Henare

They could win and establish that team because the real story is Knockout Brothers climbing the mountain again.

Whether or not... getting a win over the most violent players means anything in 2026 for great o'connor and henare's title defense notwithstanding i just don't see that as being i think i think makabe and yano are there just to get

the

knockout brothers over without burning a feud with some of the regular players

Um, and so he said that, uh, Newman was unhappy about Ospreay bringing Francesco Akira, uh, into his new AEW version of the group.

Uh, Andrade and Henare have also gotten involved trying to calm things down.

Uh, whether the storyline is fuel or something off a legitimate irritation is underneath it, we don't know.

Um, just I guess it just has to wait and see to see how it plays out.

And I think they even like, uh, gave money to the temples to make restitution.

So I guess you don't want to get on the bad side of, uh, Henare there, but, um, yeah, I think it's gonna be interesting to see if not only in the tag team realm with what these two guys got going on, if maybe they're gearing, it felt like they might be gearing Henare up for, for a potential singles program.

I'm just kind of speculating here, but I am wondering what they're doing with Uemura, uh, Oleg Bolton and Shota Umino as we progress towards that road to Tokyo Dome and I'm sure they've probably they're going to need to pick up some sort of wins against certain opponents and I think Kanari and Okan kind of fit that bill potentially.

That's going to take us to the third match of the night, though.

Shota Umino, this is his first match back since opening night of the G1 Climax Tournament where he suffered a concussion.

He alongside Yoshihashi and Tatsuya Matsumoto were victorious over Jacob Austin Young, Gretel Kahn, and Henare.

Shingo Takagi and Jeff Cobb, this was Jeff Cobb's first match back in Japan in nearly a year after spending some time over here in the States with WWE.

Shingo and Jeff were victorious over Zayn Jay and Callum Newman.

He's even bigger than he was before.

I read some of the interviews that he did when he was talking about the concussion and sounded pretty gnarly I mean I don't know to what extent that is exaggerated for kayfabe purposes but you know he was talking about amnesia and like vomiting and stuff like that I'm sure yeah if I can understand if that is to be taken at face value why he was removed from the entire G1 Climax tour and so in these matches on these everlasting never-ending row two shows he has been positioned against United Empire which sort of simultaneously presents us with I think a very interesting... possible comeback feud in the shape of Henare.

I think Henare versus Shota Umino would be a good stylistic match because they both have that kind of similar style where they would just beat each other up and that.

But also the worst possible comeback feud in the shape of the greater con.

So we're really sort of tossing the coin here to whether it's going to be something great or something horrendous with nothing in between.

Not all I can do is think of Khans.

Right.

His partner, Henare.