00:20One of the best dressed to the Super Juniors, Nick Wayne.
00:23Certainly the youngest of the Super Juniors.
00:25Kids 19, and the Prodigy is not just in Best of the Super Juniors 32, he's on the board in Best of the Super Juniors 32.
00:391-0 with a win over show.
00:43Well, I've known Nick since he was about four or five years old.
00:47And his dad would bring him to shows, and he would roll around in the ring before the game started.
01:08And to see him grow up into a man, but also a man who is poised to dominate the professional wrestling industry is very cool to see.
01:22Even if he has a little bit of a bad attitude right now.
01:29For sure.
01:30Well, I mean, that might be more because of the people in his ear.
01:33No people in his ear here tonight.
01:37No patriarchy around him.
01:38Well, he's grown into a man, and now has a chance to potentially beat the man in the Junior Heavyweight Ranks, El Desperado.
01:48IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion vs. Ring of Honor World TV Champion.
02:03Champion vs. Champion here in our semi-weight event.
02:08Big match, Desperado, actually wearing a t-shirt.
02:13Usually he just has a tangling.
02:15Well, the t-shirt covering a road map, a litany of scars, and I'm sure we'll see them at some point in this matchup.
02:26Even a couple, it seems, might have opened up.
02:29I can see a bandage on the back of El Desperado.
02:32Nick Wayne, meanwhile, also nursing an elbow injury caused by Schoen Night One.
02:40We're already, we've just gotten started in Best of the Super Juniors.
02:45And we're already feeling it here.
02:46Best of the Super Junior, Zen and Dong Ushoucha,並ibu, IWGP, Junior Heavyweight Champion,
02:56Shincho Taiju Kume, El Desperado!
03:01And that's what everybody's fighting for.
03:08In the Best of the Super Juniors is a chance to win that championship.
03:16When's the last time the champion won the Best of the Super Juniors?
03:21Well, I think the famous example was Prince Debit back in 13.
03:28And, I mean, I think if that's ever going to happen again, it could happen this year, and Desperado gets to name his challenger.
03:38It would be certainly interesting to see who El Desperado would nominate.
03:47Desperado has already challenged more than Junkasai for June 24th in Corakone Hall.
03:56And he said if he's still champion at that point, that's why it would be on the line.
04:00I mean, that's just what makes Desperado different, is when you have time off, usually you should rest.
04:09You should go to the beach and have some drinks.
04:11You should watch a movie.
04:14This guy does death matches for fun.
04:16I'm going to put myself through glass.
04:18You know, there's still bits of glass that are coming out of El Desperado's glass.
04:23I already stepped on it when he had a shower the other day.
04:26There was a piece of glass at the bottom of the bathtub.
04:34Way back when Nick Wayne was 16 years old, was over here for GCW in Shinkiba First Ring, that tiny venue over there.
04:44El Desperado went to watch the matches and saw Nick Wayne getting into a cab at the end of the night, dashed over and said,
04:52I want you to be in Best of the Super Juniors one day.
04:54And now here we are.
05:04I mean, Nick is kind of like Ishimori where he's well known for his high flying abilities, but he literally has been wrestling since he's five years old.
05:15He's been wrestling for 14 years in wrestling rings, and he is technically proficient, way beyond his years.
05:26He's been wrestling for 15 years.
05:28Enjoy it!
05:28Father of course Buddy Wayne, grandfather Wayne Dog diagnostic like the two absolute Pacific Northwest legends.
05:37His granddad actually wrestled in Japan a fair bit for IWE back in the day.
05:44Very cool.
05:45Pace Corkins there, rolling upper, and it going up to his feet.
05:51You look at that, the uppercut floats to his belly, rolls on his neck in head springs,
05:58not one wasted motion, not one extra calorie spent doing things he didn't need to do.
06:06Not just the physical but the mental for someone, a kid at 19, to wrestle with the acumen, the IQ,
06:15that he does extremely impressive.
06:19But El Descarado, he might be the craziest of the super genius, but he's also one of the smartest.
06:36And Nick Wayne won their first.
06:38El Descarado was over T-Town in the main event in Chiba Saturday night.
06:43And whoever wins this one will go up to the top in B block and will share that spot at four points
06:50with Robbie Eagles and Mao, who also got their wins earlier on.
06:54Dive number 10 is also up for grabs.
06:58Well, do you get something special for the 10th?
07:04Maybe if we can it up over all of the Super Junior events and we'll have a cash prize if you get dive number 100.
07:13Oh, my goodness.
07:15I don't think Nick Wayne is going to be thinking about diving or anything else right now.
07:19He's getting stretched six ways from Sunday.
07:23And Desperado found his target du jour, and that is the left knee.
07:36Which is great because it takes away the aerial ability of Nick Wayne.
07:42Nick Wayne has quite a few ways to beat you.
07:47He likes that springboard cut in the Wayne's world.
07:52Which would need a spring.
07:55Desperado had trouble tying up Nick Wayne's legs but now has them.
08:00Just look how cool Desperado is.
08:05Just the coolest wrestler on the planet.
08:09And my best friend.
08:12All of a sudden, Desperado will forget how to get out of this hold and now he finally does.
08:27Well, watch him get up and watch him perhaps trip.
08:33No, some mercy at least.
08:37But for as much as Nick Wayne has done so much tremendous stuff for someone so young, he hasn't done anything to help he quite like Best of the Super Junior.
08:55So all the matches back to back and the treble on top.
08:58I think it's more grueling than the G1 is to be honest.
09:06More condensed.
09:08Yeah, less days off.
09:13Trying to get something going here.
09:15High risk.
09:17The style of wrestling is just a lot more damaging on your body.
09:21Just like that.
09:24Rolled over.
09:25Got the acai DDT.
09:26Sweetened the knee at the same time.
09:28Jammed into the canvas.
09:29Covered though.
09:30Might get it.
09:31Gets two and a half.
09:32The benefit that these guys have is their ages.
09:39They're a lot younger than most people in the G1 so their bodies might heal a little bit faster.
09:45But I mean, how many days off do they have this entire three weeks?
09:49Two or three?
09:51Yeah, certainly.
09:52I mean, it's two days on, one day off.
09:54And then when you have an off day, it's a travel day.
09:57I mean, most of the time.
09:58Yeah, then it's a six hour ride on a bus.
10:04And Nick trying to get into a full Nelson here.
10:08Blocked by Desperado.
10:10Oh.
10:11Again, three flashes from Nick Wayne.
10:19Oh, here it is.
10:21Oh, he's got a bum leg though.
10:23What do you do if you're Nick?
10:25Desperado's still up on the apron.
10:29Oh, I don't like this.
10:32Neither does Nick.
10:34Oh man, he's catching a good one there.
10:38And that was a hell of a shot.
10:40That was flat on his back.
10:45He did not get his feet down.
10:47I guarantee you the wind is knocked out of Desi right now.
10:51And if it wasn't, it's gonna be knocked out further.
10:57The count's gonna go up a notch.
10:59Nick Wayne up high, up top.
11:02And he soars, tell Desperado.
11:08Number ten of the night.
11:11A top rope moonsault.
11:13You go big or you go home.
11:20And Nick Wayne definitely ain't coming home.
11:25To Mom and Papa Christian.
11:28One, two, three, one, two, three, one.
11:32And now, some serious points on the ball.
11:34One, two, three, two, three, two, three.
11:38It's tough because you want to hit that big moonsault,
11:40get those style points.
11:41But you can see he can jam his leg on the way down.
11:46The question is when he did more impact,
11:50more damage to El Desperado than he did to himself.
11:53It's a zero-sum game that Nick Wayne is trying to come out on top of.
11:59Up high, now, Desperado, still nowhere.
12:04And the big foot splash, but again down to the knee.
12:08The knee.
12:09Yep.
12:10Only two.
12:21I mean, Nick, you might want to go more cutter-based offense.
12:24It's a lot less impact on your knee.
12:27I'm trying to take some of the wind,
12:31more of the wind out of El Desperado, you're right?
12:34Well, B, ever since that massive back splat on the canvas,
12:38El Desperado has not been able to take a proper breath.
12:43Oh, and here we go, Prodigy Plex, maybe.
12:49Desperado doing all he can to block it.
12:52Oh, and that was a hard one.
13:06Look at the stack.
13:07Look at the leg.
13:08Here comes the submission.
13:09Yep.
13:10The people knew it.
13:13We knew it.
13:14Everybody but Nick Wayne.
13:17It's easy for us to say it's coming from our position.
13:21Not when you've had your back of the head bounce off the mat with that spine buster.
13:25And now one arm is tied.
13:27If he can get the other wrist, he'll be in the full effects of Mimo Doth.
13:33Already the knee in that stretch muffler must be screaming in pain.
13:39You can hear it.
13:41Watch if he can pull it back, yeah.
13:43Exactly as it was for T-10, night one, so Nick Wayne for night three.
13:48Nick's gotta watch his shoulders on the mat here.
13:51Oh, Wayne turned it around.
13:53Oh, what a great counter.
13:55He's in whatever strength he had left in those ligaments to hoist Desperado over.
14:01This is the Super Junior 32 in Corcoran Hall.
14:14This is your semi-main event of the night in B Block.
14:17El Desperado, Nick Wayne, one looking to stay undefeated and get to four points tonight.
14:23El Desperado.
14:24Turned the other way.
14:26Oh, beautiful with the bridge.
14:28Well done.
14:29Oh, and the bridge a couple of times they're faltering.
14:33Thanks to that knee damage.
14:35Don't get mad, Nick.
14:38You gotta stay on your game plan.
14:43You're in there with one of the best Junior Heavyweight wrestlers in the world today.
14:49Now, already as we said, world TV champion for Ring of Honor.
14:52The youngest ever champion in Ring of Honor history.
14:55But could, well, get a win over the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion tonight.
15:01A hard impact.
15:02There's no doubt.
15:03Desperado, the toughest opponent in Nick Wayne's career today.
15:07Guitar Adele and Hell.
15:09And nice and tight on the cover.
15:12And Nick Wayne somehow kicking out.
15:14Even after that TV title match for Nick Wayne, this has to be the highest pressure.
15:26The biggest match of that young man's career.
15:29At least up till now.
15:32I mean, the aura that Cork and Hall has for every wrestler.
15:36Whoa.
15:37Nice.
15:38Oh, wow.
15:39Nice, he done.
15:40Deep.
15:41Oh.
15:45And it keep going here.
15:46Look at that.
15:47Look, both legs on the arms.
15:49Those little things I was talking about.
15:51Sunset Flip gets two.
15:53Well, that's a little elbow to the jaw.
15:55It's still Nick Wayne hanging on.
15:57Beautiful takedown.
15:58Pull through that arm, Nick.
16:00He's got it.
16:01He's got it.
16:02Oh.
16:03The closest near fall of the night.
16:08He even held this run.
16:10I wasn't sure.
16:11And had to look to red shoes.
16:13Wow.
16:14Now he ain't gonna be sure of anything.
16:16In the face.
16:18Get up, Nick.
16:19Get up.
16:20Nick Wayne on the cusp of the biggest win of his life.
16:23IWGP Junior Champion Desperado unconscious on the map.
16:36The Prodigy Plex won't do it.
16:39Can he get?
16:40Oh, he can.
16:41But he can't bridge.
16:42He can't bridge with a cover.
16:43Floats over instead.
16:46Whoa.
16:47He was smart.
16:52With a lack of knee strength not to even try for the bridge, LP.
16:56But an extra couple of seconds.
17:00And the El Desperado is still alive.
17:02One, two, two, two.
17:03One, two, three.
17:05One, two, three.
17:09One, two, three.
17:10Two, three.
17:11What is it gonna take
17:16for the 19-year old Nick Wayne
17:19and a sold out cork and all
17:22to defeat El Desperado?
17:26Answer question so many already have struggled to find the answer.
17:30Oh, well this...
17:31Oh, cheeky bugger.
17:32Yeah.
17:34What did we say about being cheeky, Chris?
17:37I forget what the conclusion to that sentence was.
17:40I think we might find out, but.
17:51Oh, there it is.
17:55All right, Nick Wayne, back.
17:56Massive spirit from the champion, and here we go.
