Clark Connors & Daiki Nagai vs. DOUKI & SHO - Super Junior Tag League 2025 Block A Match: NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 Day 5 (10/28/2025）

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00:00It was an absolute shock to the system Robbie Eagles back at King of

00:29Pro Wrestling when members of the Wardogs and men who call themselves unaffiliated extended

00:35the hand to one another and now Daikinagai alongside Mark Connors unaffiliated alongside

00:44Wardogs all the way up and down this tournament a shockwave to the system continuing.

00:59You were talking about Daiya Taguchi's theme song being a remix.

01:09I would like to put this onto you that this entire tournament this year is just a remix.

01:15There are very few teams that have actually teamed together for a long period of time.

01:21Look at the champions that are about to walk out.

01:23They've only been together a couple of months Wato and Yo only started in late January,

01:30February and then yeah sure Taguchi and Daiya they were in the tournament last year but

01:35then after that they took a big hiatus until this year's tournament so 12 months away from

01:39each other.

01:40The only real team in both fields A and B block is the Ichiban Sweet Boys.

01:46But I've been seeing from the outside what Daikinagai and Clark Connors have been bringing and

01:52they seem like more of a, how do I put this, well molded quick form unit.

02:01So it's been interesting to watch this development between the unaffiliated and the Wardogs.

02:06I'm curious to what happens down the stretch.

02:09Is this long term, is this short term, is it for a specific goal?

02:16This match right now might prove that though.

02:19It definitely could and we've long known Wardogs leader David Finley doesn't make a single decision

02:24without having a plan to back it up.

02:26But man what a decision it has been for House of Torture to bring Doki into the fray.

02:31There has been a dark cloud that has been cast over the junior division.

02:35And it is all thanks to this fan making his return back in Osaka.

02:39Capturing the junior tag titles.

02:41And just within this past month, captured junior heavyweight gold as well.

02:45I use the word capturing, I'd say stealing.

02:48He's literally a thief.

02:50He's taken what was once good about both the tag team division and the singles division

02:54and the junior heavyweights and made it absolute crap.

02:57And then also he looks like a really crappy character from Star Wars.

03:12WGP, junior heavyweights champion,

03:16IWGP, junior tag champion,

03:21Hapones Delmar,

03:23Doki!

03:29If we got double champ Doki as the Doki he was in January before he broke his arm,

03:35Hey, I wouldn't be okay with it because I'd want it to be me.

03:39But, I would be more okay with it than I am in this position.

03:43Oh, what's going on now?

03:44Oh, boy.

03:45You're not a farmer.

03:46You're a great guy.

03:48You're a great guy.

03:49Blah, blah, blah.

03:50Something about this town.

03:51You're a great guy.

03:52You're a great guy.

03:53They're all country people.

03:54Blah, blah, blah, blah.

03:55Why do you have a great guy?

03:58You're a great guy.

04:00Huh?

04:02Huh?

04:03You're no matter who you're a good enemy.

04:08Hey, you're an online league game.

04:13They're already hanging out.

04:15You can't do anything.

04:18You haven't been able to get a boat like this.

04:22You're going to leave us.

04:26Wait, wait, wait.

04:28Why don't you know what's the Japanese, right?

04:31If you're a brother, you can speak to me.

04:36I believe Sho has just acknowledged that Clark Connors does not speak Japanese just like you and I here in the booth.

04:43I believe Daikinagai is supposed to translate a message here.

04:48I speak a little bit, but yeah, that was a lot to take in.

04:52Right.

04:53But these two might be...

04:58Might not be the two to get under the skin of because I've been under the skin of Clark Connors before and it hasn't worked out very well for me.

05:07You know, that's something I want to talk to you about a little bit here.

05:09Clark Connors joined me in the booth just a number of nights ago, and I finally found something that you and Clark can agree on,

05:16and it's your hatred for House of Torture.

05:18It's your hatred for what House of Torture have done to what was once an incredible and thriving junior division,

05:23thanks to teams like you and Fuja, teams like Connors and Maloney, TJP and Akira.

05:29And Sho and Doki have taken that and done away with it all.

05:32And they've really done a big poo-poo on what we built in that division.

05:35And we didn't build it for a purpose of building it.

05:38We just were all competitive.

05:40All teams wanted the top spot, and we worked our asses off to get there.

05:44We would work hard in the gym.

05:45We would work hard in the ring.

05:46We would really pride ourselves on our tag team efficiency.

05:50And we have these absolute buffoons taking shortcut after shortcut after shortcut

05:56and still calling themselves a wrestler, let alone a champion.

06:01It's got to be a difficult pill to swallow it.

06:03I say this from a position of not being inside the ring, admittedly,

06:06but to know that, you know, you are an incredible athlete.

06:09Fuja is an incredible athlete.

06:10And then you look at Sho and Doki who can be incredible athletes,

06:13but they cheat and they win all the time and no one's been able to stop it.

06:16It's just wasted, right?

06:19Especially Sho.

06:20Sho might be one of the most well-built physical specimens in the junior division now.

06:25Sure.

06:26But refuses to put it to any use.

06:30How many torture weapons do they have now? Three?

06:33Something like that.

06:35That black mirror, that pipe, the wrench, everything in between.

06:40Daikin and Kai, the cover here, no thought of weapons on that man's mind.

06:44As a count of two, says referee Marty Asami.

06:47You know, if we call someone a tool back in Australia,

06:50that means that they're a bit of an idiot or a bit of someone you don't like.

06:54I was going to use another word, but I don't want to get canceled here.

06:56Canceled, fine, same thing.

07:03The guy brings out that vicious streak.

07:05He's always had it, even before this unaffiliated alliance with the War Dogs.

07:10Yeah, but it's been this theme of viciousness.

07:13Oh, Doki to Nagai on the outside.

07:16Viciousness has been the name of the game.

07:18Clark Connors, following the mercy he showed Gato on night one of this tournament,

07:22took the post-match comments and said,

07:24I will never show mercy again in my career,

07:27and I am going to make sure Nagai turns into a bonafide War Dog.

07:31And it's an interesting thing to say because, well,

07:33I don't think Nagai has true intentions of becoming a War Dog, at least not long term.

07:39This man wants to be unaffiliated.

07:41It's the title of that NJPW1972.com interview Doki Nagai recently did.

07:46Nobody's Dog claims Nagai.

07:53We're pretty far away from the ring in our position here at the booth, Walker,

07:56but that body slam on the outside, I felt it completely underneath my feet.

08:02I felt it all around the island at this rate.

08:06Yeah, one fact that I can give you, there was a small point in time where,

08:11you know, well, well, long ago in the past.

08:14Doki and I would change over having workouts in the dojo.

08:18And, you know, we're not there at the same time.

08:21We can't share a room, but I would catch a glimpse of him working out.

08:26And his bench press is impressive.

08:28Doki is underrated for how strong he is.

08:31So that's why that scoop slam on the outside was so devastating to Doki Nagai.

08:36So, again, one of the other, not quite small because he's a bit stocky,

08:41but he's not the tallest in this division.

08:43So it's easy for Doki to slam someone like that.

08:46And he's only going to pack on more muscle.

08:48He's still so young.

08:49You talk about the dojo system.

08:51Can you, oh, hold on a minute.

08:52Let's see what Doki's doing here.

08:54Yeah, this is dangerous for Doki Nagai.

08:57And Clark Connors, by the way, Robbie, nowhere to be seen, taken out at ringside.

09:01It is all Doki and Doki Nagai center of the ring.

09:04Show playing guard.

09:05King of the mountains, so to speak.

09:07And for good reason.

09:08Connors is coming.

09:09Yeah, when you go groin first, via two men into the corner post,

09:13it's not something you get up from pretty quickly.

09:16It takes you a while to recover.

09:17I can imagine.

09:18I've been in that position.

09:20Yeah.

09:21Just a month ago, and I was in that position a lot.

09:24The guy now scratching to the bottom rope, and he makes it.

09:30Doki's got to break this one up.

09:33Asami's got to force them to, though.

09:36And that's the man who dominates the junior heavyweight and junior heavyweight tag division.

09:43This is really a trial by fire for Doki Nagai.

09:45His first tournament in New Japan pro wrestling, and such a pivotal spot.

09:50You know, Clark Connors, someone that's really been at the top of the Super Junior Tag League

09:55for the last couple of years.

09:56Whether him and Maloney have won them or not, or made the finals,

09:59it's a different story, right?

10:00But they've always been a talking point of one of the strongest teams.

10:04So he's got a point to prove.

10:07He wants to bring Doki Nagai along the way with him.

10:10So Doki Nagai has got an uphill battle of what he's got to live up to,

10:13in terms of what Clark has built.

10:16It's been a few years since we've seen a young lion still donning the black trunks.

10:24Doesn't even have his knee pads yet, Robbie.

10:26And he is competing in a tournament of this style.

10:29Clark Connors trying to be the leader here, but there's nothing you can do when you're flat on the ground.

10:33And we'll saw it inside the ring now.

10:36Salt in the wound to Clark Connors.

10:38Certainly.

10:39Oh.

10:41Stop it.

10:42He's already dead.

10:44I don't think he was ever alive.

10:46Oh, yeah.

10:47Right.

10:48Inanimate object.

10:49And don't remind Clark Connors that.

10:51Will, son.

10:54I get it.

10:55It's a castaway.

11:00And so now, you know, taking the newest member of the War Dogs to the outside,

11:04and it's Doki Nagai who was all alone inside the ring with Shope.

11:08The five-minute call pass.

11:10The five-minute pass call.

11:14That just happened only a couple seconds ago, Walker.

11:16But for Doki Nagai, I'm sure this is feeling like an eternity.

11:19Sure.

11:20I mean, certainly so.

11:25He's trying to find an escape, trying to find his opening.

11:28But as a young lion, like I said, he's still not in that echelon of wrestler.

11:36Oh.

11:39It's a difficult thing to do as a young lion.

11:41Your toolkit is limited with your experience.

11:45The guy, he has to have the experience enough to make the tag at least.

11:49And he does.

11:50Here comes Connors.

11:51Oh, he's fired up.

11:55An absolute locomotive eye.

11:57I can't speak.

11:58Yeah, I'm feeling it too.

11:59Connors, look at this.

12:02Knee to skull for Clark Connors.

12:15It's gonna be a new one for Clark.

12:17I haven't seen him bust that out before.

12:19Connors off the ropes now, driving that shoulder tackle down.

12:22Connors likes to work in threes, Robbie.

12:25You're gonna notice it here.

12:27And, oh, Doki intercepting the third shot.

12:35Oh, I think, I think we're getting a two for one deal here, Walker.

12:39Connors now off the ropes.

12:43Double shoulders through the champion's cover here for Connors.

12:48Two.

12:49Six points on the board for Doki and Scho.

12:53A win right here right now would lead them to the top of Block A.

12:57But it's not looking likely here.

12:59Connors.

13:00Oh, Asami in the way.

13:02And a spear, spear from Scho.

13:05Exactly what Connors was going for.

13:07And it was turned around, put against him.

13:14It pains me to say it.

13:15It pains you to hear it.

13:16Oh!

13:17I spoke too soon, Walker.

13:21House of Torture.

13:22One of the most dangerous teams in this league.

13:24There's a reason they're the champions.

13:26Yeah, Connors is able to go from zero to 100 like nobody else.

13:30And here comes Nagai.

13:32He's reignited.

13:33And a drop kick to the junior heavyweight champion.

13:37Yeah, go back to the well.

13:38If it weren't for you before, go do it again.

13:41Zero points on the board for Connors and Nagai looking for the biggest win

13:45in his young career, his young lion Dyke.

13:50You know, win over the champs.

13:52That's all they need.

13:53They might not be able to take the tournament out.

13:55They might not be able to make the finals.

13:56But this is a point to prove.

13:58It's the consolation prize.

14:00It's all you can hope for.

14:01Cover.

14:02Nagai at two.

14:07Mark Connors made it a mission to instill violence in this young lion.

14:11We're going to see how well the job these two men have done.

14:13Oh, come on.

14:25That was a sickening shot.

14:26All right, steel chair to the guys back.

14:28Oh, and just, you know, the inside.

14:32The humbling of Dyke to the guy.

14:35Some in the dojo system feel he needs it.

14:38But the guy says I'm different.

14:40The guy says I'm better.

14:42Oh, but you can only be good if you're as good as you are.

14:47Doki at Boston Crab sat down deep.

14:50The guy's got to get to the bottom ropes here, Robbie.

14:53He's persevering.

14:54He might get there.

14:55Oh, but wait a minute.

14:57He's only ropes.

14:58Oh, come on, Asami.

14:59Do your damn job.

15:01Oh, we hate him, but you can't, you can't disregard how smart

15:06House of Torture is with their tactics sometimes.

15:09They really leave nothing to chance.

15:14And they take the result into only their choice.

15:20And the guy has been in this Boston Crab for minutes now.

15:25But now he has to make it the whole way across the ring.

15:32Can he do it?

15:33No, no, no, the guy.

15:36Doki sat down deep here, repositioning and even deeper now.

15:41I think the lactic acid is building up in Doki's legs though.

15:43He can't keep that position for the Boston Crab any longer.

15:47Oh, and Conor's ripping down Sho from ringside.

15:56And normally I feel like in any other position, if this was Conor's and Maloney,

16:00Conor's be getting in and breaking that up, but he's reeling Nagai on.

16:03He's done it.

16:04Yes.

16:05That might have taken all that Nagai had left in this match to make it to the bottom rope.

16:15Yeah, I think Clark wants his body to be broken, but never his spirit, right?

16:20That's it.

16:21He was kind of teaching him a lesson in that moment.

16:23Oh.

16:24Took an elbow straight to the face and down Conor's goes.

16:27Doki's fully in control of the match right now, and I don't see it changing.

16:32Whoa, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

16:34Inside cradle, cover.

16:35Two.

16:36Very quick on his feet here, and Nagai could steal one.

16:39Biggest win of his career and only two again.

16:42Oh, but that uppercut shot from Doki off the ropes.

16:46Nagai scooping a slam.

16:50With how his back must be feeling, that should be almost impossible to have hit on Doki.

16:58But he's putting the double chip into a busted crab of his own.

17:03But how long can he hold this position for, Walker?

17:06His back must be dust at this point.

17:09Doki has tested the spirit of Nagai, but how's some torture?

17:13Well, that's going to test anyone's ability to withstand.

17:16And Nagai withstands anyway.

17:19Show off the ropes here.

17:21Intercepted by Conor's.

17:23Yes, yes.

17:26The guy and Conor's were eye to eye.

17:29That's all the communication they need with Asami.

17:32Oh, wrong place, wrong time.

17:34All right, you might have broke his hit.

17:37And a low blow to Conor's.

17:40You hate to see it.

17:42No, no, no, the guy, the guy saw it coming.

17:44The guy certainly saw it, but he's not seeing anything now.

17:48Oh, here he is with his bloody torture tool.

17:57Oh, and the guy, this is unfortunate.

18:04Oh, but wait a minute, Nagai, Nagai blocked the wrench.

18:06Oh!

18:07Oh, slap the taste out of Show's mouth.

18:11What do the five fingers say to the face, Walker?

18:14Oh, wait a minute.

18:16Nagai, Nagai, there's that pipe.

18:19And Wilson, Wilson with the interception.

18:23Spline Buster, get in there Asami, make a call.

18:26We gotta make a call now.

18:29They could have it.

18:31It's deep, Walker, it's deep.

18:35They do not teach it anywhere better than in the No Gay Dojo.

18:39And the guy's spirit has been proven.

18:41It won't be broken.

18:42You can break his body, but his spirit will remain.

18:45And that's all he needs to stay in the center of the ring.

18:48The guy, the junior heavyweight champion, pulling in the official.

18:54Oh, come on.

18:55Damn it.

18:56The black mirror from Show.

19:00And it's over.

19:05What did I say, Walker?

19:09Well done.

19:10It's over.

19:11It's over.

19:12It's over.

19:16They don't earn their victories.

19:18They don't win their matches.

19:21They steal.

19:23They steal.

19:24And they steal.

19:27And it's awful.

19:32Call it off.

19:33We all hate it.

19:34Piss off.

19:39It's over.

19:40It's over.

19:41It's over.

19:42It's over.

19:43It's over.

19:44It's over.

19:45Robby, you saw it.

19:46Just as well as I did.

19:47Just as well as the fans watching on NJPW World.

19:50The fans on Sato Island.

19:52Everyone knows that this should have been Daikinaga's moment.

19:58And what a huge moment that would have been.

20:00Submitting the Double Crown Champ in your first ever tournament under the New Japan banner.

20:06Oh.

20:09Can't have Fairy Tiles here.

20:12No Fairy Tile Edmonds.

20:13I'll walk House of Torture around.

20:16Well, House of Torture currently sit just in the same position you do in Block B.

20:21That's at the top of Block A on eight points right now.

20:24Undefeated.

20:25Ardokian show.

20:26But the tournament is far from over.

20:28But we are coming down to the wire soon enough.

20:30October 30th night seven for Super Junior Tag League in Fukui.

20:34It's going to be the final opportunity for Connors and a guy to put points on the board.

20:39That's going to be coming up against United Empire's Jay and Templario.

20:44October 30th set the date.

20:46Oh, Connors is steaming, man.

20:51He's not used to being this low down the rung in the points in a tag tournament like this.

21:02Especially over the last couple of years.

21:08Wrestling fans, we're going to be moving right on and in to our main event of the evening.

21:12Six points on the board.

21:14Watch Onyo take out Hiromu Takahashi and Gato.

Clark Connors & Daiki Nagai vs. DOUKI & SHO - Super Junior Tag League 2025 Block A Match: NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 Day 5 (10/28/2025）

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