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We begin tonight’s show with Kevin Kelly and Karl Fredericks.
Kevin says Karl’s 2019 was stellar as a Young Lion. He won the Young Lions Cup. He got the first win of the New Year in 2020 and he was scheduled to be part of the New Japan Cup, but things were put on hold. Kevin ask Karl how is he feeling.
Karl says he misses Kevin and he says he is doing good. Going into the Cup it was a little crazy. He is five months since separating his shoulder and he feels good.
Kevin asks about his earring.
Karl says he has been given the green light to jump out of the Young Lion shell. His arsenal wasn’t enough and he went from his injury to want to return to Japan. He started kickboxing with Shibata. He saw that Karl was ready for more and he has been given the green light so it is sink or swim.
Kevin mentions how he will get to team with TJP against Jeff Cobb and Rocky Romero. He is asked about his mental approach.
Karl says this redebut would have been an opportunity to shock the world if he was given the chance against KENTA. While that opportunity is gone, he has to be the same person. He says he has teamed with TJ before. He feels comfortable working with TJ. Karl says he can’t think of a better way to come out and punch one of the biggest dudes in the company. He says Rocky is tough too but he wants to get his hands on Jeff Cobb.
We are in Los Angeles, California and your announcers are Shigeki Kiyono, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Katsuyori Shibata (in Japanese) or Kevin Kelly, Gino Gambino, and Chris Charlton (in English).
Match Number One: Clark Connors versus Alex Coughlin
They shake hands and then they lock up. They lock up again and Coughlin with a take down. Connors with a waist lock take down and Coughlin escapes. Connors backs Coughlin into the corner and Connors with a break. Connors with a single leg take down and he starts to work on the ankle. Connors with a step over toe hold. Coughlin with a reversal into a single leg crab but Connors gets to the ropes.
They lock up and Coughlin with a wrist lock. Connors with a drop toe hold but Coughlin gets back to his feet. Connors with a wrist lock into an arm bar. Connors with a hammer lock and then he works on the legs. Connors goes for a chin lock with the legs in a figure four. Connors with a bow and arrow but Coughlin counters into a lateral press for a near fall. Coughlin works on the arm. Coughlin with a hammer lock take down into an arm bar. Coughlin with a short arm scissors and Connors tries to escape but Coughlin holds on to the short arm scissors.
Connors gets to the ropes so Coughlin has to release the hold. Coughlin with a wrist lock take down into a head lock but Connors gets to the ropes. They lock up and Connors with a side head lock take down and he traps the arm using his legs. Connors works on the arm but Coughlin with a head scissors.
Connors with a headstand to escape the hold and he misses a forearm. Coughlin with a kick and snap mare followed by a forearm to the back. Coughlin with a rear chin lock. Connors with elbows to escape and a shoulder tackle but Coughlin stays on his feet. Connors with a shoulder tackle and he gets a near fall. Connors with a kick to the back. Connors sends Coughlin into the turnbuckles and connects with shoulders. Connors with chops.
Coughlin with chops of his own. Connors with European uppercuts and chops. Connors with a hip toss and he gets a near fall. Coughlin blocks a slam attempt. Coughlin with elbows to the head and Coughlin with a slam for a near fall. Coughlin with a fallaway slam into a bridge for a near fall. Coughlin stretches Connors but Connors gets to the ropes to force a break. Coughlin chops Connors and follows with a European uppercut. Connors with a power slam and he goes for the Boston Crab and locks it in. Connors turns it into a single leg crab and Coughlin gets to the ropes as we enter the final minute of the match.
Connors with chops and Coughlin chops back. They go back and forth with Connors getting the advantage. Connors misses a shoulder tackle and Coughlin with a gutwrench suplex for a near fall. Coughlin with a side Russian leg sweep for a near fall. The bell sounds as Coughlin tries to get a final pinfall attempt.
Time Limit Draw
After the match, Coughlin says he came close to winning.
Coughlin and Connors get face to face and they have some words for each other and then they shake hands before Connors leaves the ring and goes to the back.
We go to Clark Connors in the back. He says it has been a while since they got back. It is one win for each of them and two ties. Wins and losses matter and he is ready to move on to the next level. Clark says he is not going to be the last one in the LA Dojo.
We go to the Cleaning and Disinfection Break.
Match Number Two: Rocky Romero and Jeff Cobb versus TJP and Karl Fredericks
TJP and Romero start things off and they go to a Greco Roman Knuckle Lock and TJP with a take down into a wrist lock. Romero with a hip lock take down into a wrist lock. TJP with a reversal and he misses an elbow drop. Romero misses a drop kick and so does TJP. They lock up and Romero with a single leg take down and he works on the knee.
TJP with a head scissors take down but Romero with a head scissors of his own. Romero with a chop and Irish whip but TJP floats over and hits a rolling German suplex. Romero with a head scissors take down and Irish whip. Romero runs into boots from TJP and TJP hyper-extends the shoulder. Fredericks tags in and they hit a double shoulder tackle and he hits Cobb on the apron before getting a near fall. Fredericks with a slam and then he knocks Cobb off the apron with a forearm and he covers Romero but the referee deals with Cobb. Fredericks gets a near fall. Fredericks with a European uppercut but Romero with a chop and he tags in Cobb. Cobb with chops and Fredericks with forearms. Cobb with chops and a European uppercut.
Cobb with a hard Irish whip. Cobb with a forearm and back elbow for a near fall. Romero tags in and he kicks and punches Fredericks. Fredericks with a European uppercut and Romero with a drop kick to the knee. Romero with a chop and shoulders in the corner. Cobb tags in and they hit a double suplex. Cobb gets a near fall while Romero holds off TJP. Cobb with a forearm to the back followed by one to the head. Cobb with shoulders in the corner and Romero tags in and he comes off the turnbuckles with a double sledge. Romero with kicks to Fredericks. Romero with forearms and Fredericks with a spinebuster. TJP tags in and he this a reverse atomic drop and follows with a springboard forearm. TJP knocks Cobb off the apron with an elbow and then TJP gets Romero up but Cobb kicks TJP and TJP with kicks and a wrist lock head scissors and arm drag combination. TJP with a butterfly gutbuster for a near fall. Romero escapes from TJP and hits a back heel kick. Romero with the infinity clotheslines but TJP kicks the arm and Romero with a clothesline.
Cobb tags in and TJP floats over and he tries for a tornado DDT but Cobb blocks it and he goes for a delayed vertical suplex but TJP with a knee and a jumping back heel kick. Fredericks tags in and he connects with forearms. Cobb with a kick and Fredericks with a drop kick. Fredericks with a European uppercut for a near fall. Fredericks with a boot to the back of the head followed by forearms. Cobb with a waist lock take down and Fredericks with elbows but Cobb with a drop kick. Romero tags in and he Irish whips Fredericks and follows with an elbow. Romero with a drop kick for a near fall. Cobb tries to send TJP to the floor but TJP goes to the apron and he sends Cobb to the floor. TJP with a double jump drop kick to Cobb. Romero with a baseball slide to TJP. Fredericks with a kick and Romero with a jumping knee. Fredericks with a back slide for the three count.
Winners: Karl Fredericks and TJP
After the match, Cobb and Fredericks push each other and TJP and Romero have to hold back their tag team partners.
We go to the back where Karl Fredericks is interviewed.
He says he did everything he told Kevin Kelly he would do. If someone mentions that Rocky is LA Dojo, he will go out of his mind. Rocky is Chaos. Everyone comes in and they go to a faction. He says it is pack mentality in New Japan. Two wolves fight either to the death until the other sticks their neck out to submit. You are the alpha or you have an ally. You have a bunch of super groups with Alphas. It took KENTA a month to join the Bullet Club. He will never stick his neck out in submission and follow anyone’s lead. He is always alpha.
Kevin Kelly says we will get to the bottom of this.
Next week, we will have three debuts.
Kevin says he is going to try to get an interview with Jeff Cobb to see what is going with Karl Fredericks.
We go to credits.
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