NJPW World Tag League: Tsuji & Kidd’s Final Push, Naito’s New Disciple | Speaking of Strong Style

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are in the heart of the World Tag League 2025 schedule.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's really kicked in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had five shows this past week to process.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to break each mash down, each team down, where they are in the standings, how they've been doing, the story lines involved with them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll break down this week's action coming up, because there are five more shows coming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're coming fast and furious as we get closer and closer to rest of Kingdom 20.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's just get started.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got to let to talk about what Jeremy Feinstein

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

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

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are contributors to the fight game media network and, you know, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: a lot of wrestling going on these days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mentioned the five shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We also had the goddess of start of tag team tournaments going on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The All-Japan tag team tournament is going on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Noah had their junior knockout bracket.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a league in the same way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: These others are, but they have the junior tournament, one by Haruma Takahashi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All that's been happening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's been a lot of wrestling to watch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And how was your week on top of it all?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I made your holiday to deal with.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know,

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to get too nerdy about it, but I don't like to rip this rip in the time of space continuum because the past week was so long like it was just a long week in many, many ways.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But it feels like it was just yesterday where we recorded our show and then dropped it in the audio.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I've just got a little bit of whiplash on life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of stuff going on and I'm going to Japan and like a month and I'm trying to get that old settled and it's the holidays and it's just

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're too grown to don't men with responsibilities that like to get together on a Thursday and talking about all day to do Japan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes the rest of the life says, hey, we're going to throw everything on your plate to tell you that's not going to happen this week.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But David, we're here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we made it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We made a year right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There has been a lot to do with here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy is Jeremy Warren.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, it's going to see you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are very glad you're here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And USDA guy is here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad to see you as well as always.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Jeremy, I went up to visit my mom for Thanksgiving.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was up at North and over the course of two days, Saturday and Sunday, I dropped 16 inches of snow on us while we were there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And my, you know, my girlfriend is from Texas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Texas girl throwing through her.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And her first time ever using a snowblower.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So she's she's experiencing snow tourism.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like to think of it as snow tourism where she gets a little dink and dunk of it and says, Oh, this is all very cute.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like out of a winter greeting card thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, but the 16 inches is an awful lot to deal with.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And she got to look at the other side of it when you actually get.

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[SPEAKER_01]: snowed in and you have to wait for the county plows to come out so that you can actually go to a restaurant or to the store or anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She saw the other side of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The part that doesn't look like a greeting card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The part that looks like sea ocean dirt and dog piss and all that kind of stuff piled up at the end of your driveway because the snow's dirty after everything goes through it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, yeah, this is what it's really like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is what it's really like.

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[SPEAKER_02]: the first thing that I thought of when you were describing that was, no matter what the context is, Steven, 15 inches, if too much for anyone person to head.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's very true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's very true.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My family is my no mean boozy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I had to call my mother today to wish her a happy birthday because she's flying to Rome tomorrow to meet my sister who worked in the east.

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[SPEAKER_02]: like Africa continent and they're meeting up in Rome for my mom's birthday and to supervise some kids and we were having a discussion about how we weren't all going to feed each other this holiday season because I was going to Japan and she was going to Rome and all these days and just the year man it is the longest year of all these things and I

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[SPEAKER_02]: I spent a lot of things giving counting my blessings and being thankful for a lot of things I have because man 10, 15, 20 years ago life was really different.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Life was really different, really hard and still can't even though I was an adult.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, I'm very, I'm very thankful for a lot of things, including the show because it's afforded opportunities that even five years

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, before we get started on World Tag League, you've been afforded an opportunity and we all have really to do something that I didn't even get to do one year ago when I was over Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a loose conglomeration of New Japan podcasters that made the trip over from Tokyo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I met up, I met up with the WeWorks stuff guys, a couple of times unintentionally.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just kind of ran into each other because we were in the same place at the same time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: wanted to do something a little bit more formal this year, Jeremy, and it is happening and it's a very cool thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So can you talk to us a little bit about what's going on with some of our friends who also do New Japan related podcasts and rest looking them 20.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, before I do that, I just want to make sure that you know that you were probably a big part of this happening, because of your participation in meeting up with people and just kind of conversing and the idea of all of these podcasts just getting together.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So without further ado.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was announced on the keeper.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you won't go right on the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't mind a little to do here in there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And now, it's on the Keeping It Strong Style podcast.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's actually going to be a podcast in Summit, 2020, for all the new Japan podcasters that we know of that are coming over there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we have the Super Jaycast, the Damon and Joel.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We've got Keeping It Strong Style with Young Boy, Josh, and Jeremy Donovan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We have Josh from WeWorksDif and I will be representing Speaking of Strong Style.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now, these are incredibly creatively inclined people, both Josh's, especially Josh Smith has taken this design and actually made merchandise that you can find here at this website and also be in the show notes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can get this and this other design right here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: uh, converted into t-shirt, hat, sweatshirt studies.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got a hoodie made so that I can wear it all around the thing with the logo on my back, just a kind of hot for time for the entirety of the trip and also not the souvenir because this is really cool.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm very honored to be a part of it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So the details are a few hours before rest of the kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We are going to meet at Hub's British pub near the Tokyo dome.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now, and formally, and we are all going to get together for a few hours.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And we're all just going to be there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to talk about the show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to bask in what could be an all-time or moment with Tana Hashi while weeping it to Kesha retains.

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[SPEAKER_02]: or we could be basking in the Tonahashi retirement while celebrating Yota Suji won the title.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Either one, but we know that Tonahashi retirement is going to be a big deal, and we want to celebrate both before and after what I think is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you are in Japan, if you hear this clip, I'm going to try and propagate it before Russell Kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_02]: the podcast in the subject 20, 20 sets of all the Tokyo dome, podcasters joining.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We got a bit of strong style.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We were at stiff SuperJacast and Biki is strong style.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll be at Hub British Pub hours before restricting them 20 and a legendary night.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, just wanted to throw that out there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to give Josh from

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[SPEAKER_02]: all the credit in the world for this design.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He worked on all the imaging and did a fantastic job.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought the way he represented all the flags from where everyone was from and where we're going to be was an especially nice touch and they took a lot of care and making sure that our logo was perfect in there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I appreciate that intention to detail and if you hear this, just know that I love the Josh here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then, you know, I've been talking with the keeping it

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[SPEAKER_02]: uh boys yeah Steven and I think you know that's already but they are going to be our guest in two weeks for our Wrestle Kingdom preview.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we are going double the strong style.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Keep in it, speaking of keeping a strong style will be the special show that day.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm really looking forward and I told them this myself.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it was far too long before we did a collaboration with them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm really looking forward to having them on our show and, you know, doing the cross closure bit for both of us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, certainly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, we had Josh and we were stiff on one of our review shows of a NJPW strongcard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, he was with us for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've been on we were stiff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's been a little bit of this collaboration before, but never anything this formal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's very cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad you're getting a chance to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I am completely not at all jealous that I'm not going to be there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm absolutely fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I, I am honestly just trying to talk like will you know like I'm going to find a way and I'm going to go even now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure you can get a ticket.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's tough to get in that building journey.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is so down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be very exciting.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, in my mind, I'm going to have a little bit of claustrophobia because they don't like crowds.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm right dead center in the middle of all of this, but you make exceptions.

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[SPEAKER_02]: when you're uncomfortable for shame for things that matter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You'll be packed in just because you're always packed in in Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the good news is about the dome is it is a large baseball stadium.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The roof is very, very high.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is air to breathe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is air to breathe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I hope that that mitigates some of that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you are going to experience that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a very little doubt about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a very cool thing that this is doing so well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ticket wise, it's got to be good for morale.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's certainly good for, I be like it's good for our morale.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And just hearing that this thing sold out makes me more amped up for the news.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I also want to mention one other bit of housekeeping thing, our sibling show, Power Bomb shells Sam, has a recent interview with Charity King.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is going to be a very cool thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's up on their YouTube show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And charity king, one of the top wrestlers in the Carolina's area there, women's champion for Oshai wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, she interviewed charity king.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So go check that out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a neat little, a good get for Sam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're happy for the bombshells.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, I just realized this is not the most attended show I've ever been to in my life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Because I forgot the attendance of WrestleMania 28, which I would do in the nose, please.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you remember what the attendance of that show was?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Help me out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That was the one at that's one of the 90s to lifetime at some life garden, some life stadium with John Cena in the rock the first time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, shoot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's a football stadium as opposed to a baseball park.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's going to be larger.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Was that one?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did that one hit 70,000?

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[SPEAKER_02]: 78,353.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So 70 was probably closer to the

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I looked up the real attendance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, and that was what it said was the real attendance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So Seven, you might be right on that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You might be right on that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that's why I'm 73, 74.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that was the first of the two matches they had against each other.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They went down in Turkey for the next one, but they announced that that's right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That one was it was like 50 degrees out or something for that one wasn't it was like really chilly for the New Jersey one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But for that show, I probably wouldn't be here today at all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I probably would have tapped on rushing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But that that that that changed then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say that the largest attendance I've been a part of for wrestling would have been probably WrestleMania eight in Indianapolis when it was back at the old, the old Hoosier dome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The other WrestleMania as I attended were in basketball arena as it was before the stadium days for the most part.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this was the one that had Randy Savage versus Rick Flair, Brett Hart, Roddy Piper, those were the two best matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the main event was Hulk Hogan against Sid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: which was not a great match as you can imagine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And a feature of the return of the ultimate warrior and we all know how well that worked out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Not well at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what that's known as Jeremy Seriously, the WrestleMania where they didn't do Hogan versus Flare.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's really what that was known for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The one where they didn't do Hogan versus Flare.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, speaking of something else that didn't really work out for people if we'll move on from this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Victoria Yosera has a brother.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And apparently he was fired from New Japan in May, and whatever this reason is, we do not know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he inspired where he left.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I heard heard that he, as well as his twin brother, Mastura had some injuries, and I heard that it was the injuries that he left over with.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was what I heard, but there's almost always a combination of reasons.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I heard from one course that it was a firing, but I don't want to say for sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: because if you're going to raise the inventory that definitely could be in a thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's no longer in the Dojo, even though his mastery also to brother, this is mastery also to brother.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't actually didn't catch his name, but he's going under the name Ryu Sey.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now for stage purposes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so he is training under Naito.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We've talked about how Masturioca has been making for the net tiger mask, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I figured either he or Shoma Kato.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How is this not the perfect origin for black tiger?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you want to take an hour and a day off, Joe.

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[SPEAKER_02]: off to train with one of the, uh, one of those that left the new Japan dojo training under a different name, Kung Black is backpacker and then a reveal to his twin brother.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right out of a manga if ever I've heard one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, and I was just thinking about this and like they have to do it now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like they absolutely have to do this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But maybe we'll see one day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I still feel very strongly that Tessie and Naito will have another match in New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to have a big simply because no one else can really pay him for more than one day to the time, more than New Japan can ever do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Noah can certainly pay him a big paycheck for one day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But as far as anything, Wong term.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's not an old man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's an old man wrestling terms.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And his body has a lot of miles on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And night, it was got a few decades to live.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's going to have to make us living somewhere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to be in wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have a feeling it's going to circle back to New Japan someday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's all good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have a better taste to this partner.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a few walks this money to last.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, he's got to make better decisions moving forward.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He 1,000% believe that we have not seen his last match in New Japan in any way, shape, or form.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Even if he were to have a retirement match at some point,

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're just too, they're too synonymous with each other at this point.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's like the guy that played for five different teams after spending 10 years on one team and then going back and retiring without that last team because that Corey really should be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A good night it was.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to come back for one last thing and then he's going to shut down because he's not ready to hang it up, but when it is, they're only one place he can hang it up that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he hasn't wrestled very much at all since he loved not very much at all, but there have been some hiccups for that Brad's here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, how are you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good to see you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to end in Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get to your question here in a minute before we pick up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One thing I want to mention about the ass of the twins, of course, second generation wrestlers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The father was Zumbido, a luchador, who teamed a lawful out with shocker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: in both of Mexican Indies, a little bit of triple A, and one of those, a guide that was around for a while on the Mexican scene, Mexican wrestlers, so they're, they're, they're mixed, they have a Mexican father, Japanese mother, that type of thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Zimbedo was Japanese, you know what I shouldn't have said that they were made.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I necessarily, but certainly Russell and Mexico, I'd have to double check all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just kind of remember that their father was a luchador, Zimbedo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy is asking this a good question.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Brad, we're gonna get to your comment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jerry says, is there one show I need to rewatch since the G1, I took a break.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember talking to Jeremy about this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, maybe feeling they need to stay some time off, I believe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we even addressed it on the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If I remember right, Jeremy, we did with somebody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it was, you know, I think that showed the beginning of November.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's not the Tana-Hasher retirement or whatever with a gate kidding you to Fuji, that match with that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know what, one of the things that I thought was really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that destruction of Kobe was a damn good show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was a really good show, destruction of Kobe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe even more so than KOPW, although KOPW had some good stuff on it, but I thought we came out of destruction of Kobe on a bit of a high Jeremy, when we talked about that show, we're like really enjoyed the wrestling and enjoyed the story telling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember that one was a station, I call the station station booking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then a nice angle that leads to the next thing and tells you when the next thing is that's just like good fundamental wrestling booking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I felt a distraction and Kobe had that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you are coming in since G1, I would recommend that was yeah that I don't think that was no I think the, um, to Tana Hashi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the final, the final thing in his hometown.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the final homecoming.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so there's there's two good choices for you right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Both of those shows were solid evenings of entertainment right there and when when you come back after you if you get kind of Burned out on a promotion or wrestling is a whole I recommend coming back to a big event and not just picking up some road to show anywhere or random raw if it's American wrestling that you burned out on like me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But come back on a big night when everybody's motivated to work hard, everyone wants to steal the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the kind of thing that will get your juices going again if you feel like you're ready to come back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that would be what I would say.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Here's Brad's comment, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said there was a show today, Tiger Mask.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Our own Tiger Mask for a team with great Sasuke, another name from the past, and the new high abuse hell, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said he invited high abuse to come to New Japan for some matches and high abuse of said he would love to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to see it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited about that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I actually, if you junior heavyweight right now, Brett.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, yeah, hi, Buses.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Super Junior Tag League.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and Annie just says the one thing this tag league has done well is get me excited for next year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm very intrigued to see new units formed, and they've done some good stories during this tour.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Brad's enjoying Tag League so far that we're about to get into, but there have been some subplots and things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to see you in the new high abuse over there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Tiger Masks is going to be retiring next summer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll have that to look at, but best of the super juniors, that's not a bad place for a guest like Hiobius, who doesn't have to be flown in from America or Mexico.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a good spot for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So best of super juniors next year, we can look for that or bring him in even earlier, but that seems like a natural spot for me anyway if Hiobius is ready for this level.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, uh, speaking of, um, keeping it strong style.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They are parent company, social superps.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, they're, they had a writer on the front page of their latest, easy magazine from their website, Trish Spears, who laid out everything very detailed of the 2025, uh,

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[SPEAKER_02]: YouTube and in review, including all the Tana Hashen negotiations, I strongly suggest that everyone who was interested in how the Tana Hashen stuff played out, read that article.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Please, and thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, there you have it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The lot of twists and turns to that whole thing, but the bottom line is we're getting Tana Hashen versus Okada and the sold out stadium, so.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it probably got to be fucking awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a great match because OK, it's not going to want to go in there and lay in there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that, that retirement ceremony, man, it was to go to this show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I sat there and I watched that from the top balcony front row and I just, I watched a whole thing about I have to go and that looked it like right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's take a look here at World Tagly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Should we go ahead and get started with that?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We do want the A block bracketing, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm going to talk a little bit about the crowds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've been getting here before we go into the matches, because it's been interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So on the 28th, they were in Aelmorey, which is up in the northern part of Honshu.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm bringing this up just because Aelmorey is a place where they have frequent shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For instance, they drew 1,187 in Aelmorey on the 28th.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They had about 1,500 for the road to new beginning in the same building this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So down a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that one ended up being the outwire.

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[SPEAKER_01]: of the week, Jeremy, the rest of the crowds were pretty good, interesting note in Mutsu, which was the show right after Ayomori there on the 29th.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the first time they've been there in over 30 years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: First time they've been to Mutsu in 30 years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Other companies have been to Mutsu.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All Japan goes there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're been occasional Noah cards a little bit of start him in that place, but New Japan had not been since best of the Super Junior's two in 1995.

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[SPEAKER_02]: was one of those two shows, the ones where the entire audience and stage and everything was your pitch black.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that one was Yamanashi, if I remember right, but that Mutsu might have been, but I want to share with you the card, by the way, from that Mutsu in 1995.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's an interesting card, so the last time they were in that building.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, it was best in the Super Junior.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They only had two matches from that tournament there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was Grand Hamata defeating Brian Pilman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're talking about the 99,000 new Japan was in the midst of its alliance with WCW.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And in the other Super Junior match, Koji Kanamoto, Kani Moto, excuse me, Koji Kanamoto, defeated Dean Malenko.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also on that show, Noryo Honaga and Wild Pegasus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was Crispin Wa.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Later on, by the way, the hell razors, hawk and Ken's case is a power warrior defeated Masasaito and Ricky Choshu, the Steiner Brothers on that show, beat Kaji Muto and a very young Eugene Nagata.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Main event, Hiroseito, Tenzan, and Chono defeated Junji Hirata, Shinya Hashimoto, and Tadau, Yasuda.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How about that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was the last time they were in that building.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Power warrior, almost goes its hard at the water, I guess.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were the hell razors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was hawk and power.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was the whole right, that was harder than war dragon.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I will give him that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so this is when animal was still on his Lloyds of London disability check thing, you know, we're having an insured his own body through Lloyds of London and ended up caching out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so he couldn't wrestle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He couldn't wrestle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hock took a new partner back then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Jeremy says any new factions forming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks all watch both well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: more, not yet, but things are brewing, things are brewing, especially with the United Empire, and we're not sure what's going on totally with the unaffiliated group, but that seems to be, the main focus seems to be on something coming with the United Empire, and then who knows with the war dogs?

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of that is going to have to do with the guy's contract statuses, and if people are leaving the company, and you can see from the booking,

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[SPEAKER_01]: New Japan is protecting itself a bit from the eventuality of losing some or all of these guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're playing a thousand years after seeing more like David Finley, the David Finley is that's well put.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's very well put.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They definitely have there are certainly some guys that they have plans for next year, Caleb Newman, definitely one of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, some thoughts there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so anyway, that was the last time they were in Moose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So then they were they went to a key to

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[SPEAKER_01]: And a key to they drew 1,300 on the 30th.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the best crowd they've had in the key.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is 2019, best crowd since pre-pandemic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think a lot of this is people realize we got to go see town of Hoshie one more time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're not going to the dome, this is it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You might not be able to see Hiroshi town of Hoshie again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yamonashi, 980 people, Yamonashi, that's Shingo Tikage's hometown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was in the main event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, I don't know how she was on the card last time in Yamanashi best crowd in the Yamanashi since 2019 and then in Shizuoka they go to Shizuoka a lot so it's hard to kind of make the attendance go either direction that's a regular stop and this one they were there for the New Japan Cup for instance and this show did about the same a little over 800 it's

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[SPEAKER_01]: a little bit of an outwire that that was down a few hundred from the new beginning road to show that they got earlier in the year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The otherwise crowds have been fairly fairly strong.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they're going to some pretty good towns for them this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This week we're getting Osaka.

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[SPEAKER_01]: we're getting Hiroshima.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would imagine that especially with Tana Hashin looking down the barrel of the final appearances, we're going to be seeing some crowds there to say goodbye to the ace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you know the fans fans are up anyway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And for the most part, they have seen some pretty good matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then a couple of and there was one that I would say was great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just a little snapshot of attendance as we go through this week and you know, I'm a venue nerd, so I have to look up and look.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, you get to talk about whatever you want to hear.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, let's get into World Tag League the A block.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what we're going to do again, it would just be a massive result.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if we just started naming everything, we're going to talk more about how the teams are doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the A block is a little bit more spread out than B-block.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about B-block when we get there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that one's got a very packed-in field.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This one we have one team in the lead and one team trailing far behind, two teams trailing a very far behind in fact, and are already eliminated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But in the lead, with the most points and the most discord between the two, the most rank or the most disagreement, is Yoda Suji, our challenger for the World Heavyweight Championship, and of course the global champion currently and his partner Gabe Kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They had the most interesting week storyline wise and it began in Mutsu with a win over Toriano and Bolton.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, both teams went into this match two and one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: match pretty good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kid brought out the angry Toroiano, you know, the ebrae brought out the pissy version of him right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got his, I got the aggressiveiano instead of the, the, the, the clowning one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bolton was good against both guys, and that builds well for the company, I think.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If he has good chemistry with sugi, that's, that's a good, that's a, that's a good thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If these guys wrestling each other well,

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[SPEAKER_01]: for the future.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, strong ending sequence.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, Yano doing less of the goofing off, not none, but less of it, and wrestling a little bit more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was good, a high-low layer to win that match in Mootsu.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, things took a little turn in Yamanashi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this match with Desparado and Ishikawa turned into a hardcore match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ishikawa and kids start bringing in tables, chairs, and you know, Desperado's always up for stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a moment though, this wasn't great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ishikawa gave Gabe Kid a pile driver, Jeremy, off the apron through a table at around a little co-bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Gabe Kid blatantly cuts his forecat with the cameras at their right in his face.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's digging away, cut his forehat, hands the blade off to Zainjay, also caught on camera nicely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then,

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[SPEAKER_01]: just to make sure that you know that this is all fake and no one's actually trying to hurt each other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He popped back up and was back on offense and like a minute.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did sell it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It meant nothing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Did something very dangerous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Slice this forehead open and it meant absolutely zip, zilch, zero.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And anyway, they go back in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: See what he did.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, even funnier is that I'm watching Shudji Ishikawa gently get off of the table because of all the exposed like,

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[SPEAKER_02]: metal remittere and he's huge and it's only wearing the little like trunk and So he's so easily able to just cut himself Thankfully he didn't but he just he had a leg like wide open for the powder and he just and looked like Like a huge dog at a baby

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, so they don't bother selling it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't do anything else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just hop back into the ring and I'm like, I never happened.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what was the point of doing it I asked you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just an idiotic thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Suji had nothing to do with any of the hardcore stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, they made a storyline reason for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The real reason is, you know, the Suji's in bubble wrap until this don't match happens.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't do anything to him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But so he did not have anything to do with those saves and those nasty tables and things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Jeremy, this whole thing, that whole thing with the pile driver off the apron through the table for no reason.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a match you would see in the United States today in front of 30 people at a VFW Hall.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The exact same stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just what we're going to do stuff and get an U and it matters not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: To me, Jeremy, this is the most proof I've ever had that gave is ready to come back and wrestle in the United States.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He knows now that it's just guys doing things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now he is ready to be a guy doing stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is a perfect example of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Gabe, you're ready for American wrestling, but I got you've got to, we don't need any psychology.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just need to do a couple of little spots that you can break down into a TikTok clip.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're on the road to success in American wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, God, anyway, I hate it this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do I mention that I hate it this?

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[SPEAKER_02]: He is definitely getting the bucket list stuff done because as you were talking about it, I had this vision in my mind of game kid and El Desparado in the back, just like we're never going to get another chance to rest of each other, you know, that's right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you can imagine them having that conversation, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Where there's like, you know, uh, you don't really didn't get checks to cut loose on each other.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We wanted to, nope.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess we'll start this at our time tonight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we're doing it?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they certainly don't want to do anything to Yoda's sushi before that made it so.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm afraid I'm losing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's in there like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he says later, you know, I don't want to do this stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need to do this stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so here's the thing though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is the part that scares me, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think that we are leading to one more kid versus sugy match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: before the dog.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope not because my god the rate that Gabe kid injures guys now it's been a while it's been a while but you can't take that chance with the owner sushi that he puts him out like he didn't Kingston and not all right but again it's been a very long time since that stuff happened but I you do you know I think we're I think we're good right we're but but this is going to be a summer and we're quite

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[SPEAKER_02]: Somehow they don't make the the finals and the putters out rather than like explode.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I think they're setting up other people to explode with each other.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that it would take away if they ran that back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, they are on eight points and they leave the whole tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there you go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they're advancing though.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you can't win it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They can't be a part of the plans.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they, maybe they do, but I think they're looking good being ahead for the majority of the tournament and then the kind of photo finish other two teams kind of swoop in because there are two other teams that I think that are for sure going for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Brad says, Suji versus kid, title versus NJPW career, and if they do it, I really, really hope it's after Russell kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just wouldn't put, it wouldn't put Suji in the ring there, and the USDA guy, man, or it says, remember, there's a show in New Jersey, gross, good point, good point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You, you know, that could be something that they just don't do it for the dome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Suji isn't bubble wrap until the dome, it's all I'm saying.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm still angry there's no Thanos and I show, I know I'm going to rest with Kingdom, but that battle in the value of a tradition.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and I mean, you can almost walk there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's nice.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm going to be able to all walk to the Tokyo for the hotel, so I can't get that to walk that back this year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I missed the Thanos ace in the New Japan show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That again, we're here on 99 is here to torture us by saying, can the use those win?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the use those might win world tagly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That can always happen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You never know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah, all right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we got a net to we got to hurt you go to be shaman or the hardies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He says or the hardies are hardies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, we don't need the hardies winning this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not only their bodies would hold up be shaman on six points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is the classic new Japan tag team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They lost to Ishikawa and Desperado in an upset in moots who pretty good match, but Ishikawa hit a giant slam on Yoshi Hashin beat him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this was Ishikawa's best match at the tournament thus far.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought the Bishop on did a really good job playing to his strengths.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's an older guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't do everything well as he used to, and not as smoothly as he used to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The body doesn't let him necessarily, but I think they hid that well and put over his power nicely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I enjoyed this match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Bishop on

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[SPEAKER_01]: upset there, which was a bit of a setback for them after dropping the first match to the tournament as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's too awesome for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then they defeated evil and folly in Yamanashi with whole lots of house and torture stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Matsumoto are plucking little young lion there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He held off Dictogo in the aisle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: but show snuck in with a Garrett because they had the numbers on them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yoshi Hashie was up on Fale's shoulders.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a dangerous place, but Yoshi Hashie because he has gotten his crucifix bomb over as a kill shot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not quite sacky, cashmons roll up, but it's up there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Matsumoto even helped clear the ring, fought off, house the torture afterwards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Matsumoto,

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[SPEAKER_01]: really endearing himself to go to wants to be part of the go to revolutionary army and it was a victory over house torture for this one and the new young lion showing that he is willing to stand up against us back to back with go to win the ring, stand there while Yoshi has she was recovered.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Where I saw the Yoshi-Hoshy pin on, following in this mansion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is basically on his shoulders and then follow a false backwards.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And Yoshi-Hoshy has to do everything in a power to kind of tuck under a fall-a and get his shoulders to the other side of his body for this pin.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And fall-a's lost a little bit of weight.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's not quite so difficult.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But when you think about this, home and effort, it's not you know, she hosh you that looked like the comedic aspect of this performance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Fair enough.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I, I think Bishop on if definitely one of the two teams, and I have this point advancing to the next round of block play.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, very nice for winning the winning the tournament three years in a row.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're caché to them losing to somebody else or winning again, but I would assume losing to somebody else near the end.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so let's take a look at their their tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So evil and folly still have to wrestle Yano and Oleg.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they also have to wrestle with Desperado and Ishikawa.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So those are their remaining matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Succi and Kid have a couple of really interesting ones left.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Beishaman and Taichi and Kojima.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there's a bit of a story going on with those to as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And as Brad mentioned, Sfale has taken a couple of pins this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad says, I'm surprised he's always been protected.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He usually is protected.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, he won't be protected.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's a situation we're in, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's a different world, you know, Follets just not as much of a regular as it used to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then like you mentioned, Evelynk got to be taking any pins with Aaron Wolf on the horizon for him, because he's going to look as strong as he can, as he can look going into that match.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so if I, if we have Bishop on it, it's the one and then Eve one Don follows the two that's kind of where the where I've kind of got it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Bishop on defeat, Suji and Gabriel with them being a veteran tag team and Fuji and I but not cable kid, give kid, gave not cable.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, uh, having those two together.

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[SPEAKER_02]: with them being kind of the fisher like the fisher between them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's going to kind of cost them the two matches and kind of squeeze them out of the tournament and then get evil and evil winning two more and then fish them on winning two more and then some of the other team was just coming close but not quite.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Evelyn Fale is another team on six points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we mentioned there was to be Shaman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just talked about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They also defeated Tahichi and Kojima in the Mutsu show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was kept short, but what was there actually wasn't too bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The ref bump actually looked all right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got a decent ref bump in their look like he might have actually knocked out that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A clever thing here, where Eve will fake calling in someone from the back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was waving.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Come here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Tahichi went to attack the guy in the aisle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's ready.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's ready to cut him off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yoshinobu Kahnemaro came in from the crowd.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a little blow, whiskey to the eyes, everything is evil and evil and Falei ended up winning that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they weren't one in one this week and are sitting on six points very much threatening to make the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I think I've gone over all that stuff with those two because they're kind of the hand in hand.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, I'm wondering whether

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that last match with Yano and Oleg versus Eve on Don Folly, which way that would go because obviously they're history with boat no leg and the never title and going through fall away.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, do they do that and cause them to be spoiled?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, could eat like E-A-O-Leg and Toro-Yano, like spoiled the chances for them at the last day or we're losing catapult them to the 10 points and get them forward.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, it is kind of interesting.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think either way you get it, I feel like Yano and O-Leg are at that eight point mark.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The whole thing is getting real close to the wire.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like it can go to a lot of different ways.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And solid booking because this does have a lot of possibilities and directions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So after that, we have a Schinger to Kagi and Drilla Maloney on six points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they got a win over Owens and Yujero in MeToo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they got more out of that house to torture team than anybody else has.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was Owens and Yujero's best match of the tournament there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They use the Terry Funk junkyard dog principle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Terry Funk was generally considered junkyard dogs best in ring opponent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just he just got that feud and WF from in the 80s after junkyard dog had started eating in the cocaine was getting to him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he just wasn't what he was when he was the power lifting built guy in mid-South wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they asked Harry fuck, how do you how do you wrestle junkyard dog?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, tell him to stand in the middle of the ring and bounce off of him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what they did with Yuzuro, Yuzuro stood in the middle of the ring and Maloney and Shango just did all kinds of things to bounce off of and into him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you watch this, Yuzuro probably gets fewer steps in in this match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then anybody else needs to start with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty clever way to work if you know how to do it, and of course, single I'm a Lonnie do double maiden Japan's on oh and still win the thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A couple nights later, they defeated Tahichi Kojima in Yamonashi, and again, that was a main event in Shingo's hometown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Battle of the Lariat from Kojima versus the pumping bomber.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... he will attach you wanted to wrestle that night by the way less knee selling you know the most of his matches have been him playing the the the good guy in peril because he is bad he wanted to wrestle shingle and maloney so there was less stuff about the knee where he was just on the mat trying to fight his way to coachma uh... it was good and coachma kicked out of the pumping bomber so shingo showed the legend a lot of respect right there they were clobbering each other with those close lines

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[SPEAKER_01]: ended up hitting burning dragon on Kojima to win pretty good match there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So once again, single and Maloney, probably having the best matches in this block overall and they're sitting at six points.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're uh, they'll look at the ball not not uh, not the focus that would feel like.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're there to have like banger matches and like give it the idea, but I just don't think

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they're strengthening the schedule at the very end of this thing is feels like their focus is on their opponent and not them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, against Bishop on that last night, Bishop on of one of those teams, but you really do expect to be going forward and then Turoyana and Bolton, like that's kind of a toss match to me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you could have either one of them wanting that match and I really like their matches.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But again, I'm kind of in that vibe of there there to have good matches during the block play.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Brad is with him too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He says, I love the war dragons.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Keep them as a team post tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm enjoying the heck out of it too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm starting to thank Jeremy that Drillamoloni is one of the best tag team wrestlers in the world, because it seems like whoever you put him with, they are interesting, dynamic, and they work very smoothly together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He might just be one of those guys who are really good at tag team wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's a good singles wrestler too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He has good matches, of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For the tag team thing, and it just seems like no matter who drill us with, you can't take your eyes off me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It might be one of the better tag team wrestlers out there right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: definitely call it fundamentals on that one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll give them that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, a couple of questions for me move on right here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy is asking, where can I see Aaron Wolf wrestle?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't ring a bell.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that Jeremy is because he is making his debut on January 4th in the Tokyo Dom Aaron Wolf is a judo gold medalist from Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He is his Japanese citizen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, martial arts, very big in Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Judo is a major sport in Japan and one of those martial arts that a lot of people have studied at least at some point in their lives.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people in Japan take Judo lessons at some point in either as an adult to stay in shape as a kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and judo's big deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he was a super heavyweight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So again, in the under Japanese culture, most of them are in the smaller weight classes, like a neoyonyway that incredible boxer won the best in the world, but a small guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he was a super heavyweight and one of the super heavyweight gold medal in the Olympics is joining New Japan pro wrestling being trained by evil and he's going to have his debut in the dome against evil.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is considered a big deal because he is a bigger mainstream name than anybody really on the New Japan roster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you just go up to people on the street, a lot more people will know who Aaron Wolfe is than saying those who, you know, to suit you, you're going to skate to Kesho as he's going to get a lot of mainstream publicity.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, this match will be broadcast live on national television in Japan for the first time in the rest of Kingdom era since it's a big deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of pressure on evil to get something out of him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's the story about Aaron Wolfe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And also this is

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[SPEAKER_01]: Red Shoes has not been doing all the main events on this tour.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Marty Assami has been doing some main events.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, Red Shoes did the first two matches a couple of nights ago with everybody else shifted forward.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know how Sacramento usually starts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then you get Quinta Sato.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then you get Marty Assami main event with Red Shoes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Red Shoes opening the matches and moving out unless it's just getting Marty ready to take over that main event role that Red Shoes has been in for so long I'm not aware of any other thing certainly nothing's been made public but it's it's a good point Red Shoes has been working outside of the main event when geez years and years and years he's been the main event only referee so.

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[SPEAKER_01]: something to keep an eye on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe maybe we're actually just looking to slow down a little bit perhaps.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like I said, there are been no announcements of it that I've heard, but they do seem to be trying out other guys in that made of a slot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I kind of casually noticed it, but I didn't think anything of it could just be, you know, took it to or off, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: like, you guys, well, he's on the tour.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he is referring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's just not referring the main.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's that's the part that's weird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am trying to remember a time when he didn't referee the main event of a show he was on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can't do it until this tour.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't have any answers for you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to make anything up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got nothing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Since he became the main event, he wasn't always the main event, Rep. Tiger, Hattori was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For instance, for a long time, Tiger Hattori was there, but other main event refs a course over the years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But since Reggie's got to take that spot, he hasn't really.

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[UNKNOWN]: Huh?

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so anyway, who else here?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, question, Brad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Yano and Bolton, they're also on six points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned the loss to Suji and kid that match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they got the win over Chase and Yuzuro and Yamanashi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Holden's in Bolton wasn't too bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the part of the match that was pretty interesting to me again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know Owens takes a lot of heat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I still think the dude can wrestle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I understand that he's maybe not the most dynamic or whatever else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Owens and Bolton, that part of this match wasn't bad at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No interference in that one, because they were both about to do a lot of it in the next house of torture match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the evil and file a versus b-shem on match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of shenanigans in that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they didn't have any shenanigans in this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that led to, of course, both in getting the victory there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So six points for Iano and Bolton, six points also.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got that upset when over-bishman with that giant slam, then they lost the match to Suji and Kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned that the hardcore match, I don't think I ever mentioned the finish, which was very simply after all that hardcore stuff, Suji just hit the gene blast and won.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, that was the finish there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, he needed the big win before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, and now we have two teams that are totally eliminated in chasing usual haven't won.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're on zero points.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Do they go?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Do they go?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Do they go?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't let the whole tournament?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm looking at who else they're going to wrestle is teaching Kojima.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can see them maybe getting a win there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Desperate on Ishikawa.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like their chances just because I think they're going to want to do something with Ishikawa there or maybe even give Desperate a pan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ishikawa has been doing most of the

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[SPEAKER_01]: doing most of the finishes in that and not all of them, but it's, they might, they might go begle them this thing just to, you know, but I feel like they'll get one upset when something, but Chase has kind of mentally prepared for it because it's we're easy to post match comments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He just said, we're just here to inflict damage.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we're here to do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, well, maybe they are going to just go donut and and just try to get in cheap shots whenever they can.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's where they are.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you have to have pinnators apparently in this tournament and I'm kind of thankful Tai Chi and she is an attack team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Then only that would potentially only have two points this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm more thankful that a Tai Chi and Kojima in that position.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if they would do that with Tai Chi and a Chi together, but.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, could Gima replaced him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So to kind of maybe they rebuked it a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I'd like to see Taichi and could Gima win one more.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I really don't care if you draw Chase win one at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's an interesting thing because on the second to last day, they're facing Taka Hashinoins, the Yuduro and Chase.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's when Tahichi and Kojima were wrestling on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That could be one that House of Torture actually wins, so that Tahichi and Kojima could really set up for a and upset on the final day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Over the tournament leader, Suji and Gabe, to keep them out of it so that they end up in a tiebreaker with one of the teams that got the win-off.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you on this 100% does Chase have the worst team in wrestling right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He gets negative reactions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think I think that what did you just what it's go terrible.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's awesome again.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I keep watching it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, wow, I'm actually kind of coming around on how shitty this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You were the guy is a kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You like the song We're not the Mounties for for the co-bakers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Did you remember that when you in our man?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you remember that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a classic bad one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That one earwormed me for a few years.

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[SPEAKER_02]: For sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, for the folks you that are listening here live and are near your keyboards, what's your favorite bad wrestling theme?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Entrance theme, your favorite bad one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: your guilty pleasure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to hear that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Put it in the comments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll get back to them a little bit later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there we go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the A block right there, like I mentioned.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kid and Suji, arguing the most, also scoring the most points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are right now four and one with two to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And a whole mess of teams on six points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The two teams eliminated is Tai Chi and Kojima.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, who are sticking by each other, by the way, I'll say that there, there's not so much infighting right now, which leads me to believe that the last story is them just getting that one final push, and maybe a hug in the middle of the ring shaking hands.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we have a huge row in Chase there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's chaos goblins the rest of the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not winning matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not hurt somebody.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Love them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I, I told you who I thought were the two advancing to you, care to remind you to guess.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I still think that I think Bishop on will probably get in there, and, uh, boy, with the rest of this, see, I could, I could see, I could actually see suging in kid making the semi-finals and losing them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I agree with you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They can't win it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, suging is busy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I could see them teasing the idea and and also I could also see them making the decision that it's going to make suit as you look real strong to go deep into the tournament too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's kind of where my head is although Maloney and Shingo, you can't discount them and their final match is against Bishop on that feels like a win and get in situation, doesn't it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You just don't want evil and don't fall at all, do you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Evelyn, finally, cried to your right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know what, that's probably a semi-fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to have a house of torture team and they'll have to, they have to.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, Evelyn, if one of the did, like, Evelyn is more to build him up in that tournament than Suji does.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like it's just kind of you you just need more heat on evil.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think if Aaron were to cost him the match and the semifinals, I think that would that would be the play.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you could talk me to that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You could talk me to that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so a win in your in scenario where be sure on slips past a cocky and maloney to get that spot evil and file a getting in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you talk me into that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, talk me a bit.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Pick them on at the one evil and follow if the two, and then we'll figure out the one and two on the other side.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have an early answer by the way, Brad was ready for this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The repungy vice people seem to hate that theme, but I love it to death.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's an earworm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's an earworm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that one's an earworm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to think of what's, it was a really awful one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, who's the guy that, though during the attitude era,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm blanking on the guy's ring name, but he was the the porn star.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The whole valviness.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that one was pretty rotten.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know why I always this is the weird of thing, but whenever I thought of valviness and the fact that it was a porn star, I just wondered why they didn't talk about its palpiness.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Even then, there was only so much you could do in the USA.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, Jeremy remembers one of the the Rujos theme American boys when they were doing the ultra patriotic gimmick and waving those tiny little American flags as a sarcastic Patriots.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yeah, the Rujos have had some, and Jacques Rujos has been on the receiving into some really rough themes and think about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had to listen to that almost every night of his life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They were six, seven nights a week back then.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, you're talking about the one that he, any of them, any of them, like I don't think I've ever liked.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can ask me and like, nope, don't like it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The answer don't.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You do not like it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Fair enough.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Just don't work for me, brother.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His stuff is, it's a little bit like Chase Owen said it's an over-exaggerated version of a Nashville country song.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But, and like Chase Ellen, the difference between the two is that Jeff Jarrett will put in a position where he is in your face and he's in the top level stuff.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Chase Ellen is not.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I can regard it with the level of seriousness that

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[SPEAKER_02]: it deserves rather than some of those time for Jeff Jarrett will simply not someone that I saw at that level, despite the booking trying to tell me that he was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll give you another one here, Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's going to come across a strange, because it was a main event or in fact a legend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Outside of the context of pro wrestling, play Sean Michael sexy boy theme for anyone who doesn't watch wrestling and watch their face.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was was Sherry Martell trying to sing over it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what, you know, it was actually really cringe worthy was, uh, oh my god, it's that private party, uh, starting there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Shawn Michaels that entire song is like play that for someone who's never watched wrestling and they will just look at you like you're an alien.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Counterpoint.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The one time Kurt Angle did that song on SmackDown in the build to the feud versus Shawn Michaels and Kurt Angle was bad for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think we have I think we have digress enough here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get back to a block B now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Block B is a little bit more complicated isn't Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, no one is eliminated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone is on either six points or four points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you either three and two or two and three in this tournament at this stage.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this one is all cluttered.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So again, nobody eliminated nobody in the lead.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the first team we're going to talk about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy is show to Umino and Yuya we more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now the B block had three matches since we were last doing the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they lost to Umano and we more lost to the United Empire when Newman pinned Shota.

59:12.965 --> 59:15.049
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought that was a step forward for Calum Newman.

59:15.069 --> 59:19.898
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure he gets very many pins over Shota Umano four months ago, even.

59:19.918 --> 59:21.481
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't fall in and shut him down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, we'll talk about United Empire a little bit later, but there have been no incidents between

59:30.545 --> 59:59.657
[SPEAKER_01]: Uemora and Umino since the the bowing on the lion mark incident where Uemora did not bow with Tana Hashin ELP when Umino maybe presumptuously said leave Haontai to me and it looked like it honked off Uemora a little bit but as no no instance since then everyone's just you know like hey we're here to carry Haontai forward and sort of saying the corporate message correctly but I still feel like something's

59:59.637 --> 01:00:04.704
[SPEAKER_02]: But they did their back to instigate an AEW war.

01:00:05.626 --> 01:00:07.348
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they decided to make it about that.

01:00:07.368 --> 01:00:08.690
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about that match next.

01:00:08.730 --> 01:00:13.537
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, that, uh, O'Conan Newman versus Shota and Oymora, pretty good match.

01:00:13.557 --> 01:00:18.644
[SPEAKER_01]: Oymora and Oymano having really strong matches on this tour.

01:00:18.664 --> 01:00:20.667
[SPEAKER_02]: They're the back team in the tournament.

01:00:21.743 --> 01:00:48.004
[SPEAKER_01]: them in shingo and well and and maloney as far as you can argue that tapered you know we will but I feel like the decalment threatened a lot of the good matches are showing you yeah yeah there there was one match we're gonna talk about a bit we're not even sack and away we could get anything out of it but that's coming up yeah anyway ua mora and umano and uh... man i'm gonna have fun trying to pronounce ua mora's name smoothly i'd just say you need to show that it's way you hear

01:00:47.984 --> 01:00:51.552
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they defeated Zane and Archer and a really good match in Akita.

01:00:51.592 --> 01:00:52.294
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a good one.

01:00:52.595 --> 01:00:59.811
[SPEAKER_01]: Monster Saw's had it one on Uemora when he hit the big move off of his shoulders that Lance Archer does.

01:01:00.773 --> 01:01:07.208
[SPEAKER_01]: Except he uses LXane as the impact on the guy.

01:01:07.188 --> 01:01:12.254
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of just throwing the guy down to the map, you throw a zane on top of them, show to broke it up though.

01:01:12.854 --> 01:01:23.387
[SPEAKER_01]: But it would be more of a beat, show to broke it up, really good rally included a lot of counters, a lot of nearfalls, but it would be more a managed to get a deadbolt on zane to win terrific one.

01:01:23.767 --> 01:01:24.808
[SPEAKER_01]: I really enjoyed that match.

01:01:25.269 --> 01:01:30.174
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they had the absolute best match of the entire week against Finlay and Haromo.

01:01:30.214 --> 01:01:30.915
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel very strong.

01:01:30.975 --> 01:01:33.398
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the best match of the

01:01:33.378 --> 01:01:34.139
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I do.

01:01:34.459 --> 01:01:36.322
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought it was an outstanding last few minutes.

01:01:36.402 --> 01:01:41.007
[SPEAKER_01]: Each team had a moment where they hit their partners for dramatic effect there.

01:01:41.668 --> 01:01:46.414
[SPEAKER_01]: Show to hit you with a Larry at Finlay through Hiromu at a corner for a buckle bomb.

01:01:46.434 --> 01:01:49.818
[SPEAKER_01]: And I believe it was doing more of the dodged and he ended up splattering poor Hiromu.

01:01:50.819 --> 01:01:53.763
[SPEAKER_01]: No fighting between the partners, but I love this match.

01:01:53.803 --> 01:01:57.327
[SPEAKER_01]: Second chapter on Hiromu to win and match after Hiromu almost.

01:01:57.408 --> 01:02:03.357
[SPEAKER_01]: one with an inside cradle off of an earlier attempt to hit second chapter, I say, go see that match.

01:02:03.417 --> 01:02:11.709
[SPEAKER_01]: So show to Omano, you, we more lost their first match of the week, then had two strong performances and won their next two, they're on six points.

01:02:13.412 --> 01:02:17.417
[SPEAKER_02]: There was something in this match that I thought about that you didn't really touch on.

01:02:18.098 --> 01:02:25.930
[SPEAKER_02]: And I may have to re-watch it, but I didn't think it was as good as you did, but I liked it a lot.

01:02:27.597 --> 01:02:49.150
[SPEAKER_02]: There was something a way that Finley was in this match where he no longer felt like he was either a gatekeeper or a final boss for either showed up or you yet in this match they felt more like at the same level rather than like this guy was somebody they were going to have to overcome and it was a subtle shift.

01:02:49.906 --> 01:03:00.119
[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't quite sure how to parse it, but the way the match was wrestled, like I just did not feel like Finley was the big bad boss that he used to be.

01:03:00.660 --> 01:03:17.601
[SPEAKER_02]: Like he was a brawl wrestler, the gimmick with Romu or whatever, but he has been built and he has been portrayed, and he has been treated as like this guy, this guy,

01:03:17.733 --> 01:03:22.518
[SPEAKER_02]: absolute goalpost you cannot get past if you want to accomplish your goals.

01:03:23.179 --> 01:03:37.573
[SPEAKER_02]: In New Japan, and for Schrodingue to just get past these guys, and yeah, it was, it was what it was, but it was a good match.

01:03:37.994 --> 01:03:43.960
[SPEAKER_02]: Just the way that it was positioned in the offensive, I thought we're really curious, and I don't know if anyone else really thought about it.

01:03:44.952 --> 01:03:45.614
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:03:45.634 --> 01:03:46.335
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, fair enough.

01:03:46.836 --> 01:03:53.311
[SPEAKER_01]: So, but I still feel like what they're trying to do with thinly is just protect themselves.

01:03:53.532 --> 01:03:55.497
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think they know if he's leaving.

01:03:55.657 --> 01:03:57.281
[SPEAKER_01]: I doubt that thinly knows if he's leaving.

01:03:57.461 --> 01:04:01.290
[SPEAKER_01]: And we don't know when this contract is up, but it does feel like they are

01:04:03.278 --> 01:04:06.724
[SPEAKER_01]: What I'm forgetting, jumping in with both feet, they're kind of hanging on to the edge of the pool with him.

01:04:06.824 --> 01:04:11.632
[SPEAKER_01]: They're, you know, he's in the pool, he's in the mix, but they're not going into the deep end with him.

01:04:11.652 --> 01:04:14.697
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think they want to put a title on him in case he leaves.

01:04:15.298 --> 01:04:20.987
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they want to go too much into a major storyline with Finlay in case he leaves.

01:04:21.448 --> 01:04:26.076
[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like that's kind of what we're getting out of him right now is just caution from the...

01:04:26.096 --> 01:04:28.340
[SPEAKER_01]: They're healing Newman and they're facing Dilly.

01:04:28.740 --> 01:04:29.742
[SPEAKER_02]: That's basically what it is.

01:04:29.722 --> 01:04:35.131
[SPEAKER_02]: And until they have planned, or they need planned, or whatever, just the kind of what it is.

01:04:35.552 --> 01:04:44.026
[SPEAKER_02]: And look, Tim Lee's a really good wrestler, and he's grown a leap in bounds since the time that he adopted this persona.

01:04:44.106 --> 01:04:45.748
[SPEAKER_02]: So I get no issue with it.

01:04:45.869 --> 01:04:48.373
[SPEAKER_02]: I just thought it was interesting the way that he was opposition.

01:04:50.857 --> 01:04:50.977
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:04:50.997 --> 01:04:51.318
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see.

01:04:51.518 --> 01:04:54.042
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we have Udo Ice and Oscar.

01:04:54.528 --> 01:05:01.403
[SPEAKER_01]: So they defeated ELP and Tonahashi in a match that I felt was in second year basically until about the 12 minute mark before kicked in.

01:05:02.125 --> 01:05:03.668
[SPEAKER_01]: Bob McLeod on Tonahashi for three.

01:05:03.769 --> 01:05:06.715
[SPEAKER_01]: So I actually pinned Tonah.

01:05:07.285 --> 01:05:08.768
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually pinned Tana Hashie.

01:05:09.489 --> 01:05:20.287
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they got, they're on a roll, by the way, the tag team champions, remember they kind of got off to a slow start, but they beat Newman and O'Con in a decent match in O'Kita and O'Kita, pardon me.

01:05:20.307 --> 01:05:23.933
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the knockout bomb on Great O'Con.

01:05:24.835 --> 01:05:28.701
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they defeated Zach and O'Weewa in a big one in Shizuoka.

01:05:28.741 --> 01:05:30.424
[SPEAKER_01]: That was an interesting match.

01:05:30.404 --> 01:05:37.354
[SPEAKER_01]: Zach worked body parts as you would imagine, but we were really shined with both ice and Oscar.

01:05:37.414 --> 01:05:45.827
[SPEAKER_01]: I came out of that thinking singles matches against either of these guys would be a lot of fun with against so we were he just seemed to really work well with both them.

01:05:45.847 --> 01:05:50.033
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, or they're not of the same generation of young lines, not far.

01:05:50.013 --> 01:05:51.315
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're not too far away.

01:05:51.355 --> 01:05:53.760
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm sure they work together quite a bit.

01:05:54.641 --> 01:05:55.703
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was really good.

01:05:55.743 --> 01:06:01.333
[SPEAKER_01]: So once again, we slow start for the tag team champions, but they're coming on strong toward the end as they should.

01:06:02.455 --> 01:06:06.722
[SPEAKER_02]: I expect the this team not to lose.

01:06:07.833 --> 01:06:35.629
[SPEAKER_02]: If that's the finals, if at all, well, I think those two losses in the beginning are putting them on a run to win five in a row and win the block and then the least go into the semifinals is the number one and I kind of think they're going to be the ones to defeat even in Falle where you have that Oscar picking up Falle kind of image and the doing the pile driver kick with with you know, I saw in Falle just kind of a really impressive visual to kind of set them.

01:06:35.609 --> 01:06:36.510
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a big ask.

01:06:36.710 --> 01:06:37.331
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a big ask.

01:06:37.351 --> 01:06:38.092
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's possible.

01:06:38.493 --> 01:06:45.541
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, after the big guy, he's bigger than, like, I feel like the running knee is a more likely finish for that one.

01:06:45.561 --> 01:06:45.842
[SPEAKER_02]: It's possible.

01:06:45.862 --> 01:06:49.466
[SPEAKER_02]: I just, I want them to do a power move on following or really cement them.

01:06:49.947 --> 01:06:55.213
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's the direction that we should be going in, getting them to the finals.

01:06:55.574 --> 01:06:59.098
[SPEAKER_02]: Because there are a lot of people that really upset that they walk to right out the gate.

01:06:59.719 --> 01:07:00.520
[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know,

01:07:01.495 --> 01:07:09.126
[SPEAKER_02]: I kind of saw that it's like, well, if they lose another one, you got a problem, but if they don't, you've got a story, and that is correct, you run through every gut.

01:07:09.781 --> 01:07:14.810
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a long history of them putting a favorite behind the eight ball and having them rally toward the end.

01:07:15.030 --> 01:07:17.555
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a classic thing they do in New Japan terms.

01:07:17.935 --> 01:07:28.975
[SPEAKER_02]: And the part to get me real nervous for Shota Umano, New York, Himaura, is that there last match of the tournament, if you get Oscar and you don't ice of that, scream to me when and get it.

01:07:29.576 --> 01:07:29.977
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

01:07:30.297 --> 01:07:31.840
[SPEAKER_02]: You're out of luck if you don't.

01:07:32.157 --> 01:07:33.158
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

01:07:33.178 --> 01:07:34.300
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely great.

01:07:34.320 --> 01:07:37.844
[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of why I don't think showed a new year or moving forward.

01:07:38.105 --> 01:07:44.673
[SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully we get a story that puts them in a bit more prominence for wrestling going forward.

01:07:45.194 --> 01:07:52.824
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, you know, and Oscar, I think the entire world tag league story kind of secretly has been about them.

01:07:53.464 --> 01:08:00.173
[SPEAKER_02]: And it is to build them up and show them

01:08:01.317 --> 01:08:01.858
[SPEAKER_01]: all right.

01:08:02.580 --> 01:08:06.829
[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we have the other house torture team in the tournament, Renda Rita and Sonata.

01:08:06.849 --> 01:08:08.853
[SPEAKER_01]: To me, this is the most disappointing team in the tournament.

01:08:09.335 --> 01:08:10.637
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they've been good at all.

01:08:12.141 --> 01:08:17.352
[SPEAKER_01]: They haven't been wrestling much, even Rita, a lot of IRAs and chokes, and

01:08:17.585 --> 01:08:23.095
[SPEAKER_01]: They had a match against Zach and Awiwa and not even TMDK could get much out of these guys.

01:08:23.115 --> 01:08:27.442
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like pulling teeth watching Zach trying to get these guys to do anything.

01:08:28.023 --> 01:08:40.285
[SPEAKER_01]: Awiwa hit the doctor bomb with the referee, he was pulled out of the ring, heartly jacks and trying to help, but they're again, the numbers game for House of Torture, Hell's Gia team, and this match landed flat on its face.

01:08:40.265 --> 01:08:42.808
[SPEAKER_01]: no crowd reaction to the three cow.

01:08:42.848 --> 01:08:47.354
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's shocking, lack of reaction to this match ending.

01:08:47.874 --> 01:08:50.878
[SPEAKER_01]: It just shows that these guys aren't doing it for anybody.

01:08:51.318 --> 01:09:01.010
[SPEAKER_01]: And it may be health reasons that Sonata just isn't doing anything, but man, it's hard to watch Renderita get sucked into that.

01:09:01.190 --> 01:09:06.897
[SPEAKER_01]: And he seems to be a guy who matches the energy around him.

01:09:06.877 --> 01:09:09.320
[SPEAKER_01]: If the other guys are working hard, rent works hard.

01:09:10.041 --> 01:09:12.604
[SPEAKER_01]: But if it's an outer, rent doesn't do anything.

01:09:12.904 --> 01:09:14.426
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's kind of sad to watch that.

01:09:15.247 --> 01:09:21.515
[SPEAKER_01]: But against Finland, Hiromu and Akita, show one kind of, show one kind of Maru came out early.

01:09:21.835 --> 01:09:24.458
[SPEAKER_01]: They did a lot here to hide the fact that nobody's wrestling.

01:09:24.959 --> 01:09:29.204
[SPEAKER_01]: The Hanka Finlay to the rail, the drama was outside the ring instead of in it.

01:09:29.304 --> 01:09:30.225
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing was happening in it.

01:09:31.307 --> 01:09:36.613
[SPEAKER_01]: Nagai was sent to get the key while

01:09:36.745 --> 01:09:39.668
[SPEAKER_01]: kicking, but Nagai was sent to get the key.

01:09:39.748 --> 01:09:52.721
[SPEAKER_01]: Nagai comes against the key, but he's beaten up by show in Kanamaro in the Isle, the stocking from helping out Finlay, but Ghetto comes to the rescue, and attacks show in Kanamaro, and it gets the key, unleashes David Finlay.

01:09:53.422 --> 01:10:00.729
[SPEAKER_01]: The second half of the match for, with Finlay free, was decent, but more House of Torture, shenanigans led to the Hell's Key of Tine on Hiromu.

01:10:01.330 --> 01:10:05.554
[SPEAKER_01]: They are doing everything they can to take your eyes off of the two guys wrestling.

01:10:05.534 --> 01:10:09.961
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe because believe show in kind of our work harder in this match than Narita and Sonata did.

01:10:10.642 --> 01:10:16.330
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they had a match against Newman and O'Con in which O'Con got the guitar away from Sonata.

01:10:16.871 --> 01:10:19.735
[SPEAKER_01]: And absolutely smashed it over Sonata's head.

01:10:20.276 --> 01:10:23.981
[SPEAKER_01]: So fighting fire with fire, actually got a response out of the crowd.

01:10:24.041 --> 01:10:25.564
[SPEAKER_01]: People seem to enjoy seeing that.

01:10:26.225 --> 01:10:28.268
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was a loss for how's the torture there.

01:10:28.348 --> 01:10:31.272
[SPEAKER_01]: So they went two and one this week, up to six points.

01:10:31.252 --> 01:10:40.004
[SPEAKER_01]: But that lost a new mineral con my end up costing them to there's there's going to be that with this block everyone at six or four they're going to be a lot of time breakers and play.

01:10:41.085 --> 01:11:00.972
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this might be the block where somebody gets in with a point I think most everyone is getting in with 10 but think they're one team that's going to squeak in with eight on time breakers and I'm not sure who that is just yet, but I definitely don't think it's rendering it's not a if evil and don't follow or getting in these guys are just threatening and.

01:11:01.677 --> 01:11:07.985
[SPEAKER_02]: Chaos goblining their way to relevancy, at least at this point in the tournament.

01:11:08.086 --> 01:11:10.949
[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad mentioned, this is why I have a slight fear of Gokey.

01:11:10.989 --> 01:11:13.613
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope he doesn't fall into this house of torture work.

01:11:13.933 --> 01:11:14.975
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I've been saying, too.

01:11:15.335 --> 01:11:16.497
[SPEAKER_01]: That guy is so compelling.

01:11:17.018 --> 01:11:22.004
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's so disappointing that they put him in a group where there is just no character development.

01:11:22.104 --> 01:11:26.791
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, really evil is the exact same act he was five years ago.

01:11:27.331 --> 01:11:30.115
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's tough for a guy that

01:11:30.095 --> 01:11:33.138
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a better wrestler than that, and that's been a tough one.

01:11:33.839 --> 01:11:39.144
[SPEAKER_01]: And, oh, he also wants to mention that Drilla has been great on the call with Walker, and he's enjoyed Lance Archer as well.

01:11:39.204 --> 01:11:40.525
[SPEAKER_01]: Lance Archer is a pretty good announcer.

01:11:40.605 --> 01:11:43.488
[SPEAKER_02]: Every time he got a character, he appreciated how they did to the tension on him.

01:11:44.609 --> 01:11:52.497
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because he has lost and lost in the shuffle, the other thing I want to mention about the B-block while we're here, because Lance Archer is the perfect personification of it.

01:11:53.638 --> 01:11:59.123
[SPEAKER_01]: You can see how much it means to each of the guys in the tournament to have their last

01:11:59.356 --> 01:12:22.933
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and that was, they were in the, they were in the other, you know, that was one that I think is really shown up here Lance Archer actually got on the microphone and said a few things he owed him a whole GQ for dropping him at the end of the Mac needed and then he was nice in the post match comments, even Uto Nakashima Uto ice dropped didn't drop the character, but

01:12:23.335 --> 01:12:25.298
[SPEAKER_01]: put it into first gear for a little bit.

01:12:25.478 --> 01:12:29.183
[SPEAKER_01]: He's up on it to say that he appreciated Tana Hashie and what he's done for him.

01:12:29.944 --> 01:12:33.949
[SPEAKER_01]: And OEWA made special comments about how this is the last one.

01:12:34.349 --> 01:12:35.771
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess the LP and Tana Hashie.

01:12:35.811 --> 01:12:37.834
[SPEAKER_01]: So it means a lot to these guys.

01:12:37.974 --> 01:12:40.337
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're seeing that we're seeing that come out.

01:12:40.517 --> 01:12:45.424
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of emotions, a lot of emotions with these guys as they face the ace for the final time.

01:12:45.444 --> 01:12:46.525
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, go.

01:12:46.792 --> 01:12:57.004
[SPEAKER_02]: really nice for me, but that archer moment, especially where he grabbed the mic and he just said, you know, thank you for everything, 14 years, the whole deal, and then I'll say it.

01:12:57.024 --> 01:12:58.727
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like, yeah, thank you very much too.

01:12:58.787 --> 01:13:00.769
[SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate it.

01:13:00.789 --> 01:13:01.870
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it was about it.

01:13:01.890 --> 01:13:03.773
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Zane ran into him too much.

01:13:03.853 --> 01:13:04.473
[SPEAKER_01]: Really did he?

01:13:04.494 --> 01:13:09.019
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think he's like, I'm really glad to be here and thank you for the opportunity.

01:13:10.096 --> 01:13:23.304
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but I mean, if you don't have that history with an art, they've done the tour together, but the level of the level of interaction that you had with archery is completely different.

01:13:23.665 --> 01:13:29.758
[SPEAKER_02]: So for content in this match, they're doing their whole thing, the Tonahashi monks themselves, and we're getting to the finish.

01:13:30.616 --> 01:13:48.969
[SPEAKER_02]: And ELP has gained in the middle of the ring and he's getting up to the top top turn buckle in the corner to do a thunder kiss from there and Tana Hashie is getting up on the other turn buckle corner turn buckle and he's going to do an ace of high on land torture at the same time to kind of stop him from doing it.

01:13:48.989 --> 01:13:52.957
[SPEAKER_02]: So they're important to note, important to note, Archer is not in the ring.

01:13:52.977 --> 01:13:53.738
[SPEAKER_02]: He's on the floor.

01:13:53.718 --> 01:13:55.262
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's on the floor.

01:13:55.282 --> 01:14:00.774
[SPEAKER_02]: So Tanaosh is jumping from the top row to the floor of the arena.

01:14:02.358 --> 01:14:08.813
[SPEAKER_02]: The thunder kiss goes off without a bay, but if you looked at Tanaosh, you see him go for the ace and tie.

01:14:09.415 --> 01:14:10.056
[SPEAKER_02]: He then.

01:14:10.795 --> 01:14:17.585
[SPEAKER_02]: impact straight in the land to archer chest and then just drop straight down on the ground.

01:14:17.665 --> 01:14:20.850
[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to like, oh my god, our rest will keep them safe.

01:14:21.030 --> 01:14:25.077
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm watching and I'm just waiting for about 30 seconds.

01:14:25.477 --> 01:14:28.522
[SPEAKER_02]: And then talking to Hashi just leaps up and roll into the ring and he's totally fine.

01:14:28.582 --> 01:14:30.925
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just like, oh, thank god.

01:14:30.945 --> 01:14:34.050
[SPEAKER_01]: He probably took a few deep breaths out there to make sure he was okay to hold him.

01:14:34.070 --> 01:14:35.352
[SPEAKER_01]: Holy moly.

01:14:35.855 --> 01:14:46.389
[SPEAKER_01]: Another team that's on six points, by the way, Zach Sabre Jr. and Rio Heo-Ewa, I mentioned lost a house a torture where there was just a shenanigans and they really couldn't get much out of the house torture team.

01:14:47.110 --> 01:14:49.653
[SPEAKER_01]: But then, Tana Hashi and Elfantezmo beat him.

01:14:49.673 --> 01:14:54.840
[SPEAKER_01]: When Tana Hashi hit a high-fly flow on OEwa in a pretty good match, that was a pretty strong one.

01:14:54.940 --> 01:14:56.222
[SPEAKER_01]: And the fans were into that late.

01:14:57.223 --> 01:15:03.752
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, Zach is just the right guy for Tana Hashi because when he's working with Tana Hashi, Tana Hashi doesn't have to run and jump a lot.

01:15:04.137 --> 01:15:08.429
[SPEAKER_01]: But they have really good wrestling in and out of holes on the ground, both them were good at doing that.

01:15:08.871 --> 01:15:10.536
[SPEAKER_01]: So Zack's always the right guy to put in there.

01:15:10.556 --> 01:15:12.441
[SPEAKER_01]: What's on the house, you even when he has bad knees.

01:15:12.461 --> 01:15:14.026
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if that's what I'm trying to do.

01:15:14.226 --> 01:15:15.249
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was a really good one.

01:15:15.851 --> 01:15:17.235
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just a welcome.

01:15:17.502 --> 01:15:23.129
[SPEAKER_01]: They had the loss to the knockout brothers where OE was hit with the KOB.

01:15:24.171 --> 01:15:28.396
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a rough week when in terms of tiebreakers for Saber and OE wouldn't it?

01:15:29.318 --> 01:15:32.482
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they need help from two half the torture losses.

01:15:33.123 --> 01:15:42.515
[SPEAKER_02]: If half the torture stays a success, there is an area where they have the tiebreakers over Shota and Uya and a couple others and if they could win on eight.

01:15:44.377 --> 01:15:44.478
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:15:44.498 --> 01:15:45.158
[SPEAKER_01]: And let's see here.

01:15:45.198 --> 01:15:47.121
[SPEAKER_01]: They had, uh, yeah.

01:15:47.489 --> 01:15:50.513
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so yeah, they they've walked in a arena.

01:15:50.553 --> 01:15:59.685
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a and they've walked the you know ice and Oscar, which are both two very dangerous teams to advance, but I also think they're not got further to advance.

01:16:00.526 --> 01:16:09.598
[SPEAKER_02]: Tonahashi and Fentango, they walked to them, but I don't think that they're in the running for that so that means that they have to.

01:16:09.781 --> 01:16:15.600
[SPEAKER_02]: get through both thinly and heralmule and archerim dane to get to eight points.

01:16:15.620 --> 01:16:23.065
[SPEAKER_02]: If they do that, a show to uminung you or uh, also hit eight, they will advance over that.

01:16:24.462 --> 01:16:29.010
[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we have another team on six, Cal Newman and Great O'Con.

01:16:29.090 --> 01:16:32.375
[SPEAKER_01]: So they got a big win over O'Amooran, O'Amooran, O'Amooran.

01:16:33.637 --> 01:16:35.540
[SPEAKER_01]: We then mentioned the loss to the knockout brothers.

01:16:35.841 --> 01:16:38.225
[SPEAKER_01]: In Shizuoka, they defeated Senata Nareda.

01:16:38.265 --> 01:16:40.869
[SPEAKER_01]: That's when I talked about the time when Kanemaro interfered.

01:16:41.570 --> 01:16:47.500
[SPEAKER_01]: O'Con managed to get the guitar away from Senata, blistered Senata in the head with it, and then hit the eliminated win.

01:16:48.138 --> 01:16:52.787
[SPEAKER_01]: And so all of their matches were against teams that also have six points.

01:16:52.827 --> 01:16:55.371
[SPEAKER_01]: So there could be other type breaker implications there.

01:16:55.772 --> 01:17:04.668
[SPEAKER_01]: I still feel like when it comes to Newman and O'Con, we're just biting time with these two until whatever angle takes place finally happens.

01:17:05.169 --> 01:17:07.834
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're planning to turn.

01:17:08.607 --> 01:17:23.642
[SPEAKER_01]: Ben Koy in the post-match comments, Newman said they might need to throw someone out or bring someone in to make the empire into something, O'Con has been a bit aloof toward Newman and Jacob Austin Young.

01:17:24.302 --> 01:17:28.747
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's some sort of explosion or implosion coming with the United Empire.

01:17:29.688 --> 01:17:30.849
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a matter of time.

01:17:31.089 --> 01:17:37.095
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's what I'm more interested in than Newman and O'Con advancing in this tournament right now.

01:17:37.497 --> 01:17:38.578
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

01:17:39.379 --> 01:17:44.524
[SPEAKER_02]: Even if they were to advance, I don't really know the story would be for them other than worship the anchors of the world.

01:17:45.105 --> 01:17:47.567
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

01:17:47.587 --> 01:17:51.711
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not really, that's not really, it's not really time for that right now.

01:17:52.552 --> 01:18:00.540
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just hoping Henare is getting close to returning and that he is a part of the story whenever it happens.

01:18:00.780 --> 01:18:02.342
[SPEAKER_01]: I am a big fan of Henare.

01:18:02.362 --> 01:18:03.403
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's

01:18:04.244 --> 01:18:05.786
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a really sharp guy.

01:18:05.886 --> 01:18:06.868
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a good worker.

01:18:07.629 --> 01:18:10.894
[SPEAKER_01]: And I hope the general timing, the majority of his career.

01:18:11.975 --> 01:18:17.403
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, the injury CP, he's had or have been significant.

01:18:17.423 --> 01:18:18.906
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, really significant ones.

01:18:19.066 --> 01:18:20.528
[SPEAKER_01]: And not just getting banged up.

01:18:20.588 --> 01:18:29.922
[SPEAKER_01]: But every time it seems like he's getting a little bit of momentum, he gets out free, put out for months, you know, he can't seem to get a break.

01:18:29.942 --> 01:18:33.407
[SPEAKER_01]: And I hope he does in 2026.

01:18:34.400 --> 01:18:36.283
[SPEAKER_01]: After that, we have the teams on four points.

01:18:36.323 --> 01:18:38.285
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Tana Hashin, Elfantazmo.

01:18:38.325 --> 01:18:41.389
[SPEAKER_01]: They lost to the knockout brothers and they amore.

01:18:41.409 --> 01:18:44.494
[SPEAKER_01]: They got a big win over OE1's Zach and a good match, like we mentioned.

01:18:44.514 --> 01:18:48.559
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they defeated Shane and Archer and Shizduoko with Thunder Kiss.

01:18:48.799 --> 01:18:49.921
[SPEAKER_01]: Off to a bad start.

01:18:50.021 --> 01:18:54.467
[SPEAKER_01]: They did not win much early, but they are coming on stronger late.

01:18:55.645 --> 01:19:03.579
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I look at them and I just don't see any reason for Tana Hashie to be involved in anything in the semi finals.

01:19:03.639 --> 01:19:05.903
[SPEAKER_02]: And so maybe win one more.

01:19:05.923 --> 01:19:14.397
[SPEAKER_02]: I could see them being the spoiler for Narina and Sonata to advance and give him Tana Hashie a little bit of a happy ending in the tournament.

01:19:14.377 --> 01:19:16.601
[SPEAKER_02]: give great O'Conan Newman, maybe one more win.

01:19:16.781 --> 01:19:24.855
[SPEAKER_02]: So they go eight and calm Newman and great O'Conan go eight and run the Rita of Stonic O'Six and all seem great in the world.

01:19:25.076 --> 01:19:32.468
[SPEAKER_02]: But there they have no interest in making Tana Hashie look weak at any point going into this last match.

01:19:32.569 --> 01:19:37.397
[SPEAKER_02]: So I really don't see him losing the last match world tagly even if they don't advance.

01:19:38.170 --> 01:19:43.019
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it's going to be a fantastic moment doing that and they don't have to protect the television champion like they need to protect some of the others.

01:19:43.840 --> 01:19:49.731
[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad says Walker has been heavy on commentary about United Empire, so we know something big is coming.

01:19:50.071 --> 01:19:53.918
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fought the foreshadowing is strong with this one, foreshadowing is strong.

01:19:54.843 --> 01:20:01.858
[SPEAKER_01]: other team on four points, David Finlay and Haromu Takahashi, they have been entertaining, they've been interesting, and their matches have been pretty decent thus far.

01:20:02.459 --> 01:20:13.462
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, the whole thing is the Finlay uses Haromu a lot as an offensive weapon, and Haromu is kind of taking it on the chin a little bit like, all right, fine, I don't like it, but I get it.

01:20:14.243 --> 01:20:15.045
[SPEAKER_01]: And

01:20:15.025 --> 01:20:16.970
[SPEAKER_01]: They've been supportive of her homo.

01:20:17.110 --> 01:20:17.832
[SPEAKER_01]: I've noticed that.

01:20:17.872 --> 01:20:29.320
[SPEAKER_01]: Like on the last time that they am in winning a lot, they're last match that they that they lost as a matter of fact, Finlay, you know, padded him on the leg, geto helped roll the her homo out, and then they got some young lines to help her roam her to the back.

01:20:29.781 --> 01:20:31.245
[SPEAKER_01]: For the most part, they're...

01:20:31.225 --> 01:20:36.534
[SPEAKER_01]: teasing him but being supportive of him like these guys are actually starting to get along a little bit.

01:20:37.155 --> 01:20:41.362
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they have two matches left on four points, so two matches though are significant ones.

01:20:41.402 --> 01:20:44.527
[SPEAKER_01]: They against O'Conan Newman on the last day.

01:20:44.747 --> 01:20:49.856
[SPEAKER_01]: Second of the last day against Zack, say we're junior in Rio, Rio, Rio, Rio, Rio, Rio, that match will be pretty damn good.

01:20:50.897 --> 01:20:51.859
[SPEAKER_02]: Should be pretty good.

01:20:51.919 --> 01:20:57.368
[SPEAKER_02]: As much as Dime and Taka Hockey seem like they're alive,

01:20:57.989 --> 01:21:07.543
[SPEAKER_02]: They're looking for actually eliminated because they have losses to Umano and Uemura and Nareda Sonata and

01:21:08.722 --> 01:21:15.290
[SPEAKER_02]: Whoever wins that sack, we will match with Finley and Haromu is pretty much getting eliminated the other one.

01:21:16.391 --> 01:21:22.698
[SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, because there is no path to get past anyone else for those guys with the amount of magic left.

01:21:23.079 --> 01:21:23.720
[SPEAKER_02]: So they're fun.

01:21:23.880 --> 01:21:29.006
[SPEAKER_02]: I've really enjoyed Finley and Haromu and I hope that there's something to the story after the tournament.

01:21:29.627 --> 01:21:35.033
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think this part of the

01:21:35.823 --> 01:21:42.294
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, they're being cautious with Finlay because circumstances with the war dogs is a whole.

01:21:43.095 --> 01:21:49.546
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little bit different than the other cross-faction team that being the war dragons.

01:21:51.089 --> 01:21:56.298
[SPEAKER_01]: Maloney might be a good fit in a faction with Schingo if things go different directions.

01:21:56.799 --> 01:22:00.565
[SPEAKER_01]: Whereas Finlay and Heromo, I don't really see

01:22:01.473 --> 01:22:05.538
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see a future for them together as a team after this.

01:22:05.579 --> 01:22:09.684
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't see, I think there's really any point in them making the semi-finals.

01:22:09.964 --> 01:22:12.187
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think they could just be an entertaining part of this tournament.

01:22:12.488 --> 01:22:13.569
[SPEAKER_01]: And then on to other things.

01:22:13.950 --> 01:22:15.712
[SPEAKER_01]: It just doesn't seem like a long-term deal.

01:22:15.732 --> 01:22:27.268
[SPEAKER_01]: Whereas, you know, if Shinko goes off and starts his own faction or, you know, as soon as you kind of care him's off, because he's a champion now and all this time, I think there's going to be a shift like that coming in 2026.

01:22:28.550 --> 01:22:30.332
[SPEAKER_01]: Morning would be a good fit for stuff like that.

01:22:31.527 --> 01:22:33.691
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, bye, I agree.

01:22:34.332 --> 01:22:37.898
[SPEAKER_01]: Next, let's say for tuning in, Rio, Rio, Rio, Rio, Rio are on four points as well.

01:22:38.940 --> 01:22:44.089
[SPEAKER_01]: And they have Fimlee and Heromo to come, Archer and Zane to come.

01:22:44.469 --> 01:22:45.992
[SPEAKER_01]: Zach and Rio, Rio, Rio, Rio,

01:22:47.693 --> 01:22:53.145
[SPEAKER_01]: another situation where they might make the semi-finals, they might rally toward the end and make it.

01:22:54.107 --> 01:23:02.966
[SPEAKER_01]: I just don't feel like they think of OUI in a spot like that quite yet, so I could also see him getting beat on that last night, too, to take them out of contention.

01:23:03.888 --> 01:23:07.356
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's one of those things, I could see them beating

01:23:07.724 --> 01:23:14.296
[SPEAKER_01]: Hiromu and Finlay, but falling to Zayn and Archer on the last day, perhaps, or something like that.

01:23:14.396 --> 01:23:18.363
[SPEAKER_01]: But it doesn't feel like a team that's going to go too far.

01:23:18.383 --> 01:23:26.738
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they have other things in mind for Zack, then tag team wrestling, and as far as Oliwa goes, maybe they'll make the semi-finals, but just don't feel like it.

01:23:27.238 --> 01:23:29.683
[SPEAKER_01]: And Oliwa's time is yet to come.

01:23:29.703 --> 01:23:32.668
[SPEAKER_01]: They're telling stories with the other guys from his generation at the moment.

01:23:33.610 --> 01:23:42.378
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to push back on that a little bit because I was looking at this and if you don't ice and Oscar are going, that's one team.

01:23:43.399 --> 01:23:49.485
[SPEAKER_02]: And if they're in a winning-get-end scenario or show to ummono and you, you, you, we are, you kind of have to rule them out.

01:23:50.266 --> 01:24:02.858
[SPEAKER_02]: So, if you rule them out, you really only have realistically three teams in here that you could do and that is thinly and

01:24:03.293 --> 01:24:06.796
[SPEAKER_02]: that neighbor in Rio, hey, and Great O'Con and Cal Newman.

01:24:07.257 --> 01:24:15.565
[SPEAKER_02]: Now I will get that other bracket and you have Bishop on which, my dad has a former world champion on one of the teams.

01:24:16.125 --> 01:24:29.098
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, if you bring that favorite jinger in, you have a former world champion on another one of the teams, which immediately elevates the level of caliber of all the teams in this post-block play,

01:24:29.078 --> 01:24:30.560
[SPEAKER_02]: It's that Saber Jr.

01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:31.903
[SPEAKER_02]: Team is the number two.

01:24:32.283 --> 01:24:38.934
[SPEAKER_02]: You then get another Huroki go to that Saber Jr. match in a tag in a premium spot on the show.

01:24:39.074 --> 01:24:48.128
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was kind of looking at it and thinking like it doesn't look good for them right now, but I think they're squeaking in as that last team of all of that.

01:24:48.148 --> 01:24:56.622
[SPEAKER_02]: Basically because of the world title pedigree of most of the teams that aren't going to win, but can look good at some point in the tournament.

01:24:57.243 --> 01:25:01.528
[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe they get that win over archer and zane in the last match and that's what puts them over the top.

01:25:01.828 --> 01:25:01.928
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

01:25:01.948 --> 01:25:09.476
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they I think they win their last two and we get on eight over show to Omenone, New York, we mura on that on that last day.

01:25:10.317 --> 01:25:17.725
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's it's a thing with a we were I just feel like they don't take him quite as seriously on that level yet, but that exactly certainly do exactly.

01:25:17.966 --> 01:25:21.850
[SPEAKER_02]: But but we was the one that can move to Bishop on in that next match.

01:25:22.032 --> 01:25:23.053
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:25:23.073 --> 01:25:23.834
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, fair enough.

01:25:23.854 --> 01:25:32.062
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you've protected that Saber Jr. You know, go ahead and just like Fallway would take the pen for, for evil against the knockout brother.

01:25:32.082 --> 01:25:33.603
[SPEAKER_02]: So those are my 14th and that order.

01:25:34.043 --> 01:25:43.112
[SPEAKER_02]: When we fish out on that Saber Jr. in one and then evil in Fallway versus the knockout brother than the other and then pick whatever you want at that point.

01:25:43.392 --> 01:25:48.377
[SPEAKER_02]: Knockout brother at first is, uh,

01:25:49.184 --> 01:26:11.142
[SPEAKER_01]: And the final one we're talking about is monster sauce there they've they've they are three they're two and three they're two wins have come over house house torture and family and her room and then they have taken losses ton of how she fintesmo home you know and oh a more I mentioned that with the deadbolt there Ocon and Newman their last two are against the knockout brothers I don't like the chances that

01:26:11.122 --> 01:26:12.945
[SPEAKER_01]: And Zach and I we will.

01:26:12.965 --> 01:26:14.968
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we mentioned the last day there.

01:26:15.248 --> 01:26:19.174
[SPEAKER_01]: One other thing I meant to you thinking about this with folly against the knockout brothers.

01:26:19.214 --> 01:26:21.217
[SPEAKER_01]: So we think that the knockout brothers are going to advance.

01:26:22.639 --> 01:26:26.405
[SPEAKER_01]: Perhaps facing evil and folly, folly helped train both of those guys.

01:26:26.625 --> 01:26:30.130
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember both of those guys spent some time in the folly dojo in New Zealand.

01:26:30.150 --> 01:26:40.926
[SPEAKER_01]: So there could be a little bit of a thing where maybe folly takes the either take them to get back to give them the

01:26:41.277 --> 01:26:43.460
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, eliminate him from the tournament.

01:26:43.520 --> 01:26:44.902
[SPEAKER_02]: Follow you all coming together.

01:26:44.922 --> 01:26:46.244
[SPEAKER_02]: This is all coming together, Steven.

01:26:46.364 --> 01:26:46.865
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:26:47.867 --> 01:26:48.367
[SPEAKER_01]: So there you go.

01:26:48.387 --> 01:26:53.535
[SPEAKER_01]: So that could be a thought there in a way to get ice and Oscar into the next stage of the tournament.

01:26:53.715 --> 01:26:54.677
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah.

01:26:54.697 --> 01:26:56.359
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, you guys, what if no, your thoughts?

01:26:56.620 --> 01:27:06.594
[SPEAKER_02]: If you think we're right or wrong, join us next week on the show and let us know how dumb we are or how arrogant we are to think that it's clearly did not happen.

01:27:07.375 --> 01:27:08.517
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that kind of feedback.

01:27:09.087 --> 01:27:16.474
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have a question that we're going to get to from Jeremy here in a little bit, but I'm going to talk mentioned the schedule coming up.

01:27:16.494 --> 01:27:19.957
[SPEAKER_01]: So today is the fourth, there's no show today, they're traveling.

01:27:19.977 --> 01:27:38.335
[SPEAKER_01]: And then tomorrow, though, they pick things up at any on arena, the prefectural gym number two, so the small arena.

01:27:38.315 --> 01:27:41.761
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the main event in Osaka from there.

01:27:42.061 --> 01:27:43.463
[SPEAKER_01]: They will move on to Aheme.

01:27:44.044 --> 01:27:45.426
[SPEAKER_01]: We're heading down south.

01:27:45.446 --> 01:27:46.829
[SPEAKER_01]: Moving down south.

01:27:46.849 --> 01:27:49.413
[SPEAKER_01]: And that'll be the B block.

01:27:49.854 --> 01:27:56.965
[SPEAKER_01]: Uemora and Umino versus Sanada and Ren Nareda will also get her Omo and Finlay against.

01:27:56.945 --> 01:28:04.075
[SPEAKER_01]: Saber and O'Weewa, and that is going to be on the AMA show is Sunday.

01:28:04.195 --> 01:28:14.168
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have we're on Friday, no show on Saturday, but back Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for in a row beginning Sunday.

01:28:14.669 --> 01:28:17.753
[SPEAKER_01]: Monday is going to be in Hiroshima at the Sun Plaza Hall.

01:28:18.334 --> 01:28:22.800
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, another fairly,

01:28:22.780 --> 01:28:45.480
[SPEAKER_01]: for a new Japan, and that one's going to have evil and folly against Oleg and Yano, and then we're going to go to Fukuoka, wait down south, now we're getting down into a better weather this time of year, little, uh, get down south where the climate's a little nicer, fantastic moment on Hashi against Sanada and Narita in that one, that main event.

01:28:46.574 --> 01:28:55.282
[SPEAKER_01]: Wednesday, Nagasaki, and that's going to be in, uh, on Wednesday, the 10th, and that is going to be the semi finals.

01:28:55.542 --> 01:28:56.563
[SPEAKER_01]: So there you have it.

01:28:56.683 --> 01:29:05.831
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, uh, another, another show that's going to be another semi final in Kagashima at the Sendai Sun Arena.

01:29:06.412 --> 01:29:09.655
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Friday, December 12th, and of course, we'll have previews of all that.

01:29:09.695 --> 01:29:15.720
[SPEAKER_01]: So by the time we come back, we will have already had one of the

01:29:15.818 --> 01:29:22.386
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll know a little bit, but not the whole thing about the finals, when we reconvene next Thursday.

01:29:22.526 --> 01:29:25.110
[SPEAKER_01]: So the gun news is Jeremy, no Thursday shows.

01:29:25.170 --> 01:29:27.272
[SPEAKER_01]: We have time to digest before we do the show live.

01:29:28.534 --> 01:29:29.715
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so excited, Stephen.

01:29:30.436 --> 01:29:30.797
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:29:30.837 --> 01:29:35.903
[SPEAKER_02]: We wait for another week of getting back together with you and talking about all day in Gnuch Pan.

01:29:36.305 --> 01:29:40.335
[SPEAKER_01]: So here's the question that we're going to end with today, and I'm looking forward to it as well.

01:29:40.395 --> 01:29:46.770
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to be Jeremy says, do you have a favorite territory or a favorite angle from the territory days?

01:29:47.271 --> 01:29:50.479
[SPEAKER_01]: Mine is classic Memphis just curious for the end of the shot.

01:29:50.499 --> 01:29:51.562
[SPEAKER_01]: I love classic Memphis.

01:29:51.742 --> 01:29:54.128
[SPEAKER_01]: It lands Russell.

01:29:54.108 --> 01:30:09.484
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, seriously, probably the best commentator of all time, as far as dealing with the craziness that was Memphis wrestling and making it sound like it made sense, and while it was fantastic Jimmy hard building that I love classic Memphis my favorite territory though.

01:30:09.464 --> 01:30:14.972
[SPEAKER_01]: If I had to pick one year, 1984, Mid South is as good as territory wrestling ever got.

01:30:15.293 --> 01:30:27.351
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have to pick a whole era, Jim Crocker promotions in the 80s, Mid Atlantic Wrestling was pretty good top to bottom, and that's my personal favorite, for me anyway.

01:30:27.371 --> 01:30:28.773
[SPEAKER_01]: That's my personal favorite territory.

01:30:28.793 --> 01:30:36.184
[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm just going to go to a desert island, I'm taking the Jim Crocker promotion tapes, and that was, so any thoughts on that one for you, Jeremy?

01:30:36.204 --> 01:30:37.446
[SPEAKER_01]: You like it?

01:30:37.426 --> 01:30:52.448
[SPEAKER_02]: Jeremy told me out a little bit because I started on WWE last and I never, I was, I was too young for the territories for the most part and then I got out of wrestling and I got into it when I back into another 18 I've never did the territory stuff.

01:30:52.428 --> 01:30:54.212
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it just, it just never really happened.

01:30:54.252 --> 01:31:00.926
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I know of it, I'll go into it and I'll look at matches, you know, for research and all that stuff.

01:31:01.447 --> 01:31:13.052
[SPEAKER_02]: But retracing territory shows or like really like getting into it outside of like researching a specific guy or what not, I just never did it.

01:31:13.420 --> 01:31:14.321
[SPEAKER_02]: I apologize.

01:31:14.742 --> 01:31:16.945
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not the huckleberry for this one.

01:31:16.965 --> 01:31:18.367
[SPEAKER_01]: I did it enough for all of us, though.

01:31:18.507 --> 01:31:20.069
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't have done a lot of that issue.

01:31:20.390 --> 01:31:22.353
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I got all the comic books and I got all that stuff.

01:31:22.413 --> 01:31:25.898
[SPEAKER_02]: I never go or know completely different way, but yeah, absolutely, no, no, that's.

01:31:26.298 --> 01:31:27.720
[SPEAKER_01]: And a ring side replay.

01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:30.825
[SPEAKER_01]: I examined all the territory days on my website back there.

01:31:31.385 --> 01:31:39.677
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can email me that at ringsidereplayagmail.com by the way, if you have any other questions or comments or anything else, but I'll show you feel free to do it that way.

01:31:39.697 --> 01:31:42.381
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I love the old territory wrestling.

01:31:42.361 --> 01:31:45.165
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's a lot of fun to watch.

01:31:45.345 --> 01:31:48.690
[SPEAKER_01]: As far as Faire, as far as angles go, I'll give you two.

01:31:49.591 --> 01:31:57.082
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're both turns, but Oli Anderson turning on Dusty Rose in the cage in Georgia in 1980 or one of the greatest ever.

01:31:57.543 --> 01:32:04.894
[SPEAKER_01]: And his promo afterwards, the two promos afterwards, both Oli live in the studio with Gordon Soly, Brilliant.

01:32:05.254 --> 01:32:10.782
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Dusty's reply, which they cut to,

01:32:10.762 --> 01:32:12.164
[SPEAKER_01]: just fantastic promo.

01:32:12.184 --> 01:32:13.065
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just amazing stuff.

01:32:13.466 --> 01:32:26.103
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the other one was it's another classic from Mid-South, not 1984, which is the best overall year, but 1985 when they did the the famous double turn, Dick Murdock and Ted DBSC coming off of a Rick Flair match.

01:32:26.143 --> 01:32:39.081
[SPEAKER_01]: When they pulled off the rare double turn, it's about as good as dramatic wrestling got back then when DBSC, the hated North American champion challenged Rick Flair,

01:32:39.061 --> 01:32:44.075
[SPEAKER_01]: for the world title and Dick Murdock, the baby face by the end of the show.

01:32:44.817 --> 01:32:46.181
[SPEAKER_01]: But it all turned around the other way.

01:32:47.003 --> 01:32:48.507
[SPEAKER_01]: Just great booking for Bill Watson.

01:32:49.109 --> 01:32:51.375
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I actually got a buddy story for you.

01:32:51.656 --> 01:32:54.825
[SPEAKER_02]: I go into the territory and the cool thing.

01:32:54.805 --> 01:32:56.208
[SPEAKER_02]: about five or six years ago.

01:32:56.970 --> 01:33:00.879
[SPEAKER_02]: First, becoming friends with Dave, Dave Mowker.

01:33:01.260 --> 01:33:04.547
[SPEAKER_02]: I get invited for a birthday dinner, for him, or whatever.

01:33:05.088 --> 01:33:07.313
[SPEAKER_02]: And afterwards, he's like, hey, you know what I really want to do?

01:33:07.374 --> 01:33:12.004
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to watch this documentary on old Ford Arrestling.

01:33:11.984 --> 01:33:12.906
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.

01:33:12.946 --> 01:33:15.651
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, okay, if that's what you want to do.

01:33:16.092 --> 01:33:17.455
[SPEAKER_02]: We all go back to the house.

01:33:17.876 --> 01:33:28.096
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm wrong, just like on a Friday night at 10 30 and watching this talk to a tree out the quarter of the time, like, I'm exactly what you wanted to do.

01:33:28.216 --> 01:33:31.984
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, if I'm going to be friends with Dave, this is going to be the life.

01:33:33.449 --> 01:33:35.872
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, it's great stuff back then.

01:33:35.932 --> 01:33:38.576
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just such a different time, such a different time.

01:33:38.936 --> 01:33:41.260
[SPEAKER_01]: I encourage anybody to go back and look at some of that stuff.

01:33:41.280 --> 01:33:44.644
[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad says, great show fill is nice to be back every time away due to work.

01:33:44.664 --> 01:33:47.548
[SPEAKER_01]: We're very glad to see you back as well, Brad, thank you.

01:33:47.628 --> 01:33:52.956
[SPEAKER_02]: And congratulations to you, Brad, on all the personal effort that you have made for your health and all that.

01:33:53.056 --> 01:33:53.657
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw that.

01:33:54.077 --> 01:33:56.200
[SPEAKER_02]: And I thought that looked tremendous and good for you, sir.

01:33:56.905 --> 01:33:57.466
[SPEAKER_01]: very cool.

01:33:57.706 --> 01:33:58.127
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

01:33:58.548 --> 01:34:12.553
[SPEAKER_01]: So with all that in mind, we have a busy week ahead, a lot of shows, and we will be back here next week to look at one of the semi-finals, preview the other semi-final and the finals of World Tag League, and hopefully get some of some more answers as the direction of the company.

01:34:13.094 --> 01:34:15.198
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, maybe we might not show up, you never know.

01:34:15.819 --> 01:34:17.783
[SPEAKER_02]: But more likely we'll be here.

01:34:17.803 --> 01:34:19.466
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I feel I'm pretty confident I'll be here.

01:34:19.486 --> 01:34:20.247
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to thank

01:34:21.442 --> 01:34:24.605
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to thank everybody who joined us here live on YouTube.

01:34:24.626 --> 01:34:31.713
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone who listens to us later as a podcast or watches this video later, we're very grateful that you spend your time with us.

01:34:31.753 --> 01:34:34.556
[SPEAKER_01]: We really enjoy it and have fun talking to everybody.

01:34:34.957 --> 01:34:37.340
[SPEAKER_02]: Steve, and I'm glad you had a smile on your face for this show.

01:34:37.760 --> 01:34:39.662
[SPEAKER_01]: How are you going to die?

01:34:39.682 --> 01:34:40.203
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a week.

01:34:40.803 --> 01:34:43.386
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so it has been a week.

01:34:43.426 --> 01:34:45.128
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm putting on a fine, I'm putting on a smile.

01:34:46.389 --> 01:34:51.415
[SPEAKER_02]: Look, hey, the laughter fake with the tear her real.

01:34:52.458 --> 01:35:06.078
[SPEAKER_01]: The one thing, the one consistent time, the one consistent thing for me in my life when I am dealing with some stuff is wrestling can kind of be that a sketch form, or those scape as informing.

01:35:06.098 --> 01:35:09.924
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what it's been this week and that's what it's going to be in the week ahead.

01:35:10.284 --> 01:35:12.187
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm grateful for it.

01:35:12.628 --> 01:35:16.153
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this weird art form, this little mix of,

01:35:16.133 --> 01:35:24.166
[SPEAKER_01]: theater and sports and I'm glad I get a chance to talk to you with it about it every week and with all the people there.

01:35:24.206 --> 01:35:26.090
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to run it back next week, my man.

01:35:26.570 --> 01:35:27.452
[SPEAKER_01]: We share with you.

01:35:28.614 --> 01:35:31.018
[SPEAKER_01]: With that in mind for Jerry Feine's song, I'm Stephen Conway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This has been speaking of strong style and we will talk to you again real soon.