00:00Right at the top of our card here tonight will be a series of singles looks ahead.
00:30to the Never Openweight Six Fan Championships in Osaka.
00:35So this will be our last double preview of the United Empire and Unbound Company on the night.
00:43February the 11th, Redokan and Hinari take on Drilla Maloney and the injured, currently Shingo Takagi.
00:53The injured, currently Shingo Takagi, was injured, currently, by Jake Lee.
00:59Jake Lee learned, on an early autumn night in Sendai in 2024, what it feels to have almost
01:20everything taken away from him in an instant.
01:25And in a long time away, a lot of time to think, a lot of time to perhaps lose his mind.
01:32Jake Lee has, it seems, perfected a way to take men's livelihoods away from them in an instant.
01:44He could take the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in an instant as well.
01:51The tag team of the
01:59Mola Hinari and Gredokan, former tag team champions, in their own right there is no doubt.
02:10And they seek to beat Shingo Tsukagi and Drilla Maloney, the War Dragons, and earn themselves a tag team championship opportunity in the process.
02:23Jake Lee did not necessarily earn his IWGP Heavyweight Championship shot.
02:31But he did convince the champion, very, very forcefully indeed, to put that title up for grabs in the main event, New Beginning in 07.
03:01And Shingo Tsukagi's absence has been Robbie X, and this part of the New Beginning series, and as ever, Robbie X has been exceptional.
03:13Let's see if he's victorious for Unbound Company here tonight.
03:19Nix and Ishimori have been Super Junior Tag League partners in the past.
03:32I have no doubt future IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions together.
03:40And it will be Ishimori and Hiromu for only the second time as a duo.
03:47In Osaka, and against highly motivated opposition, as we've just seen in the form of Jacob Austin Young and Francesco Aker.
04:13The New Beginning in Osaka in 2025 was a formative night for Drilla Maloney, the first night for Maloney back in his heavyweight form, the first night of his heavyweight career in New Japan.
04:25It was a win over Shingo Tsukagi that night.
04:31Now Maloney and Maloney and Maloney are partners.
04:39There were no partners in our main event, the New Beginning in Osaka.
04:43That man, Jake Lee, will face the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Yota Tsuji.
04:49It is going to be a match of moments.
05:03It is going to be a match of moments.
05:07It's a question of whose moments will count more and whose moments will last longer.
05:17If Tsuji can get in a position where he can strike in combination, where he can string a move into another,
05:29against an opponent in Jake Lee who is admittedly not physically 100%, then Yota Tsuji is going to eat Jake Lee alive.
05:38I have no doubt about it.
05:40But if Jake Lee can create an opening, one of those knees could break Yota Tsuji's ribs.
05:50That face-break shot can be by its name and knock the champion out.
05:59IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion.
06:03All right, Fran Chansey shot Yota Tsuji out here in Corcoran Hall two weeks ago.
06:13And the dangerous thing about it, you only need three seconds of professional wrestling.
06:19Sometimes you need less than that.
06:23And Jake Lee will know how to make every opening count.
06:29If Tsuji lets Jake Lee get an opening.
06:36So it is four and four.
06:40An eight-man tag.
06:42Our last double preview in Japan's new beginning in Osaka
06:47is that when it comes to the Unbound Company and United Empire.
06:54A lot can be said as we talked about Kyle Newman's vicious feud with David Finlay in our last match.
07:03A lot can be said about the fact that Drilla Maloney handcuffed Kyle Newman to a cage.
07:09force Kyle Newman to watch as Will Ospreay and Hinari as his brothers in United Empire were beaten bloody.
07:17And that does a lot to a man.
07:19Hurt people hurt people.
07:21Drilla has turned corners as a human being since.
07:25But there is no doubt that he will go to harsh lengths.
07:32And I'm not a big fan of the old forehand blows.
07:37The other team will do it.
07:52He's more and Zayn Jay starting off here.
07:55The two body guys, Zayn Jay came out of the NJPW Academy, a student.
08:00student of fred rosser kushida in the l.a academy in carlson california
08:13lbx such a long-standing one of the hardest workers of the british scene and
08:21jane jay went for that new japan academy certainly went through the beginners program went through
08:33the advanced program poster child for the academy into the noge dojo did all of that
08:41the trials were on a first press there and the smaller ishimori went through all the chores
08:48went through all the work the punishing squats the push-ups and everything and seemed to be
08:54on the first foothills of the long long climb to the top but calum newman extended an invitation and
09:01said why don't you just jump to the top right now and that's what zane jay did
09:07he took great delight in doing so hinari now taking great delight
09:11and sending jim looney into the guard rails here
09:18ishimori ishimori getting mauled here and seems to be the target of the united empire members
09:38of his junior heavyweight ishimori the core of great okan squeezing the temples you couldn't think of
09:51certainly a more different dynamic with great okan and taiji ishimori than
09:58one of the last times we saw them compete opposite one another and
10:02or the gaga and ha-ha around the old ko pw championship great okan has
10:09certainly been reminded in recent months of the lethal force that he can be
10:21a very effective force with great okan and hinari when they became iwgp tag team champions and
10:27well jake lee can be very lethal very effective or just downright bizarre and this is
10:37i don't think of you see that interview that jake lee did on youtube recently
10:45and it was such a incredibly forceful such an intelligent
10:49explanation of his desires and his motivations and yet the biggest gap seems to be at times where
11:02jake lee does kind of bizarre stuff like trying to force his fingers down
11:07the folks of his opponents
11:08nishimori switched levels got clear of jake lee now it's a long crawl can he make the iwgp ever
11:19jake lee in the global championships against kanosuke tukesha at wrestle kingdom
11:42sooji said that alone isn't going to be enough for you to challenge me for the heavyweight championship
11:51i need more convincing convincing came very forcefully from jake lee speak of forceful you speak of hinari
11:58sooji knew right there to put the brakes on and instead using hinari's momentum against him zane jay
12:16again same fate dromaloni bowling hinari into the guard rails and yoda suji now it's time to get moving
12:25here in the face of jake lee watch out tope no instead over the top wait giant killing blocked
12:47and this is what i'm talking about this is where yoda suji will eat jake lee alive
12:54in osaka if lee allows it jake lee spent 15 months on the shelf
13:05with a torn patella ligament
13:09with a herniated lumbar disc oh no and spinal stenosis
13:16and that might be a fate that yoda suji might have in his future
13:20not to be dumped to the canvas there and right on the back of his head
13:29kanari free now to tag in
13:32in the place of jake lee robbie x tries to get moving there is nothing doing here
13:45you guys on robbie x he's starting to get moving here and right to that
13:53near pinari
13:54he's striking in combination next marks the spot with the drop kick into the cover
14:03and now the call into trello maloney as long as maloney and robbie x have been around the highways and
14:18byways and the english independents they have teamed but very rarely but they've been very effective thus far
14:26still great o'connor preventing what would have been a mile high since on there
14:31oh man x mr rex is team jay there watch maloney
14:48exceptional and bombs away from ishimori as well
14:59and well the only one robbie x was denied instead ishimori gonna make the climb
15:07oh the long ascent of the towering body
15:11and this one's broken down here
15:36oh
15:44jake lee
15:47out in front of me
15:49robbie x had hit on a pin no doubt about it jay and jake lee the break up in the nick of time
15:56robbie x still might have them all in trouble
15:58he's got to keep moving to zex one shot from henari
16:06this is a knockout block
16:10here's robbie x's knockout block now he got caught now he got caught watch out that ultima for nelson
16:16this is
16:21to die
16:27it's
16:32brutal body blow
16:37rolled up fist coming out right to the bread basket
16:41Oh, well, the X's survivability on show, but only so far.
16:50Lariat turns him inside out.
16:57Maloney and Zane J both want in.
17:03Tag May, both sides.
17:05Massive opportunity for Zane J to show what he can do.
17:12He's got a lot to answer for, can he find those answers now?
17:17Might just have, what a drop kick, right on the money.
17:20Four way slam, what a bridge, exceptional bridge.
17:30And Drilla Maloney's still able to escape.
17:41Certainly all the limitations off of Zane J now.
17:47He's out of that Young Lions system.
17:49One, one, one, because I should go.
17:52And do you have enough to beat one of the best in the world right now,
17:56And Drilla Maloney, because there's no doubt Drilla Maloney is just that.
18:00Caught and dropped with a powerbomb.
18:04And you don't have an escape for
18:07the most brutal move in pro wrestling today.
18:10Drilla killer has done it.
18:30And it's been a rare scene on the road to new beginning for Suji to stand over
18:39Jake Lee, and Jake Lee knows it.
18:41Jake Lee had lulled Suji into a false sense of security for just a moment.
18:49And this bad man is continuing the assault.
18:55And this whole situation with Unbound Company and the War Dogs.
19:00Or Unbound Company, United Empire rather, it's gone completely out of hand here.
19:06Jake Lee, Yodosuji for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.
19:17My days away, Indian Arena, Osaka.
19:20Hinari, Grado Khan to face Shingo Takagi and Drilla Maloney.
19:28David Finley, Calum Newman.
19:37You think Dave Kin and Andrade El Higolo are watching this and
19:43thinking we're gonna take it easy in Osaka.
19:45Hell no.
19:48There is so much at stake in nine days time to carve your destiny here in New Japan in 2026
19:58and to set your faction as the top dogs in professional wrestling.
20:18There is still some workshopping that has to be done when it comes to the man signs and maybe
20:44for the first time, Yodosuji able to crack a smile in this matchup.
20:52Well, we'll see after that one when the drill Maloney has enough in him to have some comments.
21:08Right here on commentary later on, we'll see what happens.
21:38I can't see if these guys in my heart, but I can't see who the other people are watching.
21:42I see active people on the inside of these werden, but I can see that it's such a great
21:46team.
21:47So I know the people who are hearing about this, it's like the palinis.
21:51It's a great team, here.
21:52Going to the next level, I go to the next level of the Beale.
21:56I'm not going to be very heavy in my life.
22:01It's a great team.
22:04There's a great team about Daniel.
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