03:39IWGP Global LQ Champion Gene Blasto, Zeddy Oda!
04:07It was Gabe Kidd, 24 hours ago, who took things hardcore and paid the price against it.
04:12Shuji Ishikawa and El Desperado for it. That giant driver right through a wooden table.
04:20And you know how Japanese tables are, wrestling fans.
04:22Gabe Kidd was cut all over the forehead, all across his arm as well.
04:27There's a bandage that is being scored on the right bicep of Gabe Kidd for that point, I believe, tonight.
04:37But it was Gabe Kidd's hardcore styling that it would, in the end, find victory for Kidd and Shuji.
04:45Shuji, not exactly too happy about that fact. We'll talk about that.
04:49Bell sounds, one full 20 minute time limit here, as Young Lion Tatsu Matsumoto stands toe-to-toe against Gato here tonight.
04:57It was Roki Goto, who actually had some very high praise on social media earlier on this morning for Tatsu Matsumoto.
05:05Especially after Matsumoto's assist with a low blow on show yesterday.
05:10And that was a low blow that would even the playing field for Goto and Yoshihashi.
05:14Allowed Goto and Yoshihashi to put two more points on the board.
05:18The total now up to six with that victory over Don Fale and Evil.
05:22Gabe Kidd and Yota Tsuji on the other side of the coin here.
05:26Eight points on the board, that being a four and one win-loss record, have been on a four-match league winning streak, have Kidd and Tsuji.
05:34And it's only fitting, the former IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion and the current IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion are currently in the leading race here in a block A competition.
05:45An opportunity to match up and meet for Goto and Yoshihashi.
05:49Coming up at Osaka, as Gato, I have no idea what's going on in the mind of Gato right now.
05:56Trying to keep things together inside the ring, but things are quickly starting to fall apart here.
06:00It's, oh, Yota Tsuji taken out in the process here.
06:04And Gabe Kidd going to eat a shot as well.
06:07And you'll notice right there, fans, I mean, Gabe Kidd standing, well, stagnant when Yota Tsuji was knocked out that able.
06:17All throughout this year's world tag, Gabe Kidd and Yota Tsuji, they haven't exactly been the best of friends,
06:22but they've been spending a couple of nights out trying to get to rekindle the relationship that they had been building up over the course of Yota Tsuji's excursioning.
06:31And we have told that story a couple of times here on NJPW World as Gabe Kidd hits ringside, takes a shot to Goto and Tatsu Matsumoto as well.
06:40The story going that Yota Tsuji had stayed in Gabe Kidd's mom's house alongside Kidd over on his excursion whenever he was competing for Rev Pro over in the UK.
06:52So that was where Tsuji and Kidd starting to get some of their first bonding experience alongside one another.
06:59That was where both men would realize that they have their own distinct ideas of what professional wrestling would look like under their own thumps.
07:07Tsuji saying he should be the one to lead the new generation of New Japan.
07:10Gabe Kidd saying that he should be the one.
07:12But when you look to the upcoming Tokyo Dome card, there's only one man out of these two who is going to be main eventing
07:20against the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kurosuke Takeshita, and it's not Gabe Kidd.
07:24But when Gabe Kidd took things hardcore, and Kidd going to make the choice to tag Kidd in over Tsuji.
07:34Yeah, a little exchanging of words here between those two men right there.
07:39That didn't exactly fly for Yota Tsuji when Kidd took things hardcore.
07:43This is a New Japan Pro Wrestling ring was the phrasing Yota Tsuji took too.
07:47And Tsuji did not like the standard Kidd was trying to set for that ring yesterday in Yamanachi.
07:53Meanwhile, Kidd saying, well, professional wrestling is not just about clean cut in ring style.
07:58Yeah, Tsuji, you like to dive to the outside.
08:00You did your excursion over in Mexico.
08:02Well, my excursion was at a mental institution.
08:05I was, well, laying fists to anything that I could get my hands on back then.
08:08And utilizing anything and everything as a weapon has Kidd.
08:14Oh, that is a comfortable feeling that is cut through Shizuoka here tonight.
08:20Gabe Kidd tagged Gato in.
08:22Gato going to be the mediator here.
08:24Tags in Yota Tsuji.
08:25As off the ropes, Mount Tsuji falls for Yota Tsuji.
08:36Cover.
08:37And a two count only.
08:39It was Kidd and Tsuji who at last engaged with one another in post-match comments.
08:46And it was Kidd who tried to speak his piece to Yota Tsuji.
08:50Explain his reason.
08:51Explain his why.
08:52And Yota Tsuji really disregarding that point.
08:55Just walking off.
08:56Wouldn't even hear Gabe Kidd out.
08:58And it would lead to an eruption from Gabe Kidd behind the scenes.
09:03Both of these men have an idea of what New Japan should look like under their own thumbs.
09:08But those ideas certainly split for the first time in Yamanashi.
09:12Come on!
09:17And it's Yota Tsuji here.
09:18A couple of chops to the chest now on Yoshihashi.
09:21And Yoshihashi, some of the hardest chops you will find in the sport of professional wrestling.
09:26Knife Edge right to the chest of Yota Tsuji.
09:31As Tsuji now here wants that tag in on Gabe Kidd.
09:36And brings Gato into the fold.
09:38Gato didn't even really want that tag.
09:40Gato tags in Kidd.
09:41It's Kidd and Goto here.
09:43Gato should have gotten out of that ring a little bit quicker now as Goto
09:48going to come in on the assist.
09:50Here comes Gabe Kidd now.
09:57Lariat in the corner for Goto follows up.
10:00Big back suplex from the former World Tag League winner.
10:04A cover.
10:05And a kick out at two.
10:10Imagine being Gato in this situation for this year's World Tag League.
10:13Knowing that you're already trying to mediate between David Finley and
10:17Kobo Takahashi, two people Gato has become very close with in 2025.
10:22Now you're having to try and figure out how to deal with these two monsters and
10:26Gabe Kidd and Yota Tsuji.
10:27Tsuji here looking to stake his idea of what professional wrestling should look
10:32like on Kidd tonight.
10:34The first little bit of tag team offense we've seen between these two.
10:38And not exactly working out in the favor of either one of them.
10:42Goto off the ropes.
10:43One of the lariat.
10:44And Kidd, ooh, stiff headbutt.
10:47But Goto blows right through Kidd.
10:55And there's the time for Tatsi Matsumoto to show out.
10:58The time is now.
10:59Tag made in the red corner.
11:01And takes the shot right to Gato.
11:03Gabe Kidd, former IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion.
11:06This would easily be the biggest win of Tatsi Matsumoto's career.
11:10If you can put down Kidd tonight.
11:12As Matsumoto has one way to put down Kidd.
11:16Now can you pin him?
11:17One, two, just two.
11:20And watch Matsumoto here.
11:35Trying to show some of that fire.
11:37Continues to encourage on Goto and Yoshihashi to watch over him here.
11:42Yoshihashi coming along the side to put the beat down in on Gato and on Tsuji.
11:47Matsumoto would love that Boston Crab here.
11:50That Boston Crab is exactly how Gabe Kidd lost the Global Heavyweight Championship in the first place to Yota Tsuji.
11:57And Gabe Kidd now.
12:02Oh.
12:04Closer and closer to the center of the ring as time goes on.
12:07Kidd trying to scratch and claw into the bottom rope.
12:10Kidd's gonna get there to break this one up.
12:20Gabe, come on!
12:21It is Tatsu Matsumoto calling for more from Gabe Kidd.
12:25You do not know the tree that you are barking up tonight, my friend.
12:31Matsumoto, scold on skull here.
12:34Gabe Kidd, pile driver on Matsumoto.
12:38Violence tonight.
12:41And a violent answer.
12:44The victory here to Kidd, Tsuji, and Gato.
12:48It's Gabe Kidd who's gonna celebrate this victory it looks like all on his own.
13:11Finally to be joined by Yota Tsuji and Gato wrestling fans.
13:16Victory goes to Gabe, Kidd and Yota Tsuji here on the evening.
13:20But who will walk away with the win in our main event in Eniadorino Osaka.
13:25Number two.
13:27You are gonna have to stay tuned to find out right here live on NJPW World.
13:31He's a mad man, and we all know it.
13:36Game, game, game, game, ball race.
13:39Gabe, Gabe, qual race.
13:43Gabe, game, game, four race, game, game, game, ball race.
13:46Game day for fitness bucking, game day for crazy.
14:10...wrestling bands, we are just
14:13moments away from our kickoff to block B competition here tonight in Twin Mises,
14:19Shizuoka, and our opening match of this event's league action.
14:25Hiroshi Tanahashi and El Phantasmus, two points on the board,
14:29right on the risk of elimination, takes on Monster-san.
14:32It's Alex Zane and Lance Archer, here tonight.
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