00:00so a rough couple of matches for Clark Connors in a row and it's been a rough
00:20couple of nights for Kevin Knight in a row a very very difficult draw Kevin
00:26Knight faced himself with taking on an unread opponent in Mao in his opening matchup and then
00:38Robbie Eagles one of the favorites perhaps last night drop both of those decisions he's 0-2 now
00:48that doesn't mean you're out of the running here at Best of the Super Juniors it does mean
00:53Kevin Knight needs to make a rapid ascent from here and out
01:04no doubt the look is on point as it is ever I think Kevin Knight's got a different color
01:13gear for every day of the week showing out in purple and gold here today and let's see if
01:19you can get closer to the gold and the hardware of the Super Junior trophy he's going to be facing
01:25a former finalist here tonight in Yo and as I said earlier on Yo lost last night to his former
01:34partner Sho lost his opener to Robbie Eagles so both Yo and Kevin Knight have tasted defeat at the hands of
01:44Australia's Robbie Eagles and for both of these men I think going into this tournament a lot of fans a lot of
01:51pundits would be surprised that they're 0-2 in their first two matches but Yo has been in this spot before
01:59he's come back he's made the burn for the stand and in fact it was in 2021 where Yo made the finals
02:08and that was despite dropping his first what four matches of the tournament everybody assumed that Yo was
02:15done but he was able to turn things around and head straight and made it to the finals that year the
02:22closest he's ever gone to the best of the Super Junior trophy so as fresh as Kevin Knight is Yo is scaling Zipwon fresh
02:32into his third match here
02:41one half of the IWGP Junior Hip Boy Tag Team Champions is Yo
02:45we'll see what happens
02:59we will see what happens
02:59we will see what happens
03:01be a house of torture might be showing interest in those junior heavyweight tag titles we'll see
03:07what happens in the meantime we're gonna get into next in here yo so long regarded as a junior
03:25heavyweight tag team specialist has many many a time held that iwgp junior heavyweight tag team gold
03:33most famously with show who he had the big departure for which thought about house of
03:40torture in the first place kevin knight has been a two-time iwgp junior heavyweight tag team champion
03:47in his own right with kushida but has really really broken out on his own on a worldwide basis
03:55here this year and we'll see if he can keep going this has happened this matchup one-on-one once
04:02before in best of the super juniors and yo victorious that night had a night showing a little love to his
04:08competitor
04:09no no no reciprocate please please
04:15and kevin knight joe contracts it's a aw and youtube apple wrestling but all off with hontai at least i
04:32thought and kevin knight baited yo into a side headlock there
04:36wow
04:37wow
04:39underneath always gotta watch the leaps of kevin knight and yo tried to turn away
04:46the frankensteiner but could not entirely lodge this beautiful triangle dropkick
04:52and now is it time for the jet to fly
04:58and yo keeping kevin knight on the runway here
05:08no wheels up just yet in actual fact
05:18oh kevin knight feeling it in his will there you always say best in super junior any tournament
05:27in new japan pro wrestling some of the most demanding grueling endeavors that any athlete
05:34in any sport outside of sport you know in all of human endeavor can be so so difficult
05:40recovering just a one to get through because these injuries as we're still only on match three of this tournament
05:49a painful knee a sweet shoulder the nagging aches and pains are things that will only mount
05:57in the next couple of weeks before we get to the finals
06:00in between wrestling singles match after singles match
06:04every day you might have one day off and that'll be a travel day
06:08it'll be a rare day off for the crew tomorrow
06:12and still staying in tokyo before yoyogi on saturday night
06:18after that pretty much the only time any of these guys will take off
06:22it will be spent on long bus rides
06:26whoa so it really tests your endurance and the endurance being tested there
06:32it's kevin knight who delivered that backbreaker on his right leg but had to post on the painful lap
06:39kevin knight can rely
06:49he's a little bit better on his upper body using that to spring now
06:56still slow but still with the grace and the style the big splash here's the cover
07:03two and only two says referee sakamoto both then hurt at this point yoyogi trying to
07:12roll out of bounds catch a little break but this time will kevin knight have the speed will he have the spring will he have the boost and
07:21no saw it coming or did he oh man
07:29oh man
07:35kevin knight promising victory inside over the
07:41the corner like that despite the bad knee i gotta tell you it's got to be the shoes
07:48no to his feet now kevin knight spike no escapes once the o'connor roll avoided again
08:09the other leg the other leg kicked out from underneath him and now yo has got a version of a figure four applied
08:33kevin knight
08:41kevin knight struggling inside that figure four and thankfully he is at least thankfully for kevin knight his height his frame his size making it a shorter reach to get to the bottom rope
08:55he is
09:01right down with the falcon arrow here's the cover gets two
09:05and only two
09:07took a lot for yo to muscle up kevin knight there and you can still see the welts on his back
09:13after being sent into a whole lot of exposed turnbuckles yesterday courtesy of show
09:21and he always going to try and finish this match as quickly as possible could be with the soup kick here
09:27underneath sky high was denied
09:31the second time
09:33the last game gets it
09:37oh
09:39oh
09:41oh
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10:41yo
10:43oh
10:45yo
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11:01oh
11:03oh
11:05oh
11:07Kevin Knight racking his brains here, trying to think of an alternate game plan.
11:13That's Spike DDT has given him an awful lot of success in New Japan Pro Wrestling and
11:20AEW, but the game has to keep evolving.
11:23And well, yo, evolve right there.
11:25Kick Kevin Knight out of mid air.
11:29But he's got the, didn't quite hurt the other shoulder.
11:34Well, that would have been three.
11:35It still might be.
11:36No, sits out, stuffs, and Kevin Knight out of the back door.
11:42Go to these guys 0-2, they're feeling the pressure, feeling the pitch.
11:46Need to get two points on the board.
11:48Kevin Knight off the second, Superman, duck, dragon, dragon suplex.
11:54Yo has done it.
11:56Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
12:05Yo has gone on the board.
12:14Yo has gone on the board.
12:18Yo has gone on the board.
12:22There,isty winner, there has to be a loser.
12:25Yeah, there.
12:25There you go.
12:26Joe finally gets to two points.
12:32I think an 0-2 Kevin Knight was somewhat surprising to see, and
12:330-3 Kevin Knight.
12:36You can see it all over his face.
12:38see an 0-3 Kevin Knight that's a real stunner and you can see it all over his face says now
12:48yo wants his smooch and gets denied Kevin Knight has said with him looking to be in the heavyweight
13:03ranks this might well be his last best in the Super Junior and it wouldn't surprise me to see
13:09him in a G1 Climax lineup but not if he goes and drops any more decisions if best in the Super Junior
13:1732 definitely Kevin Knight feels the pitch and he faces a faded opponent someone is known
13:24since he was a small child in Nick Wayne that's coming up Saturday in Yoyogi
13:33in Yoyogi still tickets available wherever you are worldwide click the
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