MAO, Shoma Kato & Tiger Mask vs Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi & Kevin Knight: NJPW Best Of The Super Junior 32 Day 1 (5/10/2025)

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00:00A little strange love connection here in Chiba.

00:15As we welcome now to New Japan Pro Wrestling and

00:22welcome Shoma Kato back to New Japan Pro Wrestling.

00:26Shoma Kato with a nasty fracture in his lower leg.

00:33Has to have surgery, has been off since January.

00:37Great to have him back.

00:40In high spirits as ever with Shoma Kato when I spoke to him earlier today.

00:48And always in high spirits.

00:51F-Dub Wrestling for an F-Dub World.

01:00And Mao is looking to show up and show out in his debut best of the Super Genius.

01:06How's this for a combination?

01:21Let's go baby!

01:36The former IWGP Junior Tag Team Champions Yusuke Tsuguchi and Master Watawato.

01:43The new champion along with Yo.

01:46With this team of 6 or 9 reuniting here tonight.

01:51And gotten a whole lot cooler with the addition of the Jet.

01:54Kevin Knight.

01:59Dual contractor New Japan Pro Wrestling and All Elite Wrestling.

02:05And flying high on both sides of the Pacific.

02:10The Supership of the P-Dub World's

02:11In 186.91.

02:12The P-R Engineer of the P-R National Union.

02:17Tabor Yusuke Tabor!

02:19Tomorrow we will be in Miyake Prefecture.

02:24Iwanuma City of the PC ambassador for Jet.

02:28The pin at P-R Ambassador.

02:29Apparently it's a low bar to clear.

02:31It's so perfect!

02:33Master Watawato!

02:36Just to write, Kenny Naidon!

02:48Fresh off of wrestling, Kazuki Okada just lost, well, just a couple of days ago, in fact, on AEW television.

02:59And great to see him, he's such a sensation over in the US as he has been in Japan over the last few years.

03:12It's really gonna be time, Kevin Knight feels, to make a huge wave and potentially win Best of the Super Juniors on his third attempt.

03:23Shoma Kato, very, very eager to get back on the horse, and loves horses.

03:33He's gonna get back on one.

03:37Offset Master Watto to get underway here.

03:42Watto beats Clark Connors, part of the line-up tomorrow night.

03:46Shoma Kato, I'm sure, wants to be part of a Best of the Super Junior tournament before 2-2 long.

03:53Well yet, potentially, in 2026, we'll see.

04:03And while always tenacious, is Shoma Kato and clinging onto that headlock there.

04:11And let's see if Watto can get loose, and now he does. Kato on the move. Nice job.

04:28And Watto with a dropkick, the other way.

04:31Master Watto wanting to go back-to-back, and Best of the Super Junior wins.

04:36Cover there.

04:38And now he gets two.

04:40Wanted to go back-to-back last year, obviously did not.

04:42That's because of a knee injury he sustained in January of 2024.

04:47Missed the bulk of the year.

04:49But aims to go back two, front two, back.

04:53With a win in this year's Best of the Super Juniors.

04:56Toguchi and Tiger Mask, well familiar with one another, the veterans.

05:00And while Toguchi still able to misdirect Tiger Mask for, well, for a second.

05:10That was a ricochet of Tiger Mask into Yusuke Toguchi.

05:16No pun intended, no reference intended to a former Best of the Super Junior winner in his own right.

05:22And the Tilted World backbreaker there has Toguchi struggling.

05:31Always great to be here in the Chiba area.

05:35It's a beautiful, beautiful venue, the Yohasa Arena in Chiba.

05:38This is how we started Best of the Super Junior last year.

05:42And we started Best of the Super Junior last year, as I mentioned, with a couple of matches you'll see later on tonight.

05:49Romy Takahashi against Kushida in our semi-main.

05:51There's a cover again in only two.

05:53And our main event between T-Town and El Desperado.

05:57We'll talk all about those matches later on.

06:00And now we're gonna see the Jet Kevin Knight.

06:05Kevin Knight, if you thought that Kevin Knight was...

06:11Missing even a slightest bit of swagger and style.

06:15He's come back for his third best of the Super Juniors with a whole ton of it.

06:21Definitely buoyed, covered by his recent form over in AEW.

06:31And as well, I was talking to Kevin earlier on today.

06:36He's gaining a little bit of extra flexibility in terms of dallying with the weight limit.

06:44Obviously, no...

06:46Obviously, Kevin Knight is very, very strong.

06:50As you know, weight distinctions over in AEW.

06:53Kevin Knight has had to wrestle heavyweights like Jay White and Kazjika Okada.

06:58And he has had to adapt his own body to fit.

07:00Says he's right in the middle.

07:03Or just under the 100-key line in the 90-kilo range.

07:08And can move up and down as needed.

07:12But Tiger Mask got up and got up high into the draw.

07:17Of Kevin Knight, who took a nasty spill onto his left elbow.

07:21And now, here comes...

07:22Now!

07:23And down across the gut and keep it on moving.

07:31A never-ending ball of motion.

07:38Here's Mao with no reversal.

07:41And a big shotgun blast from the DDT star.

07:46Mao and Kevin Knight tangling, but very, very deeply in Philadelphia a couple of years ago.

07:52Multiverse United cross-motion a bit with TNA Pro Wrestling.

07:59But...

08:00Oh, my God!

08:02Everybody out the pool on that one.

08:05Mao with the cover gets two.

08:07And...

08:08No, the kick out.

08:09But common partners.

08:11Mao...

08:12Oh, yeah!

08:13Former tag-team partner of Speedball Mike Bailey.

08:15And Mike Bailey and Kevin Knight have been hitting it off very well in AEW of late.

08:20There might be some hints given through that connection to Bailey.

08:24Oh!

08:25Oh!

08:26You're gonna see a lot of dynamic offense in this one tomorrow.

08:30And...

08:31The sky-high dropkick.

08:33From the Jet, Kevin Knight.

08:35Here's the cover to Fly.

08:38And...

08:39Well...

08:40Very, very close...

08:42To a first win of the two.

08:45Stalking now.

08:47Now, is Kevin Knight gonna get that spike?

08:49Moe shoved away.

08:51Moe's still a fight there.

08:56And...

08:57Sky!

08:58High!

08:59D'Lo would be proud.

09:00And...

09:01Mal's...

09:02Back of Mal's head cracking off the canvas.

09:04Mal needs a tag.

09:06And makes the tag.

09:08In comes Shoma Kato.

09:09Master Watto the other side.

09:10Kato and Watto.

09:11And the Kato Watto collection here.

09:13Shoma calling the play admirably.

09:15A veteran and a young lion looking to close in on the 2023 Best of the Super Junior winner.

09:22No loss to the spring in that dropkick.

09:23Here's the cover.

09:24And...

09:25Taguchi feeling he needed to make the save.

09:26And his former partner there.

09:27Oh!

09:28Elevated out over the top for his trouble.

09:29Oh!

09:30Keep your eye on Tiger Mon!

09:31Oh!

09:32Oh!

09:33Oh!

09:34Oh!

09:35Oh!

09:36Oh!

09:37Oh!

09:38Oh!

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09:51fairelet воспrrった so hard.

09:52When you head yesterday.

09:53Oh!

09:54Oh!

09:55Oh!

09:56Oh, Oh!

09:57Oh!

09:58Oh!

09:59Non-ysics!

10:00Oh!

10:01Oh!

10:02100!

10:03Oh!

10:04Shoma Katto.

10:06What a hell of an opportunity it is essentially he is a ganze game.

10:07Steps over.

10:08Master Watto.

10:09Oh!

10:10In danger, Junior Heavyweight Ty то vu tournament World Championship Champion,

10:14Better Super Junior winner, partner your race sau.

10:19Uwato in a lot of pain here.

10:24Shomakata squats down deep, and Uwato makes the rope.

10:39And Uwato up over the top.

10:42Danger.

10:42Watch that suit, Tengaku German inside cradle instead.

10:47Very well scouted, only gets two.

10:50Oh, one more chance.

10:52Uwato's head is back by accident.

10:57Okay, and no more mistakes on the part of Master Uwato.

11:05Tornado kick, Rikusei off the shoulder.

11:07And now there'll be shoulders to the mat.

11:10Su, Dan, Kaku German suplex.

11:14There's the cover and the three.

11:17Tornado kick, Rikusei off the shoulder.

11:20It's 7.38 seconds.

11:21Master Uwato's勝利.

11:24Good meal.

11:37Good meal.

11:40Somewhat old Hontai, not yet with the added appearance of EDT and the little AEW flavor.

11:53That's flavorful.

11:56No love lost.

11:57No love lost tomorrow.

11:58Kevin Knight versus Mao.

12:00We saw just a little taste of it there.

12:03Just how wild and unpredictable and athletic that Mao can be.

12:09And you know that Kevin Knight fits that description to it.

12:20And that might be a sleeper hit for early match of the tournament coming up tomorrow.

12:25I want to get Kevin Knight's thoughts on that and the rest of the lineup.

12:30He'll be joining me on the announce desk fairly soon as our cameramen and directors.

12:36Okay, that was...

12:37Well, now I anticipate a lot of conversations happening backstage in the locker room.

12:55Whatever happens, avoid the top rope on the hard-camera side.

13:07Master Watto and Clark Connors.

13:10Always going to be a hell of a matchup.

13:13Watto with a big opportunity to get two points on the board.

13:17A winnable match when you consider Clark Connors has a hell of a lot of trouble to do.

13:24Only just starting that massive trip now.

13:28Well, barely have any sleep.

13:30Oh, my goodness.

13:32Well, that's how I'm going to collision there.

13:33Oh, my goodness.

13:34Well, that's how I'm going to collision there.

13:35It actually continues here in Chiba.

13:47For now, I'll be right back here in Chiba.

MAO, Shoma Kato & Tiger Mask vs Master Wato & Ryusuke Taguchi & Kevin Knight: NJPW Best Of The Super Junior 32 Day 1 (5/10/2025)

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