El Phantasmo, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuya Murashima vs. Shoma Kato, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura: NJPW World Tag League 2025 Day 1 (11/20/2025)

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01:44Defended a Wrestle Kingdom 20 try to have a sit-in protest sit in protest a sit-in protest

01:51It did not work very well. I imagine that

02:03How about this is a combination

02:09Denied us last year

02:11Was the team of El Fantasma with Tadahashi

02:20When we get it here

02:25Tadahashi has never won a World Tag League. This is his last chance

02:31So he would have two paths. Well, this is right

02:37We have said in many a case

02:41Just like El Fantasma is a World TV Champion

02:49The champions, whoever you are, whether you've got a part to Wrestle Kingdom or not

02:57Just because you win World Tag League, Alex, that doesn't mean that you have to challenge

03:02That's true. That's true. Well, why would you not? Well, I guess that's that's a very attractive protest

03:08Prospect it's a very lucrative prospect

03:13But many a time when we saw it just last year with Tetsu Naito and Hiromi Takahashi

03:18They didn't challenge the Wrestle Kingdom. They challenged the next night on January the 5th and

03:23Well, El Fantasma could say I'll defend the TV title at Wrestle Kingdom and then I'll challenge for the tag team titles on January the 5th

03:31But the problem is

03:33Tadahashi won't be there generally

03:35Right

03:37So then what?

03:38Well, I don't know

03:39They'd probably have to have Tadahashi and Fantasma do Double Duty in the Tokenome, perhaps

03:45Maybe a road to Wrestle Kingdom in December

03:50Oh, who am I kidding? Like, you know, how are they going to get past yourself in our touch?

03:55Right

03:59This is night one, long road to go

04:04Oh, well, Tadahashi walking that long road to Wrestle Kingdom, the abs

04:10It's time to come back, Tadahashi's getting in at Wrestle Kingdom shape

04:14How about it? Alex Tanahashi Ocada one more time

04:18Amazing amazing when I saw that announced

04:21I was like, even if I don't win tag league and challenge the Wrestle Kingdom, maybe I still buy a ticket

04:26And go to Spectate

04:27You have to go fast

04:28All the tickets right now are sold out

04:30We're getting extra seating available November the 13th and that'll be your last chance

04:35I got a guy

04:36You got a guy?

04:37Yes

04:38It's not Dick Togo

04:39Tell me Dick Togo is not your guy

04:40He could never be my guy

04:42Dick Togo could never be my guy

04:44Dick Togo travel agent

04:48You know, I mean the business is terrible

04:52Opportunity for some strong marketing

04:55on the internet

04:55You know, Carter, of course, a member of the Don Carlos family, as is your partner in World Tag League

05:05Yeah

05:06I mean, how is that whole situation?

05:11You know, I could tell you

05:13But then

05:14But then

05:14You'd know

05:16Right

05:17I can't tell you

05:18Yeah

05:19Because you're not allowed to know

05:20I know

05:21Anything connected with Don Carlos, I don't want to know

05:24Well

05:24Or Rocky Romero, that

05:27King of Stooge style

05:28Stooge style

05:30This is going to be a good one

05:35Two days in

05:36Fujisawa

05:37Rumor and Umino against Tanahashi and LP

05:41Looks like the past, present and future of Hontai

05:44Fantasma has been a mentor of sorts to show to Umino

05:49Especially trying to get Umino's mental right to be a main event here in New Japan Pro Wrestling

05:57Oh

06:00He's got bigger shoulders

06:02Oh, he kicked back in the butt

06:06Fantasma has a bigger drop kick, but he missed there

06:08So did Umino

06:09They know each other very, very well

06:11Love a lateral press

06:13Oh

06:14The old miss direct there

06:15Good trick

06:19Both of these guys

06:22Spent a lot of time in the UK

06:25Oh, nice

06:27I'll come back

06:28Oh

06:29CR2 could be inbound

06:31And Umino escapes

06:34Which way are we going to go here?

06:35Fisherman

06:36Second chapter perhaps

06:37Don't want to be

06:38That's

06:39I mean there they're still

06:41Couldn't

06:41Couldn't connect all of anything there

06:43But yeah

06:44They didn't get all of it

06:45They didn't get any of it

06:46Yeah

06:47Anything if one of them had gotten all of something

06:49Then this might have been over before he got started

06:52And Umino now is going to tag

06:54And Fantasma

06:55Tag it out to the ace

06:57A lot of these

07:05Teams here in World Tag League Alex

07:07Don't you

07:08Yourself and Lance Archer

07:10Oscar Manto Ice

07:12Vistamon maybe the exception

07:13Is a lot of

07:15Singles wrestlers normally

07:17Tag teams were well tagged

07:18It means you see situations here like

07:22A tag team match that we have in store for us in Fuji Towers

07:25Really two singles matches put together

07:28And then it was

07:39And then it was Umino getting the win back during G1 Climax this year

07:43Bigger shoulder

07:50It's all in the shoulders

07:52It's all in the shoulders

07:53Have you been training the shoulders every once?

07:55I try

07:56My shoulders are no Tanahashi

07:59Now all the shoulders

08:01It's preventing Tanahashi going on the right in that arm track here

08:05Blocked it

08:07A little set of shoulders on him

08:09There we go

08:10Not at that time

08:13It's got to be something for you when you saw the lineups that you do get to

08:22Get in there with the ace one more time

08:27Which is an honor of course

08:29How many days left are we?

08:32And to do the maths here it'll be six

08:34I think we're at 45 days left or something like that

08:37Just Azumura was about to do something with it

08:46A reluctant tag to the very very eager Shomakata

08:53I'm not sure why he would be this eager

08:56He's incredibly he's an incredibly eager individual is Shomakata

09:00He's a good young egg

09:03I didn't even know he was an egg

09:07Oh

09:10Bigger hands

09:13But the pivot comes from the shoulders so

09:15That's true

09:16Yeah

09:16That's true

09:18Like a pitch you know

09:19Big hands big shoulders big everything on Katsuma Ashima

09:24The powerhouse of the young lion squad and Tanahashi's understudy

09:30His last personal attended

09:32Look at that

09:33Oh yeah

09:34Oh yeah

09:35Oh yeah

09:35Marashima and Shomakata actually debuted pretty much two years ago to this day

09:42In the world tag league at 2023

09:45And he's looking great

09:46Yeah

09:47Oh

09:48A lot of conversations about where these guys will be going on excursion if they are going on excursion sometime soon

09:55A lot of i've heard rumors about marashima in europe i've heard rumors about shomakata in mexico

10:01He's got a good set of teeth

10:04That kid

10:04Is that important

10:05Well maybe

10:07Yoda suji has great teeth

10:08He's in the main event in wrestling

10:10So there you go

10:16Bringing the teeth back in let's go

10:18See i think teeth are important because then you can you know a strong bite

10:25Wow

10:25Who needs to bite when you can just

10:27Halei a man

10:29Fantastic

10:30He loved it

10:31Atta boy

10:32He loved it

10:33That was quite the hand on marashima

10:52That's always a very positive individual not feeling so much right now but

10:58Hesitation got him there

10:59Oh wow

11:02He learned something

11:03Yeah

11:04Oh wow

11:05Oh a hesitation got fantasma that time

11:07Shomakata out the way

11:09Nice drop kick

11:10And now

11:11Kato

11:13In a position to make the tag

11:14Needs the tag

11:15Rumor is there for the tag

11:17Second rope springboard with no hands

11:19Far more impressive but

11:21It can cost you

11:23How about this for a springboard up to the top

11:26Steed mode style with a chop to the noggin

11:29And there's the arm drag

11:38How many hot dogs do you think he can eat?

11:42I've never given him much talk

11:43Wow

11:45Not much talk to Burumura with the Grizzies

11:49I love a good Grizzies

11:50Japan has great Grizzies

11:52Oh

11:52There we go

11:54There we go

11:55Oh

11:55Jesus

11:57Fantasma inside out on the face plant there

12:01And

12:01Nonny the

12:03Oh

12:03Two and a half

12:06Says

12:07Referee Sakamoto

12:09Goodness

12:10Everybody's swinging for the fences here tonight

12:12This is a preview tap

12:13Yes

12:16Doing a lot of landing on your head

12:21Rumor and Uminar

12:22Alex challenge for the IWTP tag titles

12:25A little bit earlier on in the area

12:27King of Pro Wrestling

12:28Unsuccessful but

12:30I really see something in these two

12:32As a tag team together

12:34Yeah I mean they're moving and moving great together right now

12:40I think LP would agree

12:42All right

12:42Uminar gets another two and

12:45His senior in Hontai

12:47Everybody's senior in Hontai

12:49Tanahashi comes in

12:50Let's go

12:51Let's go

12:52Let's go

12:52Oh

12:57Double drop

12:58Getting four boots

13:00Taking Tanahashi down

13:01Oh

13:01Kata

13:03Sends his opportunity for a little receipt from earlier

13:05Yeah

13:06Big receipt

13:08CBS receipt

13:11Oh

13:12Watch this

13:12Uminar

13:13A hell of a lariat on him

13:14Swings for the fences

13:16Oh

13:19No Pete

13:19No he's even out

13:20Better than anybody

13:21Jump kick out the corner

13:25LP

13:27Forgot where his corner was there for a second

13:29There it is

13:34Bigger shoulders

13:35Gotta watch out

13:36Oh

13:40Pretty simple math

13:42You haven't played top chumps as a kid

13:44You know the card game where you had all the stats on there

13:48Shoulders

13:49Shoulders

13:51Yeah he's maxed out

13:52That's right

13:53He would win in top chunks in shoulders

13:57Shoulder maxing

14:06Salty langers

14:08Shoulder

14:08Shoulder blocks

14:09And

14:09The train being run on

14:11Shots

14:11Uminar right here

14:12Sonny hashing charges here

14:15The caboose of El Fantasma

14:18Oh look at this

14:19Oh no

14:21Here it is

14:23The Mirashima

14:24Stampede

14:25Cool

14:26Oh my goodness

14:30Oh my goodness

14:31How about that

14:32If it hadn't been for Shoma Kato

14:34And New Year of her

14:35Then Young Lion Marashima would have beaten Shota Uminar

14:37You would have got him

14:38The main eventer in the Tokyo Dome this year

14:42Oh that's a mouth guard

14:43Not his teeth

14:45Well

14:45That's the trick

14:47Oh that's why I keep

14:47Fake it till you make it

14:48What is this

14:49What in the world is this

14:51What in the world is this

14:52Tana hashing Phantasmo

14:55Up high

14:56Oh Phantasmo

14:57Gun low now

14:58Yeah whatever they were thinking

14:59It's not gonna happen

15:01But Mirashima

15:02Might be turning Uminar in the meantime

15:04Oh my god

15:05Shota

15:07Shota

15:12Shota just out

15:13Able to kick clear

15:17Oh

15:18Backside

15:18Drop the legs

15:19Drop the legs

15:20Oh

15:20So close

15:25Oh

15:26That's it

15:26Oh my

15:28That's it

15:29Oh my

15:30That's a hundred

15:31He had such nice teeth

15:32That's right there

15:41Say goodbye

15:42No

15:43Pretty mouth guards

15:44Nice teeth

15:46Big shoulders

15:46That ain't gonna help you

15:48With that ladder

15:48My goodness

15:49The teeth might be

15:50Part of the mouth guard now

15:56Brain cells missing

15:57After that one

15:58I think as well

16:02Very good start

16:12Good start

16:15It's two points that are on the board

16:20In two days

16:21in Fujisawa

16:22Fantasmo and Tana Asi take it on, so it's him now.

16:28I knew you were a bird.

16:37Oh, well.

16:40By my reckoning, jam-packed sold-out house here as ever,

16:44here in Cochrane Hall.

16:46And after tonight, Alex, it will be only one more time in Cochrane Hall,

16:53for New Japan at least, for Hiroshi Tanahashi.

16:57December 22nd, and we're with you on the road to Wrestle Kingdom.

17:05Every time we've been talking about the last time,

17:10it'll be the last time for Tanahashi and Fujisawa on Saturday.

17:16And the first time for Shotsumina and Yiromura in World Tag League together.

17:29And we'll see what happens.

17:35Speaking of a lot of intrigue, there's going to be a lot of intrigue in our next one.

17:40The unaffiliated and the War Dogs continuing to come together.

17:50Hiroshi Tanahashi and David Finley, they're about to team together for the very first time,

17:55alongside Ghetto as a young fan makes a great memory, and an old fan makes a great memory.

18:01Is that...

18:06I thought that was Rocky O'Neal, it's not...

18:09Looked a lot alike, though.

18:10Looked a lot alike.

18:11The child, you mean, right?

18:13Right.

18:14Ghetto, Hiromura Takashi, David Finley, will face Daikinagai, Oskar, and Yuto Ice.

18:23He's coming up, thanks.

18:24Yuto Ice, huh?

18:25No, Yuto Ice.

18:27Oh, okay.

18:28He's a snake.

18:29He's a snake.

18:31He's a snake.

El Phantasmo, Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuya Murashima vs. Shoma Kato, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura: NJPW World Tag League 2025 Day 1 (11/20/2025)

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