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00:00Well, it is a hell of a change in the latter half of 2025, Chase,
00:23to see the unification, the teaming alongside one another of the War Dogs and these men,
00:30former members of LIJ, who now consider themselves unaffiliated from the New Japan Pro Wrestling roster.
00:38Yeah, what's up with this collab, huh?
00:42Both teams lost members, got weak, had to join together.
00:47You know what it is? I believe so.
00:49Certainly difficult to try and understand what's going through the mind of the leader of the Bullet Club, David Finley.
00:54We'll be seeing him in action alongside another member of the unaffiliated, Hiromu Takahashi, later on tonight.
01:00But for right now, oh, this is a dangerous power combination at Block A.
01:07The War Dragons are out to fight tonight in Fukushima.
01:15Definitely a lot of meat on this team, huh?
01:17Definitely can't try to outpower them.
01:23It's going to be a hard one to do.
01:26I'd say Driller is probably one of the strongest guys, pound for pound, wouldn't you say?
01:31Yeah, certainly so.
01:32And a hell of a transition from the junior heavyweight to the heavyweight division, much like men before him.
01:38He was never a junior.
01:38Oh, well, I mean, hey, we don't have to peel back the curtain too much.
01:41There's no doubt someone was fudging those numbers in the junior division, but heavyweight today stands Droll, Maloney, and Shingo Takagi.
01:52I can tell you exactly who was messing with the numbers.
01:58Oh, let's talk about that off air.
02:01Two points on the board for Shingo Takagi and Droll, Maloney, collectively known the War Dragons.
02:30And heading into their third tournament match, coming up tomorrow in Sendak.
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03:06It's my favorite wrestler, Dick Togo.
03:15Oh, well, you and you alone.
03:17It's Dick Togo, Don Fale, and Evil as a darkness has been cast
03:22over the World Tag League and our blockade divisions this year.
03:27Two House of Torture teams in the same block chase.
03:30We saw how that ended up back in Cork and Hall for you and Utero.
03:34But you have to be hoping if it's not you and Utero who top out Block A,
03:38which you know it will be, you'd have to hope it's Don Fale and Evil.
03:41Right. This is my choice if me and Utero can.
03:45And we're not off to a good start.
03:50It's been a while since me and Utero teamed together, you know?
03:52You're right.
03:54Got to get that flow back.
03:58Maybe some late nights out on the town.
04:04The Red Shoes get demoted?
04:12Well, I don't know if that's the way I'd say it,
04:14but he came out a little bit earlier tonight.
04:16That's for sure.
04:17I hope so.
04:18It is Evil and Don Fale, your Block A competitors who will be taking on Shingo Takagi
04:26and Drill Maloney coming up tomorrow in Sendai.
04:29Evil, you're reigning, never open weight champion.
04:31A lot has to be on the mind of the King of Darkness
04:34just coming off the edge of that Purge night of torture pay-per-view just about a week ago.
04:39And, oh, well, as much as the house seemed to be divided on that night,
04:44things have certainly come back together for this year's World Tag League, Chase.
04:47What are you talking about?
04:49The house was never divided.
04:50Oh, well, we all saw it.
04:51We all saw what happened.
04:52Evil and Utero, that double knockout in the main event.
04:55Oh, well, you still purchased that on NJPW World Pay-Per-View, by the way.
04:59But we move right in here.
05:01Dick Togo and Daikinagai, your two legal men.
05:04And it is Shingo Takagi, Drill Maloney, who will be taking on Evil and Don Fale.
05:08But when we talk about, you know, a lot of things in the works
05:10and House of Torture, Evil, not only gearing up to continue preparing
05:14or continue competing, rather, in this year's World Tag League,
05:17but January 4, 2026, live in the Tokyo Dumb.
05:20It's now the never open weight title on the line.
05:24Aaron Wolf's pro wrestling debut out of the Olympic Judo world.
05:27And retirement match.
05:29Oh, well, I believe you're the only one saying that.
05:31And I'm not talking about Tanahashi.
05:32Oh, yeah, Aaron Wolf's first and last.
05:41Oh, well.
05:42That Pay-Per-View did good the other night, huh?
05:44Yeah, it certainly did.
05:45A lot of money.
05:45A lot of numbers.
05:46I'm sure your bank account's feeling it right now.
05:50It's going to be Evil and Don Fale competing against Shingo Takagi
05:54and Drill Maloney, and for good reason.
05:57Dick Togo making the tag out.
05:59Takagi wanted his hands on Togo.
06:00He's got to focus on Evil for the time.
06:02As a lot of people may forget,
06:06back before the days of House of Torture,
06:08Evil a multiple-time World Tag League winner alongside Sonata.
06:11Now, well, how things have come full circle.
06:14Isn't that funny how things come?
06:16What's he saying?
06:20Oh, give me a break.
06:21Good.
06:25Oh, come on.
06:27Well, the time has come for House of Torture, apparently.
06:30Cover here for Evil on Shingo in a two-count only.
06:34But, you know, just as you were saying, Chase,
06:35things come into full circle.
06:36Evil and Sonata leaving LIJ, now coming to House of Torture all these years down the line.
06:41And now it's Evil and Don Fale alongside one another in this tournament for the first time.
06:45Were they two-time Tag League winners?
06:48Yeah, back in 2017, 2018.
06:50Made the final in 2019.
06:53Oh, and Evil.
06:55Yeah, right to the eyes of Shingo Takagi here.
06:59And Takagi's not exactly had the same luck at all in World Tag League competition.
07:03But it may be this newfound alliance between Jerome Maloney and Takagi
07:10that could be the thing to fire up, you know, Takagi
07:13in a fighting a little bit of success in the tag division nowadays.
07:19Yeah, that is a lot of power.
07:20Shingo Takagi, the man that broke Jerome Maloney into the heavyweight division.
07:26Their singles battles back of Saka in New Japan Cup to come in March in the G1 as well.
07:34All of this leading to a kinship, a respect between, you know,
07:38not just Takagi Maloney, but the War Dogs and the unaffiliated.
07:41And I'll tell you this, Chase, I don't think that a combination between these two units
07:44would have ever come in the Bullet Club that you were a part of.
07:48No, it definitely wouldn't have.
07:50That's how soft they've gotten.
07:54That's why I left.
08:00Well, the time has come for Jerome Maloney and Shingo Takagi.
08:06As the time come for Young Lion Daikinagaya,
08:10let's see what this young man's all about.
08:16Dojo's got him in good condition, huh?
08:18Yeah, certainly so.
08:19Conditioned enough to set himself apart from the no-game.
08:23Dojo considers himself unaffiliated from the main unit from Hontai.
08:28Let's see.
08:30Whoa.
08:31They can't do this.
08:32Wait a minute.
08:34Shingo Takagi.
08:35Oh, no, and here comes the house to try and ruin the fun.
08:41Oh, and Togo.
08:43You can't use Togo's own move on him.
08:45Yeah, I mean, there's a respect that has to come there.
08:50Togo now on Daikinagaya.
08:52And House of Torture running train on the Young Lion here.
08:57Whoa.
08:58Oh, squishing like a bug.
09:03Yeah, Don Fale, that's a heavy caboose we're talking about.
09:07And here comes Togo.
09:08Oh, come on.
09:09Not here, not tonight in Fukushima.
09:13Oh, dick to dick.
09:15Contact.
09:15Oh, this is awful.
09:20Now it's Don Fale taking a guy all alone in there.
09:23Pull the pin.
09:25Grenade.
09:26Good night.
09:27One, two, three.
09:30It's over.
09:30It's over.
09:45Well, it was Don Fale and Evil who lost out just yesterday to another War Dog unaffiliated pairing in Game Kid and Yodosuji.
09:54Are these two men now going to have a better luck against a different combination in Shingo Takagi and Drill Maloney?
10:01We just saw the result in the center of the ring.
10:04That proves it could happen.
10:06Yeah, but Fale, you know, do you think Driller could pick up Fale like he picked up Ishikawa?
10:11Oh, ho, ho.
10:12That was impressive, huh?
10:13That's a good question.
10:14As much as I don't like him, that was really impressive.
10:19This guy was a big man.
10:21Yeah, you're right.
10:24That's a big man that you're going to have to be dealing with sometime in the near future.
10:27I'll leave it to you, Drew.
10:29Oh, there you go.
10:31Real powerhouse of the group, Udrow Takahashi.
10:34Yeah.
10:34I love it.
10:35Wrestling fans, we're about to head into our final preview tag team match of the evening.
10:45Right after that, our top four all Block B matches in this year's World Tag League to come.
10:50But for right now, Shingo Takagi and Drill Maloney set to take on Evil and Don Fale 24 hours from now in Sendai.
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