HENARE vs Ren Narita - G1 CLIMAX 34 Block B Official Match: NJPW G1 CLIMAX 34 (August 10, 2024)
HENARE vs 成田 蓮 - 『G1 CLIMAX 34』Bブロック公式戦：NJPW G1 CLIMAX 34（2024年8月10日）
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00:00We will now have the first match of the G1 Climax B Block 2030.
00:30Henare and Ren Narita's entire careers, it has always been Henare that has been one step
00:45ahead of the man who now considers himself sold out.
00:48However, in G1 Climax 34, that is not the case, but in fact the opposite.
00:53Henare, the never Openweight Champion, currently sits at 6 points.
00:57Ren Narita walks in at 8.
01:00For Henare, it is a need to win situation to stay alive, but Ren Narita could make himself
01:06official in these playoffs.
01:18Not a nice guy.
01:27Wait a minute.
01:39Calum, that might be a little bit, a little bit more than just a walk that Ren Narita
01:47has just gone on in.
01:48Ah, it's alright.
01:49He's gone to the loo.
01:51Henare is probably one of the most terrifying men in New Japan.
01:57He doesn't want the match, it's fine.
02:02It's Henare who reigns as never Openweight Champion.
02:09Ren Narita has held gold in the Never division before, albeit before he sold out to the house
02:14when he reigned as never Openweight Six Tag.
02:17And now Narita knew that was more than just a lovely stroll Narita was heading on.
02:22And we're already getting this one underway.
02:26Oh, come on.
02:27We saw these tactics utilized yesterday or days ago in preview tag team action.
02:33Pulled right over the eyes of Henare.
02:35And Narita's got to bring this one inside so we can get this started.
02:43As bell sounds, we're underway and Henare
02:47Henare, take it off.
02:53I don't know where he is.
02:54Callum, I think your advice might be the best that he could get right now.
02:57But Henare, always hard headed.
03:01Not exactly one to listen to reason.
03:03Henare, swing first, ask questions later.
03:08Oh, you said hard headed.
03:11Well, those eyes, soft as anyone else's.
03:14Shot right to the eyes from Ren Narita.
03:17These two do have a previous singles history with one another.
03:20Takes you back to 2019.
03:24The previous Toa Henare defeating Ren Narita.
03:27Both times sub eight minute matches.
03:30And that, of course, was a time Narita was a young lion.
03:33Henare fresh out of the dojo by that point.
03:36Trying to find himself the way that Henare has evolved over time.
03:40And to what this beast has become.
03:42There's a reason he reigns as Never Openweight Champion, Callum.
03:45You know that.
03:47Hardest man in this, in this company in the world.
03:51I say it every time I'm here.
03:53Brother Nin died.
03:58Might be suffering something similar here.
04:00That left knee.
04:02Looks like he might have given out on that landing there for Henare.
04:04And that is going to be an easy, easy target for Ren Narita.
04:08Utilized the knee bar all throughout this tournament.
04:12Oh, shot right into that shoulder.
04:18Reiterate this point, folks.
04:19Henare must win to stay alive.
04:21Currently sits at six points on the board.
04:23That is going to need a lot of help in the tie breaks.
04:26Here we go.
04:27Right in the barricades.
04:28Chest first.
04:35Oh, gosh. Oh, Callum.
04:36What are we doing here?
04:44And we are taking this one all throughout the arena tonight.
04:47Taking away that left leg is going to make it so much harder for Henare to kick.
04:51As soon as he starts to kick, all that weight goes on the left leg.
04:56As soon as he plants that, it's going to wobble.
04:58It's not going to kick as hard as usual.
05:01What?
05:02A steel chair in our official.
05:05Going to allow this one to roll on here.
05:13Horrible. Horrible smile. Brush your teeth.
05:18No respect for Sendai, for Cal Newman, for Yoh, who sits to the right of us.
05:22The Japanese broadcast booth.
05:24Narita has turned a different page in his life ever since he and Henare first met in 2019 in singles action.
05:33You've said it before, long are the days of Narita being accused of being a Katsuyori Shibata clone.
05:42Very little of those printables still left.
05:44But then Narita looks to smoke on that Henare pack.
05:47Here tonight, sitting at the broadcast booth.
05:49Come on.
05:51Henare's got to make it back inside this ring.
05:55Thanks for that, buddy.
05:57Count of 14. Henare back in.
06:00Really hot in Japan, so I hope he doesn't have a cold side of a pillow tonight.
06:04Horrible.
06:09These tactics Narita has used all throughout this tournament.
06:13One of the opponents he's had in this tournament, the man who sits atop block B right now, Jeff Cobb.
06:19Narita actually has a victory over Jeff Cobb.
06:21Could be very important if we find ourselves in a tie-break situation between those two.
06:25That's the one blow we've yet to see Narita go to in this match against Henare.
06:30Henare, an expert grappler.
06:32A lot of people don't notice that because he does utilize so much of his striking game.
06:36But when it requires it, Henare is capable of busting out these shots.
06:41Even from the lower position here, Calum, he wants to go for these strikes.
06:49Mocking the Maori tradition is not something I do.
06:52Mocking the Maori tradition is not something I would want to do if I was stepping in the ring with a Maori warrior.
07:07Keep in mind folks, anyone who does pick up a victory over a singles champion in New Japan Pro Wrestling
07:12very well could earn themselves a shot.
07:14Lobby for it, politic for it, all the way down the line.
07:18And Narita would love to get some championship gold in his future.
07:21He's already been Nevers six-man tag champion.
07:23Would love to hold the singles gold as well.
07:25Right over the eyes of Henare once again.
07:30And a big shot.
07:32Artis Head in Pro Wrestling.
07:33Sent down, shoulders down.
07:35It's only two.
07:49And a few things he held on to since his days under Katsuyori Shibata.
07:54That Explorer Suplex.
07:55Wanted it, could not get it.
07:57Gonna have to follow up instead.
08:01Henare swinging at the fences.
08:03There he is.
08:04Berserker Bomb.
08:06He's woken up now.
08:10Calum, is there any talk in the United Empire locker room about strategy going into any block competition?
08:15Do you know Henare's game plan walking in tonight?
08:17Go in, kick, punch, headbutt as hard as you can.
08:21And see if they get up.
08:23It's the same conversation every night for Henare.
08:26Usually.
08:27Aaron, are you using your head tonight?
08:29Yes.
08:31Henare, pretty strong head.
08:36Cost him his career at the hands of a table.
08:38And it's a scar that he wears proudly now and forever.
08:41Henare has Narita on the shoulders.
08:46And paying the tribute, Hiro Saito-esque with the senton.
08:54One thing that you can say for the most part regarding Ren Narita,
08:57fights a lot of his battles, not all, but a lot of his battles completely on his own.
09:05And in on the cover here, Henare.
09:07Just too, you notice, falls right into that cover.
09:10That lefty's still doing a lot to hinder Henare in his offense.
09:15Henare.
09:16Saito.
09:17Henare.
09:18Saito.
09:19Henare.
09:20Saito.
09:21Saito.
09:22Narita can win this match-up.
09:30Ty with Jeff Cobb currently at ten points.
09:34As a massive if from the situation we're looking at right now,
09:37Henare wants to make sure that it's not a topic of conversation going forward.
09:42Oh, Nari.
09:44Nari wants to make Nari to fade here.
09:49Introduce him to the true Nevers style.
09:52Oh, Nari's so far from the Nevers style here.
09:58Oh!
10:00Straight to the liver.
10:02That might be the last time Nari mounts the Maori culture.
10:11As Nari off the ropes.
10:13Caught him, caught him, caught him.
10:15Exploder puts down Nari.
10:17Straight on that leg.
10:18Yeah, yeah.
10:19You see him go to it immediately on landing.
10:21Nari.
10:23Great strategy from Nari.
10:25Keeping himself in that corner.
10:27Holds on to ropes.
10:28He knows how much Nari loves to utilize the submission game.
10:33In.
10:36As fast as he can.
10:38As fast as he can.
10:39Pups kick right through.
10:43Half in.
10:44Down bridge.
10:45Look at that from Nari.
10:48Much higher than Nari.
10:49Probably decent.
10:53Dodgy air cut there.
11:06Off the ropes.
11:07Guillotine knee strike.
11:08Nari powers up Nari.
11:10And it's right through.
11:12Right down to the knee bar.
11:14That is expert clutch from Red Nari.
11:20Nari, it's on that injured knee calf.
11:22What is he going to have to do?
11:23Those ropes look like they're inches away.
11:28Don't give up, Harry.
11:30Nari, come on.
11:34Nari might have to scratch and claw to those bottom ropes.
11:38It is the only hope.
11:39The only solace an ever open weight champion has.
11:42And Nari fingertips away.
11:44Fingertips on.
11:58It has been a heavy confidence for Red Nari.
12:04That confidence is going to take Nari to the top.
12:07Wants to take down that ski.
12:09No, Nari right out underneath.
12:12Swinging for the fences.
12:13Not swinging when he can't see.
12:19There's the hard head of Nari playing dividends here.
12:32Nari's resilience.
12:33His ability to take punishment and dish it out just the same as otherworldly.
12:39And it's knee to knee.
12:47Nari up on the shoulders.
12:49Nari escapes out.
12:50Nari drop.
12:51Not going to happen.
12:52Here we go.
12:53Oh, oh, oh.
12:54If we get the full Nelson, we could get the Ultima.
12:57And Nari has Pettisato by the collar.
13:02Oh, my God.
13:05What are you playing at, sunshine?
13:07Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
13:08Don't.
13:09Nari, don't do it.
13:10Don't.
13:11No, no, no, no, no.
13:12Nari, you're going to cost yourself your block.
13:13Come on.
13:16Nari took once again to that left knee.
13:19It was an accidental shot.
13:20You saw it as well as I did, Callum.
13:24You put some weight behind it.
13:27Pettisato taking out a ringside on a pinch hold for this matchup.
13:30And it opens the door for Red Nari to do whatever he damn well pleases.
13:36And Nari, oh, picked up.
13:41On the shoulders.
13:42Nari drop.
13:45Cover here.
13:46Nari, no.
13:47There's no referee.
13:48Four, five, six, seven.
13:52Oh, come on, now.
13:53Shoma Kato's got an ice pack on Pettisato.
13:56And we've got to have something out here.
13:58Do we have a backup official on standby?
14:00Someone's got to change this.
14:03Nari should now have eight points on the board, Callum.
14:06Get Marty sprinting down the line.
14:13Nari trying to drag our official back in.
14:15Lifeless body.
14:16Oh.
14:19That might have just snapped the knee of Nari.
14:21And if that didn't, this will.
14:23This will right here.
14:24The stomping pin of Nari.
14:26That left knee.
14:28Just separating the bones in the knee, the ligaments.
14:31It's all tearing apart.
14:33Oh, that's everything.
14:34The knee, the hamstring, the heel, everything.
14:43This is definitely Red Nari's best hope at walking away with the win here
14:47tonight.
14:48And it's not going to come clean, not by any fashion.
14:51Whoa, Nari rolling out.
14:57Nari, but Nari dead lift up.
15:01Behind the back, Ultima.
15:04God damn it.
15:07Oh, the double cross misses.
15:09And it's a rampage from the face of Fury tonight.
15:18No.
15:27Nari trying to knock a little bit of feeling into that left knee and get
15:30this Sendai audience behind him here.
15:36And it may take this.
15:37Pave the goal.
15:38No, no, no.
15:39Wait a minute, Nari.
15:42That's right around that knee.
15:44Brought up, back down.
15:45Oh, Kenta Sato, watch out.
15:47Oh, come on.
15:49Did you see that?
15:53It's a double cross from Red Nari to advance on the board.
16:01Red Nari tops out Block B.
16:06Why?
16:24There's still some good news for United Empire in G1 Climax.
16:28Fredo Kong still alive in Block A.
16:31Jeff Cobb still involved in the top conversation in Block B at 10 points.
16:35But Nari officially eliminated from G1 Climax 34 here tonight by God damn
16:41Red Nari.
16:43Makes me sick.
16:56He's sitting right in front of us in the English broadcast booth right now.
16:59And Nari was just as shocked as we are here tonight at what's happened.
17:11I don't want to be near him in the local room after this one.
17:14That's a good thing you're safe out here for the time being because Nari is
17:18going to be tearing the United Empire locker room and United Empire bus all
17:21the way apart.
17:26That does not mean G1 Climax is over for Nari.
17:29Goes one on one with Hiroki Goto.
17:31We have yet to see Goto tonight.
17:34Oh, Nari still chair in hand.
17:36Nari wants to take it to Nari.
17:38He's not done.
17:50Fans, it's a shock to the system to see the never openweight champion
17:54eliminated here tonight.
17:55But what that does mean, it is Ren Nari to Jeff Cobb tied at 10 points
18:00apiece.
18:02But Ren Nari does one victory over Jeff Cobb in G1 Climax 34 means one
18:07thing and one thing only.
18:09House of Torture stands at the top of Block B thanks to Nari to Jeff Cobb
18:14at number two.
18:16And a number three will soon be established shortly.
18:21Wow.
18:36Coming up next, folks, it's a match that a lot of people have been
18:39anticipating.
18:40Hiroki Goto, El Phantasmo one on one.