カテゴリ
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00:00I'm looking forward to this.
00:30Folks, we're about to get into one of the most unique matches we'll see here tonight from
00:41a point perspective.
00:43Kushida walking in at six points with a win here tonight.
00:46Will crown himself the top of Block A until we make it to our main event, of course.
00:53Mark Connors is fighting for survival.
00:55Mark Connors is fighting to not be left at the bottom of the pack at four points.
01:01It is Kushida, Mark Connors, your seventh match on the evening.
01:06Time splinter, Kushida!
01:15Kushida's another man, you know, I wish was at my Block.
01:17I wish we could have a singles match together.
01:20But now I can sit here on the sidelines or at the commentary desk watching him studying
01:23his game for the day that we do step in the ring together.
01:26I've seen a lot of people question why you, Nick, at only 19 years of age are the prodigy
01:55that you are, that you are the in-ring talent that you are and which you have, why you're
01:59at the top of Block B, the world is questioned.
02:02And it is the idea that you're sitting here tonight studying your potential competition
02:06in the finals.
02:07You never stop grinding and you never stop moving forward.
02:11And that's something that very much applies to an L.A.
02:14dojo trainee underneath Katsyori Shibata, the Defy World Champion, a title which you've
02:18once held in your career, that being Clark Connors, who walks in tonight, four points
02:23on the board and is fighting for his life in Best of the Super Junior tonight.
02:32Oh, and you can see a slight limp on the gate of Clark Connors here tonight.
02:38You have to question, I mean, we talked about people being beat up heading into their matches
02:42here, and Clark Connors showing the wounds of war a little bit stronger than most.
03:04You know, we talk about past training and stuff.
03:06We go even earlier into the early career of Clark Connors.
03:10He went through my dad's training system, the Buddy Wayne Academy.
03:13So I know Clark.
03:14I've known Clark since I was very young.
03:16Since I was about 11 years old, I met Clark.
03:19But like you said, you know, I'm sitting here at the commentary desk right now watching
03:22for potential guys that I could possibly meet in the finals.
03:26You know, I chose today specifically to come sit with you to see guys in Block A that I could
03:31potentially be in the finals with, you know, studying their game, seeing what they're all
03:34about, seeing their techniques, seeing their sneaky tactics possibly.
03:40Me and Clark, similarities, both going through my father's training system, the Buddy Wayne
03:48Academy, both, myself, a former Defy World Champion, him, the current Defy World Champion.
03:53Talking teachers as well.
03:58Another teacher, or you could say senpai of mine, Alex Shelley.
04:01Oh, yeah.
04:02Alex Shelley, someone very close, a former tag team with Kushida.
04:08He's got similarities to both of these guys.
04:10Yeah, you're right about that.
04:11There are through lines to connect Kushida and Clark Connors.
04:14Of course, a L.A. Dojo standout was Clark Connors underneath Katsuyori Shibata and really
04:19the modern day variation of what was the L.A. Dojo now in Carson, California, the NJPW Academy,
04:27where we're training the future of New Japan wrestling coming out of the United States.
04:31And Kushida, the head trainer of the advanced classes in the NJPW Academy.
04:37And Kushida, yeah, really looking to showcase, I mean, humble Clark Connors here tonight.
04:43Make Clark Connors feel like he's in the ring with Katsuyori Shibata and back when he was
04:47a young lion.
04:48Right, yes.
04:50Clark Connors' brutal main event the other night against Romu Takahashi.
04:54Oh, yeah, the sunset flip powerbomb onto it on a tire.
04:57We didn't see that tire brought to ringside by Clark Connors here tonight at all.
05:01Who knows, maybe it's under the ring, maybe it's hidden somewhere in the corner of a building.
05:04You can see he's feeling the effects of that sunset bomb onto the tire.
05:12I mean, anybody would.
05:13Back heavily taped as well.
05:16I have it on good authority.
05:17I checked out the injury report from our trainers earlier on in the evening.
05:21And Clark Connors was evaluated.
05:24There is a near risk.
05:25Clark Connors was pulled from this tournament following what we saw against Romu Takahashi.
05:30And both Connors and the New Japan Pro Wrestling medical staff making the decision to allow Connors
05:37to compete in this tournament still.
05:39And you have to understand why.
05:40Connors wants this more than most.
05:43And Kushida.
05:45Textbook Kushida.
05:46Yeah, that's cartwheel dropkick.
05:48And Clark Connors back to his feet.
05:50Some might say a little too early.
05:51And right in to the scoop slam on Kushida.
05:54Oh, man.
05:57See, we're talking about the back.
05:59You saw the effects of just a scoop slam did to the back of Clark Connors.
06:04Oh, wow.
06:06Kushida going to swipe this underneath on a low blow.
06:11And let's not pretend this isn't something Clark Connors would suit to just the same as a member of the Bullet Club.
06:16But Kushida just a fair bit wiser on the draw here.
06:22You know, I said I'm studying these guys for tactics and even some sneaky tactics.
06:25I would count that as a sneaky tactic.
06:27You're right.
06:27Yeah.
06:30Kushida, of course, counting it as a necessary evil here tonight.
06:34Just as well, you're going to see this.
06:36You know, time and place.
06:38Same could be said for me, you know.
06:40Time and place.
06:41Oh.
06:46Connors got the separation that he needed here.
06:51Yeah, they're both on the outside here.
06:53That lower spine taped to shreds.
06:55And Clark Connors is going to look to control Kushida on the outs now.
06:59Watch it.
07:00Think about yourself here.
07:01Oh.
07:04And a sharp pain, not just through Kushida, but through Connors as well.
07:12Kind of like we were talking about earlier with Fujida.
07:14High risk, high reward, you know.
07:15Suffering a spine injury is Connors.
07:18Oh.
07:18Three.
07:19Oh.
07:19What did I say?
07:20Four.
07:22Five.
07:24Six.
07:25We're on the outside here.
07:26Ten.
07:27Count of seven.
07:28You have up to 20 on the international, but.
07:30Oh, God.
07:31Even the.
07:33Ten.
07:34Well, even the weight of that tire is going to be too much here.
07:38Ten.
07:40Restarting the count.
07:40No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
07:45Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
07:46Kushida.
07:46Oh.
07:49Sweat the leg and skull first into a stack of chair here.
07:57The complete shot.
07:59A technique that Alex Shelly has showed me in the past that he normally uses in the corner.
08:02The corner complete shot.
08:04A little similarity there.
08:05Yeah, you're right about it.
08:08Oh, and that's a wheel son as Clark Connors has named him.
08:12Oh, Kushida.
08:16See the bounce on that?
08:18No hydraulics needed.
08:19Oh!
08:23And a cheap flip from Clark Connors.
08:27Just wiped Kushida into the apron.
08:39Clark Connors is thinking about it, and we're going to see it here.
08:42Wheel-San.
08:43Wheel-San back in the game.
08:45Newest member of the War Dogs, Clark Connors, likes to claim.
08:48Oh, well.
08:51Well, where the hell is Marty Asami when you need him?
08:56Oh, and Wheel-San's going on a rampage here.
09:01Explain to me the rules here.
09:03Is this legal?
09:04Well, I mean, Marty Asami's got a bit of a long leash.
09:07It is the best of the Super Junior, after all.
09:09We want to see matches won fairly, but, oh, well, this is a classic stretching routine
09:16they used back in the L.A. Dojo, but a little bit more force Clark Connors is putting on it
09:21here than usual.
09:21One, two, three, go.
09:31You heard that right there.
09:34Now you hear, now you see how fun that stuff feels.
09:36I mean, Connors knows that this is what Kushida is, in a very different, less twisted way,
09:43is putting the students of the NJPW Academy crew through those tire stretches and things
09:48that, of course, Connors learned underneath Katsuyori Shibata and the L.A. Dojo.
09:51Yes.
09:58Kushida's showing some heart here.
10:02Snap, power slam by Clark Connors.
10:07Still feeling the effects in his back, as you can tell.
10:09You can see, just trying to find a little bit of life back left in the lower spine.
10:17Connors, such a power junior.
10:19Maybe lining him up for that spear.
10:20It could be inbound.
10:22One of the core instead.
10:24Sunset flip, roll through, cover.
10:25No.
10:29Connors underneath again.
10:31In a double area, both men find themselves down.
10:34Okay.
10:36Come on.
10:37If Kushida wins this match, he stands atop the pack in block A.
10:54Oh, and now...
10:56Backhand spring, got the elbow.
11:01See those kicks of Kushida's.
11:03I've seen him target them to multiple different places.
11:07Is the leg, the arm, right now, the lower back.
11:10Whatever the current target is, Kushida's got offense for it.
11:24Kushida...
11:25Oh!
11:25Oh, whip down, and Connors, Connors might steal it.
11:29No.
11:32Oh, Kushida not afraid to pick the ankle, and that's exactly the direction we're going here.
11:38So technical.
11:40Broke the grip.
11:40Connors, off the ropes, dropped down by Kushida.
11:51Lifted up.
11:52Whoa!
11:53Caught right in.
11:54Caught right in.
11:55And it's going to be forced to break the grip.
11:57And we want to get the cross arm, and it's in.
11:59It's in, Nick.
11:59Broke it!
12:01Give up!
12:03Kushida with the cross arm breaker locked in here.
12:05Yeah!
12:06And Connors, so, so close, has to make it to that bottom rope wherever he can find it.
12:14Keep up!
12:17Keep up!
12:18And Kushida tightening the clutch within the legs, and now much more of a triangle-style hold
12:24here, coming out of Kushida.
12:26Even driving elbows to the skull.
12:29Whatever it takes.
12:31Yeah, Connors.
12:33Connors on the vertical.
12:34Oh, but dropped back down again, again, the snap from Kushida.
12:39Connors' back looked like a cage out there.
12:42Trying to deadlift him up off the ground.
12:44You know, if it wasn't for that spine injury, I have almost no doubt Connors would have got
12:47him off the mat easily.
12:49That just goes to show how big this back injury could be of Connors.
12:55And he's got him off the mat.
12:57Open it, open it.
13:06Okay, come on, come on.
13:09Come on, come on.
13:10Come on, come on!
13:12Come on!
13:13Come on, come on!
13:14Yes, shh, yes!
13:17Yes, Sh-
13:18Yes!
13:18kushida taking it from the top oh now now now that left arm the target and the hoverboard could
13:26be inbound the hoverboard lock is going to put this one away if kushida can lock the fine find
13:31the lock rather low kicks rolls through caught with the spear the gore from connor's the cover
13:46no man out of nowhere for clark connor's no chaser perhaps it is indeed no chaser
13:57connor's has done it
14:14oh nick it is a tight tight list of men that you need to keep your eye on
14:26for the current top of block a it is three quarters of the block a side that's sit atop
14:35the playing field right now eight different men rather clark connor's dragon dia hit all
14:41move all save moves in a kushida wato robbie x in yosin double chanamaru connor's oh my gosh oh my gosh
14:49what a match it's getting tight here a block connor's needed that he needed those two points
14:55really holding that lower back yeah just like clark connor's was earlier on when he made his way
15:09out you have to wonder what the future of this tournament looks like for kushida but we know
15:13who he faces off against next it's coming up on may 24th we'll be live in hyogo for night nine of the
15:18tournament kushida takes on master wato still to come in our main event by the way master wato robbie
15:26x both men tied six points a piece someone will top out block a by the end of the night the question
15:32still remains as to who coming up though dragon dia against francesco akira gonna be a great one oh yeah
15:48nick you're not just a prodigy in the ring you're a prodigy in the booth as well you think so yeah
15:56you're making it work for yourself i'm trying man thank you
16:02oh on the way to the world in the hands of clark connor's
16:07defy world champion wilson by his side and still alive in best of the super junior
16:12and it is a do or die situation for ninja mac ninja mac needs to win this to technically stay
16:22within the math to be alive but it is an uphill climb for mac against connor's on may 24.
16:36this is