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Pre-Show: Shoma Kato def Daiki Nagai — (8:22, Boston crab)
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DOUKI, TAKA Michinoku & Taichi def Tiger Mask, Boltin Oleg & Toru Yano — (7:13, Italian Stretch No.32/Douki Chokey)
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Dick Togo, Ren Narita, EVIL def Gedo, Natural Classics (Tome Filip & Stevie Filip) — (8:43, juji-gatame)
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Bullet Club know ball, jumping HoT during their entrance announcement. But a mild amount of HoT shenanigans are enough to negate the advantage.
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Kosei Fujita, Shane Haste & Mikey Nicholls def Jakob Austin Young, HENARE & Great-O-Khan — (9:02, Abandon Hope)
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Post-match, Shane performs some sort of mating ritual for Japanese commentary guest Taiji Ishimori.
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BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi, Tetsuya Naito (full suit t-shirt version) def Katsuya Murashima, Jado, Hiroshi Tanahashi — (8:31, Boston crab)
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WTL A Block: Funky Sauce (Ryusuke Taguchi & Alex Zayne) def Bishamon (YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto) — (11:02, Kido Clutch)
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WTL A Block: SANADA & Gabe Kidd def Tomoaki Honma & Shota Umino — (12:59, Skull End)
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At one point Gabe drags Shota all the way up to the second floor of the building, anticlimactically just tossing Umino into a wall.
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For the Gabe vs Shota segments the crowd is around 50/50. I don’t remember any of the crowds on this tour so far being averse to Shota.
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Shota hits Gabe with a Death Rider during a late-match sequence when they’re not the legal men.
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Post-match, Gabe is still staring SANADA down despite the win. They do not celebrate together at all.
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Shota spends a long time on the outside post-match, selling a left ankle injury. Young Lions and Kikuchi attend to him, but the trainer doesn’t come out. Eventually Umino hobbles to the back under his own power. We’ll see if this is legit or just a work for sympathy/to explain some upcoming team losses. ETA: Went back to watch, it appears to happen around 11:40 on the VOD right after landing a flying forearm. Shota just kind of moves weird and the ankle rolls. To me it feels like a weird spot to work an injury on, but I could very well be wrong. He did work a decent amount after the “injury” and was able to put enough weight on it to hit lifting moves, a drop kick, and run the ropes.
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WTL A Block: Chase Owens & KENTA def Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. — (18:57, go 2 sleep [after a kick 2 dick])
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WTL A Block: Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi def Callum Newman & Jeff Cobb — (17:50, Pumping Blaster)
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In their backstage comments, Tsuji and Shingo say that if they win WTL they’ll have their title shot on 1/6 at New Years Dash against the winner of HENARE/O-Khan vs Young Bucks.
——Standings (w/likely key results)——
A Block:
- Bishamon— 6 points (3-2) (beat BC, LIJ, TMDK)
- LIJ (T&T)— 6 points (3-2) (beat WD, C/N; lost to Bishamon, BC)
- War Dogs— 6 points (3-2) (beat BC, C/N, S/H; lost to LIJ)
- Cobb/Newman— 6 points (3-2) (lost to WD, LIJ)
- TMDK (Z&O)— 4 points (2-3) (beat WD; lost to Bishamon, BC)
- Shota/Honma— 4 points (2-3) (beat Bishamon; lost to C/N, WD)
- Zayne/Taguchi— 4 points (2-3) (beat S/H, Bishamon; lost to LIJ, C/N)
- BC— 4 points (2-3) (beat LIJ, Z/O; lost to Bishamon, WD, C/N)
B Block:
- HENARE/O-Khan— 6 points (3-1) (beat HoT, O/Y; lost to TT)
- LIJ (N&H)— 6 points (3-1) (beat TMDK, TT)
- EVIL/Ren— 6 points (3-1) (beat TMDK; lost to H/O)
- TMDK (S&M)— 4 points (2-2) (beat T/J; lost to LIJ, HoT)
- Oleg/Yano— 4 points (2-2)
- TAKATaichi— 2 points (1-3) (beat H&O; lost to LIJ, T/J)
- Natural Classics— 2 points (1-3)
- Tana/Jado— 2 points (1-3)
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