I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that that was absolutely worth $22? But I was cackling through the whole finishing sequence of Yuj/EVIL, the HoT/DDT 6 man was fun, Milano Collection AT in 2025 was awesome, EVIL/Shun was fun. I had a good time with that.

7/10, would Purge again. #purgenight

The power of dickhead heel friendship wins out in the end and the HoT all kiss cigars and make up.

One of those two matches probably could have had a finish, but overall that was still fun as hell.

#purgenight

HOUSE OF TORTURE CIVIL WAR

THEY RAN A FULL DICK KICK TRAIN

#purgenight

We are truly living in a main event Huge Yuj world. What a bizarre world it is.

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You can always count on DOUKI to be an awesome heel in peril, he sold that knee like his life depended on it.

Awesome 6 man tag. Best match of the night, the DDT boys brought it and the House delivered on their end.

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It took awhile, but the HoT junior boys + SANADA finally gave us the balls-based offense we expect out of a House of Torture show.

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IT'S SHO TIME

SHO and Douki bout to bring the workrate to this sumbitch

#purgenight

The House wants all the masks tonight, damn.

#purgenight

When you see how rough Great Sasuke is moving around these days, it really makes you appreciate just how good Dick Togo still is. They're the same age, from the same style of wrestling, but Dick has clearly changed how he wrestles in a way to preserve his body and you can tell.

#purgenight

Until Taichi's music hit, this was gonna be my tune out match of the evening. Damn it, my emperor, you're making me watch a Chase Owens match...

#purgenight

I'd probably watch STARDOM if it had more House of Torture, clearly the missing piece

Two dickheads trying to out dickhead each other, and eventually EVIL wins by being the bigger dickhead and pulling off Shun's mask.

That was a ton of fun.

#purgenight

We're kicking off with EVIL vs Shun?? Okay let's goooo

#purgenight

the best part of waking up was a Milano Collection AT sequence in 2025 frfr

Just to be clear, that isn't inherently a bad thing. Nostalgia sells tickets (see WK this year) and indulging some amount of it is fine. But when we hit the depths of Zack Ryder/Dolph Ziggler nostalgia pops, we've probably gone too far down the hole.

Mainstream wrestling right now is just nostalgia bait.

- WWE selling their worst era back to us
- AEW is mostly just 2000s indies/2010s NJPW nostalgia
- TNA changed names/presentation for nostalgia purposes
- NJPW can't sell anything not related to their 2010s golden age

Fuck new things

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