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00:01Where legends are forged.
00:05Where names are refined in honor.
00:09The most grueling tournament in professional wrestling has evolved.
00:17The stakes are high, gentlemen.
00:20G1 Climax 29, July 6th in Dallas, Texas.
00:26The rise to glory begins in America.
00:31And what a happening that's going to be.
00:34Kevin Kelly, I know that you are excited about that.
00:38And it's going to be monumental.
00:40The first ever G1 Climax event ever away from Japan.
00:44And it's July the 6th.
00:45You can get your tickets right now at Ticketmaster.com.
00:48And right now we'd like to introduce Women of Honor star Mandy Leon.
00:51Mandy, you're here tonight to take in the proceedings.
00:53Our next contest is a great Women of Honor World Championship match.
00:56I'm so excited for this.
00:57I really want to see what Kelly is going to bring to the table.
00:59against Mayu.
01:00And this is going to be an excellent match.
01:03Wait a second.
01:04I'm sorry, Mandy.
01:05I'm getting word from the back that there's been an attack of some sort.
01:08Can we get a camera back there?
01:09What?
01:10Is this?
01:11Oh, no.
01:12Is it Juice?
01:13Juice?
01:14Can we get back there?
01:16Oh, God.
01:17That is Juice.
01:19That is Juice.
01:20Juice Robinson is laid out.
01:21Who is that running away?
01:22I couldn't tell.
01:23I couldn't tell.
01:24Oh, my gosh.
01:27Juice Robinson has been laid out.
01:29And that's all we're seeing?
01:32Did we get anybody there?
01:33Did anybody see who came out of the locker room?
01:35I got a lot of questions.
01:36Kevin, Kevin Texas.
01:37I got a lot of questions.
01:38Use your connections, Colt.
01:39Text backstage.
01:40Mandy, coming up next, we have the Women of Honor World Championship match.
01:43The Women of Honor World Champion, Mayu Iwatani, defense against Kelly Cline.
01:46Both women are 2-2 against one another.
01:48Colt, I normally say we shouldn't text, but right now, see if anybody's backstage.
01:52You want me on my phone?
01:53I guess you have to.
01:54You usually yell at me to get off my phone.
01:56I'll do it.
01:57Okay.
01:58Kevin, if you take care of that.
01:59Huge Women of Honor World Championship match.
02:01The series at 2-2, Mayu versus the Gatekeeper.
02:11And Mandy, you've had such an instrumental part in the Women of Honor division,
02:15taking back to 2015, kicking things back off.
02:18Did you ever think you'd see the championship being defended here in Madison Square Garden?
02:21Honestly, Ian, I can't even believe how far we have come.
02:25I have chills.
02:26My goosebumps are on and off.
02:28They just keep happening over and over.
02:29This is huge.
02:30Historic.
02:31And Kelly Cline, the Gatekeeper, with new gear, out with Camp Cline,
02:38the former Women of Honor World Champion.
02:41She, of course, won that title back at Final Battle,
02:45defeating Madison Reign, Karen Q, and the then-champion, Sumi Sakai.
02:50This is a Women of Honor match.
02:54It is simple football, and it is for the Women of Honor World Championship.
03:00Approaching the ring is the challenger,
03:04wrestling out of Cincinnati, Ohio, the Gatekeeper, Kelly Cline!
03:13The Gatekeeper, Kelly Cline, for over two years had not been pinned or submitted.
03:17Mandy, you've been in the ring with the Gatekeeper.
03:19What can you tell us about Kelly Cline?
03:21Kelly is strong.
03:22She is hard-hitting.
03:24And I think she's coming into this match with that mindset that she cannot lose at Madison Square Garden.
03:30She needs to take home and get back that Women of Honor Championship.
03:33And in the five matches that these two women have had, Kelly has won the first two,
03:37but Mayu has won the two with the title on the line.
03:40It was Miami, Florida, with this young woman,
03:43the ace of start-up, captured and shocked the world,
03:47captures the Women of Honor World Championship.
03:49They're reporting, wrestling out of Mibe Yamaguchi, Japan!
03:56She is the Women of Honor World Champion, Mayu Iwatani!
04:09Mayu Iwatani has held five of the active start-up championships,
04:14including the big one called the World of Start-up Championship.
04:17Mayu, sensational.
04:19And you know, for someone that was 0-2 against the champion,
04:23shocked the world in Miami being able to defeat Kelly Cline for the title.
04:30And look at that, that custom mask we've seen before.
04:32It adorned with ROH on the back this time.
04:36MSG so huge for Ring of Honor, for the partnership with Startup.
04:47I love the Sgt. Pepper style gear.
04:49When you think about all the great names that have been here in Madison Square Garden,
04:52we walked through the halls, we saw Jimi Hendrix.
04:56We saw Paul McCartney.
04:59We saw Elton John.
05:00And Kevin Kelly's just informed us that he's going backstage to meet with New Japan officials
05:04to get an update on Juice Robinson.
05:06We hope he's doing well.
05:09But there we see the Women of Honor World Champion,
05:12Mandy Mayu Iwatani.
05:13I've got the goosies.
05:15I've got the goosebumps.
05:16Kelly Cline, the challenger.
05:19Senior official Todd Sinclair.
05:21We're seeing him for the first time as we take a look now at the tail of the tape.
05:25Colt, does anything jump off the page to you?
05:27Well, I mean, obviously the size of Kelly Cline.
05:32But you know what?
05:34It's not stopped Mayu before.
05:36She's obviously the champion.
05:37She holds the advantage right now.
05:39So even though Kelly is bigger, Mayu knows how to kick ends.
05:44Mandy, we know looking at Mayu, that left knee, it's been surgically repaired.
05:49The ACL, the MCL recovering from an injury this fall.
05:53Kelly chose to target it but almost let Mayu off the hook easy in Las Vegas
05:59when she had the opportunity.
06:00There we see Aja Pereira, part of Camp Cline.
06:03Yeah, I mean, if Kelly was smart in this match, she'd keep going after that knee.
06:08The fans are talking about this match using the hashtag G1Supercard, Cole.
06:12Yeah, a lot of people hit me up at Cole Cabana about me not wearing a shirt.
06:16I was in the Honor Rumble.
06:18I didn't have a shirt.
06:19I do now.
06:20But they're on Twitter, of course, using that hashtag G1Supercard.
06:24I prefer you shirtless.
06:27Wow.
06:28Let's start this off right, I say.
06:30Code of Honor.
06:34And here too, and it's Mayu and Kelly.
06:37It was almost like Mayu didn't even want to shake her hand.
06:39And that was the brother handshake right there.
06:41Yeah.
06:42Kelly with Camp Cline.
06:45Mayu with the former Women of Honor World Champion Sumi Sakai.
06:48Well, she's, I don't know, giving a pep talk of some sort or?
06:53I don't know.
06:54I think she's saying she wants her one-on-one.
06:57Yeah, it should be a one-on-one match, Kelly.
06:59She's got this.
07:00You have five.
07:01Oh, she's sending them back.
07:02Good.
07:03Very good.
07:04We saw in Baltimore maybe a little bit of a different side from Kelly.
07:08We've seen on Ring of Honor television how much that loss got to her, her psyche in Las Vegas.
07:15And this is the rubber match.
07:17It's two and two.
07:18Winner not only leaves with the Women of Honor World Championship, but the winner can rest assured here in the sold-out Madison Square Garden that they are the better woman.
07:28Absolutely.
07:29I think this means everything to Kelly Cline, and we're almost seeing a different side to Kelly.
07:36If I'm not mistaken, a more emotional side.
07:39This means everything to her.
07:40Well, there was the firm handshake.
07:43The code of honor is what it was all based off of.
07:47Here we are over 17 years later, not in Philadelphia, Murphy Rec Center, but Madison Square Garden.
07:54Yes.
07:55It's crazy as we see collar and elbow now, wrist lock from Kelly Cline.
07:59Mayu rolls Kelly through.
08:02Exchange of wrist locks here.
08:03Kelly with the power advantage by far.
08:05She also has the height and reach advantage on Mayu.
08:08Mayu able to pop up.
08:09She's so quick, Mandy.
08:10Yes, she is.
08:11And that's another advantage, like you said, going into this match.
08:15Kelly's got the height.
08:16She's got everything going on for her, but Mayu is fast.
08:19She knows when to target Kelly.
08:21They've worked together so much.
08:22I mean, this is a hard pick for me.
08:25Yeah, this is a very evenly matched match despite their unique traits that set them apart from one another.
08:32Kelly wants to become the first ever two-time Women of Honor World Champion.
08:35And Mayu wants to continue that title, to defend that title all around the world.
08:41The tradition Sumi Sakai started defending it in Canada and England.
08:45Of course, Mayu took that title over to Japan, defended it twice in stardom, has three defenses.
08:51She is the championship's third champion.
08:54Oh!
08:55Oh!
08:56Right to the knee.
08:58And Colt, what's it mentally like when you have a body part that's a target?
09:02Yeah, usually in the match when I'm wrestling and there's something, it goes away, the adrenaline goes away,
09:07but there does come a point where you do start to realize the pain, and that's when it's really downhill,
09:12and it mentally takes you out of it.
09:14So you hope that Mayu is at the point right now where she doesn't really feel it, but wow!
09:20The legs grapevined!
09:23Going for the submission was Kelly.
09:26This is where she's so good though, Mandy.
09:29She's willing to go from one submission to the next.
09:32That MMA training and background of Kelly Cline could come in handy here tonight.
09:36Absolutely.
09:39Oh my gosh!
09:43Kelly in control so far.
09:45Bringing Mayu up by the wrist now.
09:50Looking for a Firewoman's carry.
09:54Got her there.
09:55Somebody thinks she can do it!
09:56Samoan drop!
09:57That's the leg!
09:58Two!
09:59Just a two count!
10:02Got to think this is the pace Kelly wants to keep this match at, Colt.
10:08Well, she doesn't care what the crowd thinks, she just wants to do her own thing.
10:15Just looking for a victory, not looking to please anybody.
10:21As Mayu trying to escape here.
10:23Swinging that leg out is Kelly, just delivering those blows now to the knee of Mayu.
10:28And Mayu going for it!
10:29Look at that!
10:30Hazard to choke, the legs are locked.
10:33Legs straight finder on the body of Kelly.
10:35Kelly's in the center of the ring here, Colt.
10:37Yeah, we've seen it already today.
10:39Roosby told Kessel in about 30 seconds.
10:41Who knows how long these matches will last.
10:45And this could be the very end, very quickly.
10:49Kelly grasping, trying to reach for the ropes.
10:52Nowhere to go, it's Mayu the champion.
10:55The championship's advantage here in Madison Square Garden.
10:58Now with all of her body weight on top of Kelly, can she get to the ropes here?
11:03Yeah, but we saw the tail of the tape, the body weight might play in here.
11:07There isn't that much of it.
11:10Look at the strength.
11:11Yes, the strength, yes.
11:14Can you even imagine what's going through the mind of Kelly so determined
11:17to recapture the Women of Honor World Championship?
11:20Able to break it, but now the reality is we'll see how much it took out of her.
11:25Charging in, takes a boot to the face, does Kelly.
11:28Now second rope on the inside.
11:30It's Mayu comes.
11:31Oh!
11:32Caught!
11:33Caught by Kelly!
11:34The raw shrink!
11:37But you can still see the pain in Kelly Cline.
11:42She is not completely dominant right now.
11:44And this has become a chess match, Colt.
11:48We saw Kelly very deliberate going for those submissions.
11:51Mayu trying to speed up the pace wherever she can, including with that big kick.
12:01Kelly to the outside.
12:03You wonder if it's to get a breath, to get a breather.
12:07But Mandy, we know that leaves her susceptible to Mayu's aerial arsenal here.
12:12Absolutely.
12:13I'm just worried about that knee.
12:19Mayu!
12:21That was one of the prettiest things I have ever seen, Mandy.
12:25Beautiful!
12:30We're going to take a look at the replay here as Mayu.
12:32We better.
12:33Perched up on top.
12:34Look at where she connects.
12:35Right at the top of the chest.
12:37Driving that neck down onto the outside.
12:40Like Peter Pan in the air.
12:45Of course, Women of Honor, Ring of Honor, 20 count.
12:52For first time viewers, we want to thank so many who are joining us for the first time.
12:55As Todd Sinclair climbing the ladder with the count, now going to 13.
12:59The best referee in the world, the senior referee here at Ring of Honor.
13:04Yeah, and if you're watching, talk with the fellow viewers all around.
13:08Hashtag G1 Supercard.
13:11Oh!
13:13Trending internationally.
13:15And Kelly Kline, look at a trend, too.
13:18Driving Mayu into the ring post.
13:20That was pretty smart thinking right there.
13:22Mayu had a grasp of her.
13:24All she did was shimmy down and right into the post went Mayu.
13:26Grabbing, grasp broke from Mayu.
13:31Mayu connects with a big strike.
13:33But it's Kelly Kline who comes with a right cross.
13:38Mayu delivers a forearm.
13:45Rattling Mayu.
13:51Mayu coming back now with a vengeance.
13:52There it is.
13:53Fast and furious, hot and heavy, driving in those forearms and elbows.
13:57Oh!
13:59Thug to the chest!
14:01Yeah, right to the chest plate.
14:03See, right here, I know Kelly's got a little bit left in her, but she should just grab Mayu and go in for the kill.
14:10Oh, but it looks like Mayu's taking it.
14:12That should be the game plan for both of these ladies.
14:15Absolutely.
14:16To Mandy's point, that's what cost Kelly the match in Las Vegas, though.
14:19It was, exactly.
14:21Knocked down is Mayu, the champion.
14:25And the challenger here looking to make a moment and a statement here in Madison Square Garden.
14:3120,000 strong.
14:34Supporting Mayu Iwatani, the clear favorite here.
14:38Mayu!
14:39Hurricanrana blocked by the gatekeeper.
14:41And the gatekeeper, look at the raw strength!
14:45Oh!
14:47Oh!
14:48Poisonrana!
14:49Cover!
14:50Two!
14:52Oh!
14:53Close!
14:55Planting her, driving her down!
14:58Oh!
15:00A little exclamation point to the teeth of Kelly Cline!
15:04Now hooking the leg.
15:05One, two!
15:07Oh!
15:08Just in the nick of time!
15:09I thought that was it.
15:10I don't call that a hook of the leg as we see sold out Madison Square Garden.
15:16They are in the rafters for this match.
15:20Every seat sold for Mayu, trying to finish off her challenger.
15:27Nice standing switch for Kelly Cline.
15:29Oh!
15:30Dirty.
15:31So dirty.
15:32Oh my gosh!
15:33Back to her feet!
15:34What is going through Mayu's blood right now?
15:36Wow.
15:37That allowed her to get to her feet.
15:39Look at the look on Mayu's face!
15:41One!
15:44Two!
15:48Three!
15:49And the fans getting behind this Women of Honor World Championship match history being made!
15:54In front of 20,000 strong here at Madison Square Garden.
15:58These ladies are crawling toward each other.
16:04Sumi Sakai, the corner woman.
16:07For Mayu Iwatani cheering her on.
16:11Oh, blocked by Mayu.
16:12Mayu connects with a big kick.
16:14Wow!
16:15Super kick from Mayu.
16:16And it's Mayu moving fast.
16:18Dragon suplex on the bridge!
16:20Puts on the rope!
16:21Oh!
16:22Wow!
16:23And that was, I have a feeling, not by choice.
16:27Was that luck or skill?
16:30Either way it keeps Kelly Cline in the match.
16:33I think it was circumstances.
16:36And Mayu, who won the championship with a moonsault in Miami!
16:42Will we see Moon over Madison Square Garden here?
16:45Oh!
16:46Oh!
16:49Nobody home!
16:50And it's Kelly!
16:51Grasping to the top rope!
16:52Mayu!
16:53Getting back to her feet!
16:54Oh!
16:55Lariat!
16:56Spins Mayu inside out!
17:00No!
17:01Kelly Cline going for the cover!
17:02Two!
17:03No!
17:04Just a two count!
17:05I think that's the right call, Colt.
17:09But I think that she went about it maybe a little bit of the wrong way.
17:12But I've never been in there.
17:13What's going through your mind right now when you hit a big move?
17:17What would you do in that situation?
17:19Of course!
17:20Of course you want to cover and go for the win at all costs!
17:25But Kelly, oh!
17:27She has one big move.
17:29Yeah, she's got that K power as Mayu now.
17:32So dangerous from the top.
17:34It's Kelly Cline who snatches Mayu.
17:36Yeah, you gotta think Kelly wants to go for the K power.
17:40It's dead!
17:41That's a power bomb!
17:42Hold her up!
17:43Two and three!
17:44No!
17:45Just a two count!
17:53And what kind of thoughts are running through the mind of Kelly Cline?
17:58Can she put them together?
18:00The winning combination to leave Madison Square Garden,
18:03the Women of Honor World Champion.
18:05Here she is!
18:06Has her up!
18:07We're looking for K power!
18:08Got it!
18:12There's one!
18:13Looking for another!
18:14Kelly Cline!
18:15Airplane spin!
18:17K power!
18:18With authority!
18:19One!
18:20Two!
18:21And three!
18:22She's got her!
18:23Good job!
18:24There it is!
18:25The winner of the match, and new Women of Honor World Champion, the gatekeeper Kelly Cline!
18:30There was no Camp Cline!
18:31There was no entourage!
18:32There was no entourage!
18:33There was no entourage!
18:34There was no entourage!
18:36There was no—
18:49There was no Entourage!
18:52There was no entourage!
18:55There was no Camp Kline, there was no entourage.
19:00There was one woman, one goal, one championship.
19:06The gatekeeper, Kelly Kline, has returned to the top of the mountain
19:11as we take a look at the replay.
19:14Hit one K power, but fearing one wasn't enough.
19:17The airplane spin put the exclamation on the second K power
19:23and Kelly Kline becomes the first woman ever
19:26to capture the Women of Honor World Championship on two occasions.
19:31Congratulations to Kelly, and congratulations to Mayu,
19:35who was a great champion, took the title all across the globe,
19:39including Japan, defending here in the United States.
19:42But Kelly Kline, this is your moment.
19:47The woman who was not pinned, not submitted,
19:52for two years, when the questions and the doubts were being raised
19:57if Ring of Honor would ever introduce a Women's Championship.
20:01It was Kelly Kline who steered the ship competitor after competitor.
20:10Whoa, wait, what is this?
20:12Oh, my God, if we could get a camera on the aisle way right now.
20:15Hold on a second.
20:16We need to get a look at this.
20:19What? Why are they looking at this?
20:21That's...
20:23Oh, my God.
20:25Angelina Love!
20:27Velvet Sky!
20:29What the hell are they doing here?
20:32Taking their time to get to the ring.
20:50How did they even get in here, Colt?
20:53They must know somebody.
20:55Kelly Kline, who just became this, you know, two-time champion.
21:09Oh, are they coming down here with bad intentions, guys?
21:20Or are they trying to put together some sort of...
21:24Are they trying to broker a deal?
21:27Oh, they're in there with the champ.
21:30You mean specific kind of looking people?
21:33Well, I saw something beautiful, and it was Kelly Kline's victory.
21:39Wait a minute.
21:43Jesus, I didn't really...
21:45She snuck out of here.
21:47Turned to her right.
21:48She was gone.
21:49Kelly Kline holding that championship up high.
21:54Oh, no!
22:06Mandy Leon!
22:09Just cracked Kelly Kline with that heel!
22:11Took the heel right off and put her in the back of the head!
22:15Angelina Love with the pump kick!
22:21Look, look, look!
22:22Yeah, look down the aisle!
22:23Wait a minute.
22:24It's Jenny Rose who gets taken out!
22:26Jenny sent down!
22:29Stella's in there.
22:30Stella Gray in!
22:31Oh, no!
22:32Hairspray right in the eyes!
22:34Mandy Leon with a DDT!
22:36In heels!
22:38And the champion!
22:41And a moment and a night that should live forever in the mind of Kelly Kline.
22:46It's now been tarnished!
22:48Well, there was a deal made.
22:50But it wasn't between Kelly and Angelina and Velvet.
22:55No, no, no!
22:57Oh, this is disgusting!
23:00This is disgusting!
23:02With how far Women of Honor has come!
23:04Bringing in athletes from Japan, the UK!
23:07The world's best from Mexico!
23:09The world's best from Mexico!
23:10The world's best from Mexico!
23:14We don't need this here in Women of Honor!
23:19Well, guess what?
23:20You got it!
23:21These women are positively evil!
23:24This is disgusting!
23:29With how far we've come!
23:31And these bullies, these mean girls, coming in!
23:34Attacking the champion!
23:36And I'm positive, Kevin, that it didn't need to be Kelly!
23:40If it was Mayu walking out with the title, we would have seen the same result!
23:45There's nothing fetch about this at all!
23:47Well, guys, there has been, of course, we saw what has just happened to Kelly Kline in the ring!
23:54We saw earlier on in the locker room, Madison Square Garden, Juice Robinson was attacked!
24:00The word that I got from the back...
24:02Yeah, let's hear the scoop!
24:03...doesn't look good for Juice!
24:05Well, obviously!
24:06They're not gonna let him compete, apparently!
24:09Get out of here!
24:10Well, that was what's supposed to be coming up next!
24:12I mean, production...
24:15Well, I have my singlet under here!
24:17I wrestled in the honor rumble if I'm needed!
24:19Yeah, I...
24:20Well, trust me!
24:21Juice is fighting it!
24:22But, again, there's some powerful medical forces at work with the State Athletic Commission,
24:28with the doctors on staff...
24:30The allure!
24:31The allure!
24:32I'm sorry, Kevin!
24:33What the...
24:34Who do they know?
24:35How did they get that up there?
24:37They got in the building!
24:39They were able to come ringside!
24:41No one stopped them!
24:42And now these bullies!
24:45These...
24:46These mean...
24:47Just mean girls!
24:49Just stepping on everything women of honor has been built on!
24:54Oh!
24:55And now, we're all...
24:56Oh!
24:57We have to keep going!
24:58We'll see you on this one!
24:59Ah!
25:00Oh!
25:01No!
25:02No!
25:03Thank you!
25:04Oh!
25:05No!
25:06Oh!
25:07All right!
25:08Thank you!
25:09How are we doing?
25:10Oh!
25:11Thank you!
25:12Oh!
25:13Oh!
25:14Oh!
25:15Oh!
25:16Oh!
25:17Oh!
25:19Because we're all...
25:20Oh!