A Harmful Rib

Cody talking to Masa on the phone.

**A Harmful Rib** is episode 57 (Season One) of of the YouTube series Being The Elite, which was produced and edited by professional wrestlers The Young Bucks. The episode covers The Young Bucks return to Japan and their harmless rib on Masa. They also reflect on their ribs on Flip Gordon.

## Characters

### Featured

* Nick Jackson
* Matt Jackson
* Kenny Omega
* Masa
* Cody
* Flip Gordon
* Frankie Kazarian

## Locations

* Tokyo, Japan
* Collinsville, Illinois

## YouTube Description

*"Matt & Nick go to Japan & play a harmful rib on Masa. Flip Gordon gets welcomed to ROH."*

## Story

The episode starts with footage of Matt holding down Masa in a hotel room as Kenny Omega prepares to superkick him. This runs before the opening credits.

Matt and Nick Jackson are on a plane headed to Tokyo as a travel montage follows. Cut to The Young Bucks in a store in Tokyo delivering merchandise. Nicks says they have come straight from the airport on no sleep, but that if you're not working you're not making money. A montage of the duo trying on some of the other wrestling merchandise in the shop follows.

Later Matt and Nick are asleep in their hotel room as Masa comes in and wakes them up. Masa says he is hungry and wants to go for food. Matt and Nick stall and say that Cody wants to come but Masa is getting agitated and hopping from one foot to another and demanding they leave. As they head out there is a knock at the door. The group wonder who it is and send Masa to answer it as Matt laughs that it is their harmless rib arriving. Masa opens the door and it is Kenny who runs in and hits Masa with a flying knee. Masa begs for mercy on the floor but Kenny says this is what he gets for doing what he did. Kenny orders Matt to hold Masa on the bed and Kenny delivers another running knee.

Kenny is about to perform his finishing move, the One Winged Angel, on Masa but The Bucks stop him and say that it was just a harmless rib. Kenny looks confused as Masa says it was a harmful rib. Kenny confronts Masa and asks why he would show a private DM to other Marty just because he wanted Marty to hang out with him. Masa says that he can't explain in English to Kenny so talks to him in Japanese. Masa tells Kenny that it was The Young Bucks that sent the pictures. Kenny mulls it over as Matt and Nick say that Masa has admitted it and they should all move on and got for breakfast. Kenny thanks Masa for his honesty and says it has made everything crystal clear.

Nick's phone rings and it Cody who asks to speak to Masa. Masa starts to have a lengthy conversation as it cuts to Cody who is on a train whispering to Masa. Back in the room Masa keeps nodding and saying "yes, ok" for a while before hanging up and giving the phone back to Nick. The Bucks ask him what Cody said and Masa replies "Fuck The Revival!.

A montage of Matt and Nick doing a photo shoot follows. Afterwards they are watching Cody doing his photo shoot and Matt asks the others if thye feel guilty about what they have been doing to Flip Gordon? Cody asks who they are talking about and says he has never heard of Flip Gordon.

Cut to last week in Collinsville, Illinois as Flip is limbering up in the ring. Matt, Nick, Cody and Adam Page approach Flip but tell him to relax and that things got out of hand and it was just a harmless rib. Flip says that they were harmful ribs but the group ask him to hug them. Flip hugs Nick, Page and Cody but when he gets to Matt, he grabs flips hand and says "Where do you think you're going?" The group hit Flip with various wrestling moves and leave him lying in the ring. They looks down on him and say "Welcome to Ring of Honor" (although Cody says "Fuck The Revival!") They laugh about their rib and head off.

Four hours later... Flip is still laying in the ring and Frankie Kazarian comes over and sits next to him. Kaz says he wants to warn Flip that Bullet Club were planning on a harmful rib for him that night. Flip is still unconscious and Kaz walks off saying "Welcome to Ring of Honor" as he walks off.

Back in Tokyo a fan asks for autos in the hotel lobby and Matt performs his autograph routine as the episode ends.

* Episode 31
* Episode 32
* Episode 33
* Episode 34
* Episode 35
* Episode 36
* Episode 37
* Episode 38
* Episode 39
* Episode 40
* Episode 41
* Episode 42
* Episode 43
* Episode 44
* Episode 45
* Episode 46
* Episode 47
* Episode 48
* Episode 49
* *Fifty*
* *Moving Forward*
* *Bullet Club Gets A Villain*
* *One Condition*
* *A Curtain Call*
* *All By Myself*
* *A Harmless Rib*
* ***A Harmful Rib***
* *Dominion Fallout*
* *Ass Man*
* *From Prince To King*
* *Line In The Sand*
* *Hot Topic*
* *We're Back!*
* *Missed Connections*
* *Someone Will Die!*
* *Someone Does Die!*
* *Cease And Desist*
* *Mind Games*
* *Where's Hangman?*
* *Torture*
* *The Escape*
* *Bullet Club Invades RAW*
* *A Hand Gesture*
* *Debriefing*
* *Where Do You Think You're Going?*
* *Prisoner Of War*
* *Ten Boots*
* *Get It?*
* *I Just Want To Go Home*
* *Highspots*
* *Autograph*
* *Flipping Out*
* *All I Want For Christmas*
* *My First Gig*
* *2017*
 Extras
* *Tokyo Dome Fallout*
* *Response To The Hardy's Challenge!*
* *Young Bucks Fired From The Bullet Club?*
* *Santa Meets The Young Bucks Again*
 Storylines
* Who poisoned Nick?
* Nick's Stolen Bag
* Marty's dream
 Regular characters
* Cody
* Adam Cole
* Nick Jackson
* Matt Jackson
* Kenny Omega
* Adam Page
* Marty Scurll