Yuya Uemura vs. Yuto-Ice - Special Single Match: NJPW Road To King Of Pro-Wrestling 2025 Day 2 (10/6/2025)

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00:003,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7 ,7,7,7,7,7,7.

00:23I don't think that it's any shock to admit whatsoever

00:28that the two elements of Fire and Ice

00:31have never exactly been the type to mix well

00:33but the Heat Storm

00:35Yuya Uemura and Yuto Ice

00:37in singles competition here tonight

00:39could be a match made in hell

00:42one way or another

00:44these two men will not only look to tear down

00:47Ryagoku's sumo hall

00:48but we may go all throughout Korakuin here tonight

00:50with what we saw back in Hiratsuka

00:52Heat Storm

00:54Uemura Yuya

00:58well

01:00how appropriate it all began on Valentine's Day

01:04on 2021

01:06and a kickoff match right here in Korakuin Hall

01:11it was supposed to be the in-ring debut of Yuto Nakashima

01:15what happened in the end?

01:17well

01:18Nakashima's young career was put on ice

01:21almost permanently

01:23thanks to a dislocated elbow

01:25not even one minute into the match walker

01:27and a match

01:30k giopold

01:33you sat

01:41and a match

01:42those pasDS up

01:43and a match

01:46byispa

01:46jesom

01:47and a match

01:49you

01:50プロレスリングリングおかげ might be starting fast

01:55IWGPTのタッグルーチャンピオンパレットクラブロードノックアウトブロードカカジュンテンジキャクジュウタキロユウトアイス

02:04We talk about an opportunity of a lifetime but what if your lifetime's only 52 seconds?

02:09That's how long it lasted for Yuto Nakashima in 2021.

02:13And he's played Yu Yu U Mora for it for the past four years since.

02:20I wonder whether Ice wants to do the same thing to Yu Yu Urumura

02:24or whether he wants to enjoy this punishment of Urumura

02:32and it's a point where we're up here on the balcony

02:35with a few other New Japan Pro Wrestling officials

02:37that are deeply concerned

02:40about what this match could mean for Diogoku

02:43Wow

02:43We talked about being a short road to King of Pro Wrestling

02:47that means these men are going to do the utmost damage to one another

02:49when they have the opportunity

02:51but even if this road to King of Pro Wrestling was 15 nights long

02:54they're still going to go 100 miles per hour with the hate they have

02:57yeah but you see the path that we're trying to take here

03:00and we saw the path that they were trying to take

03:02you know that's a massive pull apart brawl

03:04and you made the call that Urumura was trying to calm

03:08trying to settle Yuuto using a front chance

03:10he trying to go to his amateur roots

03:12to just cool the ice down

03:15it's pardon the pun

03:17aint no chill in Yuto Ice

03:20yeah talk to me a little bit about the grappling game

03:21do we see a lot of the grappling game out of Yuto as a young lion

03:24i know these are holds that are driven into you in the no gate dojo system

03:28well not only that but obviously Yuto Ice

03:31grew up as a kid has been fighting for money but since the age of 14

03:35you know what i mean he's been

03:37in the realms of underground MMA has been in many a street fight

03:41has ice in japan in new zealand everywhere in between

03:46and so he does know how to grapple

03:51on there an amateur standout

03:53well ain't no grappling here

03:58ice can grapple walker he don't want to

04:00there is no need when you have the talents that yuto ice has displayed in just a very short

04:08time here in new japan and look at this talk about clearing the deck

04:18i'm predicting we see this and a whole lot more in ria goku sumo hall so much so point chris where you

04:25you almost start to think that you to ice and you you more don't care as much about the iwgp gold as

04:30they should right and i think at this point

04:34ice feels well i am the champion

04:38i've done what i set out to do in that regard when uemura came out we got to admonish that you can't

04:43you can't put your hands on this point well i mean i think at this point i'm always looking at our boss

04:46over here i mean i'm kind of bad god i think it might be best served for kentosado to stop this

04:53now before it gets ugly well even for his own personal safety the safety of our fans here in

05:00corcoran hall well i mean i'd hate it for our fans here in corcoran hall watching a world walk and we

05:05got an iwgp tag team championship match coming up on monday in real goku we're supposed to

05:10we're supposed to be able to go at it alone but you or more or yuto ice rather wants to make sure

05:20more does what a shot quick strike game here out of yuto ice and four years of frustration

05:33oh listen make the call oh man bomber clad knee and the uemura skull and it like ice's knee driven

05:45through that table

05:52you see the crater well i see two holes right now one hole made by ice's knee or part of it

06:02and the rest of it is skull yeah yuto ice had good reason to be screaming bomba clad on that

06:09exchange that is that is brutal now i mean good on referee kentosato getting in the midst of this

06:16checking in on uemura and you have to start to look for any any signs of concussive protocol

06:23especially any lacerations on the back of the head or neck yeah you're gonna put the count on it yeah

06:27that's what's gonna happen i'm shocked it's not a disqualification by this point a long long

06:31least from our officials here tonight and for good reason

06:35six seven eight nine

06:4210

06:47yuto ice doesn't want a count out victory here tonight that doesn't mean the battle would end if you saw it

06:54he'll lick his chops at um trying to get into it gonna pull it back in the ring gonna have the assist here

07:00and for everything

07:04we talked about the philosophy of ice in the ring that bachi bachi style that he wants to bring back

07:12that echoing

07:13ishi shibata

07:17echoing shinya hashimoto walker from a very very different tree and this is something he never

07:24wanted philosophically yeah you explain that bachi bachi style a little bit more that's the hard hit

07:29the hard strike straight up i mean straightforward you slap me i'll enjoy it and i'll slap you back ten times

07:36harder that is what ice has been doing since he was a teenager

07:41rumor wants a classical focus technically clean fundamentally sound beautiful style of pro wrestling

07:50if you your mirror represents sun and beauty

07:54ice is well the exact opposite you can't tell me that yuto ice doesn't find beauty in the destruction

07:59he brings to ringside that is what we've seen here

08:05i'm not liking the lack of spatial awareness here for uomora but he realizes who's in front of him now

08:11come on for four long years yuto ice has been dreaming of eating every single forearm and elbow

08:20uomora can throw and to deliver ten more back

08:26you see the difference there not just in terms of how damaged uomora is but the proficiency of striker

08:33i think that was all the adrenaline in that flash of two moves and a slight slight respite

08:56we are live in the scene of the crime from four years ago in cork and hall where yuto ice was put

09:10on the shelf by his opponent here tonight i mean let's not forget that ice applied for the noge dojo twice

09:19was rejected twice i think as much on the basis of his attitude as on the basis of his physicality

09:27choosing a different path with firelight and the new zealand dojo look at those chops in the throat

09:34of uomora yeah yeah yeah yeah very good to exchange in this way as well

09:42now but certainly on the wrong end of the equation yuyu or more we've long talked about the chop game

09:46of uomora since the beginning well one thing we haven't talked about very much is how fiery how

09:53angry he can get i don't think anybody has made uomora as angry as ice float over on the cover

09:59look at this two count keeps control of the wrist beautiful this is going to be where uomora thrives

10:04i think for us if you can push you to ice out of ice's comfort zone and to wrestle that traditional

10:09style uomora wants to bring to the forefront of new japan if he can stay in his own head

10:15uromora will be able to do that i mean the style of wrestling we're talking about is as grounded as

10:21uomora needs to keep himself in this match in rio goku as well and see the irony or perhaps the delight

10:30in uromora now working away at the elbow that was injured four years ago you're right wall parried the

10:37knee uto ice off the ropes what was it nine months out of the ring for uto ice off that injury and

10:48permanent damage he cannot do a full bicep curl uto ice having to adapt his workout his training

10:56regiment ever since around that injury nearly ended his whole career

11:08talk about the difference that 52 seconds makes in a man's life but it could be a three-second pitfall

11:14or an even shorter submission that makes you you a more show to him no champion in the iwgp brian

11:20you talk about a difference one second makes that might have made the difference in this matchup

11:24that was a hard kick right to the temple of uomora yeah good on kenta sato getting between these two

11:32right now

11:39yeah kenta sato's not gonna be able to cool ice down i have no doubt about that but

11:43this is valuable recovery time for you umura in the corner umura needs it and really sato needs to be

11:49having a conversation with uomura right now over whether he is seeing straight thinking straight

11:55maybe now he is

12:03i have no choice now and uomura calling for more here chris i love it

12:25oh my murder uya has just been unleashed

12:40ice is taking you your moonwalk into places we've never seen him go

12:45ryohei oya didn't bring this fire out of uomura david finley couldn't bring this fire yoda suji

12:56didn't bring this fire yoda suji as well that's a great call

13:00there you see blood pouring out of the arm ever so slightly on yuto ice shoving the official off and

13:06hey if we're gonna call it on ice we gotta call it on yuya we can't be doing this yeah it's one thing

13:10to do it on the outside it's different to do it in the ring as well it's a second time great point

13:15kentasata might feel closer to calling a dq or a no contest okay and now ice has to respond to the

13:23referee i mean kentasata almost feeling the role of a boxing ref more than a wrestling

13:27right you're right you're right can you answer the 10 count can you continue forward

13:42these men no corner men to talk out to here to give words of encouragement it's all on the solo

13:48oh and the double boost from uomura here we are

13:56dangerous drive down for yuto ice enjoy the scenery cover he's got the arm as well he's got the arm now

14:03he does now he does oh he's gonna pull that elbow out of it suck it again no no no no yuto ice has

14:10got to try and get his grip back in here uomora attempting to break it

14:14full extension full extension uomura uomura uomura redistributes the weight here

14:22you know walker ice will not give uomura the pleasure of tapping and now i think he's gone to

14:27the eye he's got a thumb in the eye good god

14:33well there's nothing legal about it

14:39legality and utilize have never exactly gotten the same sentiment

14:43well i mean when you're a street fighter when you fight for money you fight for survival as a

14:48teen

14:50those are the depths you're willing to plumb

14:58well you get or more yeah we really have to get we really have to find some sort of control here

15:03we could be dealing with vision issues for uomura if not even already off the concussive blows he's

15:07taken tonight

15:12and yet even despite the thunder the eye walk of this crowded corcoran behind oh

15:19all right nice might not matter here we go

15:23what's that deadbolt suplex

15:25ice put the brakes going bang

15:36ice now here we go

15:41dropped in hard impact cover for ice

15:44no no now firing up jimmy

15:51you're not going down both men wobbly on the ropes wobbly in the center

15:56oh what a shot what a shot i think i saw a tooth

16:01Ice now, watch out, off the rope.

16:18PK, cover for Ice 2.

16:31Ice has it in his back pocket, says its name Cruella.

16:40I don't know what it looks like.

16:41Well, it could be this.

16:42No, far from it, a little bit more quicker on the draw here.

16:48Sight coming, full snap back, full snap back on you to Ice.

16:54Ice, if you don't tap,

16:56you're gonna be back on the shelf another four months,

17:02another five, another nine.

17:06He's gonna give, Walker.

17:07We got no tag title match next week.

17:10We might have no tag team champions next week at this rate.

17:13Yu Yu and Maura,

17:16Yu To Ice fighting for survival, fighting for an inch of his life,

17:20his career, everything he's worked so hard for.

17:24Ramon the Fury wants to break that arm more than anything.

17:28More than he wants to tag titles, he wants to break the arm of Yu To Ice.

17:32Ice, Ice, Ice, Ice.

17:35Boy, he let go.

17:36Yeah.

17:37He let go.

17:38He recognizing Ice wasn't gonna give up.

17:46Maybe he didn't wanna break that arm.

17:47Fuck you.

17:49He wants this.

17:54Here we are.

17:56Dead Bulls, no.

17:58No, no, no, no, no.

18:01Sato, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop the match.

18:05Yu To Ice is too dumb to quit.

18:07He ain't gonna quit, Walker.

18:09He's not gonna do it.

18:11He did.

18:11I can't believe what we've seen.

18:132-0 for Hontai here tonight in the heavyweight tag team division.

18:18Spaced across singles action.

18:232-0 for Hontai here tonight in the heavyweight tag team division.

18:28Spaced across singles action.

18:292-0 for Hontai here tonight.

18:362-0 for hontai here tonight in the heavyweight tag team division spaced across singles action

18:54how much is it a pyrrhic victory for yulia ramura walker

18:58what lengths has he gone to tonight what parts of his soul they never thought

19:05he never knew existed has he gone to against yuto ice

19:29hey purimaru is living in rent free in yodo ice's head for four what's this going to mean for the

19:35iwgp tag team championship match next monday we're going to have to stay tuned to find out king of

19:40pro wrestling 2025 ryokoku kokuki khan october 13th the titles are on the line

19:48victory here tonight goes to yugi lamora and i'll tell you right now chris

19:52we've never exactly commended yuto ice for intelligence many people have not he's

19:57always been a hard knock drag out brawler and fighter but good god have mercy tapping out

20:03here tonight might have been the smartest thing yuto could have done to set up for october 13th

20:08you tap for survival not to give in but the question remains who will be iwgp tag team champion after

20:16ryokoku zumo hall we have seen no doubt about it back to back tonight in those two previews

20:24main event level matches in any building in any arena in any country in the world

20:31but we haven't seen our main event here tonight we've got one more question

20:35to answer open championship gold the iwgp junior heavyweight championship is coming up next

20:52is

21:00you

21:02you

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