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Fightful Wrestling Podcast with Sean Ross Sapp

Shota Umino vs. Zack Sabre Jr. | NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19 Show Review & Results

Fightful Wrestling Podcast with Sean Ross Sapp

Fightful, Inc.

Wrestling, Sports

4.4 β€’ 585 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Join Fightful's Rob Wilkins, @ScottEWrestling of Fightful & WrestlePurists, SP3 of Tru Heel Heat & SI.com, and @LyricWrestling of Maps & Graps with Lyric Swinton. The Post-Show will begin approximately 5-10 minutes after the show ends. They will review and discuss everything that went down at the Tokyo Dome! (Card Subject to Change) New Japan Pro-Wrestling Wrestle Kingdom 19 Card: New Japan Ranbo to determine the #1 contender for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: All TBA Four-Way Tokyo Terror Ladder Match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Intergalactic Jet Setters (Kevin Knight and Kushida) (c) vs. Ichiban Sweet Boys (Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita) vs. Catch 2/2 (TJP and Francesco Akira) vs. Bullet Club War Dogs (Clark Connors and Drilla Moloney) IWGP Women's Championship: Mayu Iwatani (c) vs. AZM Four-Way Match for the NJPW World Television Championship: Ren Narita (c) vs. Jeff Cobb vs. Ryohei Oiwa vs. El Phantasmo Lumberjack Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. EVIL β€” If Tanahashi loses, he has to retire. Winner Takes All Match for the NEVER Openweight Championship and AEW International Championship: Shingo Takagi (Openweight) vs. Konosuke Takeshita (International AEW Championship) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Douki (c) vs. El Desperado IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: David Finlay (c) vs. Yota Tsuji Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiromu Takahashi IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Shota Umino Support this podcast at β€” https://redcircle.com/fightful-pro-wrestling-and-mma-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

What is going on, everyone?

0:21.8

Or good morning, actually.

0:23.4

I don't get to say that much.

0:24.8

But welcome to the Fightful Review Post Show for Russell Kingdom 19, New Japan, Pro Wrestling,

0:36.8

big event that kind of ended with a uh

0:41.3

like just yeah but it it was overall it was a good show but want to say thank you for everyone to that's joining me.

0:57.0

My name's Rob Wilkins.

0:58.2

We are joined by SP3, Scott E. Wrestling and Lyric.

1:03.9

So I want to say thank you guys for joining me because you could have just gone right to bed.

1:10.3

I'm actually surprised you guys are still here after that main event.

1:13.0

So it put a lot of people to sleep, I think, in the timeline.

1:19.8

But we'll get started.

1:24.7

New Japan put on their biggest show of the year always it's the first big show and uh i thought

1:33.0

it started off with a bang when you have great o'conn and josh barnett co out there um so that's what

1:40.3

i tweeted out earlier i was like this was already the best event of the year. So, because I'm a Josh Barnett guy, but, and you just add great O'Conn to it, and here we are.

1:51.5

But before we get started, SP3, what overall, what would your favorite match?

1:59.7

My favorite match is, I was David Finley versus Yodosugi.

2:05.3

I thought those guys were the peak of the show.

2:08.7

And then the show fell off of kill.

2:10.6

It was kind of weird to watch unfold.

2:14.1

I felt like I was still on the hive from the Suji and Finley matchup during Haramu and Naito.

2:19.6

So only any good moments made me believe that that was a good matchup.

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