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[SPEAKER_03]: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Jumping Bomb Audio.
[SPEAKER_03]: The number one show all about the world of Yoshi, Pro Wrestling, my name is Taylor, and I am joined as always by my good friend, and co-host Kelly Kelly, we're back together again.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're so back, the boys are back in town.
[SPEAKER_02]: Taylor, tell me something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you a nap guy?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I love naps.
[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, I was taking a nap about 20 minutes before this very moment in time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why do you ask I was because I wish I could be a nap guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was yesterday.
[SPEAKER_02]: I took a nap yesterday, which is extremely rare for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I I guess in the in the morning, I took a shit that was so bad, it tired me out to the point that I had to sleep later in the day.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's just that doesn't happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's like, I took the nap and it was wonderful.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, damn, I wish I could do this more often, but like when I do, it just fucks me up for the rest of the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then my sleep schedules all messed up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now you got to plan it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's got to be strategic.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't be too late.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, you got to know I know a lot of people who are like, you should never take naps.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's
[SPEAKER_03]: like a sign of weakness in your life.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm like, no, you know, a sign of weakness.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're if you're tired, it's like sleeping, getting a little bit more energy is so much better than being like, I'm so bold in my life that I'm just going to be tired.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's like some like
[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, I'm a big, a huge nap guy, I am a ambassador, nap ambassador, you might say and I hope that you're able to, you know, supposedly the thing is you're really only supposed to take like 15 minute naps because that's the peak thing of like you get rest, but you don't go into like,
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm actually falling asleep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mode, which I don't really do.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, sometimes I do take shortnaps, but, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: But sometimes I'm like, oh, I'm definitely going to take a nap and I lay down in five minutes and I'm like, no, no, this is not going to happen like that happened sometimes where I'm like, yep, this is a time when I think I need a nap and I go to take a nap and it's like, no, this actually isn't a nap time and then you don't nap, you know, you have to learn about your your own body Kelly, that's true.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got like in high school and college, I was really good at like,
[SPEAKER_02]: micro naps where I would just like close my eyes before class started and like sleep for like a minute.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got really bad in college because what I would do is I had a period where I would have a class sort of in the morning and then I had a class like the class ended at 11 or
[SPEAKER_03]: And I would walk back to my place.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would get a monster energy drink.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would drink that and take a nap.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so when you woke up you would be it's super powered but it was weird like the energy drink didn't give me energy It just enabled me to sleep like it was a weird thing where I was like, I think I'm doing this wrong Where I'm like the energy drink should be doing what then I'm napping about But maybe it was a double like a double jump situation
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I knew someone in college that would do that, but they would just drink, they would just like chug a cup of coffee and then go to sleep and then they would wake up like half an hour later full of energy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I had a lot of energy.
[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe it was, maybe it was like the energy drink was holding.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like, okay, he's sleeping.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I would wake up and be like, go, you can do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, Naps, everyone, everyone take Naps, real Rocko, yeah, energy here at the beginning of the show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so let's get into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: As I mentioned, we are going to be talking about Tokio Joshi stand alone from cork and hall on June 7th in front of 1000 and 93 fans, a great number.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, for Tokio Joshi six above their previous cork and
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, what did you think of this show?
[SPEAKER_02]: I had a great time with this show.
[SPEAKER_02]: I caught it live, which I rarely do.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I got to say, not looking forward to the main event at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was pretty great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we're going to have an interesting discussion about the main event.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did not watch it live.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was not spoiled on any of the results.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was spoiled on, I would say, a sort of hyped match was really the only thing I got spoiled on.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was spoiler free, but let's get into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The first match was a six person tag team match.
[SPEAKER_03]: A Risa Endo, Kira Summer, and Sakura Hatori defeating Ren Kanatsu, Chiyon Kanzaki, and Yuki Aayano.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have no notes, and I don't remember this match, so I have nearer thoughts.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I was looking at this, I'm like, how do I remember this happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I looked at my notes, I'm like, I don't have notes for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I bet I really liked it.
[SPEAKER_03]: My main note was there was a moment in the match where Hattori, I think she on was laying on the
[SPEAKER_03]: And the story just hauled off and kicked her, like, really hard.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think, obviously it's not really the style of the promotion.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there should be maybe two or three people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, me, Masha, does it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There should be two or three wrestlers.
[SPEAKER_03]: They should go up to them and say, you should just haul off on some people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, go off because it would be a lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: more interesting just like the video of kiyomiya kicking okada in the face and be like this do this like just kicked her and I was like oh man that was interesting and then nothing really came of it and it was really not an important part of the match but my note was we need a few more Tokyo Juicy wrestlers willing to haul off is what I wrote
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was a fun match.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think having Endo and UK I, you know, in there was very helpful, you know, Kanzaki and Kanatsu definitely have something, but are still very young.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I wasn't really blown away by any part of this, but I thought it was fun solid.
[SPEAKER_03]: opener.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing to write home about obviously Kelly didn't even remember it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I didn't write home all about this.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The next match was a singles match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yuri defeating chicken and I say in eight minutes and 15 seconds my I had two pre-show not pre-show pre-match notes the first one is they did announce before the show began that hype will be returning um I believe in August later this year and my first note was
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's hype Chika.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, let's do something with her.
[SPEAKER_03]: The other thing was, I don't remember, I think it was Haku, said that Yuri calls herself quote, The Violent Baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't it, uh, is that a thing?
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't they, I think, I thought they say that it like in her music.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, I guess I, you know, I have liked her.
[SPEAKER_03]: I haven't seen a ton of Yuri, but I have seen a good amount.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't remember if her clocking that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, the violent baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone knows the violent baby.
[SPEAKER_03]: What is that meat?
[SPEAKER_03]: What is what do you portraying by calling yourself the violent baby?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like what's the like, oh, she's violent, obviously.
[SPEAKER_03]: but also a baby, real violent baby vibes.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just, I was like, what she does?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, my, I have one over arching thought about this was that for most of the match, I thought I'm having the same damn issue, which is that shega has no personality,
[SPEAKER_03]: She has no character.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know anything about her.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then at the end, or near the end, they started doing this crazy strike exchange.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, okay, here's something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I still don't know who she is, but at least I can enjoy someone just being like, fuck this shit and beating each other up, like, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I thought it ended up being Chica's best anything like buy for it at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, 100% because I was like, oh, here's something to hold on to that isn't just, oh, I'm a wrestler and I'm coming out and I'm wrestling, quote unquote.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I quite enjoyed it at the end, even though I spent half of the match being like, yep, this is exactly what's been happening.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, though the flurry of like knock out elbow strikes were legitimately awesome and I don't ever recall her doing that or she's probably thrown elbow strikes, but nothing like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was just like, okay, we might have something here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see if we can keep going with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe pair her in a tag with Yuri or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, there is something there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I really hope they kind of keep working on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I didn't end up enjoying this match quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: And to tie it back to the first match, we need more wrestlers willing to haul off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe go with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because I was like, Oh, this is actually good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then next was another singles match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Walking at Oihara defeating Toga in eight minutes and 58 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought this was disappointing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was not a
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess maybe I was like, oh, this should be pretty good.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I thought it really wasn't that good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did enjoy toga deadlifting, walking up multiple times.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just being like, okay, I'm gonna do something.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just gonna make it happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: And fully laughed at the shooters kick out at 0.5.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, wow, Tokyo, Yoshi must really be on a hot street.
[SPEAKER_03]: When wrestlers are doing the shooters kick out at three and a half.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I love that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, I got to protect my brand, brother.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm kicking out at 3.5.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell you, you seem surprised.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say, looking at the cage match, the rating is 4.66.
[SPEAKER_02]: Damn, I mean, I guess I'm a highman.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went, uh, I went three and a half on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I enjoyed it quite a bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was walking.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was good again after being stuck with Camille for a while and being bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really enjoyed Toga being a shithead and kicking out at 3.5 and then refusing the handshake after the match.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought it was a good match.
[SPEAKER_02]: It kind of got walking back on track and we got some sort of progress to Toga's character.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, I did, I sort of did like the surrounding elements like I like not shaking the hand like I'm like, okay, there is something happening there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just thought that in-ring stuff I was sort of like, you know, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, I feel like walking a has sort of plateaued where I'm like, okay, it doesn't seem like you're getting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also think I sort of have higher expectations for her than I should because she spends so much time online being like, I love watching like,
[SPEAKER_03]: I love watching the old Super J cups, and you're like, wow, she's gonna be really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's watching the Super J cup.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's like, not necessarily, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I like watching old wrestling.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can like all kinds of wrestling and not be any good at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just like you can watch a lot of movies and not be a good filmmaker.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, my note was it was fine, but really in my mind, I was like, I was expecting like, oh, this could be pretty exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Especially based on some of the things that happened after this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I was so I didn't know that at this time.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm like, there's some people who are dashing past these two in the pecking order in my mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's like, okay, there's still young.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, yeah, so are some other people who are doing some good shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: So hurry up and get there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Kelly, would you believe it?
[SPEAKER_03]: We had another singles match.
[SPEAKER_03]: So unusual for a, took your Yoshi show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mirai defeating Haru Kazashiro in 10 minutes and 15 seconds Kelly, I'm interested to get your thoughts first.
[SPEAKER_02]: Haru is incredible and the rate that she continues to improve at is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I've ever seen something like this like she keeps getting better at such a such a quick rate.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's very clear that now she's not at school.
[SPEAKER_02]: She spends all of her time thinking about wrestling.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, there's so many little touches to the things she does and really interesting counters in reverse, wait, no, I'm looking at the wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm looking at the right notes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, I put the wrong name in my notes.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why I thought I was looking at the wrong area.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's picked up on so much stuff and added so many little things to her arsenal, where it's just like clearly she is living and breathing wrestling right now and has been so great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mirai was great here too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went for on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was about as good as like a undercard match like this can get.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like think about the guitar, for example.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jeff Jarrett.
[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are many people on earth, all of all across the earth and history, global force wrestling.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pick up, pick up, we're good to pick up a guitar and practice and they practice a lot and they get really good at playing guitar.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then there are some people who like pick up a guitar and in one week, you're like, how did you do this?
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're like, I don't know, I just know how to play.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're like, what the heck?
[SPEAKER_03]: How are you better than this person who's practiced 10,000 hours?
[SPEAKER_03]: That to me is Haru.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like some people get wrestling and you can't
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to say this phrase in this order.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some people understand wrestling, and you can't teach that to them.
[SPEAKER_03]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: I sort of got out of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just go all the way, do the whole voice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you, there's no class where you're like, okay, we're learning roles, and now you have to understand the minutia of like what makes wrestling exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, well, you can watch it, I guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it seems to me that Haru just understands, like, oh, these are the things that make wrestling good and she's like, I'm gonna put them in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Blake, it's so bizarre to me that in a good way, and obviously she's not in school so that's some of the explanation for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like, this person who started how long ago,
[SPEAKER_03]: And we were like, yeah, this could be someone who's interesting in five years, I guess maybe we'll see and now the sun I'm like, oh next year, she'll probably be like the best wrestler, yeah, she's 100% going to be in my 30 under 30 and we'll probably easily be in the top half next year.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm assuming.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, I don't know, and maybe she doesn't get any better and we look back and we're like, wow, we were stupid, but it's like every time she's out, I'm like, how is she better than last time?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's only been like a one month.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there are people it's like, okay, they're in year three, maybe this will be the year, you know, maybe this will be the year that they do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, nope, she's just good and getting better.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, she's different than anyone else on the roster.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like she's doing different things.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, she did that arm triangle.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think in the middle where I'm like, does anyone else do that in this promotion?
[SPEAKER_03]: Or has anyone else done?
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the answer is no, it's just like she, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe she's watching, you know, maybe she's watching tapes with walking on.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's like, oh, I can actually do some of this stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also went for stars.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was great, you know, it is one of those matches where it's like obviously Haru's not going to win.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you said, there is a sort of like it's a midcard match, not a major show quote unquote.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it is sort of a big show, but not one of their biggest shows.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's like there is a cap, but like getting a four-star
[SPEAKER_03]: That's amazing, and out of someone who is like, oh, yeah, they've been wrestling for a year and whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's like, oops, and they're incredibly good and very talented.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, has, and I don't know if I'm just forgetting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Has she had a match against, uh, Mizunami yet?
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Got, we got to get that.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to get the, the, the, the, the true passion injection.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's say I'll look it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I don't if it means your name hasn't even had many of those matches.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, she did in well she did quote unquote almost two years ago in the Tokyo princess cup.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, yeah, yeah, that doesn't count which went seven minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: which was like, she've really been wrestling for three years.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Haru is essentially a very different person.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is weird to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, yeah, she started wrestling in March of 2023.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, I would have said like, maybe 2024.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she's only 18 years old.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: um yeah it was great it's crazy that she's getting better in every match and I hope she keeps getting better because that's exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: The next match was a three-way tag team match the duo of Hyper-Massal and Shoko Nakajima defeating Himawari and Mifu Ashida and Palm Harjuku and
[SPEAKER_03]: in eight minutes and 42 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: This was the usual Palm Rockow stuff with the Goofball match, which now looking at my notes, my notes autocorrected Rockow to Roku.
[SPEAKER_03]: So free plug there for the streaming box Roku.
[SPEAKER_03]: With the wrinkle of Shoko to occasionally wrestle well in the middle of the match.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: like i thought this was fine they all sort of blend in together and it does lose something when sort of the perspective is just like we're being funny and there's no direction to it like there was nothing like sometimes it's like the plot of this match is xyz hat like
[SPEAKER_03]: Hyper brings in the bike or something or you know, we're in Texas and the whole thing is buckies and then we have the gotcha machine or something This is just sort of like, oh, we're not really wrestling and that's funny
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just sort of like, not silly to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, at the end, they got the product, given to them or whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was mortified that the Iron Man heavy metal title returned.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it seems like now it's going to be out of the promotion because Hirata wanted at the end of the chain was Hirata pinning or beating palm.
[SPEAKER_02]: I somehow, I must have gotten up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't think that happened.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think that happened on screen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I also don't remember it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't recall that at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because my final memory was palm winning it and running back stage.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: hyper and choco, I think chasing her or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it must have been like a backstage thing where they were like, ah, and we'll send it back to DDT, which please do, please.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool, love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: No more, please.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it was fine, you know, I think this is the same refrain I've had in the last few episodes, which is like, this is not really changing at this point.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, I understand what the promotion is, and I'm not saying like the whole promotion is going to be come like fucking UWF or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's time to start doing UWF rule.
[SPEAKER_03]: UWF rules matches every show, which is going to be for Tokio Josh, he would be wrestling, wrestling fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: That would be funny if they announced the UWF match and then we're like, oh, no, not that UWF.
[SPEAKER_03]: a different thing, um, but it's just sort of like, especially I watch, you know, it's like, oh my god, my rhyme verse, Haru, it's so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm pumped up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, yeah, young wrestlers getting better and proving exciting wrestling.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it's like, okay, and here's the same thing that's been on every single show for
[SPEAKER_03]: Ever since I watched this promotion.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, would you like to take an app?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're sleeping.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to pin them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are they going to kick out?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, they did.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, while Taylor's friends are screaming at the TV that that makes them weak.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rocks will stop being weak.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also, I did think and this is maybe a look.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a little bit of a look ahead.
[SPEAKER_03]: But thank God, we, everything got timed correctly in that imagine a world in which Ude to Kami debuts like a year earlier because in that scenario, I think she is stuck forever in this universe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think she becomes Gremlin wrestler.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: and she is in the palm raku universe for sure I can see that very easily and I'm like thank god that did not happen yeah that they're like oh she's a good wrestler she can't get stuck down here with the goofballs many of whom aren't even goofballs like that's the other weird thing is it's sort of like palm and raku are the two and then they sort of have to
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like am I excited to see him worry back in this scenario.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I'm like, no, I would rather see your rest all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like a good match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but it's like she has the hair.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's like she's also funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: So she's down here.
[SPEAKER_03]: This makes me sound, I'm sounding like such a hate or right now, but
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just one of those things where I'm like, yep, this is the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's like a lot of a random match where they come out and are like, we're going to work our asses off.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's like, wow, exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it never happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's just we've talked about this before.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just kind of an issue I have as a whole with Japanese wrestling, where it's some people, they do their bits.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's all they do.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they do those bits until they fucking die.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and yes, it's exactly like all these other comedic things where it's like we're just going to do the same thing and we're going to do it over and over and over again.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I do genuinely think it's like a cultural disconnect.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I also think in Tokyo, Josie, it's exacerbated by the fact that all the sudden the rest of the promotion is getting so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like if this were like five year, the Tokyo Josie have probably longer than five years at this point.
[SPEAKER_03]: Eight years ago, if this were the same exact promotion and they were doing the same exact thing and maybe you were watching these quarkins and you were like, oh, I hope we get a four star match.
[SPEAKER_03]: in the main event.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that was always when I watched Tokyo Joshita was always my hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they weren't even at Corrigan Hall, really ever.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it was like, oh, if the main event can get to three and three quarters or four, it will be a great Tokyo Joshita show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now it's like, you know, I have multiple four star matches on this show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm like, yeah, pretty good card.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not like, wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it's
[SPEAKER_03]: And this isn't changing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't even know because it's like you've got companies like Sendig girls who pretty much everything is played incredibly straight and it's like hard hitting and stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then here's Sakura Hirota to do her bits, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Or it's like, oh, it's time for Giro to come out and do whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, but that's like the way it's always been.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm saying it's fact that this like that promotion has been.
[SPEAKER_03]: We are a serious promotion.
[SPEAKER_03]: and but we've got a little bit of comedy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tokyo, Yoshi has been, ah, we're a comedy, we're characters.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, but now some of it isn't that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm like, oh, I like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the fact that I'm like, oh, I like that part of it, but also this part of it isn't changing.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm like, okay,
[SPEAKER_03]: I understand why it's there.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not going to change.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not being like, oh, I hope in a month, they never do a comedic match ever again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Taylor says rock who retired bitch, but it's just sort of like, oh, this is the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: And again, the whole thing is sometimes they do come out and they're like, we have a funny idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, oh, it's a horse race thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and even the ones where I'm not like, oh, this is the funniest thing ever.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, okay, at least there's something here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, we're doing it for something.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is just like, oh, we come out.
[SPEAKER_03]: We do our four things that we do in every match.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't wrestle all that well and then the match is over.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, okay, please clap.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like that's the stuff where I'm just sort of like, I'm not
[SPEAKER_03]: upset about it, but I'm just sort of like, would love to not have to see this one every single show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then we get to the top of the card and all the title matches, the first title match, the international princess title match, Susan A. the champion, the fending her title successfully, against Mehero Kiryu in 14 minutes and 49 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Kelly, I have an apology.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you're going to do my heroes with this show.
[SPEAKER_03]: My apology is long time listeners will remember years ago, I was very indecisive about Mahiro Kiryu.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes, I remember this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I couldn't determine whether she was good or not.
[SPEAKER_03]: And my final determination that I made, I don't know, probably two years ago at this point or something, was that she was good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I must apologize for that.
[SPEAKER_03]: She stinks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she, look, I know Susame is a speed wrestler, sort of by definition.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would like to not see Mahiro, like put Mahiro in those goofball matches.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cause then I'm like, you know, I don't love these, but then they're all in the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I know you need title challengers, but it was like,
[SPEAKER_03]: Susan May's running around and then Mahiro goes to do a four roll and it's like, and here's the four-word roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Susan May's running around again.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, Susan may work your ass off to put to make something passable, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: The match was not terrible, but I'm just like, I do not need no more Mahiro title challengers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, title challenges, please.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no more.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would say if you want to watch a version of this match, that's actually good, I would check out the Mesa Ruga eighth anniversary show from Choco Pro where Susume faced off with Amelia Yatsuba.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was kind of just what I think this match was trying to be.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just totally and also going almost 15 minutes and Mahiro got so gasped by the end.
[SPEAKER_03]: And by the end I was gasped and energy to watch.
[SPEAKER_03]: I actually paused the show after this match because I went I can't properly
[SPEAKER_03]: continue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got I got to take a walk.
[SPEAKER_03]: Think about think of things.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have to think about my life.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just no good.
[SPEAKER_03]: No good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's uh, may I'm it would be cool if this was like all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is kind of your last shot to prove yourself as a singles wrestler.
[SPEAKER_03]: some people like it's it's it's a bit that it's it's a bit that's over yeah so I love sure I do this lot yeah she'll hang around but i'm like no no more no more title challenges please thank you no leave it the keeper around to get hit with a bike once a month correct the one bit
[SPEAKER_03]: Then the semi made event was the tag title match, the champions me, Watanabe and Ricka Tetsumi defeating Mizuki and Ude Takami in 18 minutes and 51 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, what were your thoughts on this match?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, if you would have told me that Ude Takami would be in one of my top 10 matches of the year so far when the year started, I would have said, what, what are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, but here we are, this match was so good, putting Mizuki and Uda together is one of the best decisions this company has ever made.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, Uda was great here.
[SPEAKER_02]: She was tremendous.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone here had such great chemistry and worked their asses off.
[SPEAKER_02]: The spot where Mizuki stomped Miyu's head
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... the double swing was great who'd a using the momentum from the swing earlier to roll up me who was up straight up brilliant spot just fantastic match i i went for and a half i absolutely loved this it's crazy to me that took you joshie
[SPEAKER_03]: now twice in one year has been like we're going to trick you with this tag match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, in that it's like, okay, it's got these three people.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm really excited for these three people to face off.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you're like, oh, and it's an interesting fourth person, but we'll see what happens with them.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then that fourth person in the first case, Endo, and in this case, Uda become the stars of the match.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it works really well.
[SPEAKER_03]: it's like great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really like this match.
[SPEAKER_03]: I liked it slightly less than you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, it had a weirdly chaotic is not the right word for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It had a weird, um, what am I trying, what am I trying to say?
[SPEAKER_03]: It didn't have a flow, but not in a bad way.
[SPEAKER_03]: It didn't flow beautifully, but I not in a bad way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it felt clunky, but like it was supposed to feel clunky.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if I'm explaining this correctly.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like it didn't feel like, oh, people are running in and running out beautifully.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there were some times when it was like, oh, people are sort of running into each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: It felt like it wasn't rehearsed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I really liked it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had heard it was really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think that probably slightly heard it for me where I was like, this is gonna be so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I really enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I went for an a quarter.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was only a little bit lower.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're fighting you now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Were you listening to the Japanese commentary watching the show?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I was not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, because you're...
[SPEAKER_03]: your moment of mizuki doing that head stomped for me was highlighted by um... okey right before it happened going he's gonna stop on our fucking head
[SPEAKER_03]: I was, uh, which really made me, and I was like, he's not wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, she did stomp on her head, like, an example was they did the double swing spot, which looked really cool, but getting into it, I was like, what the hell is happening?
[SPEAKER_03]: It was so confusing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't understand what, like, I was like,
[SPEAKER_03]: what are they trying to do how long is this like it took a long time to get into then they did it I was like whoa that's really impressive but like there was like a lot of setup for it and like okay get ready and go
[SPEAKER_03]: So there were moments like that, but I thought it was so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the when I had the thought of thank God, Uda, especially now with this match, is sort of entrenched in like, is a good wrestler world and not in is good at bits world?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, because I was like, this is so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: We could be watching her bite, palm hard jukus shins, every day for the rest of our lives.
[SPEAKER_03]: was that that was probably a year ago where i've said it i don't know maybe six months ago i'm like you know they really need like a midcard of people and maybe they bring in you know they brought in these people they brought in a year he whatever but now all of a sudden i'm like
[SPEAKER_03]: Haru's really good and getting better.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uda's really good and getting better, you know, Endo and Susame are good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like all the sudden, all these people are popping out being like, I can be a good wrestler.
[SPEAKER_03]: Watch this in a way that's really wild to me that like when Uda debuted, I'd never would have been like, oh, she'll be the quickest one to be like, all the sudden really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I could never would have guessed that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I could have ever been like, yeah, it'll be Uda who will be the really, really good one really fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So just really great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, these tag matches that are like, oh, we'll do these tag matches.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're like, Mizuki was not in it that much.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was sort of like, yeah, lay out.
[SPEAKER_03]: She was in it near the end, but it was Uta's match.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she looked really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, she had the one hiccup of she went for the springboard off the ropes and missed one of her feet, but they worked it in where she missed the move.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, me, you ducked out of the way.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, well, that worked.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: She missed the move.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, maybe she was meant to miss it always, but I'm like, yep, you took a second too long and it didn't work.
[SPEAKER_02]: they didn't do the well let's just try it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, it just kept going so it was good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean the best match on the show for me and good job Tokyo Yoshi all the sudden figuring out how to very easily get young wrestlers over put them in tag matches with good wrestlers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then the main event, the Princess of Princess title match, Yuki arrived at the champion retaining against Yuki Kamifuku in 16 minutes and 41 seconds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, I am interested based on your opening thoughts.
[SPEAKER_03]: What you thought of this?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because so maybe we feel differently.
[SPEAKER_02]: Going into this, I wanted to go to bed so bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was so tired, but I was like,
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if I'll be able to force myself to watch this because I was so not looking forward to it and it's like fine, I'm just going to stay awake and I will finish this show.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I ended up thinking the match way over delivered.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought they just went out there, beat the shit out of each other, ery hitting the finally the back of the neck looked awesome and maybe the best that move has ever looked.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was very much a case of two friends who were just like, hey, what if we just beat the shit out of each other?
[SPEAKER_02]: And the other ones like, Hell, yeah, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought it was a great match.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went four stars on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It far, far exceeded my expectations.
[SPEAKER_02]: And maybe I'm going to enjoy this you gear, I title run.
[SPEAKER_02]: Who can say?
[SPEAKER_03]: So I liked the attitude of the match like I liked that the whole story was like we're going to come in here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to throw bombs like and there were there were moments In the match that I like like I like the slaps outside the ring.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like to finally to the back of the head, which I thought should have been the finish.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they should be like she does it to the back of the head now because it will look a lot better.
[SPEAKER_03]: the issue with me was the whole thing was like we're gonna come in here we're gonna kick the absolute shit out of each other and some of those kicks
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I would say pillow soft.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that might be insulting to pillows to the hardness of pillows.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, some of them weren't even in the same zip code.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like, she's got, I mean, Yuki or I started the match two seconds in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did a knee drop question mark?
[SPEAKER_03]: that Haku had to be like, Oh, that was an interesting variation on a knee drop because she just sort of like sat down near Kamifuku.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a kick outside the ring that had about two feet of daylight in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, some of the kicks I was like, this is like, you're just tapping your foot on their face.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it got, like the finally to the back of the head, that was good.
[SPEAKER_03]: The front one actually looked, I thought, look fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't really blown away, but I was like, so I like the idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm, we're growing it all out there and we're going to just weigh along each other.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, that's an exciting idea and they were sort of selling it.
[SPEAKER_03]: but then it's like, I, here I come, I'm gonna absolutely blast you with this kick and it's like, and tap, and like, okay, like outside the ring, kind of focus like, I'm gonna throw you into the chair or she throws her into the chairs and she just sort of like stumbles over to the chair and is like, glup, on one chair and I'm like, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, she actually sat on her with the chair, which I thought looked more painful even though I think it was very clearly supposed to not be painful at all, because I think a rye was not in the right position.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that looked like it sucked.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it looked like she was clearly just supposed to be under the chair and then had her arm in the wrong position and it was like, okay, I'm just going to sit on your arm.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was like, oh, that does look quite painful.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it was just a thing where it's it's two people who this is just sort of the way it is where it's like our offense is we just like there was the moment where a rise stole the jumping kick off the ropes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Haku mentioned it.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was like, that's kind of Fuku's move.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she stood up and she sort of looked like, how dare you have taken my move and hit me with my move.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, yeah, they're gonna really go for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it was just these sort of like soft kicks again.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm like, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the slaps were at the beginning of the match and I was like, yeah, like, we're just full on slapping each other.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it was the kicks again.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was like, okay, so like I went three and a half.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was quite good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why do you hate or match Taylor?
[SPEAKER_03]: For again, it was my expectation, which is this match could really be not great.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just sort of like, these characters have been defined as, like, we're crazy shooter kickers.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's like, okay, but you aren't.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you're not.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, oh, we're seeing two million masters face off against each other, but it's like, but you're not doing it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And bringing it back to the first match.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to haul off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, if you're gonna do a match, it's about we're coming out and we don't care and we're gonna lay it all online.
[SPEAKER_03]: You gotta kick each other and you gotta be like, hey, this kick might hurt a little bit more than it usually does, but I've gotta hit you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, because the story of the match can't be, they're killing each other.
[SPEAKER_03]: While I'm watching, you know, a foot drop off before it's even made any contact.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just doesn't really add up and it's just sort of a match where it's like I like the story, but you're not actually telling that you're sort of telling me that's the story.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're, you know, show, don't tell is always the thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's like you're not showing me you're telling me you're telling me this is an intense match and devil may care, but what you're doing is not showing me that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So again, I went through in a half, I, at the end of the match, I was like, I was surprised how much the things I liked.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I said, you know, I liked that moment of Kamufuku getting mad about her moves getting stolen.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I liked to finally, to the back of the head, but it just didn't really come together for me in the end.
[SPEAKER_02]: so you hated it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that was Tokyo, Yoshi stand alone.
[SPEAKER_03]: What else has been happening?
[SPEAKER_03]: Start him had a quirk in Halsho yesterday.
[SPEAKER_03]: Momo Watson, Abe.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... returning at that show while i guess should say a period at that show to announce she will be returning soon send i girls had two shows in the past two weeks one on the seventh of june uh... jihiro hashimoto successfully defending her send i girls world title against reo misanami and then on the thirteenth
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... the send-a-girls junior title senca successfully defending against mico can i and red energy mico you want to and mico to cast a winning the send-a-girls tag team titles defeating monami and reo misanami there mico you have a bad week uh... in wave catch the wave continues as always not appearing
[SPEAKER_03]: to be watchable at the moment, but it's happening.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's happening.
[SPEAKER_03]: The other thing I have is, and this is slightly older than two weeks, but I did attend the most recent Sukibon show.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so excited to hear about this.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mainly put it on the list, so I could talk to Kelly about it because we haven't talked about it yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I, I think I did a review on the show many years ago, but I did attempt the first ever Sukibon show, which happened in New York City, where we got all the free stuff, and I got like 19 free beers.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, they came, they were at Hammerstein,
[SPEAKER_03]: The tickets were very expensive.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it was like $70 for the top balcony.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I initially said I would not go.
[SPEAKER_03]: I found a way to attend.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh, putting it that way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, you snuck in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I. I crawl through the vents.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, the first thing I'll say is that I received an email saying, please show up on time because the show will begin promptly at 730.
[SPEAKER_02]: I bet that did not happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: The show did not begin promptly at 730.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly, can you guess what time the show did
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it didn't, that, that, if it had started at 930, I would have left.
[SPEAKER_03]: It started at 805.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which was very annoying.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, I'm like things happen, but don't tell me the show starts promptly if you're not going to start the show promptly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like what are you doing?
[SPEAKER_03]: Then, Kelly, the next guest is, can you guess when the show ended?
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so it started at 805.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say 930 it ended.
[SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunately, you're wrong, Kelly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it ended at 910.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, so the show was an hour and five minutes long.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would say of that time, there was probably 25 minutes of wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, five matches.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know five matches.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, yes, I should have, I should have timed them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know the first match went four minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a now I'm going to now I'm going to look.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, what Sukibon world.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wait, I want to, I'm trying to find the card.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's, um, yes, it went, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Here we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Monday night, throw ass a time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, well, it looks like I was wrong, but okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the first match was the, we'll just go through the card here.
[SPEAKER_03]: The first match actually was five minutes long.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and it was the Tokyo Toys, which I believe is a new unit in the promotion because it was Koke Amari, um, portraying the character of Kraken Koke, Koke, who is a nutcracker, Kraken Koke, um, a teaming with smack in the box, who is Misa Matsui, um,
[SPEAKER_02]: code words that some 80s drug dealer would use in a movie where it's just their comical about everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the they defeated the cherry bomb girls do a of crush you who of course is is you unretired and Nagisa Tachibani who just goes by Nagisa.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do love that you was like, they pay me a real good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm retired.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Kelly, we're not even halfway to that point of these things because there is a lot of people on the show where I'm like, they must be paying you very well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, as always, with every one of these shows, it seems to be the permanent situation of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: The crowd was like nuclear hot.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, in, say, I don't really understand it at this point, because I'm like, who is coming to these shows?
[SPEAKER_03]: Who is it?
[SPEAKER_03]: It will tell me.
[SPEAKER_02]: People that like the idea of wrestling, but don't actually want to watch wrestling.
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw two wrestling shirts in the crowd and there was five more than 500 people there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw a John Moxley shirt and I saw a Stephanie Vickor shirt and that was it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Kelly, everyone does the, you know, this next match is scheduled for one fall, one fall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone does that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm like, that's wild.
[SPEAKER_03]: How is that happening?
[SPEAKER_03]: because the whole thing is I thought it was, oh, these people are not actually wrestling fans.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're just like art fans.
[SPEAKER_03]: Question mark?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, they were saying, okay, maybe they've watched Karanowar matches.
[SPEAKER_03]: God, I hope not.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're like, oh, yes, I know what to do and they say one fall.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's what all those wonderful brits have done.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they don't start singing songs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but anyway, for the whole show, I mean, that does really help that people are into it and also the fact it's like an hour and five minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was like, oh, this show ends like I sort of was like, I'm not loving this, but the fact that it's an hour long means that largely I was like, oh, by the time I was like, okay, it was over.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the next match was a gang warfare four-way tag team match.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say the set for the show was decorated with construction cones.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that was largely the set dressing was pink construction cones.
[SPEAKER_03]: OK. Like the big one, like the big, not the cones, I guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: What would you call the barrels?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the barrels.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, four-way tag team, Commander Nakajima, a recent Nakajima, also mysteriously unretired, defeated the Vandals duo of Bingo, who is Hero Yamatsumoto, at Midnight Player, who is AOE.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Tokyo Toys team of Delirious Dolly, who is Azusa Inaba,
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, not not delirious.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Siri bear who is Sariyamaoka wearing a bear costume and the cherry bomb duo, the cherry bomb girls duo of renaimasha.
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that is.
[SPEAKER_03]: And supersonic who is the also retired.
[SPEAKER_03]: not Tsukitayo.
[SPEAKER_03]: And has been retired since when was the last match she had?
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the last real match, the last year she really wrestled was 2014.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, you'll notice Kelly at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_03]: I only mentioned a recent Nakajima winning the four-way tag team match.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's where where was their partner?
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, well, I guess you came out and said, I have a mystery partner.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did the mystery partner come out at the beginning of the match?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, that would make sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: Near the end of the match, a woman emerges.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who is Clarissa Shields?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who I guess is a Olympic boxer?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I believe who comes out again.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is this match went eight minutes, by the way.
[SPEAKER_03]: She comes out about seven minutes into the match, throws one punch and wins the match.
[SPEAKER_03]: So she is technically
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, listed here as tagging with Duccajima, I mean, and winning.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess, so that was very odd because the woman came out and the announcer was like, it's Clarissa Shields and I was like, who?
[SPEAKER_03]: It was very confusing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just picture you look at her like, which Joshy is she?
[SPEAKER_03]: But I was like, am I supposed to be because, of course, then the crowd's like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, and I'm like, is this a super famous person who I just have don't know?
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the answer is no.
[SPEAKER_02]: So our people just,
[SPEAKER_02]: they'll pop for anyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like a wool pop because I think at this moment we're supposed to pop.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also one of the funniest things is is like the most simple moves like you running and like smashing into someone.
[SPEAKER_03]: People are like whoa whoa.
[SPEAKER_03]: At one point, I think it was like in the first batch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it was Nagacer or some one I don't remember.
[SPEAKER_03]: like springboard something, and I was like, whoa, that actually was really good no reaction from the crowd.
[SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like when fucking evolved Rando's first China shows.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when you heard the wrestlers talk about how the fans reacted to the most basic stuff, but like something crazy they were just sat on their hands, like we don't know what to do with this.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like the legitimately impressive stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: People were like, uh, okay, whatever stuff that was like basic wrestling.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were like, yeah, um, the third match was the dangerous liaison's team of Lady Antoinette, who is Risa Sarah, you also retired.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: And count is Rea Setto.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... who is raised up to who is okay yeah uh... defeated soki bimi who is soki and you can uh... who is you can uh... we hara who wrestles for actress girls uh... who i did not know that match went six minutes forty seconds damn wonder she has beef with the marigold girls
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but we have to talk about the next match, which was a gang warfare three way another one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, a gang warfare three way match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, Kelly, I'm going to read you the results of the gang warfare three way match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you let me know what is odd about the gang warfare three way match.
[SPEAKER_03]: Crush you defeats atomic banshee.
[SPEAKER_03]: who is Ram Kai-Jow, babyface, who is on-shong, and stray cat, who is Tomica Inaba.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think there's ding-ding-ding-ding to many people in that match.
[SPEAKER_03]: So...
[SPEAKER_03]: What had happened after the opening match that you was in, was she got attacked by stray cat?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know why, really.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I do know why.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, because again, dang warfare.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they have this three way match, atomic, banshee, baby face, and stray cat.
[SPEAKER_03]: It went five minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: four and a half minutes into it, you comes out and starts fighting, stray cat, and pincer and wins the match.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I assume the crowd erupts like prime adotatorist, Stone Cold Steve Austin was.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I was like, she isn't in the, I was like, wow, that was so confused.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, what?
[SPEAKER_03]: She isn't in the match.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they were like, oh, actually she wasn't in the match.
[SPEAKER_03]: We just never announced her and she didn't come out.
[SPEAKER_02]: that's not how that works.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then finally, the main event of the show, Ichigo Sayaka, Ivunagi Sayaka, defended her sukeban world title against the Queen of Hearts, which is Bukita Kase in eight minutes and fifty five seconds.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wow, they went a long time.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that was the entire show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, no, that was not the entire show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because the match ended, I thought, oh, the show is over.
[SPEAKER_03]: Clearly, that was the last match.
[SPEAKER_03]: The entire roster ran out to the ring and just started fighting each other.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gang warfare.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, there was no explanation for what was going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was just a bunch of people in the ring fighting and then all of a sudden it just stopped.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like it wasn't like, oh, the rest run out and separate everyone.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was just like at some point they were like, well, we've gotten our anger out.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's all everyone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good bye.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was enough of a tussle.
[SPEAKER_03]: So just incredibly bizarre.
[SPEAKER_03]: an incredibly bizarre evening.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I was happy to have gone because the venue is very close to where I live.
[SPEAKER_03]: The show was an hour.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to go with my girlfriend who was like, oh, I can't go because I need to be somewhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because I was like, oh, the show starts at 7.30.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she's like, oh, I need to be somewhere at 9.30.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we were like, well, that's not going to work.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it turned out it would have worked.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because the show was not long.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that was Sukibon, continues to be, I believe, a front for something for what I have no idea, but a front nonetheless.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's either a front or an insanely money like I guess if I also can't imagine they're like, we're sold out tonight.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I had to guess, I would say, probably I can't imagine more than 20% of the people bought their tickets.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the restaurant comps.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or people that snuck him through the vents.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, what, like, why?
[SPEAKER_03]: How would people, like, oh, I don't like wrestling?
[SPEAKER_03]: I've never liked it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'll buy a $75 ticket to this show.
[SPEAKER_03]: Does anyone do that?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... but very weird i don't know if they come back i would go back but uh... it's not anything free at this time no not uh... bull and they were selling t-shirts for like sixty five dollars jeez in fact so they've gone the other way but i'm like it's not wrestling it just is it like they're doing quote unquote they're performing wrestling but i would never be like oh you want to get into wrestling go to sukeban
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like it's not real it's it's it's like a picture of wrestling like if I was a painter and I draw it and I drew wrestling that is equally as much wrestling as this is where I'm like you would never look at it like oh I want to get into wrestling how do I watch wrestling oh go look at this painting over here on the wall
[SPEAKER_03]: I would never say that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would say, oh, you want to enjoy wrestling?
[SPEAKER_03]: Look at that painting.
[SPEAKER_03]: That I did of, you know, whoever, Brian Danielson and Roderick Strong.
[SPEAKER_03]: So anyway, it's just a strange.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so odd.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why does it happen?
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they must be paying them so well for the fact that half the roster is retired.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, dragging people have been retired for 10 years out of retirement to be like, sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll wrestle.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they pay for their flights.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would imagine.
[SPEAKER_03]: They get them visas and they probably pay them something.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, I'm sure they're making bank.
[SPEAKER_03]: So good for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I only wish they sort of solved the problem from the first time I went, which is the first time I went they got a lot of time But they all clearly were like we don't need to work that hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah now they're not working that hard But they're not working that hard for like four minutes instead of 15 So it was like oh none of these matches were really any good, but they also were very short So Anyway, what's coming up in Yoshi?
[SPEAKER_03]: that we can get excited about.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, start him has start him the conversion happening on June 23 big title matches.
[SPEAKER_03]: Siri will defend the IWGP women's
[SPEAKER_03]: title against Rene Yamashita, Hanan, will defend against her, will defend against her Sayahida.
[SPEAKER_03]: Will defend against her taggure of tag partner, Sayahida, that will be the wonder of stardom title match.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Sayahika Karara will defend the world of stardom title against Susu Suzuki, so more to be announced for that show.
[SPEAKER_03]: But some interesting, I'm looking forward to hand in Sayahida.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think those three matches will all be really good, but I don't see a single new champion coming out of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: Other title matches happening in seedling on June 16th.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am a Sussamura, the new beyond the sea champion.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll defend the title against Hanoi Hana.
[SPEAKER_03]: which is very quickly after the show, based on what they usually run, but they don't have anything announced for that show yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ice ribbon has a 20th anniversary show coming up on June 20th.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so congrats to them.
[SPEAKER_03]: That will also have three title matches.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tsukina Umino will defend the fantastic ice title against Akane Fugida and a Risa Shino say, sumika Yanagawa and Makoto will defend the tag titles against Sakari Manami and Riko and Kahumatsashita will defend the ice infinity title against Yuka.
[SPEAKER_03]: Inwave the catch the wave tournament continues on as we said, other than that, a pretty quiet two weeks for Josie.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we will be back next time to talk the conversion.
[SPEAKER_03]: Will we be converted by the conversion?
[SPEAKER_03]: You'll have to find out in two weeks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kelly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's time for Kelly's corner.
[SPEAKER_02]: fully embraced my old manness.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm reading a lot of comic strips.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been reading the 1930 Floyd Gottfriedson Mickey Mouse strips.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you read any of those Taylor?
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you aware of those at all?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm aware of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've never read them.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I
[SPEAKER_02]: very early in the run.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is a week of strips where the joke is Mickey Mouse's to press that many's leaving him so he's going to kill himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is the whole bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is one strip that ends with Mickey saying, where is that Mickey goes, oh, what's the use?
[SPEAKER_02]: She doesn't care for me anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is there to live for without many?
[SPEAKER_02]: I might as well end it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the final panel of that strip is Mickey reaching up on the wall to grab a gun down.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he just keeps not killing himself in various funny ways, like he tries to jump off a bird and he lands in the boat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, there's this other panel I have saved in my phone that goes, G, I'm having a tough time trying to put an end to myself.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hope this Anvil doesn't float, and he is tied himself to an Anvil that he is about to toss off a cliff.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that is like, so there's like back matter and stuff to this and like historical essays and this whole idea was Walt Disney's like he just toyed Gottfried sentence like, hey, I got the funniest idea for a week of strips.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mickey's going to kill himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: It'll be a knee slapper and it's just like, yeah, that is a.
[SPEAKER_02]: That sure is something, and the essay kind of goes where it's just like, I look, suicide was kind of because of like the depression era.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was just kind of an accepted part of life.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it could be used for funny bits.
[SPEAKER_03]: So sometimes you just have Mickey Mouse trying to kill himself for the laughs.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's lived a long life and he's gotten into a lot of things.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's a lot of wild shit in these strips like Mickey uses guns quite often.
[SPEAKER_03]: People were big fans of people because Batman used guns for a long time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he would just start shooting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, well, that is a very interesting Kelly's corner for our return to jumping bomb audio, but we will be back with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: in another two weeks time for more exciting Yoshi action, but until then, for Kelly, I am Taylor saying, so long, goodbye everybody.