00:00It is the team of El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa who look to match up with House of Torture by the end of the night here.
00:30Four points currently on the board for Desperado Ishikawa.
00:45And for the incredible athlete at 6 foot 5, 285 pounds Shuji Ishikawa is the incredible junior heavyweight champion Desperado has been for the entirety of the year.
00:58These two men are about to go to war with the greatest tag team in the modern era of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
02:32We're going to find out here tonight as Hiroki Koto and Yoshihashi vie for two more points on the board, tie up alongside House of Torture by the end of the night here.
03:41For what El Desperado has lacked in power, thanks to that sprained back, Shuji Ishikawa has more than doubled up on in this year's World Tag League.
03:49We're going to be right back.
03:58That's El Desperado, Bell Sounds, and we are officially underway here.
04:01It is El Desperado who took the post-match comments just 24 hours ago and said to the media,
04:13you know, it's very, very strange that I find myself in 2025 as a junior heavyweight competing in a tag team match against the heavyweights in Hiroki Koto and Yoshihashi.
04:23It's even stranger in my mind that, well, maybe El Desperado is teaming alongside a super heavyweight in Shuji Ishikawa.
04:32But it does make you wonder, well, okay, if El Desperado realizes that he is the quote-unquote fish out of water here by comparison to Koto and Yoshihashi, Ishikawa even has his own tag team partner.
04:44What is Desperado going to do to stand out and to fare differently than many other teams who have faced up against Koto and Yoshihashi?
04:55Watch this, Yoshihashi, no!
04:58Full 285 pounds of Ishikawa right over that midsection of El Desperado.
05:05That's not just going to crush the front, it's going to crush the back and that sprained back.
05:10Oh, crying and agony.
05:14As it is, Hiroki Koto, cover here on El Desperado on a one count only.
05:38Challenged recently for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship,
05:41and really the IWGP World Heavyweight title has become synonymous with Hiroki Koto in the year of 2025.
05:47That's even with Zack Sabre Jr. having captured it for a second time,
05:51defending back-to-back nights in the Tokyo Dome to kick off 2025 himself,
05:56or even Konosuke Takeshi to winning the G1 Climax in G135
06:00and beating Sabre Jr. for that World Heavyweight title.
06:04Throughout it all, the three World Heavyweight Champions we've seen in this calendar year,
06:08Hiroki Koto is the one who has remained synonymous with that title.
06:12And for good reason, but that does not mean Koto is left behind his tag team pursuits.
06:18Still wants to be in the strongest tandem alongside Yoshihashi, but man, oh my.
06:23When you talk about the strongest, you've got to look in to Shuji Ishikawa
06:28and all the power that's behind this baton of a man.
06:36Ishikawa, what are we seeing here?
06:37To the middle rope now.
06:39Oh, and a double stomp.
06:42Right on that arm of Koto.
06:44Cover.
06:45Kick out by Hiroki Koto.
06:50Hiroki Koto, back in his early days, a former junior heavyweight athlete.
06:54Certainly couldn't tell by looking at the man nowadays, six foot well over that 100 key mark.
07:00But, well, Koto, even as a junior heavyweight, always had heavyweight hustle through him.
07:06And there is certainly a need for that to come out in spades against Shuji Ishikawa.
07:14No, no, no.
07:15Block there, kick to the midsection.
07:17Reverse GTR there.
07:19Koto off the ropes.
07:20And Ishikawa withstands the lariat, misdirected.
07:25Huge rebound.
07:30A massive lariat for Hiroki Koto follows Shuji.
07:35And a suplex from Ishikawa to follow up as well.
07:39And tags made on both sides.
07:54Here comes Yoshihashi.
07:55Here comes El Desperado.
07:56Oh, and now Desperado, this is exactly what this man's going to do right here to stand out in a heavyweight tournament.
08:18Limb targeting her in a major, major way.
08:22Desperado would love to lock in that Numero Dos if he could get control of those arms of Yoshihashi.
08:27There's the left one.
08:29And Numero Dos is as close as it's going to get right here on a man the size of Big Hosh.
08:35Ishikawa standing good guard right here.
08:39And Desperado cannot keep it in the center, though.
08:44Yoshihashi makes it to the bottom rope to break.
08:46Five minutes half past.
08:56We have a 30-minute time limit here tonight.
08:59That's a huge lariat follows in for Ishikawa.
09:06Desperado here.
09:07Watch it.
09:08Whoa, look at that.
09:10Like father, like son, it seems.
09:13Ishikawa follows in.
09:14And another one.
09:16That right half of the body for Yoshihashi.
09:20A world of pain broken up by Goto again.
09:32Manamasa in the corner.
09:34From the former IWGP Tag Team Champions.
09:38Goto on the shoulders.
09:40No Ushikoroshi just yet.
09:43Desperado has got to try and find his way back into this one.
09:47Survive until Ishikawa can come back in.
09:52But it is a violent flash.
09:56Get Kiretsu.
09:57He said.
09:59And a cover here for Yoshihashi.
10:02Two.
10:03Could be looking to put it away right here.
10:18Lights could go out tonight in Mutsu City.
10:20Listen to the call.
10:21No.
10:23Desperado.
10:24Two for one combo there from the former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion.
10:31Do not forget.
10:36Shuji Ishikawa's got to find the right corner.
10:38But as soon as he gets there, he's going to find over.
10:41Make a tag in the blue.
10:42And there we go.
10:46Shuji Ishikawa, your legal man.
10:48Shuji Ishikawa's got to find the right corner.
11:18Beheading Lariot for a cover.
11:26Two count only from Ishikawa.
11:27Come on, Yoshihashi!
11:34Yoshihashi!
11:36Come on, Yoshihashi!
11:39Come on, Yoshihashi!
11:40Come on, Yoshihashi!
11:42Come on, Yoshihashi!
11:44Goto, Goto, Goto, Shiki up and over.
11:58Beautifully executed by Bishima on cover.
12:02And broken up by El Desperado again.
12:05Desperado here continuing to try and find his wear with Bishima.
12:23Two for one combo, courtesy of the former Triple Crown Champion.
12:28Everybody's down, there is not a body standing in that ring besides our official.
12:33We gotta get someone back up and into control.
12:36Okay, come on!
12:46Okay, cover!
12:50Desperado is she watching.
12:53No, no, no.
12:55Teheadis' take down there from Yoshihashi, rolled through, cover.
12:58Cover, two.
12:59Two, oh, but the kitchen sink thrown right into Yoshihashi.
13:06Desperado to throw the knife set as well.
13:08And one, that tandem offense, double power bomb, lands it.
13:18Ishikawa for the cover, for the win, two points, no.
13:23Broken up by Goto again.
13:29Goto, Goto!
13:35Ishikawa lariat, over the top goes Goto.
13:40Oh, Yoshihashi, that's a huge cradle.
13:46There on that cradle, not going to house the body of this fan.
13:50Oh, oh, oh.
13:54Kami Goye!
13:58And Yoshihashi's still alive in it.
14:04The giant knee, cover, cover.
14:07Two, once more.
14:09What is it going to take to put down the tenacity of Yoshihashi and Hiroki Goto?
14:23Ishikawa, giant backdrop.
14:27For the cover, for the win, and could it?
14:30It's over.
14:31The giant backdrop has done it.
14:41Six points on the board for El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa.
15:01Oh, these two men working like a well-oiled machine alongside one another.
15:06And we are about to grease those gears heading in.
15:14Shuji Ishikawa has done it.
15:16El Desperado alongside him here tonight.
15:18Six points on the board for this duo.
15:21To do live agent hangout.
15:36So we are re abducted.
15:38We're talkin' about this tang based on広,
15:41and we won the text on the board for this duo.
15:43So remember, it's beenhy.
15:46Love ya, having fun with us.
15:48Well, El Desperado and Shuji Ishikawa get to look ahead now to December 2nd.
16:01We'll be live in Yamanashi here on NJPW World.
16:04They'll take on Gabe Kidd and Yodosuji.
16:07Meanwhile, Yoshihashi and Hiroki Goto look toward House of Torture on that same night.
16:12The duo of Evil and Don Fale.
16:14And speaking of Gabe Kidd and Yodosuji, it's time for our main event.
16:19Gabe Kidd and Yodosuji, four points on the board in block A.
16:23Both Tidolak and Toroyano, four points on the board in block A.
16:27One of these two teams will advance to six and it's coming out right here on NJPW World.
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