Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan vs. Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. - World Tag League 2025 Block B Match: NJPW World Tag League 2025 Day 2 (11/22/2025) - video Dailymotion

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00:00well we're going back to your first couple of tours in japan really started in united empire

00:10that didn't exactly turn out too well not for them no well i mean it hasn't turned out well

00:15for united empire really since right about may there was a surge a fire a chip on the shoulder

00:24a fire lit under calum newman he and grado khan won the iwgp tag team champions

00:30calum newman the youngest ever two-time iwgp champion in history

00:36and then and after a challenge to your work you go to the iwgp world heavyweight championship

00:41everything has fallen apart gone right down the tubes for united empire greater khan and

00:47calum newman seemingly indifferent to this whole affair if they win then they win say grado khan

00:53and calum newman and that's great and we'll keep on marching and there'll be big feelings for united

00:59empire but if not this might be the last ever tournament we ever see for this faction

01:05well dude i'll be honest chris i think this thing was falling apart since we sent the last

01:11great pack and killed them all in the cage well it's kind of never really the same after that maybe

01:16we're a little bit to blame i think you you're a 90 percent to blame you know but at the end of the day

01:21you don't want to come into the tournament and go oh if we win we win

01:26a bad mark on the team is a bad mark on the two people in it

01:30and i can see you know calum's a little younger than me in fact calum's quite a bit younger than me

01:35he's what 21 20 22. so you could maybe blame you know blame his anger or blame his

01:42lack of understanding on a situation on his age but grado khan dude it's like

01:47you're a little bit older you really want to you really want to be on a different page going into

01:52a tag tournament you you're looking you're not in a block you go up against me and shingle you're

01:57not on the same page like that we're gonna drop you on your head you drop grado khan on his head

02:01in g1 climax and

02:06that's gonna be i think the it's always been about the mental for grado khan to an extent about the mental

02:12for calum newman and the mental is perhaps weighing on the mind of calum newman here with this start

02:19to world tag league december the 5th last year it was in miyazaki and it was calum and jeff

02:27card against that saber jr and yohei oiwa was positioning newman for superplex off the top

02:34newman had his footing wrong and tumbled down to the floor tore his knee ligaments and was put on the

02:40shelf for three months and has been very vocal about wanting some get back here tonight against

02:46oiwa specific

02:55we're in that mindset

03:00i know just a couple of nights ago we spoke about it on the commentary in coraco in hall that match you

03:07had against suji and gabe kidd for you it was about being in there with gabe kidd here tonight

03:12it's about calum newman going up against yohei oiwa is that a benefit to have a singles mindset in a

03:17tag team match or is it detriment uh well it's two it's two kind of different situations i guess

03:25um but going out and wrestling gabe you know days leading up to the match you have to tell yourself

03:30don't get too carried away me and gabe have wrestled so many times this was the first time we put hands on

03:35each other in japan and i think if i hadn't have prepared mentally leading up to the match i could

03:40have easily gotten quite carried away kind of forgot shingo was on the apron and suju's on the other

03:44apron um so i guess maybe there's a little less cohesion there's a little more chance of you getting

03:50carried away but then gabe's never told my name

03:52okay i'm surprised here that he's chosen to bail and it'll be we were making the start against great

04:02okan 30 minutes on the clock as it is with all of these world tag league matches you get two points

04:09for a win one for a draw zero for a loss and okan and oy were going to be grappling together here very

04:17very proficient grapplers of both Oiwa and Great Okan.

04:21Oiwa's come under a lot of criticism,

04:25really from across the New Japan roster.

04:29Hiromu Takahashi, some slightly salty comments.

04:32Certainly, Yuto Ice is a contemporary of Oiwa,

04:36very, very critical of Oiwa in public interviews.

04:40Somebody, the consensus seems to be

04:43that Oiwa has all the tools,

04:45but just seems to be lacking a certain something

04:47to get himself to the next level.

04:50Maybe he just needs pissing off by the right person.

04:53That's usually what it is, Chris.

04:54It wouldn't be the first person

04:55either of us have seen in any company,

04:58in myself included.

04:59A lot of wrestlers have that said about them.

05:01Usually one person to just piss you off one time

05:04and just have a match where your brain stops working

05:06and your heart takes over.

05:08Maybe Oiwa hasn't been pushed into that realm yet.

05:11Maybe he's still wrestling with his mind.

05:15There's a great point and one wonders whether

05:17Carl Newman is wrestling with his mind entirely

05:23as he's cleared out there and they were taking control.

05:27No, no, no, no.

05:28There's no.

05:29Prime example of someone that wrestles with their heart

05:31and their mind is Oyewans tag partner, Zack Zayva Jr..

05:34Yeah, exactly right. That's why he is the two-time IWGP World Headwear Champion.

05:41Re-invented twice in a row in the Tokyo Dome this year. Successful both times.

05:53Maybe one of the most successful guy jeans of all time.

05:56Absolutely. I mean, I would say the most successful non-Japanese wrestling of all time.

06:02And really, when you talk about what he did this year in the Tokyo Dome,

06:06it's something that no other wrestler has done, period.

06:08Let alone first British, first foreign this or that.

06:14Yeah, clearly the target being marked here on the left arm of Great O'Khan.

06:19Well, or is he?

06:20Santiago Jr. always has more than one target.

06:26Do you reckon if he wrapped Great O'Khan's hair around his ankles

06:29and kept twisting like that, he could put the braid in for him?

06:31Oh, well, that might be right.

06:33That might be.

06:34That might be a quicker way to get it done.

06:40And with the arm there is Oiwo not of approval in front of Zack Saber Jr.

06:45I think there's certainly a depth of experience on both sides of this team

06:52as Zack Saber Jr. and Oiwo that extends, and not just in New Japan Pro Wrestling,

06:56but also to Pro Wrestling World.

07:00Both of them spent a lot of time under Ogawa.

07:02Yeah, in your scenario, Ogawa is a technical whizzy.

07:07There are very, very, very few men to make Ogawa smile,

07:11and Oiwo and Zack Saber Jr. are two of them.

07:19Oiwo!

07:20O'Khan really not making much progress in Edgewise right here.

07:32And Callum doesn't look too bothered by either one, does he?

07:34Well, and this is it.

07:35And I think this is the make or break of this entire team.

07:39Newman should if, oh, there we go.

07:51Now Newman has picked his spot, it seems.

07:55And he's gone right after Riohei Oiwo on the floor.

08:02This certainly is the moment where Callum Newman has ceased to think

08:05and has started to feel.

08:09A happy accident perhaps as far as Greg O'Khan is concerned,

08:14but Callum Newman's hatred for the Ohio Oiwo coming out here.

08:31It was the words from Callum Newman that he's spoken on and off about

08:36since earlier in the spring that United Empire,

08:39ever since the departure of Will Ospreay as Greg O'Khan gets to two,

08:43that they've lost their philosophy as a faction.

08:47They used to be a collected group of killers,

08:49and that killer instinct's now completely gone.

08:53And maybe Callum Newman having a sort of sense of mentality and aggression

08:58that is more in line with the War Dogs say than with the United Empire.

09:04Maybe.

09:05Maybe that's just what that faction does to people nowadays.

09:08Maybe anybody under 20, 28.

09:11Yeah, I'm 28.

09:12Maybe anybody in their early 20s just can't deal with those guys.

09:15But their namesake is dead.

09:17They're not United Empires and they've got no belts, there are no kings in this team.

09:21They've got to really make some choices about what they want.

09:25These tours are long, these tours are hard.

09:27It's really how you want to go.

09:28Or you want to find some new tag partners, you want to rethink this.

09:32What do you want to do?

09:33I'm not going to speak too soon.

09:35It's their first match on the block.

09:36Who knows?

09:39Oh, well, this is it, Mike.

09:41You can't.

09:42That red mist is descending across the eyes of Callum Newman right here.

09:47And I think all of those frustrations being enacted here against Zack Sabre Jr.

09:53Well, against Marty Asami, bro.

09:55Marty ain't gonna listen to you.

09:58Marty very rarely does anything to you.

10:01Come on, Zack.

10:03Come on, Zack.

10:05Come on, Zack.

10:06Again, Zack Sabre Jr's got the heart and the mind to be one of the greatest that's ever done pro wrestling.

10:11Why do you want to piss him off?

10:13Because his heart's gonna get on fire and his brain's already working.

10:18Well, the counterpoint is if you are able, and so many people have tried to get in the head of Zack Sabre Jr.

10:25and so many have failed, but if Callum Newman can be the one in a hundred, then it's a huge leap forward for him.

10:35Again, it's a huge leap forward for him.

10:37And I think, like, Callum really isn't thinking about the team whatsoever in this sport tackle.

10:43There's not really that much of a team left, though, either.

10:47Like, Akira's up with an injury now.

10:49Mm-hmm.

10:50We haven't seen Hinari for a long, long time.

10:52Templarrio, you know, mainstay in CMLL when he came in court.

10:57And the base getting going is Oyewa in his Newman.

11:01And Oyewa up and Newman down.

11:07Jacob Austin Young on a show of unity.

11:10And so he's being wiped out on the floor right there.

11:12He might be the only team player left in this unit.

11:15There's no one.

11:27And now the side suplex.

11:28And here it's one of those things in the crush with the senton here.

11:30There's the cover.

11:32Sue Madia Asami in the role of the shoulder.

11:35You know, Callum Newman got that invitation into United Empire as you did by Will Ospreay

11:40saw that a killer instinct within them that would fit within the group

11:46i guess once you're here and there's this aspect within calum newman now with that you got the

11:51itchy feet much sooner but calum newman at this point certainly seems to have the itchy feet or

11:56the itchy mind or the itchy heart

12:02was calum in your circles in the uk when you were over there so what was the end of my time

12:24being like full-time uk indie wrestler um he was from london but he was he was still

12:29he wasn't even 20 years old i think he was like 16 17 when you met

12:40now building momentum butterfly suplex calum newman up top

12:46got it covered some ground yeah debit style with it double stop gets two and zack

12:51saver jr is in to break up that predicament

13:02well now they're starting they can't see they can do it yep it's not a matter of it's not a matter of

13:09them not being able to do it they just don't want to

13:11it's not a matter of it sometimes if circumstances conspire then they will do it and they are doing

13:18so right now way what is on the back foot here

13:21and there's the cover again and two and a half

13:34so right now

13:43so

13:44indicating that the end up might be here

13:47you know and various has had success with the imperial drop

13:51escaping but not for long

13:59oh my lord what a larry

14:08both went down oiwa needs the tag

14:10so it was there it's taken zakasek to get in though look he's had his bell wrong yeah i think he

14:19definitely had his bell right certainly clutching at the head and high but found enough put the ball

14:26in the back of the net with a penalty kick got two

14:28that caught into a cobra twist grado khan it seems so many times zack saber jr brings the best

14:49competitor out of grado khan but very rarely if ever can grado khan beat zack saber jr

14:58and he applied look at the core

15:07immense grip strength and now look out shoulders are down here

15:24down with the boot

15:28sweeps and man face first

15:33you can't turn your face

15:35yeah i know but uh

15:37there's not much you can do to block that is there

15:40that's civilian blue just ends up all in your grill

15:43yeah all in the face is the hand of grado khan right now

15:46there's oh and four against zack saber jr when it comes to singles competition

15:51here in world tag league

15:52here one and one but there might be another one right there zack saber jr dropped down

15:57grado khan into the cover

16:03and well in comes we were from a long way away and blistered with a buzz saw

16:07that'll do it

16:16well it looks like we broke down into a nice little singles right here after those few strikes

16:20yeah this is ending with a singles fight between great o khan and zack saber jr not exactly how i

16:27expected the sling blade out of great o khan

16:39that's straight right denied the overhead to the arm and the second time

16:47saber on dream street

16:48khan hoists him up and oiwa with the save

16:59oh nice beautifully done

17:02well for all the concerns i thought that kind of human would be too tied up with real hey oiwa

17:21i wasn't expected grado khan to be obsessed with getting the w over zack saber jr didn't see

17:28oil coming up from behind and that german suplex well-timed jack knight has put tmdk on the board

17:44we have to ask yourself now is the kid going to be a team player or he's going to play great o khan

17:50you know isn't the end of that today they're going to go and either have a really deep conversation or

17:55they're going to completely ignore each other it's never about what happens after you win it's

18:03what happens after you lose and yeah yeah normally when mine gets run down i go and check on him

18:13there might be a mouse over the eye it might be a little bit sweating with zack saber jr but he'll get

18:17five exactly will be taken on show to you and you and you can't wait for that one coming up tuesday and

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