00:00Welcome to Korakuen Hall where we have late breaking news from Aliza.
00:30Robby X have 440 their match and we will be a couple of changes to tonight's card as a result.
00:45We'll see that as we go on. So the results.
00:50The planed bout between Kushida and Yuki Yoshioka against Taiji Ishimori and Robby X are the two brothers.
01:04Therefore, Robby X and Ishimori fall to 1-1 and Yoshioka and Kushida move to 4 points to top B block.
01:14You'll now hear the amended card that Makoto Abe will give us for tonight's event.
01:23Starting with, how about this, a special singles match for Zane J versus Kushida.
01:30First time ever teacher versus student as we get going.
01:35We'll also see Robby X teaming up with the unaffiliated Yodosuji and Shigo Takagi and they will take on.
01:43The first time Yoshioka and Tanahashi have teamed up together.
01:52The Hive by Float combination.
01:56Apart from that, you'll hear everything else proceed as was originally planned.
02:01Our main event here tonight, Dragon Dyer and Izuka Ituguchi will be taking on Shou and Doki.
02:06And the top of A block here. Super Junior Tag League continues.
02:12Welcome to Coricrine Hall. English coverage here on NJPW World.
02:15I'm Chris Chong and I am joined, as I was yesterday, by Italy's finest Francesco Acura.
02:21You're welcome.
02:22You're welcome.
02:23You're welcome.
02:24Long time no secret.
02:25Long time.
02:26We are ready for another exciting night at Coricrine Hall.
02:29Of course, some unfortunate news in the beginning.
02:33But we still have some really good matches tonight, right?
02:36Yeah, absolutely.
02:37And, you know, I can't wait to see this opener with Kishida and Alex Zane.
02:41Or St. J, rather. Timoney Zane's in professional wrestling.
02:452-1 is popping up when we have to.
02:47We had a good opportunity yesterday.
02:50He got an even more huge opportunity today.
02:53Exactly.
02:54He's getting, like, good luck from people getting sick.
02:57He's getting sick.
02:58He's getting sick.
02:59He's getting sick.
03:00He's getting sick.
03:01He's getting sick.
03:02He's getting sick.
03:03He's getting sick.
03:04He's getting sick.
03:05He's getting sick.
03:06So here's one of these situations every now and then.
03:09Very easy for bugs and flues and colds to work their way around the locker rooms.
03:15And hopefully, Tajie Shimomi will be back in action tomorrow night in Saitama.
03:20And we will keep you abreast of all the updates.
03:24But, just like you said, Frankie, you have a big old surprise for Zane J.
03:31And a huge opportunity for advancement here.
03:34Zane J!
03:41Here we go.
03:42And we've seen him.
03:43He's already fired up.
03:44Yeah.
03:45He knows this is a big opportunity.
03:46And, you know, Kishida, he's his trainer.
03:49Exactly.
03:50Exactly right.
03:51Zane J, a product originally at the NJPW Academy over in L.A.
03:58Started in the beginner's class.
04:00Works his way up to the advanced group.
04:02And so tonight it's going to be student versus teacher.
04:06Kishida is the head coach for the NJPW Academy alongside Fred Rossett.
04:13And so what we're going to see here is a real culmination of everything that makes the NJPW Academy great.
04:19If you are in America, if you want to start or continue your pro wrestling journey, there really isn't any other place better than the NJPW Academy.
04:29And you're going to see a great commercial for a great facility here in our opening contest.
04:35Yeah, I've been to the L.A. Dojo facility.
04:37And I have to say it's one of the best gym for becoming a pro wrestler I've ever seen in the world.
04:42They have a ring, a gym, a good space.
04:44It's a pretty nice facility.
04:46So I really recommend it if you want to start to being a pro wrestler.
04:52Sign-ups open right now in fact.
04:55NJPW1972.com for details.
04:57And you can be a part of our January intake.
05:02But we're going to see probably...
05:05I mean, you know from experience,
05:08Kushida can be quite a harsh master in the ring, a little bit strict.
05:13And so we'll see how that goes.
05:17And I mean, Kushida is sat into the same learning tree as yourself.
05:21And, you know, being trained by Tajiri at the start of this period.
05:24So you can say the host of Zayn has been in part trained by Tajiri student.
05:30I think we're going to see how good of math game Zayn has already, you know.
05:35I think Kushida wants to prove his submission game, his math game against Zayn.
05:41Not that he has nothing to prove, but more of a lesson for Zayn.
05:47Yeah, Zayn has the size advantage being a heavyweight certainly over Kushida.
05:54But there isn't many that Kushida can't grab a hold of.
06:00Back back a special event in China a couple of weeks ago.
06:04Kushida battled Zack Sabre Jr. in singles competition.
06:10Then Zack was still IWGP World Heavyweight Champion.
06:13Since then, Sabre dropping that title to Konosuke Takeshita.
06:16Takeshita versus Hiroki Goto.
06:19Our main event at Final Homecoming coming up next Sunday.
06:22And we'll see a little preview of one of our big matches, Tanahashi and Yodosuji.
06:30They'll be up next now what was a tag team match, now a six-man tag.
06:34And we'll get into some of the connective tissue in that one.
06:39Meanwhile, Kushida batted down. Zayn J onto the mat.
06:43And can you tell me if I heard correctly, but then Yoshi...
06:48Who got the two points from RobbyX?
06:51Like, they gave the points to Kushida and Yoshioka, right?
06:54Kushida and Yoshioka, right.
06:55So they will end tonight at the top of B-Block.
06:59Oh.
07:00So in that sense, pretty good night for Kushida and Yoshioka.
07:06Without the pressure, because I mean, I think you would say RobbyX and Taiji Ishimori
07:11maybe, I think probably, the hardest match out of B-Block, you could say, for this combination.
07:21We've perhaps accepted Kosei Fujita and Robby Eagles, who will be in action tonight
07:27facing Dick Togo and Yoshinobu Kanemaru.
07:30The Dick Whiskey, right?
07:32Yeah, yeah, Whiskey Dick.
07:33Whiskey Dick, sorry.
07:34We'll see how Whiskey Dick works.
07:37If the Whiskey Dick t-shirts don't sell, then I've got a bunch of Dip and Nob.
07:42That would be the other way to go.
07:44A little bit British.
07:49All American versus all Japanese.
07:51Everybody will tie up.
07:52Saint-J was, you know, a multiple sport athlete.
07:55Had a little bit of football, did a little bit of track, did a little bit of rugby, actually, did Saint-J.
08:00That's quite rare for someone in the US.
08:03And he had, like, a size advantage over Kushida, you know.
08:07He's putting on some serious weight recently, too.
08:10Yeah, all muscle as well.
08:12Yeah, exactly.
08:13I mean, I think having Tatsuya Matsumoto as his rival.
08:17Matsumoto is shredded, former personal trainer himself.
08:20You know, I think having both of those as rivals of one another, you'd see really well put together.
08:27Young Lions, and nice work for Saint-J to keep a hold of the armor Kushida.
08:36Short arm, scissors, gonna try and make it go straight.
08:39There you see the Kushida experience coming in.
08:47He's such a difficult guy just to keep down on the macro.
08:50Yeah, for sure.
08:51I have tried many times.
08:52It never worked.
08:53You know, of course, TJ could handle with him because he's a great technical wrestler.
08:58But, honestly, I'm not.
08:59So, it's more struggling.
09:04You want to see AJ's best bet is to...
09:06Because I think probably Zayn wants to grapple with Kushida.
09:09It might not be the smartest idea to do that.
09:11This is the chance, you know.
09:13He wants to impress his master.
09:15He doesn't want to beat him or he doesn't want to...
09:18He wants to impress him and be particular in this regard.
09:24You know, be different from a classical Young Lions match.
09:31Nice hits.
09:32There we go.
09:33The limb work, we talk about it.
09:34He's not targeting the arm and we know one of his submissions.
09:37The arm bar.
09:38Yeah.
09:39Yeah.
09:40How expert was it taking all of Zayn J's size, all of his weight down by the wrist?
09:42You know, just all about leverage.
09:43He's not targeting the arm and we know one of his submissions.
09:46The arm bar.
09:47Yeah.
09:48How expert was it taking all of Zayn J's size, all of his weight down by the wrist?
09:52You know, just all about leverage and technique.
09:53Doesn't matter how big you are, you're going to go down if somebody's grabbed your wrist like that.
10:02Now, it's Kushi that's going to be working over the arm of Zayn J.
10:05Oh, man.
10:06Oh, man.
10:07Oh, man.
10:32Oh, man. And that's the snap.
10:39I don't think Kushida, as he transitions to the head,
10:43maybe with a little bit of trash talk to Zane-J,
10:45but I don't think he'll go far from the left arm of Zane.
10:52I imagine the pressure, frankly, in Zane-J.
10:56At the best of times, you know, and you can kind of think
10:59that his mind has to be going a million miles in the minute,
11:02and then Kushida is right on top of you,
11:05and he's not going to let go.
11:06I think one of the best advice I could give to Zane right now
11:10is not to play into Kushida's game,
11:13not trying to go head-to-head against him.
11:15It won't work well for him.
11:17Just has to do what he learned in the dojo,
11:20you know, in the Nogue dojo,
11:21that's where they train the best wrestlers.
11:26Whoa!
11:27Really wrenching back.
11:30You can't think side headlock, simple move,
11:33but can be very debilitating.
11:37Nice escape, nice escape, but only for a second.
11:40Oh, wait!
11:45There we go.
11:47Great move by Zane.
11:50Well, these guys really haven't,
11:52especially Zane, hasn't stopped moving
11:53since the first bell rang.
11:55We're about seven minutes deep into this matchup now.
11:58You know, I mean, it's...
11:59The cardio factor is going to play.
12:01Exactly right.
12:03Is he looking for a Boston Crab right now?
12:06Might be too soon,
12:07but that's where the side advantage comes to play.
12:11All those thousands of squats
12:15coming into play right here
12:18with how deep Zane J can get on that Boston Crab.
12:22See, Kushida, interesting.
12:24Trying to roll himself, push himself forward here.
12:26Let's see.
12:27Can he get the half?
12:37He might be able to get the half.
12:43He almost got it, though.
12:45Yeah, good one.
12:46He's refusing to leave him.
12:47Yeah, I mean, he's well within his rights.
12:50He's got five seconds.
12:51Sakamoto, now he's starting the count.
12:54And Kushida's going to break the hold for him.
12:57This is the first punch of the match, too.
12:59Yeah, exactly right.
13:00I mean, I'm not sure.
13:05I don't have the new format in front of me.
13:08Whether we've got 15 minutes on the clock
13:10or 10 or not, you know, I mean, this might be...
13:12Did you hear the time going at the start?
13:15I didn't think to listen,
13:17but I think Zane J,
13:19perhaps if it's...
13:20If it is only 10 or 15,
13:23a draw would be as good as a win now.
13:25We're starting to get moving.
13:27A knockdown there.
13:27Oh, he wanted a body slam.
13:33Kushida wants the arm,
13:34and he's not going to get the arm.
13:36See, that's what you were talking about.
13:38Great call earlier on now.
13:39Zane J going to his strengths,
13:41going to his power,
13:42going to that bucket.
13:43Exactly right.
13:48Now, he's three offense over Kushida.
13:51This was probably the first bump of the match, too.
13:54Yeah.
13:55What a hard bump it was
13:57for Kushida to take away the second.
13:59Oh, nice.
14:05Oh, it's Kushida going over.
14:09He's not.
14:14Beautifully taken down.
14:15There it is.
14:16Now he's got the double wrist,
14:17the hammer locked behind the back.
14:20Is there any way Frankie Zane can escape from this one?
14:29Kushida hasn't stabbed his foot over his head yet,
14:32so what he can do now is he moves a lot and tries to get the reach of the rope,
14:36but right now he should have went to the...
14:40There you go.
14:40There's the tap.
14:41That's the rope that really messes you up, you know.
14:46He was getting very close to the rope,
14:48but Kushida knew it.
14:52Zane might watch that same back and think,
14:54if only I'd rolled inside,
14:55but that is what it is.
14:59It is another learning experience for Zane Jai.
15:03And two nights in a row,
15:06Zane has learned the benefit of always being ready,
15:11always having your gear with you,
15:13because you never know when you might be called in to big match situations.
15:16And a great accounting for Zane Jai.
15:19Very, very good job.
15:22I'm sure the guys in the office are going to take a look over Zane,
15:26you know, more often.
15:28He came into, like,
15:30he wasn't supposed to be on the show.
15:32He came on with the right mind.
15:34And he did a really good play.
15:39Sure.
15:41And hopefully taking notes as he directs Zane Jai to the back.
15:47So we're up and running here in Coral Queen Hall.
15:50Night 2 at Super Junior Tag League.
15:52And a very, very special six-man tag team match coming up next.
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