Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Tam Nakano and Natsupoi share strategy, lunch?
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The second team to give their thoughts ahead of November 20’s Historic X-Over eight person tag was the combination of Godesses of STARDOM Champions MelTear, Tam Nakano and Natsupoi, and Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Taichi of Suzuki-Gun.
Tam Nakano (Tam): Tam Nakano and…
Natsupoi: Natsupoi-
Together: MelTear! And…
Taichi: And? Oh, er. Taichi.
Kanemaru: Kanemaru.
Taichi: We’re MaruTear.
Tam: Thank you for watching our joint live stream last night! We did a lot of good team building. And..
Natsupoi: We cut a lot of onions!
Taichi: You should watch the archive on YouTube. We played that cooking game, Overcooked. It’s a four player team building game.
Tam: So we wanted to do some real life cooking. We made you guys lunch!
Natsupoi: Eat these, please.
Tam: Eat these, get strong, and we’ll be unstoppable.
Natsupoi: Eat them. Seriously.
Taichi: You made these?
Tam: I did the stream until 10PM yesterday then got up at six to make this.
Natsupoi: Kanemaru-san, eat it.
Taichi: This is good, but it kind of tastes like you bought it from a convenience store.
Tam: It tastes like it was made by professionals.
Kanemaru: This good. I’m not sure how it will make us work better as a team, but we’ll figure it out.
Tam: And we’re training together, too!
Taichi: Ah yeah, I figure we’ll practice together.
Tam: There’s a move I want us all to do, off each of the four corners at the same time. If Taichi does something cool off the top rope, it would really be something.
Taichi: All together? OK.
Tam: Really? You never fly?
Kanemaru: It’s just that he doesn’t need to, normally.
Tam: So it’s just a recent thing?
Taichi: It’s not that I can’t, I just don’t. Everyone flies so I choose not to. I’ll do a shooting star press. I can, I just don’t show it. So if the timing is right, I’ll do it. If my timing is off, you guys dive first, and then I’ll go, later.
Natsupoi: No, we have to do it together.
Kanemaru: The timing is tricky.
Taichi: I’ll do it after you go.
Tam: We have to jump together!
Taichi: Don’t you hold hands with Natsupoi and jump?
Tam: How about we all hold hands together then?
Taichi: How do you hold hands?
Tam: Like this. You hold hands with Kanemaru.
Taichi: I haven’t held hands with anyone in ages.
–Have you been in a mixed tag before?
Kanemaru: This is my first time. But the girls can wrestle their way, and maybe we’ll have a double team up our sleeves.
Taichi: I talked about this before, but the rules here are that the men wrestle men and women wrestle women. At first I wasn’t into that, but when you think about it, this ruling means you have to use your head, and I think it’ll lead to something really different. I think we’ll have something within the rules that will make people think this match is something special.
Personally, I make sure I’m especially mean when it comes to children, the elderly and women, so.
Tam: Isn’t that backward?
–You usually team with your opponents DOUKI and El Desperado.
Kanemaru: I think that adds another aspect of this match that’s intriguing, what it’s like for these teammates to fight one another. I think you could really count the number of times we’ve done something like that on the fingers of one hand.
Taichi: We’re usually closing the bars together, and with his whiskey, it’ll be less a match and more a late Friday night. Until we get in the ring, I don’t know what will happen. There’s no anger, no hate there, so I’m not sure what to expect.
–How do you feel about Watanabe and Starlight Kid opposite you?
Natsupoi: If the rules mean it’s women wrestling women, then for us that’s Black Desire. But we just beat them in a title match, and this month we’ll face one another twice. I don’t think we’ll have a problem winning. I’ve wrestled Kid a thousand times, and she’s always a fun opponent, and one I don’t see myself losing to.
Tam: When Black Desire talk about us, they say that us singing and wrestling is something that’s disrespectful to pure pro-wrestlers. But we give 100% in both, and that’s what makes us the best all round pro-wrestlers, and that’s what I think we’ll show.
Natsupoi: We won’t lose out when it comes to our entrance, right?
Taichi: I gave them some special masks for their entrance yesterday. Our entrance will definitely be unique.
Tam: It’ll be the most glitzy of all the entrances.
Taichi: And, Tokyo Sports! Those two have to win the best tag team this year. Otherwise I’ll shave your heads. Best Tag has to be these two- me and Zack aren’t in the (World Tag League) series, so this is the only sensible choice.
