House of Torture is now just one win away from winning NJPW’s 2025 Super Junior Tag League.
DOUKI & SHO scored a pinfall win over the Master Wato & YOH on Thursday night, securing their first-place ranking in the tournament’s A Block. The victory advances them to the grand finals on Sunday, where they will face the winner of the B Block, which has yet to be determined.
The math regarding the A Block was quite simple heading into Thursday night. With DOUKI/SHO and Wato/Desperado being tied atop the bracket with eight points each, the duo that prevailed in their head-to-head clash would win the division.
DOUKI and SHO, the current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, cheated their way to a win in just under 20 minutes. Wato’s momentum in the ring against DOUKI was broken up by a pair of shots to the head with a metal sheet from SHO. This blatant cheating, not the first of which was seen in the match, allowed DOUKI to score the roll-up pin for the victory.
DOUKI and SHO’s grand final opponents will be determined on Saturday, when the last round of round robin action in the B Block takes place. Three teams remain alive, with it seemingly most likely that TMDK’s Kosei Fujita and Robbie Eagles could prevail, or the Bullet Club duo of Robbie X and Taiji Ishimori.
Four other eliminated tag duos fought in block action earlier on Thursday night:
The experiment of putting unaffiliated Hiromu Takahashi with Bullet Club’s Gedo proved to be unsuccessful, ending the tournament with just one win to their name. They suffered their final loss on Thursday against the team of Dragon Dia and Ryusuke Taguchi, with Dia battling through a blatant low blow from Gedo to score a roll-up pin.
Clark Connors and Daiki Nagai finished this year’s tournament winless, missing out on their last chance to score points on Thursday against Templario and Jakob Austin Young. United Empire’s Austin Young connected with his Jakob’s Ladder finisher (Sliced Bread) for the clean pinfall win, ending their run on the tour with two block wins.
Here are the results and an updated look at the standings:
- Masatora Yasuda & Boltin Oleg def. Tatsuya Matsumoto & Zane Jay
- Dick Togo, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Yujiro Takahashi def. Shoma Kato, Tiger Mask & YAMATO
- Hiroshi Tanahashi, KUSHIDA & Yuki Yoshioka def. El Desperado, Katsuya Murashima & Kuukai
- OSKAR, Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori def. Hartley Jackson, Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles
- Jakob Austin Young & Templario def. Clark Connors & Daiki Nagai (A Block)
- Dragon Dia & Ryusuke Taguchi def. Gedo & Hiromu Takahashi (A Block)
- DOUKI & SHO def. Master Wato & YOH (A Block)
A Block (Finalized)
- DOUKI & SHO (10)
- Master Wato & YOH (8)
- Ryusuke Taguchi & Dragon Dia (6)
- Templario & Jakob Austin Young (4)
- Hiromu Takahashi & Gedo (2)
- Clark Connors & Daiki Nagai (0)
B Block
- Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles (8)
- Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori (6)
- KUSHIDA & Yuki Yoshioka (6)
- El Desperado & Kuukai (2)
- Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Dick Togo (2)
- Tiger Mask & YAMATO (0)
