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Cultaholic Wrestling

Francesco Akira (IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion) | Desert Island Graps #146

Cultaholic Wrestling

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Sports, Aew, Wwe Podcast, Wrestling, Sports & Recreation, Wwe, Wrestling Podcast

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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One half of the reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and member of the United Empire Francesco Akira talks about becoming the first Italian to win gold in NJPW, his journey in the Italian independent scene and three matches he'd watch whilst stranded on a desert island.


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0:00.0

My grandmothers is it spec savers? No chance.

0:04.0

No my daughter doesn't go to spec-savers.

0:07.0

You're having a laugh. My sister go to spec-savers.

0:10.0

Specsavers? For my mum, it's out of the question. Dad he hasn't been to

0:16.2

spexifers in years. If your loved ones can't make it into a Spexavers store

0:21.0

it's easy to arrange home visits.

0:24.0

Our opticians are caring and highly trained.

0:27.0

To find out if your loved ones like, yeah, you should work. That's my work, okay?

0:45.0

I'm so no no Fireball, Francesco, Akira. I'm vinchero the best of the Super Junior, 20.

0:55.0

To my opponent, well, you will see.

1:02.0

Grazia Tutti, Arrive Erechi, Bruchare.

1:07.0

One half of the reigning IWG. Junior Heavy way tag team champions. It's the fantastic for Jessica

1:16.5

a carer. How are you doing a carer? It was a bonjorno. If you're watching on the Patreon feed you will see to the left the the belt in question

1:28.8

Is that a bit surreal having that in your house? Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's pretty surreal but it's all the hard

1:36.7

work paid off and it's cool to have it on my PC. I will never imagine last year. Have you told me last year? I will...

1:47.0

Some people have cups of coffee and and weird bags of food on their PCs.

1:55.2

Not you, the IWGP junior heavyweight tag team championship belt.

2:01.4

Am I right in thinking that you are the first European to hold such a title?

2:07.5

I'm not the first European because Prince Devon was.

2:11.0

Right. Prince was the only one before me.

2:15.0

So it was Irish.

2:17.0

So yeah, but I'm the first Italian that's still like,

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