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Emerald FlowShow #98: Kento's Shiny Boots · The Emerald FlowShow

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  [SPEAKER_00]: you're listening to the Emerald Flow Show on the voices of wrestling podcast network.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to episode 98 of the Emerald Flow Show.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We're a podcast on voice of wrestling podcast network.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I was going to go straight to the chase.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This is the third time that I'm recording this show.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I had technical difficulties my first two times.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and it's dried here, and I'm flying solo this week.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Paul's in Japan, of course, enjoying all of that, and he will have a debrief for you, and maybe I think he'll probably be on the episode of wrestling on Macauze with John Carroll, because they're both in Japan.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I normally like to get a guess, but I'm in the middle of moving right now to a new place with my wife.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So scheduling all of that is just a hassle.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to do a quick
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  [SPEAKER_02]: uh, episode here solo of all of the lots of events that have occurred, uh, basically, based from the end of the year to now, I'm recording on Saturday, the morning of Saturday, January 10th.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So some of the previews might have already happened, but I'll get to later by the time you listen to this.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So let's just dive right in.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll go all the way back to December 21st.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: DVT had their final court can haul show of the year ring finale 2025 curtain call where everyone is a star.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, I'm not going to watch a whole DDT undercard.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: But what you should watch is in a special tag latch, Arashima and Kaisy to Ketchy defeated Eugene Agada and San Siro Takagi at 9.27 with a swan diaphragm from Taketchy on Takagi.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This was great for what it was.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought the Agada worked really hard here, and he had some fun exchanges with Taketchy.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And Takagi worked hard too.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So the old guys were going to, of course, Hiroshima is still pretty darn good for his age.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So it was all about making Takeshi look like us with star, especially going into his appearance at the Tokyo dome for Wrestle Kingdom on January 4th, and they did the job here, so that was a lot of fun and worth checking out.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Also, I quite enjoyed the KOD tag team title, Mound Cannon with Kim Hiro defeating a June Masaoka in Guyahawks in 1240 when that cannon pinned hocks with a modified lonely desires.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Good song tag team match and I really like the contrast of Mound Cannon.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You know crazy mal in the powerhouse cannon, you know, I so that's worth it I watch and then of course the main event for the KOD open weight title You can only know defeated Takeshi Missata in 2139 with the WR.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This was to meet them back to the show I'd go about four stars on this a great showing from Missata and just for I believe this is his first KOD
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, open-weight title challenge, you can, you know, one of the best in the world, obviously leading him through this.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So just great.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought they built to, uh, you know, a strong finish where Masada got some chances, but you in a sort of put him away in a way that said, you know, you still have a bit of a way to, ways to go young guy, but you know, I think Masada is developing nicely and will be ready to be a star because they want to make him a star clearly.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: not quite there, but almost there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So that was a solid sort of end for DVT's 2025.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll have over to great, very quickly.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The end of the card of this show was, it was what it was.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a couple of things on there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I enjoy like some of Wattenabe and so Demonji, defeating Crocio, Tokyo, Japan, and St. Othachibana, 1918, with the Frank of Center from Wattenabe, on Tachibana, that was an assortment match.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I actually enjoyed the evolution, strong women's titles, skirmish, with Michiko, and Yuna Manase, defeating Chichi and Zones in 648, with Day.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: hito denashi driver from michiko on teachy that was building up their match um and i'll get to that in a second so and then i enjoyed also for the the lidet you wf title match cuts are who can catch her hiko naka jeem i defeated real ataka in 1250 with the sleeper hold um solid enough you know won't knock your socks off or anything but i've generally enjoyed honestly most of naka jeem is great work even if it that maybe doesn't
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  [SPEAKER_02]: as what you would expect, you know, him usually doing.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And in the G-Rex title, Minors is Tenaka, sorry, versus Katara Suzuki went to a time limit draw in seven minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They restarted it, and then Tenaka beat one in another minute and fifty seconds with the grand cobra to make a second defense of the title.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I know these guys are older, but they're still pretty good, but I thought this was disappointing, especially with the silly
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  [SPEAKER_02]: time limits like this is the WWE speed title basically.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And for the G-Rax title, I'll end them in defeated T, J, P, and 24, 14 with the German supux hold to make his second defense of the title.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This was really good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'd go about four stars on this.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: TJP, whatever you think of them is a great solid wrestler, you know, technically sound, and that was the case here.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Really good technical work building up to some big suplexes in the closing stretch there, and I quite enjoyed it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's worth checking out because the great paywall has come down.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So you can watch all this stuff on YouTube now for free.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: What that means for the company, who knows because of course,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Shima and actually also Rio Ataka have a laugh to as of December 31st.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Shima also vacated the Gene 30 titles because of an quote unquote injury.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If you believe that or whatever, because his arm at least claimed an arm injury.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So, I don't know, still on my great death watch.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I suppose.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Also, I will just add with that evolution strong build on January 7th at Shinkiba.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, they had, they ran the Cheat Cheavers, the Michiko Tatlmatch, Cheat One, which was clearly the whole build.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: what they were trying to do.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that is actually worth watching.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought that was a very good match.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Chi Chi has become very good worker.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought Michiko is actually a really great heel.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That was the highlight of that match.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Goes about 17 minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'd go three and three quarters on it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe if you're feeling generous four stars, maybe not quite.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll stay three and three quarters.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But that's also worth checking out if you can see it absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And then before we get to the usual
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  [SPEAKER_02]: on December 21st and in a socket 176 boxer 176 boxer Howard is maybe you pronounce the numbers in Japanese, I don't know.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They claimed 410 fans, which was a supernova agency for that building, which at this point is actually not a bad attendance for a big Japan and all honesty.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And really I only watched on this show the strong heavyweight title match.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So, Demonji defeated yes, Fumi Nakanoi in 1906 with a black ring.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That was another solid, good, hard-hitting smash mouth, Demonji match.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Not going to waste a good opponent for him, you know, a pretty solid, though a little unspectacular, but still like you know, not going to be working on the leg and just good hard hitting work, and I enjoyed the finish, all of those attempted black reigns from Dimonji, so I go about three and three quarters on that one as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But you know, it is the highlight of Big Japan and I really think Demonji is one of the best guys that's not in sort of one of the quote on quote Big three or legacy three men's promotions in Japan right now big fan of especially what he brings the table in his style.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So then we will jump into Noah Thanksgiving 20 25 on December 23rd at cork and haul in front of 1,498 fans which is pretty good for them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Bray, not a match that doesn't have in court in these days before the match.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not for the GHC title.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Although it's the annual end of show end of your show for Noah.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So you have to take that into account.
• 9:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: So what we had was Will Cruz, Alejandro and Kai Fujimara defeating Saxon, Huxley, Suji, Kano, Eda in 1973 with a frog splash from Cruz on Eda.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a fun visual and everything like that.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, good enough.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But her
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: uh, to build also for cruising, actually that would come on January 1st.
• 9:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Then Tadiske and June Masaoka defeated Esushi Katoga and Hajimeohara in 455 with the crucifix holds from Tadiske and Katoga.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Poor Katoga.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was just to establish that team 2,000 extra just those dasserly heels.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then there was a no-offle gift battle royal royal that Kazuki Fujita won.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Again, this went 934 and it was what it was.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know nothing right home about these battle royals are all the same Japan.
• 10:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hiroto Saruya and Midori Takahashi in 752 with the Kenos special from Kenon Takahashi and this was a ton of fun because it was just a grumpy and surly vengeance beating up the young boys.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So I want from your wrestling good solid work and then Hiromu Takahashi and Dekinegai defeated Amasuka and Dekyota Shima in 1058 with the time bomb.
• 10:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: Perntagahashi and Amakska, and this was a good solid outing the classic sort of, you know, outside her and your interpromotional, like
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  [SPEAKER_02]: veteran and young guy versus veteran, young guy from another company, the love of those vibes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And so this was a good build.
• 10:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then we got to the godfather 25 years of greatness to Kashi Sagarra defeating Kenton 1649 with the Olympic slam.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And this was also, this was Sagarra's 25th anniversary max technically sort of the end of Noah's 25th anniversary celebrations, which I really feel like they didn't lean into as much as they, um,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: should have or could have, but there could be a number of reasons for that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, misala looms large over the first nine, ten years of the company.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And then, of course, from about that same that was misala era was all the, you know, NTV owns all that footage so you don't have access to all that footage, but whatever it was, I didn't feel like that maybe they're trying to, you know, blaze a new identity for themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And everything like that, so maybe that's why they didn't
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it makes me feel old because I remember when Sagerah did debut with a lot of hype.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, the years ago, by, um, but this was, was up to a certain point.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Pretty, uh, what I would expect, you know, sort of a little slow, but then they just wall up to each other like you would, of these two would.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But then, of course, you know, the team 2000X stuff just took over like at one point.
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: They teased Sagerah using a charity through the way and that got a big pop from the crowd.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: then Sugira then just cheated to win and it just felt like a pistol over what should have been a celebration of this cup of Sugira and the company for the past 25 years.
• 12:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, spoiler alert, I'm just going to bury teen 2000 and ask for the rest of this show while I'm covering.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And in the ultimate showcase 2025, main event, I'm returning to the ring after injury, Ozawa,
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Kai Tokimia and Katsooya Ando in 1813 with the real rubble from from Ozzawa on Ando again started well fell apart well didn't the match in fall part the team 2006 into your fear because it looked like Ando might win but then of course guess what they interfered in
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they've got pinned, and it's just again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, you know, and oh, I forgot too much.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Actually, the, uh, Marfuji Kettlevatch Bushi came out to tease the him and his very mysterious partner on getting her first and.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Give a missing to Kenno.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I do have to say though the whole thing if the whole idea was for it to be obviously NIDO to piss off Kenno and make him angry that is a funny and effective angle.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then on January 1st Noah the new year 2026 at Tokyo, Nippon Budacon in front of 6,278 fans that is a good number for them but I can't help but think that
• 13:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: That was nighto drawing that number.
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's be honest here, but it is above night last year, although it's below obviously not come more of a great mood up, but You know, I wouldn't expect that to be surpassed by this show But it's still respectable, but the question is can no sustain this and I Really don't know and we'll talk about that more in a second to open the show We had the GHC junior heavyweight tag team tunnel three way match a dog and deck you to Schema defeated Alejandro
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Kai Fujimura and then Ada and Fujikado.
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, I'm confused with all of these names of this format here in 743 with the dead end from Odishima on Alejandro to make their second defense of the title.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Look it was good for what it was, but it was only 743 so you can't write home about it and.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's certainly just more, even if, you know, through, you know, obviously I do not like three and four ways, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If they get real good and, you know, I think that this could have been good, if it had gotten more time.
• 14:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then in black new year, Masa Kittamia, Takashi Sugara, Tatasuke, and Jun Masa Okadifida, Kazuyuki Fujita, Minora Suzuki, Shuhei Tanaguchi, and Junta Miyawagi.
• 14:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: In 648, I want the stragglehold Gamma from Kennedy Mia on Miyawaki, and yeah, just what you would expect for a quick batch, just to make it look like Kennedy Mia continues to be a badass.
• 14:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, on the progress Atlas title, Saxon Huckley defeated Will Cruz in 807 with the neck hanging bomb to win the title.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: This is a lot of fun.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and probably what it needed to be for eight minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I've seen some people say that this is actually of ended after Krueve managed to hit a top rope Spanish fly on Huxley, which was legitimately incredible site to behold.
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: But like these are two crazy guys just going up there and throwing bombs.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Why not throw some more bombs?
• 15:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because Huxley then would also kick out of a sit-out power bomb from Krueuse, which other people said, maybe that should have been the finish.
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know what, Huxie won, it was the most fun I've ever had, what things Saxon actually in Noah will cruise, hopefully will be returning.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I heard rumors that WWE might have had his eye on him or whatever, but I hope Noah keeps using him until they do sign him.
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that was a lot of fun.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: It would not also shock me if they change a title back at some point, you know, in January or February, back to cruise or anything like that, but just a ton of
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the break wasn't a match called break the silence.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Kenta Uka Sasaki, Tetsuya, Endo, and Hayada, the fidgette sushi, Katogate, Muhammad, Yone, Hajimeo, Hara, and Haroki in 653, with the go to sleep from Kenta on Haroki.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And this was just to get over Kenta's new faction, which is the right white raven squad.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: of those four guys, it's just questions who's the pinniser, either is high out of the pinnever, either, because it's the only junior in the thing or is a de facto heavyweight or whatever he is, who's dissape.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They haven't really used high, they don't really use high out of that role, so it'll be interesting to go because as we'll talk about it in a second,
• 16:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: One of the members of White Raven Squad will be gone for a bit, but we'll get into that more later.
• 16:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then for the GAC National Title Alpha Wolf defeated Dragon Bane in 1317 with the Wolf Driver for a failed first defense from Bane and Alpha Wolf is a National GAC National Champion.
• 16:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: So this was an interesting match in terms of what the ups and downs of it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So it started off and they wanted to do the melodramatic, rather versus brother.
• 17:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: which is whatever.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a big fan of it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So they got out of the way and it started building up to be something decent.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe not quite way to expect from these two, but it was building something.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But then the interference from team 2000 x starts and this just falls off a cliff.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, Wolf cheats to win joins team 2000 x and beats his brother turns on his brother and everything like that.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And this just that's just a big wet part of the
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: who's to say for sure.
• 17:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that really just gave was like the first sign that this show was on shaky ground, right?
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now there would be some other ops, but there's also some other downs over the course the rest of the show.
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: So next up we had a special tag match, invasion.
• 17:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Carl Anderson and Luke Gallows defeated Kido Kimi and Jack Morris in 1150 when Anderson pinned Morris after a magic killer.
• 17:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I guess baby do I have to take it out because my god did the good brothers, especially Carl Anderson, but even Luke Gallows worked hard.
• 18:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: and took some bumps, girls, took more bumps, and you think, and kill me, and Jack Morris were willing to bump all over the place for these guys.
• 18:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: So this was a good match.
• 18:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Anderson shows that he can still be a good worker.
• 18:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: The question is, can they keep it up?
• 18:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: That is my concern, and that sort of thing, you know, it's three, four, five months from now, because they're coming back, it seems.
• 18:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Will I be complaining?
• 18:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe I will.
• 18:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not going to take an alley at.
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: I am going to be cautious and keep them at armed lengths because of their history and you know, once they have established themselves, they may start to, you know, realize that they're going to have a date after the next date and then after the next date and maybe not work as hard.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, but look, they deserve all the credit for coming in to a new company and working hard.
• 18:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: No question about that.
• 18:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: For the GHC tag team title,
• 18:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Tetsu and Edo and Bushi defeated Neomichi Marafuji and Kenno and 1316 with the inside cradle from Bushi and Marafuji, my god.
• 18:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Once again, another V0 defense for it for these tag titles, which have had a lot in the last few years.
• 19:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if Nusawa is still booking because Monday Magics have also is or at least the final say, because Monday Magics are now no longer affiliated to know it, they're just their own
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of the bookings still seem to be very not so influenced including all of the V0 tag that all the fences and my god, NIDO looks rough.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: It looks like the time off has not served him well.
• 19:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I know he did a few international dates and they'll like get a little way, you know, you can't even work out.
• 19:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought he said he was still going to go with themselves.
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe his knees are too far gone for steps, cells, or whatever, or he didn't get it.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: But,
• 19:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: The thing is, like, much like with another famous wrestler with no knees, Casey Moodo, Moodo, maybe about this, well, yeah, he was a few years younger, but not that young, because he would have been 39 and in 2001, Moodo was savvy enough to change up his style, brought in the shining wizard, and everything like that to make up for what he lost in other elements of his
• 20:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now I don't ever really did that beyond maybe sort of the elbows to the neck and of course the destino remains his finisher and like every match and he just is very likely to box or just not look good So you know, I don't know if it's too late for night or to change up a style so the question is how long will the fans accept him at this degraded style given his how explosive and that was right because
• 20:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it could be explosive in his own ways, even if he wasn't like doing crazy dyes or planning on his neck and stuff like that.
• 20:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: He evidenced a sort of caniness in the ring that night-own ever really had, you know?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 21:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think that it was an amazing work, right?
• 21:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I just don't think, but I always thought he was, if you took the sort of Ocata
• 21:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I think he was the, any of you who didn't want it to throw someone like a boochie in there.
• 21:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, neither was always the one that was the most inconsistent.
• 21:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: He could have underwhelming matches.
• 21:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: He could even.
• 21:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: When he was in much better reality, that his botches had him trying to do ambitious things in the ring, and so like that.
• 21:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: So for him to break down like this, it's just even more glaring in my mind than in Tana Hachi, who can use his sort of like ring cunning to actually have good matches.
• 21:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: Right, and I'm not just talking about obviously he was gonna pull it all out for that final match against Calcada, but just all of the matches that Tana Hachi had along the way this year showed.
• 21:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: what he could do with even his body broken down in the way it was in a way that NATO simply cannot.
• 21:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to have to be dealing with this.
• 21:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, of course, I don't expect NATO to be working the house show loop.
• 21:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's not going to be working Yokohama, Radiant Hall or anything like that, but it'll be interesting to see.
• 22:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, maybe his performance here will snap him up into something in terms of working out or finding some other treatments for his ailments.
• 22:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's got him through all of this, but it's
• 22:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not looking good, but obviously their title holder is not always a huge is a draw evidence by this number.
• 22:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: So he's coming back folks, you know, one way or another.
• 22:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, rumors about.
• 22:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: evils interested in leaving.
• 22:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sinada has taken an indefinitely of absence and he may not return from reports, though, you know, that's, um, so the question is, is Ally J just going to reform in, um, in Noah and I would say I think that's a bad idea because then you're just doing has runs
• 22:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, out of all those guys, the one that I would still say, and this would be funny for me to say, given how much I just dislike him or what he became and how it's a torture, but I think there's still something with evil if you stripped away the gimmick and just turn even just brought back evil to what he was before.
• 23:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Before House of torture like a hard rough smash mouth ruster, I think there's something still there you could gather that senada is senada now I'm a bit of a senada defender, but the thing to an extent, no, whether or not he should have gotten as long at night wgp world title right as he should have no absolutely not
• 23:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the thing is, I think Sanada, it was one of his arms.
• 23:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: He never took time off the heel, so then that's the thing.
• 23:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: So this is all this just comes together.
• 23:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's like to me, if evil drops the stupid house of torture, gimmick, if he leaves, and maybe even the evil gimmick, because who knows that could be owned by New Japan, I think there's something there.
• 23:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: But everyone else who, in the sort of the classic lineup of L.I.J., I think is a lot of diminishing returns.
• 23:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: And right and well, I mean, this shingo left obviously, but I don't think shingo's leaving New Japan or anything like that.
• 24:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, that's sort of how when I feel about that, but I would assume that if they all left Evil and Sinada left New Japan know what would be their top destination would evil go to WWE.
• 24:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know as you still In a relationship with Eels Shirai.
• 24:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know that
• 24:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: And of course Tony Khan won't touch him, you know, fair enough.
• 24:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so not as I think he's got the injury and everything and he didn't like the world on fire when he was the top guy.
• 24:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: So like, not thought gonna help him get a job in the States.
• 24:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: So to me, it would all be freelancing, you know, freelancing, you know, into Europe, obviously, into like other places in Southeast Asia, you know, doing shows in.
• 24:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Malaysia and Hong Kong or, you know, that sort of thing, Vietnam, so that would be the future for those guys, so, but again, getting back to Noah specifically, it would just be diminishing returns because
• 24:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, you've brought in all of these guys, um, despite the fact that we'll bring it into this in a minute.
• 25:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: No one has also brought in another young guy from outside that they can invest in.
• 25:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: They had the three rookies debut.
• 25:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: They've made new champions in 2025 with both Ozawa and Inamura and Ozawa.
• 25:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe did not spike business as much as I think some people may think, but he definitely did.
• 25:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: In a morrow, we'll get into it in a minute, but I don't think he's been a disaster or anything.
• 25:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he does actually have some fans and everything like that.
• 25:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's a positive thing.
• 25:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: So you don't have to retread 2010's New Japan in Noah in 2026.
• 25:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, over halfway past the 2020 decade, you don't have to go back to 2016, 2017.
• 25:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I think it's just a bad idea, especially when you have,
• 25:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: For the GHC Junior Heavyweight title, I'm Oscar defeated Haromu Takahashi in 1424 with the Kaihu.
• 26:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: Haromu fails on his third defense and I'm Oscar's the 60th GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion, match the show, for an quarter, just great.
• 26:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, you know, you would think that also that Karoma Takahashi, given how hard he works outside of New Japan compared to when he's in New Japan.
• 26:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, may, um, may want to leave too.
• 26:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't heard anything about that, but it's abundantly clear now, especially the Noah run.
• 26:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Bruce it because it was, was it 2024, first half that Heromo looked better than he had in number of years.
• 26:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he looked great in this run and Noah.
• 26:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's like, yes, he's had some serious injuries, including breaking his neck.
• 26:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: But it's abundantly clear now that.
• 26:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: He can still go at a high level.
• 26:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: It just does he want to.
• 26:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he wanted to know and he wanted to help make his friend Amasca.
• 26:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so, you know, uh, now Hiromu.
• 26:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: The thing is I didn't bring up her homo and I just talked about the L.I.J.
• 26:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: reunion because there were no rumors or anything swirling about him, but if he did leave New Japan, that's a different story compared to some of those other guys like Sonata.
• 27:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: And for Amasuka, hopefully this is his big moment, because his past title reigns, I feel got short changed, he should be the junior ace,
• 27:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, thank you to Sheema, came out to challenge him and challenge him, and that'll be the next challenge actually tomorrow on January 11th.
• 27:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so it may have happened by the time you hear this or but let me tell you, I think obviously a muscle is going to retain and I think, you know, you get the older Sheema title challenge over.
• 27:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, done now January and really I think.
• 27:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: You just keep it, this title on Amosca for the rest of the year, maybe six months, maybe all the way back to the next Noah, the new year, and then you just have Otishima beat him for again, and just tell the story of Otishima, you know, building himself up over 2026 to after losing the first time to finally take it because in this junior division, with this transition, you know, okay, there were tell guys, you know, Hayata may even be a defacto.
• 27:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Have you wait now in White Raven Squad?
• 27:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: It is time.
• 27:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: You've got some rookies.
• 27:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: It is time.
• 28:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: to go in this new direction, and we'll talk about passing over some of the other guys in a minute.
• 28:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: It is time to go on, you know.
• 28:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: Odishima after Amazka gets a nice signature title lane that he is so greatly deserves with this title.
• 28:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then you move it to the new generation that's coming out later this year or early next.
• 28:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that was how I would approach things with that title.
• 28:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: And in the main event for the GHC Heavyweight Championship, Yoshiki and Amura defeated Osawa in 2018 with the discharged to make a second defense.
• 28:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this is sort of encapsulates everything that's wrong with Noah because
• 28:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: team 2000 X got involved, although it wasn't enough to put down in a mora.
• 28:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I actually thought there was some solid work in this match early on.
• 28:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Other people think it was boring from the whole way.
• 28:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 28:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think a lot of people don't like the in a mora gimmick.
• 28:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I get it.
• 28:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not great.
• 28:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I think some people are very, very, very hostile to the gimmick with the weird promos that are having a lot of Japanese and everything like that and the sort of NXT influence and I get that.
• 29:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just can't bother me because guess what?
• 29:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Other than this match and even before the interference, I have enjoyed in a more as in-ring work.
• 29:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: I enjoyed his
• 29:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: you know, she's a very, very good worker.
• 29:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I even enjoyed him a lot and I've always been a fan of him.
• 29:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I want him to succeed.
• 29:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: But yes, the gimmick is limiting, but guess what, the team 2000 ex pisses me off more than Mr. Smack daddy gimmick.
• 29:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: It simply does.
• 29:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that is to me, the heart and the biggest problem in pro wrestling now right now and sort of broader more
• 29:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Dress in black, heo units, it's annoying, it's destroying Noah and the thing is, if you sort of think about this, and this was sort of Julan's about to set out of the three companies, he was the most optimistic about New Japan, someone optimistic or more optimistic about Aussie Panning than he had been in a while.
• 30:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: And pessimistic about Noah, I would absolutely agree with this fact.
• 30:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that New Japan put his best foot forward, New Japan actually seems to be serious about planning for the future now that Tana Hashi has gone.
• 30:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Aaron Wolf was successful, Suji was made, they stuck the landing on everything on January 4th.
• 30:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: There was only those three main things to do, and a good follow-up on New Year's Dash.
• 30:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they're in a good spot.
• 30:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: one could critique certain things going on in algebra pan and we could get to them at a second, but overall they did well for themselves and they are building some things fine, and 2026 looks to be better than 2025, which obviously got hampered, I think, but just far too long, June, Sito,
• 30:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Triple crown rain, although I'm not going to completely bury you during set hours.
• 30:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll get two and a minute and everything like that.
• 30:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, there's those things going on for those companies.
• 30:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: But this was just a repetitiveness.
• 30:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Lean on old ax even though the good brothers worked hard.
• 31:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll give them that.
• 31:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the night is so broken down.
• 31:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then you have 10,000 X running everywhere.
• 31:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: The thing is, finally, Noah has it active, Dojo turning out what looks to be solid, young talent.
• 31:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you have, you know, I was, look, I like Ozawa.
• 31:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought Ozawa was a bolt of fresh air.
• 31:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's still lightning bolt that helped this company.
• 31:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it helped the company even if the business is not as spike as much as some people might think.
• 31:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: But still, they made a star in a morrow.
• 31:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it a morrow is over and I think in a morrow has a spanned.
• 31:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Is he, Ozawa, no, is he even kind of or maybe not.
• 31:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I don't think in a morrow will go down as a disaster by any means.
• 31:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Especially if you continue if he's allowed to have good matches, could he do have good matches?
• 31:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: We will see because Massacademy is his next challenger on the 11th, which might have happened by you here by the time for this.
• 31:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: So again, that is a big issue and that I think is going to just hurt him in no fault of his own, you know, just a stupid booking of this company, which, you know, I'm generally still convinced as well, you know,
• 32:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, we move on to Noah New Year reboot on January 2nd.
• 32:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: It should juke you face in front of 468 fans.
• 32:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Shuhey Tanaguchi at Shishikotoga and Hajimeo Haridifed Yuto Koyanagi, Haruto Surya, Emidorio Takahashi in 538 with the Kumori Suryo Toshi from Koyanagi.
• 32:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Saw a little opener with the young guys.
• 32:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then Takashi Sagar at Tatasuke and Junmasa Okada defeated Harutoki, Alejandro and Kai Fujimara in 1943 with the ambitions from Masa Okana Alejandro.
• 32:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Again, actually this was in too bad for T2.
• 32:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's next patch.
• 32:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then Kenta, Okasasaki, Tatsuya, Endo, and Hayada defeated Jack Morris, Muhammad Yone, Aida, and Harokia in 29 with the cross armbreaker from Sasaki and Harokia.
• 33:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: And this
• 33:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sasaki a win because he's going on an excursion which is a very interesting development.
• 33:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't think they were going to send them on one because I don't know where this guy's going.
• 33:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: It says to the USA which is so fascinating.
• 33:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he'd be better off in Europe, but what's he going to do?
• 33:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's going to be on NXT.
• 33:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: He can't.
• 33:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't have fun on NXT.
• 33:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, Inamura did okay for himself, but he had a weird goofy personality.
• 33:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think Sasaki had that.
• 33:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I am completely baffled by that choice, but we'll see.
• 33:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, look, but to me, if they're saying to the USA, I think it's like, you got to develop more personality, which I think is what is the idea of behind sending him to the states, but we shall see, but he's just going to be standing in the background, uh, of that next T, and presumably they have to paramount with someone I don't know.
• 33:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, with, uh, Charlie Demp series and maybe I don't know.
• 33:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's that.
• 33:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: So what, well, of course, we don't know for sure, but we'll see where he ends up.
• 34:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then no, me and she Mara Fuji defeated Katzumi in a Hada in nine, 19 with a referee stop.
• 34:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: And this was a good solid veteran versus young boy match again.
• 34:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And if you're wondering who Katzumi Katzumi in a Hada is it is fire Katzumi from JTO.
• 34:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's actually a very solid pick up.
• 34:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so they're sort of moving them into a young boy position and I think that that is good for him.
• 34:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: That is good for the company again.
• 34:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: all the more reason why, you know, no, it should be shifting in for the young guys' revolution instead of hanging on to these old wrestlers or, you know, these long and the tooth genics, right?
• 34:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then Keno Dog and Dequio de Shima defeated Kaito Kiemia, Amasca and Junta Miyawaki in 1113 with the Japanese leg roll, clutch hold from Dog on Miyawaki.
• 34:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Actually, this was a pretty solid badge, but this also has some significance because this is sort of Junta Miyawaki's farewell match
• 34:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was the next day on the 3rd or 4th.
• 35:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: He popped up in DDT and it's sort of doing the reverse endo or DDT will now be his main base for a while, but without formally transferring.
• 35:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: But it could be a soft jump.
• 35:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Look, I've been a junta defender and someone that thought he was his time to basically lead the junior division, but look, not the worst choice for him.
• 35:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you can do okay in DDT.
• 35:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you can build the crowd connection there.
• 35:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: He built a bit of a crowd connection in
• 35:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: But his generation, because he's been active, I think, center eight years now and never got very far.
• 35:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's time to skip over his generation and just go to Oda Shima, I think at this point, especially with hand like leaving at least for this year, or for the foreseeable future, who knows the field return.
• 35:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's
• 35:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Time to skip over that generation and when Amoska's gotten a good, and I want Amoska to get a nice long reign.
• 35:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: But then it's time to jump over the Miyawaki generation and go to Odishima, who's the future of the junior division.
• 35:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: The next up, Carl Anderson and Luke Gowles defeated Manibu Soy and Saxon Huxley in 1032 when Anderson in soy up with them after a magic killer.
• 36:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: Not bad again, I don't think it was as good as the
• 36:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: But they, you know, the good brothers, and I think they were quite as hard as they did there, but still, you know, they haven't pissed me off yet, but we'll see how long this continues.
• 36:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I'm being unfair by saying that to them.
• 36:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Either, we have years and years of evidence on this.
• 36:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think my skepticism is wanted, even though they did exceed everybody's expectations.
• 36:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Which was funny, because then you've got the inevitable or I'm gonna say, why are you calling them like a great, it's like, no, we're simply saying that they were,
• 36:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: you know, people thought they were being too overhyped for what they did on know the new year and I don't think so I think everybody identified that they were doing
• 36:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: quite well, and did quite well for themselves in that show.
• 36:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: So there is no sort of over hyping them from my perspective and everything like that.
• 36:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then in the main event of the show, Ozzala, Massa Kiddameen, Alfa Wolf defeated Yushiki and Amara Will Cruz and Dragonbane in 1841, where the diving set down from Kiddameen on Bane.
• 37:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Again, I thought the susahed up until, you know, who interviewed.
• 37:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: in the end, just this, this, this, this pale, this dark cloud that hangs over the promotion.
• 37:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So this will have happened by the time you probably listen to this, but Cork and Hall on the 11th, January 11th.
• 37:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: You got, who goes to soccer for his kenta in the farewell match?
• 37:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then Amoska vs. Dekyo to Sheema, and Yoshiki and Amura vs. Masakitamiya, that actually looks pretty good in the vacuum, but that mean event could not be good.
• 37:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's be honest here.
• 37:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm very looking forward to Amoska vs. Dekyo.
• 37:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And just quickly before we go into,
• 37:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'll Japan.
• 37:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: I forgot to mention when we were talking briefly about Big Japan that you yet Aoki announced that he would be going freelance either I believe at the beginning of February the beginning of March.
• 37:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's another blow to Big Japan because he was a sort of like the one sort of guy younger-ish guy.
• 37:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he's in his early 30s now.
• 38:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: But younger is you guy that they made in the last couple of years as second motor and Okobayashi were winding down.
• 38:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, I mean, I don't know if Okobayashi's ever coming back.
• 38:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And second motor is also freelance.
• 38:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: To cool into more is also freelance, but of course nursing some kiddie issues and continue to get well soon and best wishes to him.
• 38:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want to see him return.
• 38:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it was like Aoki.
• 38:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: right but and he seems to spin his wheels a bit after he lost the title despite the hot win he when he beat oh come I actually for it because then they went back to like dicey Hashimoto and then of course now recently so dimonji and I really did enjoy the aoki versus dimonji match and everything like that so another not good sign for big Japan one of their own homegrown towns because dimonji is an outsider
• 38:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Where does he go?
• 38:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, he's close to Shinjaro, Tony, it seems.
• 38:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's a bit of a, almost like a O'Connie influenced with a lot of his rings style, like the Kessagiri Chauvin, everything in time.
• 39:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: So he could go to, well, he worked.
• 39:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't get a chance to watch this, but he could go to the tochigi.
• 39:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: But does that mean that he could get into zero one easily?
• 39:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And is zero one just a zero one is smaller than big Japan.
• 39:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's fair to say.
• 39:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So does that?
• 39:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, second motor, who's base of operations is now basically all Japan without signing a contract.
• 39:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk about who did sign contracts in a minute.
• 39:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Could, second motor get him into an algebra pen and he'd be great in algebra pen.
• 39:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'd love him in algebra pen.
• 39:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: That would be a good guy to have in the midcard or even upper midcard.
• 39:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: You could build him to a title defense, I think.
• 39:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: If our triple current challenge, I mean, right?
• 39:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: So ideally, I think that would be his best landing spot.
• 39:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: It will take him.
• 39:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that remains to be seen or he just bounced around on the Indies.
• 39:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, I don't think would take them and they have a lot of guys.
• 39:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: They have their own young guys who are younger than him.
• 39:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then they have to pay the fees for the good brothers and NIDO and possibly other L.I.J.man first.
• 40:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know.
• 40:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if we're any would also slide in there.
• 40:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know about that.
• 40:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: So Algebraan seems like possible.
• 40:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: But we shall see where he goes.
• 40:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then we go to Algebraan.
• 40:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: New Year's Eve, 2025, at Yo-Yogi National Stadium, gym, and gymnasium, number two.
• 40:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: And for 2,730 fans, it's a very good number.
• 40:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think though that was helpful, obviously, by the number of foreigners who would travel to Japan this year, really to see the town of Hashi retirement.
• 40:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: So to start off the show, we had the PWF World Junior Heavyweight title skirmish Karama.
• 40:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Sido, Nauruki, Doi, Fumanoi, Aban, Seiko, Tajibana, defeated Eskiyo, Yaki, rising Hayato, Dan, Tamar, and Rio, in a way, in 1334, with the apparition from Karama on, in a way, solid enough opener.
• 40:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was Karama getting into the ring.
• 40:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he has a good dropkick, you know, a mixed response.
• 40:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would say not any booming, but they're not like in, you know, enthusiastic for him.
• 41:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the New Year's Eve, Rubble 2025, the Demonsomoto wine, it was what it was.
• 41:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: Are getting back to the days of what I don't need.
• 41:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a regular here a couple of years ago.
• 41:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: So you can skip that really the most capable thing on the show.
• 41:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then Hideckin Suzuki, and you call me a motto, defeat a raggy, honey, and show to Kufuji in 744, with the double arm suplex from Suzuki on Kufuji, interesting placement of this
• 41:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: match because, you know, it's feels like an opener or a second match shot on the actual the show, but again, I mean, solid, but it didn't last long enough for anything to tell, but, you know, the Kofuji was the decky stuff was the main point.
• 41:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the New Year's Eve Monster War special six man through a tag match design, Odyssey and Shotaro Ashino defeated Hoko Toyomori Kuma, Rashi and Cyrus,
• 41:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: and as well as Ren Ayave, Palo's in Daisuke, Sikamoto.
• 41:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: In 1328, with a David headbutt from Zion on Amori.
• 41:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Look, it's just fun.
• 41:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: The whole point was each match, each team had its own monster, and that was the point, and it didn't disappoint.
• 42:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was a fun little match, like three and a half stars, come on.
• 42:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it was actually better than I thought it was going to be.
• 42:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Although I didn't think it was going to be a disaster or anything, but it was fun.
• 42:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: What can I say?
• 42:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then, SIDO brothers versus have special singles match.
• 42:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: June, SIDO, they figured it'd go Shiozaki in 1628 with the dying light.
• 42:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was really good.
• 42:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: If this was one of June, SIDO's triple count title defenses, and they had the exact same match, people would have much different opinion on that rain.
• 42:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would put it up there with the Ryuki Honda and the
• 42:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: just hard, exactly what you would think with go hard hitting in that.
• 42:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Some people are asking if they'd go get knocked out.
• 42:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you got a doctor a little woozy, but that one spot people were pointing out where like, look, like, go, hey, well, to help Tiozaki run their robes.
• 42:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that, that spot turned into, you know, Tiozaki turning around and hitting a short arm
• 43:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: great looking short.
• 43:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm worried, by the way.
• 43:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, he was calling us enough to do that sort of counter spot and everything like that.
• 43:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: So who's to say what go with drawing there?
• 43:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, fine, not if you even if he was not stupid, not to track for the match that much, I thought it was just hard hitting wrestling and exactly what I thought it could been.
• 43:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it lived up to my expectations.
• 43:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I was quite happy.
• 43:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, as I said before,
• 43:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: He got box into you're in the main event you have to do this triple crown structure to match that goes like 25 minutes with the building everything like that where this was this we're going to kick the shit of each other.
• 43:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Perfect length right they force June to go over 20 and some of those triple crown matches this is 16 minutes is perfect.
• 43:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: for him and everything like that.
• 43:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: So this was sort of like, well, you know, there's something there, but you have to allow June to do a different format when he's triple crown champion, not that I would be rushing to put the triple crown title back on him.
• 44:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: But if you ever did, it should be building around 16, 15, 16 minute matches like this as opposed to what they had him do, where he was expected to wrestle over 20 minutes in a more traditional triple crown title matchability.
• 44:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: And the next up, and a very prominent spot for them for the Semi-Man event, promised by these titles, I should say, on the Semi-Man event of their big show of the year, the All-Asia Taipi Pettos, Yoshiki Kato, and Ishin, they feed in Musashi and Sekiyoshiyoka in 3rd 2321, with the Kaderi Luna from Kato on Yoshiyoka.
• 44:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: The champions fail on the 3rd defense, and
• 44:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Kato and Ishin are the 128th Allasia Tagting Champions, the longest, the oldest titles in Japan, not continuous.
• 44:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were sort of inactive for a bit after JWA folded in Boba reactivated them in all Japan, but still that the oldest dating back to the 1950s.
• 44:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was a pretty good match.
• 44:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: I go the third best match of the show a little long and a little long in the middle of there, but a strong clothing stretch, absolutely.
• 45:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: I will puncture you to buy some interference from
• 45:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: uh... their stable made kai come on kai don't i love you i didn't defend you and you come in here and you bringin more heal unit interference and all japan not that all japan has been immune but
• 45:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Rune Motors have been disbanded now for a couple of years, so don't bring that back.
• 45:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: But it was a lot more shall we say subtle, comparatively to what Team 2.0's next does, not that I'm letting them completely off the hook for that, but obviously it wasn't that bad.
• 45:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: But look, I thought they'd win these titles, and I think that this was the right choice beyond a shadow of a doubt.
• 45:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because these titles have obviously been held by outsiders several times before, leading to great stuff like when strong B.J.
• 45:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: held these titles, lots of fun.
• 45:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: When, hey, going all the way back to high abuse and genesis and zaki, and then these titles, great.
• 45:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, the original typos.
• 46:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, bring in the new Hi-A-Busen Jensation Zaki for another all-age of title and tag title when I would be totally in favor of that so it will be exciting to see what they do because I think there's a lot of great things and great match that you could do with these guys absolutely no question about that
• 46:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, in the main event for Cantumia, for the Tribal Crown, Cantumia hired to feed Uma Anzei in 2837 with the shut down German supux hold to make a third defense of the title, Tribal Crown, fantastic.
• 46:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: 4 and 3 quarter stars, best of all Japan match of the year, one of the best matches of the year,
• 46:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: do not expect anything less from these guys.
• 46:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: They really, really brought out the aggressiveness, that you don't see in a lot of Ketra matches.
• 46:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: You do have, I think, some of, once they really got going in their feud, I think some of those Ken Tovers' Zeus matches were this sort of like where you could see the animosity between the two, instead of just resting in matches like, yeah, and grady, each other aggressiveness.
• 46:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: And as I was awesome here, you know, and they played it up where it looked like hey, and as I could get the win here, and they built into once again another dramatic will they will he or will he get the shutdown German up and over and he did any any one the kind of one with it.
• 47:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just fantastic and look, I thought this match was so good that I didn't have an issue with Kento winning Because I don't this is just amazing.
• 47:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I felt like okay, Kento is the man and and as much as it may be You know, you got to put it onans.
• 47:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I push ends.
• 47:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'd be the future of the company.
• 47:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: It just feels right after this match You just felt work right for Kento to be the champion and you still got to get this on and as I soon arrived as the later to have another second and long reign
• 47:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: with it, but right now, I'm okay with Kento, especially with some of the stuff direction I think there might be going.
• 47:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's good.
• 47:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the most notable thing of this match I thought was my God, what kind of debut a new outfit and a new haircut?
• 47:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: My God, those boots, those are some shiny fucking boots.
• 48:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: I could have some looking at how shiny Kento's boots were.
• 48:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're too shiny, maybe even to the point of distraction.
• 48:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: for heaven than that, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, no question.
• 48:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And obviously this and given these sort of, you know, lack of really good matches in all Japan this year, this is a real
• 48:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: next way to end the year and build some more confidence going forward and if you do think the company does is at least things are looking up a bit it's because of how great the main event on the biggest show of the year was right which seems to be once again you know where Noah loses out new Japan and unforgettable six starmen between Tana Hashino Kata
• 48:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then this incredible meahar versus Anzai match, which was the second best match, I think, I think it was better than Takeshita versus Suji, but that was also very good.
• 48:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'd go maybe like four and a half on that, four and a quarter.
• 48:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, but so Noah is the odd man out.
• 48:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: I beat, I thought their junior match was really good and you could put it in your top ten or top five in Japan for the sort of end of year beginning of year.
• 49:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: area and it's good I see a mask on top but it's it's simply not as important as what the you know mean event of Buddha con for them was so just where I know I sort of lacking right now in all of this you know it is what it is so you know a good and look it's the algebra pan you don't I say I always have to work hard in the midcard but you had three good matches at the top of the
• 49:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I took your cork and haul their annual January second show for 1,040 fans, which I mean given that card is not bad, especially given that no, it's pants had some issues drawing corking, especially when you don't have your big triple car matches.
• 49:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I would say that that is decent enough, especially for this card.
• 49:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so they started with the usual.
• 49:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody coming to the track with the track shoots out and what I thought was interesting is, hey, there was no president for Kuda and I swear to God that I forgot to check last year's show, but for Kuda came out because I sort of noted that unlike in the beginning of 2024, he did not get booed last year, like he did, but I could be wrong.
• 50:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: So no for Kuda, so he's keeping a low profile these days and maybe that's because of
• 50:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but guess the signings were of no surprise.
• 50:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: We obviously had short of Kofuji, but also go Shiozaki, which is not completely surprising and not even though his comments upon leaving Noah was like, I've got a lot to do all over the place or something along those lines, but hey, look, I think it's good for go.
• 50:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's good for all Japan, maybe we'll see as long as he's in bringing any other sketchy people.
• 50:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but to me, I think now that he assigned a contract, he sort of took his Wolves from Kento and June, I think it would be real player this year and finally get a push and I think he's at least, I think he's going to be in the finals of the Champion Carnival if not with it.
• 51:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: That would be by prediction, I think.
• 51:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, and of course, when I went on and Zyvers just go back.
• 51:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, and of course for Kofuji, I think he's still going to have a dual contract like hot rising how to did although I don't know rising how to still has a dual contract with EEM behind pro, but Kofuji does with Osaka style for now, but I got a good pick-up.
• 51:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's got himself over a young good-looking guy.
• 51:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: which seems to be generally their trend in the genitive vision right now with some fighting spirit, not touching a guy or fighting spirit immediately, but you know, it is what it is.
• 51:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I do not, I know that I'll Japan held trials.
• 51:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think on the 21st, I think there were a couple of young guys that were inside that might be guys that they they accepted, but I don't know for sure, and I'll Japan has an announcement anything yet.
• 51:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll see about that right because they need to get some more young guys some guys in the Dojo for shooting a question up of that.
• 51:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we go to the matches.
• 52:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so we have Go Shilzaki defeating Shota Kufu June 848 with the go on Lariat.
• 52:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was a and so the opener between the two new signings to the company, you know, she was actually being the veteran and co-fugee the spunky, a youngster.
• 52:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that was a good little feel good opener for to get those guys established while they're already established.
• 52:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: But you know what I mean, then Baka no Jedi versus Hokotogan, Hokotomo or Akumura actually and Cyrus defeated Hadecki Suzuki, Kengo Machimo.
• 52:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: non-descript, not bad, not great or anything like that, another PWF World Junior Heavyweight Championship skirmish, ASCII, O'Yagin Rising, Hado, defeated Karama and Masada in 1233 with the horizontal cradle from O'Yagin.
• 52:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Karama and this is at which point people sort of freaking out something that Karama might beat ASCII but we'll get more into that in a second.
• 52:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was fine, I guess.
• 53:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: Keto Miyahara, June Sato, Musashi, and Sekiyoshioka defeated Yuma Anzai, Shotara, Shino, Raikihonda, and Dan Tamar and Ten minutes, with the shutdown, German supex hold for Miyahara on Tamara, good solid six man, no question.
• 53:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Then Dysuke Sakamoto defeated Rio in a way in 1040 with a big bank catastrophe.
• 53:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was great.
• 53:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: come on.
• 53:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is awesome.
• 53:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, in a way it's coming in there trying to prove his worth against the veteran and very big, second moto just what you want kind of a match between the veteran, the young guy, especially a young guy like in a way who shows the fire and sort of in subordination that he can at times that was a lot of fun.
• 53:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Probably the best match on the show, actually.
• 53:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then World Tag Team titles, Renai Abe, and Talos defeated Zion and Odyssey in 1740 with the Double Chokeslam that allowed Talos to pin Zion and the failed third defense of the champions.
• 53:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: And the Titans of Climney are the 103rd champions.
• 53:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: And other than a table spot diving on the outside.
• 54:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: This actually wasn't, I didn't think, even though this was shorter by like six, seven minutes,
• 54:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think this is as good as the real world tag League finals.
• 54:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: That is ever sure why I can't quite put my finger on it, but I just felt, you know, now I heard for people that were there that they, that it was actually came, was enjoyable because obviously look, you got all these big guys going at it and everything like that.
• 54:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that I can understand a very different live experience.
• 54:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I just didn't think it was as good, but look, I think with I ally and Talos as the champions, they do open up more possibilities better than Zion and Odyssey, although I don't think Zion and Odyssey are going anywhere, especially Zion, but, you know, to me that was sort of like.
• 54:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, and the titans are over, and I think you should go with them, and it is helped eye abay a bit in the Crazy Department, Tows is great, Tows is awesome.
• 54:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we had the New Year battle world that you and my Anzai won after pinning Shota Kufuji with the Gimmlet.
• 54:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, you've seen all these spots before, the comedy elimination, everything like that.
• 55:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: But it came down to at one point, Kenton Mia Harat, Goshozaki Shota Kufuji, and Anzai.
• 55:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so that was like giving Kofuji a bit of a rub because then go and Kento get out of the get tossed.
• 55:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so Kofuji and Anzai had some good exchanges and then of Anzai winning.
• 55:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that was a nice little moment for Kofuji though, showing that fire almost winning and everything like that.
• 55:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Also on the show was announced, we were getting a junior attack festival 2026.
• 55:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: And the winners of this will get a shot at Kato and Ishiens, Allisha tag team titles and the teams are at Skia Oyaagi and rising
• 55:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: for Menori Abe and Seiko Tachi Ivana, Rio Inoway, and Mochizuki Jr., which is a really cool team.
• 55:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Saita Nuruki Doyan, senior Saito, of course, Musashi and sort of Kufugi and Seki Yoshiyoka and Yuya Sassum.
• 55:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, but that's really the black mark on this tournament, I think.
• 55:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Because then you also have any other tournament Dan Tabernouhikar Saito and Koda Saita Fuda, Toshiyuki Sakuda,
• 56:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, which I think is a nice team, so it's like a food, I like it.
• 56:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Secret was a big Japan guy, but now I believe it's freelance.
• 56:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's a very solid tournament other than New Year's of Sumo.
• 56:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it's just an 18 single elimination tournament, and I hope the finals, and it could be our Hado and I are diverse in-way in Mochizuki Junior.
• 56:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think those are my sort of dream finals.
• 56:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, really, and what's could probably win this turn, and I then at skiing, hiada, or like Dan in a car, you know, like it's not going to move Sasha's showed, I don't think.
• 56:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Definitely not your show can, and that's a similar not-secret footer in Sakura, so yeah.
• 56:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's sort of my prediction for things on that.
• 56:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to go with Atsuki and Hayato, top seed, Tamera and Sato as my number two seed, and number three seed would be in a way in multi-junior.
• 56:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that would be how it would go.
• 56:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so this term is going to run over like a month, because it starts on the 15th at Corrican Hall.
• 57:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the other two first round matches, two more first round matches at Otoword Gym on the 23rd of February.
• 57:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the semi finals at March 15th at Corkin and then the finals at Esforda, Rita Hatchio, G-Main Arena again, they're running there again, which is like the Western edges of Tokyo on March 20th.
• 57:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And look at the schedule, this is quite the ambitious schedule, which also makes sense why Ken tells back as the champion, because you got older and February, and you've got Esforda.
• 57:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: in March and then you've got cork in halls also in February and March near those other shows and this is all in the Tokyo right as for us on that western edge of Tokyo so honestly you know hey maybe as I could do it but to be the safest canto so it would be interesting to see but then it couldn't who are the most appropriate challenges but that's into the future
• 57:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so we go to the next day on the third at Corridor Hall in front of 1,205 fans.
• 58:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we're down by 35 fans.
• 58:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Again, not bad for the card.
• 58:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would say, uh, you're, you call me a moto, Fuminori Abe, Sego Tachibana, and Coda, Sego Food at the feeding rising high at O'Dan Tamara, Shoto Kufuji, and Mr. Sato Nuke.
• 58:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: He doing 1111 with the Aki Hammer from Tachibana, Kufuji, very good solid hot opener.
• 58:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think Sekufu actually works fits in quite well in all Japan, and hopefully he works more than just this junior tag tournament and maybe maybe more big Japan, and I'll Japan collaborations again.
• 58:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: We return to that although who knows how they feel about them using their guides that are left like sick and motor, so I don't know.
• 58:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Then we had Hoko Tomori Kumara, she inspired us to give him a massage to Sekyo Shiyoka and Rio in a way in 1939 with a reverse splash from Cyrus on in a way.
• 58:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: This was just to establish Hoko Tomori guidance, still as sort of killers and...
• 58:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Look, I've been down on Cyrus, but I'm glad he's back in the past, and because I think he did improve, and he's over, and I've learned to enjoy Cyrus.
• 59:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: I still think he's best when he's a tagress, or though, like in straight two versus two tags.
• 59:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: Havic versus Baca, no G-Dye, Zion, Odyssey, goes Shiozaki, defeated Kadehase Zuki, Kengal, Machimo, and Hakara Sato in 924, with the diving head-back from Zion on Sato.
• 59:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Solid enough six, man.
• 59:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Not much to write home about, though.
• 59:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Renai Abe, Talos and Yuma Anzide, if you didn't can't tell me a hard June set on rookie on 1329, when Talos pinned Honda after double choke slam.
• 59:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: So what we're gonna get now, though, is Talos challenged can't tell.
• 59:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: which is awesome.
• 59:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's going to happen and on January 25th in Chiba.
• 59:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I actually have reasonably decent hopes for this match because as we said before, Tows knows how to play a giant Kento's Kento.
• 59:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Kento can get a possible match out of guys like, I'm doing a Kobayashi in Tarru, my God.
• 59:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: So
• 59:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I have no doubt he'll get something out of towels here.
• 59:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's be question is how he gets the win.
• 59:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's going to like cradle him after like black out knee or is he going to actually get him up through the shut down.
• 1:00:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, but that would be a lot of fun.
• 1:00:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: No question about that.
• 1:00:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking forward to that.
• 1:00:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Then we've got Daisuke Sekamoto, for the gay RTV title, I should say, Daisuke Sekamoto is the fetish guitarist, you know, in 1638 with the big band catastrophe to win the title.
• 1:00:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Horish, you know, I thought, you know, this was the perfect title for him to go somewhere and do something right for a bit, give him some spot, give him some direction.
• 1:00:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I always didn't have it, but still.
• 1:00:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: But this is probably the price of it for doing business with Sacramento as a regular.
• 1:00:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: You've got to get a title on them, give them something to look.
• 1:00:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can't hate it.
• 1:00:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a dice case sick of a bottle.
• 1:00:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes.
• 1:00:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's been around the block.
• 1:00:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's shown weren't Terry's suffered two major injury, Brook Oleg, and had a neck injury in 2025.
• 1:00:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Came back from that broken leg really fast.
• 1:00:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's still good though.
• 1:00:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's still pretty darn good, right?
• 1:00:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, he's valuable addition to the company these days when the roster
• 1:00:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: You're not totally hated.
• 1:00:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just hope they do something with this, you know.
• 1:01:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's like I will never give up that one either.
• 1:01:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now because you've come back, push the stars to the stars, you know, those are my demands.
• 1:01:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, we'll see where this goes, but it'll be good, I think.
• 1:01:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: No question about that.
• 1:01:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, if Sacramento can get UAO gain here, well, then I can play and then for the main event, for the, and of course the match was awesome.
• 1:01:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I should say, like,
• 1:01:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, just throw on each other around during suit plexus lyrids, you know, because, you know, she used the lanyard occasionally, but he really busted it out here to sort of prove that he could sort of try to hang or try to prove that he could hang with second motor and everything.
• 1:01:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: So really, second motor was the he was the big, you know, it's funny just conversing a bit with some people.
• 1:01:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, and just coming up with this idea that Sacramento is like one of the best wrestlers out of twenty twenty six out of five.
• 1:01:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, you know, yeah, after these couple of days, I have what can you say?
• 1:01:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's like about it was great on these two shows.
• 1:02:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: So he's one of the leading wrestlers of twenty twenty six so far.
• 1:02:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: So let's see how long that can last.
• 1:02:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the main event for the P2BF World Junior Heavyweight title,
• 1:02:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: to make his fourth defense, and everyone can let it aside relief after that finish, we're at Ski Pin Chrome, yes, the day before.
• 1:02:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now here's the thing with this match.
• 1:02:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: It started off, okay, and then all of a sudden like, Ski roughed them up, like they brawled outside.
• 1:02:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was drawing Chrome into like the barriers and those directional signs.
• 1:02:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: at the top of the stands and just stop it and I mean like everything like that, like and then we're doing junior stuff per se.
• 1:02:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: So as he was like, I try to prove something or something.
• 1:02:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: We were appointed something and then like Karamagad's upset and frustrated and he was like, Rips off his mask and reveals the Asu Takuyano and then the match sort of actually kicks in a high gear and decent little match.
• 1:02:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: whatever, then ask you wins.
• 1:03:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just a weird match because they wanted to build that drama, and it was okay during the clothing stretch, and then Krama basically cuts a tearful promo asking for forgiveness, and he says he's going to start as a young boy, and everything like that, Al-Japan, although we'll say that he's not booked on any of these upcoming cards yet.
• 1:03:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know what's going on with that, but that's what it sounds like.
• 1:03:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, obviously, your miles may vary on what you think of that.
• 1:03:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a very weird strange and a kind of way to bring them back, even if he's going to show contrition and he, you know, so it did not seem like Krommel was hated by the Japanese fans.
• 1:03:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Although, you know, on social media, it's not hard to find fans critical of this.
• 1:03:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm talking about Japanese fans, although it's not hard to find the opposite either.
• 1:03:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was the international fan base that was much more unified in their opposition to him.
• 1:03:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know, maybe the company realizes and had to do it, but whatever,
• 1:03:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: who knows what's going on, and look, trying to just gauge his work, you know, I mean, they think it's solid.
• 1:03:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I really like his dropkick, but I don't think it's like worth the PR disaster bringing him in or something like that.
• 1:04:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Not that I would be worth, he was incredible, but even if it's just from a purely, how can this benefit us, cutting out the morality, it doesn't make much sense either.
• 1:04:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: I still suspect that go ahead of hand in this.
• 1:04:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: and everything like that, but, you know, I mean, I think even if I should put this back, like, let's say, I know I'd never had, you know, what had happened to him, I still think that someone like a food you would be a better, long-term prospect.
• 1:04:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: No question about that not that and I did enjoy you know even in no before he left after his scandal and everything like that But it's just it's not worth it.
• 1:04:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: It brings a black cloud over the company and you know It's very little to be gained from this so it is what it is, you know, so and I don't begrudge anyone that doesn't want to watch her anything
• 1:04:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: If the company, I don't love it, but I can't say that I'm going to stop watching the company or anything like this, but I don't begrudging him when it does, and it's not great, but it is what it is, and this is still the sleazyness of this business.
• 1:05:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it was a weird match, because it disjointed, roughing up, you know, okay, decent little finishing sequence, you know, I'm not bad at all, but you know, and it's just like,
• 1:05:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: This also, you could just say that since they added the show on the 31st, it just makes these generous second and third corkens a lot less important feeling, right?
• 1:05:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so, you know, you have these weaker cards.
• 1:05:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, without the 31st, you'd probably have and it's stronger cards on the second of the 30d'd be selling probably coming close to selling how cork can, on both those shows, but look at the end of the day when you're doing 1200 and cork in plus, 2700 new yogi, you're making more money.
• 1:05:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then selling out just two cork and so, you know, I get it.
• 1:05:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: They need the money.
• 1:05:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so, sort of looking ahead, obviously on the 26th, we've got
• 1:05:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: On the 11th is the Fanapreciation Day New Year's Fanapreciation Day at Shinjuku Face.
• 1:06:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: And the card for that is Kuma Rashi vs Rikihonda, Daisuke Sekamoto, Hakara Seton, Sekiyoshioka vs Musashi Kengel, Musashi Manuku Miyamoto.
• 1:06:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: And for lots of mention, that Sekiyoshioka Musashi are now brawled after one of the match their matches at Korkin.
• 1:06:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they don't like each other now, and so that's why they're not teaming in the junior tournament.
• 1:06:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, we have Ren, I have a, there's a four-way, Ren, I have a versus Talos versus Cyrus versus Sega Techivana.
• 1:06:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully, tomorrow, I'll ask you, Ouyagi, Dan Tamer versus June Seda, Hadecki Suzuki, and Shotara Shino, so you have all the facts and scrambled there.
• 1:06:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: And the main event is Kento Miyahara and Go Shiozaki versus Yuma Anzai and Rising Hada, which would be awesome.
• 1:06:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Originally, this was Go and Kento versus Rio in a way and showed a confusion, but I'll just paint an ounce, like today or yesterday, or maybe today in Japan, but yesterday, my time.
• 1:06:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: In a way, and Kofuji have Influenza.
• 1:06:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, that's wishes to them to get better and hopefully, you know, they get back soon, hopefully, because I think the next show after that is, um,
• 1:07:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: on the 18th at Shinkiba and I think we have a card for that now yet we do.
• 1:07:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So 18th in Shinkiba we got Dan Tamar versus Kumurashi rising high at a versus Shota Kofuji, go Shiozaki Shutara Shino versus Daisuke Sakamoto Kenama Shimo.
• 1:07:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Bangor, June, Sato, and Mr. Sato, Nurekki, Doi, Mr. Hope, we're talking more in Cyrus.
• 1:07:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Ask Yael, Yaki, Musashi, and Fuminari, Abe versus Seki, Oshiyoka, Rio, InoA, and Mochi Zuki, Jr.
• 1:07:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that looks awesome.
• 1:07:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then in the main event, we got a triple crown skirmish here with Ken To, Miahara, Hadekki, Suzuki, and Ryuki, Honda versus Talos, Rene Abe, and Yuma, and Zai, and I think that actually could be a lot of fun.
• 1:07:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then we got the Cheebut Mucari Messet International Exhibition Hall number four on the 28th or 25th, I'm sorry.
• 1:08:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, so that show has the Musashi vs. Sekyo Shiyoka Grudge Match.
• 1:08:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: We've got you, my Anzai, rising Hado, Shota Kufujin, Mr. Satternuki, Dwayverse, Roku, Honda, Rana Abe, Rio in a way.
• 1:08:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I Hado Yoshida, making an appearance in all Japan for the first time in a while.
• 1:08:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: There we got Go Shiozaki and Shutara Shino versus Dysuke Tsekamoto and Kengal Machineimal again.
• 1:08:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: So exactly when we clear the same match runs, so I would kind of maybe figure that these teams are going to trade.
• 1:08:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Winds or maybe go and Shutara wouldn't both of them to become challengers because they could see going, Shutara being challenging the Titans actually.
• 1:08:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: For the tag titles, we've got a Junior Heavyweight Talent match I forgot to mention.
• 1:08:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: say go came out to challenge asking so we got touchy bond versus at ski or y'all in which hey it's gonna be awesome we got June set versus Cyrus which not gonna lie I'm looking forward to that if they can keep it short and sweet it could be a nice little match and exceed expectations but we'll see and then for the ever prestigious AJPWTV sort of ride six man tank team titles we got Hogatoa Murray Kumaarashi and Takashi
• 1:09:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Defending against the decky Suzuki, D&T, and Hikaru Sato.
• 1:09:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then, of course, for the triple crown, we've got Kento Miyahari defending against Talos, and that will be so much fun and pretty confident in that.
• 1:09:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, that is what happened in Japan.
• 1:09:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Wow, in sort of the proportions we covered from the sort of the end of the year to the beginning of the beginning of 2026.
• 1:09:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Interesting.
• 1:09:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would say, I'll Japan looking up, but I would not say that they have pulled up, like, say, New Japan has coming out of this, but no, I'm not looking good.
• 1:09:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just not looking good, and I don't know how, well, I want to get through this year, because gone through many bad companies that have been worse, but it's like, I don't know how long I'm making keep this up, because it feels like there is still, like,
• 1:09:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, whatever, and because, you know, I was quite critical very early on that this team, 2006 is going to overstay its welcome, it's going to get old very fast, and I was right about it from the very beginning, and it was like by March, I'm like, I'm over this, and just continuing continuing and continuing, and it still felt like forward momentum, but it just feels like we're all about Noah is about to stall out, and leaning on again, older talent, whether it's the good brothers and Nido and who knows who else, our XLAJ guys will be joining
• 1:10:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's not good, but they have moved forward to Zawa and in a more, if flawed, but still it's the young guys and then they've got those three great rookies and Otashima my god.
• 1:10:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: So very interesting, you know, no one's on that precipice where they could go either way, but right now it's not good.
• 1:10:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's pointing downwards.
• 1:10:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll see, but there's still I can be saved quite easily wouldn't take much just how somehow's cleaning and everything like that.
• 1:10:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's that.
• 1:10:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we'll be back with Paul gets back and he can then debrief you all about his trip and look forward to that and so we'll see you in a couple weeks and enjoy all the wrestling out there.
• 1:11:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Bye