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00:00Wrestling fans, there are a couple of Lone Star Outlaws in the building here tonight.
00:21My name is Walker Stewart and I am set to be alongside here for Block A Competition.
00:26The leader of the Bullet Club, Rebel Savage, Rebel Savior, David Finley.
00:31David, how the hell are you?
00:32I'm doing pretty freaking good, man.
00:34I'm here to support my dog, Skate Kid and Drilla Maloney.
00:38We'll have to see them make it to the semi-finals.
00:40And I guess what I was going to probably pick on Chase Owens here for a bit.
00:45Yeah, well, I'll tell you one team that has no shot at making it to the finals.
00:48Already eliminated Chase Owens to Neutro Takahashi.
00:52Well, sucks the suck.
00:54Takashi Yujiro!
00:58Lone Star Outlaw, Chase Owens!
01:08A one in five record in this year's World Tag League.
01:12Have it.
01:12Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi two points on the board,
01:15but that's not going to be anywhere close.
01:17You get to your semi-final spot.
01:21It is El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa that make their way down to ringside as well here, David.
01:30Six points on the board.
01:32Places Desperado and Ishikawa in a potential position for a semi-final spot.
01:36But the conversation we're going to have all throughout the night is that there's
01:40potential for a couple of five-way ties in the semi-final position for this year's World
01:57Tag League.
01:59So really, it's all going to come down to the wire of our main event featuring your man,
02:04Joel Maloney.
02:04Well, you know, most of these scenes always come down to the criteria.
02:08You know, that's why you got to win as many as you possibly can.
02:10Absolutely.
02:11I heard a rumor about Chase Owens' boots.
02:17Oh, what is that?
02:18Well, I heard a rumor they were made in China.
02:20Oh.
02:22I don't know if that's true or not.
02:23They look like genuine Texas leather to me, but his little poncho he comes out with,
02:26I'm pretty sure is an airplane blanket.
02:28Oh, well, I'm not one to comment on that.
02:31But nevertheless, it's Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi.
02:34Referee Kenta Sato is going to get the bell sounded.
02:37And we are officially underway.
02:38The first, last league match of the night that we're going to be getting in Block A.
02:43El Desperado and Shuji Shikawa take on Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi.
02:47A victory puts two points on the board.
02:48A draw, one point for both teams, and a zero.
02:52You walk away with nothing.
02:54It is.
02:54We're going to start with Chase Owens and El Desperado.
02:57Where is everyone hearing these rumors about Chase Owens?
02:59You know, just through the grapevine.
03:00People talk, you know.
03:02And also, you can kind of tell by the craftsmanship sometimes.
03:06There's a lot of tassels in this match.
03:07We're going to get confused with who's who.
03:09Well, that's certainly one way to look at it is Chase Owens now.
03:13Ooh, sent Shuji Ishikawa right out in front of us here at the English Broadcast Book.
03:17And directly into a pile of chairs here.
03:20Ishikawa going to be taken out for the time being.
03:23And meanwhile, Yujiro looking to wear down the junior heavyweight in El Desperado.
03:30Ishikawa might be the biggest grandpa I've ever seen in my life.
03:32Yeah, what?
03:33Six foot five, 285 pounds is certainly a larger than life athlete around here.
03:38But there's no one standing in taller here tonight than your man Oscar.
03:42And six foot seven, six foot eight roundabout.
03:44You know, the cool thing is I could powerbomb any of them.
03:46Well, that's a good point.
03:48Cover here for Owens.
03:49Two count only.
03:50I know that you don't have any limits as to who you're willing to powerbomb.
03:53You powerbomb your own tag team partner throughout the entire tournament.
03:55Well, it's, you know, it's an unorthodox way of doing teamwork.
04:00Well.
04:01You know, I took a lot of notes from my father and my older brother.
04:03And, you know, it seemed to work out for them.
04:05Well, that's certainly a point to make.
04:07And, you know, Hiramu's aim is not as good as it should be.
04:10So, anything that goes wrong, I blame it on him.
04:14Yeah, well, there you go.
04:16The best opportunity for El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa.
04:20We're going to be talking a lot about math here tonight, David.
04:22I don't know if you were a math guy back in high school or college.
04:24I did eighth grade twice.
04:25I was not a math guy.
04:26Well, maybe you excelled in math both times in eighth grade, I heard, though.
04:31No, no, that's actually, that was the issue.
04:33Well, I heard that for the grapevine.
04:34So, we're going through different vines here.
04:36But, nevertheless, I mean, the greatest opportunity Desperado and Ishikawa have
04:40of making it to the semifinal could come through a five-way tie at eight.
04:45And that's going to rely a lot on the results of other matches.
04:48So, definitely not in control of their own destiny here tonight,
04:50our Desperado and Ishikawa.
04:51And it is Yujiro Takahashi, an opportunity to play spoiler here tonight.
04:58Covering a kick out at two for Yujiro.
05:01You know, it's really difficult to, you know, as a recent cover, a newcomer in the past few
05:07years to New Japan Pro Wrestling myself, to imagine that there was a time where Yujiro
05:10Takahashi and Chase Owens were prominent members of your Bullet Club or of Bullet Club in general.
05:15Not my Bullet Club, not my Bullet Club.
05:18Well, Chase Owens was in your Bullet Club.
05:19Well, here's the thing.
05:21Sonata brought him in, then Sonata stabbed us in the back.
05:23So, I never gave the okay for that.
05:25I was just like, all right, he's your guy.
05:26Well.
05:27If you notice, we never hung out with him, we never really dapped him up.
05:30You know, it was, you know.
05:33There's ranks.
05:34Yeah.
05:35There's ranks in my War Dogs.
05:37Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi have certainly shown their own true colors.
05:41And that color is going to be a dark shade on Owens here.
05:45He's looking to put the same shade on El Desperado through the bumps and bruises we're seeing here.
05:51And again, tag in the blue corner.
05:54Two points on the board for Owens and Yujiro.
05:56Six points up for Desperado and Ishikawa.
06:00You know, there's a strong importance.
06:02And you're going to try it.
06:03Hold on a minute.
06:03Cover here for Yujiro.
06:05Two count only.
06:06There's a strong importance, as you know, in these round-robin tournaments to,
06:10no matter how your previous tournament run has gone, to end on a victory, to end strong.
06:15Yeah, because even if, you know, I've had a Super Juniors before when I was a young boy, where,
06:20you know, you lose all of them, but you finish it on a win, it's like, all right, cool.
06:25You're good.
06:26Right.
06:26You know, ended on a good note, not a bad note.
06:28You know, Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi trying to repeat the magic that they had in their
06:35last league matchup, managed to put down Satoshi Kojima and Taichi back at Osaka.
06:40We're talking two very different teams, though, here.
06:44And Desperado and Ishikawa continuing to try and battle back against Owens.
06:49Nah, it takes a lot to put Despy down.
06:51He plays with glass and fire and barbed wire and tables and all sorts of stuff.
06:55Oh, that's a great point to make as well.
06:57As Desperado snaps down that back suplex.
07:00Good pop of the hips there.
07:05It is El Desperado looking for the tag.
07:07Here comes the big man.
07:09And Shuji Ishikawa back in it.
07:16That is Owens and Yujiro Takahashi, no matter how powerful these men find themselves to be.
07:22Oh, it's a hard ask to take down Ishikawa.
07:28You know, cross body, typically you see smaller guys doing it, but I always respect the bigger guys
07:32that do it because it makes sense.
07:33Yeah, certainly so.
07:34Most people aren't strong enough to hold up all that weight.
07:36Speaking of strength here, Ishikawa is now sandwiched Chase Owens into the corner.
07:45And watching Ishikawa now.
07:49And a hard knee right into the gut of Owens.
07:51Cover again for Ishikawa.
07:53And a two count only.
07:54Can you believe that Shuji Ishikawa is moving around like this at the age of 50 years old?
08:00No, that's incredible.
08:00I remember my dad retired at 52 and was not moving near as good as that.
08:04Not that he was moving bad, but he didn't have that explosiveness that Ishikawa does.
08:07It's very impressive.
08:08I hope I eat like that too.
08:11Well, we're going to see about that as Ishikawa now trying to avoid this combination from Chase Owens.
08:17Oh, twisting the neck breaker out for Owens.
08:20Maloney told me hitting him was like hitting a stone wall.
08:23Him being Ishikawa, obviously not Chase Owens.
08:25Sure, I believe you on both fronts.
08:29As we will be seeing, Joe Maloney and Shingo Takagi against Bishamon later on here tonight in our main event.
08:34But for now, Block A action rolls on.
08:37Chase and Yudro looking for victory tonight.
08:41And Yudro, all the experience in the world isn't going to allow you to take a man this size up.
08:46No way.
08:52Well, all righty then.
08:56Yudro going to give it a spin now.
08:59And Ishikawa turns it around one more time.
09:07Tag in the red corner, here's El Desperado.
09:09Here comes the craziest man in wrestling.
09:11Yeah, certainly so.
09:12The scars on the body to show it.
09:14We've seen a lot of death match wrestling for Desperado in 2025.
09:19But a far different encounter here.
09:23Look at this.
09:24Ishikawa taken to the sky tonight, David.
09:33And a cover here on it.
09:34Yudro Takahashi only finds two.
09:37I don't know how you don't have an accident after getting jumped on Ishikawa like that.
09:41Sure, yeah, I see what you're saying.
09:44The reason the house wears black, David.
09:46Well, Yudro and Shuji now.
09:50Owens right to the spine of Ishikawa.
09:54And truly looking to prove that the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
10:00But El Desperado dropped down on the reverse DDT.
10:09Owens and Yudro here.
10:10Whoa.
10:12I took two of them.
10:14And they still only barely got them over.
10:17Ishikawa is a very big man.
10:19Yudro and Owens have the junior heavyweight El Desperado all alone inside that ring now.
10:28Meeting in the middle.
10:30And a cover here for Yudro.
10:31One more time.
10:32Not going to be enough.
10:33And watch Owens here.
10:44Sea trigger from Chase Owens.
10:48And Yudro follows up with the lariat.
10:51Could it be for the win?
10:53Again, Shuji Ishikawa back right at the nick of time.
10:57Oh, and sea trigger time, too, tonight for Owens.
11:04Say what you want about Chase.
11:05He's very useful and effective with his knees.
11:07Yeah, you're right about that.
11:09Well, meanwhile, he's effective in other ways, too, as this guy to the referee.
11:14And now Yudro Takahashi with that damn pimp's cane.
11:18Oh, no, no, no.
11:21Oh, Desperado with a straight punch right to the jaw of Yudro.
11:27I think you should do it.
11:30I think you should hit him.
11:32I would hit him.
11:33Well, I certainly know you would, but you'd at least wait until the referee has a back turn.
11:38Because now Owens.
11:41Oh, powder in the eyes.
11:44Powder in the eyes of Chase Owens.
11:47Desperado for the win, for the cover.
11:50Desperado's got him.
11:51Eight points on the board for El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa.
11:57How's this five-way tie looking now?
12:04Well, it has made my life a living hell, but.
12:06A loss here tonight for Yudro Takahashi and Chase Owens has ended their World Tag League
12:29run on two points.
12:33El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa are going to have to hope for a loss
12:40for Yodosuji and Gabe Kidd and a loss for Don Fale and Evil.
12:46If both of those two teams lose, Desperado and Ishikawa still have a shot at this one.
12:51Well, I'm going to say I don't think they have a shot.
12:53I don't see Gabe losing.
12:55I don't see Drill and Maloney losing.
12:57I'm putting my money on both of them.
13:00I know they're on separate teams, but those are the two teams I'm going with.
13:03Well, there you go.
13:04Opposite blocks, opposite conversation here.
13:07We're going to see what happens.
13:10We're going to be getting right on and in to our next Block A match of the evening.
13:17And that next Block A match is coming up right next.
13:20So we're going to see if your point is proven correct.
13:22Gabe Kidd and Yodosuji walk in tonight tied at the top of Block A on eight points.
13:27An opportunity to end the tournament on double digits if they can put down their opposition.
13:33Satoshi Kojima and Taichi coming up here on NJPW World.
14:03As able to performers.
14:03And at the top of Block A match is coming up here on NJPW World.
14:07Our song Paul 놓 också has two songs together.
14:09There's one song Paul andion energrade, so we're going to see if their point isός.
14:14Their band had been completely different and has their contingencies.
14:24And that's another show that we can see.
14:26The band starts doing really deep and is exactly it.
14:28I want to watch it for everybody.
14:30That's wonderful.
14:31that's the music makes me want to drink some margaritas is that the case yeah dude i'm feeling
14:42tropical well you're going to be hoping for a tropical celebration here tonight
14:46gabe kid and yoda suji take on satoshi kojima and taichi coming up very very soon
14:51and we're going to get right on into it now live on njpw world
15:01we're taking a hot minute to sweep up the ring yeah yeah flagger was still here they get their ass beat
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