IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

Plus, we're going to look at Taichi's promoted event in his old middle school up in Hokkaido.

We'll look at that show, preview the Junior Heavyweight Tournament, and talk about a few other things that have been on our minds.

With Jeremy Finestone, I'm Stephen Conway.

This is Speaking of Strong Style.

It's cutting each other to ribbons with things like glass and barbed wire and things.

Less falling off of great heights than – not none, not none, but a little bit less of that.

And if you watch his junior heavyweight style, he does less of the jumping, diving as he's gotten older.

I mean, he's in his

I will still take, I know Rob knows I'm dead serious.

I will take yo versus Ilya Dragunov for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title right now.

I will also have Ilya Dragunov versus Will Ospreay.

Him and Moxley, I think, would be great.

This is a debut entry team, but we have seen Hyo most recently in Best of the Super Junior.

Obviously, Yo is the current reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion.

I do think that that adds a little bit of weight to their chance of doing well, and Hyo is a bit of a fan favorite, even if I find...

I think he's... athletically phenomenal, but the gimmick is not really my cup of tea.

So you have kind of like Robbie X from Lincoln tagging with Shingo Takagi, which is a bit strange.

And then, yeah, Chaos Blast, joined hontai they became just baby faces though they still have their moments because uh yo is the current iwgp junior heavyweight champion and he loved chaos more than any other chaos wrestler so he always gets the old chaos guys together when there's big moments in his career so yeah they are kind of gone but definitely not forgotten so your current factions are bullet club our house of torture united empire unbound company tmdk which is another interesting one because the founding members of TMDK are currently in NOAH and not part of New Japan anymore.

And Hontai, who's the babyface group.

The thing that

Fine.

Then you've got the 10-man tag match, which is a 10-man tag match.

Who cares? Then you've got the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title number one contendership four-way, which was again panned by the people who rated the show.

Then you've got the three main matches.

I was going to get into the next matchup.

Anyway, for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, it was Yo going one-on-one with Robbie Eagles.

Eagles got the drop on Yo.

He hits him with a tope con helo through the top and middle ropes after Yo tries to play some mind games with him by going to the outside.

Okay.

Uh, it's the Junior Heavyweight Championship.

Yo with his fourth defense against Robbie Eagles, 13 minutes and two seconds with a five star clutch.

No, no build.

And, and here I thought we would have, like, an upbeat, great discussion about all the great wrestling we saw this week.

Um, I thought if there's a downer, it might be talking about that article I read where a former pro wrestler, or current pro wrestler, former IWGP Junior Champion, detailed the actual, like, payouts he was getting at, in the, uh, shindies in Japan, and why he had to, like, work Uber as a result.

Um-

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