[SPEAKER_01]: The G1 climax has returned to Japan.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's underway and it's been really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: There have been several nights of block action and all of them have delivered some exceptionally good matches including a shock performance.
[SPEAKER_01]: From someone we honestly weren't sure was physically capable of doing so.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk about all of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to preview the week ahead and look over the standings in the G1, which are very even right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one's breaking out of the pack.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one's fallen behind yet except for poor shoulder.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about him too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you ever find Stone?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Stephen Conway.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Speaking of Strong Style.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's shoulder time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome, everyone, to Speaking of Strong Style.
[SPEAKER_01]: We discussed the news issues in events surrounding New Japan, pro wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have been watching this G1 and having a great time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds like a lot of other people are too.
[SPEAKER_01]: We already have a couple of comments here talking about how the matches have been outstanding.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't felt this upbeat in a while, Jeremy, and we're going to talk about all that in a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's your week been like?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, hi, Steve, my wife was out of town.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I ended up doing a lot of stuff around the house, like organizing and cleaning and life maintenance stuff because sometimes when we're in an apartment, you know, you know, I'm talking to each other and can't really accomplish a thing like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I took that opportunity, but I told you beforehand, I bought one of the stupidest purchases that I've bought in a long time today and I'm gonna just,
[SPEAKER_00]: Come out here and show it to you right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_00]: What would you get?
[SPEAKER_00]: So I like giant robots.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like giant robots that build into other giant robots so you can see behind me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also like football.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like pro sports.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when they're a collaboration of the NFL and transformers in which they have a robot that more than meets the eye and also turned into a 49er
[SPEAKER_00]: I debated not buying it, but I only debated not buying it for a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: I bought a 49er helmet to turn into a robot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to say, I don't think you should see the listeners.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't buy for a second that this was even a choice.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a little bit like one step over, like you're a fucking dork, but a little early in the clip for swearing, but the thing that I will say to
[SPEAKER_00]: more of a certain age.
[SPEAKER_00]: And
[SPEAKER_00]: If you like what you like and you doesn't hurt anybody and you don't have a negative impact in your life, do not be apologetic in any way, shape or form about liking things that make you happy.
[SPEAKER_00]: In a world that works very, very, very hard to take joy from each and every one of us on a daily basis.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, if you have those things that you like, do not be apologetic.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like what you like, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else.
[SPEAKER_00]: it's my little mantra.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I agree totally.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you are on the right track saying that on this show where we're speaking of a niche of a niche of a form of entertainment.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're following Japanese professional wrestling, that's specifically to go down to even a show about one company that sometimes branches out into other things.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're pretty much on the right track of finding something that makes you happy and sticking with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So good for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I apologize for the hot mic moment right out the gate, but I really had to underline just how nerdy You're gonna get us put behind a wall.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, but uh, no, what about work and stuff like that?
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to know like what do you Jet me for wrestling, huh, and it's like you also have to explain it to them like yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like WWE, but it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it becomes like a 10 or 15 minute thing, but it's like two or three minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can count on them, kind of, I've glazing over like what did I get myself into.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, I tried to warn you guys, like, this is niche stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a question about, like, niche.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a question about your robot, though.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's called Gold Rush.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gold Rush ties into the San Francisco 49ers theme.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did they create 32 of these?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there one for each NFL team?
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe there is, Steven.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they're not out yet, they've been working on a number of these.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna pass it here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder what the bears would be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, gold rush makes a lot of sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: That works.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder what the bears would be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll look at them for you right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, thanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it just, it's a lot of work.
[SPEAKER_01]: They put a lot of work into those, obviously.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I really like the color scheme and everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know it's not at all G1 related, but uh, I think we should have a t-shirt with your face on it says, I like giant robots.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the robot's is correct.
[SPEAKER_00]: The quote of the, let's see, we got the render.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, we did see a Chicago bear coin.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is riveting radio for the folks listening as a podcast, I know, but Jeremy's looking this up now.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to let Jeremy look that up for a little bit and we're going to look at here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Jeremy Moore is with us, glad to see you, Jeremy and Nick Reeves is here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he mentioned something that will become a factor later on in this show.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says it's a great week to be a sonata fan.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have seen the
[SPEAKER_01]: uh the peak in the valley of modern days and out of this week uh so we're he is had the most extreme week of anyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he has had one of the best matches in the tournament and he has had the dirt worst so far uh so it's a mix mix bag.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why'd we interrupt him, Steven?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was very high though, where we'll, and we'll talk about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He and Yoda Seerjee had an absolute banger, and who would have thought we'd be talking about some out of bangers after all of the injuries he's had.
[SPEAKER_01]: But hey, he's a newlywed, he was feeling as we he's that day, and Yoda Seerjee has been having a wonderful, wonderful tournament.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he was in with the right guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, a couple of things to note as we look at the standing for the G1, and we're going to go over all the guys, and all this stuff, but we'll take an overview here first.
[SPEAKER_01]: already.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one is unbeaten.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're only a few matches in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone has taken a loss.
[SPEAKER_01]: So nobody is shooting out of the gate to the front of the standings.
[SPEAKER_01]: No front runners here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody there was wrestling in the tournament.
[SPEAKER_01]: chose those words carefully, are either one and two or two and one in the standings as it goes in that sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, some of the guys have had their shoulder uminobies and when you see the standings, the the points are a little walkie because they've already awarded everybody their two four-fit points over showed up.
[SPEAKER_01]: But
[SPEAKER_01]: Bottom line is everybody is one of match everybody is lost a match question is what's that third match done what have they done that's the difference in the standings right now across the g one climax turn went so that also means that nobody is Trailing far behind and now needs a big rally to catch up this could all be dead even at the next show and what we saw.
[SPEAKER_01]: two nights in Sapporo last weekend.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they were in Hokkaido, two nights in Sapporo, they drew 2,555 on Saturday, 2,409 on Sunday.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can really compare apples to apples, Jeremy, because the Chicago show threw things off a little bit, but last year the first two G1 shows were in
[SPEAKER_01]: And the next one was in Sendai, which is exactly what we got this week.
[SPEAKER_01]: So instead of just being the first two nights of the G1, they're the first two nights of the G1 in Japan.
[SPEAKER_01]: They threw in that Chicago show.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they went to Sendai.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we can really kind of do Apple Stapples comparisons that it's dead even pretty much with last year.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, within a few dozen fans, exactly what they did in support.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not losing people.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the G1, despite no ton of hot scenes, all these things.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think people understood that that this time had passed on that stuff, and so yeah, and you know what's interesting, though, is they didn't gain, they didn't gain, but
[SPEAKER_01]: we haven't seen the drop-offs.
[SPEAKER_01]: We bring seeing for most of this year.
[SPEAKER_01]: And after that sendai was 1,612, that's down about 100 from last year.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not the worst thing in the world, but you know, probably hoping for a holding steady or going up, but lost about 100 off of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: The good news, of course, is that the people that have shown up have seen some damn good wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the other thing I wanted to note was, can we get more of Oscar on commentary?
[SPEAKER_01]: Please.
[SPEAKER_01]: I listened into that because, you know, normally when Walker is by himself, I listened to Japanese commentary, but I wanted to give Oscar a chance, because I was curious.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the last time he did a little bit of commentary with Walker, he was good.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was fantastic on Saturday.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was really, really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, my favorite is actually Henare, who really finds ways of incorporating
[SPEAKER_01]: true statements about fighting into pro wrestling, like weaving why people are doing things in the ring and making it into a logical explanation of why something is happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, well, here's why he's working on this and this is why he's doing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And already he's excellent at that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oscar had really interesting stories because he trained with a lot of these guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: both as a young lion you know worked with them wasn't it said who was an attendant for who you know we mentioned that He mentioned who was a tens on attendance over the years and picked up a lot from tens on because tens on played into things being introduced in Seporo and being on commentary then a lot of guys were working his moves into their matches
[SPEAKER_01]: So he wolfed stories of the young lion days and things that they picked up on into the matches, which I thought really worked.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was fascinating.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did an excellent job.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, between that and the matches, it's been a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good watch this week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, you look at the American commentary that you have commentary.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not if Chris is away and we haven't heard Chris will probably get Chris this weekend because they're back in Tokyo.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when it's just Walker or Walker and some of the other guys, I'll just go over to the Japanese commentary.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I thought I thought on a whole the commentary of good very few matches disappointed me throughout the entire thing post ripped there is not a bare of transformer right now, but there will be they've only got about 25% of the NFL team out right now they have green Bay they have Dallas they have Kansas city Chicago's coming you know, I mean, they're not attacked we tend to see here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at the teams they did first, the Green Bay, Kansas City, Dallas, San Francisco, Buffalo, they know which fan base is a sell to first.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those people will buy the living hell out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm called to an area.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm thinking Jacksonville is probably going to be on the last batch, just saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, probably, probably.
[SPEAKER_00]: But no, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: I have enjoyed almost everything from this G1.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's probably the best G1 since I don't know, 2019 coming out the gate.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are a third of the way through of the block play.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's nine matches and we're now three matches in on each person.
[SPEAKER_00]: And whenever I'm kind of looking at it, that's how I kind of look at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you got three matches here, you got three matches in the middle, you got three matches at the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a ratio of who gets like two out of three in most of those that, you know, end up moving forward into kind of, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: weird tic-tac telling the logic kind of there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, G1 you're right, and it basically is it sounds like a smart ass answer, but the G1 has a beginning of middle in an end and everyone's like, well, yeah, what else is there, but it really is it's like that there's the start where they position people, either as the front runners or trailers, there's the middle where they tend to even things up, and then it comes down the stretch at the end where all the tiebreakers come into play.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it looks like we're going to have a lot of tiebreakers coming into play in this tournament so far, but more so even.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know how you talked to me into Aaron Wolf winning the whole thing, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: I said that he, I thought, I thought, I thought if you want to sell tickets, if you want to sell tickets,
[SPEAKER_01]: with people that have interest right now, considering he has been on national television, I thought, don't sleep on Aaron Wolfe and don't sleep on Heroic, you go to, although we kind of figured out that go to would be getting a title shot in the fall when his movie comes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Looks like we're right on that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought Wolfe and then the usual suspects after that but I said, don't sleep on Aaron Wolfe.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't pay attention to any of the stuff and I told this was that good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I entered into the sport of pro wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we have a ballot, a block, an entry into the sport of pro wrestling under my name, but it's basically with Aaron Wolf and Yoda suits you winning each block.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aaron Wolf winning the tournament and then you bolt in on the underneath.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you have to, and you get points because you map out the pathway to get to all this right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's 500 or 600 entries, Steven, right now we're number nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, wow, so not bad, huh?
[SPEAKER_01]: Not bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now we're doing all right, in terms of like, how we kind of mapped out what we thought was gonna go on right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, the goto thing, some of the guys winning the magic, anything can happen on the back end.
[SPEAKER_00]: None of the guys that we predicted might as soon as you're a problem could, you know, go.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be any three other guys because I'm the other two.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even Yoda Fuji,
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, if they wanted to, they could not have them make post-blocked.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I think it would be unwise, but anything could happen at this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: But to be in that high level of mapping this all out, does kind of maybe think, like, really does seem like Aaron Wolfe is something that they're really taking seriously this year.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's in the tea leaves a little bit on that.
[SPEAKER_01]: The good news is he's delivering because he's been wrestling fairly well.
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't have the biggest repertoire yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: But boy, he's doing what he does in just the right spots.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot to be encouraged about.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm glad we're doing well.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's folks we get Jeremy and I kind of know what we're talking about.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I was watching the Gabe Kid match with the Ode with Aaron Wolf.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what I was watching his match you were watching his match against Aaron Wolf or you were watching it with their match with Aaron That the news would be if you were watching the match with Aaron Wolf if you were an Aaron Wolf It's much of a wish I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do not Good for the show where the headband in his presence because I am that dork.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would do anything he wanted I would do anything he wanted for his presence
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, let me try to thought here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I totally derailed you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Watching the Gabe Kid match, the realization hit me.
[SPEAKER_00]: This guy doesn't need to have a five star match at the, for the main event of Tokyo though.
[SPEAKER_00]: He just needs to be able to be competent.
[SPEAKER_00]: like it does not need to be the best match in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just needs to be able to be good enough for a main event.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm watching this, I'm like, yeah, you can be good enough for a main event.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not gonna be the greatest main event of all time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not gonna come close to Tana Hatchino caught in this last year.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think it'll draw a ticket.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, look what they did when they basically choreographed that match with evil, that that was perfectly good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if he does something that good in that spot, we'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And not to gear later with training under a belt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, you find him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember, this guy is basically a rookie.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't much more, if it was a year ago, wasn't much more than a year ago that he started training to be a pro wrestler.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: The other thing about this and we don't talk about this enough is that this guy has been in front of thousands of people performing because he was in the Olympics and not like he's going to be in the middle of the Tokyo dome in the main event and shrink from the pressure because he doesn't he's never been to the dance before like all of these things all exist in the framework of what this guy has to offer and you know doing the dog walks this week and thinking about who could.
[SPEAKER_00]: made of that wrestle kingdom against the Otis Fuji and you know you take night out of the equation you take eight you got you guys out of the equation.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you get edit animals like the more I watch the this wrestle the g1 going to the those are the two guys that are ready for it like they're priming real hell you they're giving a lot of these other guys like moment here but it's not enough for wrestle kingdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's like they're the cache, not there yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, this is a project for a number of these guys, but you, yeah, and arguably coming from a different pathway and we'll, are both closer to the finish line of what they need them to be than any other of the two rest sort of right now in that promotion to be opposite of you to suggest me to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take a look at some of the comments.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got a lot coming in.
[SPEAKER_01]: People have a lot to say because it's been an exciting week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, 83 is here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he says, I felt it's got up on my G1 finally.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought I'd check in without risking too many spoilers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fair enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: I interested to hear your takes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, I've had to avoid Josie Procat broadcast all together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Podcast any shows because I'm behind on my five star ground praise.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm so bad on every podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been some really fun matches so far and whether you're enjoying it to and Jeremy or says great matches in the ring so far in g one and for an Desi is here hello for an end of ledger with us will get to that he says he says I like tie breakers.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are exciting Yeah, for everything the paper train if I give me a hug there for every show what a reporter God he also thinks
[SPEAKER_00]: Aaron Wolfe is definitely winning the G1 against his opinion, and I think credit for changing his mind because I don't believe that he felt that way before listening to our show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Nick releases.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really working hard on learning Japanese now after taking years off-man's hard, isn't it, Nick?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm working hard on mine too.
[SPEAKER_01]: He studied it in college.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he says, I'm still on English commentary when it's available, but I think I will start switching more.
[SPEAKER_01]: It helps to hear it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know who?
[SPEAKER_01]: The funny thing is like I've been watching an anime series that I've really enjoyed and it does it does help to have the English subtitles on hearing Japanese you start to match things up a little bit you start to match up phrases and they it does.
[SPEAKER_01]: It does help.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think immersion is overdone sometimes, like they know you have to just only hear Japanese when you're a mental fat screw, but it helps.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has to be something that you're already engaged with.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like for me, if I was reading like a mango or a comic text or an anime, it would be easier for me to
[SPEAKER_00]: make that connective tissue between the language barrier that start like having those breakthroughs rather than just a textbook telling me like Spanish and like when I was a junior high school talking about how I was going to go to the Diblio Tech you know to me like it just that how it works for me I have to I have to be super engaged and like committed to the knowledge
[SPEAKER_01]: Nick Reeves also mentioned that my bracket last year was much stronger than this year so far fair enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said that surgery losing the shango so he loses to all the former champs and then runs the table feels very possible at this point.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's an interesting story at though.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, take a look at a look to a guy in the glove action.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Fernando is saying, Gabe, kids awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says he trusts him in any situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: He also, the only reason I say that, is because on the last night, we have a fact in match.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like it's much more comfortable to control.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't want to do a guy in a fact in match, getting the upset this early.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you have one of the last night matches, with Cal Newman and the NRA, that I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just,
[SPEAKER_00]: you don't want to go back to the world to many on that time and if you're going to if you're going to pull the trigger on that one, I would do it with a column name and it's not right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And real early pod mentions that I haven't seen any of the G1 since the Chicago show I may have to get into it this weekend and just watch the matches that are the most Cs.
[SPEAKER_01]: What we're going to talk about that?
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's Larry.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to talk about Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: We did.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, spoilers to come and Larry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not going to let you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... for nanosias has anyone won g one two years in a row yes it has happened yes it has it's been a very long time since this happened yet there have been consecutive winners uh... so uh... i know
[SPEAKER_01]: Just off the top of my head, I think tens on that it, I think, and Chono certainly did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a while though.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't have to be very much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, and Fernandez is this made me more of an errand we'll fan, so there you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Brad, we're going to get to your comment later.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to hold off on it for right now, but we'll get to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a look now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm surprised.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crash TV says, I'm not sold on Aaron Wolf at all, but I enjoyed his match with Gabe Kid, even if Wolf took the L. Look the best I've seen from him in that style of bout and Reeves, Nick Reeves mentions, they have plenty of prep time to strictly choreograph, any of Wolf's single matches, the rest of the year outside of the G1.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's more than holding up his end of the G1 so far.
[SPEAKER_01]: He seems to have people pretty exciting, excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Kota Bushy won the Popeau said Bushy recently.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did he win the G1 to an arrow?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he don't.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was in the finals.
[SPEAKER_00]: The second time he was supposed to, but O'Conan ended up winning because he wanted to do shoulder.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really early pods, as I've seen all the results to see how bad I'm doing in the pool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm like in the 300, which is fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just playing time.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all right, because I'm in on Wolf now and Oleg has been a beast.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's from Brad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, guys are in my post block way.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I have, I will, I'll look it up down the road somewhere to see you in the last time.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a double winner.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember off top my head.
[SPEAKER_01]: There have been consecutive winners of the gym.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's part of me to wanted to just go caught.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want it back to back, but then we'll take that to the kids.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe so.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, but because one of the issues with Ocata is so frequently, he was the champion right in the G1 so it was more about creating he either won the thing when someone else was champion so they could set up the Ocata match or he was the champion and he would get upset so they could set up the Ocata match.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you win it three times?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I don't have all this in front of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, okay, well, we're going to get some more comments a little bit later, but we're going to start going through these, the people that we're not going to go match by match by match individually individual matches because that kind of bounces around all over the place.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to just take a look at the participants in the G1 and see how they are doing Jeremy so we want to start with a block and then everyone in a block has either.
[SPEAKER_01]: two wins in one loss or one win in two losses.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have the show to umano issue of four features.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's pretty straight forward in that sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's bring the A block standings up.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone is either on two or on four.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll just start at the top with last year's G1 winner, Kano Skate Takeshita.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take a look at how his week has been.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he had the loss to sushi in the main event Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about that last week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fantastic
[SPEAKER_01]: He beats Jake Lee in support.
[SPEAKER_01]: And to catch the took a towel and wiped Jake's clown make up right office face saying he wanted to bring out the real Jake Lee.
[SPEAKER_01]: And after he did that, Lee began hitting him a lot harder with knees and kicks like he kind of awoke something within him.
[SPEAKER_01]: But to catch they ended up hitting raging fire to win a match that kind of got the fans back into it after an earlier match and killed the crowd for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got people back into it a little.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing that has happened in a preview tag remotely interesting took place regarding this match.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in night three, you know ice and to catch that we're in a preview tag and they just brawl all over the arena, didn't even get in the ring and both them were counted out.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only interesting thing that happened in a preview tag all week.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it added a little bit of steam to this and there was lots of fighting in the crowd for their G1 match.
[SPEAKER_01]: was a big strike battle as Yuto Ice's matches often are and it was entertaining.
[SPEAKER_01]: Takeshita ended up winning by Reft's top-age and he won the strike battle and then he clamped on a sleeper.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he had, he had ice not silly and then he clamped on the sleeper for the Reft's top-age and that was it there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, the lost sushi but then since then Takeshita has beaten
[SPEAKER_01]: None of these matches were too bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, Lee can be a bit of a struggle for some people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ice was exciting.
[SPEAKER_01]: The sushi main event was great, but a lot of to catch the special matches are still the common Jeremy.
[SPEAKER_00]: T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T
[SPEAKER_00]: And so when we get to the very end of here, there's going to be somebody in there that's going to beat him, and maybe Russell for the TV title.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's last night to catch it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Real hell.
[SPEAKER_00]: We want a TV title contender, seem like.
[SPEAKER_00]: just that actually kind of perfect for him right now, just having 15 minute like bangers, especially wrestling with Takeshita a couple of series going into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really like what Takeshita is offering in the G1 right now because he's elevating it without
[SPEAKER_00]: taking it over.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's a really good place to be for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: So before we move on anywhere, this is going to keep me up at night.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I bought the G1 double winner answer terribly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to hear how bad we were at this Jeremy?
[SPEAKER_00]: Go for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: God.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I apologize, everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only was the viewer right, the code of Bush he did win it two years in row.
[SPEAKER_01]: He won it in 2019 and 2020.
[SPEAKER_01]: Forgot about the tournament year.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember when they had the the tournament year, where he won two matches on the two night rest of Gangnam and son of a bitch.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did not only that, they followed that up with O'Cotta winning two years in a row, 21 and 22.
[SPEAKER_00]: I told I want two years in a row.
[SPEAKER_01]: So other than being totally wrong,
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I thought I could have won it two years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who would?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: See, this is why I should have this in front of me at all times.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they did go from 2005 through 2018 without a two years in a row without a repeat winner.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was 10 times too close.
[SPEAKER_00]: Real man to go back and double check.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then in mid-heave wrong within five minutes, the confident we're saying that the other the person will fall.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Any, of course, the most of all time will not surprise anyone to hear that it's Antonio Anoki, the old MSG League from 1978 to 1981, and Anoki wanted to book himself to win it four years or so.
[SPEAKER_01]: To be fair, by the way, Anoki was by far the biggest star in the company.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, he booked himself to win it four years in a row, and if you look at the ticket sales from that era, you can't really blame the dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was doing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't do much wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not to keep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Boy, that was a strong run for the for the company.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, and yes, Obushi made
[SPEAKER_01]: finals four times in a row.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do have that in my head that he made an absurd number of times.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he crash TV says, I agree with Jeremy on King Takeshita's role in this G1, really looking forward to him and Oleg, and considering the build Oleg's been on two so far in this tournament.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another guy that is really shown up.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Takeshita is probably going to lift Oleg.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they go back and forth on those title on those on the matches and to guess you just kind of got one up on him and I think it's about time that all kind of runs that one pack and this is that can be a match that is going to be real important here at the end of this tournament.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so the next person on four points here, Haroki Goro.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he beats an out in Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: We watched that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he defeated Yota Suji in the main event on Saturday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just as we predicted.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was an excellent match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yota Suji's chop was like a gunshot again.
[SPEAKER_01]: He put blood blisters on Goro's chest, just like he put blisters onto cash, just when we were watching a Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go to ended up hitting two GTW and two GTRs to beat him.
[SPEAKER_01]: The match was absolutely great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it sets up what Jeremy and I talked about in predicted last time is that they are going to put over goto, have him beat Suji to set up that title match around King of Pro Wrestling Time, or maybe destruction, or something like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so that it will give a little bit of extra promotion for the Street Fighter movie in which he has a major role.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like the best day of GoTo's tournament, our project should be behind him, because BDAP Fuji was like the feels like was the big moment for him, because he got a title shot.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna have matches, he's gonna probably see what, looking at it now, he's got con Schingo, Takeshita, oh, oh, oh, you know, each one of those, it's a toss-up, but the math is probably
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, then he lost one of Jake Lee and it was interesting because he actually hit the GTR on Lee's knee to sell that and then it wasn't the best match.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was an interesting moment in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They, they're hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: We won an interesting moment in the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was, well, Lee blew out his knee and send I and in the match in which he blew out his knee.
[SPEAKER_01]: More determined than usual, because the last time he had been in the wrestle there, it had destroyed his knee and he was out for more than a year and all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's not even so much that he blamed Godo, because he knew that everybody could go back and see the Godo didn't tear up his knee.
[SPEAKER_01]: But more like, you know, you were the guy that was standing across for me at that point when it happened, and it's a mental block that we needed to get past.
[SPEAKER_01]: he faked an injury again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we knew it was different.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you remember Jeremy, we had a hard time figuring out what happened to Lee because they showed nothing on camera.
[SPEAKER_01]: which is how we knew something had happened, but it was hard to tell what.
[SPEAKER_01]: And because they just kept them off camera, well, this time the camera was all up and everybody's business.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so you knew that it was an angle.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Lee just kind of popped up when he was getting all kinds of sympathy, Goto was standing in the corner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lee leaps to his feet, hits the big boot, Goto is cleaned out and got the three count there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you said, you're absolutely right,
[SPEAKER_01]: injury angle match than the wrestling match.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a break night match for both those guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's actually like they got you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, he just had, was the last opponent for Godo.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that was a big, big match and then he come back and he loses like a geek, but I also, he get denied a rest.
[SPEAKER_00]: And each one of these guys throughout the tournament, they're all gonna get an easier night, some way somehow, just the design of this thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so they kind of got there, it was fine, but yeah, I just,
[SPEAKER_00]: Feeling more and more like just a guy, even though what they've done with positioning so many former champion can each of these blogs, is that beating him or him beating somebody still has catch day.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you're looking at who the focus is in the promotion, you can tell it's not going to go to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, and then Nick mentions that I like the fake injury idea for the finish, but they milked it too long, especially when we've seen New Japan matches and the matches almost immediately after real injuries recently.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and they didn't end Lee's match a couple of years ago when he destroyed his name, but it was like, I think it was like a six, maybe even an even a five on five.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was five on five.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there he goes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they had plenty of guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: They could just sort of move him off to the edge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just what they did.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he fell out of the ring.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we just never saw me again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he was there right here in the ward off and that was around the time where they were all just brawl over the play.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it didn't like he just faded away because there's so much chaos going around during that match and then he just didn't come back for a year and a half.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nick Reeves also suggesting that after that comment he's thinking about the concept of the kind of skit to catch the getting the king of the ring gimmick the WWE gimmick with the the the crown in the sector after all that if he wins two in a row.
[SPEAKER_01]: That'd be funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think it can go to safety if that's the case.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so that brings us to Jake Lee, who's also on four points, we'll get through him very quickly.
[SPEAKER_01]: He won the match for single and Chicago, and then we talked about his other matches.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had to match with Takeshita and Seporo, and then his win over GoToS.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he is on four.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every time I see him, I'm worried he's just not going to make it through the tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know why, but it's just when he falls, I'm afraid every time he's just not going to get up again.
[SPEAKER_00]: like this whole injury angle did not help with my confidence and him staying healthy even though he's then fine since he's come back.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just I didn't need the reminder
[SPEAKER_00]: If don't too clever that New Japan called back to being in Sendai again two years ago when they were here today and have the match with go to on the other side and to do all the injury stuff and then to run it back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I don't want to see injury angles with these wrestlers because it makes me sad every time they are actually injured so if you're going to do it do it rare.
[SPEAKER_00]: don't do with a guy like Jake Lee that like everyone's already expecting him to be made a glass.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just it went for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Although you're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretended he had a seizure in the ring after he had had a bunch of decision the ring and it was so tacky.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just so tacky, so carny, so carny Nick Rave's just mentioned the godo is the perfect upper midcard spot where he can believeably Be heated up at any time have the fans fully behind him and deliver good main events.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a good
[SPEAKER_00]: They've got him, they've got shit to go, they've got Zat Saber Jr., and there was something else that I was looking at on in that list.
[SPEAKER_00]: Caloneman, they're all former champions that you can literally heat up at any given time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Caloneman's got some preciency bias, but like you've got five or six potential like former world champion cash aches dial guys to really make you feel like any one of
[SPEAKER_00]: the prestige of the tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wipe how they set that up.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, moving on to the next one, that is on four points.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about him briefly earlier.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get into his week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ole, Bolton, he lost to what we went Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good match.
[SPEAKER_01]: He defeated Udo Ice in the Slugfest and Seporo.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: These two were one of the guys trained a lot together.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were in the dojoes at the same time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Oscar talked a little bit about that, that just how it's seen Bolton doing in humanly strong things.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he wasn't,
[SPEAKER_01]: he never wanted to be a pro wrestler until he became one.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it took him a little bit longer to kind of get the feel for it, but boy's got it now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he talked a little bit about that in his main event that we're going to get to in a bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: He hit an F5 on you know ice then four consecutive power bombs and this match was interesting Jeremy because it was a ref stoppage and both and sort of played it like he had lost his mind and wasn't totally in control of himself and was just beating ice until the referee
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, pull them off of him, it was a nice twist on an idea that maybe this guy's got a little extra switch in there that might go at any time and he might just loses mind and be the rampaging Hulk.
[SPEAKER_01]: So to speak, it was a nice twist on an idea that we hadn't seen from Bolton before and afterwards he was even kind of holding his head in his hands like what have I done.
[SPEAKER_01]: really well done.
[SPEAKER_01]: On some, that was, yeah, and then he defeated Schingo in the main event and a main event.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was indeed a main event, big move match.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Bolton looked right at home in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did not look overwhelmed by the moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did not look like he had any hesitation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dude won the main event.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he hit the power bomb twice.
[SPEAKER_01]: didn't lose his temper this time, but he hit the kamikaze, shingo sold this beautifully, because he got him up on his shoulders for the kamikaze.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shingo grabbed the top rope, understanding that this, you know, I can't take this, this is not good, this is finisher.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Oleg was so strong, it broke shingo's grip.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so that just put over Bolton's power
[SPEAKER_01]: And afterwards he said that this promo when he has you do the microphone promo after the main event usually he said, this is the hardest part of the match for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said that was the scariest part because he didn't have the confidence in his Japanese, but he said that he never really intended to be a pro wrestler, but because of the fans and because of New Japan, he has totally fallen in love with professional wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that was sincere because what he is putting into his work, his charisma, adding layers to his character, his upward trajectory has been steady since he debuted.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this guy gets better every single month.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're looking at somebody who could absolutely
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm a big believer in botanolic in this tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: I keep saying it and every time I see him and I keep watching him treat others like they are ants underneath him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't want to say this was only botan, but you don't like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: got his ass handed to him by two different guys, by the end of both of those matches and Bolt and Oleg was one of them, in which just damn, like Oleg just felt like you was leading above him, and it was one of those, I wasn't sure if they were trying to show that Udo was ready for the dance or whatever, but they're so strong in building him as like this unstoppable monster right now that I am,
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really surprised actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they're really going heavy on him right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: He feels like Jeff Cobb.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have one more guy on four points.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to have to take over real quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will be right back while you talk about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is Rio Heo EY.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he got the win over Bolton on night one.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the semi-main event in Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was a good match, but he got a submission win because one of the way was stories is he has learned how to
[SPEAKER_01]: work that TMDK grab a body part and torture it a system that, you know, as if he learned that from Zach Saber Jr. May have.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, he ended up losing a match to Shinketskagi in support of terrific match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tenson was at ringside, so OEA did the Mongolian Champs during that match just to kind of give a little nod.
[SPEAKER_01]: Something that Oscar mentioned that
[SPEAKER_01]: Tenson works with a lot of the younger guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's one of the dads and he has helped with a lot of guys training been an integral part of their lives and they just mentioned that and you would see it because over and over again, when Tenson was at ringside commentary, people were doing
[SPEAKER_01]: When Gabe gave, got a spit in his direction, but then he did one of 10 science moves.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you can tell that people have a lot of infection for tens on your back just in time.
[SPEAKER_01]: My voice is going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where were you at?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm just saying that, Shingo, use the burning dragon to beat OEWA.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, and not a lot of notes for me on this one, but it was just a really good strong style pro wrestling match training too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then OEWA beat Great O'Con and Sendai.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nick, we're going to get to your comment because
[SPEAKER_01]: O'Con has been very disappointing so far, acting a little bit goofy using chair spots poorly.
[SPEAKER_01]: O'E was selling his ribs, which is okay, but it takes away so much of O'E was just wrestling, you know, because he just, you know, gets hit once and then doubles over selling his ribs and things that kind of handicaps him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for this match, you know, against O'Con, this did click.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was rough.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did some spots that the exposed turn buckle and that led to a Wii were rolling them up for a victory.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, ups and downs, but he's on four points.
[SPEAKER_01]: Two of his matches really good and another one just okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that leads us to next comment, which is my biggest surprise with Jake Lee.
[SPEAKER_01]: is that he's not actually the weakest link of A block.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, he's not even the weakest link of his own faction in the A block so far.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's right, the one person on this block who's having a really bad tournament is so far as great a cup.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's awful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was watching, I was watching that match with the real hell you are.
[SPEAKER_00]: And
[SPEAKER_00]: I felt like I was watching a guy playing pro wrestler in some of those like pantomime spots when we were kicked out of college finish and gone like the way he sold it was just like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've all seen, he kicked out of my finisher, I can't believe it, but there was something so cartoonish about it that it would go look like, okay, dude, you're taking it this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what is, what's going on here?
[SPEAKER_00]: He, he just got announced as like a representative for one of the card games and, you know, you managed to
[SPEAKER_00]: He managed to piss off Kiddani for making like an off-hand calling about the card game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like can you just talk talking to each other at this point?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you don't have any relationship with each other anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to talk anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can just be strangers.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: Deal.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will think.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that we are seeing the guy arrive.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like we're seeing that next generation, like, bruiser, kind of, tumble here, or she-e, the next generation of shingo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just that, oh God, this guy's across for me and the ring, kind of wrestler.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure he's ever gonna have the IWGP title.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would not be against it, eventually.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he's got so much going for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: with all the other people in that generation right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: We now you got Shota, now you got Yoda Fuji, you got you, you we Murah, Rio, Rio, you are.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are other hungry people coming up like there may not be room at the top for that kind of thing, but he's always gonna be knocking on the door.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's take a look at some of these comments here because there's a couple people make some good points and ask some good questions we're gonna get to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: crash to be 83 says I'm loving big Roy that's it I love it that this is right yeah yeah big Roy this tournament love the new theme okay all right he says he's going on the congregation of all the vibes I feel like he's getting elevated here big time maybe one of the final four all right he's feeling real ha we were and you're saying it guy they're Bolton or Rio hey that they were emphasizing that time I made event on night one there was a reason they had that match there
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's the reason it wasn't moved from that spot because it was probably third from the top when it started because remember they couldn't do kid and maloney in that spot, but yeah, it may have helped it there like we're assuming that, but may have always been to survive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Real early pods.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we will maybe my guy love that dude and Brad mentions.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am glad I bought stock and big Roy at the start love the dude So a lot of room for real.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and now Nick reviews mentions.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think it's funny how New Japan is promoting their card game right after they separate from pushy road I don't think that's a coincidence either
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Nick Reeves says, I think to catch the will get something good out of O'Con, but O'Con is so opponent dependent, it's not a good place to be, and then Jeremy or says, why is O'Con so bad?
[SPEAKER_01]: What's the deal?
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a theory Jeremy on this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think his heart is into being a pro wrestler right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what I'm seeing is I see O'Con promoting this card game.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have seen him show up at E sports convention scene.
[SPEAKER_01]: Happy, I didn't say video game contest.
[SPEAKER_01]: E sports games, you know, the whole thing where people are playing video games is up on the big screen.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in her arena.
[SPEAKER_01]: People love the stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: My people play it three hundred cents.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I'm aware.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and he shows up at these and he's a big celebrity and he does little skits with certain people up there as great Ocon fully in character The game stuff seems to be more on his mind than the pro wrestling and Jeremy he comes off to me I haven't talked to the guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: He comes off to me as someone who is
[SPEAKER_01]: being a pro wrestler because it allows him to do other things he loves like be a celebrity at an esports convention more than he likes doing the matches like being a pro wrestler allows him to do stuff he loves rather than pro wrestling being the stuff he loves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, he's like, he would rather be an influencer and the wrestling with a mean to an end to get to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree with him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he was, well, Logan Paul was a wrestler without, well, he was an influencer without the wrestling to be fair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, can I not sure anybody knows you now the influencer factor and then going in and then the pro wrestling factor and what the mean to an end it when I see Logan Paul.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think this guy is just doing wrestling.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because this is the only way you're going to make money, I think you're doing it because he loves it, but it also helps his brand as an influencer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think it's good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he would rather not, but I think he doesn't get to do these other things without it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's the means to an end.
[SPEAKER_00]: Paul's kind of the other way around that you want to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that, I think Paul's the other way around.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm saying, college is the means to an end to be influenced that they want to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm just saying, like, they both have influence or blood in them that somehow made it into pro wrestling, but at the end of the day, they're not going to be known for being pro wrestlers and feels like they're going to be known for wanting to be whatever it is that it's.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are some other big names on two points, though, Jeremy, including our World Heavyweight Champion, New York Assusiony.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he won his main event against a catch-to-edge Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he lost a go-to in support, like we mentioned earlier.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then, in Sendai, in what we might be the most surprising match of the tournament, he had an absolute fantastic match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a very good match with Sonata.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fantastic, it's a bit of a stretch.
[SPEAKER_00]: The biggest of such a product to see Knotty be able to work a match with theota sugy at a level that we both found more than acceptable.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was just amazed because I didn't think we were going to have good matches with Snotta again.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was definitely thinking that Snotta was going to be in the bad match category for a lot of the things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really the big move segment was very good that that part of it was really strong and you know what I'm talking about in New Japan we get to the big moves toward the end of the match everybody's trying to hit their finisher, but they were really good about working in and out of their finisher's and things and he wrestled with more energy in this one somehow did it and it worked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he did some heel stuff, but it wasn't a house, a torture match.
[SPEAKER_01]: There wasn't a ton of interference, it wasn't a ton of rev bumps.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was some rough distraction.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's a heel.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a low blow when the referee kind of had to duck away from, you know, trying not to get hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he wasn't looking, he hit a low blow, then hit the dead fall.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was not the house, the torture shenanigan matches that we're getting for rent in a reader, for instance.
[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe he's not ahead one more left in the tank.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what it says is that now, you know, this sushi, anyone can have a really good match with the cash to it, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't take a whole lot to have a really good match with their Oaky Goto.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sushi was doing his part in both of those matches.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if you have a really good match with Sonata, I think what we have is a world-heavyweight champion who's absolutely worthy of carrying that mantle.
[SPEAKER_01]: This guy can probably have a good match for just about anyone right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got no bad thing to say about that in any way, shape or form.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, very, very, we're talking about sushi, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or we're talking about senada.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm saying this right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about senada first and we'll get sushi.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I told you this privately and every time I see senada, I feel like I'm watching a guy wrestle for his job.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like Honda's retiring, temps on, all of these old guard guys that are on these.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: We either lost you or we lost me for a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, probably lost me, my internet hook.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we got this old guard leaving.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know Knotta's not what he wants was.
[SPEAKER_00]: The arm to atrophy, but if you can work and he's coming into this G1 and he's able to have good matches and able to find a way to take the training that he had from the New Spendoggio and all the years,
[SPEAKER_00]: behind working here and actually able to make a second chapter of his own career in this new way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he can be around for a while.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, he's got the farm now.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's no longer living this playboy life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, everything kind of quieted down.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can wrestle and then he can go live the life that he walks to have, but it's married.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's an ulyman.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can't stay in that if he's not working.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so to work, he's got to be able to figure this out and I'm very, very happy to see that he is.
[SPEAKER_00]: smart enough and record full enough that when puts come to shove and he got a wrestle that he can still do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we're starting with the good part because there's more to son of us, we can that, but.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not much man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Son of us been quietly having a solid tournament so far.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fans have been behind him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crash TV says I for one welcome the shock of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Son of a win.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was definitely a shock that he won here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the guy that can win any match at any given time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, because the house of torture thing, you know, they're allowed to get a whole house of torture vibe from him.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you're not really cheating.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not doing any of these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just, he's that guy in this tournament, you know, where whatever happens, he can win a lose any match at any given time.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just, he's the math guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, before we stumble over ourselves, praising Sanada, he also had the single dirt worse match of the week.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a loss to Great O'Con, which was an absolute stinker in Sapporo that fertilized that crowd.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we've already talked about Great O'Con and what he'd bring into the table, and when you look at what Great O'Con brings in the table in this tournament, and what you look at what's not a spring to the table at this tournament, you kind of inclined to think that the owners of that match are going Great O'Con.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not convinced because Sanada did nothing to help there either.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there lots of chairs in front of the rough.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nope, there was, they, they fought in the outside.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ocon did about the only wrestling move of the match where he hit tensons, piled driver in front of tensons.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone was doing tensons on most on Sanada, on some shares, right again.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could hear Pindrop through the entire thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're bringing it on the commentary.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Oscar was voicing all of my, all of my protests right there on commentary.
[SPEAKER_01]: They both did very little, but what they did was illegal and it was all right in front of the referee.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was rotten.
[SPEAKER_01]: And anyway, you see what tense on means these guys, they're like I said, is everyone was doing this moves.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then he comes up with that surgery match.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Sonata can suck terribly one day and then come up with something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, this was not
[SPEAKER_01]: and okay Sanada is such an upgrade for what we've gotten since he came back that it was startling to see what sushi was able to pull out of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So come on to this demon you will say that Sanada is capable of a wide range of outcomes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's a quality anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he should be beating very many people because I just don't think it looks right.
[SPEAKER_00]: But him beating Yoda Fuji helped the Yoda Fuji math later on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like no one truly believed that when the world title gone the line, Yoda Fuji can only do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, look fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm totally pleasantly surprised with Sonata, the entire tournament, anything that he's, even that match of Great O'Con.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, I don't really hold Sonata responsible for that one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can I do it?
[SPEAKER_00]: He was just, he was just going to be that he's trying.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, he tried, but I mean, he wasn't good in that one either.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's not pretend he got dragged down.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't a matter of what good or bad, it'll come matter of what the effort made.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the matches that I have seen them in, I'm inclined to think that he was the one trying in Great O'Con wasn't, and I could be proof, but that's just, I haven't seen a really good Great O'Con match in this tournament by Great O'Con, a performance by him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have seen a good performing by Sonata, and that may call the difference to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think that when they were, I thought they were both very lazy, but the other other person that's on two points, Schingo Tagga, and he lost the Lee in Chicago, beat OE1 and Seporo.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've already talked about those matches, then he had that terrific main event with both him that we discussed.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's another guy, Schingo, that has two points, but it's had really good matches, and we'll probably be getting some wins in the coming matches, over the coming week.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he'll be a math guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: She goes always reliable, always.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we'll look at the mattress that he has left here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got, he's got Suji next.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he's got Goto, Great O'Con, to catch that, you know, so not.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wrote these all out just to make sure that I was keeping up on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like Goto,
[SPEAKER_00]: You can win or lose any of those matches.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll probably end up in the 10 to 12 range.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, just we get out at that very last night.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that he's against Sonata is not great for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sonata might be the man who unwind the unbound company.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the another person on two points is, you know, I see he's been entertaining every night.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had the win over O'Con, the lost to Bolton, and then the double count out that led to the brawl with the catch-up.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I have no complaints.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's doing what he should do, which is bringing his entertaining style to the tournament.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other thing, ice is matched just look different.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a nice way to mix things up.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not going to win this thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: He shouldn't win this thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: His stories in the tag team division, but I like that he brings something different to the card.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't, he didn't get in a double count, I was to catch that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't, he didn't, he didn't the preview match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, they didn't match.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he walked to definitively.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I said.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I said.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but when you were saying it like, I've heard something different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you don't like losing definitively, both to bowl no leg and to catch it up when you've got such a come up from the audience, it's fascinating to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they are,
[SPEAKER_00]: their spending capital having him lose to guys that
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't mind him loosing, but he lost bad bone awake.
[SPEAKER_00]: He got like power bomb to death, and he took the power drive knee, and like basically was on his last waves, like got finished off.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't like one move, and he got the pin.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like he was taken down and decimated and both of these matches, and I really curious as to why that was the mindset.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was an interesting choice of a guy to do that with because there are other people that probably could have made him lose his temper too, you know, but yeah, I don't know what I think it's more of the lines of, hey, this is a tag team wrestler in a single tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that that's the way it should be, but I think that might be the mindset that's it could be that it could be it takes a few matches for him to really get his legs under him and the tournament and he has a strong back end that kind of thing, you know, tell the story of Oscar and you know, both like,
[SPEAKER_00]: thrown in the deep end of the pool and they struggled a little bit coming out and yeah, there you go all the things they're definitely different ways to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if the story that they're telling and to their credit they're telling stories with every single guy in this G one this one to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just as my eyebrow raised because going in a direction that I'm not sure if the greatest idea for one of the hottest up coming down to the promotion but.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are enough stuff in the G1 that seem to be planned with thoughtfulness that I'm willing to give it some time.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so that's all right, Block.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of parody, like I said, everybody see the 211, one, two, there you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take a look at B Block.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for bringing that up right over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So here we go with the standings.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm gonna, I'm not gonna just go from the top of the list to the bottom, because there are other things going on in the B Block.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most importantly,
[SPEAKER_01]: with the exception of Zack Saber Jr. Everybody in this block has been given their two points for the show to Umano forfeit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Zack didn't get the forfeit.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's the guy that had to wrestle a shooter in the first night.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's when shooter got hurt.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he...
[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, wrestled that match and it did something kind of funny to his point over that we'll get to in a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So some of these guys are on six, even though they have only one two matches in the ring, because they've been given credit for the show to match is anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: B blocks a little weirder with that, but it'll all even out as the the tournament goes on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take a look at who is on top with six points.
[SPEAKER_01]: Calum Newman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm going to talk about Calum first there.
[SPEAKER_01]: He defeated Duaymore and Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about that last week in Sapporo.
[SPEAKER_01]: He felt victim to a pile of house torture stuff when he wrestled Renderita and Narita is not having any kind of Renaissance like perhaps not is not even a little bit folks.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are going to get painful house torture matches with Renderita both them did the that stupid bell spot where Dictogo rings the bell.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a spot.
[SPEAKER_01]: enough of this crap if there's that this is one of the many things that i if i could just take this out of new japan i would like it so much better the and i'm not i can't know it's not a baby face but the guy who's against house a torture has a submission hold on
[SPEAKER_01]: The referee is right in front of him.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have done this thing dozens of times where they ring the bell and it's not actually the finish.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yet Calum Newman is still stupid enough to be looking right at the referee.
[SPEAKER_01]: See clearly that he is not signaling for the bell and it doesn't occur to this
[SPEAKER_01]: Macabellian planner, right, this guy who has this long-term plan, and he's this guy that thinks five moves ahead of United Empire, and he can't figure out the Dictogo's ring in the stupid Belbia.
[SPEAKER_01]: And after doing the thing, Rennerina has a hold on him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's looking at the referee.
[SPEAKER_01]: He sees that he is not ringing for the bell.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he falls for his old trick with Zane J.
[SPEAKER_01]: He becomes wily coyote, spacking into the going right over the cliff or smacking into the fake tunnel on the bite.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crap.
[SPEAKER_01]: Narita got a submission after cheating and working the shoulder.
[SPEAKER_01]: This could not end soon enough and it didn't end quickly enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's Narita's fault, not Newman's.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was one spot in this match, Jeremy, that didn't suck.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was actually one that had a nice rhythm to it where the referee was actually distracted and Narita had a drop toe hold into the ropes and when Newman went down, Dictogo was right on it with a powder spot, throwing the powder in his eyes.
[SPEAKER_01]: That one had some crispness to it and actually look like people were trying on the other end of the spectrum.
[SPEAKER_01]: Calvin Newman beats Zach Saber Jr. in one of the best matches of the tournament.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was in Nikaata.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this was absolutely terrific.
[SPEAKER_01]: Calvin is very flexible.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that works very well when selling Zach submissions, because Zach can turn him into a pretzel and it looks like he's just in horrendous pain.
[SPEAKER_01]: And anyway, in that match, he kind of hit a roll up on Zach against the run of play.
[SPEAKER_01]: Zach was having the better of it at the moment, but he snuck a,
[SPEAKER_01]: a pinfall went on him with a roll-up.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Newman, a mix bag, the Uemora matches in the Zack Saber Junior Matches for fabulous.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one, I'm putting this, the blame, squarely on the House of Torture Crap and Render Reed is laziness.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why that, middle match wasn't very good.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gets the two points from the four-fit, and Calvin Newman's on six.
[SPEAKER_00]: Calvin Newman, it's great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Calvin Newman, it's awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is just a reminder that,
[SPEAKER_00]: He is that good and he definitely deserves the run with the belt given what pedigree he has.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the more and more I see him, I know that, you know, a lot of people will come in the will off very close.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just start to see more and more than valor all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Prince Devit just a bigger younger version of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: the the kudigra, you know, like the, the stomp, all those little, all those little moves are very, very similar to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think this is tournament, but I think he's going to make a name for himself out of this tournament and that match is not clever junior.
[SPEAKER_00]: So good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was probably one of the best matches of the tournament to go far.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, again, we, we feel strongly that Calonum and story isn't the world heavyweight title at Russell came to this year.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he asked a tango with Will Osprey.
[SPEAKER_01]: If they can make it work.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's got to be his thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so this tournament doesn't have to be his.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, I think he's going to be a factor for a while.
[SPEAKER_01]: He signed that long-term deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to reward him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Crash TV says, feel awful for Shoto.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was having a great run of matches for the injury.
[SPEAKER_01]: I give him a hard time, but it's only because I know he can be better and needs to be more consistent.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in the interest, by the way, Jeremy, of being offering solutions and not just complaints?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we had that little discussion last week, not a little discussion, it was a good long discussion about the issues with the Tana Hashiangal and how some people thought I was being unfair to show to.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a suggestion for how that should have been done.
[SPEAKER_01]: in a way that would accomplish all the new Japan's goals and do it at the very end of the show if we're done talking about the G1.
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, it's kind of wrench has been thrown into things because this angle with this whole program with Gabe Kid, his curse, the guys keep getting hurt, but I have a suggestion for how they could have done it, that would have been a hell of a lot better.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to offer solutions and not just criticism.
[SPEAKER_01]: Spaceman Jones, by the way, said to be fair to Newman, he does look really stupid.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Space Man Jones interpretation.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Crash TV says, Kalim and Yuto take a bit between their teeth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yuto since he came in has been starting fights with everyone up the card.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love the hunger.
[SPEAKER_01]: Others should take a leaf out of his book.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the thoughts on that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, Kalim Newman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kalman Armstrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty good job.
[SPEAKER_01]: Overall.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another person on six.
[SPEAKER_01]: Gabe.
[SPEAKER_01]: lost a drill maloney in Sapporo.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a lot of fighting on the outside.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was the match.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was supposed to be in Chicago, but there were visa issues and kid couldn't do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Couldn't work in the United States.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was able to work in Japan, so they did it here on a block night.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they had one B block match.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a maloney in kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bloney kicked out of three brain busters to big pops in the crowd.
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, they were doing the whole thing with the brain buster because that's one of 10s on spots.
[SPEAKER_01]: So kids spit at 10s on and then said, okay, brain
[SPEAKER_01]: one of 10's on straight marks as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maloney ended up hitting a pile driver and a drill a killer for the win.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was pretty good.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a pretty good match all together and Maloney has now set up for a global title shot, which is good news because these two do work well together.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was Gabe Kid losing his first in-ring match out of the gate.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ben, he beat Oscar.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the second night in Sapporo.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he wrestled both nights.
[SPEAKER_01]: in this match, love slaps.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that these guys have been watching power slap tapes, maybe J. Kager getting knocked out in that one and they were inspired.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really stupid.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really stupid to hit yourselves in the head that much like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll say this too.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't ice slaps a lot, but watch how he doesn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: He kind of hits the side of the neck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is not great, but a heck of a lot better than across the chin, which rattles your freaking brains around and maybe not so much of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if we needed that much of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a mighty choke slam by Oscar, by the way, the look fantastic and Gabe took it wonderfully.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oscar also.
[SPEAKER_01]: no sold a pile driver.
[SPEAKER_01]: And kids looked at him like he was out of a horror movie like the light eyes and scooting back on his ass, you know, in the hands and his ass, trying to get away from like he was looking at Jason Voorhees come up out of the, come back from a pool of blood out of the dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the lucky given.
[SPEAKER_01]: But second pile driver did the trick he beat us here.
[SPEAKER_01]: except for the slapping, not bad, not great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he beat Aaron Wolf and Negata.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there was a lot of old school stuff early.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kid came out, what I mean by old school was putting over somebody with,
[SPEAKER_01]: a special ability in wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he came out with judo jackets, like he's all full of hubris, like I am going to beat you at your own game and he tosses a judo jacket to Aaron Wolf and then he puts one on himself.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now they're both wearing judo jackets and he's taunting Aaron Wolf.
[SPEAKER_01]: will then through kid around like he was absolutely nothing which would is completely logical behel all full of himself and then the baby face in that situation in what is you know in a judo match he should absolutely dominate him and he did and then afterwards he took the thing off and said all the hell with this one I'm going to have cheap to beat this guy and he did.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lot of suplexes.
[SPEAKER_01]: in this match.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of suplexes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And kid ended up hitting the pile driver to win that one as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: The way it was done, Jeremy, the way they got to the finish, you can kind of portray that loss as kid using his experience over a greener guy and just kind of getting into the right position to hit your finish or beat him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it hurts will fall that much and it gets
[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of those matches where Wolves has never championed, and gave us the global champion.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, one of them was going to have to win.
[SPEAKER_00]: And politically, it just made more sense for Gabe to win, because it's also, if Oha does win this whole thing, Gabe can come back around and tell you still didn't beat me, and then he can have a match with Gabe, kid, and run it back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just beating Gabe Kid in the tournament isn't nearly the dramatic tension if it is Gabe Kid beating him and then him coming to come back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just like the House of Torchard stuff, you know, the Renner Rita and Evil and all this stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll live through the guy you come back, you'll you'll win it back in the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: He looked great tossing Gabe like a rag doll like you said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, this was the match with Aaron Wolf where I was like, okay, he can be in the main event
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he seems to be able to do things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, these little segments and things.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he responded well to what was clearly a pretty choreographed match with evil.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's he can be worked with.
[SPEAKER_01]: He can be worked with and that's a big help.
[SPEAKER_01]: And someday he's probably going to be able to work on his own and he's getting better at that, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Brad mentions a drill him alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's so over.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's having a great showing.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're about to talk about him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's the guy who after a fast start, we'll go on to lose more exactly right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think so too.
[SPEAKER_01]: And kids have been awesomies far removed from the madman stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's it has evolved a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has evolved a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Relicization for the heartbreaking walks.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that, yeah, it goes right into the drill him on me.
[SPEAKER_01]: The drill him on his segment, because I mentioned that he beat kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: He then lost to Henare the next day in Sapporo in a really good match.
[SPEAKER_01]: The big move time in that one was really strong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Henare hit a ligor bomb to win it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what that's called, Walker.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you get the guy up and then you sit out.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a ligor bomb.
[SPEAKER_01]: Liger either invented it or he certainly popularized it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I'd be fair.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if he invented that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He beat Uemora in Negata.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most of the work was done on the map early on, which is something that Uemora has been doing a lot of, doing a lot of matte work early in his matches.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of that might be partly due to who he's been wrestling though, to be fair.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then they did the higher impact stuff down the stretch of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was worked very patiently.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was my note in this one Jeremy and I mean it as a compliment that we more and Maloney were patient the crowd was a little bit quiet But I think they sense that they were enjoying what they were seeing and we more this is one of we more as better qualities is his patience
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't need the crowd to be reacting, he can kind of sense that they aren't bored, but just watching attentively.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did it again against Zach.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll get to that match in a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't rush it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't rush things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not afraid of a little bit of quiet when it's the right kind of quiet.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there are two different kinds of quiet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Drill killer after a struggle, countering, countering one another, really good match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Drill
[SPEAKER_00]: girl mooney's remaining tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is just tragic.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got Calumneman, then he got Oscar, then he's got Wolf, Zack Saber Jr, Renner Rita, and he doesn't have a match on the final night.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's the buy, isn't he?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's showed us buy on the last night.
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
[SPEAKER_00]: There was going to be something about that match where neither one of them were going to make it, but they were going to be rivalry for that global match with game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's all kind of lining up there, but they're going to have to figure out how they're going to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: with potentially losing to REN on a second to last night and just squeezing him outside of contention.
[SPEAKER_00]: He made up higher than he was without showed a there as a result of some of the math like he might finish like third or fourth rather than like fifth or sixth, but I still his feeling is global, his feeling is not IWGP right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as beloved if yes, and from the moment
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's three way and you could tell how much that audience was wanting him to win.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the company knows the company sees like the show of sportsmanship with him and you in their match, you know, like you've been positioned as this baby face that I don't think they have a guysian baby face kind of like him right now like an
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you got to add, you got a couple of these other guys, but like, he's that guy with the edge.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they need a guy like that, you know, just kind of, oh, man, the drill is coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: That kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this tournament is doing a lot of good for him personally.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm really happy to see it because he was kind of given the short and the stick not being able to,
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and so his first match got was D railed and his last match is D railed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's first read.
[SPEAKER_01]: Crash TV 83 mentioned what's the extent of showed his injury as you expected to be out long.
[SPEAKER_01]: So okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Concussions take as long as they take and so and I know that's a crap answer, but it right now he is not expected to be out long, but it's basically Jeremy doesn't clerical work over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: it's going to be until he feels all right and that's kind of how it goes when an athlete gets a concussion they go into protocol they're cleared when they're cleared and that's a terrible answer he's not expected to be out for like months or anything but sometimes it's days and you're okay again they're not going to put him back in the tournament they're going to announce that but sometimes it can be weeks and it's
[SPEAKER_01]: you don't want to rush brain injuries back.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's very rarely months that that indicates something a lot deeper going on there that they have not announced.
[SPEAKER_01]: My guess is that he could probably come back for his late matches in the tournament, but that's just not the way they do their
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of those things I think they had to pull him, but my guess is it's more weeks than anything else.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that he'll probably be back after the G1.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, concussions are not linear, they end when they end, but whatever they saw with the symptoms that he was showing made them think that like we cannot expect him to be able to wrestle
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, a couple of weeks ago when this all came down is that the immediacy of taking him out of this tournament said to me that he wasn't winning because if he was winning it and they had to rebook plans, they would have waited.
[SPEAKER_00]: They would have figured out like the solution or had to rework some stuff out.
[SPEAKER_00]: How quick they're like, you know what, he's out.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have five days before this next show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we'll figure it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you can tell that it wasn't the tapestry of the big of the biggest plans with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I liked that that pressure is awesome to him because there's something with show to right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And whether it's the
[SPEAKER_00]: audience behind him, whether it's him finally putting it all together and feeling like he's got that momentum that he's missing, I do think that this concussion will benefit him more in the long term with the sympathy factor, with the audience you're like, no, we know that you need to get your chance and they're going to will it because there were so many people there convinced that he was going to win it this year.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Torrin mentions the big scare with concussions is further trauma in a short period of time, which is why the G1 is a bad place to people with concussion that is 100%.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, so there you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Torrin also mentions what Drillamoloni is who we're talking Drillard earlier.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, you hear a lot of female fans sharing on Drillow.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's good to reach more female audience.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, also true.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, who else we got?
[SPEAKER_01]: Henry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Henry is having a good tournament.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he lost a really good match to Wolf in Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: We enjoyed that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very first match to the G1 this year.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then he had the match with Muloney that we mentioned earlier to Rific one there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Nigada, he defeated Oscar with a power bomb that looked devastating.
[SPEAKER_01]: That power bomb he hit on.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a strong man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Henry, right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said he outhacked Oscar in that match.
[SPEAKER_01]: outhouse, and that's a good way of putting it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then so what that also did was by beating Oscar, it's split the United Empire knockout brothers singles matches within that tag team feud.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you do I speak great O'Con, and then O'Con's partner, H&R-A beat Oscar, so keeps that even, kind of keeps that feud in mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, but H&R-A three for three in his matches.
[SPEAKER_01]: The guys
[SPEAKER_01]: And has a lot more good matches coming up, but, you know, again, he's sitting on six points right now because of how the math has worked out with his forfeit, and we think he's going to finish middle of the pack, but having a strong run.
[SPEAKER_00]: You get that paper junior, column Newman.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could see him eliminated by the dot paper junior match and.
[SPEAKER_00]: Spoiler in column Newman at the last one.
[SPEAKER_01]: interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's it's the Derby is to add that adds even more subtext Jeremy because he's one of them that showed a little bit of support for Osprey.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember when he was going to hit Osprey with the chair and all right, it was one of them that was saying no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mike, why I think that's so interesting is that I have his loyalty question on top of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned Wolf, he had the match with Anari and Chicago, then he had his buy against Umeno, so he didn't actually have to go one of the rounds in Sapporo there.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's only mentioned Japan because that buy was against Gate Kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: We mentioned that one, we've talked about Wolf a lot and how he's been doing well, but there he is, as well, so he is involved.
[SPEAKER_01]: in fairly high up in the standing but there and then we had you you way more at least guys on four by the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had that loss to Newman and Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then he beats Zack Saber Jr. in the main event in Sapporo, really good match, mentioned that it was a lot of Matt and submission work, as you would think, with Zack and Oymora, but really well done.
[SPEAKER_01]: And kind of perpetual motion, they didn't stay still very long.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this was another one where the fans were very attentive, but not loud.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they didn't panic about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also think they didn't really want to see either guy lose that much, but when it was over, they got a very warm reception, and he won that match over sack.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did his promo afterwards.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's trying to get over a new thing, trying to get over a new thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one, two, three, Oshah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he doesn't think anything that had better than the promo did he know he still doesn't say anything Interesting, but he's trying to get a hook and we'll see if that becomes his yeah, we're Remember that yeah, that not come where it did and that worked
[SPEAKER_01]: who anymore is not shinsuke Nakamura and any category whatsoever, but it's, you know, he's trying something new, I guess.
[SPEAKER_01]: He lost him alony and negata.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was a match with Maloney there where he took the Drillicala after the struggle of countering one or another for a while, another really good match.
[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't put him way behind,
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's not Owen three like I kind of figured he would.
[SPEAKER_01]: I predicted that they would put him way behind the eight ball here.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not doing that, but he still has to get on a bit of a roll in order to get through.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it sets up a nice story where Owen more way more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got to have so much trouble with his name.
[SPEAKER_01]: Way more has a surge at the end that leads him into the final day in contention.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still convinced he's going to be very big part of this tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's interesting because there's nothing that would have been showed up and then it would have gone through and you would have seen Optically he only had two points on the board, which to me kind of is a psychological big change Like seeing him with two with three matches underway means that you would have to really run the table on the back end to squeeze in
[SPEAKER_00]: with it being for it doesn't feel like the tension is quite as much there, but I also let's see his last five matches are Aaron Wolff, Rennerita, Hinarie, Gabe, and Oscar, and I can see him beating Wolff and then Wolff beating him in the post-boss play.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see that one really strongly actually because Wolf needs to live a couple and you need to win a couple right now because even though you lost a Gabe Kid, Aaron Wolf is looking really, really strong in this tournament and I feel like there's a lot of an attention that need to be for him to struggle a little bit or maybe they just want to make him look like a beast.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but that's kind of where I stand on those guy
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's out one main event because his buy, his show to Uman O'Mash would have been Sunday at the O'Rourke gym, this coming Sunday at O'Rourke would have been the main event.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you look at the other match, definitely was going to be the main event.
[SPEAKER_01]: But unfortunately, he does miss that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Zack Saber Jr. is only on two points.
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't get any four-fit points over Umano.
[SPEAKER_01]: He wrestled Umano.
[SPEAKER_01]: So then he lost to Uemura and Newman, both in really good matches.
[SPEAKER_01]: So while I think he is about to start winning, Zack has a couple of key losses when it comes to tiebreaker situations.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uemura and Kalim Newman, those could all play into the last day big time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Zack, he's gonna do some winning,
[SPEAKER_01]: The man, when it comes down to that last day, losses to way more and Newman could bite him in the rear end.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the heroic you go to over this block.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and time at the top is over.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I need to be clear about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is not positioned as a top guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is positioned as a guy to get the new set of top guys over.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like that is that Saber's role right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like he got his two or three title run.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was two.
[SPEAKER_00]: over the last couple of years, didn't set the world on fire, but got respect and credit for the job that he did on top, everything was fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's going to use that cachet, and he is going to get the next generation of guys so that made it that level.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this tournament is exactly what he should be doing in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so,
[SPEAKER_00]: his last set of matches, he's got Gabe Neck, then Ren, Oscar, Drilla, and R.A. Wolf.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he can go on a run and then that last match against, if that's Saber Jr and Wolf, I'm telling you man, that feels like the main event on the last night of the block play, and it's time for that Saber Jr to do the honors for somebody else.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, and the crash to be says, you is missing Chris Charleston's PR isn't you you visiting the soup getchens to go out free bowls to the child boards missing a trick.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, no, he he going to the to the schools with the children that don't get don't get the cars.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he goes to the, yeah, he's visiting the kids.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, about the kids.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Rennerita, he's only had a couple of matches he had as a buy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he had a night off already, although every night is a night off for Noreta, he doesn't work.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he lost to Oscar in Chicago, but be Calvanoom and the less said about him, the better.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Oscar, he had his win over Noreta to make everybody happy in Chicago and his debut and the G1.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then he had the losses to Gabe and Henare.
[SPEAKER_01]: very similar to you to Jeremy and that he'll likely pull off an upset somewhere along the way, but his story is in the tag team division.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's there to say about Ren?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I hear the guy on the roster and hear a body that knows what to do and this is his long life.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he enjoyed wrestling.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he enjoyed what he's doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think, New Japan kind of beat it out of them and every time he's there, I feel like he's clocking in for a Jollab rather than loving what he's doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you're in pro wrestling, if you're clocking in for a job rather than loving what you're doing, it's going to be a long job, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely right.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that is the G1 climax as we stand right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's know you touch on Oscar a little bit, but if there we go, also on Oscar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not for me, like I said, I think his story comes later.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that what I think they should do is keep Oscar and ice busy, keep Nare and O'Con with the tag team titles, and then Oscar and ice.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is their chance to win the World Tag League.
[SPEAKER_01]: They couldn't have what they could have.
[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't win it last year, except with the champs.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would definitely build toward putting them in a featured match at wrestling them because I think the fans are into them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think winning World Tag League, and then this time, instead of like last year, where they did it in New Year's Dash, they said, oh, no, no, no, no, we want it and we want it in the dome.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, put over the idea of Russell King to me in the end game for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now between the world title match, now you have knockout brothers tag team title match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully some grudge matches in there and you put together a comprehensive night.
[SPEAKER_01]: They aren't going to have a ton of how she retirement to just sell ticket sight unseen.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have to put together a total package to get people in the building for this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think knockout brothers are part of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Steven, I really like the analysis that we bring here on paid that if you put the knockout brother in a match, a rest of Kingdom people want to buy tickets and go to that show.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to talk news, a pan into things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where we are right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to talk them into that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I have a crush.
[SPEAKER_01]: He says, Ren's a bit missed.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's been forced to where he will stand me down.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's better than a teacher.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and the US VA guy, hey, how you asked about it?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I got to have drinks in some snacks after the show with that's the bond.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're the US VA guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we were hanging out with the power of bombshells and things, it was very cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was good to meet him, and I was here on the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he said, unfortunately, with Ren, Shabbat and Shabbat, I did him no favors.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's very true.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was never really right after coming through, because Ren and Rita was a good young lion.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and a lot of people thought that Nareda was a better young lion than Uemora as a young lion.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, just thought that, well, who has more potential, Nareda or Uemora?
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a discussion.
[SPEAKER_01]: That seems absurd now.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that seems crazy now, but it was.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it graces, I hope, they, I do hope and think, rest of the kingdom will have a much more standard card in the last one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know, have an excellent hour of time to work with.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for anyone who wants to contact to the, uh, the comment by, uh, extible in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the LA Dojo, Chibada was especially tough on Renner read it to the point where you almost broke him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Ren almost quit wrestling completely.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you've never really done the same sentence, that passion of kind and driven out of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And part of the reason why Chibada is not really around anymore, because the people were training him did not care for the way that he was training.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's a little bit of context for the people that don't
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, kind of not only a dipshit, but an asshole.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the difference between what we like and what we consider are heroes and people we admire because of their wrestling ability, trend-glaid zero to the kind of person that they are real life.
[SPEAKER_00]: We all have to remember that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll think of a step further.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't really like his wrestling either.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's had some good ones, but boy, he's unnecessarily stiff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just think Shabbat on the holes been a negative to the wrestling business.
[SPEAKER_01]: So all right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take a look at the week ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the mix says like we're not even mentioning the rest of Kingdom Fiasco that's where he went off script and decided to wrestle a full match after they had told them not to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shabbat is not a smart man.
[SPEAKER_01]: just not intelligent guy and then apparently he also has a sadistic streak too and frankly that's kind of stuff we need to weed out of pro wrestling instead of bringing to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we had Saturday and Sunday they're going to the Barrow wave arena that is a very grandiose name for a big old gym, the older version of nasium.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so Saturday is an ablock card that has
[SPEAKER_01]: Great O'Con and Huroki Godo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great O'Con and Huroki Godo and it also has levers to snout of the featured matches.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ice versus O'Weewa, you know ice versus real, hey O'Weewa and they've had their few to a little bit beforehand anyway and another couple guys who trained like crazy together at the same time and very in Nogue and then Yota Sushi and Shango to Kagi and I will be rooting for Yota Sushi in this one Jeremy ask me why.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because Shingo Takagi is taking that support away from me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will get out of you about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why do you want someone out for that?
[SPEAKER_00]: To the boy buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she and that's a boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the grades.
[SPEAKER_01]: Seriously.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the grades of startup pro wrestling, of course, Shingo Takagi and that's a player married.
[SPEAKER_01]: She announced what we had all been dreading ever since we found out she got married to Shingo that she is retiring from wrestling on January 3rd and I'm going to be in Tokyo so you can bet your butt.
[SPEAKER_01]: that I will be working very hard to get tickets and that's a poise retirement show and it just in addition to dream quaint them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So January 3rd, Poise retiring, they're going to start a family.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sheng goes in his 40s, you know, you got to get going on stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's, I think the way he's going, he would probably be in his, he'd be about 60 by the time the kid grew up.
[SPEAKER_01]: So fair enough, you know, they both want this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was this was the goal, you know, they they they fell in love.
[SPEAKER_01]: They want to have a family together.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so boys going to retire from pro wrestling for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm happy for the to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, yeah, and man, that kid's going to be cute whenever they do have it, but there you go, shingo and surgery, get up and go and rounding out that night, can I get to catch you ever since I'm like should I could could be probably well, almost certainly looking at the rest of this, that's that's the second best match of the night right there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sunday, B.
[SPEAKER_01]: Block, the way Moore has the night off and, oh, when you look at this thing, this was a one-man show and the one-match ain't happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: The rest of this, okay, Wolf versus Oscar, nothing wrong with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wolf versus Oscar.
[SPEAKER_01]: And our A versus Renderita, they're looking already.
[SPEAKER_01]: Drill them alone, he versus Calvin Newman.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll be good.
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Zach Saber and Gabe Kid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gabe Kid will get something out of Gabe Kid, but Gabe Kid is all smoke, no fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then what we have here after that will be that what would have been the OEM or um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see, go to versus shingo to catch diverse as O'Con.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we will versus Sanada and Bolton versus Lee.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are we in just block play like A block B block for the rest of the time?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or are there like?
[SPEAKER_00]: full show with both.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we are just I think we're going to do in preview text.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the way through.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think so, let me double check one thing though before I finish that I'm going to go to the schedule here on NJPW 1972 and go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, because there is a block play.
[SPEAKER_01]: The B, yeah, it's only the B block, a quirk and haul on the 13th.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's only the A block Wednesday on the 12th.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yes, yeah, they're, they're, we're not doing a full 10 G 1 or 9 G 1 match card the rest of the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all creepy tags and one block at a time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: David, in honor of the World Cup ending, yes, I will mention the Wunk, we're on bonus time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go ahead and talk about your solution for two.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're in extra time.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we'll go on with extra time.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're an injury time now.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yes, and oh, Brad wanted to mention one more thing about Nat's a boy is that it is believed that she will continue working with the company similar to how Tam Nikonov does after her retirement.
[SPEAKER_01]: So she's not going away.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then she shouldn't, for God's sake, she's a huge part of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I was thinking about this whole ton of how she showed a thing because I've been bitching about it since they did it, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And trying to think of how they could have done this better.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought about when has an authority figure and we've had plenty of authority figures in wrestling come back and been part of an angle.
[SPEAKER_01]: town of Hosh is not necessarily coming back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stay with me on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a reason.
[SPEAKER_01]: When has it been a heal versus the office in a way that helped everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: That last qualifier in a way that helped everybody, you can take away everything WWE's ever done.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the end of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: All the authority figure stuff hurt people more than it helped it for the most part.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only real exception would be the Austin McMahon feud, which launched a lot, but they even managed to model that up eventually.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought about it, mid-South Wrestling in 1984 did an angle that I think could translate to New Japan in 2026.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to go back away, but I found it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bill Watts was the owner and operator and the on-screen president of Mid-South Sports.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was also the color commentator.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did everything but set up the ring for Mid-South.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was during one of the hottest periods they ever had.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stay with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to explain how this works for New Japan now.
[SPEAKER_01]: they did an angle there where he was interviewing a heel as an announcer.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was interviewing butch read, it was the heel of the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So no other baby faces were around.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a reason I mentioned that.
[SPEAKER_01]: No other baby faces were around.
[SPEAKER_01]: The previous week on the show, the midnight express.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the greatest tag teams ever had been embarrassed to the week before by the Rock and Roll Express and Watts was laughing at them a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Having fun, they got their come-ups, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: They had been on a rampage and then they got embarrassed the week before and Watts kind of laughed about it because these guys who have been rolling through everybody suddenly got a little bit of a little bit of bearish right there, not a lot of bearish actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cornetto is face smashin' with cake.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had a confrontation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Watts slapped Cornette when Cornette crossed the line and was like grabbing it to his shirt and all this kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just to be in and being a bastard, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Watts slapped Cornette, the midnight express beat down Bill Watts, the owner and president of the company.
[SPEAKER_01]: No baby faces were around for a while because he was interviewing a heel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Watts vowed he had to come out of retirement to get revenge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's what I'm talking about in this.
[SPEAKER_01]: The way New Japan did it that botched everything was having showed it to Umano be the afterthought in a match with Gabe Kid, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is our problem with it, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Not the Gabe Kid won the global title.
[SPEAKER_01]: not even the Gabe Kid is in a confrontation with Tana Hashie.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the issue that showed Omano, who is on the cards, who is touring, who is the guy that you're asking people to buy tickets to see, was made to look so useless against Gabe Kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: To the point that Gabe Kid was having the match with Tana Hashie more than he was having with Kid, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: When Watts had his thing with the midnight express, he put over that he was the one in trouble.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, oh boy, now I've got two of the most dangerous heels in the company and this manager.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's really with a weapon.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now there's three on one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need help.
[SPEAKER_01]: He went to the junkyard dog who was the biggest star at the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: his biggest start at the time he says, I am in trouble.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need your help.
[SPEAKER_01]: And JYD, now, let me get into a whole thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: JYD had lost a loser leave town match so he couldn't wrestle his junkyard dogs.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he came back under the mask.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of those deals where the baby face was cheated and had to leave leave town quote unquote.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it comes back under a very unconvincing mask where, you know, the heel does the whole
[SPEAKER_01]: We know it's in, well, I don't know, he's under a mask, you know, that whole thing as staggered Lee was this name, but junkyard dog came back and then they had tag team matches all around the territory and set records for attendance for revenue because they raised ticket prices because it was a special, the last stampede, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: What they did was it put over the heels as threats because they beat up Bill Watts.
[SPEAKER_01]: It put over the current star.
[SPEAKER_01]: The guy that he wants people to buy tickets to see the junkyard dog as the savior standing up for the company and it put himself and his integrity over when he came back teamed with the junkyard dog and beat the midnight express.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody got over from this.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I said, the heels look strong because they beat up the legend.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, then they had, you know, a run on top and every main event all around the circuit.
[SPEAKER_01]: The star looked like the savior and it put over the returning guy as he, not because he saved mid south, but because he stood up for himself in his integrity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here is how they could do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kid beats Shota.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: But don't do anything more than that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't just do anything more than Gabe Kid has a really good match against Shota Umano and Beatson.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: None of the rest of the stuff with Tom Ashi.
[SPEAKER_01]: Later on, you have things like Gabe Kid vs Zack Saber Jr. in the Old Award Jim and Tokyo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then later on, you have Kid against Wolf or over Oscar.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've already seen those matches, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just have Tom Hashie at ringside for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kid wins the match, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: Kid wins the match.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got the global title.
[SPEAKER_01]: Once the baby face is led away by the young lions, he's already beaten Oscar Wolf, he could have done it then.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody of the crowd likes, he beats them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're led away by the young lions as Gabe is kind of gloating.
[SPEAKER_01]: He looks over a ton of ashes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Once the baby faces are all gone, and he gets in ton of ashes face at ringside.
[SPEAKER_01]: time a house, she kind of stands up because time a house is not going to just take it sitting down, stairs him down a little bit, and then have gave kid kind of smack him, right, or hit him or cheap shot him, cheap shot him is the key, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Have the announcer saying just things like, oh, what the heck?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's in a suit for God's sake.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's working, but he's the president of the company.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is Gabe doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's getting in time to space.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then,
[SPEAKER_01]: If showed it didn't have the concussion or whatever right where we're supposing all this that they can actually do it right then have showed a come down and saved on a hash you when gate kid built some knocks and down and starts putting the boots to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: give it a little bit of time, then have show to come running out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now look at how the psychology changes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have Tana Hashie standing up to kid just saying, I'm not going to have you just talking crap about my company.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't you spit on my lion mark, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Gabe kid gets over because he has a heel because he backhands the president.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't hurt Tana Hashie too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's in a suit.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not supposed to be wrestling.
[SPEAKER_01]: and he gets cheap shot at, right, by the heel.
[SPEAKER_01]: So then he's getting beaten down.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then instead of showed up being this limp rag, being beaten up and humiliated by the guy, he lost a tough match to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't get beaten up and humiliated and ignored during the match in which he's getting his ass kicked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead, he lost a tough match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, he comes running out
[SPEAKER_01]: Brawl all around the arena, get pulled apart, dragged off to other parts of the arena.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now look at the how the psychology is different.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, show to is the guy who is standing up for New Japan.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, show to you guys that you will not do this in my company, either.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, and you don't go and be him down.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got something to say, you say it to me right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can even say something.
[SPEAKER_01]: He can even say something showed a good about time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually just saying, oh, yeah, well, if he wasn't in a suit, if he wasn't in a $1,000 suit, if he weren't in his wrestling gear, and you looked him in the eye across the ring, he might not be that easy game.
[SPEAKER_01]: But guess what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you got to deal with me again.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now I'm really pissed off.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got my title and you've insulted my company.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now the whole thing can be showed a coming after revenge for Gave, and it looks like the guy that's supposed to sell the tickets is the guy that's making great save.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you want to have Tana Hashie come back and either team with him or come back and fight Gabe while showed us fighting moxley at rest of Kingdom as a special attraction.
[SPEAKER_01]: All of that would work without your baby face looking like a muck.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the whole point.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so that way, showed it can move forward when that feud.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then once showed to Umano beats John Moxley or beats Gabe and if you can't get Moxley beats Gabe and some sort of big stipulation match, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Once he gets over that hurdle, showed it can do anything you want after that.
[SPEAKER_01]: showed us a made ban after that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has exercised all of his demons and now he can sit there and say, now that I have beaten my mentor, now that I have gotten past Gabe kid, there is nothing left for me except to take that IWGP title and bad news champ, I got nothing to do but figure out how to beat you.
[SPEAKER_01]: you know, I have no more demons left exercise there.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how you could have done it where everybody looks good and strong and where the people would be into it without anybody looking that's so that's my solution to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how you can do this without embarrassing show to Umino.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I just wanted to offer that up as a suggestion and new Japan there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying they're going to do that now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Showed us got the concussion and things are all as cute.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like it people were saying like you know that okay well you're so smart what would be a better idea I think that would be a better idea to get Tana Hashie over as somebody who stands up for the company but doesn't have to save his baby face it gets Gabe over as a cheap-shouting jerk it gets showed over as the savior and then guess what you get to buy tickets to see the savior after that
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm really glad that your house is still standing because I thought I heard a nuclear explosion earlier this week.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I read that Tana Hashu is considering getting back in the ring if you needed to in some interview that he gave.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know it's totally tongue-in-cheek when I watch him, but it's like if you Steven ever sees this interview, you're never going to hear the end of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You seriously may have heard it here first, folks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was the one that was saying that that's where all this is leading right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you had an interview where you said you considered unretiring if the company needed him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I should have even had it floating.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just don't screw over, show it to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you don't have to.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to screw over, Shona.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can make sure to look great.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you do it right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we got three shows to watch next week, three shows to watch next week.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when we come back here, we will analyze all three of those shows.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look at the standings.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll look ahead of the G1.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting into the meat of it here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting into the heart of the order.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to start separating the contenders and the pretenders.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we're going to be closer to knowing who's going to win.
[SPEAKER_01]: But my guess is we might have some clues as to who we're going to fall back.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we'll probably know a couple of guys who aren't going to win it before we know who is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're going to go into the last night with a lot of people mathematically involved.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got a few more weeks before the end of this permit, but I don't think I mentioned this to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll mention it to you now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Chris Samson is going to join us for the be after the G1 to kind of talk about where all these guys started and where they ended in their G1 journey and what kind of changes.
[SPEAKER_00]: the audience kind of see it's kind of a debrief of the whole G1 rather than a preview because there's going to be a lot of stuff that we're going to be chewing on and digesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Long after the G1 is over because of the plans that they set motion and result.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that is on the books as our next guest on the show and a few weeks probably somewhere around the 18th or 25th, whatever week that is, that Thursday will probably be the
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, and Nick Reeves is asking, do you think Tenson's retirement match with Kojima will close out the semi-final show or will one of the G1 matches end the night?
[SPEAKER_01]: My guess is that that will be a little bit earlier on the card than that, but I don't think they will do that last.
[SPEAKER_01]: They might, they might do the ceremony last.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think the ceremony might be last.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the match, the coach and the, unless they're going to go, and this might be it, this might, it might be more that it's more of a ceremony and like a one-minute thing, because what content's on really do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, they're going to do the match.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be the opener.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's one of those.
[SPEAKER_00]: They really don't mess around with these retirement ceremonies.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they hold an event that this is happening on this show.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you've seen the talk of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the match itself might be one or two spots and the real main event is the ceremony.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that could still happen after the day I suppose.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't try to do a real match with tens on and try to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't think you do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you have 20 or 30 minutes where it's
[SPEAKER_00]: and trips, couple of moves, wrap it up, flowers, old cards, come in, pay us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a full, not a 10 minute thing, more like a one on a 10 minute thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tigerman style.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, maybe yeah, I could see that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I could see that going last and then having the real made of it be the ceremony because he means a lot to a lot of guys in that locker.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only that, but for the G1, this year,
[SPEAKER_00]: with like it being such an open field.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost better to remove that glory of making it to the final.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they have somebody close out the show doing a speech like which one of those guys of the four would you have to a speech or would it just be better to have 10 gone and then have the winner did the speech and the actual G1?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's fair enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Nick, you mentioned that the match only has a five minute limit, so it won't be much of anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: If that's the case, then they'll probably be last.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They'll probably quote it out with the dunkle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there will be tears.
[SPEAKER_01]: There will be tears from Kojima, for one thing, who's an emotional guy anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he has been an intricate part of the lot of these guys lives, and you can just see the way they react to him when he's there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you need to be good, but do you think Kojima will have a little bread to dry his tearcloth?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: When he in storyline gave up his spot in the G1, so the tens on could have one more G1, when tens on talked about that, Kojima broke down.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the interview segment, it was Kojima that was crying on that, so I think we're in for more of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, that's something to look forward to.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got two, three weeks before that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we went a little longer name of those to let to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: But do you want to call me if you go a little longer?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm prepared for this kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So our favorite match is the week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yoda Suji against Goto for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: What was your favorite match this week?
[SPEAKER_00]: Cal Newman and that favorite junior was probably my favorite match.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and the only thing I would say to forget would be great Ocon versus Sonata and Yeah, a great Ocon versus OE with to not gonna knock your socks off.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can skip that one if you want to Yeah, but the degree of awfulness between the two.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah Yeah, Ocon Sonata is in its own category.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but go check out the sugigoto and the Saber Newman matches both here
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, you're having a great campaign, bolt and old, having a great campaign.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, honestly, you're suggesting a picking a guy and you're following their journey through the G1.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a bad idea at all.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, thanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So with that amount, let's get out of here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we will be back next time to talk about three more nights, including two in the former Odo Ward gymnasium.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to thank everybody who joined us here.
[SPEAKER_01]: My goodness, great comments this week, guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank everybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So don't forget, power bombshells coming up this weekend for Jeremy Feinstein.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This has been speaking of strong style, and we'll talk to you again, Wilson.
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