—PSA— Tomorrow’s show is the only one of this stretch that starts at a different time: 12:30 Pacific for the pre-show and 1:00 for the main (so half an hour earlier than tonight’s).
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Pre-Show: Shoma Kato def Daiki Nagai — (7:28, Boston crab)
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Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls def Taiji Ishimori, The Natural Classics (Tome Filip & Stevie Filip) — (7:03, Electric Blue)
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DOUKI, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi def Dick Togo, Ren Narita & EVIL — (7:18, Italian Stretch No.32/Douki Chokey)
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Felt like slightly less House shenanigans than usual in this one.
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Toru Yano & Boltin Oleg def BUSHI, Tetsuya Naito — (6:36, Kamikaze)
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Hiromu is busy tonight fighting legendary Jr. wrestler Tatsumi Fujinami (with Liger as the referee) on a Dradition show at Korakuen Hall, which will most likely be a must-watch if it’s ever made available online.
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Jakob Austin Young, HENARE & Great-O-Khan def Katsuya Murashima, Jado & Hiroshi Tanahashi — (10:01, Native Knee)
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WTL A Block: Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb def Funky Sauce (Alex Zayne & Ryusuke Taguchi) — (10:44, Tour of the Islands)
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WTL A Block: SANADA & Gabe Kidd def KENTA & Chase Owens — (3:50, Drill a Hole Piledriver)
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Chase and KENTA come out to the OG BC theme, are jumped by Gabe and SANADA a couple seconds in. A long brawl in the arena goes back and forth in favor, until finally Gabe and SANADA drag Chase back to the ring to officially start the match.
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In the closing stretch, Gabe gets Chase in position for the Piledriver; but then decides to first hit the former tag partner of Kenny Omega with a G Trigger instead. “This is for you bitch, this is for you. Goodbye and fuck you, Kenny Omega.”
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Post-match, Gabe cuts a promo and accepts (on-air, as he’d previously done so on social media) Kenny’s offer for a match at Wrestle Dynasty.
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WTL A Block: Tomoaki Honma & Shota Umino def Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. — (22:53, Deathrider)
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We’re definitely starting to see a different, more aggressive (but still in a babyface way) Shota. He was well received by this crowd; being cheered on par with, and sometimes over, Zack.
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(Great match, definitely recommend watching with English commentary because there’s some story beats you may miss without it.)
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Post-match, Shota briefly takes the WHC belt and holds it up while Zack watches from outside the ring. He also gives Honma, who he’d had some tension with after their loss in the first League match, a big hug and helps him to the back.
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WTL A Block: Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) def Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi — (15:40, Itadaki Kari)
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A “Bishamon” chant breaks out during Tacos’ victory promo.
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During the Backstage Comments, Goto says he and YOSHI-HASHI will win WTL for a record fourth time, win the titles at Wrestle Kingdom, and then avenge a past loss by defending them against The Young Bucks at Wrestle Dynasty.
——Standings (w/likely key results)——
A Block:
- Cobb/Newman — 4 points (2-0) (beat S/H)
- Bishamon— 4 points (2-0) (beat BC, LIJ)
- LIJ (T&T)— 2 points (1-1) (lost to Bishamon)
- TMDK (Z&O) 2 points (1-1) (beat WD)
- War Dogs— 2 points (1-1) (beat BC)
- Shota/Honma— 2 points (1-1) (lost to C/N)
- BC — 0 points (0-2) (lost to Bishamon, WD)
- Zayne/Taguchi— 0 points (0-2)
B Block:
- TAKATaichi 2 points (1-0) (beat H&O)
- EVIL/Ren— 2 points (1-0)
- Natural Classics— 2 points (1-0)
- LIJ (N&H) — 2 points (1-0) (beat TMDK)
- TMDK (S&M) — 0 points (0-1) (lost to LIJ)
- Oleg/Yano— 0 points (0-1)
- HENARE/O-Khan— 0 points (0-1) (lost to TT)
- Tana/Jado— 0 points (0-1)
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by EffingKENTA