00:00We've long talked about how you can't have a strong house without a firm foundation.
00:29And for a long time, the cornerstone of House of Torture was the King of Darkness, Evil.
00:38Now here we are in a position where Evil is so ashamed of losing to Aaron Wolfe, losing the Never Overweight Championship,
00:46and Aaron Wolfe's debut match to Wrestle Kingdom 20, that he has abandoned the house and left New Japan Pro Wrestling.
00:58And the question is, what will be that next cornerstone that has the torture coalesces around?
01:07Panamera and Dick Togo have long been the brains of the operation.
01:13Doki, certainly everybody coalesced around him a couple of weeks ago to make sure he retained the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
01:22A lot of talk over whether Ren Narita will be head of the household, perhaps.
01:31And should he be destined for that spot?
01:36Well then, I think you can be very, very sure of the fact that in nine days' time, the entirety of the House of Torture is going to be opposite the Never Overweight Champion,
01:50the Super Rookie Olympic Gold Medalist, Aaron Wolfe.
02:11There was another story yesterday, and that came around, that man Master Watto beating Doki.
02:18And Doki's going to make a beeline for Watto here tonight outside on the floor.
02:23It's a fast start.
02:25You wouldn't expect anything else out of House of Torture.
02:30Nobody in, eight men out.
02:34Everybody's scattering.
02:40New announcer Taisai Wataname hasn't found his place yet.
02:48I've got my head on a swivel here, because I'm not sure which way is safe right now.
02:52Going to bounce down Wolfe off the ring apron here.
02:57As did Panamera to Yeo, and well, I guess two Swedish words in the English language.
03:04By default, Panamera and Yeo will be legal to start this one.
03:09Over the top, oh, there's another Panamera here.
03:19Oh, man, brother, did you see that?
03:24What a single arm take down.
03:27The horse caught on the shoulder of Yeo.
03:31Long injured shoulder of Yeo, and Panamera trying to hang on to a hammerlock.
03:36Constantly reversed, though, by Yeo, and well, why not?
03:43And there's another member of House of Torture on indefinite leave right now,
03:49that being Sonata.
03:51And I think Yeo taking great delight here tonight in showing off the fact that, well,
03:58House of Torture is in a slightly weakened state when it comes to 2026.
04:07Togo has freed Yeo from his predicament.
04:17And now he's going to go to work on Yeo, on Toriyano, rather.
04:24Oh, Yeo has been hoisted by his own petard.
04:28And then true to form.
04:38Torchuk picking right back up on the outside.
04:43We haven't had an awful lot of in-ring action here on this one.
04:47Panamera on top of Yeo inside and gets a two out of referee Sakamoto.
04:53I'm not really sure what's happening inside the ring is the story here.
04:57Narita and Aaron Wolfe have been going at it out on the floor.
05:02Doki was choking away at Mastuato with a T-shirt.
05:05Dick Togo on top of Yeo and gets two.
05:08No, no, no, no, no.
05:11No!
05:12No!
05:13No!
05:14No!
05:15No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
05:16There is a sense perhaps of desperation from the House.
05:23There is always, however, a sense of danger.
05:30Whenever it comes from the House of Torture, being in a weakened position.
05:34I mean you just sort of think about what happened to Don Taku last May
05:40when lost in a steel cage match to David Finlay's War Dogs.
05:44And Erickson's got to drive in a damn spike, it looks like, in the eye.
05:48Good lord of Toriano.
05:54It felt like House of Torture for a second.
05:57Lars Mayer on the brink of complete extinction.
06:01In the hands of men like Gabe Kidd, David Finlay, Drilla Maloney,
06:05Inishimori.
06:07And what happened just a month later?
06:10Well, Evil recruited, or Kanemaru recruited Doki.
06:15They recruited Don Fale, they recruited Chase Owens,
06:18and House of Torture swept the table at Dominion,
06:21left the world in absolute desperate fury.
06:27So I don't think you can discount House of Torture,
06:30I don't think you can discount them in Osaka, perhaps in particular.
06:34Can't discount Aaron Lofdorf.
06:40You're in the ease.
06:45Oh, and I love that elbow drop.
06:48Both legs are hooked, never overweight champion,
06:51gets two from his challenger in now.
06:53Wolf continues to put the pieces together,
06:58he's having to learn on the job.
07:00Only got into professional wrestling last June.
07:06Trained for about six months to be on that spot in WrestleKingdom 20.
07:12Performed exceptionally, and has continued to perform exceptionally.
07:18But there is no doubt that there were gaps potentially to exploit.
07:22And that's the gap.
07:27That is the gap that Ren Nerita is looking for.
07:29It's the knee, it's the base, again with the side rush and leg sweep,
07:34again with the knee bump.
07:35Ren Nerita knows there aren't any leg submissions, no leg holds in Dodo.
07:41And he knows, Desiree Narita, that Aaron Lofdorf does not have a great many defenses.
07:54So a knee bump in his arsenal.
07:59He might have done them in drills, but it's not enough.
08:09He has to be able to apply those escapes in a championship setting in a in-ring anger.
08:18And you just think how many times Evil...
08:22Evil's Evil, that...
08:27That Wolf knew very, very well.
08:31Evil's finish was effectively a pro-wrestling version of the Judo hold.
08:37And Wolf had the perfect counter.
08:40Ready instinctively there in the Tokidome.
08:43I'm not sure he has a counter to that knee bar for Ren Nerita and Eden Arena Osaka in nine days.
08:48Here we go, Master Watto and Doki.
08:51Full head esteem, leg lariat there.
08:54The Osaka native Master Watto.
08:59It was an emphatic win last night with the Sitenkaku German over Doki.
09:07And Master Watto, for the first time I've really seen him fight fire with fire.
09:12Using Doki's own steel pipe right to the Bonts.
09:18And then hitting that Sitenkaku German.
09:22Who's fixed here. Shoulders are down.
09:24Good pin him second night in a row.
09:26Instead gonna try and make him submit the Vendabar submission hook.
09:30Give up! Give up! Give up! Give up!
09:32Give up! Give up! Give up! Give up!
09:33Give up! Give up! Give up!
09:35Give up! Give up!
09:39Which way are they gonna go? Doki knows.
09:42Nearly got three.
09:45Master Watto and Doki have an extensive pass many, many a time.
09:51They've butted heads.
09:53In fact, it was Master Watto's very, very first match back from excursion here in New Japan Pro Wrestling was against Doki.
10:01They are ill-fated. They hate one another.
10:04And yet, they have said in the past they both want to elevate New Japan Pro Wrestling's junior division together.
10:11Well, at least that was a Doki long run before, House of Torture.
10:15Not doing much elevation if you're in part of that group.
10:20And one other thing that's not gonna get elevated or any bigger any time soon.
10:23Wave! Dick-to-Dick contact.
10:25Denied! Dick Togo in No Man's Land here.
10:30Well, maybe gonna call an audible.
10:33On Brett's rope.
10:35No!
10:39Playing nothing, but...
10:40In the wake of the boot to the nose was certainly something that Dick Togo had in store.
10:48And now he's got that steal.
10:49Wow, wait a second.
10:52Sakamoto calling him out for it.
11:00Togo charges in, gets caught again.
11:03Watch it.
11:04there you go vanderball vanderball and dick togo a quick submission and another win for master
11:11another win
11:14for hontai over the house of torture
11:20another time when those house of torture tactics kind of collapsed
11:31kind of crumbled
11:33does master wato think that doki is living on borrowed time as iwgp junior heavyweight champion
11:43certainly for a long time doki's been living on stolen time
11:48one of those numbered days perhaps running out could master wato sometime soon
11:55win his first iwgp junior heavyweight championship
11:58and will aaron wolf have an answer
12:12turin narington's knee bar we know that's going to be the game plan first part of call
12:25will be narington going after the base of the never openweight champion in nine days time and should
12:31that not work out well you know the cavalry is going to come out for house of torture
12:36how about that how about that something's different about master wato on this series
12:49and they weren't seen action rolls on here in corcoran hall
13:01well let's see to see you guys
13:13who are seeing you guys
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