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00:00In today's third match,
00:03you've got, again, you've got Bullet Club, you've got Chaos,
00:06you've got Los Ingobernables de Japón.
00:09LIJ, B-B-4 Live!
00:20So two teams will start.
00:23They'll settle it in one fall.
00:25Kinfall, submission, knockout, countout, disqualification.
00:30And then another team will enter the fray,
00:33and the last team standing will be
00:35the never-open-weight six-man tag team champions.
00:38Oh, my.
00:41Come on, Yujiro Takahashi.
00:43Tokyo's been behind him.
00:56Oh, my God, Kevin.
00:57Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
01:01You have young kids at home.
01:05Put them to bed very quickly.
01:07At least for this entrance.
01:09The challenger in the blue corner from the Black Club!
01:18The Tokyo Camp, Yujiro Takahashi!
01:29The young ladies accompanying Yujiro Takahashi notwithstanding.
01:34This trio is powerful, there is no doubt about it.
01:38Try to focus, Steve.
01:41It is so hot here.
01:48Oh, and there's Paige.
01:51Ruined.
01:53And there's Bad Luck Fale.
01:55And there is Tusha Thunder Liger who has joined our...
01:59Of course he is!
02:00That dirty old man dude!
02:02Oh, come on.
02:03Unbelievable!
02:04See, I think that's just an unfortunate coincidence.
02:06I think you are wrong!
02:08It fits your narrative, but yeah.
02:10They're dancing.
02:11I have to be quiet while they're dancing?
02:13Yes.
02:14What is this like performance art?
02:16Yes, shut up!
02:17Guys, shut up!
02:25Oh, yeah!
02:27Boycho!
02:28Boycho!
02:29Hey, I'll bring you back to reality.
02:30What are you...
02:31Is the Easter Bunny going to visit Beck this year?
02:35Has it been a good boy?
02:36Am I ruining it for you?
02:37Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
02:41We're sure Kevin Kelly...
02:42Hey, man, when you're Yujiro Takahashi!
02:48Sweet!
02:49Too sweet!
02:52God, I hope they don't come out here for a little bit.
02:54Ah!
02:55The Tokyo Pinky!
02:57Takahashi Yujiro!
03:01Well, remember that one time the lady sat down here just to your right?
03:04No.
03:05Badluck Fale going after our ring announcer pal.
03:14You do not want to make this guy angry.
03:17Oh, my goodness.
03:18Man, why is it so hot here?
03:32So, another chapter in the Wrestle Kingdom XI battle between Bullet Club and Chaos.
03:39Steve is going to kick off this gauntlet match for the Never Open Weight 6 Fan Tag Team Championships.
03:44Oh, absolutely.
03:45And I expect big things out of Yoshihashi for 2017.
03:50And it could start off tonight with the Never Open Weight 6 Fan titles.
04:02Now, we talked earlier on about, you know, stars on the rise
04:06and where we can predict great things for the new year.
04:10I'm one.
04:11I side with Badluck Fale.
04:14I think this could be a great year for him, but I know you are extremely high on Yoshihashi.
04:19I am extremely high on Yoshihashi for a few reasons.
04:232016 was a confidence builder for him.
04:26He's no longer like the junior member of Chaos.
04:30He's a guy that's broken through and he knows his spot here.
04:35And he's, you know, now that Ja'ado is back in New Japan for wrestling full time.
04:41He's going to become more of a mentor to Yoshihashi full on spray than the younger members of Chaos.
04:47This could be the year of Chaos!
04:49This could be the year of Chaos!
04:50This could be the year of Chaos!
04:51First, Ja'ado!
04:56And Natasha's will operate!
05:02The headhunter, Yoshihashi!
05:06And great respect being shown with Yoshihashi as his music is the one that plays.
05:13So he's the de facto captain of this team.
05:15Absolutely.
05:16And he could have been Ja'ado's music.
05:18But, you know, Ja'ado is the captain.
05:21And he's leading his title on here.
05:23Ja'ado, no!
05:24No stranger than the championship himself.
05:26Ja'ado!
05:29What great shape he is in.
05:31185cm, 79kg.
05:33Will!
05:35Oh!
05:36Play!
05:3980cm, 102kg.
05:41Yoshihashi!
05:46Nice reaction there for Yoshihashi.
05:49Oh!
05:50And Bullet Club, they start off very quickly here.
05:53Wasting no time.
05:55Now last year, never open weight six-man titles were contested.
06:00A Bullet Club team against a Chaos team.
06:03And it was Toriano and the Briscos who won the titles.
06:06The first-ever champions.
06:08So Chaos looks to regain control of the championships.
06:15As Valle buries a left hand into the midsection of Yoshihashi.
06:21You do not want to get hit with anything that bad luck Valle gives you.
06:26And you said about him.
06:28Losing a little bit in the middle, but adding shoulder size.
06:32You know, the former rugby player, who's already known as a tough guy, got in better shape.
06:39He knows the championships are something that's going to...
06:45The Bullet Club up top.
06:47Falle part of the global growth of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
06:52Oh, man!
06:53Nice!
06:56Falle brought stars of New Japan Pro Wrestling to New Zealand.
07:02Look for their return in 2017.
07:04Look at that half.
07:05Going for that half.
07:06Nelson was trying to take him down, but then was going to hit his finisher there.
07:11But Takahashi...
07:13Oh!
07:14And...oh!
07:15And Yoshi Hashi goes all the way to the floor.
07:18Tumbling into the barricade.
07:19Just what Bullet Club wants.
07:21Look out for Hangman Page.
07:24Ooh!
07:26Hangman Page making his Tokyo Dome debut.
07:29Same as Will Ospreay.
07:32These two young warriors.
07:35They had a lot to say about each other.
07:37Did they really?
07:38They did.
07:39Not complimentary either.
07:41Page, the most dangerous member of Bullet Club, I believe.
07:44Because unlike the other members of Bullet Club that want to be champions,
07:48Page is out for pain.
07:51Destruction.
07:52More of the mercenary of Bullet Club.
07:54Right.
07:55We talked earlier on about, you know, who is the controlling force of Bullet Club?
07:58Who's the leader?
07:59Page knows his role in this group.
08:01He's got one job and he does it very well.
08:04Yes, he's the enforcer of Bullet Club.
08:06Whatever they need, he does.
08:08Yudro Takahashi provides the ladies for the group.
08:13Ah, he's got some ratings.
08:16Tags in the page.
08:17These guys have become quite a good tag team.
08:19And we get a shot of the lovelies.
08:21Actually, they're sitting right behind us, Steve.
08:23Pay attention.
08:26There's action in the rig.
08:28Okay.
08:29Yoshihashi sent corner to corner.
08:31Call him.
08:32What?
08:33Don't tell her to call you.
08:34Get this thing off.
08:35What are you trying to take?
08:36No.
08:37Are you trying to take off your wedding game?
08:38I am not.
08:39Oh!
08:40Jumping DDT by Page.
08:42Got it.
08:43Got it.
08:44Stooge.
08:45Again.
08:46Can they eliminate chaos?
08:47No.
08:49It's a gauntlet badge.
08:50So, it's not just one fall.
08:52No, he got three.
08:53Yeah.
08:54He went three.
08:55Bullet Club.
08:56Chaos.
08:57They will have the longest road.
08:58And the strength of Page never can be understated.
09:01Hard shot there by Page.
09:08Page has been a student of the game.
09:18Hang on and drop him with the neck breaker.
09:20Needs to make a tag, though.
09:24tags in the aerial assassin and here we go this kid so quick what a great 2016 he had to
09:37drop kicking down both takahashi and falay
09:42handpicked by okada whoa eliminated aerial assassin
09:51going to take to the sky
09:55this young man wasn't even made as we go back to the replay over the top lands on all three members of bullet club
10:10yeah what was what was osprey doing 25 years ago his parents haven't even met yet
10:15it's scary to think about that is look at this now
10:18shooting star now watch this transition
10:22the first two don't get you maybe the third will follow it up by the fourth
10:30could it be chaos will move on
10:34will osprey looking better and better every time that we see him
10:42first british wrestler to win the best of super juniors did so in 2016 will look to repeat in 2017
10:50he is looking for a third shot at the iwgp
10:54junior heavyweight championship kushida has had his number
11:02we're past the five minute mark whoa
11:04look at the strength springboard cutter strength of page
11:08he's caught him flipping there he is inside out
11:14yeah
11:16and the leg is hooked to
11:18no
11:24these two young foreigners one from england one from the united states here
11:28in front of 40 000 people at the tokyo no page going for the right of passage but osprey counters
11:38springboard wait a minute yujiro takahashi there
11:42steve you could plainly see yujiro with a helping hand
11:46oh you could see it except you were looking at his ladies
11:49what no no no no no i think you're making stuff up
11:58went for the double clothesline springboard caught both of them with knees
12:03now needs to make a tag jato's ready here he comes listen to the crowd
12:12he won last year's new japan rumble did jato
12:15jato at wrestle kingdom 10. and now here this year will look to
12:22be part of chaos in their effort to regain the never open weight six-man tag team titles
12:28oh was that two was that three cross-facing jato
12:36wait a minute fall a got out of the grip of yoshihashi and came in to break it up but once again
12:42yoshihashi is just leading the pack in on everything ran through him yeah if there's a truck
12:54driving straight towards you get out of the way i'd put my money on fall a though not the truck
13:01running sliding drop kick there things look bleak for takahashi just moments ago and he almost picked
13:07up the wind out goes osprey to the floor look at page now
13:16check it out oh lands on osprey shooting shooting star shoulder tackle cover short ddt there from
13:27yujiro takahashi and bullet club will advance given the thumbs up to the ladies i was just making sure
13:35takahashi yujiro gamino shorty they gozaimasu they're very happy
13:43uh-oh
13:52well bullet club advances but uh they will not get to celebrate or rest on their laurels
14:00strike as members of los in in in lij on their way so close you almost had it
14:08you're talking about three dangerous members of lij right here bushi
14:27evil evil sanada i wouldn't want to pick you know one of them
14:43bushi the former iwgp junior heavyweight champion are you still down on bushi personally
14:52more of an evil guy
14:57bushi must have been cold on his way to the ring because he literally took off seven layers of clothing
15:07well there you look at uh sanada and a lot of industry experts have said that he will be
15:13the brightest star in the rise here in the new year i totally agree on that too
15:18it could be yoshihashi's year it could be sanada's year it could be bad luck molle's year and
15:25the future of new japan is pretty bright
15:27the global progression of new japan marching across the globe bringing
15:36the great brand of professional wrestling strong style and more to all parts of the world absolutely
15:43newbie announcement later on tonight of some major shows in 2017 for new japan pro wrestling all right
15:51so next up for the gauntlet here it's bullet club versus los en gobernables de japon
15:56now takahashi fale and hangman page had to exert quite a bit of effort to eliminate chaos
16:03so the obvious advantage is in the hands of that very dark corner los en gobernables de japon
16:12now i'm gonna go with a different scenario here bullet club just wrestled a eight minute match
16:19against members of chaos correct yes okay now because of the slow pace of members of lij to get
16:28to the ring i believe that that it gave these guys time to breathe again now look you see takahashi
16:34acting tired but he's not folly yeah great the trap was set they were obviously able
16:42to call the play they sure did as lij was on their way to the ring
16:48and now they put themselves in the numbers advantage and knocking sonata down
16:56challenge for the iwgp heavyweight tag team championship did takahashi and page
17:01just crushes sonata and almost almost a very quick end for the title dreams of los en gobernables
17:09de japon now the winners of this match will face kojima ricochet finley for the titans
17:18and the odds are not in favor of bullet club because they had just wrestled
17:22but they came in with a sound strategy against members of lij
17:26i should have looked at my monitor i tried to look above the monitor but i couldn't see through
17:33folly and i don't have enough guts to ask him to move oh man oh sonata just shoved takahashi
17:43and into the referee did he do it on purpose i think so low bridge out goes folly here comes bushy with
17:51a head of steam oh knocked the big man down
17:54is that a chair that's a chair that would be too and again this was the the outfit that broke the
18:02orbital bone of michael elgin oh no he just took down a grip you don't see it on camera but a grip
18:14just got hit with the chair in the head on the outside
18:17that was a double header and now ladies it's okay i got you
18:26oh no he's got him this could be it
18:30we're gonna one guy tap out and he does just that does
18:39and the short work
18:40now we're gonna face the champion bye bye ladies
18:51lady there's four of them he's a married man i love you he's old enough to be your father
19:00maybe allegedly
19:01here come the never open weight six-man champion
19:13rickett jay finley satoshi kojima
19:19now introducing the current never open class
19:22a well-constructed trio
19:24the calvic prince the mix
19:27david fiddly
19:29the fusion of the lights
19:34the gals
19:35ricochet
19:38mr strong arm
19:40focoshi kojima
19:44young dynamic energy of david fiddly
19:46the incredible athleticism of the aerial skill of ricochet
19:49and the veteran presence of president
19:50and beautiful
19:51and the veteran presence of the misma
19:52118cm 88cm
19:54what are you talking about earlier?
19:54Don't talk about bourgeois flay
19:55habits
19:57they wrestle
20:00175cm 87cm
20:06ricochet
20:06183cm 180cm
20:071
20:09Benedict
20:15cru essentially
20:17You said it, the veteran leadership of Satoshi Kojima.
20:21Oh, and now they're starting.
20:24Yeah, and Los Ingobernables is going to look to take it to the streets.
20:29Uh-oh.
20:30And the champions may have just used the belt.
20:38Ricochet.
20:40We watched his warm-up earlier on today.
20:42It's ridiculous.
20:43I don't know if I've ever seen a better athlete.
20:50Alien ricochet, take to the air.
20:59Look at that.
21:00Over the top rope, both of them.
21:02All three members of LIJ down.
21:06We talked about the confidence level of Dave Finley.
21:10Graduating the Young Lions program.
21:12So, becoming a champion very quickly.
21:18And they are moving very, very effectively are the champions.
21:22Again, this fall will settle it.
21:24It will either be Los Ingobernables de Japón as the never-open weight six-man tag team champions,
21:31or Finley, Ricochet, and Kojima retaining.
21:34Finley to the top, but Sonata, ooh!
21:39That strength of Sonata pulling him off.
21:41Back of the head, hitting the mat hard.
21:43Now Bushi, former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion.
21:48And that eighth layer of clothing really hanging off.
21:52You've got to worry about the mist of Bushi.
21:59You've got to worry about the bat of Sonata.
22:02Just everything is not evil.
22:04Because everything is evil.
22:08We were wished a New Year's evil.
22:10And now Ricochet tagged in.
22:21Oh, look at this.
22:25There's no words for it.
22:26This kid is just smooth.
22:29And strong there.
22:34You saw the snap.
22:35And the power here.
22:38Into a frame buster.
22:40And the leg is hooked.
22:42There is no help for Bushi.
22:44He has to kick out on his own, and he does so.
22:46He is like a real-life video game to me.
22:49Just the way he moves.
22:51I imagine when he eats dinner, he does it in such a cool way.
22:54I'd ask him to dinner, but I don't want to pack.
23:01Well, again, pepper lunch is your meal of choice.
23:04My jam.
23:05Bushi caught him on the rebound.
23:07Talking about quick feet there, Bushi.
23:10Quick back kick.
23:13Now, we tag the evil.
23:17We're going to talk about a great 2016 evil.
23:20Returning for an excursion.
23:22Excursion.
23:23Oh, and the latching.
23:28So now they're going to put a stop to it.
23:29Uh-oh.
23:43One of my favorites.
23:46Listen for 40,000 people.
23:50He chose a baguero.
23:52Oh.
23:55And the fun and games are over.
23:58Well, at least for Kojima.
24:01He's going to be singing a high note.
24:05He doesn't have far to go.
24:08For those of you that don't know, Kojima's got a very high point.
24:11What did Kojima say when he saw you today?
24:14Oh, wait a minute.
24:15Is it over?
24:16I don't know.
24:17No, it's not.
24:18He said, nice to see you.
24:20He sure did.
24:21I love what he does.
24:22He's the nicest guy ever.
24:24Soft as hands, highest voice.
24:26But he hits hard as bodies are flying everywhere.
24:32It looks like Sonata just got run into the barricade on the floor.
24:34But now Evil is focused.
24:37Nice DDT.
24:39Drives him through the mat.
24:41And over to the corner.
24:45Ricochet.
24:48Actually got a little bit of a Lucha feel right now.
24:51Oh, up on the shoulders.
24:54Oh, these two have become quite the junior heavyweight tag team.
25:00Get up there.
25:09Accident avoidance for Evil.
25:12Oh.
25:14Ricochet tried to move.
25:16But he ate that.
25:18Get down.
25:21Sonata sits out on the apron
25:22and just cracks both of those huge boots.
25:29And now the missile dropkick from Sonata.
25:35There are bodies all over the floor.
25:38But now Los Ingobernables focuses on Kojima
25:42who fights against the odds.
25:44Connor!
25:44There goes Bushy.
25:53There goes Bushy.
25:57Can he hit it?
26:01Western!
26:04Here's a cover and a count!
26:07Sonata!
26:08Oh, and a...
26:09Brain buster!
26:15It's Dario!
26:20Winding up!
26:21Ah!
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27:00The title of the E-GLE is the winner of the 30 seconds for the E-GLE.
27:30changed the percentage gets higher and we talk today all throughout our
27:41preparation for the event about which faction would be in control at the end
27:49of tonight's event well we got one win for chaos yep one wins
27:55one win for them now the bullet club still has a few shots but lij what a night that they could
28:12have here sanana bushi evil holding up the championship belt ken naito retained against
28:21tadahashi ken takahashi defeat kushida could they walk away all with championships but the question
28:31that we have to begin to ask is soon to be answered and that is is the world ready is new japan pro
28:42wrestling ready for the american nightmare we will find out in moments bushi sanana and evil
28:53the new never open weight six-man tag team champions