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Welcome to Fightful.com's live coverage & discussion for NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors 25 Day 2. We'll be bringing you full, match by match coverage of every bout on the card. You can also send in your feedback on our Disqus boards below!
NJPW BOTSJ 25 Block B Match
Hiromu Takahashi def. Marty Scurll
NJPW BOTSJ 25 Block B Match
Chris Sabin def. Kushida
NJPW BOTSJ 25 Block B Match
El Desparado def. Ryusuke Taguchi
NJPW BOTSJ 25 Block B Match
Dragon Lee def. Sho
Los Ingobernables (Sanada & Bushi) def. Bullet Club (Chase Owens & Taiji Ishimori)
Suzuki-Gun (Minoru Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) def. Flip Gordon & Toa Henare
Chaos (Will Ospreay, Yoshi-Hashi & Yoh) def. ACH, Tiger Mash IV & Tomoyuki Oka
Shota Umino def. Yota Tsuji
Shota Umino vs. Yota Tsuji
The match begins with some chain wrestling between the competitors, Tsuji and Umino take turns wrenching away on each others arms. Tsuji gets Umino to the ropes before nailing him with a chop, Umino goes for a headloc..

Here's your Fight Size wrestling Update for the morning Of May 19th, 2018.
– Two-time WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair announced over his official Instagram page that he had to cancel the appearances he was scheduled to make this weekend due to a sudden illness. Flair had a serious health scare last summer that sent the wrestling world into a frenzy. Ryan Satin of Pro Wrestling Sheet reported that Flair has come down with the flu.
A post shared by Ric Flair® Nature Boy® (@ricflairnatureboy) on May 18, 2018 at 8:16am PDT
– Former IMPACT Wrestling talent 'Ava Storie' made her NXT TV debut this past Wednesday as she competed in singles action against Lacey Evans. In January of this year Storie was moved to the “alumni” section of the IMPACT Wrestling website which confirmed her departure from the company after only eleven months with the company.
#WWENXT @Storie_Time on NXT pic.twitter.com/X4M0sXcS5z
— JJ Williams (@JJWilliamsWON) May 16, 2018
– After seventeen years of ma..

“Hangman” goes over the journey to 'All In'.
“The Problem Solver Of Bullet Club” Adam “Hangman” Page has established himself as the enforcer of the group. Two years ago during the month of May Page earned his black-and-white stripes by joining forces with 'Bullet Club' during a Ring Of Honor 'War Of The Worlds' show. Now, “Hangman” is four months away from being involved in an event that his good friends and stable-mates Cody and The Young Bucks put together as they have sold out a 10,000 seat arena in Chicago, IL.
Ahead of the actual 'All In' show and 'All In' weekend 'The Elite' hosted a press conference inside of the Pro Wrestling Tees store in the same city that their sold out event will be held in. Following the press conference Fightful's correspondent Steven Muehlhausen had the opportunity to interview both Adam “Hangman” Page and Tessa Blanchard and during his conversation with both stars he asked Page to share..

Joe tells us all how to look scary.
Whenever he is featured on WWE TV in any form or fashion Samoa Joe speaks with an intensity and passion in his voice that results in many fans calling him “intimidating” and describing him as a tough individual. Next week Samoa Joe will have an opportunity to earn his spot into the 2018 men's Money In The Bank Ladder match in a qualifier against Big Cass. But before that WWE is currently wrapping up their tour of the U.K. and Sky Sports was able to catch up with “The Destroyer” and asked him to explain the art of intimidation.
“Intimidation is an unusual animal.” Joe said. “Its a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche and knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, *Joe stares into the camera*, and you know that's kinda’ just the basic gist of it.” He continued, “I heard that’s like an contributing factor [Being a larger athlete making him more intimidating], but I’d like to say its the soul crushi..

Here are the standings for the NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors 25, they will be updated each day that a Best Of The Super Juniors 25 event takes place.
Here is how the point system breaks down:
Win = 2 points
Draw = 1 point for each competitor
Loss = 0 points
A Block
Taiji Ishimori: 2 Points (1-0-0)
Tiger Mask IV: 2 Points (1-0-0)
ACH: 2 Points (1-0-0)
Yoh: 2 Points (1-0-0)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay: 0 Points (0-1-0)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion Yoshinobu Kanemaru: 0 Points (0-1-0)
Bushi: 0 Points (0-1-0)
Flip Gordon: 0 Points (0-1-0)
B Block
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion El Desperado: 2 Points (1-0-0)
Chris Sabin: 2 Points (1-0-0)
Hiromu Takahashi: 2 Points (1-0-0)
Dragon Lee: 2 Points (1-0-0)
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champion Marty Scurll: 0 Points (0-1-0)
Kushida: 0 Points (0-1-0)
Ryusuke Taguchi: 0 Points (0-1-0)
Sho: 0 Points (0-1-0)

Wrestling promoter and fiance of WWE veteran Rosa Mendes, Bobby Schubenski spoke about Black Craft Cult Wrestling, and much more with WPW Weekly. You can see highlights below, and the full podcast at this link.
Bobby Schubenski on engagement to Rosa Mendes:
We’re working through some things, Milena is the best mom in the world and I am just so busy. She’s getting back into wrestling, she’s just working her ass off and it’s been awesome. So yeah we are working through some things, but we will get it all sorted out.
Bobby Schubenski on upcoming Blackcraft Wrestling Promotion:
First of all it’s in my hometown and I have some really special people involved in it on August 24th. I can’t really give away who all is going to be there, but we have a really special band that will be performing live there…I can give away two of the wrestlers that are going to be there, I am really excited about. We have Brit Baker and Paige’s mom Saraya Knight, so I’m really excited about that. The band t..

Former professional wrestler turned pro MMA fighter CM Punk returns to the Octagon next month at UFC 225, facing Mike Jackson.
Punk and Jackson will kick off the main card of the event, which is set to air live on pay-per-view.
UFC Hall Of Fame member Mark Coleman voiced his opinion about the placement of the Punk/Jackson fight on Twitter:
Sometimes u have to make exceptions.$ I'm excited for this fight . I wish @CMPunk the best! But I understand.
— Mark Coleman (@HammerHouseMMA) May 14, 2018
That would lead to Punk issuing a response of his own through Twitter, where the former wrestler admits his bout should be kicking off the event on UFC Fight Pass:
I understand too. If it was up to me, I'd be first fight on fight pass. Don't matter to me. Fans like to be outraged by stuff that doesn't matter. (Appreciate the support Mr. Coleman!!!!! You're truly the man)
— Coach (@CMPunk) May 14, 2018
Such luminaries as former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Holl..

Natalya credits fans for helping the women's division.
Natalya has ten years in her WWE career and experience the growth of the women's division. Earlier this year, when the male wrestlers went to Saudi Arabia for the Greatest Royal Rumble event but the female wrestlers did not go as a concession to the Saudi Arabian government. In an interview with Joe, Natalya spoke about the event.
“Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say, but I think definitely we'll get there, I'm excited about it. I was talking with several of the male talents that were over in Saudi Arabia, and Roman Reigns said it was just so incredible, and that he can't wait to go back. So it's exciting for us to think about going there,” said Natalya.
WWE has been putting women in more main events and featured matches but Natalya says she hopes to see women in the WrestleMania main event and attributes the divisions success to the vocal fans.
“I think the women in the WWE would love ..

This may be Flip's last chance.
Since the announcement that The Young Bucks and Cody are going to be presenting their self-financed show entitled 'All In', a number of wrestlers that have been booked for the show have been revealed. Names such as: Jay Lethal, Britt Baker, Chelsea Green, Joey Janela, the current IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada and others have been declared official for the show on September 1st.
One man that has been consistently and vigorously attempting to get on the card is Flip Gordon. Flip Gordon was regulary featured in numerous episodes of the 'Bullet Club's' 'Being The Elite' YouTube series where he would seemingly fit in with the rest of the crew but could not seem to garner the liking of the former ROH World Champion Cody.
“The American Nightmare” announced via Twitter today that Flip failed to gather the three full votes needed to get booked for 'All In' so he is providing the 26-year old with ano..

The hard-striking Brit will be exclusive to WWE.
Martin Stone, better known as Danny Burch from the NXT brand has reportedly inked a new deal with WWE. During the summer of 2015 Burch did a number of appearances for NXT despite not being signed with the company. While Burch has been competing in NXT he was working matches on the independent wrestling scene for numerous promotions around the United Kingdom. Danny Burch is regularly featured on NXT TV where he has aligned himself with Oney Lorcan.
Earlier today, Burch competed in a singles match against Josh Briggs for 'Beyond Wrestling' and the match would ultimately end up being his last for the promotion as PWInsider has reported that WWE offered Danny Burch a new contract last month and he accepted and has now inked a new deal with the sports-entertainment company.
What a match between @strongstylebrit and @TheJoshBriggs in Martin’s last match ever for @beyondwrestling #WelcomeHome pic.twitter.com/tLLpsaYNGj
— MikeyLaFr..