00:30It is House of Tortures, Red Narita and Sonata.
00:40Winless on the board and they are not the only team to be in that position in Block B.
00:46As are their opposition, the IWGP Tag Team Champions, the Knockout Brothers.
00:51We'll be seeing Oscar and Utah Ice soon enough.
00:54Sonata, multiple time World Tag League winner in his own right.
00:57We talked about that run with Evil back in 2017 and 2018.
01:02This is my pick for the B Block.
01:09Have you ever heard Sonata play the guitar?
01:10I have not.
01:11He's great.
01:14We wouldn't exactly know, not exactly sitting down and giving us a show on that thing,
01:20but we're still using it as a weapon throughout his matchup.
01:27And no time to get through our introductions here.
01:32Oscar and Utah Ice are going to hit the ring.
01:34And these are two steaming men right now.
01:36What's their problem?
01:37Well, they've suffered their first loss in Tag Team Wrestling in New Japan Pro Wrestling
01:42since their return from Excursion.
01:43And if that's done one thing to Oscar and Utah Ice, it is light a fire underneath them
01:48in a way that they so desperately need it coming into this year's Tag League.
01:54Bell Sounds, referee Kenta Sato going to take control of this one.
01:57And there is no control to be had right now as Oscar and Utah Ice compete in their very first World Tag League in their career.
02:04Current reigning IWGP Tag Team Champions.
02:10There's no doubt in anyone's mind that they are the most gunned after men in this year's tournament.
02:15Joined the War Dogs earlier on this year.
02:17Made a statement back in Ariake Arena G135 Finals.
02:21And ever since then, oh, you look at the confidence exuded on both Utah and Oscar here, Chase.
02:27Yeah, they've looked impressive since coming back.
02:33Where'd all they go? They went to Europe.
02:36Stint to the New Zealand dojo. They competed all across Europe.
02:39And that European excursion, in fact, Chase, found a lot of success for them as a tag team.
02:44Cover here in a two count only for Utah Ice.
02:47It was a WXW World Tag Team Championship reign for Oscar and Utah in Germany.
02:53Not to mention, of course, winning the WXW World Tag Team Festival.
02:57That was a single elimination tournament, though.
02:59Very, very different than the round robin style that you're going to see here in World Tag League 2025.
03:05They've won tournaments before.
03:06Yeah, you're right.
03:07Interesting.
03:10The difference, of course, between that single elimination, that knockout round style, if you will, and the round robin.
03:16I mean, it is a, you've got to have a bigger gas tank.
03:19That walk ice has got is interesting, I would say.
03:31There's a tag made in the corner, Utah Ice back in the red.
03:35As these two men continue their hunt in their first ever World Tag League tournament.
03:41Come on, Narita.
03:42Meanwhile, Ren Narita, a name that is almost synonymous with the modern World Tag League scene, shook the system back in 2023 when a team alongside Shota Umino turned his back on Hontai Joint House of Torture.
03:58But the success that Narita hoped for, oh, after he turned his back on Umino, has not exactly followed the way he hoped so.
04:07Young boys can't tie the pads on right.
04:10Yeah, well, that's what you like to say.
04:12It's not a well-placed pull away of that turnbuckle pad, and that's going to lead to disadvantage for Oscar and Yuto here.
04:23Oof.
04:25The fence hurts.
04:29Look, one, two, three.
04:30He just pinned Oscar.
04:31Oh, well, it's got to happen inside the ring first off, and I think that was more of a choke than a pin.
04:36Who says?
04:37Oh, well, Ketasato at least.
04:41Sonata has Oscar on the outside of the ring.
04:44Meanwhile, Narita has Yuto Ice, and I mean, this one's going to go all across.
04:49Big pal at Fukushima.
04:50As it is, Narita back inside.
04:57Yuto Ice fed in by Sonata, and this match rolls on here.
05:00Two teams in our semi-main event.
05:03Zero victories, zero points on the board.
05:06Narita with a cover and a two count.
05:09Cover again, but again, hey, there's the difference.
05:12Live and living color here, Chase.
05:13You can look in on what the difference is between a choke and a pin.
05:17I don't know what you're talking about.
05:18Oh, come on, what?
05:19My monitor right now.
05:20We're sharing a monitor, and mine's on.
05:22What?
05:23Give me a break.
05:29You're blinding.
05:30Oh, come on.
05:32Well, Yuto Ice and Renderita here, center of the ring.
05:36You're still jet-lagged.
05:37You can't see straight.
05:38Yeah, well, that might actually be true.
05:41The Knockout Brothers enraged following their first-ever tag-team loss here at NJPW.
05:46Ever since their return from excursion, Sonata, well, that's a man who is certainly going to prey on all your vulnerabilities.
05:53And Oscar, oh, cannot allow his emotions to get the best of him here.
05:58Oh, Sonata is so smart.
05:59Yeah, I mean, that's one way to put it.
06:02Admittedly, you'd have to be correct.
06:03Tag in the red corner, here comes Sonata, your legal man.
06:10The most experienced World Tag League competitor in this match enters his ninth tournament in 2025 for World Tag League.
06:16Won back in 2017 and 2018 alongside Evil.
06:20Made the final last year, if you remember, alongside Gabe Kidd.
06:23That was when yourself and himself, both members of the War Dogs.
06:28Yeah, we've moved on to bigger and better things, huh?
06:31Well, my, how things have changed.
06:33Champs aren't looking too good right now.
06:41No, certainly not.
06:42You have to wonder, Oscar and Ice, if they've bitten off a little bit more than they could chew, winning the IWGP Gold this early on in their career, competing in World Tag League.
06:55I mean, the pressure has never been higher for Yuto and Oscar.
07:00And they're still young, so can they handle the pressure?
07:03They've done a good job so far, but this loss, we'll see how they come back from that loss.
07:09Yeah, what's the way that they talk about things in terms of, you know, it's all about how you get back up, get back up after you fall down.
07:18Oh, well.
07:20Fall off the horse, you get back on it.
07:21Yeah, yeah.
07:22Done that a time or two.
07:23Sonata tags out in the red corner.
07:27Welcome back, Ren Narita.
07:31Has never won a tournament in his career, has Narita.
07:34Could that change in 2025?
07:37There is only one opportunity left, and it comes here in World Tag League.
07:40Yuto holds onto that top rope, and we're going to need to force a break here.
07:45For what?
07:46Yeah, Narita, I mean, just like yourself, just like every other member of the house, you can't say it's not smart tag team wrestling.
07:52In fact, it very much is.
07:53Hold on to, well, whatever you can until the referee forces you off.
07:57Look, look at that hair pull.
07:59Oh my God, what a clothesline.
08:01Simple, but effective.
08:10Yuto Ice.
08:12Scratching and clawing to that red corner.
08:15Everyone wants to see that tag made, but wait a minute, wait a minute, Sonata.
08:19Oh, leg and wait.
08:20And Oscar has yet to be able to make that tag on Yuto here.
08:24Yeah, so smart.
08:26So smart.
08:30There's a reason Sonata has won back-to-back World Tag Leagues in his career, has made the final last year.
08:37He won World Tag Leagues outside of New Japan, back in All Japan in 2011.
08:40I mean, Sonata has had such a storied career when it comes to tag team wrestling.
08:46Man, hopes to impart some of that on Narita here in this tournament.
08:51Watch that back elbow from Sonata one more time.
08:55Off the ropes again.
08:56Yuto trying to slow things down.
09:00Skull in.
09:02But Yuto looking to end Sonata's skull.
09:07Straight drop there from Yuto Ice.
09:10Oscar up in the red corner.
09:12This time the tag has to be made.
09:15Come on Sonata.
09:17Stop him.
09:20And Yuto Ice with the tag.
09:22Oh, my God.
09:26This is what the house needed to avoid from happening.
09:29Oh, my God.
09:30Narita's going flying.
09:33Feeling like he's a junior heavyweight all over again has run Narita.
09:37Oscar hasn't been a junior heavyweight since the day he came out of the womb.
09:41Look at this.
09:43Break to the eyes here of Oscar.
09:45That was a sad day for him right now.
09:49Oh, my God.
09:50Oh, my God.
09:53Set for the ride.
09:56The 6'7 German powerhouse is on a roll here.
10:01Move, Sonata.
10:02Move, Sonata.
10:04No, Sonata not quick enough there.
10:07And Oscar going to follow up in a big, big way off the ropes.
10:11Leg drop.
10:13That might be it.
10:14Could it, would it?
10:15Two.
10:16Come on, Sonata.
10:17Grab your guitar.
10:18Oscar certainly feeling that place right now.
10:33Whatever has to be done to put your first two points on the board.
10:36To prove that loss to David Finley and Hiromu.
10:40A fluke.
10:45Chop that tree down.
10:47Oh.
10:49Sonata trying to avoid that long reach of Oscar, but right to the eye.
10:53Sweeps the leg and oh, could it.
10:54Oh, could it.
10:56Yeah.
10:57Can he even do this?
11:01There it is.
11:03No.
11:05Sonata wanted to take Oscar on a trip to paradise.
11:07Yeah, that's going to be an easier way to chop down the Redwood.
11:15Switching levels.
11:16Basement drop kick up to the middle.
11:18Oscar still standing.
11:19What's the Lariat?
11:20Missed it out.
11:21Sonata.
11:23No.
11:27And a magic screw.
11:28Good job.
11:29From Sonata.
11:32Ring awareness Walker.
11:33Ring awareness.
11:34There is no man more experienced in this match.
11:39When it comes to pro wrestling, Vince Sonata.
11:46Tags made on both sides.
11:47Here's Narita.
11:48Here's Yuto Ice.
11:58Man.
11:59Huge boom.
12:01From Yuto to Narita.
12:02Listen to this reception tonight in Fokusha.
12:19Get him out of the corner, ref.
12:22And hear the call.
12:24Yuto Ice wants it.
12:25Loud and proud tonight.
12:29Bomboklat.
12:31Yeah.
12:32What did he say?
12:33A bomboklat knee strike.
12:38Yuto folds in on the cover.
12:41Two count only for Ren Narita.
12:44Feet are really pinning there.
12:45He might have had it.
12:46Okay.
12:47All right.
12:50Yeah, confidence can be your undoing in this sport, Chase.
12:52You know that sometimes yourself.
12:54And Yuto Ice here.
12:55Competent more than ever.
12:58Watch Narita though.
13:00Sunset take down.
13:02Narita not going for the pin.
13:04Wants to pull the stump of Yuto Ice.
13:06That left knee in a world of trouble right now.
13:10Rip it out, Narita.
13:13Narita.
13:14Yuto to the bottom rope.
13:17But Kenta Sato has to do more than Cal.
13:19He's got to separate this one.
13:21Narita again right back on that attack.
13:27You can feel those kicks here.
13:37Yeah.
13:38Oh yeah, you can.
13:39You're going to feel this one.
13:40Oh.
13:41PK.
13:42PK for the cover.
13:44Kick out, kick out.
13:45No.
13:46Tag me in the red corner.
13:54We welcome back the German monster.
13:56That is Oscar.
13:57Hey, no, no, no, no, no.
13:59Oscar and Ice, center of the ring.
14:03What are these two men going to cook up?
14:05Oh, jeez.
14:08Big shot there for Oscar.
14:10Cover.
14:11Broken up by Sonata.
14:12Yutho, Yutho, yutho.
14:13Yutho.
14:14Yutho.
14:15Yutho.
14:24Yutho.
14:25Yutho.
14:26Yutho.
14:27Yutho.
14:28Swin крom.
14:29Yutho.
14:30Yutho.
14:31Yutho.
14:32Yutho.
14:33Yutho.
14:34Yutho.
14:35Yutho.
14:36Yutho.
14:37Yutho.
14:38Simple and effective here, Chase.
14:39Atomic Drop.
14:40The best way.
14:41Atomic Drop and Hilaria combination.
14:42Now, we're gonna see, not gonna be much longer.
14:45Morita gets his way here.
14:48Oh, right back to the eyes, right back to the eyes of Yuta Ice here.
14:55Meanwhile, what's going on here?
14:58Give me a break, Yoshino Makanomaru.
15:01That steel push-up bar taken out of action.
15:04Oh, my.
15:12Come on, Morita.
15:19Oh, come on, you can't do that.
15:21Get that out of there.
15:22Oh, Morita shouldn't have been doing it either.
15:25All's fair in love and war, Chase.
15:28Wait, if they get his qualified, we'll beat two points?
15:32Yeah, well, let me do one.
15:34Hit him with that.
15:35Hit him with that.
15:37Just handing it back to Ren Narita, tossing it aside.
15:47This is what we wanna see.
15:49This is the man Ren Narita we haven't seen in two years.
15:53Well, there's no doubt that Yuta Ice brings the best fight out of you.
16:06Whether you're playing for it or not.
16:11Oh, Ren Narita not to be outdone.
16:13He's out.
16:14He's out.
16:15He's out.
16:19He's out.
16:20He's out.
16:21He's out.
16:22He's out.
16:23He's out.
16:24He's out.
16:25He's out.
16:26He's out.
16:27He's out.
16:28He's out.
16:29He's out.
16:30He's out.
16:31Narita, Narita.
16:32Good, good, good, good.
16:33Yuto continuing to try and battle between.
16:36Got the roundhouse, Sato down again.
16:37Narita, this is bad news for everyone here.
16:38Once one of these Narita specials that explode her, but here's an explosion.
16:56Come on.
17:09Come on.
17:10Damn it.
17:12And a shot with that steel push up bar.
17:16Give me a damn break.
17:19Come on.
17:20Come on.
17:21Get out of here.
17:25Uh-oh.
17:26Oh, Oscar.
17:29Oh.
17:30Tosses the bar away.
17:32That sleeper held in on Narita.
17:34The sleeper on Red Narita right now.
17:37Referee Kenta Sato just now coming to.
17:39Oh.
17:40And just now going down again.
17:41What the hell's going on here?
17:43Oscar almost hit a fan with that push up bar.
17:45Oh, no.
17:46Whiskey in the eyes.
17:47Whiskey in the eyes.
17:48Sonata, play us a tune.
17:52Told you he was good at the guitar.
17:55Oh, give me a break.
17:57And Oscar.
17:58Oscar's still standing.
18:01But for how long?
18:03Watch out.
18:05Hell's guillotine.
18:10No, no.
18:11Not like this.
18:12Not in Fukushima.
18:14It's over.
18:17Whatever it takes, Walker.
18:22Whatever it takes.
18:23Say it over and over.
18:28Why?
18:38Why?
18:39You say whatever it takes, Chase.
18:40There's no doubt about it.
18:41But what it took was every single play in the House of Torture book.
18:54A low blow.
18:55A shot at the steel push up bar.
18:57Marikana Morrow at ringside.
18:58And finally, the ending tune to play from Sonata's acoustic.
19:03What's your point?
19:04It's a goal of that and more to put down the Knockout Brothers.
19:10The champs 0-2.
19:13Yeah, you're right.
19:14They're going to have a lot of title defenses coming up.
19:16No points on the board now for the Knockout Brothers.
19:19Utah Ice and Oscar go back to the drawing board.
19:23Sonata and Red Narita up on two points.
19:27Let me ask you this, Walker.
19:29So, let's say Knockout Brothers don't win the tournament.
19:34Sonata and Narita don't win the tournament.
19:36Could they technically challenge them before Wrestle Kingdom and walk in the champions at Wrestle Kingdom?
19:42Potentially so.
19:43We've seen it happen before.
19:45We'll see if anything happens next.
19:48As we are going to be getting set soon enough, Oscar to make his way back to the locker rooms.
19:55And our main event soon to get underway.
19:59One of the most highly anticipated in Block B overall.
20:03Sees Hontai's Shota Umino and Yuya Uemura take on TMDK's Zack Sabre Jr. and Ryohei Oewa.
20:10It's coming up next.
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