03:24It is Kushida and Yuki Yoshioka, by the way, still alive in Super Junior Tag League with the barest, barest of chances at a potential three-way tie in the final block, being that heading into Osaka.
03:39Six points on the board.
03:42And tied alongside Taiji, Shimori, and Robbie X, we'll be talking about those two men later on in the evening.
03:48Yes, it is a very interesting encounter here.
03:51Katsuya Murashima, the personal attendant to Tanahashi in the modern day of 2025, does not have many opportunities to stand opposite the Ace of the Universe in competition, but is doing so here tonight.
04:05Oh.
04:07We're going to have to wait to see Murashima and Tanahashi tie up.
04:10We're going to kick off with these two men, Kushida and Kukai.
04:14Bell sounds, and we're underway.
04:16Do you know much about Kukai?
04:18A Nara, Japan native.
04:20You know where Nara is?
04:21Oh, yeah, they've got the deers.
04:23Yes, that is the only thing I know about Nara and Kukai, of course.
04:27Kukai wrestled prominently on the Mexican independent circuit, and we're not talking the bright lights of Arena Mexico and CMLL.
04:34We are talking about the dirt floors of the Mexican independent scene, the lowest of the lows.
04:38Oh, nice.
04:39To try and hone his craft, it's much the way that El Desperado made his way into New Japan.
04:43Doki, current junior heavyweight champion, made his way into New Japan as well.
04:47And that is the bond that Kukai and El Desperado share their love for Lucha Libre, their start on the Mexican independent scene, so to speak.
04:55Fair play.
05:03Is this your first time getting to see Kukai in in-ring competition?
05:05Yeah.
05:06Well, you don't watch Mishinoku Pro?
05:07Nope.
05:08You watched Dragon Gate, but you didn't watch Mishinoku Pro coming.
05:10I watched Dragon Gate.
05:12I watched a bit of Noah.
05:14Yeah.
05:15Toyomon.
05:16Yeah, that's about it really.
05:18Yeah, okay.
05:19Well, I mean, it's a good catalog, actually.
05:22Yeah, I used to watch these, you know, old guys beat each other up and then run really fast, and that was me sorted.
05:28Wow.
05:29I watched Yoshino hit the ropes a hundred times, like, sweet, I'm gonna do that.
05:33For the rest of my life.
05:35Oh, brother, I'm sorted.
05:37Yu-Gi-Oh!
05:38Joker and El Desperado tied up here tonight.
05:40Dude, I don't think I'll ever get used to Despy's back.
05:43Yeah.
05:44He's hurt himself from hell.
05:45Quite the sight.
05:47Multiple hardcoring death matches just in the year of 2025 alone against Clark Connors, against Jun Kasai.
05:53Even a few extracurricular activities outside of New Japan.
05:57Yeah, we are getting back into the swing of things.
06:02Can you talk to me any bit about Yu-Gi-Oh!
06:05Is this a fresher face to you in the Dragon Gate scene or someone you came up on as well?
06:08This is.
06:09So, I only ever really watched Dragon Gate, like, the old school kind of Dragon Gate.
06:14Anything in, I'd say, the last ten years, I haven't really kept up to date on, but there's a lot of new faces in Dragon Gate now.
06:26Like, Shin Skywalker, Rita, and every single person brings something different to Dragon Gate now.
06:33You're right about that.
06:34Yu-Gi-Oh!
06:47That's a fun fact.
06:48Against...
06:49Oh!
06:50Oh!
06:51Oh!
06:52Oh, my!
06:53Oh, lad!
06:54Look at that!
06:55There's Kushida giggling on the side.
06:57You know what, uh, fun...
06:58Oh, he's proud of himself for that one.
07:00A fun fact that you may not know about Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:03Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:04A man that was personally gifted the high fly flow from Hiroshi Tanahashi back in Kobe World
07:09Hulk.
07:10Oh, yeah.
07:11He's going to be doing so as a Dragon Gate star as a junior heavyweight as well.
07:15Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:16Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:17Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:18Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:19Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:20Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:21Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:22Yu-Gi-Oh!
07:23Don't know.
07:24I like Desperado.
07:25Watch this.
07:26Leapfrog over.
07:27Whoa!
07:28Yeah!
07:29What a dropkick, and that's Desi being the smarter athlete.
07:32You know, talk to me a little bit about this, Kalman.
07:34It must be frustrating for Desperado to, in a sense, have the whole world in his hands.
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