00:14C'est parti, Walker.
00:32C'est parti, Walker.
01:00As the light shines down on the ref back going forward, Shota Umino makes his way down to ringside tonight.
01:07A heavy frustration for Shota Umino in many regards.
01:12Only two points on the board in opening night, which was unsavory as ever.
01:18A loss to Callum Newman, but a big, big win in a big, big way against Shingo Takagi, our last
01:26G1 Climax event in Osaka.
01:28And it's two points on the board evenly for Shota Umino and Gabe Kidd respectively.
01:34Gabe Kidd has made no bones about it.
01:38Shota Umino, there is no one I dislike more than you.
01:42Not just in New Japan Pro Wrestling, but in the entirety of life.
01:48And while Shota Umino may be parading around ringside, Gabe Kidd makes the...
01:53Worked and made sure that is the last time, not only that Shota Umino greets our fans here in Hiroshima,
01:59but that is the last time Shota Umino competes in a professional wrestling ring ever again.
02:15The question that has been on everyone's mind, as much as Shota Umino wants to claim, he is at 100%.
02:22You see it just in the way he walks, you can hear it in the way that he talks.
02:28That hip fracture that took him out of all together back one month ago, still heavily aching in many ways.
02:39Shota Umino says, I am a professional wrestler, and if I want to be the ace of New Japan Pro
02:43Wrestling,
02:43the way that I have declared myself to be, you work through the pain, you work through the struggle,
02:48and you face Gabe Kidd on Night 3 in Hiroshima.
02:51The race is 183cm, 103kg, Raph Neck, Umino, Shota Umino!
03:02Shota Umino!
03:04The race is 183cm, 103kg, Raph Neck, Umino, Shota Umino!
03:12The race is 183cm, 103kg, 1,870kg, 1,850kg, 1,850kg!
09:49Kidd manages to ground himself but instead, Tornado pushed off by Kidd.
09:55Oh, and once again, Bullet Club will do what Bullet Club will do.
09:59Big back suplex takes Umino down.
10:08Can't stop thinking about how Shota is telling people that he's 100%.
10:13And he clearly isn't. Backstage in the changing room, you know, we could change him.
10:19He's got like a doctor hose, electric pads on his neck.
10:23He's got like a thing that wraps around his lower back that's like heated, you know, to help his lower
10:30back and hurt.
10:31Think of the Ace of the Universe, Hiroshi Tanahashi says, well, I never get tired.
10:36I'm a man who never feels the effects of these things.
10:39Maybe that is all mental. You tell yourself you're 100%.
10:42He wants to embody that spirit of the Ace.
10:44If Tanahashi was never tired, so he claims.
10:47Umino will always tell you he's at work with yourself.
10:50Well, how about this, Watkins?
10:52I'm happy.
10:53I'm happy.
10:55I'm happy.
10:55I'm happy.
10:56There's a big difference between that and this subject of conversation.
10:59And Shota Umino, no doubt about it, feeling the effects not only of that hip fracture,
11:03not only down the spine, but of the pose that Gabe Kidd is dished out this early.
11:22You can almost see the anger seeping out of the pores of Gabe Kidd.
11:28Yeah.
11:29We're not even five minutes in, Walker, and he is drenched in sweat.
11:33You look at Shota.
11:34Shota's relatively dry.
11:36It's nothing new out of Gabe's head, though.
11:38That's, you know.
11:42Oh, Shota Umino, though, going to unleash on the Madman here tonight.
11:46As Gabe Kidd, all these headbutts are sickening.
11:52And right into the Boston Crab.
11:53You know exactly what message Kidd is trying to send Umino right here.
11:57You are my young boy.
12:03Staple maneuver of the No Gay Dojo.
12:05Shota Umino has been put in that more times than he wants to admit,
12:08and has tapped to it more times than he will admit to as well.
12:11You're going to have a very hard time tapping out Shota to a Boston Crab.
12:17And someone who's spent literally hours in that submission in his lifetime.
12:25You are going to have to do a lot of damage to that lower back.
12:29that it puts on the hip.
12:32It is the left side of the hip, by the way,
12:34that you need to keep your eye on for Umino.
12:35And again, Kidd holding on to that side with a single leg crab for a minute.
12:43This guy thought it was him.
12:50He thought it was him.
12:52It's all about me, bitch.
12:53You can't touch me.
12:55These are the moments that I'm starting to question Gabe Kidd's focus, LP.
12:59Well, yeah, he's saying it's about him and me.
13:04Well, there's nothing wrong with that in theory.
13:07The moment where Gabe Kidd starts talking to our production truck,
13:10that he starts messing with our broadcast booth,
13:12that he starts messing with our fans in the audience.
13:14He takes his eye off the ball.
13:16Yeah, absolutely right.
13:16It's been what cost him.
13:17It cost him against Evo on our opening night.
13:26It's Gabe Kidd controlling the pace right here, LP.
13:29How does that benefit his future?
13:32His future?
13:33His future in this matchup, at least.
13:35Oh, yeah.
13:35Well, it's good because you control the pace.
13:37You dictate the tempo.
13:41That's something you don't want.
13:45Because now Shota's going to try and feed that adrenaline, that momentum.
13:49That advantage is to do so.
13:51Crossing roads here tonight with Gabe Kidd.
13:54You see him trying to catch his breath right now.
13:57He's going to look to the people.
13:59You see it often in wrestling, but when you look to the people,
14:02you really do absorb the energy of the crowd.
14:05The hotter the crowd, the easier it is to get that second win,
14:08that third win, that fourth win, to feel that adrenaline spike.
14:11It is the people who have fueled your career.
14:13It is the people that continue to fuel Shota Umino's career just the same.
14:18There you go.
14:20And you can hear it tonight from Oshima.
14:22As Gabe Kidd face first in that turnbuckle.
14:26Watch out.
14:26Knee strike right to the back of the neck of Gabe Kidd.
14:29And Umino follows up right here.
14:31Tornado DDT.
14:32Net compression for the Madman.
14:36And once it, side it out.
14:38Tornado DDT.
14:40Connects.
14:41Cover for Umino.
14:42Two.
14:43You can feel that anger and aggression.
14:46Three moves in a row without making a pin.
14:50He wants to hurt Gabe.
14:51There's a level of respect these two men have to have for each other.
14:54He knows it will take more as the key in the ignition plants out Gabe Kidd.
14:59Look at him not going for a pin again.
15:01He wants to inflict more damage.
15:03Going for Deathrider.
15:04Going for Deathrider.
15:04Yes, indeed.
15:06Oh, there's that straight right shot.
15:08Follows up with another one.
15:10Everyone's down.
15:20What it would mean for Gabe Kidd to win this matchup.
15:24What it would mean for Shota Umino to win this matchup is the exact same.
15:28You establish yourself at the forefront of this quote unquote future generation.
15:32Everyone likes to talk about right now in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
15:36Who will lead New Japan going forward?
15:48What's this?
16:01So you look at this from a visitor's spectator's, you know, I don't know what I'm going to say.
16:08When you watch this, you say, why are you trading these strikes with each other?
16:13But it's that fighting spirit that you feel.
16:15That's really hard to describe watching this.
16:17But when you're in there, you really feel the crowd and the energy.
16:23Feeling it now, that testament of will.
16:25Who is the stronger man?
16:27Who has that fighting spirit?
16:30East and West Lariat's here.
16:32Popped up.
16:33There's that knee strike from Shota Umino.
16:35And Gabe Kidd severely unfazed by all of these shots from Umino.
16:42Even that enziguri keeps Kidd standing.
16:45And Lariat follows through into the cover.
16:49And it's only one.
16:50Yeah, there's no way you're going down.
16:52As exploder suplex from Umino.
16:56Gabe Kidd already back to his feet.
16:59Follows through with the Lariat again.
17:00Such strong arm as the drag pick suplex.
17:05Good God almighty.
17:11And that might have been a knockout shot right there.
17:14But we're into the pitting attempt anyway.
17:15Cover.
17:16Four, one, two.
17:17And it's two.
17:20Oh, baby.
17:24Come on, baby.
17:27Come on, baby.
17:28Come on, baby.
17:29Come on, baby.
17:29Come on, baby.
17:31Come on, baby.
17:31Come on, baby.
17:31The length of tournament, the excruciating schedule that we have in G1 Climax.
17:36Sometimes it is smarter to give up in a matchup and be able to compete coming up next.
17:42No.
17:42You think, but you can't.
17:44Come on, baby.
17:45Neither of these guys could quit.
17:48Even if they, you know, even if Shoto should.
17:51To think about his future.
17:52To think about Ryu Goku and Wrestle Kingdom and beyond.
17:56You're so focused on winning the G1.
17:58You're so focused on your hatred towards Gabe.
18:00That you absolutely cannot let yourself quit.
18:02I understand that completely.
18:04Wrestle's perspective is always different on that one for sure.
18:10Shoto Umino does not want to let Gabe Kidd be the reason
18:13that he misses out on a G1 Climax trophy.
18:16That he misses out on the main event of Wrestle Kingdom 19.
18:19Fuck you.
18:21Yeah.
18:22Whoa.
18:23Blood in the mouth.
18:25Oh, and Shoto Umino.
18:27Oh, and pushing Marty Asami to the side.
18:30Hey, come on, man.
18:30That's not very ace-like whatsoever, LP.
18:32No.
18:34And we understand completely the frustration Shoto Umino has for Gabe Kidd.
18:39The disrespect Kidd has dished out time and time again, but it was completely uncalled for.
18:53Oh, and look at this.
18:57Shot after shot after shot.
18:59Gabe Kidd showed to Umino, this one might need to be broken up right here.
19:04Marty is trying to get in there.
19:06Camera's not showing up and he's pushing Gabe off.
19:08Yeah, best as possible.
19:09It's hard to separate two men with this much vitriol toward one another.
19:14You guys got to be careful.
19:15Marty might call this.
19:17Seen Marty call for less.
19:21Oh.
19:22Oh, my God.
19:25Come on, man.
19:29And that shot might have been the shot that did it.
19:47Come on, Shota.
19:48Finish this.
19:52Put him away.
19:53Here we go.
19:54Double underhook.
19:54What's that death rider?
19:55Not going to happen.
19:56Gabe Kidd wants to drill a hole through the canvas.
20:00As of the roads.
20:02Oh, Umino follows right through.
20:03The Kidd follows it just the same.
20:05Hits the ropes underneath.
20:07Kidd, rebound.
20:08Lariat, no.
20:11Umino.
20:12We saw this against Takagi.
20:14We didn't see that.
20:15We didn't see that.
20:16Drill a hole.
20:18Piledriver.
20:21That's it.
20:21Into the cover for Kidd, too.
20:29And there's a rumble in Hiroshima tonight.
20:32You can feel it throughout this arena.
20:34Everyone wants to know who is the better man between these two.
20:5615 minutes have passed, we are halfway through our allotted time in this tournament so far.
21:08I mean, I don't know what Gabe's thinking here.
21:11Could have done the piledriver.
21:12Yeah, but Gabe wants a knockout and then a submission victory right here.
21:17Gabe Kidd shoving that knee directly into the side where Shoto Umino's hip has been killing him.
21:22That hip fracture on the left side of Umino's body.
21:26And that is a high angle lion tamer that we're looking at right now to try and tame the roughneck
21:31down.
21:32And Gabe Kidd sitting even deeper into it.
21:35Shoto Umino might have to tap.
21:40You can see him saying something.
21:42I think he's saying no to Marty.
21:43Yeah, he tried to call it, but Gabe Kidd.
21:46Bam!
21:47Cut wrench power bomb!
21:48The cover!
21:50In the win!
21:51Wow!
21:56You know, maybe he was saying he was stopping it.
21:59I don't know.
22:00It was hard to tell.
22:01Marty was there, but he wasn't too close to Shoto.
22:04It's hard to tell what exactly he was saying, but you can clearly tell Shoto's hip is not at 100%.
22:14Not whatsoever and neither is the rest of his body.
22:18After that huge gut wrench power bomb from Gabe Kidd.
22:39The match that will be definable for this future going forward.
22:43Gabe Kidd is not done with Shoto Umino, not by a long shot.
22:52It takes four grown men to hold one Gabe Kidd back.
22:55It takes four grown men to hold one Gabe Kidd back.
23:07A stable victory for Gabe Kidd.
23:10Four points in block A.
23:18I mean, you gotta hope that he hasn't had a tooth knocked out or anything.
23:22Or maybe you do hope, but that's something you want to take a look at because we still have a
23:28lot of G1 to go.
23:29And if you got a missing tooth and you got stitches in your tongue and you can't eat properly.
23:35You know, we might be looking at the end of Gabe's G1 right now without even knowing.
23:39Very well good, but Gabe Kidd a little blocked away with the solace knowing that he earned that victory over
23:46Shoto Umino within the confines of the rule book.
23:49Folks, thank you for joining us here tonight on NJPW World Hashtag G1 Climax.
23:5534.
23:58Coming up next for Gabe Kidd, folks, you are not going to want to miss it.
24:01The New Japan Strong Openweight Champion faces off against the former IWGMP World Heavyweight Champion Sonata.
24:08Coming up July 27th in Nagasaki.
24:10That'll be interesting because last year in the G1, Gabe tore Sonata's bicep by pushing him out of the ring
24:17in a very unsafe manner.
24:22And we are going to be talking about Sonata, that bicep tear, and much, much more.
24:27Coming up.
24:29Who knows what injuries Shoto could have after this match with Gabe right now.
24:32Absolutely.
24:33Just what Gabe's done to Eddie.
24:40There's a long, what he did to Henry, there's a long list of people that gave us hurt.
24:49Shoto Umino needed to be helped to the back following this loss.
24:53This is a heartbreaking moment.
24:55A major setback for the Roughneck here tonight live in Hiroshima.
25:00But he has to look forward and look ahead.
25:02Two points still on the board for Shoto Umino over Shino Takagi.
25:06Will face off in Nagasaki July 27th against a man with zero points on the board.
25:13Shoto Umino.
25:14Great Okan.
25:15One on one in Block A.
25:19And I said we'd be talking about Sonata, that bicep tear, and what happened in last year's G1 Climax.
25:25It's all about last year's quarter finals.
25:28A rematch.
25:29Sonata.
25:30Evil.
25:30One on one tonight in our semi main event.
25:34Another.
25:40There you go.
25:43You should go a long, lightning.
25:46A me Ru quan
