The Evolution of Wheeler Yuta - Best Friends vs. Blackpool Combat Club
The evolution of Wheeler Yuta over the past year that he has been in the Blackpool Combat Club has been astonishing. From his technical wrestling prowess, to his character, even to his presentation. Everything about him has changed, and improved drastically. It could be argued that out of the three men Bryan Danielson mentioned in his initial vision of the Blackpool Combat Club, often labeled “the Killers of AEW”, Daniel Garcia, Wheeler Yuta, and Lee Moriarty; Wheeler Yuta has improved the most out of all of them. With a pin over Kenny Omega at Double or Nothing’s Anarchy in the Arena, it seems as if AEW has recognized this growth as well, and sees the world in this ‘little shithead’ as Bryan Danielson would label him. When looking at Wheeler Yuta at the beginning of 2022, an AEW Dark mainstay, you have to ask yourself “How did we get here?” I believe there is no better match series that shows the evolution of Wheeler Yuta as a wrestler, and as a character, than the matches between Best Friends and Blackpool Combat Club.
It isn’t a consistent feud, matches tend to be months apart from each other. It isn’t a feud which is moved by promos, 85% of the storytelling takes place in ring. It’s subtle, but I truly believe it is one of the best ongoing feuds in AEW. Wheeler Yuta’s original family, versus the family he left them for to become the technical assassin he is known as in 2023. Whenever Wheeler Yuta is booked in a match against a Best Friend (more specifically Chuck Taylor), my eyes light up. With each match, the hatred between these two factions grow deeper. With each match, Wheeler Yuta becomes more and more unfamiliar to the men who let him sleep on their couch. With each match, Chuck Taylor’s former student’s intentions become so much more malicious than just showing his teacher he is in good hands. These are all of the matches between Best Friends and Blackpool Combat Club, and they have all weaved a timeline of the evolution of Wheeler Yuta.
Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson/Jon Moxley) vs. Best Friends (Chuck Taylor/Wheeler Yuta) - AEW Dynamite - St. Patrick’s Day Slam 3/16/22
While Jim Ross is waffling about Kris Statlander’s makeup, Bryan Danielson comes out of the heel tunnel while accompanied by William Regal. What William Regal says when his headset is on lays out the entire foundation of not only the Blackpool Combat Club, but the feud as a whole. “Two true warriors of the canvas wars, and when you bring them together, and you enlighten the people on what professional wrestling should be. It’s going to be magic, what else can it be?” Two warriors, searching for other warriors to wage war with, looking to create a faction that is idealistically opposed to Best Friends. Best Friends are just here to have fun, to have a good time wrestling with their friends. Blackpool Combat Club want to hurt you, they want to kill you.
The bell rings, and not too disimilar to his match against Moxley a month prior, Yuta is getting mauled. Danielson and Moxley are physically battering him, not completely unopposed as William Regal mentions on commentary, “He’s got some fight in him though hasn’t he?” but still to the point where he has to tag out. Chuck Taylor puts up a good fight, a very technical based offense but eventually he too gets mauled. It’s a lot more different than the mauling of Wheeler Yuta though, it’s more technical, it’s more calculated. It paints the image of the Blackpool Combat Club perfectly, they are intelligent beasts. Jon Moxley hits Chuck Taylor with a pile driver, Yuta goes through the ropes to break it up but he chooses not to, and Chuck is forced to kick out instead. Yuta is intimidated, he hesitated, and who can blame him when there is a blood hound in front of him eating his wrestling dad alive. Eventually though, Chuck Taylor makes the hot tag to Yuta. A hot tag which is eventually stopped by a devastating lariat from Jon Moxley. Jon Moxley picks Yuta up for the paradigm shift, he’s going to finish this. Yuta counters though, he hits a beautiful german suplex on Moxley. He’s hitting Mox with forearms, then Danielson walks in, and he’s hitting Danielson too. A fire has been lit. Mox hits him with a cutter to incapicitate him but it isn’t the last time Yuta shows fire in this match. Chuck Taylor breaks up a pinfall on Yuta before being piledriven on the outside by Jon Moxley and being put out of commission. It’s just Yuta vs Danielson and Moxley now. Danielson is kicking him over and over, but Yuta keeps asking for more, he dodges Danielson’s last kick to the head, and starts fighting both Moxley and Danielson once again. Danielson hits him with a suplex, and Yuta kicks out.
Danielson smiles, and something clicks. This is the exact kind of guy they want in the Blackpool Combat Club. The crowd is chanting Yuta’s name as Jon Moxley comes in and chokes Yuta out for the win. No Chuck Taylor to be seen. Best Friends, more specifically Chuck Taylor, failed Wheeler Yuta. He had to fight this battle alone in the end, Jon Moxley and Bryan Danielson being too much for Chuck. While Chuck Taylor failed Wheeler Yuta, Wheeler Yuta passed a test from the Blackpool Combat Club. He was now on their radar.
Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley/Wheeler Yuta) vs. Best Friends (Chuck Taylor/Trent Beretta) - AEW Dynamite - Fyter Fest Week 2 (7/20/22)
It’s been around four months since Wheeler Yuta joined the Blackpool Combat Club. As the Best Friends make their entrance, and Orange Cassidy sits down at the commentary desk, Excalibur explains the palpable feeling of tension in the air radiating from these silly men as the camera pans by a sign that says ‘Chuck Taylor is Yuta’s Real Dad!’, “Chuck Taylor and Orange Cassidy, they were so influential on the early part of Wheeler Yuta’s career, and then Wheeler Yuta joining forces with the Blackpool Combat Club, and uh kind of leaving the Best Friends in the rearview mirror”, Taz adds on “I don’t think that’s really nice of Wheeler Yuta to be honest!” It’s not. It’s cold, but so is the Blackpool Combat Club. Wheeler Yuta did what he had to do to evolve as a wrestler, as evident by the stark contrast in his entrance from St. Patrick’s Day Slam. He isn’t fist bumping Danhausen and Orange Cassidy. He has a new theme, he has the Ring of Honor Pure Championship around his waist, William Regal walks behind him out of the face tunnel, everything about this Wheeler Yuta is new, it’s evolved. Even his wrestling dad. As the blood hound that took Chuck Taylor’s place, Jon Moxley, bursts out from the other side of the arena. As Moxley enters the ring, William Regal has sat down at commentary to instigate the notoriously calm Orange Cassidy “Orange! Did you know there’s not a word in the English Language that rhymes with orange? Am I safe here Orange? You’re not going to start kicking me or attacking me are you boy?”, there’s been an agreement to no hostility between the two.
The match begins with Trent and Mox, and immediately Trent’s actions tell you what he is trying to do. Why is Trent Beretta going chop for chop with Jon Moxley? Best Friends are trying to prove themselves, trying to prove that when they’re brought to a certain point they can be just as violent as the Blackpool Combat Club. Trent and Chuck want to prove to Yuta that he chose wrong, that they could’ve continued to teach him. It’s going to be violent, it’s going to be ugly, but according to William Regal this is what professional wrestling should be. This is what the Best Friends were missing. As Mox tags in Yuta and Yuta asks for Chuck to be tagged in and gets his wish, William Regal continues to boast on commentary “If you’re a young wrestler who wants to be a technical supremely good young wrestler which group would you rather be in? And that’s no disrespect to the Best Friends. They don’t have that vicious streak you need to succeed”, occasionally being interrupted by Orange Cassidy going “alledgedly” knowing the game plan for this match is to show that exact vicious streak Regal speaks of. Chuck is still hesitant though, this is his protege. Another thing which is different about Yuta is his pride, he’s offended by this hesitance and slaps Chuck which leads to Trent tagging himself in and tackling Yuta and pummeling him. Yuta turns Trent over and pummels him back, Chuck Taylor showing visible concern. Trent gets the upper hand and is beating the fuck out of Wheeler Yuta until Chuck holds him back, he is still hesitant, and in his mind this is still his student. The best comparison I can make is when a child runs away from home and the parents find them, one reprimanding them and one just wants them to come back. Chuck just wants Yuta back, all until Yuta forearms him when he is vulnerable. At this point a switch flips, if Yuta isn’t going to come back, they’re going to punish him. Chuck Taylor is going to prove Yuta wrong and bring him back home his self.
Chuck Taylor throws him outside of the ring and throws him into the barricade twice. This isn’t a professional wrestling match anymore, this is a fight. This is the pro-wrestling violence that the Blackpool Combat Club loves, yet when it happens Moxley is visibly upset. What follows is a stark contrast to Mox’s usual violence, which just comes off as just business, he’s a sick fuck but that’s just kind of how he is. He throws a chair at Chuck Taylor to get him away from Yuta, he’s visibly pissed that they’re being so violent with his young boy. It’s such a stark contrast to Mox’s character honestly, and it threw me off watching him get mad at how they were treating Yuta. Yuta’s hair is pulled, they’re double teaming him, he gets hit with a sole food and half and half combo, but he’s showing the same fire against the Best Friends he showed against Bryan and Moxley. That fire guides him to Mox, where he makes a tag and Moxley practically kills Trent, then throws Chuck over the time keeper’s table and flips it over onto him. Mox knows the Best Friends aren’t built for this, they do not want to be a part of this, they have no idea what they are getting into. He walks back into the ring and hits a cutter on Trent, he starts kicking his head in. Chuck sneaks his way back into the ring and hits an Awful Waffle on Mox, it looks brutal. Yuta is tagged in only for him to be hit by two piledrivers from Trent and Chuck, but he kicks out. William Regal credits his teaching, that when he was in Best Friends he wouldn’t be able to do that, that he’s taught Yuta to tuck his chin, and his training has built his neck strength. The camera pans to Orange Cassidy, he is visibly stressed. It’s one of the few times William Regal speaks as the match goes on as well, Best Friends genuinely proving his suspicions about them wrong. It’s a mess, in going to prove to Yuta that they are just as strong as the Blackpool Combat Club they have probably hurt Yuta too much, were too violent, and it shows in the ending to the match. Trent knocks Mox off of the apron, but unlike in March when Chuck was knocked out on the outside, Mox gets back up and traps Trent with a figure four leg lock. Yuta retreats from the usual Blackpool Combat Club branded violence, he’s not sure how to win, and he bets on an old trick. He beats Chuck Taylor with the seatbelt clutch. “Chuck taught him that pin” Orange Cassidy says angrily, as he walks away from commentary.
Despite it all, deep down, there is still Best Friend in Yuta. When it was up to Yuta to secure a win, he didn’t rely on moving his chin in a certain way, he didn’t really on any bridges Danielson taught him, he didn’t bite Chuck Taylor’s face like Mox would’ve, he used something Chuck Taylor taught him. Despite how bad things got, despite the Best Friends honestly being at one of their lowest points in AEW with Yuta gone, and all of them wildly unsuccessful. That finish to me was Yuta still having an appreciation for Chuck Taylor, but showing him he is in better hands. Unlike Chuck Taylor in March, Jon Moxley didn’t fail Yuta. Mox protected Yuta, was angry on his behalf, and fought Best Friends right alongside him. Chuck couldn’t do that. Yet again, the Blackpool Combat Club was too much for Chuck. All he can do is watch as Yuta walks away from them for good, still having an appreciation, still having Best Friend in him, but being in a better place, becoming a better wrestler.
Orange Cassidy vs. Wheeler Yuta (AEW All-Atlantic Championship) - AEW Dynamite (2/22/23)
It’s been a mighty long time since Wheeler Yuta faced off against one of his former Best Friends in the ring. Yet again, we see significant change. On the Rampage before this Dynamite, Yuta approaches Orange Cassidy to ask for a title shot “Leaving you was the best thing I ever did because now I roll with three of the baddest dudes on the entire planet, and they could teach me more than you ever could. You let Chuck treat me like a clown, and then you replaced me with a literal clown, you let Trent bully me but now I am the bully. I worked so hard I put myself through blood, sweat, and tears for this championship. And I don’t even think you care, and that offends me”. Orange Cassidy’s response is simply “All we wanted to be was your Best Friend”. Yuta is so much sharper, he’s grown completely into the Bryan Danielson appointed ‘shithead’ role. He’s still the pure champion, he’s more lean, he’s a better promo, his beard has grown in better (sorry), he has another dad (Claudio). Most of this can be seen in the promo beforehand alone. He is almost a completely different character than he was in July. Lashing out against one of his former mentors, blaming them for his shortcomings of his early career. What about when the match begins though?
Orange Cassidy is different as well, his arm isn’t in a sling anymore, he isn’t coming fresh off of a loss to Wardlow during Fyter Fest Week 1, he’s the All-Atlantic (now International) champion. He opens Dynamite almost every week now, he comes out to Jane instead of Where is my Mind?, he’s 3-0 in singles competition in 2023, and 11-0 in his defenses since becoming a champion. In February 2023, he’s the hottest wrestler in the entire company. Out comes Wheeler Yuta, same theme, same championship, same tunnel (but now it’s a square), no William Regal, but something is just… different. The way he carries himself, the nasty energy he exudes. Despite the similarities to July 2022 there are just so many small, subtle differences. He drags his hand across his face and lets out a fiery warrior cry, he’s about to destroy what is left of his relationship with Best Friends.
Orange Cassidy offers him a handshake and Yuta thinks about it, there is still that small Best Friend in him. This match is a battle between two different Wheeler Yutas, the Best Friend and the Blackpool Assassin. As the match goes, on the Blackpool Combat Club Wheeler Yuta wins more and more. He slaps Orange Cassidy’s hand away, and Orange Cassidy goes for a roll up. They trade several crucifix pins, Yuta rolls out of the ring. He’s overwhelmed. Orange Cassidy puts his hands in his pockets and Yuta throws Orange on the ground out of anger and frustration, but in doing this Orange Cassidy gets him in a seatbelt clutch. Yuta breaks it and rolls out. Maybe he has three dads in the Blackpool Combat Club, but Chuck Taylor and Orange Cassidy? Those are still his fathers. Claudio Castagnolli walks out, and slaps Wheeler Yuta. He needs to show he’s Blackpool Combat Club, he’s embarrassing them. Yuta rolls in the ring and performs some actions which are oddly reminiscent of the tag match at Fyter Fest Week 2. He bites Orange Cassidy’s ear, he lariats him, he dives onto Orange Cassidy on the outside, throws him into the barricade, throws him over the time keeper’s table, and then throws the table onto Orange Cassidy. This entire sequence is a callback to many of Mox’s signature spots, a callback to Mox throwing Chuck over that table at Fyter Fest, and a callback to some things Chuck did to Yuta at Fyter Fest after Yuta slapped him. He is taking out all of his insecurities and scorn regarding his time with the Best Friends, while also contrasting his actions to Mox’s. Mox did that shit to Chuck at Fyter Fest because he was being an asshole, Yuta did that shit to Orange because in his own words “he is the bully now”. He gives Claudio Castagnolli a high five, Blackpool Combat Club blood running through his veins, and throws Orange Cassidy into the post all while Excalibur notes “This is a different man Orange Cassidy is facing than the man that he helped into the professional wrestling business”. The fire that has always been present in Wheeler Yuta scorches on the offensive end now rather than the defensive end, as Orange Cassidy places his hands in his pockets only to be slapped, chopped, and forearmed by Wheeler Yuta. Not too unfamiliar to what he said to Bryan Danielson nearly a year ago, he yells at Orange Cassidy to hit him, only to be Orange Cassidy kicked instead of Bryan Danielson kicked. Orange Cassidy dropkicks him after a counter sequence, but Wheeler Yuta dropkicks him back, right onto the floor. He slams him on the floor, chops him, rolls him back in the ring and starts working his back while doing the Orange Cassidy thumbs up. Wheeler Yuta isn’t just hanging with blood hounds anymore, he has become one. He is mauling Orange Cassidy. As Wheeler Yuta bites Orange Cassidy’s face, Tony Schiavone adds an insightful “We all change and just go our own way man”. Yuta is kicking Orange Cassidy’s head in before Orange has had enough and starts kicking back at him. He gets up, and he hugs him, only to be headbutted in return by Yuta. They trade german suplexes, which is very out of character for Orange Cassidy. Yuta has pushed him to a much more violent place, the same way the Best Friends felt pushed to go to a place like that in July. In the same vein as July, when this violence is replicated, Yuta retreats back into what Best Friends taught him. He attempts to pin Orange Cassidy with a mouse trap, not to show appreciation but to disrespect him. It was what he depended on to get out, but it was malicious as well. He spits on Orange Cassidy, as Yuta’s gum sits on Orange’s forehead, Orange Cassidy spits back at him, and they begin trading forearms before collapsing on the ground after a double clothesline. Wheeler Yuta goes for a piledriver on the apron before being thrown on the apron himself, Orange Cassidy hits a DDT on the floor only to roll Yuta back in the ring, and get hit by a piledriver by Yuta on his second attempt at one. Yuta mixes that small shred of Best Friends with his Blackpool Combat Club techniques, as he gives Orange Cassidy anvil elbows followed by a seatbelt clutch. This is countered as Orange Cassidy returns the elbows and counters with his own seatbelt clutch. It’s broken down into complete disrespect between these men. Orange Cassidy hits him with an Orange Punch, but Yuta kicks out. He hits him with a Beach Break, but Yuta kicks out. He hits him with yet another Orange Punch, and Yuta stays down.
After all is said and done, Orange Cassidy offers Wheeler Yuta a genuine hug. It’s the final attempt at reconciliation between Best Friends and Wheeler Yuta, it got extremely disrespectful and malicious during the match but, brothers fight sometimes do they not? Yuta hesitates, before Claudio comes out and directs him to walk past Orange Cassidy. He does, and it’s over. This was the match that took the Best Friend out of Wheeler Yuta, there is no salvaging anything between them anymore. Orange Cassidy gave him one last chance, and Yuta did not take it. They walked into the match as a former teacher and a former student, and walked out as enemies. This is, a 100% Blackpool Combat Club Wheeler Yuta.
Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnolli/Jon Moxley/Wheeler Yuta) vs. Best Amigos (Bandido/Chuck Taylor/Trent Beretta) - AEW Rampage (5/19/23)
The match begins without entrances because it is AEW Rampage, but something is already so apparent when you look in the ring. As opposed to before in this series when he was standing across from and with Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta just looks like he belongs with the Blackpool Combat Club. In a ring with Claudio and Moxley as opposed to looking like a young boy, he just looks equal. He’s fresh off of facing Katsuyori Shibata as well. He looks like a killer. Standing across from him are the Best Amigos, who have yet again found someone to fill the Wheeler Yuta shaped hole in their faction.
Bandido stands in the ring across from Jon Moxley, the bell rings and Moxley immediately starts kneeing Bandido in the face. Throughout this entire series of matches, Mox specifically has continuously gotten more aggressive. This is his most aggressive yet, although Bandido fights back, Mox man handles him. Yuta wants in, as does Trent. Both are tagged in but Yuta wants Chuck instead, he spits on Chuck, and Trent and Yuta begin to trade forearms. Something is notably different about the style of wrestling Trent has adopted for this match, he isn’t trying to be something he’s not like at Fyter Fest Week 2, he’s wrestling like he normally does. This match isn’t to entice Yuta to come home, they are so far beyond that. This is a match to show that the Best Friends are better than Wheeler Yuta. That their style of wrestling is superior, as opposed to the way professional wrestling ‘should’ be as William Regal puts it. Trent lariats Wheeler Yuta before tagging in Chuck Taylor, who drags him to the outside and throws him into the barricade and begins stomping on him. There’s less anger from Mox than there was nearly a year ago though, a calm walk over and a calm walk back that says “he can handle himself”, opposed to the genuine concern last year. Yuta goes for Chuck’s knee and tags in Claudio while Excalibur states “Wheeler Yuta has never been more dangerous than he is now”. This isn’t a Wheeler Yuta who still has some Best Friend in him. This is a dog, a blood hound, a killer, a real ass nigga. Eventually Mox and Trent are tagged back into the match as these two show a contrast from last year as well, Trent tries chopping Mox again only for Mox not to budge, one forearm from Mox stuns Trent. Once again, Trent is not on Mox’s level, he cannot play Mox’s game. So, Trent plays his own game, he germans Mox twice. Mox keeps getting back up until Trent hits him with a half and half where he gets back up once more and finally collapses. Trent goes up top before being interrupted by Claudio with an mid-air uppercut. Despite the fire shown by the Best Amigos, it just doesn’t burn as bright as the Blackpool Combat Club’s. Claudio absolutely dominates Trent, he kicks Chuck off of the apron, he tags in Mox who also dominates Trent. Yet, there is still a fire. Trent uses what he knows, he hits a corner tornado DDT on Mox to escape to tag Bandido in. Bandido dominates for a while, but is shortly handled by Claudio. This match is just a sheer display of dominance, for every trick Best Amigos have that works, the Blackpool Combat Club can easily counter it. Chuck and Yuta are both tagged in, followed by a sole food and half and half combo on Yuta from Chuck and Trent, followed by a nasty pile driver, and a seatbelt clutch. This is a “Remember who your daddy is lil nigga” pin by Chuck Taylor. But it’s broken up by Mox kicking Yuta, almost to say “get a hold of yourself”. It is once again a scenario that makes you think back to March, what would’ve happen if Chuck Taylor put up a better fight against the Blackpool Combat Club and was there for Yuta like Mox has been? Chuck Taylor had bested Yuta, he had him beat, but the reason the Blackpool Combat Club survived was because of unity, because of strength that the Best Friends do not have, and did not have in March. Chuck attempts to hit an Awful Waffle on Wheeler Yuta before being uppercut by Claudio, hit with a Death Rider from Moxley, and Yuta is thrown onto him by Claudio for the win. In a succint fashion, the Blackpool Combat Club are victorious. Once again, Chuck Taylor fails. The wrestling style of Best Friends is simply just not enough.
Wheeler Yuta has become the pure essence of what William Regal said believed wrestling should be all the way back in March of 2022. He’s cold, he’s calculated, he’s brutal, he fights dirty. He embodies the Blackpool Combat Club mantra.
Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnolli/Jon Moxley/Wheeler Yuta) vs. CHAOS (Chuck Taylor/ Rocky Romero/Trent Beretta) - AEW Dynamite (6/7/23)
As the Blackpool Combat Club emerge from the crowd like a legion of crows looking to feast, while CHAOS awaits them in the ring, Bryan Danielson states “You can see who I associate with, and you can see who Okada associates with. You become the people you hang out around, these are the men I hang out around”. Although it is meant to be a dig at Okada, it also adds to the story of Wheeler Yuta’s growth and evolution from ditching the Best Friends to joining the Blackpool Combat Club. Fresh off of pinning Kenny Omega at Anarchy in the Arena (with the seatbelt clutch, by the way), Yuta walks into CHAOS (the stable name and the noun) at ringside. Chuck Taylor throws a chair at Moxley like Mox did to him in July, it doesn’t miss this time though; Rocky Romero flies off the top at Claudio, Trent drags Yuta to the turnbuckle to hit him with a superplex all before the bell rings. This isn’t seeing who is better anymore, this isn’t wrestling styles contrasting, this isn’t trying to get Yuta to come home, this is absolute hatred. It’s a blood feud now. As the bell rings Chuck Taylor hits Yuta with a piledriver, the new strategy employed by Best Friends for this match is apparent. It isn’t completely adopting the violence, nor is it completely adopting Best Friendism, it’s a mix of both. Will this finally allow them to beat the Blackpool Combat Club?
Wheeler Yuta kicks out of the piledriver, “we learn to tuck our chins for that” says Danielson at commentary. Mox, Claudio, and Yuta, all maul Chuck Taylor before Trent grabs Yuta and throws him into the barricade, Chuck dives on Claudio on the outside, Trent and Chuck hit the sole food half and half combo on Moxley. This isn’t professional wrestling, this isn’t a fight, this has now become survival. This is an attempt to survive the beasts the Blackpool Combat Club have become. Yuta grabs Chuck’s boot from the outside to catch him off guard and Mox hits Chuck with a cutter. This leads to the picture-in-picture ad break, where all three of the Blackpool Combat Club completely maul Chuck Taylor for several minutes. He tries to fight back, but he just can’t. It isn’t enough. It has never been enough. Chuck Taylor cannot beat them. Chuck finally counters Yuta with a knee strike and tags in Trent, who spears Moxley as he enters the ring with a tag from Yuta. He chops Moxley and actually knocks him back this time, Mox still wins the exchange though, and Rocky is tagged in. Rocky holds his own against all three which allows Chuck and Trent to come back into the match to hit a Strong Zero on Moxley. Claudio breaks up the pin on Moxley and Trent attempts to hit a moonsault on him, only to once again face another Claudio mid-air uppercut. Trent has been taken out, Moxley has a rear naked choke locked in on Rocky, and Yuta is raining down anvil elbows on Chuck Taylor. Rocky Romero taps out. Yuta continues to elbow Chuck Taylor past the bell ringing while Danielson screams “Look at the killer instinct!”.
Once Yuta stops, he turns to the camera and hits the Chuck Taylor thumbs up. Once again, Chuck Taylor has crumpled at his former protege’s feet. Once again, Best Friends fall to the Blackpool Combat Club. Once again, it is Wheeler Yuta, who walks away from all of the madness burning brighter than he ever had before.