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00:00Dragon D.I.A.
00:02No wonder if the power of the world is over
00:05I'm a big part of the power of the world
00:08I've been here for a while
00:10I've been here for a long time
00:12I've been here for a long time
00:14I've been here for a long time
00:30The Skateboard Bros are dead, the long-lived Funky Carrot, the new team name, the Infinite Carrot Diamond, Dragon Diet, and the Funky Weapon, Ryusuke Tiuchi.
00:48There was a lot of gaga yesterday, Frankie, but I didn't hear tonight, all business, and it has to be against the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.
00:57And I'm glad that Taguchi is not still hanging on the top rope as yesterday.
01:13I want to point Daya that Daya recently went to Italy, and I was talking to him before his event, and he told me he really enjoyed, like, he saw the passion in Italian wrestlers, and, like, it was a really good experience for him.
01:27I want to see whether that international experience pays off here tonight. A lot of brightness, color, positivity for Taguchi and Dragon Dyer, and you couldn't imagine anything more opposite to these two pieces of work.
01:55Thank you very much.
01:56Thank you for having me.
02:12It's been shots from the Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship belts.
02:17That black mirror they like to carry around, that pipe, that maniac Doki likes to carry.
02:29Feet on the ropes yesterday, handfuls of tights, whatever it takes.
02:39Doki and Sho have just about skated by, but they have skated by and they've been successful.
02:46Successful enough for Doki to be a double IWGP champion.
02:51Successful enough for Doki's own personal lackey, Sho, to also be a champion.
02:59And right now, 1-0 in Super Junior Tackling.
03:04IWGP, Junior Heavy Q Champion, Hapones Delmar, Doki.
03:29IWGP, Junior Heavy Q Champion, Hapones Delmar, Doki.
03:35Well, I'm sure Sho is about to hold pot.
03:38Let's get up out there with that.
03:40Oh.
03:41Give him the microphone.
03:43How do you get out of the room quickly?
03:45What do you think?
03:47How do you think?
03:49You guys won't win.
03:52Sho is saying there's no way that Dragon Dio and Toguchi are going to beat us.
03:57And everybody here in the capital city of Japan is a country bummed.
04:07How many millions of people?
04:08You should go home.
04:09You should go home.
04:10You should go home.
04:14You should go home.
04:15You should go home.
04:16You should go home.
04:17You should go home.
04:18You should go home.
04:19You should go home.
04:20You should go home.
04:21There's no value in us actually wrestling in this main event.
04:24So please just forfeit and give us the points.
04:26I'm afraid Toguchi is going to say it right now.
04:32Nihongo wa karana.
04:35Oh it is getting into his forgotten all his Japanese.
04:49You think I should give him a school address?
04:53A Japanese school address.
04:54That's a Japanese school address.
04:55You know a Japanese teacher?
04:58Geez, well, anyway, we're underway here, Doki.
05:07And Yusuke Toguchi, never discount big match Toguchi in these situations.
05:13He's had his bun already, but there you go.
05:16Smart.
05:17Very smart indeed, and a hard man, Yusuke Toguchi is to beat.
05:30I already think twice before Doki's, you know, already one step ahead of him.
05:37The IWP junior, junior tag team champion.
05:42Yeah, I mean, already if you are a champion coming into a tournament,
05:45you have a target on your back.
05:48Doki certainly has two of them on his back because he has two championships.
05:53Meanwhile, well, this is Doki and Sho all over.
05:57It's Toguchi.
05:58Oh!
06:00Jagadaya all over the top.
06:03Blue, he introduced two fans.
06:05Yeah, a little bit.
06:07Personal meet and greet for the front row fans here in Cochrane Hall.
06:10That's why you should buy a first row tickets when you come to New Japan wrestling.
06:15You might get a hug from the wrestler themselves.
06:19And now Dragon Dio and Toguchi, they're going to take apart Doki.
06:24With any luck, they're going to single out the junior heavyweight champion.
06:28Nice.
06:30There's the door over the top and look at this.
06:35For whom the bell tolls.
06:37It tolls for Doki.
06:39Oh, and it might be a gruesome bell indeed.
06:43It is Toguchi who rings the bell.
06:45Oh!
06:46Oh!
06:47Oh!
06:48Oh!
06:49Oh!
06:50Oh!
06:51Oh!
06:52Yes!
06:54Doki is very, feeling very into the statics.
06:58I think he's starting to enjoy as well.
07:00I think he's getting to enjoy as well.
07:01I think he's getting to Guczy's enjoying it rather too much.
07:03I think he's getting to enjoy as well.
07:06Right, just playing the play, we see just playing a bullpen.
07:08heißt, is it meant he might heal yourself and just hanging out.
07:10Yeah, no other times.
07:12He's going to touch.
07:13Third line.
07:14Third line.
07:15Third line.
07:16There is always.
07:17Fair line.
07:18To theジャlo.
07:19Here we see him playing the game?
07:20The turnalf out.
07:21Fair line.
07:22Here we see Toguchi.
07:23He's got here the fuck.
07:24Can't play.
07:26If his rounds are crossed...
07:27The idéntia winner.
07:28WGP Junior Heavyweight Champion last year. So rightfully applauded, praised, it was a great run and he really showed his worth as Junior Heavyweight Champion as Dragon Dyer gets to two.
07:43And I think one of the reasons also why he joined us out of torture, I think it was the frustration of getting hurt on the biggest stage of them all, like his biggest opportunity.
07:55He for sure doesn't like this.
08:00And he got hurt at the hands of El Desperado.
08:04Well this is, how does Great Okada do about this?
08:08He deeply respects Great Okada.
08:11Well I'm not so sure about that. Doki falls to brown nose a little bit.
08:18Well he got injured at Doki against El Desperado and then, well what happened just a couple of months later on that the members of just four guys, Yu Yuurumura, Taichi, they joined with Han Tai, they joined with El Desperado.
08:33Well that's what, but you know I mean the straw that broke the camel's back as far as Doki was concerned.
08:38And Yoshinapa Kanemaru put in the call, oh my goodness, put in the call, call an ambulance.
08:45Are you sure? Oh no.
08:47And the extra sweetener was when Kanemaru said well me and you can team together again and oh and by the way you get your own personal goof.
08:59Goof, this guy Sho. Sho can be your own personal goon for you.
09:08Look at Taguchi's face, he might be out already.
09:16He's not looking good for Taguchi and Dao, it's not looking good for the funky carrots right now.
09:26Oh no, oh no, not on the steal, oh dear.
09:34Taguchi's face says it all, no need to explanation.
09:43And Yusuke Taguchi will be indisposed for the rest of our main event.
09:50Timber.
09:51Well five minutes deep into this one, I don't think Yusuke Taguchi is going to be coming back anytime soon.
10:08What is this now?
10:13What is this now?
10:14Well Taguchi's, well Taguchi was legal so...
10:18Sho trying to get...
10:21Aave to count faster.
10:26Oh he's Sho's trying, yeah.
10:28He should be talking to the referee, it's his call.
10:30call. We're at 18 here. And Big Match Taguchi just about summons up the courage, shall
10:52we say, to get into the ring immediately. A couple of boots. Oh, no. Oh, no. Take
11:00the Boston Young who's on the front page of Tokyo Sports website today with just this situation.
11:08Look at this being pulled limb for limb. Professional wrestling, Greg. Professional wrestling at this
11:23finest. King of sports.
11:30We talk about many teams, about this competition, but we cannot forget about the legendary teams.
11:38And I know it seems weird, but Taguchi's was one of them. In and Prince David, Apollo 55.
11:46They won the Tokyo Sports award for the best match against the Golden Warriors.
11:52And now Yusuke Taguchi is in this position. And certainly everybody in House of Torture
11:59is any sort of tradition, any sort of acclaim that New Japan Pro Wrestling has, has had,
12:06will have, is something that they cannot abide by. They cannot have nice things thanks to
12:13this guy and that guy. Grinding away the boots.
12:21And Yusuke Taguchi, Sho, who at one point himself won this tournament back-to-back along with
12:28Yo. All right. The only team that has it, right?
12:31Back-to-back-to-back, in fact. Both the Super Junior Tag Tournament and Super Junior Tag League
12:37twice. Only team to do it while they were the champions. Absolutely dominated this scene.
12:45Yeah, Roppongi 3K with Rocky Romero.
12:48Well, we'll downplay Rocky Romero's involvement.
12:51Definitely working the stomach of Yusuke Taguchi here.
13:05Nice.
13:07Intercostal muscles as well up in the ribs and really just grinding away that boot is
13:12their internal organs.
13:15Which might be, considering the punishment of Taguchi and Diaz early on, it might be a relief
13:21that they go into the gut rather than slightly lower.
13:25Well, now, though, this is a little bit like, oh, well, a little flash of the Taguchi week.
13:36So in coming.
13:38You, oh, wait.
13:40Oh, no.
13:41No time.
13:50Certainly not the charm.
13:52Well, there you go.
14:01There you go.
14:03There you go.
14:05There you go.
14:07Yeah.
14:08I would suggest Taguchi to stop doing this.
14:11It might be.
14:12Oh, wait.
14:13That was a wrong suggestion for me.
14:16I think we said it yesterday.
14:17It's the rule of fives.
14:19It's the rule of fives.
14:21It's the rule of fives.
14:22In comes Dyer. Now we're going to get going.
14:28Now it's all business. Dragon Dyer, Shao, look at the speed under the Dragon Gate starts.
14:35Hiltzawa into the arm drag. Beautiful dropkick.
14:41Donkey comes in to try to save the day.
14:44I can barely save.
14:47Oh, wait a second. That's great tag team work right there.
14:52Red Shizuno hadn't cleared the show for the ring just yet.
14:57Now trying to put the brakes on and cannot put the brakes on. Great trick.
15:01Up we go, up the ladder. Beautifully done, my goodness.
15:13There is no stopping. Dragon Dyer.
15:18The champion opening Swing Gate champion in his own right over in Dragon Gate.
15:27Can he get points on the board? Oh, but there's Shao.
15:30Straight to the fingers.
15:33What's this now?
15:35Gonna tie him up.
15:36Yeah!
15:38I'm trapped in that web here.
15:42No, the fingers again.
15:48One, two, three.
15:50That's illegal.
15:52Whoa!
15:54So is this.
16:00Needed on the other end of that spear in the past as well.
16:03And Dyer is not here in New Japan.
16:06You know, he's here for Super Junior, here for this tournament.
16:09So he doesn't know much about the House of Torture tactics.
16:12That's the first one of them.
16:21Can't deny they really work well as a team.
16:25Now it was last year.
16:27Oh, man.
16:28Last year, House of Torture got the best at Dragon Dyer and Yusuke Taguchi.
16:34This year, Funky Carrot trying to turn things around.
16:39Wait a second.
16:40Doki is showing danger.
16:42B-triggered.
16:43B-triggered.
16:44B-triggered.
16:45B-triggered.
16:47And the pass over!
16:57Definitely have his working boots on tonight, Taguchi.
17:01He's gonna go hard.
17:02The further we go into this match up, the more that switch might be flipped.
17:09In Yusuke Taguchi.
17:11And if he can get serious and he can turn the butt stuff into some serious stuff and some money perhaps, some points on the board for Dyer.
17:25And here we go.
17:29Here's the second amigo, here comes the third.
17:37And it's right, got it!
17:41That already is a charm, right?
17:46Right, took five hip attacks but only three suplexes.
17:49And now, it's Hinuchi, putting him down deep.
17:55Drawing on somebody that was in Japan just a couple of weeks ago.
17:59Oyai, no!
18:01Oh man, down to the base.
18:09Oh, he's got that ankle!
18:17Beating Doki will mean both a shot to the IWGP Junior tag and the single championship as well.
18:25Definitely, Doki has a big target.
18:29Now you have a chance to challenge Dodon.
18:32Well, Doki knew the danger and show us right there.
18:36You talk about great tag teams, non-verbal communication.
18:39Show knew that Doki needed that steel chair assist.
18:43Was right there with it.
18:45And now, Nusuke Taguchi is in a world of danger here.
18:55We've seen this double team move before.
18:59Oh, right over the top.
19:02It's two and right there, got it.
19:08The darkest stretch, number 32.
19:12That used to be the Doki Choki.
19:16He used to be so excited to see the Doki Choki.
19:19No more now.
19:20Darkness stretch.
19:22Pulls in dead center.
19:25Blood choke, painful.
19:27I mean, there isn't a part of the body that doesn't hurt.
19:30Yeah, exactly.
19:31And this move, and it takes the hair out of you as well.
19:37All the air from the lungs.
19:41All the blood from the brain.
19:44But a big call from Korak and Hull.
19:46They don't want to see Taguchi tapping out for this.
19:49He makes it to the ropes.
19:51To the relief of everybody.
19:53Yeah, barely, and just barely.
19:5615 minutes.
19:5715 minutes.
19:5815 minutes.
19:5915 minutes.
20:0015 minutes.
20:0115 minutes.
20:0215 minutes.
20:03Just in the 15 minutes.
20:04Maru.
20:05Now, halfway through the time here.
20:08In our main event here in Korak and Hull.
20:11Doki and Sho looking to join the top of the table alongside Yo and Master Watto.
20:26Taguchi and Daya need to win, or they will be on the bubble of elimination.
20:31Oh, no.
20:33Oh, wait a second.
20:35That's a very different look in the eyes of Miyazuke Taguchi.
20:44We haven't seen this Taguchi in a while.
20:47Oh, my goodness.
20:48Now this is what we needed.
20:50Wow.
20:51This is what this team needed.
20:52Wow.
20:53This is what this team needed.
20:54Wow.
20:55That's a way different Taguchi.
20:58Dragon Daya is stunned by what he's just seeing here.
21:05Taguchi flipping out.
21:11Well, there was some really token right there.
21:17Really strong slap from Taguchi.
21:20Wow.
21:21Oh, the master in the dropkick.
21:24And that was a beauty.
21:27And now he's.
21:30Oh, my uncle in on token.
21:40Screaming a coin.
21:47He's the junior heavyweight champion.
21:50Look at the boots.
21:51Oh.
21:52I haven't seen Taguchi's anger in a very long time.
21:57I think Doki touched some person.
21:59Come on again.
22:00Doki knew the danger.
22:01He's pulled the referee.
22:03Watto.
22:04Show with the wrench.
22:05Daya back.
22:07Look out.
22:10Dragon Daya.
22:12Oh.
22:13Oh.
22:14Oh, for the goal.
22:18Taguchi.
22:19Taguchi.
22:20He might just step out.
22:22The IWGP Junior heavyweight champion.
22:25You're right.
22:26Don.
22:27You're right.
22:28Don.
22:29Don.
22:30Get back in.
22:31To the score.
22:35Cover.
22:36No.
22:39But he still got the ankle.
22:43It's not over.
22:44He still have a chance to finish the IWGP Junior Tag Team champion.
22:48IWG.
22:50IWG.
22:51IWG.
22:52as you Spokkan makes friends.
22:56IWG!
22:57IWG!
22:58IWG!
22:59IWG!
23:00IWG!
23:01IWG!
23:02IWG.
23:04IWG!
23:05IWG!
23:0611 tag, you.
23:07IWG!
23:08IWG!
23:09IWG!
23:10IWG!
23:11IWG!
23:12IWG!
23:13IWG!
23:14IWG!
23:18So trying to push in that pipe, and Redshares, great call, great officiating.
23:28Finally, yes.
23:29The only thing that-
23:34Diane disarmed, Diane disarmed,
23:39you're gonna throw away that pipe now, don't draw the referee.
23:42Doki's getting up here, Doki catching a break.
23:46Goddamn, that black mirror.
23:48Right here, let's go to our hand for the tightsend.
23:55You son of a bitch.
23:58I almost believed it.
24:01I wanted to see it.
24:03Everybody wanted to see it.
24:05Right here, Cork and Hull.
24:07Let's go.
24:08Let's go.
24:09Let's go.
24:10Let's go.
24:11Let's go.
24:12Let's go.
24:13Let's go.
24:14Let's go.
24:15Let's go.
24:16Let's go.
24:17And that is yet another occasion whereby the narrowest of margins is shot with a weapon.
24:47And a handful of tights, Toki and Sho, how dare you?
25:03Sho-sing is such a level above that there's no point in going through this tournament.
25:10Hey, you're the rest of the team.
25:15Don't let go of a fight and let go of a fight.
25:19They're now telling all the fans to get out of here.
25:23That's your lot, says Sho.
25:25He likes to say that Sho and Toki are on a whole different level.
25:28I like to think, well, certainly morally on a level far below.
25:33Far below everybody, but now they have four points, right?
25:37They have four points on the board.
25:39They're right at the top of the table, you're absolutely right.
25:43They're the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions for a reason.
25:47And at the same time, Toki Carrot and this team of Daiya and Taguchi are at the bottom.
25:56It's such a shame because really Taguchi went in a different mood today after…
26:03I was convinced he had it done.
26:06Yeah.
26:07Absolutely convinced.
26:08Everybody was.
26:11And that was as good as Yusuke Taguchi has been in a long, long time when that switch flipped.
26:19Well, it's a match where both teams have to win tomorrow night in Saitama.
26:27Daiya and Taguchi versus Clark Connors and Daiki and Agai, Frankie, they're both at zero points.
26:32They both need to win in order to stay in the tournament.
26:35So that's going to be a high-pressure environment tomorrow night.
26:38Yeah.
26:39A lot of teams, right?
26:40And I mean, it's win or go home at that point.
26:43And some team might go home already tomorrow or day or this weekend.
26:48Hiromi Takahashi and Gedo at two points as are Templario and Jacob Austin Young.
26:58I think you could say Jacob of the United Empire side, de facto third place because they beat Gedo and Hiromi earlier on tonight.
27:07And at the top of the table, it's going to be Doki and Sho finishing up with Yoh and Master Watto.
27:13And we will see, presumably, B-Block on your screens very soon as well.
27:20Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita joining Yuki Yoshioka and Kushida both at four points.
27:28It's Taiji Ishimori and Robbie X, Mel Desperado and Kukai both at two, Togo and Yoshinobu Kanemaru at zero.
27:40I'm sorry, Ishimori and Robbie X are at two.
27:43And Tiger Mask and Yamato right down the bottom of the table.
27:47All right, well, I wonder whether Sho and Doki will even give us words backstage.
27:54I'm not sure whether we want to translate for them.
27:58I don't think they want to talk, actually.
28:01I don't think we want them to talk.
28:03I don't think they deserve having a camera on them backstage.
28:07You know, we talk about their tactics every time, how bad they are, how a shame it is every time.
28:16But it works most of the time.
28:18So...
28:19Yeah, I mean, we've seen just how effective it is.
28:22And you almost have to respect it.
28:27That is the situation we're in right now.
28:30OK, well, we'll wait and see.
28:32And in the meantime, we'll run down what we have for you.
28:35Starting tomorrow, it's going to be split crews for A Block and B Block.
28:39So the A Block will wrestle and then the B and so on and so forth.
28:43So tomorrow night, it's A Block in charge in Saitama.
28:47Gedo and Hiromi Takahashi facing Sho and Doki in the main event.
28:53I know, Frankie, you're not the biggest Gedo fan.
28:56But we're all going to be pulling for Gedo and Hiromi tomorrow night in the main event against Sho and Doki.
29:01Yeah, definitely.
29:02Like, if I have to choose one of the teams, I mean, I'm going to cheer, you know, for the team of Hiromu.
29:08I don't like Gedo at all.
29:09I actually hate him, despite him.
29:11So the team of Hiromu, I like that.
29:13Yeah, the team of Hiromu.
29:14Yeah, the one-man team.
29:15Yeah, the one-man team.
29:16That's the team for me.
29:18And honestly, like, I hope, of course, the Ishimori recovers.
29:23And, like, health is important.
29:25But if they won, if they lose the tournament, well, I'm going to be happy about that, too.
29:29That's true, that's true.
29:30Master Watu and Yo will be facing United Empire's Templar and Jacob Austin Young.
29:35And the first league match tomorrow, as we said, must-win situation.
29:39Dragon Gaia and Taguchi facing Daikinagai and Clark Connors.
29:43We've also got some great undercard matches coming up tomorrow night,
29:47including the return of a lot of heavyweights.
29:49Hartley-Jackson will be in action.
29:52The Knockout Brothers will be in action.
29:55Oh, great.
29:56Here they come. They took the sweet time.
30:00As you can see, an easy win.
30:09We are on a different level than you saw that level tonight.
30:12That's exactly right.
30:17There are no level of competition for us.
30:22We have all the belts. We have all the points.
30:30And tomorrow, it'll be just like today.
30:36Hiromi Takashi and Gedo.
30:38What? What? What? What? I want to talk about this topic.
30:43There's this some sort of joke, this collaboration.
30:47I think the biggest joke is the fact that you two think you can stand in front of us.
30:54And we will continue to be even stronger as champions.
31:06And everybody knows what this means.
31:08We are on a different level.
31:13The enemy of my enemy is my friends is hardly the expression.
31:18You need to remember the expression you need to remember is that Sho and Doki are on a different level.
31:27All right, so it's going to be three more league matches coming up tomorrow.
31:32The return of the knockout brothers, Oscar and Yuto Ice.
31:36They're going to be in the building an awful lot more.
31:39We're also going to have the dulcet tones of Walker Stewart back with us.
31:43There you see it's going to be A block and B block.
31:46The scores are going to wrap things up here.
31:48Doki and Sho as well as Yo and Masuato leading on four points.
31:52Templario and Jacob Austin young.
31:54Hiromi Takashi and Gedo are two.
31:56Clark Connors and Daiki Nagai.
31:58Yusuke Taguchi and Dragon Dyer are at zero.
32:01And there you see B block as well.
32:03Similar story.
32:04Two teams on four.
32:05Two on two.
32:06Two on zero.
32:07Koshida and Yuki Yoshioka thanks for a forfeit tonight on four points.
32:11Robbie Eagles, Kosei Fujita also at four.
32:13Ishimori and Robbie X joined by El Desperado and Kukai at two.
32:18And Tiger Mask and Yamato as well as Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Dick Togo are at zero.
32:24All right, so that's going to do it for us here in Corcoran Hall.
32:28I will be back on New Japan World next week in Gifu at Final Homecoming.
32:32But Walker Stewart will be with us tomorrow as well as some special guests.
32:36It's been great having you on the air.
32:38It was a lot of fun, Chris.
32:39Thank you very much.
32:40We've had a lot of fun.
32:41Like I really enjoyed doing this commentary for these two exciting night of the Super Junior Tag League.
32:46I wish you and Walker really good for the rest of the tour.
32:51And well, I mean, hopefully we'll see you back in action in time for Wrestle Kingdom.
32:55Yeah, I can't wait, man.
32:56Seeing all this action.
32:57All right.
32:58So the action will continue tomorrow night right here, live in English.
33:015 p.m. local start time in Dublin.
33:03What's up, man?
33:04Go kigenyo.
33:05Bye-bye.
33:06Sayonara.
33:07Ciao, ciao.
33:08Bye-bye.
33:09Bye.
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