Shota Umino vs EVIL - G1 CLIMAX 34 A Block Official Match: NJPW G1 CLIMAX 34 (August 12, 2024)
海野 翔太 vs EVIL - 『G1 CLIMAX 34』Aブロック公式戦：NJPW G1 CLIMAX 34（2024年8月12日）
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00:00Today's Semi-Final, G1 Climax, A Block Official Match, 30 minutes, start now!
00:31Oh wait, no, they're changing to purple. My bad.
00:42Any glow sticks in the audience tonight are not going to be in the favor of the house.
00:49It is Dick Togo who accompanies Evil to ringside, and it is Evil who makes his way down alongside him.
00:5610 points on the board for Evil.
00:59Very, very close to locking in his playoff position.
01:02What is that in the hands of Evil? A piece of paper?
01:07It looks like maybe a statement from our supposed president.
01:11Is he the president now?
01:12He claims. Absolutely outrageous.
01:1510 points on the board despite it all for Evil.
01:18I think that might be why the stock's dropping.
01:21What are you doing?
01:22Oh wait a minute, Abe-san in the grasp of House of Torture.
01:28And a message that has been prepared for the New Japan Faithful.
01:36Oh, come on.
01:46Read this!
01:48Read this!
01:50Read this!
01:52To the New Japan Pro-Wrestling Corporation and New Japan Pro-Wrestling fans,
01:58I, Shota Umino, have an announcement to make.
02:03Before the G1 CLIMAX 34 A-BLOCK schedule ends,
02:10I will be disqualified from the preliminaries.
02:14Even if I beat Evil in today's official match,
02:19I will not be able to advance to the final tournament.
02:23So, in order for everyone to enjoy the G1 CLIMAX A-BLOCK even more,
02:30today's official match will be my seniority,
02:36and Evil will be awarded a point.
02:40Please understand.
02:45August 12th, 2024, Shota Umino.
02:56Oh, that's enough!
02:57That's how it is!
02:59I'm not doing a match today, do you understand?
03:03Remember that!
03:11Very clearly written in this statement,
03:13Evil wants Marty Asami to raise his hand as the victor,
03:16claims that...
03:20...claims that Shota Umino may not be here tonight,
03:23to compete in this match.
03:28He's probably walking here from the hotel.
03:32He's been doing that a lot recently, but...
03:41Oh!
03:57Shota Umino's here!
03:59Shota Umino's here!
04:02We have a semi-main event match to get to.
04:05Evil had Abe-san read off the statement saying that
04:08Umino was sending a message to New Japan Pro-Wrestling's fans,
04:13saying that he was going to lose to Evil,
04:15so he didn't want to show up to the building tonight.
04:18That obviously not being true,
04:20a fabricated statement from Evil,
04:22as we need to be careful here at the booth now.
04:24Oh no, oh no!
04:27I mean, I'm not saying I don't like that.
04:29Put some more.
04:30That guy's an asshole.
04:31That guy's an asshole.
04:35Man.
04:36Oh, man.
04:38What a strange start to this matchup here.
04:40Bell hasn't even sounded, but we're sure to get this one underway.
04:45Bell sounds.
04:46It's official.
04:54Umino and Evil bringing this one back inside the ring.
04:56These two have met once before in singles action.
04:59Take you back.
05:00New beginning in Sapporo this year.
05:02Night one.
05:03Evil defending your now never-open-weight championship at the time.
05:08Again, Shoto Umino outsmarted Shoto Umino on that evening,
05:12followed up in post-match comments on that night,
05:14called Shoto Umino a geek, a dweeb.
05:18Said that he is not the supposed ace of New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
05:21Umino wants to think he is, but Umino says,
05:24hey, I may not be the smartest, but I am going to fight you the most.
05:27I mean, that's on a lot of people's minds, to be honest, backstage.
05:31Does he have it, or is he going to...
05:32I honestly think that the fans are going to turn on him.
05:35Too much peasantry, not enough results.
05:39Seen it before with the former Stardust Genius.
05:43Shoto Umino is very much embodied throughout early parts of his career,
05:46and now...
05:47Togo's undoing the right there.
05:48Yeah, you can see it from behind, and Evil holds on,
05:51and Umino didn't see it.
05:52That is still the spine.
05:54Right in the corner.
05:57Technically, didn't shake.
05:59Technically.
06:02Circumstantial at best.
06:05Umino came into this tournament, claimed he was at 100%
06:08to the New Japan Pro-Wrestling fans.
06:10That, obviously, if you have kept an eye on any of our block A action,
06:14an absolute lie, a fabrication by Shoto Umino.
06:19Wants to embody that ace spirit,
06:21that Tanahashi mentality of never tired.
06:24You always hear Tanahashi saying it in the locker room.
06:26Never tired.
06:27I've never been tired a day in my life.
06:30Well, if you've never been tired,
06:31you won't pull out of the match just before the G1.
06:34Which you did.
06:39Never tired is getting your head split open
06:41and still carrying on knocking your opponent out.
06:44That's what never tired is.
06:46Not all about the time, never.
06:47Oh!
06:48That fan just got hit in the head with the gimmick.
06:50Gimmick.
06:53And Umino goes face first in that steel chair
06:56and the other being driven directly into the neck of the rough neck.
06:59Oh, man.
07:00Shout out to those Hawaiian dudes right there.
07:04Shoto walked into this tournament,
07:06a hip fracture and a spinal sprain,
07:08and now, I mean, it's only gotten worse and worse over time.
07:11So he claims, so he claims.
07:13We could have all just saved a picture on Google
07:16and posted it for some sympathy.
07:20Shoto!
07:21Shoto!
07:22Shoto!
07:23Shoto!
07:24Shoto!
07:25Shoto!
07:26Evil back inside the ring now.
07:28Evil having a smoko up here in the top corner.
07:36This is evil manifest.
07:40Far from democracy.
07:41Far from it.
07:43Seven.
07:45Eight.
07:47Nine.
07:48And it's the 20 count being applied.
07:50We're halfway through it by this point.
07:51Umino back up to his feet.
07:53I've never seen anyone take a rope off like that.
07:58Oh, wait a minute.
07:59Evil has something to share with Marty Asami,
08:01and Togo should not have his hands on Umino whatsoever.
08:06For a little guy, that dude's bloody ruthless, man.
08:09One of the best junior heavyweights to have ever done it.
08:11I mean, you gotta be a different sort of crazy
08:13to choose to live out there in Bolivia
08:15as the only Japanese guy out there.
08:17Yes.
08:18I think you're right.
08:19He's got a side business like selling cigars out there
08:21or buying cigars, selling them here.
08:23Oh, wow.
08:30Getting Dick Togo lured tonight.
08:33It's evil.
08:34Has that t-shirt off
08:35and wants to wrap it around the throat of Umino.
08:37Asami saw it.
08:38Oh, wow.
08:39Evil playing by the rules.
08:40Far from it.
08:41Come on.
08:42Cut me a break.
08:43That tag rope wrapped right around the throat of Umino.
08:46Asami.
08:47Come on, Asami.
08:48What are you doing?
08:51Asami didn't see the rope.
08:54Evil.
08:55Hell of a magician.
08:56Cover here.
08:57It's only one.
08:59One and only singles match between these two
09:01went a total 15 minutes, 45 seconds.
09:04That is a little over halfway through
09:06our 30-minute time limit we have here tonight.
09:10If Umino really wants to carry New Japan Pro Wrestling
09:13in the future as its prospective ace,
09:15it must keep its biggest negative force at bay
09:18and out of G1 Climax.
09:22I've already fallen for him.
09:23And out he goes.
09:24Right in front of us here.
09:25I mean, just earlier before you-
09:27Oh!
09:28Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
09:29You can hear the whiplash effect on that one.
09:32Oh, man.
09:34Why did I look away?
09:35Damn.
09:37And into the cover here.
09:39Evil only won.
09:40And this is not going to win you a match,
09:42but it is going to tire your opponent.
09:44It's two.
09:51Something to be said about finishing on a high note, Honare.
09:54You're going to try your best to do that
09:56in Hamamatsu despite the elimination.
09:58Umino trying to do so here tonight against Evil.
10:15Ooh, sweat flying off his chest.
10:30Oh, and right to the eyes again.
10:34Evil has consistently had Umino's number.
10:37What a mental game.
10:39Hey, when the physical game comes into play,
10:41Shota turns it up.
10:44Yeah.
10:54What's he doing?
10:57Shota trying to shake a little bit of life
10:59back in wherever he can.
11:04A bit too much time there.
11:05Well, might have, but no time to be wasted now.
11:09Back elbow, forearm, both come right out
11:12off the ropes underneath.
11:17Forearm shot won again.
11:29A lot of people hoping for Umino to walk away
11:32with the victory here tonight.
11:33Shingo Takagi needs it.
11:34Tetsuya Naito may need it.
11:36Great Okan very well may need it.
11:39Eyes up and down.
11:40Fisherman suplex into the cover, and it's two.
11:44I think they've tightened this ring to buggery tonight
11:47because it's sounding a lot stiffer than usual.
12:03Explode a suplex.
12:08Can he get his hips underneath him?
12:09Could Umino?
12:13We're seeing it again.
12:14Drop kick takes out Togo.
12:16And drop toehold puts him right down.
12:18Here we go.
12:19Umino over the top.
12:24What a nice move, that one.
12:26Especially because the rope is holding your hip back.
12:28You can't really escape from it.
12:32Spiked right into the apron, and Shota Umino
12:34is feeling alive and well right now.
12:36But Hinari, it's these in-between points
12:38where we notice Shota starting to fade a little bit.
12:41When the gears turn just a little bit too much,
12:43when Shota's acting on instinct,
12:45it works out really well for him.
12:47That's when you get that quick offense in.
12:48He thinks about it too much.
12:50Exactly.
12:51That's why I don't think much.
12:52I just swing.
12:53Swing for the fences.
12:54Aim for the bushes.
12:57Shota.
12:59Clear the flight deck here.
13:00Umino from the top.
13:02Drop kick takes Evil down.
13:06Exploder.
13:07And bam.
13:08You called it yourself right over the top.
13:10With the Exploder into the cover,
13:12hooks the outer leg here, and it's two.
13:18I mean, look at all the moves he's doing.
13:19They are damaging his lower back,
13:21so maybe that's what's slowing him down,
13:22but he's just trying not to show it.
13:25You can see in his eyes that something's not quite right.
13:29Going for the bloody.
13:33Evil.
13:35Nope.
13:36Here we go.
13:37Umino.
13:38Uppercut.
13:40And on an excursion in RevPro in the UK.
13:44Trying to master that European Uppercut,
13:45and instead, right back to the eyes,
13:47Evil takes it.
13:48Caught the leg.
13:49Here we go.
13:50Caught the leg.
13:51Here we go.
13:52Uppercut connects.
13:54And oh, no, no, no.
13:55Drop kick.
13:56Arne Asami.
13:57What are you doing?
13:59Oh, that's the tag on.
14:01It's a very similar scene to what we saw back in Sapporo.
14:05I'm sorry to laugh,
14:06but the referee screwed me the other day,
14:07so I got a chip on my shoulder against him.
14:10Dick Togo's screwing everyone over here in Naraoka tonight.
14:15The dick's screwing you.
14:16Who's this?
14:17Oh, wait a minute.
14:18That's-
14:19Oh, come on.
14:20Kanamaru.
14:21Hey, hey, hey.
14:22Keep in mind,
14:23other members of House of Torture
14:24are still in the building tonight.
14:26Ren Narita's still around.
14:27Sho's still around.
14:28The whole gang's in town in Naraoka.
14:32Bastards.
14:34Oh, no, no, no.
14:36On the shoulders.
14:37Magic killer.
14:44Evil.
14:45Oh, well.
14:48Okay.
14:49Okay.
14:50Yeah, this is the new Japan Pro-Wrestling Evil What's.
14:52Official.
14:53Official.
14:55This is the new Japan Pro-Wrestling Evil What's
14:58with House of Torture
15:00with Dick Togo ringing the damn bell at ringside.
15:02Kanamaru wearing the striped shirt.
15:06And Evil standing on top.
15:08Hey, there's the referee that slapped me the other day.
15:15Referee Kenta Sato now here at ringside.
15:17I mean,
15:18Kenta Sato's only one man.
15:31Looks like Sato's gonna take back control of this matchup.
15:38And credit where credit's due.
15:40Evil had Umino on the shoulders.
15:42What a darkness falls.
15:46And instead,
15:47Umino,
15:48face locked down.
15:49Tornado.
15:50Yes, sir.
15:53Oh, and Umino
15:54trying to play keep away with every single member of House of Torture
15:57we have in the building tonight.
16:01All right.
16:02Chess first in the steel.
16:03Here's Umino.
16:06Wait a minute.
16:07Wait a minute.
16:10The SDF locked in right here.
16:11Umino center of the ring.
16:13Handed to him by Choshu.
16:15Chono himself.
16:17Choshu.
16:18Very different SDF.
16:19Here we go.
16:20One more time.
16:21Sat right back in.
16:22And wait a minute.
16:23Wait a minute.
16:24Look down the line.
16:25Look down the line.
16:27No, that's.
16:29That is the wrench.
16:30The wrench from Chou.
16:33And Evil's tapping.
16:34We've seen so many visual endings to this match.
16:39Umino, turn out.
16:40Look behind you.
16:42No, no, no, no, no.
16:45I mean,
16:46referee deserved that one.
16:49Yeah, but not our entire officiating staff.
16:51This is,
16:52I mean,
16:53House of Torture is
16:54I mean,
16:55House of Torture is an absolute
16:57ruthless machine.
17:02The whole island of Misfit Toys is here at ringside.
17:07Smoker will express these jobs.
17:14One,
17:15two,
17:16three,
17:17four,
17:18five.
17:19Still one more guy to go.
17:20Right.
17:21Go home.
17:22Go home.
17:23Get out of here.
17:25And train ensues.
17:27Chou comes in.
17:29Yudro derails,
17:30and Evil,
17:31the caboose,
17:32follows in with Ilaria.
17:35Oh, no.
17:36Cut some parts.
17:37No.
17:38No.
17:39Not from Dick.
17:40Not Nagaoka.
17:41Oh, come on.
17:43Stick to Dick contact.
17:47The Umino line just got a little bit shorter.
17:51Descendants just minimized right there.
17:53Well, some people are thinking the lucky stars,
17:55but the people in Nagaoka here tonight are not.
17:59Shoto Umino has been put through the absolute ringer.
18:01Now here's young Sakamoto
18:03going for the cover here.
18:04Here's Evil on Umino,
18:06and it's two.
18:08I mean,
18:09Asami's senior riff.
18:12Kenta is the middle riff.
18:14Now it's junior riff.
18:15You can only imagine what they're going to do with him.
18:18Oh, no.
18:19And Sakamoto.
18:20Oh, come on.
18:21Oh, my God.
18:22The juice.
18:23Oh, the juice is drunk tonight.
18:26Not the first time.
18:27Evil cover.
18:28No.
18:29Shoto's out.
18:32Shoto's up at two,
18:33and come on, Sakamoto.
18:35Taken out at ringside again.
18:37I mean,
18:38who's left?
18:43This.
18:44This is absolutely outrageous.
18:47There's Tagatori back there.
18:48Oh,
18:49he's going to have to fight him.
18:51Pull the stripes off.
18:57There's a time in Umino's career
18:58where he needed a scapegoat.
19:00Now he's looking like a sacrificial lamb.
19:03Wait a minute.
19:05Oh, my God.
19:06It's,
19:08it's Hiroshi Tadahashi.
19:12Tadahashi's here
19:15in his business best
19:17to save this business.
19:21Oh, no, no, no.
19:22Not to Tadahashi.
19:23Not to Tadahashi.
19:25In content.
19:28Tadahashi.
19:30Cleaning house tonight.
19:33Sling blade.
19:39Tadahashi.
19:40No, no, no.
19:44Evil is an absolute disgrace.
19:51The lowest of the low.
19:57I mean,
19:58I don't know if Tadahashi could
19:59have officially counted those stripes.
20:01Counted three.
20:03Oh, but Umino.
20:04Hey.
20:05What the hell?
20:06I'm going to start doing that.
20:07Yeah, cut her out of nowhere.
20:11I mean,
20:12he needed it.
20:13He was going to die otherwise.
20:18Does he have anything to say?
20:19Does he have anything left?
20:23Umino confined.
20:25Oh, papawa.
20:26Papawa.
20:28Oh.
20:30How poetic.
20:33What happened, my boy?
20:38We've heard claims of it before.
20:40Red Shoes coming in to save
20:41Shoto Umino in the past
20:43in his career, but
20:45we have run through our entire
20:46officiating staff here tonight.
20:48It is only fair
20:49for Red Shoes
20:50to be the official
20:51for this match now
20:53at this point.
20:56And there's no bias involved
20:58with Red Shoes tonight.
20:59Wow.
21:00Wow.
21:01Wow.
21:02Has been calling it down the middle
21:03all throughout this tournament.
21:05Wow.
21:10Shoto
21:12heads in out of the corner.
21:13There's that new strike
21:14to the back of Evil.
21:16And once it up,
21:17tried it incoming.
21:19Plates it down.
21:21Cover again.
21:22Hook of both legs.
21:23Sends deep.
21:24Two.
21:25True, that was a
21:26fair count.
21:27Fair count.
21:28That wasn't a quick one.
21:30Shot coming up here.
21:33Shoto Umino
21:34off the ropes.
21:35Key in the ignition.
21:42And this could be it.
21:43What's the death rider?
21:44And right to the steel.
21:45Back to that same corner.
21:46Oh, come on.
21:48Shoto fires up
21:49in the lariat from Evil.
21:52Extinguishes the flame
21:53that Umino had built.
22:08Evil
22:09off the ropes.
22:10Lariat.
22:13Through Shoto Umino.
22:16The cover.
22:17No!
22:19How much more does Shoto have left, bro?
22:23Evil has given him everything.
22:25His eyes are rolling back
22:26into the back of his skull.
22:33Tanahashi was never tired.
22:35Shoto Umino
22:36will never
22:37say
22:38die.
22:44And it's here.
22:45Umino.
22:51Elbow down
22:52into Gary.
22:53This could be it.
22:54This could be it.
22:55He knows he's got a chance.
23:05Going for the blaze?
23:07It will be on the mind
23:08of Shoto and Evil.
23:09From behind.
23:10Here we go.
23:11Shoto
23:12blaze
23:13blade.
23:15And Umino
23:16to put Evil down.
23:17No
23:18can
23:19be.
23:20Umino.
23:21No, no, no.
23:22Red Shoes didn't see it.
23:23The low blow.
23:25And a death
23:26rider.
23:27Evil rider.
23:29And Evil to seal
23:30the death of Umino
23:31tonight.
23:33How
23:34in
23:35the hell?
23:36This is pure,
23:37pure spirit
23:38from here, man.
23:39His body is gone.
23:40His legs are out.
23:41His eyes are rolling back.
23:43This is pure spirit.
23:44And it's he.
23:45No.
23:46Evil
23:47from Umino.
23:50Got to capitalize, capitalize, capitalize.
24:01You want to sing my song?
24:02You want to dance my dance?
24:03I will eat out of your garden
24:05and make you humble tonight.
24:10Shoto
24:11Umino.
24:13Whoa.
24:14Emerald
24:15lotion.
24:18Umino now
24:19transitions in.
24:21Death
24:22rider.
24:24Umino
24:26has done it
24:27here tonight.
24:28The cover.
24:30Umino has beaten Evil.
24:37A lot of people's GY75
24:39just got saved, right?
24:43Amazing spirit.
24:44Amazing heart.
24:45And having the ace
24:46Panahake
24:47at ringside
24:48watching it.
24:49Does that say something,
24:50Warfield?
24:51That's a stamp of approval
24:52in my book.
24:57There is nothing wrong
24:59with a professional athlete
25:01calling his shot
25:02a little too early.
25:03And maybe February of this year
25:05was a little too early
25:07for Umino to call himself
25:08the new ace.
25:09And maybe now
25:10is a little too early.
25:11But years down the line
25:12Shoto Umino
25:13is going to be a man
25:14to be revered.
25:33Shoto Umino
25:34ends his G1 Climax 34
25:36at a career best
25:37of 8 points
25:38on the board.
25:41And Evil
25:42knocked out
25:43a playoff contention.
25:44Still very much alive
25:45in that regard.
25:46Evil
25:4710 points on the board.
25:48Yes.
25:49But
25:50it all will come down
25:51to our main event
25:52here tonight.
25:53Tetsuya Naito
25:54Great Okada
25:55one-on-one.
25:57The winner of that match
25:58will have nearly
25:59sealed their way
26:00into a playoff spot.
26:03You've seen how
26:04damaged Naito is
26:05this entire tour.
26:07And my boy
26:08Great Okada
26:09isn't going to let
26:10that fall.
26:15Those balls
26:16are still hurting.
26:29And wrestling fans
26:32I have news
26:33that comes down
26:34from the highest of heavens
26:35from sportofprowrestling.com
26:37Evil
26:38officially
26:39out.
26:40He won Climax 34.
26:41I didn't think
26:42I was that dumb.
26:44Shingo Takagi
26:45is now through
26:46into the playoffs.
26:49So only one spot
26:50left in the main event.
26:52You're right about that.
26:53Woo!
26:59The winner of our
27:00main event here tonight
27:01will be locked
27:02into a playoff situation.
27:04Zack Stamper Jr.
27:05already advancing
27:06to the semifinal
27:07of this tournament
27:08It will be
27:09Shingo Takagi
27:10versus the winner
27:11of tonight's main
27:12Naito
27:13or Great Okada.
27:14Wow.
27:15Imagine
27:16if it was not a
27:17I mean I can't
27:18I don't like
27:19imagining that
27:20because Great Okada
27:21is my boy.
27:22Sure.
27:24Wow.
27:38Wow.
27:39Wow.
27:40Wow.
27:41Wow.
27:42Wow.
27:43Wow.
27:44Wow.
27:45Wow.
27:46Wow.
27:47Wow.
27:48Wow.
27:49Wow.
27:50Wow.
27:51Wow.
27:52Wow.
27:53Wow.
27:54Wow.
27:55Wow.
27:56Wow.
27:57Wow.
27:58Wow.
27:59Wow.
28:00Wow.
28:01Wow.
28:02Wow.
28:03Wow.
28:04Wow.
28:05Wow.
28:06Wow.