00:30We talked about it earlier on, a lot of first time competitors in this year's Super Junior
00:51Tag League, including yourself, but in with the old, in with the new, out with the old,
00:58so they say, it is the final Super Junior Tag League for Tiger Mask in 2025, announcing
01:11retirement set to come in summer of 2026, and unless there's a massive scheduling shift,
01:17it is more than likely this is the final time Tiger Mask competes in Super Junior Tag League,
01:21but only zero points to show for it, nothing by the end of this one.
01:28Jay, are you a Halloween guy? We're approaching Halloween season right now.
01:40Huge Halloween guy. I love Halloween. Excited to have the chance to see Halloween and Osaka coming up.
01:48It's going to be an incredible time at Osaka. I had a conversation with Robbie Eagles and Kosei Boozio,
01:53earlier on in the evening. I said, well, what are you two looking to do on Halloween evening?
01:59He said, well, we're dressing up for Halloween, what we dress up as every single year,
02:04and that's as a pair of winners. Robbie Eagles and Kosei Boozio, Super Junior Tag League winners last year,
02:10what's a repeat history in 2025. Eagles and Boozio may be the best to do so.
02:16Tied at the top of Block B for the time being.
02:20Yeah, they are on track to get to the finals at least. You know, you never know what's going to happen,
02:24but I was there live ringside at Super Junior finals last year when TMDK took on Catch-2-2.
02:32It was an incredible match. Incredible.
02:34Sorry, it's still my first time out here.
03:03I get cut off by these introductions a bit.
03:06Hey, no problem with it.
03:08But yeah, it was an incredible performance from all four competitors last year,
03:12so I think chances are high. We might see a little TMDK 2-peat, but you never know.
03:18There's a lot of history here in this match with Tiger Mask and Robbie Eagles,
03:24former IWGP Tag Team Champions themselves.
03:26Yeah, you're right about that. Took the words right out of my mouth.
03:28With TMDK's Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask, former Junior Tag Team Champions alongside one another.
03:35Never won a Super Junior Tag League tournament together in their career, though.
03:39It would take Robbie Eagles finding Kosei Fujita, TMDK finding Kosei Fujita,
03:44and magic has been made ever since.
03:46Yeah, having a really spectacular year, Fujita is.
03:53Best of the Super Juniors, Junior Tag League last year.
03:59Looks like Robbie Eagles, the only motto to start.
04:05We know Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita are dressing up as winners for this year's Halloween.
04:09What are you dressing up as?
04:10The entirety of the United Empire dressing up like Templario.
04:21Oh, wow.
04:21Everyone.
04:22Yeah.
04:23He has that many masks.
04:24You know the Spider-Man point meme?
04:26Oh, of course.
04:27Yeah, that's what we'll see.
04:27You'll see that soon.
04:28I was thinking you'd be a barista or something.
04:30Hmm.
04:31Maybe in another life.
04:32Robbie!
04:34Robbie!
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04:43Robbie!
04:43One thing TMDK loves to do is that have fun with the audience.
04:47Yeah, it's that together noise Robbie Eagles loves.
04:50And he is going to get it whenever he gets the opportunity.
04:53It's something exactly that he needs, but man, it's just something that adds to the confidence
04:57whenever you can get it.
04:58I think that you can relate to that to a certain point.
05:00You've been getting louder reactions ever since you picked up your first tag team win back
05:04in G133 or rather G135 this year.
05:07Yeah, it actually was a really big ovation tonight here and you get that for myself, enjoyed that
05:16a lot.
05:16But yeah, it seems like everywhere we go, TMDK is loved by all.
05:22Robbie!
05:23As Yamato, that side headlock takedown, headscissors out, side headlock again for Robbie Eagles,
05:29headscissors trade and off.
05:30Robbie!
05:31Robbie!
05:31And there is a lot of confidence to Yamato at really all points in time.
05:40He's never a man who, even at zero points, doesn't have a lot to say or think about himself.
05:44But tag out in the red corner, here comes the Tiger Mask and Kosei Fuji.
05:49I don't know if you've been seeing it as much as you've been able to slightly keep up with
05:57the Block B side of things.
05:58Yamato has been coming down to ringside with a mirror.
06:01Loves to, you know, always get a look at glory whenever he can.
06:03And that mirror managed to break at some point within the travel back and forth between Sato
06:09Island here in Niigata.
06:11Yamato taking his social media, blaming Kosei Fuji for breaking that mirror ahead of tonight's
06:16Block B match.
06:17You know, that could be why they're at zero points.
06:19You know, breaking a mirror is bad luck.
06:20Oh, that's a great point to make.
06:22We're going to see what Yamato and Tiger Mask can cultivate against Kosei and Robbie Eagle.
06:28The battle of two very different, distinct generations are Tiger Mask and Kosei Fujita.
06:40Yeah, big attitude from Fujita, but Tiger Mask doesn't take no shit.
06:45Oh, man, you're telling me.
06:50And you're seeing it now.
06:51I mean, you think about it from the perspective of a 20-plus year veteran of the sport, a
06:59man who has given his body, his life, his soul to being Tiger Mask in NJPW as the tag
07:05is made in the corner to Yamato.
07:06You know it's your final Super Junior Tag League.
07:09You're this deep in the league with zero points, nothing to show for it, the only team in Block
07:14B with nothing, that can't sit well in the mind of Tiger Mask.
07:17No, absolutely.
07:18I'd be frustrated if I was in their position, but they have a chance to knock off last year's
07:23champions.
07:24And if you can't walk away with anything but that, that's still a major hat to hang on.
07:29That's an excellent point there.
07:31Yamato, a little extra fuel to the fire tonight, thinking Kosei Fujita was the man to destroy
07:37that mirror.
07:38The thing with the Dragon Gate guys, too, their pace, the Dragon Gate style is so much faster
07:43than the typical New Japan style, and I think that is something to their advantage.
07:46They are rooted in Lucha Libre from Toriyama to Dragon Gate, it's something we talked about
07:50a little bit whenever Yu and Templario face Dragon Daya and Ryusuke Toguchi recently.
07:57And Yamato, certainly exemplary of that.
07:59Not a lot of tag team experience for Yamato in terms of tournament action, a former Summer
08:04Adventure Tag League winner back in 2009 alongside New Japan's Shingo Takagi of all individuals.
08:09So there is that connection to be made.
08:12But certainly Yamato and Tiger Nets have not been on the same page enough to find victory.
08:19Yeah.
08:20You know, it could be difficult first time teaming up.
08:23You know, I've had a chance to team up with Tempario a few different times, earlier this
08:28year as well as last year.
08:30But in a tournament setting, it's a lot different.
08:35There's a lot more pressure that comes with it.
08:40And here again, Marty really just doing the most to not doing anything.
08:46Well, that's Marty Asami for you.
08:48But Tiger Mask covered in a two count only on Kosei Fujita.
08:57Let's see what Tiger Mask and Fujita can cook up here.
09:00Fujita defending Super Junior Tag League winner.
09:04Best of the Super Junior 32 as well in the singles division.
09:07Tiger Mask is going to tag out and welcome Yamato back into the ring.
09:10Five minutes pass.
09:11Five minutes pass.
09:12Five minutes pass.
09:13Like we were talking about in the last match too.
09:15The frequent tags are ideally the best strategy.
09:20You can catch your breath a lot easier.
09:23Your body can recover from the damage you've taken.
09:33It must be difficult for someone like Yamato who is as self-serving as we have found him to be
09:38to compete in a tag team tournament like this.
09:41Yeah, it definitely could be at your team's disadvantage, but you can't take anything away from Yamato as far as what he's accomplished throughout his career.
09:53Absolutely so.
09:54Well, Yamato says, I'm going to plant him now.
09:57Let's see if it happens.
09:59How about this time?
10:04Third time's the charm, Jay.
10:14No, survey says otherwise.
10:16And it's Fujita.
10:18Watch this.
10:19Trying to turn things around.
10:20It's a knife-edge shot to the chest.
10:23Fujita wanted to take a book out of, page out of Yamato's book rather.
10:31And he's got it.
10:32I don't mean to point out the obvious, but it might behoove Yamato to not say what he's going to do.
10:41Yeah, potentially so.
10:43Able to get that tag though before Fuj can tag out to Robbie Eagles.
10:47Yeah, then Tiger Mask and Robbie Eagles is definitely going to be a conversation that we get to at a different point.
10:53And it might be coming a little bit sooner rather than later.
10:57Robbie Eagles is tired of riding the ground, tired of riding the apron.
11:01He wants in there with his former tag team partner, a former champion alongside him.
11:06Let's see it.
11:07Tags made.
11:12It was the Flying Tigers of Robbie Eagles and Tiger Mask.
11:18An incredible combination.
11:20Eagles has only leveled up time and time again, even since those junior tag title wins.
11:27Let's find this now.
11:28Cover here for Eagles.
11:29Two.
11:35A win here for TMDK's.
11:37Each amount sweet boys is absolutely crucial.
11:40If Eagles and Fujita win, it is all down to our main event to decide if each amount sweet boys go straight through to the final tonight.
11:49And he might just do it right here.
11:51Cover two.
11:52If Fujita and Eagles win, and Ishimori and Robbie X lose in our main event.
11:59That's going to be coming up very soon against Kukai and El Desperado.
12:02Then Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita are immediately through into the final on November 2nd.
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