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00:00Old Despy, an old teammate of mine.
00:23That is El Desperado, former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion,
00:28former Super Junior Tag League winner,
00:30standing tall alongside a man who's gonna stand even taller.
00:33Six foot five, Shuji Ishikawa,
00:36former All Japan Triple Crown Champion,
00:39stands alongside Desperado.
00:40Six points on the board here tonight.
00:43195cm, 130kg, Ishikawa, Shuji!
00:52.
00:59You ever seen Despy without his mask?
01:13I have a couple of times.
01:14Yeah, yeah.
01:15He's a good looking kid.
01:17He's got a lot of scars on him now though.
01:19Well, you're right about that.
01:27There might be a few more scars dished out here tonight, Lance.
01:30You know that El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa,
01:33big fans of the death match wrestling team.
01:35Desperado and Ishikawa have been very heavily at,
01:39talking up a storm about the potential of getting hardcore
01:43with Gabe Kidd and Yodosuji here tonight.
01:45I don't doubt it, that's for sure.
01:47Be interesting to see, especially in the New Japan race.
01:50Yeah, well, Kidd is the one who threw out the challenge himself
01:53back in the preview tag team match that we saw.
01:56Gave a steel chair to every single member in the match-up and said,
01:59let's just go to war now.
02:00Yodosuji, however, the one who tried to calm things down, said,
02:04this is New Japan Pro Wrestling, we don't do that here.
02:07Well, I don't think Shuji is going to be able to control Kidd,
02:10whether they're friends now or not.
02:11I don't think anybody's ever been able to control Kidd.
02:13That kid's crazy.
02:15Yeah, you're right about that.
02:19We are going to see if we get hardcore tonight or not,
02:22and it's Gabe Kidd and Yodosuji.
02:24Shuji, your IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion,
02:27and soon could become the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion,
02:32the number one contender,
02:34the base off against Kidd and Yodosuji,
02:36at Wrestle Kingdom 20.
02:45Gabe looking lean and mean, baby.
02:51IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion,
02:57and they're the first team we're getting ready.
03:00IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion,
03:02the프ety, Marty Hassami.
03:03Oh, good Lord.
03:05And we're already getting started here tonight.
03:06And this is not a sanctioned, the hardcore matchup,
03:09at least not as far as I've been informed of.
03:11And the big stage ought to win here, but.
03:14Give me a fucking chance.
03:16Gabe Kidd, Yodosuji against...
03:18Gabe wants more change.
03:19I know, Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa.
03:21He's ready to go, man.
03:51I mean, this is the one point where Suji and Kid, for all they may agree upon, they're not gonna exactly see eye to eye here. Kid wants to go to Wardog.
04:08He's in Wardog.
04:11Choice words.
04:15You know, sometimes you can't tell whether Gabe is talking that way to his opponents or to his own tag team partner.
04:21Sometimes, maybe even to himself.
04:22Yeah, right?
04:23Little nuts.
04:24Little crazy.
04:25The bell has sounded.
04:34One fall, 30-minute time limit in our semi-main event of the evening.
04:37Two teams tied at six points apiece coming in here.
04:41And one of these teams will advance to eight by the end should we go to a pinfall or submission tonight.
04:48Eight points?
04:49Eight points here in the league.
04:51And this will automatically, the winner of this match, will take the lead for Block A.
04:57As it is Yodosuji who stares up a mountain of a man in Shuji Ishikawa.
05:02He is a big old boy.
05:03Yeah, you're right about that.
05:05Imagine the heavyweight battle team I can.
05:07Ah!
05:08We very well could see it in the final if things go here in Alex's way, Ishikawa and Despe's way.
05:17Oh, it's Yodosuji taking down there with a shoulder tackle.
05:29Yodosuji, I mean, this is a man who is well aware of how you try and take down a giant.
05:33I mean, you know, I'm a larger man myself, but I'm not a pro wrestler.
05:37You, as a larger man and a professional wrestler.
05:39I try.
05:40Talk to me about, you know, what it's like being the biggest person inside a ring, inside a room, let alone,
05:46and knowing that everyone's going to try and cut you down to their size.
05:49Well, we don't fit in most of the rooms here in Japan.
05:51I'll say that much.
05:52Yeah, you're right.
05:53Well, I hit my head on a lot of things.
05:55But in the ring, it's always an advantage because a lot of times guys try to be, they want to be powerful.
06:00They want to be strong.
06:01They want to try to take you down to the way they normally do with other people.
06:04And it just doesn't work, which then you start to see what you saw where they're trying to take out your knees.
06:09They figure if you can't walk, you can't fight.
06:11And that's actually really smart.
06:13But, oh, here we go.
06:17Here we go.
06:18Here we go.
06:19Good fighting spirit.
06:20If Tsuji doesn't want his partner to use a steel chair, then Kidd has two lethal weapons registered for hands.
06:26And El Desperado, ooh, going to feel them here tonight.
06:30Oh, that's always fine, but nope, nope, nope.
06:33Oh, we're going to take a chunk out of the mask of El Desperado.
06:37And Tsuji going to take the action to Ishikawa here and Kidd, I mean, hey, opportunity to get hardcore on the outside right now.
06:50Oh, right into the bell.
06:52Face first into the gong tonight.
06:55That was not the end of the match.
06:57That was just Desperado's face on the bell.
06:59That is dangerous.
07:01Referee Marty Asami getting in there to check now.
07:03And meanwhile, we're trying to follow the action from our group here.
07:07Ishikawa.
07:08Oh, no, that was loud, though.
07:09I'll tell you that much.
07:10Oh, he went right out.
07:11You know.
07:12Yeah, we know.
07:13You know, Gabe Kidd, a force that, you know, we've seen a lot here in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
07:23You've dealt with a few times here in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
07:26But now, Kidd finding a lot more action over in AEW, over in the United States.
07:30Now a threat to both locker rooms, really.
07:33Yup.
07:34There's times where you start to wonder if Kidd even recognizes where he is.
07:37He's just looking for a ring to fight in at any point.
07:39He just wants to fight.
07:40That's the beauty of the relationship that is AEW in New Japan Pro Wrestling,
07:43because you never know who's going to show up with.
07:45Just like me, being here, yet again, in the tag ring.
07:48Yeah, it's El Desperado.
07:53Wait a minute.
07:54Oh, swung for the fences.
07:55Miss, though.
07:56Wait, Gabe's going to miss?
07:58No.
07:59Oh, right in the gut.
08:00No, no, no.
08:01Steel chair right across the spine of El Desperado.
08:07Here comes Ishikawa.
08:08Where the hell is the referee?
08:10He's kind of letting it go, though.
08:12Yeah, I mean, I don't think, yeah, Asami saw that one, and now.
08:15He saw that one, too, I'm sure.
08:16I mean, this one could end in his disqualification,
08:19and we don't want to see that here, but, I mean, it would cost you your points.
08:22You don't want to do that, especially knowing you're sitting damn near
08:25at the top of the league right now.
08:27Would they just get no points?
08:28Well, no, the disqualified team would get no points,
08:31and the other team would get two.
08:33Oh, okay.
08:34They both tried to use the chairs, though.
08:36Yeah, you're right.
08:37I mean, at that point, it's a draw.
08:39We'd go one and one.
08:41They both go to seven, but.
08:44I mean, if it's a double DQ, though, would there be any points awarded to anyone?
08:47Well, the double DQ is where you would go to the draw, but.
08:50I mean, Asami could throw it out entirely, no contest.
08:53That's what I'm saying.
08:54Yeah, there you go.
08:55Then we get no points, but.
08:57Kid covered here, and a one count only.
09:00Well, I think Monty's going to let it go.
09:02You know, he heard all the chatter before the match,
09:04and he understands that they want to fight,
09:06and he's going to let them do whatever they're going to do.
09:08There's a few of our officials here in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
09:12They're going to have the long leash when they know that they need to have it.
09:15Yeah.
09:16And Asami's leash a little bit longer than most anyway, so.
09:19Yeah.
09:20I mean, he knows the fans don't want to stand in a no contest or DQ or anything like that.
09:23You're right.
09:24Ooh.
09:25If these guys were going to bring chairs and weapons and tables and lions and tigers and bears, oh my, you know.
09:31You know, Lance, you've been a part of the New Japan Pro Wrestling roster, you know, for quite some time.
09:38Yep.
09:39For many, many years.
09:40I mean, you've seen so many top champions come and go, and, well, I don't think we're going to get to have any conversation here with the way.
09:47No.
09:48Game kids bringing furniture out.
09:50Got one of those Japanese tables out there.
09:52I mean, I was going to ask you your thoughts on Yoda Tsuji and, you know, him being potentially the next IWGP World Heavyweight Champion.
09:58Where do you see New Japan going if Tsuji holds the gold by the end of the Tokyo go?
10:02I mean, he's been very vocal about the idea that it should be somebody within New Japan Pro Wrestling.
10:08And these outsiders should not be the ones that are holding those titles.
10:11Now, Tsuji does have a double contract, both with New Japan and AEW.
10:15So I guess he's considered part of New Japan.
10:17But he also didn't come up through the New Japan system.
10:20He wasn't in their dojo.
10:21He wasn't one of their young lions.
10:23And he's kind of become out.
10:24He's an outsider in his eyes.
10:26And Tsuji has been very, very vocal about that.
10:28So I think he's very motivated.
10:30Already holding one title.
10:31Oh.
10:32To become the IWGP Heavyweight Champion and bring it back in the sense to New Japan Pro Wrestling.
10:37You're right.
10:38You're right about that.
10:39Oh.
10:40Yeah.
10:41Ishikawa gets a two for one combo there.
10:44And that's why you can't take your eyes off the big boys.
10:46You do.
10:47And that stuff happens.
10:48Oh, he's setting up the table.
10:50See?
10:51Ishikawa has competed many times in the big Japan Pro Wrestling spaces.
10:56A prominent death match organization here in Japan.
10:59He's bigger than that table.
11:00No, no, no.
11:01Ishikawa.
11:02Ishikawa wants to drive Gabe Kidd through this table.
11:03Yoda Tsuji, though.
11:04I mean, at a certain point, Tsuji is going to have to start playing ball with the three other members of this matchup.
11:13Everyone else wants to use weapons.
11:15Tsuji's got to drop the good guy act and get hardcore here tonight.
11:18Ooh.
11:19Yep.
11:20Get in the game or get left behind.
11:21Kicking him all the way out into the crowd.
11:22Yeah.
11:23I mean, that's one way to take care of your opposition.
11:24You know, Lance, I got to ask you, you know who the legal man is?
11:26Because I think we're struggling to figure it out here.
11:27We'll say these guys are.
11:28Yes, they are.
11:29Gabe Kidd on Desperado.
11:30Maybe not.
11:31No, Mario Sabi says no.
11:32How does Marty even know, man?
11:33Well, yeah, that's difficult.
11:34I mean, Kidd is so embroiled in this rage against Del Desperado.
11:37Two men who are going to bring the best of the fight out of one another.
12:00Despy's a tough little son of a bitch, man.
12:05Yeah, certainly so.
12:06Under Minoru Suzuki for all those years.
12:09And anybody that's been under Minoru Suzuki knows you have to be a tough
12:11son of a bitch to survive that.
12:13Oh!
12:13That's it, that's it!
12:18That's it!
12:21That's it!
12:22Oh!
12:23Yeah, yeah, yeah!
12:27Gabe Kidd now off the ropes, basement dropkick there from Desperado.
12:33Gabe's not the biggest, but anybody's knees get taken out.
12:35They cannot move, they cannot fight.
12:37Oh, here's the big man.
12:38Tag main, it's Shuji Ishikawa.
12:43Oh, Gabe put a boot up.
12:46Oh, no, no, no, no.
12:47Watch it now, Kidd.
12:48Uh-oh, uh-oh, what is this?
12:50What's going on here?
12:51Ishikawa has sandwiched Kidd between the middle ropes.
12:53Kidd's stuck there, Lance.
12:56Oh!
12:57Oh!
12:58I probably broke a couple ribs.
13:00Oh, good lord.
13:01Ishikawa, cover in two.
13:03He's so kicked out.
13:04I don't know if he can breathe, but he kicked out.
13:06I don't know what he said, but people did.
13:16Certainly spelling the end here.
13:17Oh, looking for the giant driver.
13:19Oh!
13:20Oh!
13:21Oh!
13:22Oh!
13:23Oh!
13:24Oh!
13:25Oh!
13:26Oh!
13:27Kid on wobbly legs here.
13:28Yeah.
13:29He's lucky he's still standing.
13:31Oh!
13:32Oh!
13:33Oh!
13:34Oh!
13:35Oh!
13:36Oh!
13:37Oh!
13:38Oh!
13:39Oh!
13:40Oh!
13:41Dragon suplex!
13:42Oh!
13:43Oh!
13:44Oh!
13:45Oh!
13:46Oh!
13:47Oh!
13:48Oh!
13:49Oh!
13:50Oh!
13:51Oh!
13:52Oh!
13:53Oh!
13:54Oh!
13:55Oh!
13:56Oh!
13:57Oh!
13:58Oh!
13:59Oh!
14:00Oh!
14:01Oh!
14:02Oh!
14:03Oh!
14:04Oh!
14:05Oh!
14:06Oh!
14:07They'll five and have fun.
14:08That's one.
14:16I don't know what Desperado is.
14:18He's not even wearing around
14:19if he makes that decision though.
14:20Yeah, Yota Suji, your legal man now,
14:22IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion.
14:31And one of these two teams will stand on top block A
14:34by the end of the night.
14:35Who is it gonna be?
14:36It's Suji or Ishikawa.
14:38Oh, backbreaker there from Ishikawa.
14:41That's the old backbreaker.
14:43Now, tag made.
14:44Here comes Desperado back into it.
14:46A junior heavyweight in a heavyweight world tag league.
14:50That's him right in the face.
14:55Attacked in action.
14:56Desperate with the back elbow.
14:59In comes, oh, Ishikawa.
15:02And watch this, fluid Desperado.
15:07Double stomp right to Suji.
15:09Oh, it's gonna come heavier.
15:11It's gonna come heavier.
15:13Oh, cover here for Desperado.
15:18Two count only.
15:21Oh, Desperado here going to try and put down the Global Heavyweight Champion.
15:33And oh, the humbling of Yota Suji.
15:36This will be an absolute embarrassment to tap to the Boston Crab here tonight.
15:40It's an oldie but a goodie.
15:42Oh, you're right about it.
15:44Suji in the Boston Crab now.
15:47He's gonna make it.
15:48He's gonna make it.
15:49He's gonna make it.
15:49He's gonna make it.
15:50He's gonna make it.
15:50He's gotta try and get to the bottom.
15:51He's gotta get to the bottom.
15:53He's fading.
15:55Closer, closer.
15:56Despy's gotta get deep too.
15:57Oh, no, no, he made it, he made it.
15:59To the bottom.
16:00Suji forces the break here.
16:04Ishikawa just got rid of Gabe though.
16:07Suji's all alone.
16:09Stay on him, Despy.
16:12Stay on him, Despy.
16:13Desperado coming into this tournament with a sprained back.
16:15And you can certainly see it right now.
16:19Oh, Desperado, no, no.
16:23Cameradora.
16:24Right on there.
16:25Yeah, we talked about that sprained back just moments ago.
16:28And Yota Suji sees it as a target.
16:32Oh, that trainer's tape all the way up and down.
16:35The back of El Desperado certainly serve it as a bullseye
16:39for Yota Suji here.
16:40Yeah, might give you a little brace,
16:41but if you get dropped on it, it don't even matter.
16:44The tape's not padding.
16:47Yeah, let's watch Suji here.
16:49Oh!
16:50Right on the jaw.
16:52Whoa!
16:53Yota Suji here to put it away.
16:56Mar-lo crash.
16:58No!
16:59He missed, he missed, he missed.
17:01Oh, you just headbutt him in the gut?
17:04Yeah, it only takes one.
17:06That's it!
17:08No, no, no!
17:12Suji, Desperado.
17:13Oh, no, no, no, no.
17:14Almost ran in right, Mark.
17:16Yeah, nearly.
17:16Oh, and now, Desperado with a German, but Marty Asami's out of here.
17:21Yeah!
17:22He wasn't the biggest German, but it worked.
17:24Lock it up!
17:25And a spear!
17:26Nice, nice.
17:28Whoa!
17:29Spear from the junior heavyweight to pin the global champion, but wait a minute,
17:33we have no referee.
17:34There's no ref.
17:36Can't win if nobody's there to count it.
17:38Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
17:39Oh, and Kid's gonna get what he wanted from the beginning.
17:42Steel jam!
17:44Across the skull of Desperado.
17:46Come on!
17:48I'm a fighter, you know what?
17:52Oh, Suji's saying, what the hell are you doing here?
17:54Oh.
17:55It took too much time there.
17:57A little western lariat.
17:58Oh, and Ishikawa.
18:01Ishikawa and Kid.
18:02A little chair fight.
18:03Oh!
18:08Two can play at that game.
18:11From the height and strength that Ishikawa has, you know, that's a different animal.
18:18Uh-oh, uh-oh, the table.
18:21No, no, no, no, we would have forgotten about that table entirely here.
18:24And Ishikawa has just noticed it again.
18:27Has Gabe get on the apron.
18:28What are we doing here, Lance?
18:29Uh-oh.
18:33I don't think Gabe's realized what was gonna happen.
18:34He's trying to fight it.
18:35Oh.
18:40The pile driver through the table?
18:41Oh, no, no, no, I can't believe it.
18:43Oh, you got him up, you got him up.
18:44Can he do it?
18:45No, no, no, no.
18:46Too big, too big.
18:47Oh.
18:48Kid is a very strong athlete, no doubt about it.
18:51The demon released on the knee.
18:54Oh, no, no.
18:55He got it, he got it.
18:57Oh.
18:58Come here, this one.
19:00Oh, Ishikawa.
19:02Ishikawa says this is gonna be it here.
19:10Oh, and a steel chair to the skull of Gabe Kid, and that's gonna be perfect for Ishikawa here.
19:17Oh, no, no, no, no, no, to put it away.
19:20Oh.
19:22Giant driver.
19:23Oh.
19:27The giant driver through the table.
19:30Through the table.
19:31I think Ishikawa was stuck though.
19:32This one has been an absolute cluster from the beginning.
19:39Gabe Kid has been spiked through this table.
19:43I don't think Gabe's getting back up.
19:49Now, Suji's kind of been left all alone.
19:55El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa here.
19:57Marty Asami waking up and realizing what's happened.
20:00is not gonna call this one off.
20:02Suji's gotta battle this one alone.
20:04Yes, guys!
20:06They're fighting, a lot of fighting now.
20:08Suji, no, no, no.
20:10Spirit dead!
20:11One more from Despe.
20:13And Ishikawa.
20:15Oh.
20:16Feet of the jaw.
20:18Cover for the win.
20:20Oh, he kicked out.
20:22Oh.
20:25El Desperado came this close to pinning the IWGP Global Champion.
20:30We want to know what fighting spirit looks like.
20:35The cover here for Desperado.
20:39Oh, oh, oh.
20:41And Gabe Kid gushing for the skull here.
20:46If you don't know what the definition of fighting spirit is,
20:51these boys have it.
20:52Certainly so.
20:53I mean, Gabe Kid is bleeding dangerously here on the outside.
21:10I caught it.
21:12Oh.
21:13Oh.
21:14Oh.
21:15Did you call that the demon knee?
21:17Yeah, the Oh-knee hit splash.
21:19Get out!
21:21Get out, Desper!
21:22Get out!
21:23Get out!
21:24Get out!
21:25Oh!
21:26Oh, Desperado!
21:28No!
21:29Out of mid-air!
21:30Caught out of mid-air!
21:31Caught out of mid-air!
21:32Gabe Kid is a mad man!
21:34And everyone here in Yamanashi is gonna know it!
21:37Kid's gonna show it out here!
21:40She's gonna blast her!
21:42She's gonna blast her!
21:43Oh!
21:44They've done it!
21:47They've done it!
21:49And it's made it uncomfortable
21:54Out of mid-air, and they were
22:00idol and Shujji Ishikawa has fallen short.
22:03After they came out of mid-air, they tell their Young Ninja White.
22:04an absolutely incredible
22:11lore here tonight
22:12El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa
22:17have fallen short
22:18tonight
22:20Yoda, Shuji and Gabe Kidd
22:23stand atop Block A
22:248 points on the board
22:34Oh, and all the blood has been shed to do so here
22:37Shuji may not like the way that it got done
22:44but Gabe Kidd wanted this one hardcore
22:47he got this one hardcore
22:49so for this game, we can find the game
23:02that Ken Kidd
23:04will be behind me
23:06I'm sorry
23:07and I'm sorry
23:09but I'm sorry
23:10I'm sorry
23:10I'm sorry
23:12I'm sorry
23:12but archaeologist
23:13can I do
23:14I can't do
23:16it
23:17but he could
23:18Eight points on the board for Gabe Kidd and Yota Tsuji in wrestling fans.
23:40We are going to move right on and in to your main event here tonight.
23:45Team 100, Satoshi Kojima and Taichi take on the Lord Dragons in Shingo Takagi's home prefecture.
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