NJPW World Tag League Night 1-5 Recap: Uemura, Umino, & WK 20 Morale Booster | Speaking of Strong Style

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[SPEAKER_01]: Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a special edition of the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're totally up to date on the first five nights of action from World Tag League 2025.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to look at the standings and preview the week ahead.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So when Jeremy Feinstein, I'm Stephen Conway, this is a special holiday edition of 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]: Full disclosure, we are pre-recorded today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're today's travel day and the holiday and everything like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we are pre-recorded this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, we aren't going to be able to interact with you on comments like we normally do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: but we certainly encourage you to leave any comments you have, any thoughts you have.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm in the comments section and any questions certainly will be sure to get to those.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Jeremy, I'm about to head up north and so we're recording this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The good news is we have all the shows watch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were nice enough not to book a show on Thanksgiving Day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we were able to watch of course that's not a holiday in Japan, but we were able to watch up to Wednesday and we're

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, maybe not world beating shows, but not half answer for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, we're in that void between Thanksgiving where the Wednesday shows happened and the Friday shows haven't happened and you can read between the lines that we're in the gap there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're in that, we're in that, everything is slowed down in the world a little bit and we just found a little bit of time before we gather with our loved ones to catch up because dude, if we waited another week to talk about all this stuff, we just,

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'd be in the weeds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'd just be in the weeds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So between between today and our next show, which will be at our regular time live on Thursday is usual.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Five more shows come on that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was thankful that they're working to show all on Thursday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If next week, you know, they're, they're, they're like Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday or something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, but actually, okay, that's not too bad, but I told you off the air.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've had kind of a wild week over here and it's just one of those.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything seems to just kind of go sideways right before the holidays.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of whatever like, oh, we that happening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody find everything great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it is a reminder for me to be incredibly thankful

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[SPEAKER_00]: Got my family healthy, everybody's doing great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm taking stock of it all and in line of that, I can say this world tag leak is fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And wait a moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there have been a couple of subplots that have made themselves apparent, including a twist on when we didn't totally expect, and one we absolutely did expect, and we're going to cover all those as we go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the format today, because there've been a lot of shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if we just kind of went through these matches, it would just sound like a bunch of names, barfing up names for an hour and we don't want to do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to take a look at the standings and we're going to go from the leaders down to the middle of the pack and end on the the teams that are struggling and we'll do that for block A then we'll do it for block B and we'll talk about the matches as they happen along the way, but I think the more intriguing thing is more than any one individual match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: is the overall story of each team as it makes its way through the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so we have three Block A matches completed for each team, two for Block B.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Block B will have its third night of action on Friday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for today, we have

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[SPEAKER_01]: six points on offer for block me four points on offer for for for block A excuse me three matches six points on offer for block A although none of them have six and one's a little bit of a half way at the a block and then in the b block two nights of action so four points possible and there are a few teams that are unbeaten in the b block it is kind of funny like you look at these seven matches and we've gone through you know

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[SPEAKER_00]: five nights and all of a sudden, we've got a couple of these, we've got a couple of these shows under the belt and December 8th is going to hit real quick, you know, once this weekend is over and the first part of the holidays hit and it's going to be, it's going to be a race to keep up with these shows and I don't know if I felt that way about these shows in the past, but I definitely feel like this is going to be a lot of tough to see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The other thing worth noting before we get into the weeds on this, the crowd's been good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, they're absolutely good on these night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've been, there are a couple of buildings that aren't full, but those are larger buildings, other buildings have look quite full.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And a couple of crowds, well over a thousand, in not enormous towns, either.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they've been in Tokyo, but there are a couple of small towns and they're the Drew very, very well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of this is last chance to see Tana Hashi, of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But there is a little bit of momentum building for rest of Kingdom as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Tana's probably the draw here in getting a chance to say goodbye to the ace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nevertheless, has to be again, a morale boost for the crew to look up and see a building that is mostly full and have for the most part been enthusiastic and not wild but responsive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, like, the show on the when it went into 26 at Sunday, the most matches were not that good, but the crowd willed those matches to be better than what they were supposed to be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I was, I think it was probably the, the drill in the loan and she got to call gamers is Dawn Falling, King of Darkness evil match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Boy, yay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that was a match that happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you were just listening to the crowd and had your eyes closed, like you would think that that match is fire.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was not fire, but you're right, the crowd was into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, all right, well, let's take a look at these standings and see what we have going here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, in the A block, I mentioned there are no unbeaten teams after three nights of action.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Five teams though are two and one, and tied for the lead with four points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is only one team and it's the correct one that is at zero points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about night one of this tournament last week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Night one had happened.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When we did the show last week, but here we go, it is Bishaman, lost the first night, but are now on four points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Torruyano and both an olig on four points, Desparado and Shugiji Ishikawa on four points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a bit unexpected for me, but again, we're only three nights in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yoda, Sushi, and Gabe, kid, four points, evil and Don, Fale, four points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's start with Beishaman, the team with three of these tournaments under is built already, of course, they won three years in a row.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They took a loss on night one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you remember, they were upset on night one, but they ended up winning their next two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they beat two teams.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They really should be beating.

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[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, Jason's new Drotaka Hashie, that just felt like a match ahead to have going through.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: Chase and Yudra were never really a threat in this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you just were kind of waiting for the show to, they hit the show to, they got the win, they got out, and that was fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the next night, or not the next night, but the next block night, that would be night five, the one that just happened.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They defeated Toriano and Oleg Bolton in Wednesday's main event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they had a couple of close calls in that one with some of,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yano shenanigans.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I say this though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yano wrestled this match more serious than usual.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a little bit of clowning, but less than you normally get from him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He wrestled them fairly seriously through most of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was the the playfulness with the turn buckle pad, but even that worked for and against Yano at various points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He did hit a double low.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Blow at one point while the referee was distracted just to tease the idea that they might score the upset here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But in the end,

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh Doriano took the Choto and that was the victory.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that puts Bishamon pretty much where they should be Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned last week they're the one that needs to make the other teams all the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they took the loss and the first one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little too easy to have them just cruise to 3 and 0s and they're always considered to threat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Put some a 2 and 1 in contention just like we expected and probably where they ought to be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're the ultimate gatekeeper team winning the tournament many, many, many times you give them a couple of losses to teams that mathematically it worked out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tate team Kojima, you know, legitimizes them going out of the gate to get them a win over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Classically great team is in Bishaman, but eventually they're going to lose to a team and they're going to elevate that because they're winning so much and the cashier that they have behind it and they're just keeping the build that cashier, you don't want to waste it now, you know, like they're probably going to go to the next round.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I very much do not expect them to win this tournament, but I expect them to look very strong up to the point there,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there are always an important fact in the tag team division for that gatekeeper rule you mentioned, all right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the other one is the team that always threatens to mess up the whole tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the house of torture squad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now there are two house of torture teams here in Block A.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The correct one is threatening to mess everything up and that's evil and don't fall away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now that these two haven't been a team in past tournaments, but this is the correct house of torture team to threaten to get into the the post block play.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They won their opener, but they lost to Suji and Kidd when Suji and Kidd hit their finisher that Lariat spear combo to beat Faleigh.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not really the full gene blast, but it's a thing where Kidd hits a Lariat as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly as Suji hits the spear, they got Faleigh with it, penned him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And in a match that was fine, really actually not

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was one of the things that you say that it's not going to happen, it's as good as you could expect a folly match to be in this day and age, just with his health issues, his size, everything else right there, but that you did find and then evil in folly defeated Maloney and Shingo with a lot of house torture interference in a match that was not good, not even shingo and Maloney could fully save this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: are always big effort guys, but there's only so much they can do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The the ref bumps were missed timed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They look pretty stupid and it was it was not an effective house torture match, but they did get the cheap win over Maloney and Shingo just to make you think these guys might advance out of block play and keep us from having the good matches we were hoping for, you know, that that threat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The the explanation that I wrote in my note will tell you

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[SPEAKER_00]: Togo, you've the rough distraction to throw powder and she goes eyes followed by an everything it's evil in a match that did not and see that expectations.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, it was like the ref was working very hard to get in the way too hard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: None of it looked natural.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like Marty Assami would just kind of wander over when it was his time for a spot and they never really had a reason for him to be that close to the guys so he could be grabbed or knocked over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They just didn't bother to come up with a

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[SPEAKER_01]: logical ish way of doing it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They would just be a moment where for no reason the referee would just walk over close so he could either get hit or grabbed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I've talked about this on the show until I'm blue in the face, but they don't do this well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's my least favorite part of New Japan is these bad ref bumps and things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, what I'm amazing is that if you close your eyes and listen to this match on the Japan world, you'd think that it will come five star max.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Fans and send I were into everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were into F. Not today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not today on Wednesday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is one of the ones they show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right, right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, there's, there've been a lot of shows, folks, that's fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we had Suji and Gabe Kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're on four points at two and one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned that they defeated evil in filet, the first night of the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They picked up another win over Owens and Yuzuro using the same combo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they, okay, so they beat evil and filet in their second match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They lost their first match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the one where Gabe Kidd got hit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They won two in a row.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they lost on the night one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They beat evil and filet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They beat owns and usual.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they have been running through the House of Torture portion of the program.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're back up to two in one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Two wins over HOT teams.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then more difficult challenges ahead.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think as they go forward Jeremy, we're going to see Gabe kid eat a couple of falls.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can almost guarantee you that Yoda Succi will not be taking any pins on the way to the Tokyo dome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is all on Gabe and you know he also they won the main event and that one and had to cut a promo and you know Gabe's promo was a little wacky.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had to carry more of it as usual.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Succi says he got hit in the neck when he was wrestling shingo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when they wrestled shingo, it actually cracked him in the the voice box a little bit and he had kind of a gravelly voice so kid had to cut a promo and who, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not all they're not all classics are they.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, so as you can kid at two and one we expect them to be in the mix, but I think Gabe is probably going to take a couple of losses to keep them from advancing too far.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't be too shocked if like the yano match they ended up in a countout.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like that where they just kind of have something like stupid, uh, like get them to leave the match, but nobody takes control.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they really don't want to pin game too much either, but he's still a big star and I imagine he's probably going to be

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe in that that trio's or that six man Rambo thing with a couple other bullet club guys that's pretty much a great place for him to be at this point if they don't have any plan moving forward.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's they're still very important and they're still crowd favorite.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of think that they're going to make it to the next round and then kind of lose, but if they were it might actually be better if

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[SPEAKER_00]: The two were quelled out on tiebreaker and just kind of quietly didn't make it to the net's brown so that no one had to eat a wash at that point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Another team is two in one, to my surprise, actually, is Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they lost on night one when Ishikawa was pinned, but he looked a lot better on night three in Machita, which is another neighborhood in Tokyo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: with his power moves kind of overwhelmed shingle and maloney.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he hit a backdrop driver with the leg hooked to pin maloney that even them up at one and one and was a pretty decent match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was checking out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Maloney and Shingo knew how to sell for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they've wrestled before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shingo and Ishikawa actually met in all of Japan's a champion carnival a few years ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Back when Shingo was still a dragon's gate guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they've met before, no doubt to sell for the guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maloney's good at everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that ain't even a month at one or one, good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then at the night five, they got another win when Desparado went against the run of play by rolling up Satoshi Kojima when Kojima was kind of ruling the roost in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The story has been that Desparado was working on a bad back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Ishikawa is trying to carry him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so similar, something to what Taiji and Kojima are doing, which we'll get to them in a little bit, where Portes, Dorado, has taken the beating, you take the beating, take the beating for the older Ishikawa to come in and get the hot tag.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this time it really looked like Kojima was

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[SPEAKER_01]: on the way to a victory when Desperado kind of rolled them up, I don't know where, but that puts them at 211 and they're working fairly well together, a Desperado, of course, one of the very best in the world.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a cow a look pretty stiff on night one, like he wasn't moving very well, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: maybe you just need to loosen up because by the time they got to night three and five, he looked fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's sort of fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So with the whole finish of Death Brought of the only thing I like gave me positive happening, like we just had the sequence.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then it gets like Death Brought of Jeff took the cozy where it from Kojima and he didn't get the pin and then he went for it again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then he did the roll boy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there we go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They kind of telegraphed in a little bit, but at the same time, it was all about trying to get that story with Kojima and Taichi more than it was a story about Desperado, and that's what we'll get to that in a minute, but they're really trying to protect Desperado and not have him, like they're allowing him to be the little man in these matches and get his like asked kind of hand into him, but he's not, he's not the guy that's the pin either because he's so popular.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it's a guest.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it should cover can do that every once in a while.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They won't job him out, but I think he'll be the guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're four.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're two and one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're clear to we get a, they're going to lose a couple of something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see the moving on, but yeah, and they don't need them to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's really no reason for desperate outer to move into post man, walk away in this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's, that's not his story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but they're doing fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there, there are, they're absolutely doing fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And in post match comments, Ishikawa still

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[SPEAKER_01]: You see what win this and then we're going to have our singles match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Desperado says, well, win this and yeah, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So again, the word I would use to describe death barato, New Japan, pro wrestling is versatile.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That guy can do anything and just be like clawed anywhere in the junior division and the heavyweight division, doing death matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He could just kind of, he's a jack of all trade, if you will.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He'd still make a case for him being New Japan's MVP of 2025.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And sure, he and Godo are the two choices, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's yeah, he's been, he's been a guy who carried the promotion on a back with excellent matches and not even being put into position to be on main cards of a lot of these shows and still delivering the best match of the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, boy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we had Toriano and Bolton, they're at two and one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Bolton, they defeated Tahiti and Kojima by hitting the Kamakaze on Kojima, just solid straight up victory right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that made them the only team at the time to win the first two matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were the only team on four points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody else took a loss on either night one or night three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: but they were unable to make a three-in-a-row.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They fell the bishop on in Wednesday's main event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As we went to a bishop on, hit the showdo after some close calls with Tori Yano coming near on some upsets of bishop on managed to stay away from Oleg there, keep him out of the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, Yano and Bolton

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[SPEAKER_01]: another team that's probably going to win some and lose some, this isn't going to be the winning team in the tournament, but it's bold and they certainly take seriously.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to beat him very often.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Yano can take a loss or two in there, but they're a better team than I anticipated in this tournament thus far, just because Yano is doing slightly less

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think it's interesting about this team is that they're final match in the tournament is against evil and don't follow it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And You're going to be the hero.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a new trend does this sometime, where this is their kind of your get back at a guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, like beat, follow a, but drop the title to evil and

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[SPEAKER_00]: This kind of field like an opportunity for a leg to kind of ruin their chances of advancing to the next round with that with that match or, you know, you will could just reassert his dominance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But they're going to be consequential all the way to the last date of the program, the world tag league.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think that's good for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it shows a sign of confidence that even though Aaron Wolf is in the way that they're still planning on using old like Bolton, uh, Bolton, old like Bolton, however, uh, however you're nasty, I guess.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, I just, I like, I like that they're confident they're still that he is a part of the plan, even if he is not the maker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so let's take a look at the teams on two points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we've gone through the teams on four now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So here are the teams on two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we will begin with Tahichi and Kochimeo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are a team that is still playing off the story of not 100% getting along.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tahichi, of course, one of the members of Kochimeo Gune when

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kojima first came back from all Japan, not long after that, however, Taichi turned on Kojima and went with Suzuki and became part of Suzuki Go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, still some lingering resentment, but not from Kojima, despite the fact that he was the guy that got turned on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to let bygones be bygones, Taichi, still a little cranky.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they got the opening night when lost to Yano and Bolden.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tahichi seemed pretty discouraged about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they were bickering a little bit during post-match comments, both after that one and after their preview tag the next day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mentioned the Kojima just kind of wants to put it all behind him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On night five, they took another loss when Desperado rolled Kojima up, like we mentioned, after he dominated a lot of the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, the story with this team is the Taichi has a bad knee, similar to Desperado, again, with the bad back Taichi has the bad knee.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's the one that sells and sells and sells and makes the hot tag to Kojima, which is probably the right dynamic for this team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kojima's a little bit better and short person that's sense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so after this match though, after Desperado rolled up Kojima, instead of bickering with Kojima, instead of arguing with him, instead of walking out on him, Taiichi shook his hand in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And kind of, you know, touched him on the arm and almost like a, that's okay thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's, it's running hot and cold with these two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're not really sure if Taiichi's totally okay with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Jeremy, this might go into a thing where

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[SPEAKER_01]: Taiichi respects him, but he's just not going to be warm to him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be more of a teasing each other back and forth thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe not even back and forth, more of Taiichi, just teasing Coachimo about being an old man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Coachimo just kind of going along with it there, just kind of rolling his eyes at that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's the story that they're going with here, because they don't seem to be fighting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like we don't weapon to me, you know, ribs and mertal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mel Gibson with like the younger guys, just a little bit of a loose cannon in the older guy who's, you know, conservative slash, I'm too old for this crap.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is anything by the way, does anything hurt more than realizing that we are older now, the Danny Glover was then when he made the move.

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[SPEAKER_00]: at just work, but I've run into Danny Glover in real life like a had time because I lived in Santa Cruz and he loved to come to Santa Cruz.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could total happy and you just loved the Santa Cruz life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's in Santa Cruz from time to time over the last like 25 years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: First time a solvable like around the year 2000 when I was in college.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh, just a funny little anecdote about getting over, but uh, yes and no, there could number of things that are making me face my own mortality, Steven, including the fact that I was already, uh, I was just starting college with Hiroshi Tatochi, started in wrestling career, and now I'm going to a show 26 years later where he is retiring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, no, the we the

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it does lead to a greater scenario of yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My more talent, yes, he knows much closer than it did 25 years ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there you have it with Tahiti and Kojima.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll see how they do the rest of the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, that's probably not a team that's meant to content.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The other team that's on two points that I expect more from as it goes on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think these guys are going to get some wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's Shingo, Takagi, and Drillamoloni.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They had the opening win with that double maiden Japan move.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned that last week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then they were upset by Ishikawa and Desperado on night three when Ishikawa hit that backdrop driver on Drillah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Night five, it took all the house of torture stuff to beat, and we already mentioned that match, not worth really going back and watching.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Aside from the house of torture thing which didn't work, they've had good matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The first two matches they had were good matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These are always big effort guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I respect, I expect results to come later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is going to be one of the teams that sort of comes from behind and is a factor on the final day of block play at the very

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a couple of the end of the keep in mind here for me that I always like think about with these two guys, they're so well liked, yeah, the fans that you forget that they're essentially the number two and number three guys in their stable and they each have their like superior in a lot of ways in the same like category with them and on that same night of final block play, you guys got a fake vision on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So like you always just kind of like you look at it with these two, you're like, oh, it's shingo and it's drilla and they have bigger matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't see them being in any other position of just having bigger matches and winning a couple of threatening, but with.

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[SPEAKER_00]: their trajectory and bish them on being like the gatekeeper eventually for the entire tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like their chances of advancing, but I do like their chances of being one of the best performing team of the whole tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My prediction here is that single morning are not going to lose much at all, maybe not at all until they face bish them on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think once that match happens, it's going to be, there will be stakes to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think is the wind and get in a point total is an eight or 10 you're five and two or four and three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like in this block.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think five and two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, five and two because I could see shingo and drill a getting to eight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, trying to get to ten and if they get to ten, they will have beaten the team that has ten and then moving.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So five seems like the sweet spot of winning your get into the

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's one more team in this block.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's an usual attack at Hashie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they are indeed a team having wrestling matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're doing the jobs for HOT at the moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're 0 and 3.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They aren't wrestling particularly well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But being the house torture team that can lose, they're serving their purpose in that is that they're giving points to the other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, they're probably going to get some upset that will be consequential in the end.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the good news is they aren't pulling any garbage where these guys are getting interference wins and things like a win or two matches somewhere along the way and get ice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I still can't tell if Chase is trying to be serious with his theme song or if that's supposed to be funny.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that intentionally funny?

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[SPEAKER_01]: His theme song's intense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's bad, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I came in here with this idea like I want to be kind of kind to chase those.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there were things that I saw that were just like, pause, wait, what the fuck?

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[SPEAKER_00]: with Kenneth Suji.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Suji took a tackle from Owen at one point and literally just dropped to the ground in a position of like, okay, I'm ready to take a headlock.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Owen fell down right after him and literally just looked at time stop for like one or two heartbeats before Chase just grabbed him and I was just like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're miscommunication there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't seem to get deer in the headlines.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that match, well, you can trackually obligated match that happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how I felt about that match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it wasn't bad, but it just wasn't at the level of what everyone else is able to do in this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for all the effort that Chase holds is trying to do to prove that he's a company guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: to go with the gimmick to commit to things and all this stuff like there's something that just isn't translating and I just feel bad because it's been going on for so long and it just feels like kicking a guy while he's down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those were all the teams in the A block and when we move over to the B block, again, they've only had two matches

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, yeah, by far, are you referring to Zach and Rio, hey, I've got to talk about David Chipley and Horat would talk to Hoshie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, as far as entertainment goes, yes, as far as quality of matches, right, we would Saber not going to die of the park, but okay, I see what you mean, as far as entertainment goes, that is the case, and those are the teams on four points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're the first two we're going to talk about here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So to take a look at this block here, Saber, no, we will.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They opened their tournament with a win over Kellum Newman and Great O'Con.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Really good second half to that match once it got rolling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Newman's still very much being the heel here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there was a nice finish of, are we were hitting a German Suplex into a Jackknife pin from Zach.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that was,

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was really cool, very smooth, very well executed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a nice win for the TMDK squad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then they moved into a night five where they wrestled.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the best matches of the tournament so far, and might end up being the best match of the tournament over the whole night four, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was night four, you're right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you, uh, and uh,

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was that we were to do a Mara and show to Umano.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, we were and we were from generally the same class.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then showed us not too far away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shows a little older than those guys as far as this wrestling career goes, maybe not on the calendar, but showed us started a little bit earlier than them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And show to and O'Con and Wato were more in the

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, and Dorita, that was with that group with Kitamura, and whereas the next batch was kind of OEMora and OEMora, and OEMA, a little bit of, you know, Fujita at the tail end of that, but that's the kind of question the thing is, they were all in the dojo around the same time, within a few years of each other, so trainers very similar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The training was probably very similar that they each had,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they've wrestled each other a lot as lions and things like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the OE was stuff with OE mora was really good really good and there was a really good I hope they took wrestling each other forever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a really good scramble to one of the ends of this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you were ended up hitting the grip on Shota into a roll up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that was the victory again for Saber and Oh, we were just terrific stuff on that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so back in Shota fighting for position in the middle of the ring, when Oh, you were hit him from behind with the grip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that kind of fumbled the jackknife, but they got it quick enough where I was like, okay, that was really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, four points and the best in-ring performing team in the tournament, although OEMura and Umino, a very close second.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're having a terrific tournament as well in-ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The other team that is two-in-oh is Hiroma Takahashi and David Fiddler.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Finlay has claimed the part of an almost amused partner, and he is taking to using Hiromu as much as an offensive weapon as he is a tag team partner.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's picking up Hiromu and throwing him into opponents, using him as a battering ram, even power bombing him onto opponents that is just over and over again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hiromu is taking bumps onto their opponents.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not real about it to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, no, lady, kind of like, just like weekly complaining like come on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why do we have to do it like this?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, they had, they had the big night on night two facing you don't ice an Oscar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Finlay was very much on in this match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hiromo and Yuto Ice also very good together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is when he power-bomb Hiromu from the ring over the top rope on to ask her outside.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Later, Finlay got a blind tag on Hiromu that Yuto Ice didn't see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Finlay hit a Lamahi's throw off of Yuto Ice covering Hiromu.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Ice covered Hiromu thinking the Hiromu was the legal man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Since he's on all fours covering Hiromu, it gave Finlay a chance to hit Lamahi straw on him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was very clever at work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It looked good, very good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they faced L. Fantasma and Tanahashi on night four.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tanah was the Ricky Morton in that one, selling selling selling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not all of this worked 100% but the finish was Finlay and ELP in a rolling cradle segment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they were just kind of tagled up and rolling around the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Hiromu just simply stopped them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: with Finlay on top and it worked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was able to hold on for all three seconds and I mentioned her humble complaints about being a weapon but not in a way that really means any dissension and their post-mash comments for pretty funny especially the preview tags where they had lost a preview tag when ghetto tapped out and so they're walking up there and he said why do you quit I didn't quit why do you quit why didn't quit there's no way and they looked at each other and they just said get up yeah probably

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that was, so that was the moment there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they were like, oh, I never mind that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll get him tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've been a lot of fun to watch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Finley looks like he's having the time of his life if he runs through the crowd, just feel like the big dog in the group and everyone's in on the gag.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's having fun with this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's still

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[SPEAKER_00]: brutal, but in trouble, it's like when fit family was in WWE and he was like a baby face, he kind of had horns long ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's very similar to just like that kind of mentality to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's delightful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's going to be a long-term direction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: God help me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've wanted her own move to start going into the structural details anyways.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But for right now,

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[SPEAKER_00]: For this segment of world tag league for the little little bit of the universe that it occupies, it is taking up all the real state.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the other thing just worth mentioning there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Finland is funny.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's a funny guy and of course he shut that office.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was building his heel persona and his more vicious side with the war dogs, you know, bring belts or bodies right that whole thing very had to go very humorless in order to get himself over that heel right now that they are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: softening up that that whole thing where the war dogs or either tweeners are just flat out baby faces again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He hasn't gone back to being goofy and sometimes Finn Jews could be goofy, but they were a midcard tag team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he understands the spot and this is a chance for him to kind of let a little bit of that sense of humor out without turning into something silly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's hitting the correct notes with it is what I'm saying.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are ways to be funny

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's main adventure energy having a good time with the crowd.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's like, it's that I have built this relationship with the guy for years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you see me be a good guy, you see me be a bad guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm taking all of that and we're doing it at a bigger stage.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you guys are along for the ride in the crowd.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, yep, yes, we are.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're here for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the other team, now that we got some one on one and one teams here, Oelie Moore and Umino on two points, they're one and one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, they have had the most interesting subplots so far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Little moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You don't talk about it right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They defeated Tana Hashian El Fantasma on the first night of block play and it was a good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the more interesting stuff came after the match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, one, the good one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Afterwards, they had the microphone segment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: he kneels down at the lion mark is that he's going to devote himself to new japan pro wrestling and or reaffirm his devotion to new japan pro wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So all four guys you got ton of how she got elephant tassma.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have uminao you have uminao they're all kneeling by the lion mark in the middle of the room.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Shota says, we've hauntai to me and goes into a deep bow, very humble bow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tana Hashi and Fantasmo bow down like they're agreeing to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the hauntai is yours.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, you know, who didn't bow down?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You, uh, Uemora kind of looked over the like you will answer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, like there was a little

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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of like this because it was presumptuous of Umino, who is trying to ingratiate himself that character wise, character wise, and maybe even a little bit in real life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But trying to, it was a very look at me, look how devoted I am moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this little thing of OEMora is just like, I'm in Han Tai too, what makes you the number one guy now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there was a little bit he didn't bow down now certainly did not turn on anybody didn't hit anybody and there was very little dissension hinted at in postmash comments, but I like that they just kind of hung that out there where he's not totally happy about this leaves a little bit of a seated out as to whether or not these two are going to be getting a long at the end of this term and.

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[SPEAKER_01]: for Umano to just kind of say that with Ueimura sitting right next to him or kneeling right next to him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is there's room for either one to be the heel in that scenario depending on how they want to pull the trigger on it if they do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was very interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there were there was so much nuance to this thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it is far and away the most important development in the entirety of the world tag league so far.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, certainly more than who's going to win this thing right now, that is absolutely so to step the five, they're all four of them are kneeling, are there are their needs in the middle of the blue right around the life, are in the middle of the ring.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's almost as if

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[SPEAKER_00]: Umeno had like that manga anime moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're in the background.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is like exclamation mark and frenetic energy and he's just going, we ponte it to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And in this actual and and clear you get had no idea that was coming.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the reaction was like the

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think you should have talked about this or something like that, but even more curious was that ton of Hashie bowed in different to the request, but he didn't do anything other than clearly look right at you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and he's like, well, yeah, like are you going to say thing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you guys say?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is your moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking at you and you're just kind of he doesn't shrink, but he just he realizes the moment is not his and everything just kind of pauses and

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything's fine, you know, I think showed a new end of blues in there and have to match, which sucks, but whatever, no, no bounce back in, they are, they're going to be a factor in this entire tournament, they're going to be a factor for years to come, this is going to be one of those moments that actually create like the vision point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: where, like, we have the fractures in these, like, groups and hauntimes splits into smaller groups and all the stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the moment, because when Tauna Hoshi leaves, if you're going to leave the leg you see to somebody and somebody ain't going to like it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Louis Moura and Umino are having terrific matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned that they wrestled OUA and Saber, and OUA and Saber, Saber, one that match, find any matches with TMDK's team or the OUA Moura, Umino team, they're three total matches because they've wrestled each other over there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But all of these guys appearances have been been really entertaining stuff and well wrestled.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So those are the best matches to the tournament so far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, we get to go to the polar opposite, which are who's having some of the crumbious measures in the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's Sonata and Renderita are here, and they are not having the best measures, and it's not just can't do much anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And won't, but just can't really physically.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But so, Sonata and Rida, Arthur and Zane beat them on night two in a match that kind of stuck the referee timing was off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was something that the referee needed to not see, and

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[SPEAKER_01]: things didn't work out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's also a really good thing for wrestler's Jeremy that really tall guys are all really stupid so that that low bridge move works every single time ever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oscar, Lance, uh, folly, like all you have to do is run on the guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If he backs up and grabs the top rope, they just go,

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[SPEAKER_01]: They just go flying over it every single time and then they never they never learn it's it's almost like Naya Jackson Braun Strowman running at a ring post, you know, just it never works out they never fit they're the Wiley E. Coyotes of pro wrestling is that they never figure out that that's a cliff right there But or that they paint they painted the tunnel onto the rock you know they never figured out

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[SPEAKER_00]: because he presented a time to work 100% of the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Clever moved though to win the match for Zane and Archer.

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

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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about Zane and Archer, but Onsen out of for the win, so that they start off on one night for Narita and Sonata did a bunch of house torture shenanigans and they beat

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[SPEAKER_01]: You, uh, the beat, uh, you don't ice an Oscar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I started saying, you, you will be more again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You don't ice an Oscar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The chemistry in this match was not great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The ref bumps were bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is just a swing and miss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I look, I understand that a lot of this is a math equation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Sonata and Narita, to make the points work and to make a dramatic on the last day, but having these guys make ice and Oscar, Owen too, not these guys, that guy, Sonata, Ren can wrestle, but he's not having a great tournament so far right here, but I hated the fact that the knockout brothers lost that match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, David.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, David.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was, it was incredibly contrived.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And by contrived everybody, I'm going to explain this to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In that Rhett and Rita Sonata match, Oscar, Oscar after you know, I had taken a low-blown nut shot was pinned to by Rhett and after taking whiskey from Kettemaro, I get tar shot

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and also I just want to add another thing, another one where the ref barely gets brushed up against any shot dead just laid in the court ladies on catches they just don't bother to even make these things look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: believable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it takes the crowd totally out of it because they see a guy, they see Marty Assami or a Red Shoes or something like that get nudged a little bit and they collapse in the corner dramatically so that there can be 10 minutes of house torture bull crap.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it just takes them out of it because everyone knows it's stupid and silly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it just comes off so flat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It gets nobody over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then this is another example that's just not working.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that they are, who are we talking about so we're talking about you know I said Oscar we talk about Rednery.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I said that's well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I mean we're not Rednery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sonata, but that the ice and Oscar match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm going to come back to those two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This match wasn't good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was all to fill out the math and they're not even the top house of torture team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: in the equation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If one of them is going to advance, it's going to be evil and don't fall it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are too much talent in this division from the East guys to be anything but spoilers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And looking at what they've got going forward, I definitely see the spoiler material go out for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we're done with them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're spoiling the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're one and one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Another team one and one is monster sauce.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's Lance Archer now insane.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe baseball tricks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they are in this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they have a move that's pretty cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course Lance Archer's finisher is the blackout.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he's doing that where he puts the blackout on Alex Zane and and throws Zane down on the opponent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Which looks pretty devastating.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's Anton.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he throws him into a centon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a big centon off of archers shoulders onto the opponent there, but so they won their first match mentioned against Sonata in Narita and then they lost on night four though when Jacob lost in young tripped Zane when he came off the ropes that led to Zane getting the double stop from Newman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was kind of a key moment to me here, Jeremy, we've talked for a while about what's going on with the United Empire.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Callum Newman, very heelish, no question about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: seems like he is about ready to throw the whole thing away because part of what he said at the beginning was, look, if we're not successful in this tournament, there's no point in United Empire continuing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they became one of the teams.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This team is either going to do very, very well, and that's going to be the story that they pulled their stuff together, or they're going to stink on ice and fall all apart.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the two, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: This team isn't going to go foreign

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[SPEAKER_01]: when I was looking at this though, this is a departure for United Empire throughout the history of the faction, going all the way back to Osprey and Jeff Cobb and Henare and O'Con.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are at ringside for one of another's matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't interfere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, this time,

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[SPEAKER_01]: This time, Jacob Austin Young did indeed interfere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is an empire departure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Something they have not done before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The action in the match was fine, but I did think that that part was interesting, that United Empire did a nice poll.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know just something and intriguing about that so monster sauce one and one and then nomenal con also one and one i mentioned that they is the zane and archer match with the trip they lost on night one night one of their block night two overall to savor know we were in a pretty good match we mentioned both those matches

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[SPEAKER_01]: After the loss, Newman walked out alone on that one, just did not, no team spirit on that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He just kind of stomped out, but there hasn't been a lot of unity, but no real blow ups as of yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And not a lot of that in the post match comments, either in fact, I think after the loss, they didn't do post match comments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're waiting on that one for a little bit later to poll triggers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've talked about it over and over and over again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This has come there time now, but they're telling you everything that they need to tell you that these aren't the good dudes that they were like, the losses and the abandonment and everything has had an effect on the mentality of Calon Newman and people like Jacob off the young are following his lead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Great O'Con, kind of not sure where he stands and all of this playing in close to the best.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know what O'Con is thinking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we have two teams on zero points and one of them is the tag team champions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I said, Oscar, this puzzles me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did not like them losing to Finlay and Haromo at all either, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The match was good, but they should have won it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do hope they go on a winning streak next there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, that's an ice and Oscar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Tana Hashie and ELP is carrying this team to decent matches, OEMora and Umino gave them a terrific one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they aren't really here to contend, so this is all so the Tana Hashie can tour these towns and see everybody one last time, and of course, this was supposed to be the team last year, but ELP had his cancer scare and had some surgery, all that kind of stuff that we all know about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, John Hawks, you're doing the victory lap on this tournament.

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

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not really at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that if you still need in five wins and two losses to get in, that these guys could squeeze in at the very last night kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think their last match, it's against show to Umano and you, Uemaro, which doesn't know well, first show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you, Uemaro.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you think about the fact that you get their two losses out of the way early,

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[SPEAKER_00]: of the rest of the way, they could easily go five and two and get into the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd rather they lose early and then proceed to just like, get their shit together or whatever, whatever mentality you want to like describe, but then just go on a run.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like this is the time for them to go on a run.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It look really, really strong.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know potentially win the whole thing but any of the team that they like lost to then claim a challenge like hey no like you you still have it we still have like a marker on you

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so yeah, that is one of the, that's one of the more intriguing ones.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's say I'm looking at that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the, yeah, Saber and O'Ewa will be wrestling, Archer and Zane on the very last day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Who else are you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I son of Oscar against Yish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Showed it on you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No readups, not a, that's whatever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'll call it a new inverses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Timway and talk to Hoshi.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can see that big a spoiler for Timway and talk to Hoshi, especially new and getting company over on Timway at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm going to mention we're going to get a lot of information in the next week as five shows are coming up and so when we Reconvene what what that's going to be Five tournament matches for each team by the time we come back get to be december when we convened to this indeed so Friday

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are going to A.O.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Mori at the Kuckel Hydro Group Athletics Stadium and the main event of that one on Friday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Health anti-Smart and Tana Hashie against the knockout brothers we will see if that winning streak begins for the Tag Team Champions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Saturday, they had North, this is extreme North, uh, uh, uh, on, uh, Hunchy, the main island in Japan, the same island that has Tokyo and Osaka and all that, so they're almost up in Hokkaido, but not quite.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Saturday and Mutsu, it's a kid and Suji versus Bolton and Yano as the top match plus Bishimon versus Ishikawa and Desperado, which I think could be a sleeper for a really excellent match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sunday, Akita, so we're doing Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Sunday is Akita, a little bit for the South, B-Block, O-E-Wa and Saber against Tana-Hashi and Fantasmo, makes sense to have Tana-Hashi in the main events for these farewells to these towns.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Monday is a travel day, because they have a long trip back down South to Yamanashi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're spending this weekend, they went a little loop up in the very northern part of the island.

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[SPEAKER_01]: close her to Tokyo, and that's going to be Ishikawa and Desperado versus Kiddon Suji in an intriguing one, plus Maloney and Shingo against Kojima and Taiichi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wednesday, they move a little further south, and that's not a coincidence.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're heading toward Osaka.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what's happening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Red and toward Osaka.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wednesday, Shizuoka knockout brothers versus OE1 Saber, which I'm looking forward to that match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that it's Zach against those guys and treat me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Plus, OE mora and Umano against Haromu and Finlay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So those are two of the more entertaining teams in the entire tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wednesday and Shizuoka could be a real banger of a show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm looking forward to some of these matches that are coming out because

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are some really good work rate teams and we've gotten a couple of these matchups already, including like the show to you for his DMDK.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then if really just been fantastic and you you want to get to remember every time that showed and that get to the ring together, it's really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: come down to the right to the level of the moment, but it's still really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Rio, hey, yeah, they're fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, once you separate those two teams and put them with other good work, great team, and it's just, there are some riches hidden within this tournament, and I'm so happy that it's much better than the subject you're tackling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so could you tell us a little bit Jeremy before we go here?

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to keep this fairly short for the holiday show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you talk a little bit about what yo managed to accomplish last week with his sit in?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't need to have his wrestle kingdom match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is of a stipulation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure I've ever heard of before at least a new Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's something different.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's certainly an all-skate to get a lot of people on the card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Could you tell us a little bit about what they have planned?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So after Yo did his sin in, so goodbye, Oh, she gave him the thumbs up and then immediately after our show went off the air on each fan announced that there wasn't indeed going to be a match and it is going to be a fusion of a rambo and a gauntlet never six man openly kind of matching which team of three will come out and

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yo, Master Wato and Yano will be defending the titles and if any member of the team is either pinned counted out or thrown over the top row, the entirety of the team will be eliminated from the match and there shall be one team left of three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a formula for

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[SPEAKER_00]: the water, you know, and the auto team to lose their titles in whole area fashion, but, you know, when you demand something at a big show, more than likely the, uh, they're coming to cost.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is, again, a way to get people on the card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This show is sold out as it is right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're going to add more seats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And those seats are probably going to be sold out, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you do best 14, 12 people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You do 15, 18, 21, all the sudden, everybody who's like, worked this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Part of my friends here, the shittiest fucking tours through the entire year, get a reward and get to be on this card.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Which honestly, yeah, you do deserve to be on the card, but you work the card.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe, and maybe, talk to Haachi that packed the crap that packed the dome, but these guys were on the card with them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm I'm happy for him and I think it's a smart move just business wise to get those guys in there and to and you said a best just reward these guys for some of the slog that they've had to endure the last year and so I know what I'm talking about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, that's what's coming up this week, folks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of tag team action coming up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's a single smash all week, because even the first matches on the card are previews for next block.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not really for pivot of magic for Tokyo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and there will be some once we get to things like the semi finals and the finals, they'll be doing all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll be here to preview them when they are announced.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So keep enjoying your Thanksgiving, everybody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to sign up for now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be back live next week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Regular time slot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just like we're here in our regular time slot today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so feel free to join us sending your questions your comments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I put my email address that ringside replay a gmail.com.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can always email me there if you have comments or questions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm happy to read those.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll get you back on the air when we're back here live as normal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's December already everything's happening so quickly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you have any questions for me, could death, Steven, and he'll get it done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not giving you money now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not giving you money now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not giving out this even.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, I've got one from my other side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My history is going to be bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be talking about it around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be talking about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of good things to come from speaking in strong style in 2026, so, but there is a very important rest of Kingdom show to come.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to be here to cover Jeremy is going to be their live in person.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to have this whole thing covered for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we hope you join us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't forget about power bombshell Sunday at 1 p.m. Dynamite show all the great programming here on the fight game media network.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for Jeremy Feinstone, I'm Stephen Conway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This has been speaking of strong style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we will talk to you again real soon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bye.