Kevin Knight, KUSHIDA, Tomoaki Honma, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto vs Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Gedo, Gabe Kidd & David Finlay: NJPW Blue Justice XIV ~Blue Justice Shuen~ (October 6, 2024)
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00:0010-man tag match, 30 minutes, one match.
00:07Hiroki Goto, Yoshihashi, Tomohashi Honma, Kushida, Kevin Knight vs. David Finlay, Gabe Kidd,
00:17Hedo Oh, Clark Connors, Dorina Moroney!
00:25Well, I promised we'd be right back.
00:275-on-5, 10-man tag match, 30 minutes, one match.
00:57Welcome back to Japan, yet again, to challenge for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles
01:03alongside none other than the Jet, Kevin Knight.
01:08Have not challenged for those Junior Heavyweight Tag Titles since the 3-way matchup back at
01:13Sakura Genesis this year.
01:15It is a match that left the War Dogs pretty badly damaged.
01:19You remember that body part of Drew Maloney?
01:22Hey, you know, I mean, sometimes we talked about, we did talk about in Kobe, how with
01:28Finlay and Gabe Kidd going after Hiroki Goto and Yoshihashi, it was two singles matches
01:34that were almost like a tag team match.
01:36I hear coming up at King of Pro Wrestling, this is going to be for the Junior Heavyweight
01:40Tag Team Championships, but this is all about a vendetta between Kushida and Drew Maloney.
01:53Let's go!
02:04It was about a year ago, almost to the day, when the Jet set his first challenge, Maloney
02:13and Connors.
02:14Drew Maloney with that Driller Killer, damn near killed Kushida.
02:18It was a near murder we witnessed on live television.
02:23And then back in April, it was an eliminator match for the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team
02:28Championships and a straight roundhouse kick from Kushida popped the eardrum of Maloney.
02:34So, I mean, there's going to be live rounds.
02:37There's going to be receipts to be delivered, I think, on both sides.
02:40And it's going to get very ugly, very violent.
02:44Chris, I got to ask, as we head into the early goings of this matchup, what you believe to
02:48be on the mind of Yoshihashi, coming all the way up to the dance floor and falling short
02:53of asking the girl to dance, so to speak.
02:55In the IWGP Global Heavyweight title match back in Kobe, Yoshihashi fell to David Finlay.
03:02Yoshihashi has so much to be proud of in that performance.
03:06And just like he always does, he'll stand up and keep bouncing back, and he'll be in
03:10the corner.
03:11Goto, a king of pro wrestling, no doubt.
03:15Bishamon, 180cm, 102kg.
03:19Yoshihashi!
03:25IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion, 182cm, 103kg.
03:33Goto Hiroki!
03:38The Intercontinental Champion spending some time with white belts, Hiroki Goto.
03:43A couple of men that know a thing or two about a thing or two when it comes to white belts.
04:10The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, Clark Connors and Joe Maloney.
04:20We'll be facing off against the Intergalactic Jet Setters coming up.
04:23King of Pro Wrestling 2024.
04:25Disgusting, disgusting acts coming out of the stardom ranks, by the way.
04:29Oh, hold on a minute.
04:31Let's put a pin in that one.
04:32I can't let him here be talking about them.
04:35Clark Connors.
04:39Oh my God.
04:40Okay, okay, okay, okay.
04:49Reality is Bullet Club War Dogs are here to take over.
04:54Not just take over this arena, but take over the entirety of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
05:00And it feels like we're in the middle of a war zone out here, Chris.
05:03Well, I mean, it feels like not just New Japan Pro Wrestling, Walker.
05:10Vinny was talking about hate always finds a way.
05:13Hate found a way in Corcoran Hall for Tekla last week.
05:21I know that's why I came away with a gold this last night in Nagoya.
05:30Despite, yes, the heinous acts of Clark Connors, you were going to say.
05:35It was a gore straight through the wonder of stardom champion.
05:41From Clark Connors to not deploy back in Corcoran Hall.
05:43And while Tekla might have come up short, I mean, who's to know if there is something developing further between hate and Bullet Club War Dogs between stardom and New Japan.
06:04Let's see what happens.
06:25I haven't felt anything other than confident.
06:27Happened to be talking to the media I was listening in earlier today here in Togane.
06:34and he talks about how he wanted Hiroki Goto to bring his children to Ryugoku
06:40on Monday said I grew up idolizing my father until I realized he was a
06:47disappointment wasn't strong enough to be a world champion in professional
06:52wrestling so I need to teach Goto's children a valuable lesson I will leave
06:58Goto in a puddle of his own blood so they can realize what a disappointment
07:03is those the words of our IWGP global heavyweight champion the bell sounds
07:10were officially underway and you know that this one is going to be chaotic how
07:13quickly that ring cleared out immediately after the bell sounded Chris
07:17oh and this is going to be very very dangerous when the war dogs are on the
07:21prowl it can quickly lead to chaos taking Kevin Knight all the way into the
07:29wall over here at ringside meanwhile back here Kushida Clark Connors going at
07:34it
07:40unfair how great a shape troll Maloney is it I mean it's obscene how what
07:47incredible a shape all the war dogs are and now the leader of the bullet club
07:53David Finley and on the cover here and it's only going to be two it was right
07:57off your camera shot to here on the Hiroki Goto his challenger coming up
08:01IWGP global heavyweight title will be on the line in Ryogoku small hall we
08:07cannot understand enough how much this card is stacked for king of pro-wrestling
08:12no doubt about it and the global heavyweight championship might be the
08:16match of the night David Finley over here for Finley and it's to say no social
08:21media after Kobe he is the best champion in New Japan pro wrestling and that's a
08:25very solid point I'll be honest certainly pound-for-pound you could argue
08:31the strongest wrestler we have on our roster
08:38the heat's only been turned up for one Gabe kid mad bastards partner Jake Lee
08:44sidelined with an injury we were back in Sendai on that night David Finley
08:48getting in the mind of Gabe kid convincing him it was Hiroki Goto that
08:52made that happen as we've seen this combination offense here
09:02Kushida giving a run for the money and Kevin Knight just the same oh that is
09:07right on top of the skull of kid
09:13watch out watch out the junior champions are getting a run for their money here
09:18tonight this is definitely your man part of the pun a chaotic environment I
09:23know a lot of people have wanted to do this to get up for a long time
09:32more drums echoing through Togane a few extra yen in the switch our Walker here
09:42we go Tomoaki home you know what's that cook is she first time to charm whoa and
09:55kid goes down and kid might meet the same fate here Chris number two as well
10:00two in a row no no and Gabe kid back on his warpath
10:09and it was almost like over the latter half of the g1 climax series going into
10:14the destruction series we saw a little bit more of a happy-go-lucky Gabe kid he
10:21had a friend in the world with Jake Lee they were drinking partners you have to
10:24wonder how often kid was sauced up when we were seeing those encounters but you
10:28also had someone in Jake Lee that was able to temper some of that lunacy right
10:33and you know that would make him even more dangerous and I think now with Jake
10:38Lee not being around I think the brakes are off Gabe kid is even more terrifying
10:43I mean to see how much of that degeneracy was held back it is now being
10:47unleashed with with no confines like Jake Lee on tried to drive a spike
10:52through Godo's head and it's too
10:57Gabe kid choke here on the Yoshihashi that hatred that kid has for Goto it
11:10extends further to Yoshihashi just the same tag made here spin
11:22snow kid has any plans for that strong openweight title when we make our way to
11:26Lowell Massachusetts November 8th strong style evolved
11:34those events Gabe kid took a little sojourn in Ohio this past week for a
11:41ring of honor taping by the way so I think a kid takes any and every
11:50opportunity defend that strong openweight championship that's one
12:00thing you could say about all the members of War Dogs and something that
12:03you perhaps couldn't say about many of the other eras of Bullet Club they don't
12:07stray away from any fight any situation you can't say you know they're cowardly
12:13bad guys who push people to a line and then back off you know I mean they love
12:18violence and pretty much turned on by it reality is they're aggressive man yet
12:25yes they're bad men yes but they are winning men just the same in the sport
12:30of professional wrestling the sport of wrestling turns into the business of
12:34wrestling and it's all about the money for David Finley for Gabe kid and
12:37especially lining the pockets of ghetto
12:49kid and Finley in the ring Yoshihashi cornered up and it is David Finley gonna
12:58give it the run-in first out drop kick down on kid and David Finley right on
13:03the attack once again so many times he's up on the apron Walker you work you go
13:11right there here we go Monday October 14th for that global championship we're
13:22getting a preview right now David Finley wants ghetto to take his best shot
13:28Goto's gonna deliver one to both Finley off the ropes this direction from
13:34inside out and a cover here on the global champion
13:47above the shoulders dangerous spot to be if you're Finley shoulders down once
13:52again and it's to surprise him with that up cut cover for Finley again and it's
13:59two only even Hiroki Goto saying in response to those coins David Finley
14:06once go to bring his kids go to saying on social media no I don't want my
14:11children to see what I'm going to do to you I mean this is definitely there'll
14:18be all sorts of lines crossed I got feeling in Samoa Hall next week
14:23not here by Koto will reverse GTR that time and the Lariat met for David
14:33Finley
14:36it's all clocked setting eyes on the guy who beat him in DC I believe Kevin
14:41night Kevin Knight defeated Clark Connors back in DC to make this junior
14:49tag title match official and now it's official and it's official in this ring
14:53Kevin Knight body shots uppercut for night hey so forget what happened a very
14:58brutal beat down for the Bulldogs there after miss scooped up satellite no look
15:07at the hops on this man
15:11gotta be the shoes Kevin I'm not afraid to take to those guys could have
15:26overshot that turnbuckle of you damn well what it
15:30so we're gonna arena is lit up tonight here comes the spike there it is
15:45satellite no a meeting in the middle right there Connors sandwiched in
15:54between Kushida and Kevin Knight what's this oh no oh no we're not gonna see it
16:00right now we're looking for that old snap power slam
16:05the main city machine guns classic what they were going for no I don't like the
16:12look of this though
16:24Kevin Knight DDT is not legal Connors is with the gore and Kushida and Connors
16:42down everybody wiped out everybody's down Gato is up on the apron home is up
16:51on the apron though they were the least winning winningest man in this matchup
16:57how dare you Gato very well could pick up the shock over really anyone on the
17:03opposite side Gato wrestled a five-second epic with
17:06Yota Tsuji earlier on this year it was epic because it was five seconds
17:12Oh the spring of Kushida and now Connors baloney backhand spring double
17:25back elbow a classic from Kushi and Gato takes Finley over the top
17:32look at Kevin Knight walk in Kevin Knight has something in mind here
17:49and there is one lone man inside that ring right now Chris Charlton and he's
17:55about to get his do
18:13an incredible victory tonight for Kevin Knight and Kushida
18:26Oh yeah here that Bell still sounding this one is still rolling on on the
18:32outside here get a camera crew over the block you're home up putting the boots
18:37in Yoshihashi Goto the same I think Kushida tweaked his knee on that finish
18:43there Walker came in night looking after Kushi we'll see whether that comes into
18:50play in sumo hall
19:05so much happening on the outside but I mean focusing on inside the ring I'm
19:09getting a little bit worried about the fact that Kushida yet to stand up
19:20that's a situation walk away
19:50these belts forever champions we'll be carrying this division and we all keep
19:54doing this vision for the rest of our career
20:00when you talk about car Connors driller Maloney one of the most dominant teams I
20:05think regardless of weight class in the world today
20:12see the back up to his feet there
20:20no doubt about it Chris Charlton I think that heading into Rio Goku sumo
20:27hall there might be a couple of questions regarding Kushida's physical
20:31status for this IWGP junior heavyweight tag title match
20:43folks were close to closing this one out tonight semi main event on the way six
20:48man tag-team action Los Ingobernables de Japón, Tetsuya Naito, Shigeru Takagi and
20:53BUSHI take on TMDK Zack Sabre jr. Kikoshi Fujita and the newest member of
20:59TMDK your number one contender for the never open weight title it is Ryohei
21:03Uewa. I can't wait