAKER_00]: Not really.

01:16:56.177 --> 01:16:58.180
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably should.

01:16:58.200 --> 01:16:58.300
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

01:16:58.364 --> 01:17:10.838
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying, like we introduce scenarios of all three of them, but like when it comes to it, the story is about showing you.

01:17:11.273 --> 01:17:22.730
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like we're, we're, we, we both know, or would agree that it would be a huge mistake for Kalam Numan to win the IWGP title right now.

01:17:22.750 --> 01:17:23.010
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, sure.

01:17:23.031 --> 01:17:24.232
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no.

01:17:24.673 --> 01:17:31.844
[SPEAKER_02]: He goes in to the, if you wouldn't hit, if you're going to lose that match, but if the other two are in it, you're not necessarily sure.

01:17:31.904 --> 01:17:32.985
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to lose that match.

01:17:34.067 --> 01:17:34.988
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you know what I mean?

01:17:35.048 --> 01:17:36.150
[SPEAKER_02]: Like if it's you, yeah,

01:17:36.687 --> 01:17:38.532
[SPEAKER_02]: like you want him to win that match.

01:17:38.552 --> 01:17:42.543
[SPEAKER_02]: If it's Shota, you're not sure if this is the time as they're gonna pull that trigger.

01:17:42.944 --> 01:17:45.752
[SPEAKER_02]: If it's Calum Newman, you kind of don't think it's gonna happen.

01:17:45.968 --> 01:17:54.581
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, that's true, but yeah, it's, they've done stuff like that before, where it's a match that the champ's gonna win, but yeah, you know, I do see your point on that.

01:17:54.601 --> 01:18:13.290
[SPEAKER_02]: They've, they've started so hot out this year and tried to like really give us aggressive matches and like really good, like, calling the question, I can't wait to see this match who wins it, and I just don't see Callum Newman and Yoda Suji is that I just can't wait to win to see who wins this right now.

01:18:13.750 --> 01:18:14.912
[SPEAKER_02]: It will get there.

01:18:15.128 --> 01:18:18.012
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's the risk that it runs for me.

01:18:18.052 --> 01:18:23.259
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't necessarily want to speak for everyone else to feel like, because Brad wants him to win.

01:18:23.579 --> 01:18:25.021
[SPEAKER_02]: Brad is all behind him.

01:18:25.342 --> 01:18:32.291
[SPEAKER_02]: There's 30% of the people, it's border pro wrestling, you know, telly that from the get go, said, this guy is the guy.

01:18:32.812 --> 01:18:39.921
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just telling you what I see and why I don't stand in that crowd, I could be wrong.

01:18:40.694 --> 01:18:42.500
[SPEAKER_01]: The good part about all this is that Bolton, Oleg Bolton, whichever one we still can't do.

01:18:42.520 --> 01:18:42.680
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01:18:42.700 --> 01:18:42.881
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01:18:49.060 --> 01:18:49.220
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01:18:51.246 --> 01:18:51.407
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01:18:51.427 --> 01:18:51.447
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01:18:51.865 --> 01:18:58.012
[SPEAKER_01]: Omeno and Newman, these should be three pretty good matches to finish up this tournament.

01:18:58.052 --> 01:18:59.774
[SPEAKER_01]: There's really not a dud in that bunch.

01:18:59.794 --> 01:19:03.498
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that all of them will be pretty exciting.

01:19:03.518 --> 01:19:09.805
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't really have, we have the card for the other matches or particularly interesting, but...

01:19:09.825 --> 01:19:11.166
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll fire them off for a here we go.

01:19:11.427 --> 01:19:12.688
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a way to win of that.

01:19:12.708 --> 01:19:14.630
[SPEAKER_01]: Main event, of course, Omeno versus Newman.

01:19:14.650 --> 01:19:15.451
[SPEAKER_01]: So keep that in mind.

01:19:15.491 --> 01:19:20.657
[SPEAKER_01]: That in some one of these two guys is allegedly going to be on the microphone afterwards,

01:19:21.599 --> 01:19:22.702
[SPEAKER_01]: either that or there'll be an angle.

01:19:22.902 --> 01:19:32.267
[SPEAKER_01]: So keep that in mind before you showing up to confront the winner could be yeah, they should probably stare down who a mora and Bolton.

01:19:33.935 --> 01:19:40.804
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we will have Suji in teaming up with KOB and ghetto to face the TMDK crew.

01:19:40.824 --> 01:19:45.451
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's Zach Saber Jr. Real Hale, we will co-safe Fujida and Hartley Jackson.

01:19:46.012 --> 01:19:46.793
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to go for ghetto.

01:19:47.053 --> 01:19:53.422
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be eating it in a state in who he restant on collision last night and they'll be airing the weekend.

01:19:53.742 --> 01:19:57.928
[SPEAKER_02]: He was a former trainer of Kyle Fletcher to go to or having a match on collision.

01:19:58.429 --> 01:19:59.210
[SPEAKER_02]: That should be a banger.

01:20:00.011 --> 01:20:00.111
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:20:00.884 --> 01:20:13.663
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we have Aaron Wolfe with Tomoaki Hona and Toroiano facing Renderita, Dictogo and Don Fale, if you want Aaron Wolfe to get better, stop booking him in matches like this.

01:20:13.944 --> 01:20:17.108
[SPEAKER_01]: There is only one person in this match we can help him and it's Dictogo.

01:20:17.529 --> 01:20:19.792
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's probably not going to be in with Dictogo very often.

01:20:19.812 --> 01:20:24.139
[SPEAKER_01]: So for the love of God, if you want Aaron Wolfe to get better, knock this crap off.

01:20:24.159 --> 01:20:26.622
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think you've been following this or do we just have more of this?

01:20:26.642 --> 01:20:27.043
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, cares.

01:20:27.604 --> 01:20:29.507
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

01:20:29.527 --> 01:20:30.368
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you care?

01:20:30.871 --> 01:20:33.114
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just trying to make comfort for me.

01:20:33.134 --> 01:20:35.077
[SPEAKER_01]: I know a lot now, but that's, yeah.

01:20:35.417 --> 01:20:37.320
[SPEAKER_01]: But it feels like that, and other than that, you don't care.

01:20:39.362 --> 01:20:40.203
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm bound company.

01:20:40.284 --> 01:20:54.443
[SPEAKER_01]: Shingo Takagi, Drillamoloni, Taijiishi Mori, and Dahi Keenagai, against, and all right, Jake Lee, Akira, and Yang, of course Akira and Yang are headed toward that Robbie X, Taijiishi Mori title match coming up.

01:20:54.463 --> 01:20:55.464
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be pretty darn good.

01:20:56.906 --> 01:20:57.807
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's going to be a fun one.

01:20:58.327 --> 01:20:59.629
[SPEAKER_01]: Robbie X, not here for this one.

01:20:59.649 --> 01:21:01.132
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why I end the guys in the spot.

01:21:01.232 --> 01:21:05.379
[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we have Yo, Watto and Desperado.

01:21:07.322 --> 01:21:10.868
[SPEAKER_01]: I just hope they live stream the car ride with those three someday.

01:21:10.888 --> 01:21:17.078
[SPEAKER_01]: I would be that would entertain me to see those three in the car together all day against Dokey, Kanemaro and show.

01:21:19.522 --> 01:21:27.554
[SPEAKER_02]: Evergreen match, I feel like we've seen some form of this match a thousand times.

01:21:27.574 --> 01:21:28.615
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

01:21:28.656 --> 01:21:31.880
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a service of the road to secure agedifices.

01:21:32.221 --> 01:21:32.541
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

01:21:32.561 --> 01:21:33.403
[SPEAKER_02]: On a second, right?

01:21:33.803 --> 01:21:36.267
[SPEAKER_01]: Doki and yo will be facing off at the title of Wednesday.

01:21:36.287 --> 01:21:37.409
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

01:21:37.429 --> 01:21:47.183
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we have Bishaman and Matsumoto, they're the personally online against Teji,

01:21:47.382 --> 01:21:50.126
[SPEAKER_02]: in service of she that probably looks to be she.

01:21:50.646 --> 01:21:53.991
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw our holy emperor at sumo by the way he was at night two.

01:21:54.432 --> 01:21:59.138
[SPEAKER_01]: He was sitting there and about the third or fourth row watching the watching the sumo and the fan club section.

01:21:59.519 --> 01:22:01.081
[SPEAKER_01]: Taishi a big sumo fan.

01:22:01.141 --> 01:22:01.702
[SPEAKER_01]: So there he was.

01:22:01.782 --> 01:22:03.925
[SPEAKER_01]: Our holy emperor at the Osaka tournament.

01:22:04.385 --> 01:22:15.921
[SPEAKER_01]: And then before we have Taisai Nakahara, teaming with RyuSuke to Gucci against Chase Owens and Yuzuro Takahashi.

01:22:16.508 --> 01:22:33.555
[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad mentions that six man matches why we need new juniors already, poach, everyone, amen, if right now that it's been depleted and it's very tired, that junior heavyweight roster, that definitely needs an upgrade and additions.

01:22:33.575 --> 01:22:35.698
[SPEAKER_01]: So we need new people brought in, just flat out.

01:22:35.718 --> 01:22:43.731
[SPEAKER_01]: Like he said, start poaching people, there are a couple of promotions that look like they're kind of dying off, unfortunately, and trying to pick up some people.

01:22:43.711 --> 01:22:52.236
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like to get you trying to be part of the show to kill crews, you've got to dispatch these two guys that go to was able to take care of and if you can hang out with them.

01:22:53.060 --> 01:22:55.423
[SPEAKER_01]: And an ongoing effort to manifest things I want to see.

01:22:55.463 --> 01:22:58.427
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, all Japan pro wrestling.

01:22:58.447 --> 01:23:01.871
[SPEAKER_01]: They have the Saito Brothers back, Ray was injured for a while.

01:23:01.931 --> 01:23:04.334
[SPEAKER_01]: He's back, June Saito is still there.

01:23:04.775 --> 01:23:09.981
[SPEAKER_01]: And the Saito brothers are one of their more popular tag teams, Jeremy.

01:23:10.001 --> 01:23:12.765
[SPEAKER_01]: And we've seen them on some of the altogether shows right there.

01:23:13.686 --> 01:23:14.747
[SPEAKER_01]: And

01:23:15.250 --> 01:23:17.192
[SPEAKER_01]: They have a lot of charisma, they're hard hitting.

01:23:17.713 --> 01:23:19.435
[SPEAKER_01]: They work pretty snug.

01:23:20.296 --> 01:23:22.839
[SPEAKER_01]: And I really enjoy their stuff as a tag team.

01:23:22.879 --> 01:23:24.941
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're much better as a tag team than they are as singles.

01:23:24.961 --> 01:23:27.164
[SPEAKER_01]: They seem to play off each other and use their strengths well.

01:23:27.184 --> 01:23:28.986
[SPEAKER_01]: They aren't the same guy exactly.

01:23:29.066 --> 01:23:32.910
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not the contrast, the heart foundation was, but they do different things.

01:23:33.671 --> 01:23:34.713
[SPEAKER_01]: And they work together nicely.

01:23:35.674 --> 01:23:39.418
[SPEAKER_01]: They mentioned in an interview that they would love to have a match with the knockout brothers.

01:23:40.259 --> 01:23:40.980
[SPEAKER_01]: Please, yes.

01:23:41.221 --> 01:23:50.918
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the knockout brothers versus Ray in June say, so it doesn't have to be too on to, you know, throw them in an eight-man tag, or let's just have these guys make contact with each other.

01:23:50.938 --> 01:23:52.361
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see, I'm not going around a little bit.

01:23:52.401 --> 01:23:53.744
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's somebody else do the job.

01:23:54.164 --> 01:23:58.192
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think either company really wants that, they're team to lose that match, that type of thing.

01:23:58.472 --> 01:24:01.137
[SPEAKER_01]: But if we ever do one of these all together things again,

01:24:01.117 --> 01:24:02.860
[SPEAKER_01]: Then I would love it.

01:24:03.100 --> 01:24:06.165
[SPEAKER_01]: I would absolutely love it if those guys shared a ring a little bit.

01:24:06.245 --> 01:24:09.009
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be Fastening a little match up right there.

01:24:09.029 --> 01:24:17.622
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's just a little little fanboy thing for me that then that the Sayido brothers are watching and they think that the knockout brothers will be a fun match And I I totally agree.

01:24:17.722 --> 01:24:18.243
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to see.

01:24:18.263 --> 01:24:19.885
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope it manifests for you Steven

01:24:19.865 --> 01:24:21.427
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, I appreciate it.

01:24:21.587 --> 01:24:24.871
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, by the way, Brad mentions this, that was going to be our next thing.

01:24:24.912 --> 01:24:25.552
[SPEAKER_01]: He's already on it.

01:24:26.193 --> 01:24:30.999
[SPEAKER_01]: The announcement for Despays, Deathmatch Show and Las Vegas have me have me so down on that show.

01:24:31.099 --> 01:24:31.780
[SPEAKER_01]: I like Effie.

01:24:32.181 --> 01:24:35.705
[SPEAKER_01]: Do we need him and Jimmy Lloyd and then JPW adjacent ring?

01:24:36.647 --> 01:24:38.709
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to tell you, I don't know who Jimmy Lloyd is.

01:24:40.452 --> 01:24:43.155
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's uh, and Effie is, uh,

01:24:43.777 --> 01:25:13.260
[SPEAKER_01]: his own thing you know if he's own thing it's uh there's nothing you don't do not have a big gay brunch when you have the wicked spoon in the biggest I'm sorry you just don't know the wicked spoon is what the best buffet going right now in Las Vegas is it really well you just don't you just don't need a big gay brunch well the bucket you're too much the bucket all's really good too but Matt got its expensive forget about the wicked spoon's great I'll try to make a joke I don't you know you're right though but and and that's a fair but it's a fair point yeah it

01:25:13.561 --> 01:25:14.543
[SPEAKER_01]: the right fit.

01:25:14.563 --> 01:25:14.984
[SPEAKER_01]: How about that?

01:25:15.304 --> 01:25:33.477
[SPEAKER_02]: It there is a scenario there where over the course of years and is promotion like AEW and WWE go exclusive and don't share their talent on places like this for the most part that it becomes who's available.

01:25:33.457 --> 01:25:38.884
[SPEAKER_02]: And who can we bring on to the show the cardee in the area that we can make something work with?

01:25:39.365 --> 01:25:42.890
[SPEAKER_02]: And graduate from Deffy, you checked off all the boxes.

01:25:43.350 --> 01:25:48.638
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to go in there and you're going to do a gay death batch to be a gay old time.

01:25:51.461 --> 01:25:55.667
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how you do that, but you know what?

01:25:55.732 --> 01:26:04.661
[SPEAKER_02]: the wrestling world, full creative and inventive people, sometimes the match is land, sometimes they don't, but I'm gonna tell you what's given, probably not watching that show.

01:26:05.362 --> 01:26:06.083
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, fair enough.

01:26:06.423 --> 01:26:11.128
[SPEAKER_01]: There is something that they are going to do on that death vagus invitation that I think is interesting.

01:26:11.549 --> 01:26:14.552
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is kids versus cutest Jeremy.

01:26:14.592 --> 01:26:23.241
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Dragon Kid, teaming up with Starlight Kid from Start-Up, and they will be facing Elfantazmo and Machito.

01:26:24.638 --> 01:26:26.922
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's me and tell Mochi eat it.

01:26:27.123 --> 01:26:27.764
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not at all.

01:26:28.305 --> 01:26:31.852
[SPEAKER_01]: Mochi has improved tremendously since we saw her in the doctor.

01:26:31.872 --> 01:26:34.016
[SPEAKER_02]: We've had training with the legitimate Japanese wrestlers.

01:26:34.397 --> 01:26:34.757
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

01:26:34.837 --> 01:26:35.218
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no.

01:26:35.238 --> 01:26:36.380
[SPEAKER_01]: She's actually gotten pretty good.

01:26:36.561 --> 01:26:37.783
[SPEAKER_01]: She's actually got pretty good.

01:26:37.803 --> 01:26:38.244
[SPEAKER_01]: Good enough.

01:26:38.264 --> 01:26:42.512
[SPEAKER_02]: I will reserve judgment until you tell me it was as good as you expected to be.

01:26:42.543 --> 01:26:44.926
[SPEAKER_01]: She is hanging in there with the start-up crew.

01:26:44.986 --> 01:26:46.327
[SPEAKER_01]: She's full-time startup now.

01:26:46.347 --> 01:26:47.428
[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead.

01:26:47.889 --> 01:26:50.872
[SPEAKER_01]: So she's in with the best female wrestlers in the world.

01:26:50.972 --> 01:26:53.034
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's and she's holding her on.

01:26:53.094 --> 01:26:54.356
[SPEAKER_02]: Up the ticking.

01:26:54.376 --> 01:27:00.562
[SPEAKER_02]: But she did she had ever actually auditioned for them or like tried out for them and didn't make it.

01:27:00.762 --> 01:27:02.945
[SPEAKER_02]: And then that sounds generally what I'm not sure.

01:27:02.965 --> 01:27:03.745
[SPEAKER_02]: Did her own thing?

01:27:03.766 --> 01:27:08.010
[SPEAKER_02]: And now she finally like,

01:27:08.463 --> 01:27:15.380
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, she was doing TJPW and she was doing some freelancing and all that kind of stuff for a while there, but she has improved quite a bit.

01:27:15.862 --> 01:27:24.784
[SPEAKER_02]: I imagine the little problem we make are more attractive to the American promotions because her work rate was why she doesn't have a job there now.

01:27:25.237 --> 01:27:29.301
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it's, I think you'll see that it's improved and and she's in there.

01:27:29.341 --> 01:27:32.864
[SPEAKER_01]: She's in there with Starlight and Dragon Kid who will do everything they can to make her look up to.

01:27:33.024 --> 01:27:34.105
[SPEAKER_02]: No, the gimmick is great.

01:27:34.125 --> 01:27:37.768
[SPEAKER_02]: She's got a lot of charisma, but she's working on the one thing she needs to work on.

01:27:37.929 --> 01:27:39.290
[SPEAKER_02]: And I have water for it.

01:27:39.310 --> 01:27:40.511
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, a lot better.

01:27:40.531 --> 01:27:44.194
[SPEAKER_01]: So, all right, those are the only two shows by the way those two we mentioned.

01:27:44.214 --> 01:27:47.457
[SPEAKER_01]: The semi-finals in the final, so those are the two new Japan shows of the week.

01:27:47.477 --> 01:27:53.843
[SPEAKER_01]: And after that, we started hitting the road to Sakura Genesis and building those kind of week long break.

01:27:55.898 --> 01:27:58.062
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm going to catch up on my Maori goal.

01:27:58.182 --> 01:28:02.749
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm behind on Marigold now because I've been watching the Cinderella Tournament and the New Japan Cup.

01:28:02.769 --> 01:28:03.851
[SPEAKER_01]: Got to catch up on my Maori goal.

01:28:03.871 --> 01:28:08.058
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, I've been paying attention to T.J.P.W because I'm going to go see the show and see the show and see the show.

01:28:08.078 --> 01:28:09.540
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how you do it.

01:28:09.560 --> 01:28:18.675
[SPEAKER_02]: OK, I don't see how we have a hobby that we get a professional hobby about watching a specific pro wrestling company.

01:28:19.296 --> 01:28:21.720
[SPEAKER_02]: And for me, personally,

01:28:21.700 --> 01:28:25.228
[SPEAKER_02]: the way that I like to unwind is not watching more wrestling.

01:28:25.548 --> 01:28:30.198
[SPEAKER_02]: It's finding something else to do so that I can come back fresh for this.

01:28:30.318 --> 01:28:31.882
[SPEAKER_02]: So I've been playing a video game.

01:28:32.022 --> 01:28:33.946
[SPEAKER_02]: I averaged about one video game a month.

01:28:34.487 --> 01:28:35.991
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just finishing it right now.

01:28:36.011 --> 01:28:37.133
[SPEAKER_02]: But are we on pause?

01:28:37.253 --> 01:28:39.017
[SPEAKER_02]: I've hidden to the end credit.

01:28:38.997 --> 01:28:42.685
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's how I like do it, but you man, you're going to have to machine.

01:28:42.745 --> 01:28:43.948
[SPEAKER_02]: You take it all in.

01:28:43.968 --> 01:28:46.273
[SPEAKER_02]: I need to take a break from your trip.

01:28:46.534 --> 01:28:47.516
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go watch.

01:28:48.959 --> 01:28:50.142
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go watch.

01:28:50.563 --> 01:28:51.224
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go watch.

01:28:51.244 --> 01:28:51.685
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm joking.

01:28:51.705 --> 01:28:52.166
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm joking.

01:28:52.186 --> 01:28:53.650
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, good Lord, man.

01:28:54.973 --> 01:28:58.761
[SPEAKER_02]: You might mock the sickos, but you're a sicko too.

01:28:59.821 --> 01:29:01.883
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been watching a lot of the world baseball classics too.

01:29:01.903 --> 01:29:03.104
[SPEAKER_01]: I enjoyed that.

01:29:03.245 --> 01:29:04.065
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I loved it.

01:29:04.085 --> 01:29:05.647
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the world baseball classics.

01:29:05.727 --> 01:29:10.052
[SPEAKER_02]: I really enjoyed the the coach of the American team.

01:29:10.092 --> 01:29:13.035
[SPEAKER_02]: Just you show your hats over and over and over again.

01:29:13.615 --> 01:29:14.196
[SPEAKER_01]: Mark Dorosa.

01:29:14.356 --> 01:29:14.997
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man.

01:29:16.098 --> 01:29:18.521
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he did a lot of favors for himself.

01:29:18.581 --> 01:29:20.383
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, being another manager show in the future.

01:29:20.803 --> 01:29:21.223
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no.

01:29:22.345 --> 01:29:24.647
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, while you go back to the end, I'll be now.

01:29:26.382 --> 01:29:33.698
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, yeah, you hold the whole U.S. campaign, feel like they didn't take it as seriously as they should.

01:29:33.718 --> 01:29:35.281
[SPEAKER_01]: I think players did.

01:29:35.301 --> 01:29:46.365
[SPEAKER_02]: I think no, I mean, I feel like there was like from the top now, like you put the player to there, but that wasn't a murder throw of players that should have.

01:29:46.345 --> 01:29:50.949
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I guess that it way was got a lot of major league talent.

01:29:50.969 --> 01:29:51.330
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, good.

01:29:51.350 --> 01:29:52.110
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to lie.

01:29:52.171 --> 01:29:53.652
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that line up was loaded.

01:29:53.692 --> 01:29:55.814
[SPEAKER_01]: Dominican Republic's line up was absolutely loaded.

01:29:55.954 --> 01:30:03.862
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I got a fantasy draft on Saturday night and instead of head to head, we're going point-to-head and the drafts of it nine o'clock at night.

01:30:03.922 --> 01:30:05.483
[SPEAKER_02]: I had to get up at three thirty in the morning.

01:30:05.543 --> 01:30:06.844
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't even know what's going to happen here.

01:30:07.645 --> 01:30:14.952
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's my four-ray into baseball is I just do a draft and I just go off the memory of how the players did the year before.

01:30:15.438 --> 01:30:24.017
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is the time of year, I'm particularly out of touch, Jeremy, because almost everybody else I know was really into the NCAA tournament, the basketball tournament, the couch basement, library book.

01:30:24.378 --> 01:30:25.941
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't, I got nothing on it.

01:30:26.643 --> 01:30:28.928
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't even got a man totally checked out.

01:30:29.489 --> 01:30:35.202
[SPEAKER_02]: I, somebody meant, I think Dave on wrestling cover could the NC2A does.

01:30:35.182 --> 01:30:55.806
[SPEAKER_02]: Like he mentioned it and then I realized like the pack was semi is at the SAT Center free for me like next weekend And so I just got to make sure I just stay out of that neighborhood, which is where like I shop at Target and doing all that stuff So just gave me the heads up of like just clear out of the way everybody's just just stay home

01:30:55.786 --> 01:30:58.129
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, I got nothing on this one.

01:30:58.150 --> 01:30:58.831
[SPEAKER_01]: This is that's one.

01:30:58.871 --> 01:30:59.291
[SPEAKER_01]: That's one.

01:30:59.311 --> 01:31:02.756
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have bandwidth forest college basketball So I really don't have any idea what's going on.

01:31:02.796 --> 01:31:05.761
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been asked to be in a whole bunch of pools and I'm just like, I don't know.

01:31:05.841 --> 01:31:06.362
[SPEAKER_01]: I got nothing.

01:31:06.402 --> 01:31:07.083
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know.

01:31:07.604 --> 01:31:12.471
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not entering any Everybody just picked Duke Duke and the pudding.

01:31:12.511 --> 01:31:13.372
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what my buddy did.

01:31:13.673 --> 01:31:14.614
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what my best friend did.

01:31:14.634 --> 01:31:15.115
[SPEAKER_01]: He picked it.

01:31:15.595 --> 01:31:16.096
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:31:16.156 --> 01:31:16.877
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm okay, man.

01:31:17.098 --> 01:31:18.460
[SPEAKER_01]: Just picked you put all our fail.

01:31:18.820 --> 01:31:20.022
[SPEAKER_02]: Just picked you.

01:31:21.048 --> 01:31:22.750
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, we're going to wrap this one out.

01:31:22.770 --> 01:31:23.831
[SPEAKER_01]: That's our time for this week.

01:31:23.871 --> 01:31:25.712
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to thank everybody who joined us live here.

01:31:26.053 --> 01:31:28.595
[SPEAKER_01]: Brad, Fernando, glad to see you guys, Marie.

01:31:28.615 --> 01:31:29.616
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll be all good there.

01:31:30.056 --> 01:31:31.237
[SPEAKER_01]: We need to get the comments in there.

01:31:31.297 --> 01:31:32.518
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we got them all.

01:31:32.538 --> 01:31:36.762
[SPEAKER_01]: And we will be back next week to talk about these semi-finals and the finals of the New Japan Cup.

01:31:36.882 --> 01:31:39.905
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are watching us live, thank you so much for spending your time with us.

01:31:39.925 --> 01:31:43.188
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're listening to us later, either on YouTube or as a podcast.

01:31:43.208 --> 01:31:44.029
[SPEAKER_01]: We're very grateful to you.

01:31:44.049 --> 01:31:45.050
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't forget Power Bomb shows.

01:31:45.070 --> 01:31:47.192
[SPEAKER_01]: We back on Sunday, our sibling show.

01:31:47.612 --> 01:31:51.055
[SPEAKER_01]: Dynamite show, all the great stuff on the network,

01:31:51.035 --> 01:31:51.896
[SPEAKER_01]: all those stuff.

01:31:52.337 --> 01:31:57.466
[SPEAKER_02]: And real quick, Brad, thank you for the kind words about the our revolution show with me and Keel.

01:31:57.486 --> 01:31:58.948
[SPEAKER_02]: I really appreciate that.

01:31:58.968 --> 01:31:59.950
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, very cool.

01:31:59.970 --> 01:32:01.733
[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad, we're thanks.

01:32:01.753 --> 01:32:03.475
[SPEAKER_01]: He said great show here and I appreciate it.

01:32:03.556 --> 01:32:04.858
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad you thought so.

01:32:05.940 --> 01:32:10.467
[SPEAKER_01]: Back next week, everybody, right here are regular time for more New Japan talk for Jeremy Feinstein.

01:32:10.507 --> 01:32:11.328
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Stephen Conway.

01:32:11.368 --> 01:32:12.731
[SPEAKER_01]: This has been Speaking of Strongstyle.

01:32:12.771 --> 01:32:14.714
[SPEAKER_01]: We will talk to you again real soon.

01:32:14.734 --> 01:32:15.996
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye.