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00:00Oh my god.
00:30Well, unfortunate for Sho and highly fortunate for the rest of the professional wrestling world,
00:44Sho suffering the loss for Ryusuke Toguchi the last time we were live on NJPW World in Corunton Hall.
00:50A record-setting five seconds of in-ring action.
00:55There was a lot of out-of-the-ring action leading up to that.
00:58Now, Sho will be the champion of Ryusuke Toguchi, the Master Machine, Sho!
01:07And Sho will need every trick in the book to not get beaten in five seconds and
01:17beat a guy who's never beaten before, he's never beaten Robbie Eagles,
01:21and that's why he's gonna hide him. Wait, look, the ambush is set.
01:28No, wait a second, Sho didn't see hardly.
01:43Oh, it will show.
01:47Well, you barked up the wrong tree, Big Dog, and now you're in the ring with one of the greatest technical junior heavyweights in this sport.
01:58And Robbie Eagles is gonna wanna make quick work here tonight of Sho to get back on the winning ways following his last appearance in NJPW World.
02:14Lost out to always World TV Champion Nick Wayne.
02:18And it is Robbie Eagles motivated with a vengeance to get back on the winning track.
02:23Yeah, suffered a very painful loss last time we were in this building to Hiromu Takahashi, and I think in long ways the one who wants to dispel that loss the other night and dispel the loss this year.
02:343-0 Robbie Eagles is against Sho.
02:42Sho doesn't like the chance.
02:44Wait.
02:46Well, Sho's calling this match off, but our official referee Kenta Sato says otherwise.
02:52Wait, does that mean Robbie's won?
02:54Well, I mean, Robbie's not gonna take those two points just like that.
02:57Sho back in and right back out.
02:59And not going to avoid Robbie Eagles here.
03:02Well, this is it.
03:03The more you run, the more you potentially set a trap.
03:07Oh, there it is.
03:09Oh, and now Sho back inside the ring.
03:16Only two points on the board for Sho here.
03:19Has never earned points over Robbie Eagles in this past.
03:22They're right behind us here at the broadcast.
03:25And now to the side, Sho continuing to wear on that left arm of Eagles.
03:30That's where Sho likes to be.
03:32Sho is, believe it or not, a very phenomenally accomplished submission grappler.
03:45We've seen the same thing out of Robbie Eagles when he reigned as junior heavyweight tag team champion.
03:50When he kicked off Best of the Super Junior with a win this year over Yoke.
03:58Robbie Eagles a hell of a technical athlete in his own right.
04:01But there is nothing Eagles is able to do here when Sho's in the wheelhouse.
04:04Well, yeah, the wheel being the wing of Robbie Eagles here.
04:09He has now full cover here for Sho, only to maintain control of that left arm.
04:21And you're right about it. I mean, this is about as clean as a fight you're going to get out of Sho in 2025.
04:26Well, yeah, I mean, you have to be careful about saying that.
04:31It does seem to be the moment a word of praise halfway tumbles out your lips towards Sho.
04:38He goes and does something absolutely disgraceful.
04:40Wins over Yoke and Kevin Knight, men that Robbie Eagles faced time after time in the junior tag team division when he reigned as junior tag team champion.
04:54Lost out to Nick Wayne and Cork and Hall.
04:56Sho, meanwhile, only one win that coming over former Roppongi 3K tag team partner in Yoke.
05:02In Yoke.
05:09Look at this going to keep Robbie in place with the wrist control and three kick combo, but...
05:15Yeah, right back to the eyes of Robbie Eagles.
05:25And a single leg drop kick is going to find the mark for Robbie Eagles.
05:29Sniper of the skies, finds precision in it.
05:33Hang that off the chest. Here we go.
05:36And a cover for Eagles. Only two.
05:41We all remember it very, very well.
05:42And I'd argue it's a match that a year ago changed the persona, changed the man that we know Robbie Eagles to be.
05:48And it was that loss to Hiromu Takahashi in this very building, Chris.
05:52Yeah, and I think ever since then, a little bit of fitness, a little bit of extra venom in the way Robbie Eagles works and the way he wrestles.
06:04And that has brought him a lot of success as solo PWA champion still over one year later.
06:10And it's Turbo Backpack inbound and Sho.
06:13Oh, that is the...
06:15That's the bandana right around the neck of Robbie Eagles and Sho.
06:22Will not be denied.
06:23Oh, he will.
06:24Oh, wow.
06:25Great.
06:27Great work there to counter the outside DDT.
06:30And a cover here for Robbie.
06:32Just two and Sho right back.
06:34That is full extension.
06:35Yeah.
06:36That arm's straight now.
06:38Take him out!
06:40It's literally a matter of seconds when that arm's gonna break.
06:53And Robbie Eagles doing everything in his power to try and withstand, trying to keep Kenta Sato from calling this off.
06:59But he has to reverse the pressure or take something out of the wheel game of Sho right now.
07:04He's not gonna get to the ropes, Walker.
07:06He's gotta find a way to escape.
07:07Either get Sho under his shoulder or roll against the pressure.
07:10There you go.
07:11Eagles, Eagles, Eagles.
07:13And that's it.
07:14The Ron Miller special.
07:15Just like that.
07:16Of dropping the dime and Sho right to the bottom rope again.
07:21Well, that has put Robbie in his own wheelhouse, Walker.
07:25He will not go far from that knee.
07:28I think we can take it to warp speed.
07:30Robbie Eagles from the top.
07:39No, what a warp 4.5.
07:42And instead, that's a better outcome than he could have had.
07:47Still, thank you very much, he says, knots up the hammy.
07:56Oh, wait.
07:57Oh, Kenta Sato now completely taken damn near out the arena.
08:01And now Robbie Eagles.
08:03Oh, well, look behind you, Hartley.
08:05Oh, come on.
08:06Oh.
08:07Well, not surprised.
08:09Well, the biggest stick in the room, it is Yudro Takahashi.
08:14Oh, that stick's gonna work.
08:19Oh, Hartley, big jag.
08:21Big jag's in the ring.
08:23Oh, big jag's got a big stick.
08:26Oh, big jag's got a big stick.
08:29And so it's just made a big mistake.
08:45Oh, give me a damn break.
08:48Oh, give me a damn break.
08:51Yudro Takahashi, no low, too low.
08:55And Hartley Jackson, now taken out of action here.
09:06So he's going to get Yudro to wallop with his stick.
09:10And then that'll be it.
09:12Robbie Eagles, it is two on one here
09:14against House of Torture.
09:17Yudro is a heavyweight.
09:20Makes no difference, as far as Robbie's concerned.
09:27He really does it.
09:30Wait.
09:33Uh-oh.
09:35Robbie saw it coming.
09:37Robbie out and scouted.
09:38Yeah, but look, look what Sho's got in his hand.
09:41Well, Robbie doesn't see it.
09:42Far from that.
09:44Robbie, watch out.
09:46Oh.
09:48Well, and that's a wrench in the plans of Robbie Eagles tonight.
09:55Well, that metal wrench right over the foot of Robbie Eagles.
09:59No, give me the girl right.
10:02Kento Sato, barely conscious, let alone mobile.
10:07And now it's a damn disgrace.
10:09Ah, don't give me that, don't give me that.
10:22The left knee, the left knee, well, the left knee sure has to be feeling something after time spent in the Ron Miller special.
10:40Well, but Sho knows damn good and well exactly the miscarriage of justice that has taken place here tonight.
10:47You can throw two more points to the bastard, but even if he wins the finals of this tournament, Chris, you're going to be hard-pressed to call Sho the best of junior heavyweight wrestling.
10:56Well, we've long said it.
10:58Well, we've long said it.
10:59It's long been an issue, and you'd have thought, maybe, that dog pound steel cage match might have beaten some sense in the house of torture, but...
11:08Well, it's nice to watch it, but...
11:10Well, it's nice to watch things.
11:13Well, coming up next for Sho, he's going to be beating an old rival once again from a steel cage to a best of the super junior run.
11:32It is May 18th, Sho versus the junior heavyweight champion, El Desperado.
11:37Will Desperado.