Remembering Dory Funk Jr., G1 Climax Leaders Takeshita & Boltin | Speaking of Strong Style

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[SPEAKER_01]: Another week that the G1 climaxes in the books, and we've had a few wrestlers mathematically eliminated from contention, but no one's clinched to spot in the semi-finals just yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: With the busiest week of the tournament coming, we're going to look at who's in and who will fall short.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Plus, more on Hirrio, she tends on this his retirement approaches, and a bit more on the late great Dory Funk Jr. With Jeremy Feinstone, I'm Stephen Conway, this is a huge strong style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome everyone to speaking of strong style.

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

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[SPEAKER_01]: Been a very interesting week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had four shows to deal with Jeremy and again, up and down those some pretty bad stuff on this week, but there were a lot of good matches too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I remember the good stuff a lot more than I do with the bad stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Attendance pretty strong overall a good week, but more importantly, how are you doing?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What are you

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I've been having a really good week, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, it is going to be my wedding anniversary this weekend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So my wife and I are going to go away to Monterey for the new, which is about two hours from here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh,

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[SPEAKER_00]: four years married ten years together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's the best thing that we're happening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm very happy that this is happening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Although she said the attempt today that's kind of apparently a giant auto show is happening in Monterey that same weekend, which kind of tapes my enthusiasm down by being crowded by all these classic cars that I just want to navigate through, but I won't be able to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then another funny thing was, uh,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've watched in the show with Dave the summer slam show and I happened to mention that it was my wedding anniversary and I was going to Monterey and he goes oh wow I'm going to Monterey too we can go have lunch and I was like I need to check with my life I want to check with you

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[SPEAKER_00]: and you're significant other on our wedding anniversary.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're more than likely a very good chance she's open to it and she is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it made me laugh that it made me laugh that you have just so like, yeah, let's do this on your wedding anniversary.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, I don't get to make you no matter what decision it's up to without her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, and I think he probably made the right call and double-checking that there, but yeah, no, that'll be cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, not right, sounds really nice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I believe I will be watching some shows on an iPad in a hotel room early in the morning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, totally fine by me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My wife sleeps in very late, and so I could probably wake up at seven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's still finished show before she gets up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we have some good friends visiting us this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's nice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're doing a few things with them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go out to Fredericksburg this weekend, which is the wine country with a lot of wineries and facilities out that way and do a couple of wine tasting should be very nice and very relaxing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll manage to work in the tournament matches before that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, that's another thing that we can kind of do mid-morning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I can just get up early and watch the tournament matches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, so I don't really drink, but, uh, win or what, what kind of one?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What are your favorites?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I, you know, but it's a out here, what grows in Texas, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: These are all, these are wineries that grow grapes here in Texas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there's out in the plains, there are a bunch of vineyards that grow pretty decent grapes in Texas, the stuff that works and stuff that's, uh, hardiest against the heat around here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you get things like more Vedra, mall back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: red wine and the also temper Neo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of those grapes, it helps also goes really well with steak.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those red wines, you know, those kind of earthy red wines, dry reds that go well with steak.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, we're in a big cattle area down here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So basically, if it works in Chile and Argentina, which are also big cattle producing areas, it works in Texas, the climate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you get a

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[SPEAKER_01]: And a little bit of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a little bit of luck.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes whenever I hear malback and the tempernial kind of the penone wars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All kind of like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: done in the same climate, you know, like they're the harvests did in the same kind of temper.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And not not a whole lot of whites.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The white grapes are a little more sensitive.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the heat here gets pretty fierce.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you get on?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you get a rose A of like where you get like some of the grapes and some of those special like because they could do that when instead of going with the white, they'll offer some type of rose A.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but there are some places that'll do decent rosé's out here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: got the tub.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we go with the tub.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, now we're not squirting around out here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're not squirting around here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you gotta go for the 649 right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're doing that, and then we have a couple of soccer games coming up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a busy time, you know, it's what's cool is our MLS team is in the league's Cup, which is a competition with League of MX, so we're playing some Mexican league teams over the next couple of weeks, which is fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little variety, you know, the little to see people from another league, some of the guys on the front of the Mexican World Cup team will be in Austin playing against Austin FC, and

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[SPEAKER_01]: Exciting to see them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a 17-year-old phenom that's coming in that was on the World Cup team and he's being scouted by the big The big teams all the ones you've heard of in Europe, so it should be fun weekend Busy weekend, but it should be a really fun one and I'm also trying Desperately to catch up on the G1 and the five so well, I'm a but the five star ground pre is going on I just put in I went down to buy sumo tickets dot com

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I put in for box seats for dream queen them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They aren't on sale.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but you can kind of pre-order.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're kind of like putting your name in the hatch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate when they come out like, hey, it's nothing right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm making it for my every dream queen them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And get box seats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've never sat in the boxes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are the ones where you sit on the floor on cushions tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I've never done that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been to Sumo Hall twice for Sumo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've never been there for pro wrestling, and we sat in the balcony section, which has very nice seats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a very comfortable building to watch an event in, but I would be very excited to sit on the cushions on the floor and the box seats for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hoping that it works out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll find out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That reminded me, uh, you'll be completely unsupprived to know that I bought tickets on a pre-order for this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, uh, on September 17th, fathom of that, you know that thing that they do at the movie theaters?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, sure, yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're doing,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Transformers the animated movie a 40th anniversary remaster remence for that one night And I bought two ticket yesterday and I saw a store neighbor who I never hang out with I was like I should invite him and he's like, yeah, let's go because we're both at the same age and the city

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[SPEAKER_00]: 40 years 40 years since the movie we're off to this prime dice playwork, but apparently they're seen at the end where they undo all of it and because it's called like this apology tour because they were like a childhood for like years ago and so uh making plan that's always for the future because that's what we live for and I don't know I felt like that looks a nice thing to talk about is that because wrestling is more than just

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[SPEAKER_00]: life is more about more than just wrestling and we did have a tragic walk to hear that you're going to talk about now with with Dory from Junior.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Dory from Junior passed away at the age of 85.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you've been in hospice for a while, so it's more of a waiting game on that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 85.

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[SPEAKER_01]: years old, though, that's for a guy with that many miles on his body.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He lasted a very long time, very durable tough man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did attribute to him at the beginning of the New Japan show today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's free.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can watch that on NJPW role without the subscription.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can also see it other places.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was very basic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tiger Hatori was out there with Hiroshi Tanahashi.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll get to these comments in a second.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I promise

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they brought out the portrait of Dory.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, I say, interesting because Dory was never a new Japan guy, but it shows the respect he has in Japan that new Japan stopped what they were doing and did a tribute for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He and Terry Funko-course is brother Terry, one of the greatest of all time, both of them are sons of a wrestler, Dory Funk Sr.

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[SPEAKER_01]: was a star in a lot of places.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they were born in Indiana, right up we're not very far away from where I was born.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that's where Dory was was living and working at the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And ended up in Ammarillo, Texas, where they had their own territory and they were the stars, the biggest hometown stars of that territory.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dick Murdoch was there for a lot and there are a lot of guys were a lot of the Japanese guys from that era the year late 60s early 70s went through that amarillo territory and cut their teeth on excursion out there and so pretty rough west Texas is not for the faint of heart and you know going to amarillo in Midland and Geez, a Lubbock Even into New Mexico and and even some of Southern Colorado sometimes Durango all that

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tough territory to work, but they made it last a very long time, and did well a lot of that time as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There were some really strong periods for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They worked for the JWA, which was the Ricky Dose on Organization that gave us both Boba and Anoki trained both of them up, and Boba and Anoki were big stars for them, and they ran into the Fox both of them did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was in the late 60s, early 70s.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The story was the NWA champion in 1969 through the early 70s as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And through that, through those connections, he and Terry ended up working for Giant Baba and all of Japan pro wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Baba was always more aligned with the National Wrestling Alliance than Noki was back then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the funk sent it up being the guys who booked the foreign talent for Baba, Baba sort of trusted them to figure out who were the best people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they brought over, you know, the guys bruiser Brody, for instance, who became an all-time legend there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They ended up poaching Stan Hansen from New Japan and, you know, figuring out that he would be a great guy and he became an

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[SPEAKER_01]: for Boba.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So really, really a major part of all of Japan pro wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were some of the biggest stars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The tag team tournament at the end of the year was one of the biggest tours for all of Japan all year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the biggest might have been bigger than their single tournament in a lot of ways.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the funds were always a part of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: And to the point that they became baby faces, of course, the trope in Japanese wrestling is the foreign heel, the foreign menace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The funk Scott over enough as baby faces that they rode in the bus with Baba and jumbo Saruta.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were right there with them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: with the fans.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were absolutely in love with the fox.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just total good guys in Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they would be bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They would be the ones that were battling Bruiser Brody and Stan Hansen and Jimmy Snuka and the chic and at the dule of the butcher, it'd be the funks of being on the baby face side, teaming with Baba and the rest of the gang.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He, they never really worked for New Japan, though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it wasn't until about 2001 that Dory did a handful of matches with New Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But so we don't want to, we're not going to spend a whole lot of time on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of places you can see a lot more about Dory.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure Dave will have something in the observer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there are other places where you can see the history of what the function meant in Florida and in Texas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And even into the, into the WWE,

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[SPEAKER_01]: influence was heavy in the national wrestling alliance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the great touring champions, back when the NWA champion would move from territory to territory and work against the very best in the business.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, doing one angle with one company one day and the next day flying off somewhere else and doing another angle with somebody else and wrestling a baby face on Friday and a heel on Saturday and having to make all those guys look good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dordie was one of the very, very best at that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there are places I encourage you to go and learn more about Dordie Funke Junior's career.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But his influence Japan is enormous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's with all Japan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just shows you how enormous that influence is that New Japan felt like they needed to stop and do a tribute to him considering I think you had four New Japan matches in his life, but he is an all-time legend of Japanese pro wrestling, Dory Funk Junior and passed away at the age of 85 or years this week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I listened to Dave talk about him and he's going to write a little bit this week, but he's going to write a bunch more next week and I figured you were going to have something to say about it when we did the show today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: incredibly talented man and there is some of his stuff is out there on YouTube and I encourage you to go and watch it just for a guy that you know he you know a bit balding and maybe not the great the classic pro wrestling physique but he was a man who could definitely take care of himself in real life he was not a man to be messed with he was a

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[SPEAKER_01]: very.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a dad like you did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're you're you're iron forged from iron before you're out of the crib.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he could do anything in the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He could work with anybody and make anybody look good, which was the NWA champions job is to always look like you just barely got past the local guy to make the local guy look like he was world championship level.

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[SPEAKER_01]: anyone of any town level and not all these local stars were particularly good what were you know it's great when you ran into a jack brisco in florida it's great when you ran into some of the guys in the carolinas like johnny valentine not not too hard to make those guys look good

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[SPEAKER_01]: but some of the stiffs that he had in some of those smaller territory as soon as a lot harder, and Dory would always make him look like the just barely escaped with his championship.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not necessarily by cheating, sometimes a little subtle heel work in there, but just by making the guy look like, oh, our local guy could be the world champion someday, and he ended up dropping that title a Harley race.

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[SPEAKER_01]: who was a transitional champion to get a check brisco.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's an interesting story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I encourage you to go find out more about that title transition because it was controversial, especially from the brisco's end of it and feel like Dory was trying to avoid dropping it to him and Dory had had other reasons that he couldn't drop it to Jack and it had to be Harley and that's a fascinating story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting man, interesting man, the great great wrestler and an absolute pillar of Texas wrestling, of Florida wrestling, of Japanese wrestling, his influences and is just enormous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I mean, a lot of people in my age first saw him as, as Hoss Funk in the WWE F. And we had no idea we were looking at an all-time legend until we learned about it later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the more I go back and watch story function, your matches on YouTube though, the more I love him, he was just a

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[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't said much about him because he's one of those wrestlers that unfortunately saved off of me dipping in and out when I was a kid and not jumping back in until I was in a really like 19 or 20 and then really just watching WWE completely not on any of them like tracks of wrestling that I ever really watched.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's always been the legend that I

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just never did and I'm not, you know, I've never, I've never been out of like a wrestling show where you're like signing or anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You just, it's amazing to me how we can have these absolute legends like in veteran like, legacies.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and they can just completely just not be on the radar of a certain cloth of like wrestling because that's just the way the wrestling is like generationally that telework and even they even talk about like in the eighties like his time had already passed like by the end of the eighties his style of wrestling just wasn't getting over anymore and so he just moved on to a different style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and the U.S. certainly in the U.S. certainly the refunds, after the early 80s, the funds Dorian, particular, was kind of taking steps back and thanks, but always a big part of Al Jepand into the mid 80s.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're watching all Japan and not to be sure that they're like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll be specific about a couple of matches to recommend, because sometimes just go watch story function here, well, shit, you know, how do you pick?

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[SPEAKER_01]: give you a couple.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dory and Terry in Japan against the she can have dual the butcher in 1979.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a tag league tournament match that is insane.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's absolutely, I mean, the she can have dual the butcher were nuts anyway, but this is when they were both

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the shink was getting a little bit old, but Abdule was actually fairly healthy and a little more spray than we're used to seeing Abdule the butcher, the selling, the Dory and Terry do, and this match is absolutely incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a wild match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot of fun to watch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dory also find anything you can with Dory on one side of the ring and Jack Briscoe on the other side.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a few YouTube clips of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's very old footage.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking about late 60s, early 70s here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's out there and there's great stuff there because those two, that's one of the all-time great rivalries that's up there with Flare and Steam Boat, Cena Orton, whatever, you know, these guys had.

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[SPEAKER_01]: dozens of great matches against each other, that type of rivalry, just to try to pick a couple from other generations there that I put in the list.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Dory Funk Jr. and Jack Briscoe were special together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't always like each other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But boy, they worked well together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were peas and carrots in that ringboy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were just telepathic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They need combustible element to create a thark.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Regular one hour draws with those guys that had that's something that you won't see anymore just regular one hour draws with those guys they would go all the way around the horn and territory doing one hour draws and probably could have done another one later that night if they needed to they just cardio machines.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Get a couple of comments here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nick Reeves is here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He says I haven't gone back to watch as much as the functions I would like, but new Dorie was a legend from an early age because of how highly the wrestlers like grew up watching spoke of him as their trainer that's a good point to yes he trained a lot of people he trained a lot of a lot of Japanese guys as well big big trainer and yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nick also wanted to mention one thing to you Jeremy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said I saw Optimus Prime die on his 11th birthday in the second Michael Bay Transformers film.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just to give you an idea of the different generations we've got going here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing is I have I have fallen into the whole about Transformers over the last year and I've discovered that there are two different like

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[SPEAKER_00]: fandoms.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's the bad first fandom, like people who love all of that, and I balance it off of me completely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then there's this animated G1 G2 kind of thing going on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to call like the cartoons and all that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I go with the G1.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all the classics, studio series, 80 cents, and then combineders because I'm a giant nerd, like, combining them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I've seen, like, really cool, favorite stuff, like this shardish-looking grim walk that just look like a giant monster that you can buy for $200, and like, I don't even know what I would do with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, I know I'm going through a bit of life crisis.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if this is my bit of life crisis, man, this is so much fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What you just did, this is what wrestling talk must sound like to my girlfriend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just, that was, might as well have been slightly, I have, I have a lovely wife who actually amazed at how much I'm able to, like, flip and sell, like, to kind of keep this thing going.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You told that for how much?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, yes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: fun little thing I'm doing right now because I'm enjoying wrestling but something kind of happened where wrestling became a little more work than hobby and so I needed to find something else to become a little bit of a hobby from there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I understood Jeremy Orr is here too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He says American wrestling is missing the heel face dynamic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Any thoughts?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's nothing with.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not missing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, I mean, I think you meant missing there, but it's it's

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they are, they are, they're ignoring it completely in a lot of ways.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, I'm of two minds on this because in Japan, we haven't had that real heal dynamic except for things like house torture or the early days of the bullet club, but all Japan, for instance, my favorite era and wrestling history, the four pillars of all Japan era and that baby faces in heels, you know, they had rivalries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: like anything, if wrestling is done well, it can work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The worst thing you can do in wrestling, the quickest way to be raw is to use words like always and never.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's a place for all this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are errors in wrestling where rivalries instead of good guy, bad guy works.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There aren't many in the United States though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We like our, we like the good guy bad guy thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do think it hurts a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think dividing the crowd in American wrestling has hurt a little bit of the response.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's made it a little bit more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: of a fan participation thing where it's becoming more like a soccer crowd now where they're there to sing the songs and do the catch phrases more than be emotionally invested in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hoping one guy beats another and I do think that has hurt crowd heat and some things are coming home to Roost because WWE is losing attendance now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's dropping off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We saw a summer slam with a pretty rough attendance number.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They they magically Jeremy without adding much to the crowds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Suddenly had many more tickets distributed but should I do that thing?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah and now we're seeing that in London where they're papering the living hell out of this so that it doesn't look like they have an absolutely empty Wembley Stadium, which they were in danger of.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So now they're papering the heck out of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people going there on cheapies and freebies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think if people were a little bit more emotionally invested in one guy over another, especially in American wrestling, it would help quite a bit because the big crowds

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[SPEAKER_01]: have traditionally been about the fans united in wanting to see one guy beat another guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what has drawn big in the past.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when they have divided the crowd, that's that's hurted a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do think right now that companies are a little bit caught up in this oo there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No good guys, no bad guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's just kind of trying to get ahead.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And

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[SPEAKER_01]: It just kind of makes it all a little mealy mouth and then the fans aren't really into anyone except they want to sing the song and then they kind of sit quietly and I don't think that's the best atmosphere for American wrestling my opinion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the only two promotions I really follow in the fans are WWE and AEW and the WWE I really only watched the PLE's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I went in this past weekend and I would do not blame you after seeing some wrong not too long ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, I kind of felt on rock because I don't

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just like hanging out with my wife on five o'clock on a Monday night and let's stay as true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a weird time for you, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you need to be like appointment television, but for whatever reason, like I just enjoy spending time with my wife making her dinner on that night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then on Tuesday morning, depending on whether they're going to do one show or I have to like do life maintenance stuff, but to do this, getting to

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, Tuesday morning would be what I want you to, and if I don't watch it, I don't care, and most of the time I don't

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even hear anything about it in a way that's why I have to go back and check that out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So my point being, is the trick Williams magic and Baron Corbin happens, and I asked Dave, so trip Williams a heel or a baby face, and he goes, that's a really good question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And nobody knows because they're trying to position him to be reactive to the opponent that he has rather than being a static heel or a baby face.

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[SPEAKER_00]: it used to be myopic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're a good guy or you're a bad guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And at some point, the promotions felt like they could not trick or keep the audience compelled along these simple lives.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you had these personality-based conflicts in which there isn't an easy way to say who's a good guy or the bad guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have a point of view and what you're siding with and what you're trying to make

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got the AEW main event for all it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it will all spray versus Kenny Omega.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's from a unholy mess of a storyline to fumble their way into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they, mostly empty stadium to show for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have this plan for this angle, which is incredibly complex and they're trying to weave all of these intricate elements that they've had throughout their careers throughout the AEW throughout MJF and Moxley being involved and for some people resonating and for some people it isn't, but what makes wrestling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So good sometimes is the simplicity of the story and when you complicated to a point that people are no longer able to follow or even tell which one is the wholesome good guy and which one is the bad guy that you're supposed to root against, it makes your ability to be compelled compromised.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some people lean all in on it, other people bounce right off of it because all of a sudden it's not the

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[SPEAKER_00]: they don't connect with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that's it, they just do not connect with it, and if they're either right, no wrong.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's kind of how I look at it, is that there if just is more complex as these wrestling storylines and the promotions try to get with their characters and the wrestling and the stories they tell, you're going to lose people a long way because it just no longer

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I said and I go back to that always and everything and Fernando Ziya springs up a good point it says Stone Cold Steve Austin and the rock one of the wildly successful main events of WrestleMania history They blurred the lines as to who is the good guy and who is the bad guy absolutely did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's sometimes it works, you know like I said something

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[SPEAKER_00]: always and never doesn't is going to get you there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Two of the most profitable wrestling character of all time to make your point sure, but how many people have they tried to emulate that with and have not come close to uh, recreating that success to the detriment of their own company.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then there are times when there are times when it has worked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'll point this out too in the midst of all this all the baby face heal thing is dead What is almost universally considered the best Story that's happened this year and it's the most clear good guy bad guy thing of the whole year of the americanos

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[SPEAKER_01]: the best versus mass match where the entire nation of Mexico would seem united behind Ludwig Kaiser against Chad Gable and that but that was as clear of a baby face heal story and it's the most wildly successful angle of the year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would say I can't think of anything that has been that well executed and it had the crowd completely united behind one guy hoping that he beat another

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[SPEAKER_01]: that still works when you do it correctly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the answer is if you do it well, it'll work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You just got to do it well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you can do a right work thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Austin and rock work, the course those are exceptional guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There have been times to get enough of trying to do expert courses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't end well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kenny Omega had his fans against Okada wasn't totally a baby face heel thing, although mostly Okada was the baby face in that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it can be done if it, but yeah, it

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[SPEAKER_00]: Take your whoa-go-water buddy, I'm gonna get ready for the G1 here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, sorry about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And get some comments on this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Next Reeves says, this year is the least I've watched the WWE pretty much my entire life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have too many other interest spend time watching Ron SmackDown when I don't care about what's on most of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not into AEW these days, but the two pasts would have been better if Will or MJF.

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[SPEAKER_01]: for a had a clear baby face heal matchup or will Kenny is a baby face dream match, but this muffled will Kenny dynamic is too much Jeremy Orchimes and with my mantra, which is AEW is a mess.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's it it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will just say that I tremendously enjoyed the opening angle between MJF and Omega on that last time, not this yesterday, but the week before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought AEW grants and that skills a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I also felt comfortable on AEW and I validate those that it's not their kind of wrestling and they wish that it was something different.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just going to kind of play the middle line here

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, congratulations to CMLL, which was sold out for the 22nd time in this year in Arena, Mexico.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's insane.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's got to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the largest building building to sell out that many times in a single year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

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[SPEAKER_01]: be a Matt List with Arena Mexico.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Arena Mexico's much, much, much bigger building than the sport of Toriom is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And just as far as a building of that size to run weekly and sell out that many times, they are in a very special period for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's talk about the G1 climax tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had some shows.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You went into the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, no, there's other stuff to talk about here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so we had four shows this week two and two in each block and we'll go over they were very good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Most of us, most of us, for an analysis, he's been to Arena Mexico and it's huge.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, jealous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That one in Budacon are on my bucket list and I'm not going to make it to Budacon this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't know was not running it, but yeah, those are the two biggies for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so let's take a look at the two matches and I'd say three of them were not good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: maybe a few more than that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he would say, how many times did Sanato come and, uh, and, uh, and, uh, and, uh, and Jake Lee Russell.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, tell you, my two of my two of my three not good were she utilized and Jake Lee and she got to talk to you in Great O'Con.

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[SPEAKER_01]: U.S. VA guys here, it's good to see you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He says, well, basically American wrestling is a mess.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the state of American TV wrestling is becoming very worrying.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They outlook for the next few years is going to be interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the truth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When these TV contracts come up, I'm going to be very fascinated to see what happens.

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[SPEAKER_01]: OK. Block A, Jeremy, let's talk to you when we got to focus on this here, we've got to get.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got one hour left.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We can get through this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We saw some good really good stuff from block at you have to kind of get through the Sanada stuff and the great O'Con stuff and the Jake Lee stuff but when it's the other wrestlers wrestling each other this block has delivered night after night and we saw more of it this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of the better matches the tournament took place in this block this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's start with the leader 10 points, Kenosuke Takeshta last year's winner, of course,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd have realized these are old because the old I should have ten.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's get that said.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You keep talking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But to catch the he won the main event in Hiroshima over here, Oki Godo is a great match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Highly recommended that you go and see that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: To catch the likes to hit the other guys big moves.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So in Hiroshima he hit

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[SPEAKER_01]: The in Hiroshima hit the G.T.W on Goto earlier today, he hit Made in Japan on Shingo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He won the Goto match with raging fire, but he lost to Shingo in an excellent match today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the first time Shingo Takagi has beaten Kenosuke Takashi in the singles match I found out, which I thought was really interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hell of a main event today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Excuse me though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Made the same mistake, Walker did, semi-final, but it was an excellent match today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Went out in front so he's got to be pulled back again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shingo is

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we've been describing, he's the new ECE in that he's a threat to anybody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So when Shingo came into this match, trailing to Kesha, to Kesha needs to be pulled back into the pack in order to have the proper drama for the last couple of days of block action, Shingo's a kind of guy who can have an excellent match, pick up a very believable victory and move on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So great work from Takeshita all week though, that match against Goto in Hiroshima, this match against Shingo, both wonderful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like that he is being presented as kind of this threat, because he's dumped so well in the G1 before, but the people are catching up to him, like, you know, like they, the kind of, there are people that are kind of almost had this number a little bit more than the last couple years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's just, he's very good as that blocked gatekeeper.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of feel like he's a gatekeeper and I feel like that's a paper junior at the gatekeeper.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, I'm iffy if to catch you to make it to that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is, he's like, I think one guaranteed and then he's like 50, 50 with one other guy in this block to move forward.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's just elevating all of the G1 with him just coming in and as the TV champion, you know, like he, he's just, he's just, you can just bring it all together in a way that I, I want to compliment him because I don't think he's really going to be getting a whole lot out of it other than making a bunch of other guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, and I'm disappointed in his TV title rank, not because of the cashless work, but because of the stiffs they put him in with, the defend that title, they've really put him in some of the weaker guys in the company when they could be having much better matches than they are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But to cash the on-tan having great matches all the way through, he still has Sonata and Rio Heo-Wiwa to go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: He might only have Ted with those two guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, I mean, we're not clearly they're going to tighten this up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Canada, he can, he can win against both of those guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he can also lose against both of those guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Canada is the ultimate wild card in which you can win or lose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it does not like he can come in and defeat you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you're just like, what the, what the what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of like what happens great on today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I could also see she can't should have, having 12.

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[SPEAKER_01]: going forward.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if I had to guess, I think 10 is all he gets in this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the other person that's on 10 is Oleg Bolton.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now in Hiroshima, he wrestled Sonata in under a minute.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Sonata went at him with a couple of shining wizards and then Oleg squashed him, squashed him flat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just hit a bunch of big moves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was shining with her and hit a power bottom on him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He caught him on a moon-salt attempt, which somehow Walker Stewart still doesn't know that that's a moon-salt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how, but so far, he's boy, Walker was,

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[SPEAKER_01]: bad today, but it's really struggling with that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know moves are tough for Walker, but yeah, he caught him on a moon salt and and he then he what he does is this incredible thing where he goes into the gut wrenches and turns him into power, he can turn anything into a power bomb because he's just so strong.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He just throw guys around into the proper position.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And be him flat under a minute in and out, probably the best use to Sonata in the tournament, the site from that CG match just as far as Squish in the guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then, Ola goes into the main event today with Yoda CG.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they have another excellent, excellent match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Suji is really having a good tournament too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bolton Chanson, the crowd during all the big moves, I loved the move where he did the Kip up into, and then ran right into a gene blaster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I could see it coming a little bit where he did the Kip up, where he's laying flat on his back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: pops up to his feet and then sushi was right there to hit the gene blaster and sushi also hit a gene blaster off the apron to the floor and Bolton's a big guy to be taken that pop any that's a big bump for anybody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he ended up getting a Kamikaze off the ropes off the second rope to win that is a believable finish you have no trouble thinking the world champion is penned after taking that move.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Second main event victory for Bolton in the tournament and I know I've been talking up Aaron Wolfe and I'm not convinced I'm wrong but I may have picked the wrong badass Jeremy uh Bolton is on fire here he's wrestling very very well he's won two main events I think

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[SPEAKER_01]: We can say, well, it's hard to say with New Japan because they start things and give up on them so quickly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it feels like they're trying to tell us that Bolton is moving up the cards with this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If it were me, and I had a chance to pick between Bolton and Oregon, Connecticut as the two guys would 10 points as one of them that moved forward in the block.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And potentially wins the block.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bono of the guy I have all the time, and Bono of the guy I would go with, and based off of the way that they're booking him, I think that's exactly what they're doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, we talk through the predictions, and I had Bono like a second place in Yoda's Fuji winning the block.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I think Bono is winning this block now, and I think Yoda's Fuji is squeezing in and there's

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[SPEAKER_01]: Could be could be like it to shop.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I can see Bolton getting tripped up by Goto in his second to last match because losing the hero if you go to would be believable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then then he then it comes down to Ocon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, thank you not see him losing the great O'Con on the last.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with the soft of everything else that happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I see like the next match.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Great O'Con has is the infield of sugy and I don't necessarily see him winning that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess I can see both no agree on that last night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But based off of how.

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[SPEAKER_00]: based off of how amazing they had booked him to look.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I simply just I cannot believe that they're going to kneecap him at the very end.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like they're just so weird to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like they've got so hard with this guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like they're so hard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It makes more sense to me that

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love it if they did that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If there was just something where he steam rolled and lucky did some out of just like, no, I'm going through screw it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am going through he went to that block and then everyone at fighting for that like one underneath him and to catch enough, fighting to win and get in like if he wins, he wins the block because he, you know, like he was over Oleg and he would get the tiebreaker, but if he doesn't, he's out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, because Yoda Suji would have 12, because I imagine he's going to win both of them too, but because bowl no and beat Yoda Suji, he just need one, and he went to that block.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I honestly, based off of where the other block tracking, I still didn't bowl no again Aaron Wolfe on the other side, and then you and Yoda again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think they're going to do those two matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, be so.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Jeremy or his asking, are we surprised at how much Suji has lost considering he'll, we think he's going to make the semis?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, only because of dramatic purposes, we predicted the goto loss to set up a title match that coincides with the release of Go Toes movie and all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: After that, he needs to have a couple of upsets in there to just to make sure that everybody is within striking distance on the last day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you've made it, got it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, the bolt-in-law is a solid one and could end up playing into tiebreakers and all those other things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the Sonata, the Sonata is the wild card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes you do something like that like have Sonata cheat his way to over the champion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can do a title match later if you want, you don't have to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But what that does is just reminds you that Sonata and House of Torture is always dangerous.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: it serves a lot of purposes and it keeps things dramatic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not surprised that he's lost three times in the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I figured that would be about what would happen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I really think that otherwise he would cruise into the playoffs and what's interesting about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We should get to the last guy now, but based off of all this, I really think that the three guys that are in intention of making it a post-bought play are to Kesha, Oleg Bowling and Yota Fuji.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well let's go ahead and talk about surgery.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's on eight points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's two behind one match, one victory behind the others.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so let's cover him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are three guys on eight points, but Suji, you're right, is kind of the most intriguing at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned that he beat Owewa in Hiroshima.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His right arm was absolutely mummified for that match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just wrapped and taped like crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All the way up to the shoulder and the elbow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Owewa, of course, worked that part.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's Owewa's

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll get to that later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Lots of Suji Selling in this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were really took him apart physically.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Suji though had a good comeback.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He hit the fire blaster out of a headlock and then hit a second one to win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was really good and it showed that all we were can go toe with the champion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and it showed that the champion can persevere when somebody picks a body part dismantles it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He can persevere, fight through the pain, and rally to win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those are good messages to send with these two guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, of course, he had the loss today in the main event as far as the work level goes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Susie's having a fantastic year one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, like I said, just a couple of seconds ago, he's making guys like he's having these high caliber matches and elevating all of the talent with him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've never seen a we were at that level like he turned it on something a little extra against Yoda suits you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The match that he had are the only Bolton today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to run through a wall Stephen when that match was over like that match had me so fired up based off of what I had seen today, and I was just like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: bent through a war in this match, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you hold up that never belt in the middle of the ring and you got 2G, like barely able to stand on the side of the against like the barricade and you've tried to hold up a TWGP title, it's like, it's a bite.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I got you and

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get that Fuji bolt match outside of the G1 and Fuji will get his win back and everything will be great, but this is the bolt and I've wanted to see the bolt right for a while now and and it's all coming together and I am just I'm happy for that and if it's not for a guy like Fuji to really bring it out in these matches and a made of a caliber with some of these

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take a look at, well, let's take a look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had Shingo, he beat O'Con and Hiroshima.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shingo Tague, he beat O'Con and Hiroshima.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They fought in a bad match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They fought out to the men's room.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, a crap match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Shingo almost got us swirly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was, they were all, the fans couldn't actually see this unless they brought, put it up on the video board or something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, O'Con did the Machito trip spot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was pretty rough.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shingo sold for a while.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shingo gave him a drop toe hold into an exposed buckle, burning dragon for three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then it was a great win over Takeshita for Shingo today in the Corkin Hall.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really one of the better mentions of the tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, Schingel's first win over to Kestin, New Japan, so that had a little bit of significance there, and brings the Kest to back to the pack.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The other person on eight points worth mentioning here for sure is Riowe Owewa.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had the loss we discussed at the Suji and Hiroshima, where Suji powered through having his arm dismantled.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Today, he eliminated Hiroki Gogo from the tournament Jeremy by winning with a headlock submission.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they are,

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[SPEAKER_01]: really heavily on him getting the headlock over and and it's it's starting to work a little bit when go to tap to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the crowd was a little bit surprised that it was a tap out but he did get it and there wasn't a ton to this match and there wasn't the big moves.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There were

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of the big moves you would expect in the exchanges between these two really didn't happen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They sort of went through their match fairly quickly and efficiently, I would say, without a lot of elaboration because they wanted to, I guess, see the spotlight to the last two matches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Shango and Takeshita, Suji, and Suji and Bolton, because this was

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[SPEAKER_01]: quicker than you would think for these two, and maybe a little bit more straightforward, and it really wasn't the battle of the big moves that we normally get in these.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, look at, I thought I thought the shingo match today will fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to like think back to some of these spots, but really it just,

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[SPEAKER_00]: doing the every, every near fall that Takeshira had against him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just felt so hurt, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we had, we had the, um, the one, the one pit like the one, the one count kick out, which I feel like I'm seeing more and more all over the place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like it in a scenario like this where to catch a desperately doesn't want to move to this guy that you've never lost it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean like in that kind of scenario where it's either a title, defense, or like they're going, you can I don't want to, I don't want to move right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like because damn it, I'm not going to lose this guy you never have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, she can go just barely able to get that pin, you know, at the very end and like just gutting through all of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that Chingo, there are the fan to Chingo, and I know that there are the people that really want him another run at the top, but he is upper midcard, and that's pretty much where he's going to be, and I think it's the perfect spot for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, you have a kicking out of one thing I could do without, but they know

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we wouldn't go to, under nine minutes, under nine minutes for that mention, it was eight, eight minutes, 51 seconds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they went through it quickly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was, those are the point, people that were on eight, six points.

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[SPEAKER_01]: J. K. Sanata and you don't ice, I'll just talk about ice this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He beat J. K. Lee and Hiroshima, you, Lee attacked ice in the aisle, but that didn't go very well, you know, he won the brawl part of it, but he also brought handcuffs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh, he did and he put one of the handcuffs on Utois, but he couldn't put both of them on him because ice got a fired up and ice was in control of the cuff kind of, but for some reason it had tape on it, like athletic tape on the cuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think maybe to keep it from being latched too early because in the storyline for storyline reasons, Utois didn't have the key.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, or kind would have had the key.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the issue is that I'd take it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But ice couldn't get the tape off of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so he couldn't, the idea was that ice, oh, you want to handcuff me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to handcuff me to you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he, you know, he puts it on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He has it on him, and he wants to cuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Great O'Con to him, so that O'Con can't get away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the storyline here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But then he couldn't get the tape off of the end.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, time absolutely stood still.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had to get help from Matt's a moto to operate the handcuffs and get it, and it didn't work at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He ended up cuffing himself too, jakely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I still beat him down, but Lee got in a low blow, so now they're handcuffed to each other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Lee ends up uncoffing himself and he cuffs both of ice his hands together, but even that doesn't work, ice rallies, and the ref was still out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The referee was barely touched.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was another instance of that today, it was garbage, where the referee was barely touched, but just

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I sent it up hitting a running knee to win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This match was a mess, it's stuck.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I said a match today was Sonata.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was really bad also.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it was a really tough week for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those tough week for ice, not his best work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he was in with two guys that weren't really going to give him much either.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no better days ahead for ice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was really trying to follow along with their trying to explain with Sonata and that match today with like, you know, like the old tag team and oh, okay, sure we'll get to that yeah, we'll get to that one and say we're weird, but you know, like this is this is the part of the tournament we're like, you know, you know, I think you're going to win and he's going to lose a couple of times, but we want to do it in such a way where

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[SPEAKER_00]: he doesn't lose any heat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's like that's fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's well good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to apologize.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had a brain fart a few seconds ago in a real life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I talked about Schingo when I meant real.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, we will.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And all I wanted to say about real.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, we live.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's in that number around 10 points.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're really getting over that grip head block take over.

53:31.502 --> 53:33.503
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there are better days ahead for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's probably going to win the world title at some point.

53:36.284 --> 53:39.565
[SPEAKER_00]: They've stopped off of the way that he am wrestling and the reactions that he is getting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think this year is this time.

53:42.122 --> 53:57.109
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so we're going to kick things into turbo here because we're a little bit behind where we need to be on time, but Sinada, I wanted to mention this Sinada high smash here, apparently Sinada wrestled in the first show that Udo ice ever saw alive.

53:57.870 --> 54:04.253
[SPEAKER_01]: And for some reason, not only to him, Sinada still has the gear from those algebraic pandas and worried in the ring today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, but this was another one where the referee was barely touched and had to sell forever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: New Japan's just not good at this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not good at these.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This ref Bob, he, I mean, I, you,

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[SPEAKER_01]: high-fiving the fans on the way to the ring.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You take more impact than he did in this thing and he just stayed down endlessly and then there was a little bit of stuff with Ken Amaro with the whiskey and he used the guitar for the furrow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We haven't seen the guitar yet in this tournament.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We saw it here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had clobbered ice in the head with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then the moral conflict about whether you should use that guitar or not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I honestly don't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that you don't care, but I got the impact on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was supposed to be struggling about whether to use it or not.

54:49.736 --> 54:50.976
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think so too.

54:51.177 --> 54:52.737
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think anybody really care.

54:52.817 --> 54:57.380
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so sick of the whole all the guy in the house of torture has changed his stripes and they never do.

54:57.860 --> 55:00.681
[SPEAKER_01]: You just because they're not creative enough to think of anything like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so he's been sent out of for no reason at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just takes a fake bump.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the middle of the ring and lays there and teases like it's a double knockout doesn't need to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Could have just pinned them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the story is if ice loses he loses by knockout.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we have to do this way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is poorly thought out poorly executed bad match.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I sent it up losing that by knockout because he got hit with a cheap guitar bad stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This just wasn't any good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And go to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

55:29.690 --> 55:39.458
[SPEAKER_01]: Goto and O'Con already eliminated, and again, the lack of creativity in New Japan really weird to suck we had, and we had to sit through some really bad red house torch stuff there.

55:39.939 --> 55:42.661
[SPEAKER_01]: So O'Con and Goto are mathematically out.

55:42.801 --> 55:43.161
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's eight blocks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't shot any way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're all good.

55:46.164 --> 55:46.464
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

55:46.644 --> 55:54.371
[SPEAKER_01]: So, and just as far as attendance go by the way for those A blocks, it was interesting because they were in, I mentioned they were in

55:58.061 --> 56:02.844
[SPEAKER_01]: The attendance in Hiroshima was was fairly good, and then they did Corrican Hall.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was it was it was down a little bit, but not down terribly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna double check my notes on that for Hiroshima.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't know, I got it here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are 2,255.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's 250 better than last year, which had O'Con and Zack Saber Jr. is the main event.

56:24.246 --> 56:28.469
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not the best main event they ever had, but better in there.

56:28.549 --> 56:31.631
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, of course, they sold out a corrican, a corrican was full today.

56:31.671 --> 56:33.192
[SPEAKER_01]: So good news on that front.

56:35.274 --> 56:37.736
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to spend too much time on this specific match.

56:38.196 --> 56:39.697
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the convict match.

56:40.525 --> 56:52.450
[SPEAKER_00]: But Jake Lee and Great O'Con had a match today in which they actually had a conflict in the ring, and Jake Lee smacked Great O'Con.

56:54.992 --> 56:57.513
[SPEAKER_00]: Try to smacking with the chair smacked it on the ground.

56:58.213 --> 57:00.274
[SPEAKER_00]: Stake joy he got hit by Great O'Con.

57:00.394 --> 57:07.097
[SPEAKER_00]: Great O'Con got eliminated without ever hitting Jake Lee with the chair, and he summarily lost his mind.

57:07.437 --> 57:08.878
[SPEAKER_00]: They're in the same faction.

57:10.298 --> 57:11.461
[SPEAKER_00]: There's something to this.

57:11.982 --> 57:19.037
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that it's going to play into the Call of Newman and Hennari match on the final night of people.

57:20.755 --> 57:23.416
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so that's a, let's take a look at B-block.

57:23.456 --> 57:32.658
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, July 31st, they were in Tacomatsu in front of about 1200 people, which is not a huge crowd, but it's good for Tacomatsu, which is not a big sound at all.

57:32.938 --> 57:38.519
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a big city, and they aren't usually a G1 spot, not regularly anyway.

57:38.599 --> 57:43.761
[SPEAKER_01]: They usually are a fantastic amania spot, and they usually do about 700 or 800 for that.

57:45.081 --> 57:51.283
[SPEAKER_01]: But in 2023, for instance, they did 1,500 people with OCOTA versus Kenta on top.

57:51.783 --> 57:53.484
[SPEAKER_01]: And giving an idea, well, we've been doing this.

57:53.864 --> 57:56.425
[SPEAKER_01]: Sugey versus Shota Umano was the semi-final.

57:57.325 --> 58:04.087
[SPEAKER_01]: Three years ago, in Tacomatsu, the last time the G1 was there, this time only about 1271.

58:04.287 --> 58:09.229
[SPEAKER_01]: So down a little bit from a few years ago, then they went to Fukuoka on August 2nd.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That one did 2,300 people now.

58:13.690 --> 58:20.234
[SPEAKER_01]: They've run a lot of shows in Fukuoka lately, Jeremy, including the two-nighter with Shingo Takagi versus Kalam Numan.

58:20.254 --> 58:22.055
[SPEAKER_01]: They did 3,600 people for that one.

58:22.476 --> 58:30.000
[SPEAKER_01]: They did 2,400 for Suji versus Andrade for the global final layer that Andrade took for off of Suji.

58:31.101 --> 58:34.423
[SPEAKER_01]: And they did 2,500 for the G1 there last year.

58:34.443 --> 58:36.584
[SPEAKER_01]: This one only 2,300 in Fukuoka, but

58:42.902 --> 58:43.704
[SPEAKER_01]: So, there you go.

58:44.868 --> 58:45.329
[SPEAKER_01]: 10 points.

58:45.630 --> 58:49.420
[SPEAKER_01]: We have one leader, only one person's on 10, this Gabe kid.

58:50.462 --> 58:53.263
[SPEAKER_01]: he had the show to uminabuy and talk about so he never matched there.

58:53.643 --> 58:56.143
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he beat Hinaraya in Fukuoka.

58:56.203 --> 58:59.564
[SPEAKER_01]: He hit the ring in charge and R.A. they fought back and forth fight.

58:59.604 --> 59:01.524
[SPEAKER_01]: There wasn't much of a story to this match.

59:01.884 --> 59:03.544
[SPEAKER_01]: They just kind of took turns hitting each other.

59:04.265 --> 59:05.185
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was a decent enough.

59:05.205 --> 59:05.585
[SPEAKER_00]: Very hard.

59:06.205 --> 59:08.585
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it was a decent enough version of that match.

59:09.306 --> 59:10.546
[SPEAKER_01]: Just not a lot of story to it.

59:11.146 --> 59:13.826
[SPEAKER_01]: And kid ended up pointing that so he's on 10 points.

59:16.547 --> 59:16.607
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh

59:17.587 --> 59:19.949
[SPEAKER_00]: I think kid is a little long in the tooth for me.

59:20.569 --> 59:27.594
[SPEAKER_00]: I really enjoyed that here in our match because it was removed of all the Tonahashi, Umano, that's true.

59:27.975 --> 59:33.799
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all that crap and it was just two guys being the hell out of each other for the majority of this.

59:34.099 --> 59:41.765
[SPEAKER_00]: And you could you could tell that they both really liked and respected each other because they did not hold back, but it was also not like

59:42.847 --> 01:00:09.462
[SPEAKER_00]: mean about it like they were just they were just going for it and keep in mind it was kid back in his more reckless days that almost killed an array with that table spot during the cage match with the united empire in order that that there was any real hard feeling you know all that you know I didn't either yeah so I'm just like these guys just know each other and they were comfortable with each other and they waited and stuck and they were good and I really really liked it and

01:00:11.138 --> 01:00:15.650
[SPEAKER_00]: 10 points for Gabe Kid, I kind of think that that's kind of what you can end up with.

01:00:17.261 --> 01:00:19.402
[SPEAKER_01]: Eight points, a lot of guys on eight points.

01:00:19.602 --> 01:00:26.726
[SPEAKER_01]: So there are a lot of people, again, this is another thing where everybody is eligible in this block except showed up, obviously because he had to withdraw.

01:00:27.066 --> 01:00:36.030
[SPEAKER_01]: But other than that, no other elimination mathematical eliminations at all, and nobody has sealed the spot in the semi-finals as of yet.

01:00:36.050 --> 01:00:39.332
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's a big bunch here around 10, 8, 6.

01:00:40.072 --> 01:00:41.393
[SPEAKER_01]: On eight points, drill maloney.

01:00:42.053 --> 01:00:46.077
[SPEAKER_01]: Calumnuman, Rennerita, Henare and Oscar.

01:00:46.678 --> 01:00:53.364
[SPEAKER_01]: So Calumnuman, he got a big tiebreaker type of win over Gabe Kid with that.

01:00:53.484 --> 01:00:54.565
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he had a pretty good match.

01:00:55.806 --> 01:00:56.687
[SPEAKER_01]: The probably should have been better.

01:00:56.727 --> 01:00:58.729
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he had the Uminobi and Fukuoka.

01:00:58.749 --> 01:00:59.710
[SPEAKER_01]: So Calumnuman there.

01:01:01.532 --> 01:01:02.313
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Calumnuman.

01:01:02.333 --> 01:01:04.375
[SPEAKER_01]: So he had the Uminobi and Fukuoka.

01:01:05.108 --> 01:01:07.371
[SPEAKER_00]: So we sit on eight, but he's got three matches left.

01:01:07.391 --> 01:01:16.441
[SPEAKER_00]: He's one of the few that do have three matches left, or a couple that only have two, drill a being one of them who also have eight.

01:01:16.961 --> 01:01:20.906
[SPEAKER_00]: So it could be really interesting how that math plays out with all that.

01:01:21.486 --> 01:01:22.928
[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of look at Calm Newman,

01:01:24.807 --> 01:01:28.851
[SPEAKER_00]: ten or twelve point, you know, he's going to win, he could actually even get a weapon.

01:01:29.351 --> 01:01:43.103
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I could see a double count out with Canara, like Canara coxing him, and they go to a draw because, by the way, pardon me, I misspoke here, Gabe Kid didn't have the buy and talk about, so that was the Newman match.

01:01:43.323 --> 01:01:46.766
[SPEAKER_01]: I said he had to buy there earlier, that his buy was earlier in the tournament.

01:01:46.886 --> 01:01:50.790
[SPEAKER_01]: Newman defeated him, twelve minute match that should have been better than

01:01:53.131 --> 01:02:02.058
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I felt like they were navigating heal heal without I am trying to turn anyone baby face, which is kind of It could challenge.

01:02:02.318 --> 01:02:04.800
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't not work, but it could have worked better.

01:02:05.120 --> 01:02:12.486
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess it's the best way you could put it, but There are a lot of people who think the column Newman is going to make it to post block play.

01:02:12.726 --> 01:02:13.987
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not ruling it out.

01:02:15.260 --> 01:02:25.986
[SPEAKER_00]: But he already had the IWGP title run, and his direction seems more united, empire coded with some of the friction going on within the thing.

01:02:26.306 --> 01:02:30.088
[SPEAKER_00]: And really, they're a giant red flag with him and Hanoi on that final night.

01:02:30.408 --> 01:02:39.934
[SPEAKER_00]: They're such a giant red flag for him, thinking that he got a cruise into the last night because it's Hanoi and Hanoi is like, oh no brother,

01:02:40.674 --> 01:02:41.715
[SPEAKER_00]: that's not how this works.

01:02:42.035 --> 01:02:43.175
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, we're all equals.

01:02:43.236 --> 01:02:44.056
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't bow to you.

01:02:44.096 --> 01:02:44.656
[SPEAKER_00]: That kind of thing.

01:02:44.676 --> 01:02:51.280
[SPEAKER_00]: Because there has been a column move of positioning himself as a leader, whereas the old United Empire is like, no, there is no leader.

01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:53.581
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a group of collective individuals.

01:02:54.182 --> 01:02:56.863
[SPEAKER_00]: So, curious, you know what I mean?

01:02:56.943 --> 01:02:59.164
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that could be something with that night.

01:02:59.245 --> 01:03:03.947
[SPEAKER_00]: And then with Drola Maloney, he's got eight points, but he's got the buy on the final nine.

01:03:04.327 --> 01:03:06.028
[SPEAKER_00]: So he could go to ten

01:03:07.542 --> 01:03:09.866
[SPEAKER_00]: And then be like, where's my last match?

01:03:09.966 --> 01:03:11.528
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, he stuck on that 10.

01:03:11.548 --> 01:03:11.648
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:03:12.950 --> 01:03:13.511
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

01:03:13.571 --> 01:03:19.620
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's kind of like the tragedy of the way that all kind of worked out.

01:03:20.183 --> 01:03:21.464
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think that's true.

01:03:22.185 --> 01:03:30.375
[SPEAKER_01]: He, by the way, lost to Oscar, via the sleeper back in the first match of the week, then lost to Wolf on an angle slam.

01:03:30.395 --> 01:03:34.019
[SPEAKER_01]: And a pretty good match in Fukuoka, by the way, that match was really good.

01:03:34.099 --> 01:03:36.982
[SPEAKER_01]: But that was an Aaron Wolf angle slams.

01:03:37.102 --> 01:03:39.265
[SPEAKER_01]: He's coming back down to Earth after a fast start.

01:03:40.266 --> 01:03:40.406
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

01:03:41.731 --> 01:03:42.311
[SPEAKER_01]: Ren Naredo.

01:03:42.931 --> 01:03:49.613
[SPEAKER_01]: He got a screw job win over Zack Saber Jr. in a very quick match and talk him out so that really was Zack way back in the tournament.

01:03:50.133 --> 01:03:51.274
[SPEAKER_01]: Big surprise to me, really.

01:03:51.314 --> 01:03:55.895
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think they were going to have Zack go all the way to the back of the line so to speak.

01:03:55.915 --> 01:03:57.075
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see how we made it.

01:03:57.455 --> 01:03:58.456
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see it pathway now.

01:03:58.936 --> 01:04:01.236
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he beat Ue mora and Fukuoka.

01:04:01.836 --> 01:04:03.297
[SPEAKER_01]: Ue mora out wrestled in early.

01:04:03.337 --> 01:04:08.158
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, that's the story of the baby face in the in a fair fight was winning and then

01:04:11.722 --> 01:04:12.983
[SPEAKER_01]: and then he clamped on a knee bar.

01:04:13.664 --> 01:04:17.088
[SPEAKER_01]: Got some help from Dictogo while Kanamara distracted the referee.

01:04:17.148 --> 01:04:21.093
[SPEAKER_01]: Togo came in and sort of dropped his weight on U.A.

01:04:21.113 --> 01:04:22.675
[SPEAKER_01]: Moore's leg.

01:04:22.735 --> 01:04:26.058
[SPEAKER_01]: While it was in the knee bar and then we were ahead to tap.

01:04:26.159 --> 01:04:26.959
[SPEAKER_01]: So it wasn't...

01:04:27.700 --> 01:04:33.943
[SPEAKER_01]: a clean win, but he got the submission win over you, we more and more behind the eight ball in a way.

01:04:34.704 --> 01:04:38.546
[SPEAKER_01]: And so yeah, Renderita, I think he is probably run his race.

01:04:38.626 --> 01:04:45.530
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that way more a match was kind of the last gas, the last thing he's going to do to mess with scores on this one.

01:04:45.830 --> 01:04:47.071
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's got one more in him.

01:04:47.631 --> 01:04:48.151
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think so?

01:04:48.251 --> 01:04:48.451
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:04:48.591 --> 01:04:51.753
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think I think you're going to win with the Aaron Wolf coming.

01:04:52.213 --> 01:04:54.014
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to lose to grow the money to get

01:04:55.857 --> 01:04:58.639
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think you'd be eating Gabe Kid on the final night to call.

01:04:59.039 --> 01:04:59.579
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.

01:04:59.659 --> 01:05:00.060
[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.

01:05:00.160 --> 01:05:00.400
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:05:00.520 --> 01:05:01.200
[SPEAKER_01]: I see your point there.

01:05:01.300 --> 01:05:01.540
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:05:01.641 --> 01:05:05.403
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I think you can end up with 10 and kind of ruin Gabe Kid G1.

01:05:06.848 --> 01:05:08.528
[SPEAKER_01]: Henry is the other person with eight points.

01:05:08.688 --> 01:05:13.790
[SPEAKER_01]: He had, uh, he had, uh, he had the amino by and talking about to kids by his coming up this week.

01:05:13.810 --> 01:05:15.650
[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to kid though in Fukuoka.

01:05:16.270 --> 01:05:17.851
[SPEAKER_01]: And we are to talk about that match there.

01:05:18.131 --> 01:05:25.312
[SPEAKER_01]: And Oscar on eight points, uh, we, we may have underestimated how much new Japan likes height in the G one.

01:05:25.332 --> 01:05:30.654
[SPEAKER_01]: We should have learned from Tala Tonga and Bad Luck Fale about the, they like the Tala, they like the tongue as well.

01:05:30.674 --> 01:05:31.694
[SPEAKER_00]: And a G one, uh,

01:05:31.754 --> 01:05:48.003
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I said, tell the Tonga, I was, you know, like a Hickaleo one got made the playoffs when you're anyway Oscar beat Meloni and then lost to Zach in Fukuoka used a lot of power bombs but Zach tied him up with submissions and Zach celebrated after he won that match like he had won the tournament.

01:05:48.023 --> 01:05:48.323
[SPEAKER_01]: He was so.

01:05:48.783 --> 01:05:55.408
[SPEAKER_01]: So in storyline, so relieved after it was a bit of a slump buster for Zack, who had not had a good tournament at all.

01:05:56.209 --> 01:05:57.390
[SPEAKER_01]: He was wrestling very well.

01:05:57.430 --> 01:05:58.691
[SPEAKER_01]: I just mean storyline wise.

01:05:58.711 --> 01:05:59.731
[SPEAKER_01]: He wasn't getting the results.

01:05:59.751 --> 01:06:00.592
[SPEAKER_01]: He was losing his matches.

01:06:00.632 --> 01:06:05.516
[SPEAKER_01]: So Zack, very happy to get past Oscar and get back to his winning ways.

01:06:05.576 --> 01:06:07.217
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the crew that's on eight points, Jeremy.

01:06:08.278 --> 01:06:12.161
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so Oscar, he's got that massive Call of Numan, which

01:06:13.127 --> 01:06:15.408
[SPEAKER_00]: Frankly speaking, could go either way.

01:06:15.568 --> 01:06:21.790
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, you know, I think you're going to beat Oscar and Lou, if the Aaron Wolf match was Callum Moon, and that's going to really decide.

01:06:23.810 --> 01:06:24.971
[SPEAKER_00]: Which one is going forward?

01:06:25.591 --> 01:06:32.793
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, what story that they're going to tell, but Oscar, I think you're going to lose the column.

01:06:33.713 --> 01:06:35.716
[SPEAKER_00]: and lose to you anymore.

01:06:35.997 --> 01:06:40.443
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's probably going to stay at eight and him and you know, we're both kind of be at eight and both of their blocks.

01:06:40.584 --> 01:06:44.309
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, they'll they'll look strong and have their moment.

01:06:44.409 --> 01:06:44.650
[SPEAKER_00]: But

01:06:46.248 --> 01:06:51.270
[SPEAKER_00]: they're still young and they got worn down by the tournament kind of mentality.

01:06:51.810 --> 01:06:56.571
[SPEAKER_00]: And Henari, you know, with that, I mentioned that last match is Kalanuman on that last night.

01:06:57.131 --> 01:06:59.692
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see them having the same amount of points.

01:07:00.232 --> 01:07:08.715
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so I could see Kalanuman winning one in time one, but I see Henari maybe losing two in time one.

01:07:08.755 --> 01:07:11.256
[SPEAKER_00]: So he end with nine and newman ends up with a

01:07:16.266 --> 01:07:28.794
[SPEAKER_00]: Uemaro, which I think he has to lose to Zach Saber-Jinger, who he has to lose to, and then Calam Numan, which he could tie or win or whatever, but he is going to be called sequential in that last night.

01:07:28.955 --> 01:07:30.976
[SPEAKER_00]: So, and our movement made it look strong.

01:07:31.016 --> 01:07:39.401
[SPEAKER_00]: You kind of had that old Jeff Cobb role where, like that, the United Empire Heavy, they get really, really close at a very constant, quenchable through the entire tournament.

01:07:39.482 --> 01:07:42.964
[SPEAKER_00]: So, really enjoyed what he had to offer on this.

01:07:43.789 --> 01:07:52.871
[SPEAKER_00]: really, you know, after a year and a half, a big way, he, he, he just, he re vived his vibe, I guess.

01:07:54.571 --> 01:07:57.452
[SPEAKER_01]: And Zach Saber Jr., we're going to go over him real quickly.

01:07:57.472 --> 01:07:58.432
[SPEAKER_01]: He's on four points.

01:07:58.832 --> 01:08:02.613
[SPEAKER_01]: He can't lose the Generys out and Maloney and Henri are next.

01:08:02.733 --> 01:08:07.234
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think he's likely to win those and then let it come down to the Aaron Wolf match on the final day.

01:08:07.754 --> 01:08:10.254
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think by the time we get to the final

01:08:13.575 --> 01:08:22.117
[SPEAKER_00]: They're just simply no way for him to be at 8 and 10 with some of the other people, which so it's the potential to play spoiler then.

01:08:22.617 --> 01:08:27.638
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's gatekeeping Aaron Wolfe from making it in it's kind of the story.

01:08:27.658 --> 01:08:33.880
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're trying to tell like Aaron Wolfe have to earn his way into the G1 and got Saber Jr's just not going to give it to him.

01:08:34.540 --> 01:08:35.820
[SPEAKER_00]: That kind of thing, but

01:08:40.665 --> 01:08:44.561
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that San Bernard Jr., if that last, if the last gatekeeper guy?

01:08:45.539 --> 01:09:05.575
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think really interesting for Aaron Wolf, you know, I've said it every week, it's very interesting to me that he, the first match of the G1, and he potentially has the final block match of the G1, and people are not making enough of that right now, so we didn't really talk about you, you know, and we're going to get to that.

01:09:16.105 --> 01:09:20.028
[SPEAKER_00]: For midcard, I think his time at the top is kind of wrapping up your eyes.

01:09:20.048 --> 01:09:20.809
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think so.

01:09:21.450 --> 01:09:27.995
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he is very much just a guy and he held the promotion together while they're getting their guy ready to go.

01:09:28.515 --> 01:09:31.638
[SPEAKER_00]: They're ready to go and I think this is, we'll see.

01:09:31.678 --> 01:09:33.419
[SPEAKER_00]: And he got rolling on a silver plot.

01:09:33.980 --> 01:09:35.601
[SPEAKER_01]: No, we'll see if they're ready.

01:09:36.882 --> 01:09:40.326
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, on six points, so we have two guys that are very interesting here.

01:09:40.346 --> 01:09:45.671
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are even though there are a couple of points back, four points off of Gabe Kid.

01:09:45.691 --> 01:09:51.517
[SPEAKER_01]: They feel like guys who are about to have a search as you get way more, who defeated Wolf in the main event of Takamatsu.

01:09:51.537 --> 01:09:54.380
[SPEAKER_01]: It was pretty good match, but then he lost him to read in Fukuoka.

01:09:54.420 --> 01:09:58.424
[SPEAKER_01]: So he needs to start winning and then Wolf had the loss to Roy Moore that we just mentioned.

01:09:58.844 --> 01:10:04.791
[SPEAKER_01]: And that back him into a corner at the beginning of the week, but then he came through against Maloney, and we mentioned he ends with Zach.

01:10:04.851 --> 01:10:20.428
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he'll lose before Zach, although again, you know, I feel like that for dramatic purposes, that's what it's going to come down to, but OEMora and Wolf could very well be the two that advance, even though there are four points behind the leader at the stage with three shows to go.

01:10:22.538 --> 01:10:28.499
[SPEAKER_00]: I kept looking at this and I was like, where are the red flags for these two to events?

01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:33.081
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it pretty clear to everybody that you, your humor is going to events.

01:10:33.481 --> 01:10:43.743
[SPEAKER_00]: Like there's taught babyface energy, you know, just positioned in that way and having an RA, having Gabe Kid,

01:10:44.463 --> 01:10:55.333
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, once he gets past that Gabe kid and he goes, he's like, be to hell, and then if you got to face the monster off the last night to get in, uh, that's, that's top baby face energy, right there.

01:10:55.353 --> 01:10:55.893
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

01:10:55.913 --> 01:10:58.295
[SPEAKER_00]: Like those are obstacles to get through.

01:10:58.736 --> 01:11:06.462
[SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, you have Aaron Wolfe who has to get through Renner Reedanet totally doable, because that was the guy he beat for the never, never title.

01:11:06.983 --> 01:11:09.085
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got Call of Newman after that, which is,

01:11:10.009 --> 01:11:17.611
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I said that you get we mirror an Aaron Wolfe was one of the pivotal matches in the tournament for me in terms of like what they're going to do.

01:11:18.411 --> 01:11:31.435
[SPEAKER_00]: The column Newman and Aaron Wolfe matches the same thing because if Aaron Wolfe went that, he was going to typeric over column Newman and it is going to be a winning get in scenario with him no matter what happens with column Newman.

01:11:32.316 --> 01:11:32.916
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

01:11:32.996 --> 01:11:33.196
[SPEAKER_00]: So.

01:11:34.778 --> 01:11:40.666
[SPEAKER_00]: I think once you end up happening, if you get Oremara went to this block and Aaron Wolf squeezes in right after that.

01:11:40.946 --> 01:11:50.499
[SPEAKER_00]: I originally had Aaron Wolf winning the block and you get Oremara squeezing in, but if you get Oremara isn't winning this tournament and better not have them positioned if the winner of the block.

01:11:51.897 --> 01:11:52.297
[SPEAKER_01]: fair enough.

01:11:52.978 --> 01:11:54.138
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's what we have here.

01:11:54.478 --> 01:11:55.219
[SPEAKER_01]: That's our standing.

01:11:55.239 --> 01:11:56.780
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's take a look at the week ahead.

01:11:57.140 --> 01:11:59.041
[SPEAKER_01]: Busy a week of the tournament so far.

01:11:59.181 --> 01:12:03.843
[SPEAKER_01]: Five shows between now and when we come back next Thursday.

01:12:04.203 --> 01:12:04.844
[SPEAKER_01]: It all begins.

01:12:06.193 --> 01:12:11.479
[SPEAKER_01]: Saturday in Yokohama at the Budakon, B-block action go over the top matches for it.

01:12:11.519 --> 01:12:13.622
[SPEAKER_01]: It's Oscar vs. Calum Newman on top.

01:12:13.662 --> 01:12:14.403
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the main event.

01:12:15.043 --> 01:12:20.410
[SPEAKER_01]: Wolf vs. Ren Narita is the semi-main, and then Gabe Kid has the buy.

01:12:20.830 --> 01:12:21.251
[SPEAKER_01]: Sunday.

01:12:22.297 --> 01:12:24.277
[SPEAKER_01]: in gunma, that's the A-block.

01:12:24.598 --> 01:12:29.839
[SPEAKER_01]: That has shingovers as you know, ICE, and hero Kigoto versus Oleg Bolton.

01:12:29.919 --> 01:12:32.119
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Sunday, August 9th, and gunma.

01:12:32.819 --> 01:12:37.781
[SPEAKER_01]: So no show on Friday, then we're on Saturday and Sunday, off Monday.

01:12:38.401 --> 01:12:40.101
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we're back Tuesday and Mia.

01:12:40.661 --> 01:12:41.321
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a B-man.

01:12:41.341 --> 01:12:41.861
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a B-man.

01:12:42.622 --> 01:12:43.022
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.

01:12:44.042 --> 01:12:44.442
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.

01:12:45.022 --> 01:12:45.242
[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.

01:12:45.782 --> 01:12:46.823
[SPEAKER_01]: Tuesday, August 11th.

01:12:46.843 --> 01:12:47.263
[SPEAKER_00]: And we don't.

01:12:47.383 --> 01:12:48.323
[SPEAKER_00]: It can be done.

01:12:49.042 --> 01:12:51.444
[SPEAKER_01]: B-block is you, you way more versus Gabe Kid.

01:12:52.264 --> 01:12:54.886
[SPEAKER_01]: Aaron Wolfer's Calminum and Oscar gets the buy.

01:12:55.947 --> 01:12:58.849
[SPEAKER_00]: Aaron Wolfer's Calminum and circle that match everybody Tuesday, big day.

01:12:58.889 --> 01:13:01.051
[SPEAKER_01]: Wednesday, August 12th, and Shizuoka.

01:13:01.091 --> 01:13:04.013
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the final night of A-block action.

01:13:04.113 --> 01:13:08.197
[SPEAKER_01]: So these are the matches we do not have the order yet for K-Fab reasons.

01:13:08.217 --> 01:13:15.182
[SPEAKER_01]: They will establish that after Sunday, after Sunday, they will announce what order these matches are in.

01:13:15.642 --> 01:13:17.684
[SPEAKER_01]: But the five matches are shingover, Sonata,

01:13:18.624 --> 01:13:23.086
[SPEAKER_01]: Yoda Suji vs. Jake Lee, uh, Oleg Bolton vs. Great O'Con.

01:13:24.027 --> 01:13:28.509
[SPEAKER_01]: Hero Kigoto vs. You know, Ice, I'd imagine that one probably won't be a factor.

01:13:29.010 --> 01:13:35.693
[SPEAKER_01]: To catch the vs. Rio Heo Ewa, that sounds like a really frickin' matter sense, but we don't know the order of that one.

01:13:36.154 --> 01:13:37.414
[SPEAKER_01]: But, uh, yeah, that's good.

01:13:37.675 --> 01:13:38.655
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see if we get the right.

01:13:38.995 --> 01:13:40.376
[SPEAKER_00]: Yoda Suji may have to, made event.

01:13:41.837 --> 01:13:42.897
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, against Jake Lee, yeah.

01:13:42.977 --> 01:13:43.298
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:13:44.518 --> 01:13:47.340
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I will say Bolton Oleg is underneath.

01:13:48.412 --> 01:13:51.254
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think versus O'Con, O'Con's eliminated.

01:13:51.534 --> 01:13:59.020
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Takeshita O'Weewa could either be some I mean, like it is Takeshita O'Weewa underneath.

01:13:59.500 --> 01:14:07.766
[SPEAKER_00]: And so Takeshita has to win that match, but a bolt-in-law doesn't beat O'Con Takeshita still invests.

01:14:07.826 --> 01:14:10.868
[SPEAKER_00]: Takeshita would have the tiebreaker.

01:14:10.888 --> 01:14:17.553
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's the dramatic tension of bolt-in-law like has to beat Great O'Con to advance and then you put the other two underneath.

01:14:18.162 --> 01:14:19.204
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, interesting, all right.

01:14:19.685 --> 01:14:29.603
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Thursday, August 13th, Coral, and Hall, back in Coral, and Hall, for the last night of B-block action, the five matches, you, you owe more of our results.

01:14:29.643 --> 01:14:30.004
[SPEAKER_00]: Or not you.

01:14:31.004 --> 01:14:33.126
[SPEAKER_01]: four matches you're right, because Drillabalone has the bike.

01:14:33.687 --> 01:14:41.654
[SPEAKER_01]: O'ay, more of us is Oscar, Callum, Newman, Versusonare, Gabe Kid, Versus Rennerita, and Aaron Wolff, Versus Zack, Saber, Jr.

01:14:41.694 --> 01:14:44.477
[SPEAKER_01]: So when we come back next week, we will have the playoffs.

01:14:45.097 --> 01:14:45.698
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be set.

01:14:45.818 --> 01:14:52.845
[SPEAKER_01]: We will have our bracket or some of my finals for those two nights at Simo Hall, which look like Jeremy are selling very, very well.

01:14:52.885 --> 01:14:55.147
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, the Japanese love a retirement.

01:14:55.287 --> 01:14:58.248
[SPEAKER_01]: So the idea of tens of undertiring, they're showing up for it.

01:14:58.828 --> 01:15:03.368
[SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully they also have a good crowd for that other night of the G1 as well.

01:15:03.988 --> 01:15:06.689
[SPEAKER_00]: So we have a night of wrestling over eight days.

01:15:07.049 --> 01:15:07.449
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that right?

01:15:09.129 --> 01:15:11.230
[SPEAKER_01]: I think nine days, but yeah, it's pretty good.

01:15:11.370 --> 01:15:11.990
[SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty good.

01:15:12.090 --> 01:15:15.890
[SPEAKER_00]: And they have the following weekend is, okay.

01:15:16.331 --> 01:15:17.811
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's a lot, it's a lot.

01:15:17.851 --> 01:15:20.311
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's, I think there are only three days off, might be 10.

01:15:20.431 --> 01:15:22.011
[SPEAKER_00]: After that, we're home for your brother.

01:15:23.312 --> 01:15:24.032
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna need it.

01:15:24.052 --> 01:15:24.812
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, this is our break.

01:15:26.225 --> 01:15:28.554
[SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of tens on, I've got a little bit of tens on here.

01:15:28.594 --> 01:15:29.478
[SPEAKER_01]: It's we finished things up.

01:15:29.498 --> 01:15:30.823
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got a few minutes here at the end.

01:15:31.345 --> 01:15:31.425
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye.

01:15:33.759 --> 01:15:39.964
[SPEAKER_01]: Tens on, of course, I'm really glad to hear that that show is selling well because there are a few matches by the way.

01:15:40.005 --> 01:15:45.469
[SPEAKER_01]: They put up for a couple of days, only for a couple of days, free on NJPWworld.

01:15:45.509 --> 01:15:48.352
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if you don't have this description, you can watch some of the matches from Tens on.

01:15:48.532 --> 01:15:51.154
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have this description, you can see them all all the time.

01:15:52.035 --> 01:15:58.621
[SPEAKER_01]: But they've been dropping those in and they're a little ribbon on the main page of NJPWworld getting you ready for this.

01:15:58.681 --> 01:16:00.763
[SPEAKER_01]: A couple of them that I'm going to mention here today is matter of fact.

01:16:01.423 --> 01:16:02.784
[SPEAKER_01]: And worth going back to check out.

01:16:02.824 --> 01:16:07.507
[SPEAKER_01]: So when, last we left Tenson, he had his excursion in Europe and England.

01:16:07.787 --> 01:16:09.768
[SPEAKER_01]: He'd come back and become a tag team champion.

01:16:10.068 --> 01:16:18.693
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's aligned with Hiroseito and Masa Chono in their group that was feuding with the more traditional New Japan baby faces.

01:16:21.282 --> 01:16:41.975
[SPEAKER_01]: So, in 1998, that group ended up becoming part of the NWO, Jeremy, if you remember for a while there, this is when WCW and New Japan were working together a lot, and there was an NWO branch in Japan, and the internal would be part of that NWO group and regain the tag team titles, so after winning a tournament in 1998.

01:16:44.056 --> 01:17:02.345
[SPEAKER_01]: He had won the belts with Chono, lost him to Koshinaka and Teneru, and then they flooded with Teneru and Koshinaka and ended up winning the titles back, so he was always in the tag team title picture at this point, and I'll bring up what that meant back then.

01:17:03.726 --> 01:17:07.528
[SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned that they flooded with Koshinaka and Teneru for a lot of this.

01:17:08.707 --> 01:17:11.273
[SPEAKER_01]: He was a really, really good tag team wrestler, 10's on.

01:17:11.573 --> 01:17:12.175
[SPEAKER_01]: Excellent at that.

01:17:12.636 --> 01:17:16.865
[SPEAKER_01]: And he was always high up on the cards, but Chono was the number one guy in the faction.

01:17:18.182 --> 01:17:25.208
[SPEAKER_01]: Tenson would get a couple of title shots in there too at the IWGP title, but he wasn't ready to win that title just yet.

01:17:25.488 --> 01:17:26.969
[SPEAKER_01]: That was always Chono's territory.

01:17:27.830 --> 01:17:29.531
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, being the true challenger for that.

01:17:29.791 --> 01:17:33.414
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, Chono was known as Mr. August because he won so many G1.

01:17:33.454 --> 01:17:35.176
[SPEAKER_01]: So Chono was a singles guy.

01:17:35.916 --> 01:17:43.282
[SPEAKER_01]: Tenson was more of a tag team wrestler and participated in a lot of those six man tags.

01:17:43.322 --> 01:17:45.464
[SPEAKER_01]: You would see on those shows,

01:17:46.997 --> 01:17:51.660
[SPEAKER_01]: on the road to shows, which weren't called that back then, but that's what we would think of them now.

01:17:51.680 --> 01:17:57.904
[SPEAKER_01]: The six-man tag on top against whoever their top rivals are for the world's title, he's always a part of that.

01:17:57.924 --> 01:17:59.345
[SPEAKER_01]: So he was very high up on the cards.

01:18:00.588 --> 01:18:02.349
[SPEAKER_01]: They weren't afraid to headline a show with him.

01:18:03.069 --> 01:18:04.089
[SPEAKER_01]: Is the point I'm trying to make.

01:18:04.769 --> 01:18:11.351
[SPEAKER_01]: Dominated the tag ranks at a time when that mattered more than it does now, it was a big boom time for New Japan at this point.

01:18:11.791 --> 01:18:14.452
[SPEAKER_01]: We're about to move away from that a little bit unfortunately though.

01:18:14.832 --> 01:18:18.513
[SPEAKER_01]: They ran the Tokyo Dom several times a year and there are other shows.

01:18:18.533 --> 01:18:27.376
[SPEAKER_01]: The ones we think of, they were called different things back then but the done tacos, the king of pro wrestling so we're used to seeing in places like the Sun Plaza.

01:18:27.896 --> 01:18:50.002
[SPEAKER_01]: or re-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-you-con, or in trying to think of the name of the building in Kobe World Hall, you know, those types of buildings, Eddie on arena back then, those shows were in baseball stadiums in Nagoya or in Osaka, and so they were running six or eight shows a year in ball parks.

01:18:50.422 --> 01:18:52.303
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how big New Japan was then.

01:18:53.539 --> 01:18:58.161
[SPEAKER_01]: The tag team title matches could headline the buildings that we see now.

01:18:58.962 --> 01:19:10.887
[SPEAKER_01]: So they could do the Fukuoka building, they could do Eddie on Arena, they could run the bigger building in support, five or six thousand people for the tag team title match.

01:19:10.947 --> 01:19:15.369
[SPEAKER_01]: So of course, once they go to the ballpark, the big singles match headlines, right?

01:19:15.429 --> 01:19:18.270
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just always true the IWGP title.

01:19:18.751 --> 01:19:18.971
[SPEAKER_01]: But,

01:19:20.181 --> 01:19:25.426
[SPEAKER_01]: The tag team titles were headlining shows that are drawing very crowds of what we see now.

01:19:26.047 --> 01:19:28.409
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a real boom time for New Japan.

01:19:28.449 --> 01:19:30.911
[SPEAKER_01]: So, and 10's on was right in the middle of all that.

01:19:32.072 --> 01:19:37.377
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, five, six thousand attendance, sometimes 10,000, not unusual for the big tag team title matches.

01:19:38.767 --> 01:19:41.048
[SPEAKER_01]: January 4th, by the way, 1997.

01:19:41.468 --> 01:19:46.569
[SPEAKER_01]: He and Kojima won their first tag team titles together, and they defeated 10 rural and Kojima.

01:19:46.609 --> 01:19:51.430
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the first time 10 Kojima won the tag team titles.

01:19:51.610 --> 01:19:54.531
[SPEAKER_01]: They had that show, by the way, that was January 4th, 97.

01:19:54.571 --> 01:19:57.792
[SPEAKER_01]: That was headline by Kaiji Muto, beating Scott Norton.

01:19:58.632 --> 01:20:01.833
[SPEAKER_01]: But the 10-root match was the semi-final.

01:20:02.587 --> 01:20:09.907
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was over a series of matches between New Japan versus UFO, which was an MMA promotion.

01:20:10.752 --> 01:20:12.893
[SPEAKER_01]: say where we're going, we're getting into the anochism now.

01:20:13.434 --> 01:20:24.360
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're seeing that very beginning of anochism, the influence of MMA's rise to prominence at how they started working MMA type matches in with the New Japan stuff.

01:20:24.980 --> 01:20:29.223
[SPEAKER_01]: We now know that this was the beginning of the end of that hot streak I was just talking about.

01:20:29.923 --> 01:20:33.866
[SPEAKER_01]: But nevertheless, with two pro wrestling matches on top, this show was a big hit.

01:20:35.167 --> 01:20:40.952
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, so they had the tag team title match with 10 cozy against 10 run to Kashinaka mootovers Jordan.

01:20:41.012 --> 01:20:42.854
[SPEAKER_01]: That's pro wrestling on top of that one.

01:20:43.674 --> 01:20:50.240
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was also getting toward the end of that really hot run as MMA started to sneak into our RNG PW.

01:20:51.691 --> 01:21:10.141
[SPEAKER_01]: 10 cozy ended up feuding with a they kind of finished up with 10 ruin cashenica after about a year and a half of working with those guys consistently and start feuding with maconician negata so a little bit more from our the generation of guys that we know here a young much younger negata and maconician back then and

01:21:11.733 --> 01:21:17.654
[SPEAKER_01]: Later on, they would win the tag team titles again with Chono and again with some of Nishimura.

01:21:17.714 --> 01:21:20.795
[SPEAKER_01]: So at this point, he is just winning tag team titles over and over again.

01:21:20.815 --> 01:21:23.776
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a six-time champion, pretty quickly, early in his career.

01:21:25.376 --> 01:21:33.638
[SPEAKER_01]: In 2002, they hinted a little bit about what was to come with Tenza when he made the semi-finals of the G1 climax in 2002.

01:21:34.318 --> 01:21:37.179
[SPEAKER_01]: He ended up losing to his buddy Chono there.

01:21:37.359 --> 01:21:39.119
[SPEAKER_01]: Chono will go on to win that tournament.

01:21:41.016 --> 01:21:46.238
[SPEAKER_01]: In 2003, in the G1, he finished second in his block to June, Akiyama.

01:21:46.278 --> 01:21:47.959
[SPEAKER_01]: That was enough to make the semis again.

01:21:48.619 --> 01:21:51.701
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's when things would begin to shift.

01:21:51.721 --> 01:21:53.942
[SPEAKER_01]: He ended up defeating

01:21:55.005 --> 01:22:01.270
[SPEAKER_01]: the freelancer and MMA star Yoshihiro Takayama by knockout in the semi-finals.

01:22:02.111 --> 01:22:05.133
[SPEAKER_01]: Then he defeated Junakiyama, who was visiting from Noah.

01:22:05.933 --> 01:22:08.355
[SPEAKER_01]: So it basically he defeated both guests.

01:22:08.435 --> 01:22:13.920
[SPEAKER_01]: He was the New Japan guy who defeated both of the major guests in the G1 on the way to winning the whole thing.

01:22:14.360 --> 01:22:17.382
[SPEAKER_01]: So he takes out the MMA guy, Takayama.

01:22:17.983 --> 01:22:21.866
[SPEAKER_01]: He takes out Junakiyama, one of the top guys in Noah,

01:22:23.143 --> 01:22:26.396
[SPEAKER_01]: New Japan man wins the G1 climax tournament in 2003.

01:22:29.222 --> 01:22:31.183
[SPEAKER_01]: His title shot will come in November of that year.

01:22:31.764 --> 01:22:33.225
[SPEAKER_01]: And he defeated Takayama.

01:22:33.745 --> 01:22:44.693
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, he beats the champion in the tournament, gets the title shot, and in the Yokohama Arena, in front of about 12,500, tensed on one his first IWGP championship.

01:22:45.274 --> 01:22:52.459
[SPEAKER_01]: This show also had K1 rules matches, so kickboxing matches on the show, start to see that stuff, continue to creep in.

01:22:53.400 --> 01:22:57.303
[SPEAKER_01]: Megata and Manoros Suzuki was the semi-final with that one by the way.

01:22:58.152 --> 01:23:04.274
[SPEAKER_01]: So that classic rivalry was on that show and Tana Hashie was in a under 30 title match.

01:23:04.294 --> 01:23:06.254
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember we talked about Tana Hashie's career.

01:23:06.294 --> 01:23:12.716
[SPEAKER_01]: They had that under under 30 title for a while that he he futed with Makabe over that title quite a bit.

01:23:13.396 --> 01:23:17.497
[SPEAKER_01]: But Tana Hashie was on an under 30 title match on that show and Nakamura was on it as well.

01:23:18.377 --> 01:23:22.118
[SPEAKER_01]: Starting to see some of that next generation already start to creep in.

01:23:23.787 --> 01:23:30.755
[SPEAKER_01]: One month later, he would end up losing the IWGP title to a 23 year old Shinsuke Nakamura in Osaka.

01:23:31.756 --> 01:23:39.124
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the real passing of the torch, and it was Nakamura becoming the youngest IWGP champion in history, you know, of course.

01:23:39.465 --> 01:23:41.647
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about when Calum Newman won the title.

01:23:42.047 --> 01:23:44.010
[SPEAKER_01]: I would talk about how that was Nakamura's record.

01:23:45.142 --> 01:23:47.083
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, the young lion matched that night.

01:23:47.563 --> 01:23:51.786
[SPEAKER_01]: The night that he lost that title in the Nakamura was re-escape to Gucci versus Hero Kigoto.

01:23:52.466 --> 01:23:54.688
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the young lion matching that one.

01:23:54.708 --> 01:23:58.150
[SPEAKER_01]: Brian Danielson was on that show, also, by the way, as American Dragon.

01:23:59.391 --> 01:24:03.553
[SPEAKER_01]: And Tana Hashi versus Mara Fuji for that under-thirty title was the semi-final.

01:24:03.633 --> 01:24:08.256
[SPEAKER_01]: So this show symbolic of the little bit of a changing of the guard coming, right?

01:24:08.296 --> 01:24:11.178
[SPEAKER_01]: Because so you had tens on,

01:24:12.527 --> 01:24:23.294
[SPEAKER_01]: Kojima Nagata, that was kind of the contemporary guys where the peak guys like Muto and Chono starting to, you know, they were always legends and they were never treated badly.

01:24:23.634 --> 01:24:38.444
[SPEAKER_01]: They never did jobs in the openers the way our current dad kind of do now, but our guy tens on here was kind of the current thing along with Kojima, but they had these younger guys coming up.

01:24:40.258 --> 01:24:44.241
[SPEAKER_01]: Nakamura and Tana Hashi were in the top two matches on that show and one both.

01:24:44.301 --> 01:24:51.347
[SPEAKER_01]: So Nakamura won the IW GP title, Tana Hashi retained his title and were giving a little bit of hint of what they had in mind to come in a few years.

01:24:52.504 --> 01:24:55.206
[SPEAKER_01]: But he may have dropped the title that night, Jeremy.

01:24:55.226 --> 01:24:59.008
[SPEAKER_01]: But from here on out, he was always a part of the tag team division.

01:24:59.048 --> 01:25:00.830
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see a lot more gold in his future there.

01:25:01.270 --> 01:25:06.694
[SPEAKER_01]: But now, Tenson was also a constant thread for any IWGP champion of this era.

01:25:07.294 --> 01:25:13.178
[SPEAKER_01]: And he would be part of the world title and world tag team title picture for years to come.

01:25:13.558 --> 01:25:22.004
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about how he became a fixture in the title scene from 2003 on when we returned to this next week.

01:25:23.473 --> 01:25:24.858
[SPEAKER_00]: I really appreciate that you do this.

01:25:25.259 --> 01:25:27.225
[SPEAKER_00]: How long did it take you to work on this week?

01:25:29.129 --> 01:25:36.153
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't put a clock to it, but I spend a few hours on it, you know, I what I will do, I'll say this, I go through every single one of his matches.

01:25:36.233 --> 01:25:43.176
[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's a lot more than reading his Wikipedia page because I want to see who he's feuding with and where it is on the card.

01:25:43.236 --> 01:25:54.982
[SPEAKER_01]: So I will go through every single one of his matches over the course of a year and see what his positions on the card are not just that he's in a six man tag, but is that six man tag going on last.

01:25:55.422 --> 01:25:57.262
[SPEAKER_01]: on a house show or is it in the middle of a cart?

01:25:57.903 --> 01:26:03.144
[SPEAKER_01]: I check out all of his big matches, big shows, to see where he is and where he's positioned.

01:26:03.604 --> 01:26:16.147
[SPEAKER_01]: And I try to get a context of who his opponents are wrestling when they aren't wrestling tens of, you know, is he, are they regularly in with the main event or is this their little sweet glory when he's in there with tens of on.

01:26:16.187 --> 01:26:17.387
[SPEAKER_01]: So I look at all of that.

01:26:17.407 --> 01:26:20.128
[SPEAKER_01]: So it takes me a few hours, but this is what I call fun.

01:26:20.388 --> 01:26:21.248
[SPEAKER_01]: I love doing this stuff.

01:26:21.268 --> 01:26:22.568
[SPEAKER_01]: So I enjoy doing that.

01:26:22.609 --> 01:26:24.449
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, it's a few hours a week that I put into this.

01:26:25.498 --> 01:26:37.465
[SPEAKER_00]: Even do you want to go on a quick journey of exploration with me on the sport of pro wrestling to see what what score I have we have for this because I don't know and I look like maybe we should check together before we get out of here.

01:26:37.505 --> 01:26:38.886
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh gosh, all right, let's do this live.

01:26:38.906 --> 01:26:39.907
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see how we're doing here.

01:26:39.927 --> 01:26:42.588
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm I'm going to watch between my fingers here to see how we're doing.

01:26:43.529 --> 01:26:44.029
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you got?

01:26:46.150 --> 01:26:53.675
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremy is checking out the Chris Sambs's sport of pro wrestling page now to see the scoring table and see if we're doing.

01:26:57.767 --> 01:26:58.508
[SPEAKER_00]: There we go.

01:26:58.528 --> 01:26:59.509
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:27:00.810 --> 01:27:02.251
[SPEAKER_01]: There's rules to score in table.

01:27:02.611 --> 01:27:03.512
[SPEAKER_00]: View leader board.

01:27:03.772 --> 01:27:04.693
[SPEAKER_01]: View leader board.

01:27:04.993 --> 01:27:05.734
[SPEAKER_00]: Is the leader board there?

01:27:06.835 --> 01:27:10.338
[SPEAKER_01]: I do see it where, where, oh my gosh, we're suddenly crap.

01:27:11.699 --> 01:27:13.681
[SPEAKER_01]: We're seventh place, we're doing a great.

01:27:15.462 --> 01:27:30.669
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, Nike B422 in first with 90-hit points M B-A-S-T-N with 92-point consecutive and third place is Jerry Jerry quite contrary 90-point

01:27:32.930 --> 01:27:34.713
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, yes, Dave kid winning the tournament.

01:27:34.753 --> 01:27:35.253
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like it.

01:27:35.494 --> 01:27:37.356
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's not that bold.

01:27:37.457 --> 01:27:39.800
[SPEAKER_00]: Cobb Mark have had nori winning the whole thing.

01:27:39.820 --> 01:27:43.105
[SPEAKER_00]: It's possible, not not completely out of the question.

01:27:43.125 --> 01:27:47.110
[SPEAKER_00]: Although a block leader of Jake Lee seems wildly optimistic.

01:27:48.772 --> 01:28:03.444
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Kyle with 88 points has Ui Murrow winning the tournament with Sonata as the A-block leader, and Ui Murrow is the B-block leader, not impossible for Ui Murrow, but kind of impossible for Sonata.

01:28:15.030 --> 01:28:21.016
[SPEAKER_00]: This guy, Georgie, guy or girl, could be tracking pretty well.

01:28:21.096 --> 01:28:22.818
[SPEAKER_00]: This could all actually happen.

01:28:23.158 --> 01:28:32.067
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm not hoping it happens, but because I'm all in on Wolf, but looking at those bugs, that could not be possible.

01:28:34.233 --> 01:28:58.093
[SPEAKER_00]: And then at 80, 6 points along with five other people are us and we have Wolf winning the block, Suji and Wolf winning their respective blocks which right now is done a little great, but feel pretty good about that and then there's five more and then we're getting down to the 84s or a lot of 84s, but we are in the we are number 7

01:29:00.625 --> 01:29:04.306
[SPEAKER_00]: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 highest points in the entire tournament.

01:29:04.646 --> 01:29:05.727
[SPEAKER_01]: How many entries this year?

01:29:06.027 --> 01:29:07.107
[SPEAKER_00]: Over 100, Stephen.

01:29:07.447 --> 01:29:09.368
[SPEAKER_01]: Holy moly, wow, look at us go.

01:29:09.488 --> 01:29:11.369
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, it's almost like we know we're talking about, doesn't it?

01:29:11.549 --> 01:29:13.369
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything's lofted and we hissed out of the park.

01:29:13.750 --> 01:29:14.810
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, how about that?

01:29:14.870 --> 01:29:16.310
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, we're holding it again.

01:29:16.471 --> 01:29:17.131
[SPEAKER_00]: That'd be awesome.

01:29:17.511 --> 01:29:18.271
[SPEAKER_01]: It wouldn't be very cool.

01:29:18.831 --> 01:29:22.333
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so we need to take the post rest of the tournament 2021.

01:29:22.893 --> 01:29:24.433
[SPEAKER_01]: Certainly be keeping an eye on that.

01:29:24.473 --> 01:29:26.174
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have five shows this weekend,

01:29:31.147 --> 01:29:35.152
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yeah, I'm not watching any of that, but there's plenty of other things for me to watch.

01:29:35.212 --> 01:29:42.261
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't spend 97 and all the other domestic pro wrestling that takes up 200 hours of my time if I choose to watch it.

01:29:42.361 --> 01:29:47.166
[SPEAKER_00]: So I hope you have a great time with the the women version of the round robin.

01:29:47.647 --> 01:29:50.090
[SPEAKER_00]: Cause the men version of that a lot of fun.

01:29:50.553 --> 01:29:52.375
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the women's version has to what I've seen.

01:29:52.415 --> 01:29:57.962
[SPEAKER_01]: I am behind, but what I've seen so far I've really enjoyed, so everybody's doing a great job there and it's strong good crowds too, first start them.

01:29:57.982 --> 01:30:08.214
[SPEAKER_01]: So, some good, it's a positive science overall, I think, then when it comes to attendance and I hope the people are picking up on the fact that they're seeing some really good matches, even though,

01:30:08.915 --> 01:30:20.322
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you know, you have to sometimes get through the Great O'Con, Jake Lee, so not a stuff, but at the end of it, you got guys like to Kesho, we will go to in Shingo who are putting on terrific matches at the end night after night.

01:30:20.542 --> 01:30:28.587
[SPEAKER_00]: And uh, yeah, it's good stuff back the specter of the old guard is not haunting this new generation and this tournament.

01:30:28.947 --> 01:30:31.309
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they're going to talk to Hoshis if no night, oh, there's no O'Cotta.

01:30:31.369 --> 01:30:34.731
[SPEAKER_00]: If no O'Bushi, there's none of these guys that, you know,

01:30:39.088 --> 01:30:39.788
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all new.

01:30:39.969 --> 01:30:41.349
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's making their own signature.

01:30:41.389 --> 01:30:49.213
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like everybody's got their own stamp on who they want to be and coming out of this this G1.

01:30:49.834 --> 01:30:52.695
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like development wise.

01:30:53.095 --> 01:30:56.157
[SPEAKER_00]: I understand these wrestlers and what they're trying to convey even better.

01:30:57.612 --> 01:31:02.697
[SPEAKER_01]: When we come back next week, we will have the semi-finals for the G1 tournament set.

01:31:02.877 --> 01:31:04.899
[SPEAKER_01]: And as Esfans saying, get ready.

01:31:04.919 --> 01:31:05.920
[SPEAKER_01]: This week is going to be fun.

01:31:06.000 --> 01:31:06.360
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree.

01:31:06.440 --> 01:31:09.363
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is going to be pretty exciting stretch run.

01:31:09.463 --> 01:31:10.604
[SPEAKER_01]: And we will be right here.

01:31:10.705 --> 01:31:13.547
[SPEAKER_01]: Next week, Bliery, I'd full of caffeine.

01:31:13.828 --> 01:31:14.668
[SPEAKER_01]: It's talking about great fun.

01:31:14.688 --> 01:31:16.090
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to play wedding dinner here, guys.

01:31:16.610 --> 01:31:17.191
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

01:31:17.251 --> 01:31:19.453
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I hope you enjoy that trip as well, Jeremy.

01:31:19.693 --> 01:31:22.917
[SPEAKER_01]: And I hope all of you out there enjoy the wrestling, whatever you choose to watch this week.

01:31:23.197 --> 01:31:24.078
[SPEAKER_01]: We hope you enjoy it.

01:31:24.478 --> 01:31:27.741
[SPEAKER_01]: And for those of you who have joined us here live, we really appreciate you.

01:31:28.002 --> 01:31:32.466
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're listening to us later, or watching us later on YouTube and as a podcast, we're grateful to you.

01:31:32.846 --> 01:31:37.491
[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll be back next week to take a look at the semi-finals and see what our playoffs look like.

01:31:37.571 --> 01:31:37.851
[SPEAKER_01]: So,

01:31:38.492 --> 01:31:43.001
[SPEAKER_01]: With that in mind, enjoy the rest thing everybody, with Jeremy Feinstein, I'm Stephen Conway.

01:31:43.041 --> 01:31:46.808
[SPEAKER_01]: This has been Speaking of Strong Style, and we will talk to you again, real soon.