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00:00It is Zack Sabre Jr. back here in New Japan pro wrestling action missed out on the preview to this main event or rather the semi main event tag team match just without
00:2924 hours ago made a surprise appearance over at Chris Brooks Baka Gaijin in Shijuku base but Sabre Jr. back here tonight for World Tag League action alongside Ryohei Oiwa four points on the board for TMDK
00:43The Clip Onward Ryohei
00:50The Front Man, Zack Sabre Jr. out
00:57The Front Man
01:04Let's talk about these boys and my first tour in New Japan Best of the Super Junior 2023
01:23we're both young lions and then they get sent on excursion they went to england they went to germany
01:30they've come back and i don't really know if there's been two guys to come back and and get
01:35so popular with these fans so quickly since maybe me and clark coming along well i mean you know you
01:41talk about popularity i'm gonna look to the tangibles the success the championship goal
01:47to return from excursion and on your first shot capture the iwgp tag team championship not just
01:53in your first attempt but over a team in taichi and tomohiro ishi two of the most experienced
01:58hard hitters you're going to find on the new japan pro wrestling roster that's what oscar and yuto
02:03ice are capable of this early on and in just because you return from excursion doesn't mean
02:08you're entirely seasoned you can't call yourself a veteran not by a long shot yuto ice and oscar
02:14were able to put down two veterans to win the gold they were able to put down umano and uamora to
02:19retain the gold but are they able to win their first ever world tag league we're going to find
02:24out tonight well the thing is obviously they're war dogs so we'll get out go out for dinners together
02:29spend a lot of time together these two are genuinely brothers i bet inseparable they're the best of
02:35friends and uh at other points of success and then coming into a tournament like this
02:40and props to them it's really hard to be the wolf on top of the hill everybody else in this tournament is
02:46climbing the hill it's easier to be naturally a bit more hungry to have a bit more bite in your
02:50matches because you're shooting for something these guys have just got to hold down the fort
02:55it's harder to not get complacent it's harder to stay hungry it's a choice they got to make every
02:59day to wake up and stay hungry they're already the champions this whole month of matches this
03:03insane schedule that we're on it's for those titles there ultimately it's for those titles there yes we
03:09get the trophies but it's what the trophies mean it means you get a shot at maybe the most
03:16legendary tag belt still going in wrestling the lineage of that hasn't changed it hasn't been
03:19split into two it hasn't been divided by brands these are the titles that were held by what road
03:24warriors legendary wrestlers you know oh those are the prizes that everyone will eventually gun for
03:34in the end we are going to see if we all hail one zack saber jr are going to get so lucky it's going to
03:39have to be earned here tonight though over oscar and yuto ice i got to tell you here there is a
03:44a lot of personal animosity not as much on the side of oscar and zack but more so generational
03:49rivals here yuto ice and ryohei oiwa spent that amount of time in the no gay dojo with each other
03:55and oiwa would go on his excursion to pro wrestling no yuto ice gonna step right past ryohei oiwa this
04:03why i love yuto because you say that there's a bit of there's a bit of heat between oiwa and and and ice
04:08ice ice has got heat with everyone you're right you're right ice ruffles everyone feathers and
04:14he does he gets off on it he doesn't care it's his whole it's his reason for getting up in the
04:17look look he doesn't care we haven't even sounded a bell yet he's just here to piss people off look
04:23at him i mean this is incredible he can back it up he can do what he wants yeah you're right
04:30yuto ice right in the face of the former world heavyweight champion zack saber jr
04:34man we are gonna have to choose two men to kick this one off in a red corner or blue corner
04:40oiwa wants to take lead here tonight well this is what's great about being someone like ice is
04:46yeah it gets heated but when you're the one instigating the heat you're way more in control
04:50always pissed off you're more prone to making a misstep making a mistake
04:53ice got you where he wants you what you want to do when you wrestle someone like ice is no salad
04:58not let it get under your skin because he's calling the play right now he's pissed you off
05:04and he's gonna leave you in there with almost seven foot seven foot of big schnitz yeah you're
05:13talking oscar here oscar an incredible specimen standing toe to toe with riohe oiwa you know i know
05:20oscar a legal man here we're gonna get into the in-ring action soon enough but you cannot ignore
05:25this between riohe oiwa and yuta ice oscar there you go huge scoop up now and oiwa gonna battle out of it
05:32and again that takes another shot at ice that's good but again the seventh of the big schnitz behind
05:39you
05:42youtube ice has had a lot of words over the past few years and this goes all the way back from
05:46when i said oscar first went on excursion to germany with one another made their way to new zealand
05:51after that back here in new japan pro wrestling in 2025 and recent interviews as well for ice and oscar
05:57ahead of world tag league you so ice has gone as far as to call riohe oiwa the most boring wrestler
06:03in new japan pro wrestling said that he's the equivalent of a salary man
06:08i don't mean to laugh
06:11you know oiwa taking huge offense to those claims but he's a very good salary man if so a dream employee
06:17but certainly so yeah maybe maybe not as much flavor as uh not as much flavor as some of his
06:23colors but you know not ice making these claims that oiwa is not someone who he feels can light up world
06:29tag league and that's been the goal for the knockout brothers since the very beginning it's the reason
06:33they went on excursion together to come back and dominate the tag team division but also make the most
06:38exciting division in new japan pro wrestling and i'd argue that right now at this point in 2025 it absolutely is
06:44yeah i would say so i watched their uh i cannot remember what what town it was in i was sat with
06:50charlton i was watching the knockout brothers light up uh oh no umura and uh shota yeah yeah
06:58yeah it was a fun watch it was fireworks ice played the game he got everybody pissed off
07:04you know it's been the words of yuto ice and oscar but it's been yuto leading the charge against
07:10oiwa and we might see some of this for the first time here yuto ice makes the tag in and he's going
07:15to put the beat down in on rione ice has long had disdain for oiwa back to you know their very roots
07:21that go prior to their time in pro wrestling i mean back before their days in the no gate dojo where
07:27ice would refer to oiwa as a kid that came from a nice home two wealthy parents in a private school
07:32i mean oiwa never had to work for anything those are the words of yuto ice a kid who had to come up
07:37fighting on the mean streets of ogaki these two men are polar opposites of one another when you
07:48when you grow up and you've seen a bit more struggle when you grow up and you've seen your
07:53parents struggle a little bit and money's been a bit of experience it's hard not to hate these kind
07:57of people you know sometimes that can be a mistake you can grow up with too much rage and nowhere to let
08:03it out or you can do what ice has done find an avenue get a skill get really good at it dedicate
08:08your life to it and have an avenue have have up to 30 minutes a day in these black matches to get it out
08:16yuto ice was getting all of the aggression out here tonight on rio heiwa and another shot in on
08:22zack saber jr former iwgp world heavyweight champion and gonna make the tag out we welcome oscar back into the ring
08:29and good game plan too right so piss oil off let the big man handle it oiwa got no offense just on yuto
08:40yuto come in and play with him it's oscar who had some words for oiwa too in post-match comments
08:47quoted a statement from zack saber jr where zack had said let's get oiwa a championship oscar taking
08:53that to mean that oiwa can't do it on his own can't score gold on his own well i mean if you were to
08:59read it on paper that's definitely how it sounds yeah right all right you have to imagine that's
09:03not the way saber jr intended it but oscar twisting words around to make the point that oil was challenged
09:08for a lot of gold recently has not been able to score anything in new japan pro wrestling and if
09:14he scores anything in this year's world tag league it's going to be because you team alongside zack
09:18saber jr that's what the knockout brothers are saying well they've set the table nicely so no matter
09:24no matter what one does they're always going to have that in their pocket to say to him so yeah
09:28that's true as it's oscar oh elbow drop up and down i'll tell you right now
09:36oiwa and zack saber jr these are two men as much as yuto doesn't want to admit it
09:41there are two men who have been putting up the work they have come through this dojo system
09:44and oiwa has at the very least that's exactly the noah dojo on the rogawa yeah absolutely and
09:50used to understand the japanese way yuto ice and zach saber here going to do their best to battle
09:56out through it again it is back to saber jr and oscar you know we'll put the oiwa conversation to
10:04bed for now driller but when we talk about saber and oscar sabre jr best technical wrestler in the
10:09world bar none going to have to try out these these long limbs of oscar this is the biggest man on the
10:14roster we've talked about well listen oscar missed that elbow drop straight away zach sabre jr
10:19you don't want to give that dog a bone because he'll break it
10:25but you also don't want to find yourself back to a corner with seven four big schnitz coming in
10:30oh man that leg drop missed out got the pk cover here for saber two count only
10:38the in step is that shoes that's toes right under the ribs
10:42and not the wind out of him doesn't know whether to worry about getting his breath and
10:45he'll make his arm work again again feeling his arm
10:50zach saber now comes out of the corner and it just those are massive hands-on oscar we're talking
10:55about well you've given him a lot yeah that's a good point there that's what we were talking about
11:02what we said to come back from excursion doesn't mean you're entirely seasoned yet
11:05you're gonna learn the hard way and zach's a difficult man to deal with a tricky character
11:11because you take his legs out he doesn't need to be stood he's actually one happy to get on the ground
11:16and wriggle around and put you in knots so how do you really how do you really attack zach you got
11:22to attack him with brute force you gotta have really hurt this man oscar looking to take saber to new heights
11:29here but well wait a minute you were just talking about it earlier droa wriggling around on the
11:33floor gave too much of the arm there did oscar and now he's gotten down to the skull elbows into the head of oscar
11:40you're gonna wonder if oscar's got the power to get him up go on oski watch it oscar power bob and
11:58that's the only way you can deal with a man like zach saber jr you're not gonna you're not gonna find
12:02a way out you're not gonna find a key for any luck that he has you have to break them
12:06well oscar and ice know a lot about breaking things they've broken all expectations so far
12:13let's see what these two men do here it's yuto ice it's riohe oiwa
12:19it's oiwa who said in the build-up to this match there needs to be a variety of pro wrestling but
12:24tomorrow i'm sticking to my style and it's going to outdo your street fight ways that's oiwa to yuto ice
12:31let's see if oiwa can make good on those promises here tonight with the points on the line
12:40now well i mean this doesn't look too technical from hoyowa talk about straight away good if you
12:45want a chance you know nice guys finish last yeah that's been proven it's been proven right for
12:53generations now right you want to bring the classical style
12:56classical style works against classical wrestlers it doesn't always work when you're in there with
13:02someone it's a bit of a scumbag i'm proud of it
13:08watch ice here off the ropes beautiful drop kick there from riohe oiwa
13:16and yuto has eaten a plethora of those from the no gay dojo days cover here
13:22oiwa only at two and immediately right into the chin lock
13:27as oiwa continues to try and put the pressure in on ice i mean i i'd argue drill of that if
13:33oiwa hold on a minute no what did that lariat the grip
13:36and riohe oiwa
13:49and riohe oiwa really starting to roll here drill
13:53and riohe oiwa really starting to roll here drill
14:10and it's tmdk working like a well oiled machine right now sabre jr the player coach and a boy
14:18and riohe oiwa really following suit here inside as well watch it german suplex cover
14:24two count only
14:29these are the moments where oiwa you start to see him thrive he gets the power game underneath him
14:34he has ice down he can work the technical style from here if he wants but if ice gets back up and
14:39starts kicking i don't think oiwa is going to be in the state to duck
14:42me neither me neither and he's got to do he's gonna not get ahead of himself well these aren't
14:47the games you play with ice you don't try and get in his head because he's he's the one for that
14:52and he'll get right in your head he'll put that right knee right in your head
14:55you're right about it and as oiwa i mean that just completely changed the game here
15:02well and here's these open pops getting in his head good
15:10uto ice's fingerprints across the cheek of oiwa now off the ropes pk
15:18one more time for ice here still not enough put two more on the board both these teams tied at four
15:24points
15:35hey you talk about getting in people's head drolla ice has been a master class of doing that
15:41ever since his return from excursion has gotten into you you will more his head in this tournament
15:45has gotten into real hey oiwa tonight
15:50whatever i was thinking about saying i don't think he's going to remember it when he wakes up
15:54oh
16:03that means to get up on that apron and hope he can get a tag
16:07because now you're bringing in an almost fresh seven foot man once again
16:12always really got to tap into something man yeah there's got to be something underneath here we go
16:17oh there's the knee cover here for oscar one more still not enough to put down oiwa
16:26and this is that kill shot they call it the kob and oscar and ice not going to be able to see it here
16:44oh
16:52oh
16:59let's get that
17:01saber jr real hey oh what oh what a lift up the big man here drill i don't know how smart this is
17:09yeah neither zach or oil is the smallest man but this is the biggest man in the tournament
17:13one of we do have some big people in this tournament yeah you're right yeah ishikawa on your end
17:18ishikawa is farlay oscar yeah lance watch oscar here oh chop down that larian attempt gonna continue
17:30to work over that left arm now man is that going to be enough to find the power get your hips underneath
17:37yeah and it is get it suplex on oscar
17:48oh my gosh did you just say what i think he said oh i know he did
17:54and oiwa broke the heavens cover here for real head two
18:07you're right about it he's just trying to keep ice away from the assist here
18:19oil trying to muscle up oscar for that dr bob and oscar just too heavy of a man
18:27the ropes and oscar oscar passes by no no no no here we go inbound
18:42ko b ko b it's over it's over the knockout brothers have done it
18:57six points on the board for the war dog's own oscar and ice
19:12you know joe i know you're not one to speak on behalf of the leader of the bullet club david
19:18finley but i'll tell you this much i am certain in my mind that finley is very happy with two of
19:24the newest recruits it was another good call by finley to introduce these guys
19:32yeah obviously of course he spent a lot of time with finley yeah he's happy with how things are
19:37looking bro he's got an all-star unit he just brought in two new guys for
19:41anyone else they would think this was a gamble finley doesn't take gambles takes a calculated
19:44decision and this is the song of a calculated decision two young men fresh off excursion
19:51really young in their career running game like they've been doing this for 20 years
19:56what is it that they say bring gold or bring bodies and oscar and ice have brought both here tonight
20:01your iwgp tag team champions with six points on the board tied at the top of block b
20:07and coming up next for oscar knights fans it's coming off december 7th night as well
20:15the world tag league in a event the knockout brothers take on monster sauce alex zane and lance archer
20:22and julia gotta wonder what's going through the mind right now of ryohei oiwa all the trash that
20:37yuto ice and oscar talked in the lead-up to this matchup oh and oiwa didn't do much to prove them
20:42wrong no i think you can make the mistake when somebody pisses you off that bad but forgetting that
20:49the match has stakes higher than just winning for the sake of winning you know you come into this
20:55match because you want to beat ice but you need to be coming into these matches because you want to
20:59win these tag trophies because you want their titles not because you want to prove a point to yuto ice
21:07well still alive in tournament action on four points are zach sabre jr and ryohei oiwa and wrestling
21:12fans we move right on and it's your main event of the evening shota umano and yuya uamora take on
21:18david finley and haromo takahashi
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