Sanada
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Sep 13, 2026
Dan SzesnatHOST
No losses in that entire time.
Dan SzesnatHOST
Competition that ranged from the likes of legends like Hiroshi Tanahashi, Katsuyori Shibata, Minoru Suzuki, to all-timers like Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes, and up-and-comers like Zack Sabre Jr., Evil, and Sonata.
Dan SzesnatHOST
One of the oppressive things about this reign is that he didn't simply just beat challengers.
Dan SzesnatHOST
He beat a lot of wrestlers with completely different styles.
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Dan SzesnatHOST
I mean, it turned himself into a star.
Dan SzesnatHOST
But, you know, I think it definitely helped elevate Kenny.
Dan SzesnatHOST
I think it, you know, I think it helped elevate Sonata at the time.
Dan SzesnatHOST
Although I don't think he's really gone anywhere since.
Nick BullHOST
Ryan Howard with us here on the card subject to change the podcast by the fan for the fan doing a little fantasy booking there.
Nick BullHOST
OK, Mr. Booker, man, sell me on Sonata Jungle Boy, because I was just a little peyote when this match was announced.
Chris AngleHOST
Yeah, I agree.
Chris AngleHOST
This is the match.
Ryan HowardGUEST
It's a harder time selling you about, like, it'll be a good match.
Ryan HowardGUEST
I mean, I can't really sell you as well as I did, like, Tanahashi and MJF or Okada and Danielson and Omega Ospreay.
Ryan HowardGUEST
But, I mean, Sonata's the new champion, newer champion.
Ryan HowardGUEST
He's got the new look.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
With Oiwa getting the winner of Goto versus Tsuji next month, where does that leave the remaining potential challengers post G1? Oleg acknowledges in backstage comments that he doesn't have a title shot schedule.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
Neither do Sonata and Uemura.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
Are all three men just SOL? Do wins and losses still matter in New Japan? So, yeah, I mean, I think overall wins and losses still matter.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
I mean, obviously you have a thing where anybody can walk out and challenge for a title, but usually that person is usually winning at least one match before they're walking out and challenging.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
I mean, I think Tsuji, I think we can all think Tsuji is going to beat Goto, so...
Jeremy DonovanHOST
October will probably be Tsuji versus Oiwa.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
And if Tsuji were to retain, I think that opens the door for Bolton Oleg and Sonata Orduya to challenge him in November at Power Struggle.
Rich LattaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If
Jeremy DonovanHOST
With Oiwa getting the winner of Goto versus Tsuji next month, where does that leave the remaining potential challengers post G1? Oleg acknowledges in backstage comments that he doesn't have a title shot schedule.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
Neither do Sonata and Uemura.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
Are all three men just SOL? Do wins and losses still matter in New Japan? So, yeah, I mean, I think overall, wins and losses still matter.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
I mean, obviously, you have a thing where anybody can walk out and challenge for a title, but usually... that person is usually winning at least one match before they're walking out and challenging.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
So...
Jeremy DonovanHOST
October will probably be Tsuji versus Oiwa.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
And if Tsuji were to retain, I think that opens the door for Bolton Oleg and Sonata Orduya to challenge him in November at Power Struggle.
Rich LattaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If
Andy H. MurrayHOST
And they did this before in an, uh, New Japan, an IWGP Tag Team title match.
Andy H. MurrayHOST
I think it was against Evil and Sanada years and years ago.
Andy H. MurrayHOST
And it was actually funny because the work was so good, as in Nick Jackson did such a good job of selling it that it finished number one on a very prominent wrestling website's worst botches of the year.
Andy H. MurrayHOST
[laughs]
Jay SilverHOST
Yeah.
Corey GoldHOST
I just remember my favorite move in all of wrestling, the Sonata special, the Paradise Lock.
Jay SilverHOST
Yeah.
Jay SilverHOST
Have you worked out how to do it? Because I have not.
Corey GoldHOST
It's meant to be funny.
Jay SilverHOST
Exactly.
Jay SilverHOST
Girl, Sonata's Paradise Lock.
Jay SilverHOST
Yeah.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
you know that's quite a while 24 years is biz uh well next up let's talk about the rampage dragon shingo takagi also ending his g1 campaign at eight points
Josh SmithHOST
You know, the final match with Sonata, two guys that were already eliminated in And Sonata sort of evening up the odds there.
Josh SmithHOST
That was what it was.
Josh SmithHOST
But Shingo had a really fantastic tournament.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
was very, very good to great.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
And even though he had to kind of pull a come from behind and was pretty much eliminated going into the last few nights, I still think he had a really great tournament.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
And yeah, I would put him definitely a notch ahead of Goto where Yeah, Goto, you know, kind of had some slower nights and some simpler nights where I felt like for the most part, outside of, you know, like Sonata, Jake Lee, Great O'Connor, I felt like Shingo had the working boots on pretty much every night.
Josh SmithHOST
You felt like he was on, basically.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
you know that's quite a while 24 years is biz uh well next up let's talk about the rampage dragon shingo takagi also ending his g1 campaign at eight points
Joshua SmithHOST
You know, the final match with Sonata, two guys that were already eliminated in And Sonata sort of evening up the odds there.
Joshua SmithHOST
That was what it was.
Joshua SmithHOST
But Shingo had a really fantastic tournament.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
I feel like pretty much everything he did outside of, yeah, the Jake Lee and Great Old Contact's, was very, very good to great.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
And even though he had to kind of pull a come from behind and was pretty much eliminated going into the last few nights, I still think he had a really great tournament.
Jeremy DonovanHOST
And yeah, I would put him definitely a notch ahead of Goto where he Yeah, Goto, you know, kind of had some slower nights and some simpler nights where I felt like for the most part, outside of, you know, like Sonata, Jake Lee, Gray O'Connor, I felt like Shingo had the working boots on pretty much every night.
Joshua SmithHOST
You felt like he was on, basically.