Shane Haste & Mikey Nichols vs Caveman Agu & Bad Luck Fale - IWGP Tag Team Championship Match
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00:00The third match is the IWGP Tag Title Match, 60 minutes, one match.
00:30Oh man, from junior heavyweight tag championships to the heavyweight belts, he's the oldest
00:46championships in New Japan Pro Wrestling and I suppose if Bad Luck Fale is bringing a caveman
00:56being challenged by the oldest wrestler we've ever seen in New Japan Pro Wrestling, Walker.
01:00All jokes aside, Caveman Arc is a beast and that's something we saw up close and personal
01:09just last week.
01:25As much as Caveman Arc is ready for competition, Bad Luck Fale, Chris, is a proven tag team
01:38champion.
01:39Bad Luck Fale has amassed an incredible army via his brand in New Japan, Tamishin via the
01:49Bullet Club Rogue Army.
01:51Caveman Arc, I hear, not the last member of Tamishin we'll be seeing in New Japan Pro
01:59Wrestling, but it was Caveman Arc getting the singles win over Mikey Nichols that led
02:07to this match.
02:10The IWGP Tag Team Championship, Shane Ace, there you see it, Mikey Nichols in front and
02:16behind, Hartley Jackson lending his support.
02:19Hartley Jackson has been on the road to King of Pro Wrestling 2024 events and has serviced
02:25TMDK in a big, big way.
02:27You know he's excited to be here tonight on a massive night of title action.
02:50Well, it's appropriate, is it not, for the richest boys in tag team wrestling to feature
03:02such an Australian bent to it that we do have Australian champions, the rich legacy of Australian
03:09tag team wrestling that there is.
03:11Of course, Bad Luck Fale representing the New Zealand dojo, recruiting in Uggs someone
03:19that's been a staple of the independents in Oz.
03:22Yeah, but we're already getting started here tonight, Caveman Ugg on Hutt, Ace, and Bad
03:26Luck Fale on Mikey Nichols.
03:30And whoa, that is just an expression of what Caveman Ugg is capable of.
03:36Look at this.
03:38Caveman Ugg is a guy that can hit with the power, with the pace of the best heavyweights,
03:45but he's got the athleticism almost of a Kevin Knight.
03:48Look at this.
03:49Gosh, the deadlift on Nichols.
03:51To the caves already.
03:56The stun fast here and Mikey Nichols might be done.
04:02Well, that would make this a one-man matchup, and by the way, you get to define legal men
04:07in this one.
04:08It's going to be one in and one out, and we don't even have that yet.
04:13Reverse corkscrew.
04:14I don't even know what you call that.
04:16Fale's moving fast here.
04:17My God, new champions.
04:18Here we go.
04:19We could have it.
04:20Cover, and broken up by Nichols.
04:24And not to mention, Caveman Ugg and Bad Luck Fale very well may put TMDK through the ringer
04:28a week ahead of an upcoming strong open weight tag team title match in Royal Quest.
04:33Yeah, that's right.
04:34Sunday night, Crystal Palace, London.
04:36NJPWUK.com.
04:38Tanahashi and Ishii challenging for the strong tag titles, whereas the IWGP's on the line here.
04:44And what in the world is Ugg thinking?
04:46Yeah, Caveman Ugg.
04:47I mean...
04:53A table in the hand of Ugg, and I don't want to be anywhere close to this right now, Chris.
04:56What the hell's going on?
04:58I don't think...
05:00I don't think they use tables in the caves like you and I use tables, Walker.
05:06No, not at all.
05:07And these are made out of solid wood, and they are going to crumble under the impact of these men.
05:11Oh, no, no, no, no.
05:12What is he thinking, Fale?
05:13What do you think?
05:14What?
05:15Oh, my God.
05:16No, don't do this.
05:17Don't do this.
05:18Come on.
05:19Caveman Ugg.
05:20I can't believe it.
05:22I can't believe it.
05:28Through the caves in minute one, and now smashed through the table.
05:32This is a handicap match, Walker.
05:34I mean, this man is a damn monster.
05:37Shane Haste is going to have to take on two of the toughest super heavyweights
05:42if he's going to walk away with the tag team titles.
05:45I mean, this Caveman Ugg figure is all under the control of one man,
05:48the Rogue General himself, Bad Luck Fale.
05:52I mean, say what you want about Bad Luck Fale,
05:54but the way that he's been able to tame this beast
05:57and utilize him to his own control is incredible.
05:59Of all the members in the Rogue Army,
06:02you could state the same for Jack Bonsai.
06:05You could say the same for the Natural Classics,
06:08another great tag team from Australia that's under the thumb of Bad Luck Fale.
06:16Cult of personality, you could call it, perhaps.
06:20Oh, man, Caveman Ugg might be the best get Fale's ever gotten.
06:26Might be the best get Australia's ever gotten.
06:30Caveman Ugg out of the corner, and a huge shotgun boot.
06:38I mean, if Bad Luck Fale is going to walk away with the tag team titles,
06:41he's going to have to take on two of the toughest super heavyweights in the world.
06:46I mean, if Bad Luck Fale chooses,
06:48he could ride the apron the rest of this matchup, Chris,
06:50and let Caveman Ugg do the dirty work.
06:52I think you're quite right, but I think Fale, he wants the glory, doesn't he?
06:57That's what it's all about in the Rogue Army.
06:59Just like he's had tag team championship gold before,
07:04along with Chase Owens.
07:07That's Fale, just as impactful.
07:10He's got that boot up.
07:11Mikey Nichols, by the way, still isolated here at ringside.
07:14He's barely moved after that table shot from Ugg.
07:17Well, this is excellent.
07:19Oh, man.
07:20DDT.
07:21Excellent strategy on the part of Fale to convince Ugg to take out Mikey early.
07:27I mean, you're looking at, no doubt about it,
07:29the best tag team in the world.
07:31I mean, conversation about cutting the ring in half.
07:33We have cut the ring into multiple pieces
07:35and tossed them out of the building as far as Mikey Nichols is concerned.
07:39As Haste evasive moves here, and has Ugg rocked.
07:47Shane Haste trying to power up.
07:49He's not going to get that reverse power slam.
07:51Oh, that's a good one.
07:52That's a good one.
07:53That's a good one.
07:54That's a good one.
07:55That's a good one.
07:56That's a good one.
07:57That's a good one.
07:58That's a good one.
07:59He's not going to get that reverse power slam.
08:01Thousands of years to build that power has Caveman Ugg.
08:04You're right.
08:05Off the, and caught.
08:06No, no, no, no.
08:09Oh, he's going for a flight.
08:11It's Shane Haste.
08:13Oh.
08:21Caveman Ugg's first time in Ryogoku Sumo Hall,
08:23and listen to the reaction that this man has gained.
08:26The very first time he walked in an arena for New Japan Pro Wrestling.
08:30The intimidation.
08:31Oh.
08:32Cut out of midair.
08:34The surge so light on his feet, so explosive,
08:38and so able to turn the match on its side.
08:40Shane Haste.
08:44Resilience.
08:45Somehow, Walker.
08:48Mikey Nichols is back into the fray.
08:50I don't think.
08:52Well, I mean, Shane didn't have a choice but to tag in Mikey.
08:56I'm not sure he's OK, Walker.
09:02Hard to outpower Mikey Nichols.
09:04Spike DDT.
09:07Might be adrenaline is all Nichols is working on right now.
09:10Oh, fall is shoved into his barricades.
09:12Sliding lariat captured in on the cover here for Nichols.
09:16And still no.
09:23Nichols and Haste did so much to build the Australian scene
09:27that Caveman Ugg thrived in.
09:30They said, yeah, we open doors,
09:32but that doesn't mean it's not our time anymore.
09:35It's still our time while we hold the gold.
09:47Oh, no, that's her, that's her.
09:49Door of no.
09:51No islands around here, folks.
09:53Nichols.
09:54Spin out power bomb.
09:56Cover here for Mikey Nichols.
09:58And bad luck folly and to break it up.
10:05The human refrigerator.
10:08Oh, no, no.
10:09Grenade.
10:11Oh.
10:14Got to get quick while they can.
10:16Oh, can they?
10:17Can they?
10:18Taking it straight.
10:19Go.
10:20And center.
10:23I hope we reinforce the ring walker.
10:30Harley Jackson at ringside, willing on TMDK,
10:33looking to prove that the mighty truly do not kneel.
10:41Oh, wait a minute.
10:42Shane Haste got him.
10:43Shane Haste got him.
10:44Oh, Walker.
10:45Power bottom.
10:47Cover here.
10:49And it's just two.
11:02Easy signal out of TMDK tonight.
11:04What goes up must come down.
11:06Here we go.
11:10That's it.
11:11Nichols on top.
11:12Cover here.
11:13Thunder Valley.
11:14And that's all.
11:18Now we go back here.
11:20Mikey Nichols.
11:30First defense is the hardest, Walker.
11:33And they've gone to V1 under those IWGP Tag Team
11:37Championships.
11:39Right.
11:40I have to say now, we're just six days away from World Quest
11:45and Crystal Palace.
11:46And Mikey Nichols being driven through a table,
11:50sent down with two of the Ks.
11:52Somehow, someway, TMDK are still IWGP champions.
11:57But they're going to have to turn around and defend the
11:59strong belts as well in London on Sunday.
12:02There you go.
12:03They will not be going in at 100%.
12:06There is no doubt about that.
12:08And they will be walking into Crystal Palace to face off
12:11against two of the best that the New Japan Pro Wrestling
12:14roster has ever produced, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Tomohiro
12:18Ishii.
12:24Well, we talked about bad omens, perhaps,
12:27for Bullet Club War Dogs.
12:29Good omens for TMDK.
12:32First of three championship matches for TMDK members.
12:35Wait a minute.
12:36Wait a minute.
12:38Oh, hello.
12:40It's your KOPW champion and the former never-open weight,
12:44Great Okanin Hinore.
12:48Maybe in World Tag Leagues before.
12:52Congratulations.
13:03You two peasants were able to take care of two of the
13:06biggest people.
13:08You should be proud of yourself.
13:09So I'll give you an even greater honour.
13:19It's coming up to Tag Team season.
13:21Congratulations.
13:30Congratulations.
13:31It's coming up to Tag Team season.
13:37Let's make sure myself and Henare fire up the tag team division.
14:07You got the balls, you think you're the best from Oceania, nah bro, you got the balls?
14:16Yeah, maybe next challenger step on up because we will defend these every time we will walk
14:23in tag league champions, we will walk out tag team champions because we are the mighty
14:28and the mighty don't kneel.
14:32Alright.
14:43Oh man, Mikey Nicholson and Henare, a lot of previous walkout.
14:46I was gonna say that's gonna be a really scary sight, two of the hardest headed men I have
14:50ever met on this roster, Mikey Nicholson and Henare going at it.
14:54United Empire versus TMD Cavers for the IWGP Tag Team Championship very well, could be
15:00on the horizon.
15:01Those skulls have been tested before but never for the IWGP Tag Team Championships.
15:07We'll await the where's and when's but that's a hell of an IWGP title match.
15:32Huge victory here tonight for TMDK as Rizrak's sails have gone up tenfold.
15:39Shane Haston, Mikey Nicholson with the win here tonight.
15:44Stop waving that in my face, Walker.
15:47I folded it ten times for you.
15:51That's kind of crusty.
16:02Well, we are picking up pieces of table here at ringside for the time being from one TMDK
16:09matchup to another.
16:10The newest member, the ex-Ryohei Oiwa looks to get a grip on the Never Openweight Championship
16:15as he takes on Shingo Takagi one-on-one.
16:18Coming up next.