00:30What is the House of Torture who have set up shop tonight in Fukui for one night only in a six-man tag team action that we are set to get underway with here tonight, but it was 24 hours ago where those two men right there, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Dick Togo, the team of Whiskey Dick, were eliminated from Super Junior Tag Team.
00:59Is that a name?
01:01That's what we've been saying.
01:02Oh, no.
01:08No one's corrected me yet.
01:11Oh, yeah.
01:29Oh, here we go.
01:35Here we go.
01:36Here we go.
01:53Calum, if I remember correctly, you told me a few times before in the broadcast booth that you came up on the Dragon Gate scene.
02:00You came up watching and studying the work of men like Yamato.
02:03The first thing I ever saw of Japanese wrestling, of Japanese wrestling, was Dragon Gate.
02:20Oh, here he is.
02:22Yeah, oh, don't do that to him.
02:31I don't care about Tiger or the other geezer.
02:34Yeah, well, Yudro, Takahashi, Kanemaru, and Togo getting things started a little bit earlier tonight, Calum.
02:40Dude, Dragon Gate, that's what I grew up on.
02:45I take massive inspiration from Takahashi, Yoshino.
02:50I don't know, that style is really what made me want to pursue high-speed style wrestling.
02:57Yeah.
02:59It's that we've been talking about it all tournament long.
03:01It really works in the favor of something like Junior Tag League, that Lucha Libre influence that makes its way from the beginnings of Tor Yamada into Dragon Gate.
03:09Now we have so many Dragon Gate stars, I mean, more than typical around here in New Japan right now.
03:15Yamato, Yuki Oshioca, Dragon Daya, three of the top stars in Dragon Gate, competing in this year's Super Junior Tag League.
03:23But things have not exactly worked out for Tiger Mask and Yamato.
03:26Zero points on the board, the only team in Block B who haven't won a single match.
03:30Oh, no.
03:30And to know that it is Tiger Mask's more than likely final Super Junior Tag League tournament, unless our scheduling changes get crazy in 2026, well, Tiger Mask has already announced his retirement for the summer.
03:46And meanwhile, yeah, Yudro Takahashi is going to drag Tiger Mask underneath the bottom rope, and Dick Togo and Kanemaru are going to continue to work on the outside.
03:54You know, to have it be your final tournament run here in New Japan Pro Wrestling, at least in Super Junior Tag League setting for Tiger Mask, and to walk away with nothing, I mean, it is a black mark on what has otherwise been an incredible career.
04:10You have to end the tournament scene at least on a victory, and that's the final opportunity that Yamato and Mask get tomorrow.
04:18Yeah, you'd hope so, wouldn't you?
04:19Yeah.
04:19But I feel like the amount that Tiger Mask has put his body through, as long as he knows he's doing his best, that's all that matters, isn't it?
04:29Even if he sucks and can't win a match.
04:32Oh, come on.
04:34He's starting to talk like Dick Togo right now.
04:38Oh.
04:39Do a top rope centon, please.
04:41I need it in my life.
04:43Well, we've been seeing a lot of that of Dick Togo in the Ocean of the Kanemaru.
04:46Jumpy, isn't he?
04:47Yeah!
04:47Hey!
04:48Hey!
04:49Tag man in the corner, here comes Kanemaru.
04:51Oh, he...
04:52I know that not too many people like House Torture, but Kanemaru, one of the best wrestlers in the world.
04:59I mean, to be quite honest with you, Kalen, Togo and Kanemaru might have been the team I had circled at the beginning of this tournament.
05:05So much experience inside that ring, and two men that when they want to turn the wheels on, they're gonna go.
05:09There's, what, like, 40 years, 45 years between them?
05:13Yep, roundabout.
05:14Even with Yujiro on that team, the amount of knowledge in the blue corner tonight is insane.
05:23All tag made in that blue corner, here comes Huge Yuji, Yujiro Takahashi.
05:29Huge Yujiro.
05:30That's what they've been calling him.
05:32Cover here for Yujiro, two count only.
05:35Did you hear the receptions that Yujiro was getting in, he got a count.
05:38No.
05:38Oh, man.
05:39No.
05:39He was over like Rover and he got it.
05:41Yeah, man.
05:42Cover here, two count only.
05:44And it is Yujiro Takahashi that's gonna continue the work on Tiger Mask, or really the work on Sakamoto here.
05:54As Tiger Mask taking to the outside, what the hell is Togo doing now?
05:58Or is trying to de-mask the tiger.
06:04Yujiro's absolutely punk.
06:07Get out!
06:10Well, Yamato now getting in the face of referee Sakamoto.
06:13And this is not gonna lead to many good things here tonight.
06:17There we go.
06:18Yeah, at least, not for anyone here.
06:21And we have a collapsed table at ringside.
06:28We have Tiger Mask back inside the ring.
06:30But that mask severely loosened by Dick Togo.
06:34Cover here for Yujiro Takahashi, two count.
06:37The crowd of Kukui tonight, Cal, trying to will Tiger Mask to the red corner for a tag, but I don't think it's coming anytime soon.
06:49Oh, now, right into the eyes of Tiger Mask.
07:02Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
07:09Tiger Mask, one of the round house underneath.
07:12Here's Panamaru.
07:13Oh, got it anyway.
07:17Togo off the ropes.
07:19Well, there it is.
07:21Got it.
07:22Tilts the world backbreaker from Tiger Mask.
07:25Tag made in the red corner, here comes Yamato.
07:38Multiple time champion, nearly every single place that he's been has represented so, so well in Dragon Gate and has represented Dragon Gate, well, almost just as well here in New Japan, albeit without any victories.
07:50You know, Yamato brings a certain energy to the ring that's just very hard to replicate.
08:00Brother, I'm just in awe right now.
08:04I don't think it has the same effect.
08:13Well, it's working.
08:15It's working for the people.
08:17I don't think it's working for the people.
08:24I don't think it's working for the people.
08:29Yamato says he's gonna hit it here.
08:31Yeah.
08:32Yeah.
08:34Yeah.
08:35Yeah.
08:36Yeah.
08:37Yeah.
08:38Yeah.
08:39Yeah.
08:40Yeah.
08:41Yeah.
08:42Yeah.
08:43Yeah.
08:44Yeah.
08:45Yeah.
08:46Yeah.
08:47Yeah.
08:51Yeah.
08:52No, Yamato.
08:53Off the ropes, Katomaru, Yamato met back again.
08:55Here it is.
08:56Yeah!
08:57Yeah!
09:01Yeah!
09:02Yeah!
09:03Yeah!
09:04It is.
09:05He's got it.
09:06It is.
09:11So cover here, in a two count only.
09:14Watch Imato now hit the ropes.
09:22Kanemaru taken out with a forearm shot.
09:24You talked about it earlier Callum, just like that Kanemaru able to turn everything around
09:45at a moment's notice.
09:47One of the smartest wrestlers in the game, here comes Yudro Takahashi back into the ring.
09:51Huge Yud, here he is.
09:55Nothing huger than that, bigger rather.
09:59And Yudro, what is on the mind of that man?
10:03Oh, Imato's on the back.
10:05There you go.
10:06Give up, give up, give up, give up, give up, give up.
10:11Wait a minute, in the red corner, look who that is, Young Lion Shomikato.
10:14Go on, mate.
10:15There is something about all the Dragon Gate wrestlers, their agility is insane.
10:20Yeah, you're right about it.
10:21Now we get to Kato's, I'm just a fat boy now.
10:24Oh, come on.
10:25Kato's been puttin' on a little bit of size, but it's workin' to his advantage right now.
10:29Go on.
10:38No.
10:39Go on.
10:40Yudro Takahashi has slowed this thing back down to a snail's pace tonight.
10:55And he's not gonna call his shot before he hits it.
11:11Here we go.
11:12Kato turns it around.
11:15Suplex on Yudro.
11:16Fukui going crazy for it.
11:18Cover.
11:19Two.
11:20You know, the no-gate dojo getting full and full as time goes on.
11:26Kato and Murashima are two top-yard lions by seniority.
11:30Kato's been talking up a huge storm about wanting to go to Excursion.
11:34Maybe Dragon Gate could be on the list.
11:36Dude, if he gets to wrestle with Dragon Gate before me, I'm gonna hate him for the rest of my life.
11:41My.
11:46Tiger Mask, Yamato, Shomakato, and Yudro taking into the corner.
11:52Here comes Kato first.
11:54To the back of the head.
12:00Let's do that one.
12:08Tiger Mask hasn't got a clue.
12:11Oh, no, dripped up the legs by Whiskey Dick on the outside.
12:21Shomakato all alone in the ring with Yudro Takahashi or two legal men.
12:25Oh, but Yudro about to put this one to bed.
12:29Cover here for Yudro.
12:31Oh, no.
12:31Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
12:41Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
12:44Schoolboy roll up.
12:45Cover.
12:46Two.
12:50What's that inside cradle here, Kato?
12:52Cradle this.
13:02And it's bound to be over here.
13:05Cover for Yudro Takahashi.
13:07Three count.
13:08See you later.
13:17Yudro Takahashi has scored a lot of tag team victories on this series.
13:21Wouldn't shock me if he was preparing for a World Tag League run this year.
13:24Oh, Jesus.
13:26Oh, no.
13:27Oh, come on.
13:34What is this trash?
13:35This is, oh, I can't believe this.
13:39How dare you.
13:40Tiger to go.
13:44Oh, come on.
13:47What the hell?
13:49I mean, it's a good fit.
13:53Well, we're going to be looking for a new one come summer 2026, but.
13:57Oh, dude.
14:00I don't think this is, I don't think this should be it at all.
14:03Can we get the next Tiger Mask?
14:05Yeah, you could be the next Tiger Mask, maybe.
14:07Oh, I could, but.
14:10No, this is an unfortunate ending to this match.
14:19I'm glad you're having a laugh here tonight.
14:21Dude, I love doing commentary because I get to switch off.
14:25I ain't got a bit of moody little git that I usually am.
14:28I just get to sit here, enjoy some wrestling, and laugh at people.
14:32Hey, there you go.
14:33Well, Tiger Mask definitely not in a laughing mood after that one.
14:37That's going to be a block B matchup that we see tomorrow.
14:40It is the last chance for Tiger Mask and Yamato to put any points on the board.
14:44Tiger Mask and Yamato take on Whiskey Dick in House of Torture.
14:47Yoshinobu Kanamaru and Dick Togo.
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