00:00Well, this wasn't the team that we were originally scheduled to have here at WorldTag.
00:17We wish Tomohiro Ishii the best as he recovers from a shoulder injury.
00:22But what it's led to is this temporary resurrection of the provisional Kojima-gun.
00:41Cozy's jacket is looking primo.
00:45He wears a primo jacket. Taichi wears a primo jacket as well, but very different colors and very different styles.
00:54A long, long time ago, back in 2010.
01:05How do you feel about the pants rip here? You into that?
01:08I'm always into the pants rip.
01:10Love it.
01:11I'll be mandatory for all of us. I think me and you should have pants rip.
01:17I'll do it if you do it.
01:19A long time ago, back in 2010, Satoshi Kojima, when he came over from All Japan Pro Wrestling back into New Japan,
01:30he had a collection of like minds, at least he thought, and he called it Kojima-gun.
01:35It was Satoshi Kojima, it was Taichi, it was Takane Chinoku.
01:38As it turned out, Taichi and Takane Chinoku had very, very different philosophies than Kojima.
01:44It all fell apart.
01:45That was back when goon meant something else too, I think.
01:47Yeah, well, Taichi wound up being a goon in Suzuki-gun.
01:51Like a gooner.
01:52No, that's the arsenal.
01:54Oh, okay.
01:55Oh, okay.
01:56And Taichi joined forces with Suzuki-gun under Minoru Suzuki, stabbed Satoshi Kojima in the back as a result.
02:06And Kojima-gun was, well, that was it.
02:10So, it was back over a few prelim tags during the G1 Climax that, well, circumstances dictated that Kojima and Taichi team up again, and they did not get along well at all.
02:23Do you think they're individually, do you think you would get along with them?
02:32Oh, I mean, I think so.
02:37I like Kojima's taste in bread.
02:39Good taste in bread.
02:41Looks like she has good taste in other areas.
02:43Hey, look at this.
02:44Oh, speaking of jackets.
02:46That is a fit on Yoshihashi.
02:47How about that, Bishamon?
02:48Beautiful.
02:49Three times World Tag League winners.
02:50Three years running from 2021 to 2023.
02:55I think they're going to bring it back.
02:57Well, we'll see.
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03:14Giotto, former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion.
03:19I mean, with that type of outfit on,
03:20you're probably going to bring it back.
03:22But with me standing in LA.
03:25Well, I think when you come out with a fits like Bishma
03:28on half, then I think they put their money where their mouth
03:32is, Alex, because you think how much those gowns must cost
03:36to make.
03:38You need to pay that off with a win in World Tag League,
03:40no doubt about it.
03:41That's why I make my own.
03:50See, that's a big shillelagh.
03:52Maybe it's not called a shillelagh here.
03:53That's not called a shillelagh.
03:54That's the stuff.
03:56Well, what's a shillelagh?
03:58It's a small staff.
04:01Tiny little thin staff.
04:07Smelly.
04:08Do you ever smell this shillelagh?
04:10I've never smelled anybody's shillelagh.
04:15Well, I was one time in college, but apart from it.
04:24All right.
04:24Well, everybody individually in this matchup
04:28has respect for one another, I think, except for Taichi and Kojima.
04:33That's where the fault line here is.
04:36Well, at least a shake of our hands here.
04:38There we go.
04:46Surely, they have enough respect for each other to want to win.
04:51A very difficult draw to have in your opening encounter,
04:59albeit the fact that Stoichi Kojima on his own,
05:02seven times former IWGP Tag Team champion,
05:04five of those with Hiroshi Tenzan, of course,
05:08and Taichi as well, four times IWGP Tag Team champion,
05:13in his own right was Zaxeber Jr.
05:23And then, of course, together.
05:24And then, of course, together, zero times.
05:25Ishmat multiple times IWGP Tag Champions together.
05:312022-2023 but goto has won this tournament five times
05:38won the very first world tag league with carl anderson
05:42and won in 2014 with patsyori shibata going forward three more with yoshi
05:48two years ago i know someone who beat michaud
05:55oh yes we never got our title
06:02this one this one not the champions as of right now
06:07belts belonging to the knockout brothers but
06:09certainly the team the hot favorite coming out of a block double shoulder
06:14block there
06:17and kojima gets crushed
06:25and downstairs he's a sniper with that yeah i mean when you talked about the
06:32injured list we mentioned el desperado spring back earlier on
06:36tai chi rolled an ankle last week and uh it was
06:40touch and go whether he would be a part of wild tag league
06:47and certainly it didn't help when someone here is she was scheduled for six
06:51man action of purge night of torture yesterday tai chi stepped up in ishi's
06:55fight ishi's place and was attacked by the rest of the house of torture on his
06:59entrance tai chi really didn't do very much of
07:03anything in that matchup as a result of the damage done to the left knee anchor and leg and
07:11well you always think some mutual respect here alex but that goes out the window when there's two
07:15points in the ball you got i mean yeah you got to do what you got to do
07:19and again if someone paints a target on themselves
07:28and yoshi has he clearing kojima off the apron as well i heard john cena did the most of this
07:40that's a long way to go on one leg
07:53that's a long way to go on one leg
08:11tai chi or army crawling no it's actually it's always about extra secrecy or he's about
08:18coming geese head kicks won't have the spring for those won't have the
08:22base for those dangerous backdrops it'd be difficult for him to base for black mifesto
08:30think with that said that tai chi would want to entrust more to satoshi
08:35community but he feels he can't entrusts to joshiko jimu as much and the war drums
08:40echoing around cora plane hall as it's been really quite clear here alex so i don't think
08:45tai chi can go in this one cover and only two but he's not looking uh not looking his best
08:56which is devastating for us because we may not get a paint grip
09:04but he's going to be trying to do his best to try it back here
09:12it's like he was part of this year's field in g1 climax in the summer because hiroki
09:17goto was injured last chance shot to qualify won that last chance shot and was able to participate in
09:28the g1 climax but here opposition his opportunity knocks a couple of chops trying to get out the
09:36corner now had to use the ropes for assistance when he got up there right that's smart
09:59and there's the bread
10:02there we go oh there's classic machine guns in the corner
10:13firing away
10:18oh
10:19he said he's gonna go for it you know it's a person and here's the cover
10:42didn't he recently have a title in the states
10:45yeah former well he had two titles in the states he was a former mlw heavyweight and tag team champion
10:54okimura very very successful over at mlw
10:59and wants to bring some of that success with him back to japan
11:02mejima wouldn't there be something
11:11for someone who debuted in 1992
11:15to win world tag league in 2025. what were you doing in 92 alex
11:19alex i was preparing for world tag league also
11:21you haven't even been invented yet that you knew you were calling yeah i knew what was
11:27follow follow with the lariat
11:28that was deep in study and tape
11:40tag made yoshi
11:41and while
11:51jima doing his best to stand up out of that netbreaker managed to escape it look at kojikojikata
11:56and while you're seeing
12:09well i mean it seemed as if distrust and dislike
12:14are going to be prevalent between tai chi and kojima i think almost
12:17well tai chi's physical situation has made him lean into this team of kojima a little bit more
12:27looks like he got his knee back on his side a little bit
12:30a little bit of the leg under the leg at last and
12:34well certainly waking up yoshiashi with those kicks tai chi and yoshiashi
12:39a well-documented history
12:48right to the jugular oh no
12:50that hurt face
12:54yeah yeah it's wobbly
12:57sometimes the adrenaline fires and the adrenaline wears off very quickly especially one wrong step
13:02like that you get a little wobble in the knee it'll let you know it's not uh oh no it could be
13:07could be could be and it is the first of the two that is choice
13:21tai chi's sizing up oh but he doesn't have enough doesn't have enough and yoshiashi that
13:26is a champion's killer instinct
13:31and right down to the basement yoshiashi here we go
13:34goto goto goto harata
13:42you cannot show even the briefest embarrassed of weaknesses
13:47against a team like bishamon it might be it's 8 17 in the evening on a thursday that means bedtime
13:53shoto oh my goodness yoshiashi alex is just vicious here tonight yeah maybe should have just let that one go
14:04go to kojima
14:10go to holding kojima at bay he's got it cinched in there this is the first night of the tour
14:16it's like she's got a whole series to fight through i mean if he was smart he might tap out
14:22here just to conserve himself yeah i mean plenty of points left to get on the board
14:27kojima is not going to let that happen he's gotten free of goto and breaks the hold here
14:37oh
14:42oh it takes down kojima
14:44taichi is in a world of hurt and i don't think there'll be an answer this time
14:54here he comes
14:55oh
14:56he's saying the violent flash
15:01and now oh they're not done there might be lights out for taichi
15:08hook the legs up we go no wait a second taichi fights free but not for long lariat takes him down
15:16and no by the skin of his teeth
15:29thank you getting the getting the crowd behind him
15:34thing you're going to get you so far this time so it's a good time of asking
15:39and third time unlucky kojima broke it up there
15:51allowing an axe bummer combination
15:54big bread making a hell of a sandwich there
15:58i like that
16:00what would be our tag team name
16:01big bread big bread dangerous bread dangerous sandwich how about that
16:06and kojima
16:14wants to wants taichi to serve up yoshi hashi here we go wind it up no no
16:22watch that wobble leg yeah that wobble leg not helping not helping there
16:28karma will strike instead no taichi escapes
16:31let's go
16:38oh my money can taichi keep his feet underneath him
16:43the leg has to be screaming in pain
16:45He'll try, he'll pay his second try, he does it.
16:51Oh, she has, she struggles to fight free.
16:54Now he's found the canvas, but look at Kojima.
16:57Bang.
16:59Jackknife.
17:01Oh, oh.
17:02Go through.
17:03Got him.
17:04Could have been.
17:05Oh, what an upset.
17:06This will be from Mephisto.
17:08From Mephisto.
17:09Come on.
17:11Hit that.
17:15Wow.
17:20A rough start for Vichelon, but they're no strangers to rough starts.
17:30Well.
17:35My goodness.
17:36Upset on upset on upset on this one.
17:40They're one of the few teams they get, they get stronger.
17:43Well, look at this embrace.
17:45This relationship getting stronger.
17:47This reunion of Kojima has beaten the three-time World Tag League winners.
17:55And that's even as such as in severe, severe leg and knee pain.
18:02Not a lot of off nights on this four.
18:03Tomorrow being one of them.
18:04Yeah.
18:05Might be a blessing.
18:06Yeah, you're exactly right.
18:07Because a lot of these situations, even if you're off, you're traveling.
18:08This is a rare situation where you'll be able to hit the hay here in Tokyo and then go down to Fujisawa from here on Saturday.
18:17Tokyo is our base at least until Tuesday.
18:19And then we'll hopefully let Taichi get some rehab in.
18:22Bishelon have.
18:23Bishelon have.
18:24You draw on Chase Owens.
18:25Monday and match it up.
18:26Kojima and Taichi, we can argue about at what cost later on.
18:29Taichi, we can argue about at what cost later on.
18:51It's actually in an awful lot of pain, but who'd have thunk it?
19:00He's so excited. He forgot about his partner's knee there.
19:05Yeah, a little bit too exciting.
19:07Kojima and Taichi will be able to fight at the end of Pichet.
19:10If I can imagine that Toriyano embolts it.
19:13Someone's oh, that's the goal.
19:21Well, what an upset to fit. World's ugly underway.
19:34And our main event is coming up next, and it's going to be a banger, people.
19:39Shingo Tsukage, Trilla Maloney, Game Kid, Yodosuji, it's coming up next.
19:44I'll turn the lights up.
19:46I'll turn one.
19:48Yes.
19:50� Jeffries and Taichi.
19:51I'll turn the lights in.
19:54But I'm getting all the lights in.
19:56It affects us, you know.
19:59There are also many lights.
20:06It's a boobyrow this elevatory festival.
20:08Your pluie Ù†Û’ ta grip over, but I don't think of it.
20:11I think that a moment we jobs, you know.
20:13You may have seen it ever after the formidable site.
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