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01:12The big screens here in the Nippon VoodooCon just relayed a video of all of Will Oswee's accomplishments in his career in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
01:24We ran through the list yesterday, but this tonight, this 25th singles match in 2022 in Japan, in America, in the UK, more than anyone in this tournament.
01:39Will Oswee!
01:41Through injuries, through issues, through a near-fatal kidney infection.
01:47It is all to build a legacy, to do something that no Briton has ever done before.
01:56And to prove that he is grade one here tonight in the Nippon VoodooCon.
02:06With the advancement to the semi-finals to the finals, Will Oswee's overall tournament, five wins, two defeats.
02:16Will Oswee's overall tournament, five wins, two defeats.
02:28There's the old adage that greatness recognizes greatness.
02:47On October 3rd, 2015, Katsuchiko Okada recognized more than a neat little junior, a nice little worker in Will Oswee when they wrestled in Red Pro.
02:59He recognized a future great. He hand-picked and raised Oswee within chaos, waiting.
03:08You've got to believe, waiting for the day that Okada would become Oswee's stepping stone.
03:15But his skill, he waits, because greatness recognizes greatness, but will not yield to greatness, unless Oswee proves that he is grade one here in our main event.
03:29What do you do to make Jeff Cobbhoff?
03:41I just sat here.
03:43Sometimes that's enough.
03:46Six and one overall.
03:49A block winner.
03:51Defeats Tamataga at the semi-finals.
03:53And in the 50th year of New Japan Pro Wrestling, the mantle of past, present, and future has been embodied by the Rainmakers.
04:11Now it's just so is sitting off to the right, what it's all about, that G1 Climax Trophy.
04:23But, perhaps, Will Oswee, it's about so much more.
04:32And, yes, the announcement from Abe here at November the 20th, Ariake Coliseum.
04:38It's going to be an immense historic crossover.
04:42New Japan Pro Wrestling has started.
04:46So, Shuri and Julia will be marking the occasion.
04:50with a special token for Kazuchika Okada and Samuel Ospreay.
04:57It's a big pot of five-star Grand Prix, which is building all the way through.
05:03I got goosebumps.
05:05To the end of the month, and perhaps Ospreay and Okada will be returning the favor.
05:11Wouldn't that be something?
05:18Today's main event is the G1 Climax 32 Final Tournament Championship.
05:33We are going to win a match for time.
05:40The red corner is United Empire, IWGP US Heavy-Q, and British Heavy-Q Champion,
05:51Jicomo Wells Kingpin, Will Ospreay!
06:01The winner of the G1 Climax last year, K.O.S. 191cm 107kg,
06:15Lain Mecha, Okada Kazuchika!
06:21Okada last year's tournament winner has the de facto introduction as champion, if you will.
06:32And we're about to get underway.
06:34Well, by every measure, Okada deserves to be called last for this.
06:39The last boss of professional wrestling and truly the last boss for Will Ospreay,
06:44for everything Ospreay has achieved.
06:46An unbelievable career before he's even turned 30 years of age.
06:51But he has not won the G1 Climax, and he has not beaten Kazuchika Okada clean.
06:57He has to do one to achieve the other.
06:59One and six, lifetime.
07:03Twenty-seven people can say that they have made it this far in 32 years in the tournament.
07:13Only 12 individuals can say they have made it further.
07:18Okada has before three times Will Ospreay.
07:25Red Shizuno is our official, and there is no time limit on the clock.
07:32You will hear time calls as this match unfolds.
07:37And a side headlock.
07:39Okada winning last year, the first G1 Climax tournament to be decided by a referee's stoppage.
07:45That injury still has Kotobushi on the shelf.
07:49How much satisfaction do you think Okada got out of that win last year?
07:59And is that perhaps part of his rally cry to go back to back?
08:04I think he got no satisfaction from that match last year.
08:07And although he took the victory, you know, he intended to win via pinfall.
08:14And that's part of the motivation for Kazuchika Okada.
08:18He has to go back to back.
08:19He has to close in on Chono's record of five if he can get his fourth G1 here.
08:24But also to show definitively that he's the best in this tournament.
08:31Side headlock, head scissors, kick out.
08:33Back to the vertical base just for a second.
08:36And Okada will maintain control of the side headlock.
08:40For Okada, of course, over the past year and more so once we got to the month of March
08:47and began our 50th anniversary celebration, you felt the difference with Okada.
08:53And taking things really on his shoulders and wanting to show what New Japan has represented in the past
09:01and also what it does now and what it will continue in the future.
09:04When we sat here on March 1st, right here at ringside,
09:08and there was the big great ceremony with all the legends,
09:11Kazuchika Okada was the active face of the current generation to speak.
09:15And he felt then the responsibility.
09:20That's something he's carried ever since, even without the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.
09:25Ospreay's all banged up, no doubt about it.
09:27We see that tape across his neck and shoulders.
09:29Uh-oh, Rainmaker.
09:31Oh, it's got her. No! Okada still too fresh, but shrubs him away to the corner.
09:37Would have been the shortest G1 in history.
09:41Eight minutes, nine seconds.
09:42Kensuke Sasaki over Uriashi Tenzan back in the day.
09:46Longest was in 2020.
09:50Kota Ibushi versus Sonata.
09:5235 minutes and 12 seconds.
09:54And Okada and Ospreay have gone longer than that before.
09:58At WrestleKingdom 15, they went 35-41.
10:01So the potential is for this match to be a long one and the longest in G1 history.
10:05So outside of the first ever G1 1991, which was a Chono Muto final, the first time finalists
10:30are 7-18 in the G1 Client Finals.
10:35So odds against Will Ospreay.
10:39Very short list of international talent that have been in this spot.
10:45Oh, wow!
10:48No little tap on the chest.
10:51No, no clean break there.
10:53Right to the neck as well.
10:56Up to the clothesline.
10:58There is there.
10:59And right back.
11:01Ospreay responding in kind.
11:03Picking up the base as only he can.
11:05Okada's got to look out here.
11:06Won't be safe on the floor.
11:08Oh, my.
11:11And Ospreay, the DDT on the floor.
11:14The familiar friend, the weapon of the DDT on the floor for Kazuchika Okada.
11:24And as Okada coolly rolls underneath the bottom rope.
11:41Of course, we can remember in our recent G1 history about the birth of the United Empire
11:48at Okada's expense.
11:50The one and only win for Ospreay over Okada was in the final block night a couple years ago.
11:59And another DDT on the floor.
12:03Again, again.
12:04Oh, man.
12:05I saw it right here.
12:06Ospreay's head just ringing off the floor mats here.
12:12And now at the five-minute mark, the pins and needles firing down the arm.
12:25The two's had to be in that position to make the call for the stoppage in last year's G1 final.
12:42Now applying the count to Will Ospreay.
12:46And Ospreay's limbs are not working as they should.
12:51You saw that stagger roll underneath the bottom rope.
12:56And I think, you know, Jeff Cobb has been in this position before against Ospreay,
13:01told, against Okada rather, told Ospreay, take as long as you need.
13:05And instead, Ospreay getting in at nine rather than waiting out that count
13:10and getting in at an 18 or 19 with a little bit more rest.
13:13And Red Shoes starting that count a little quicker than he has at other times
13:19because Okada had retreated to the far-neutral corner.
13:22And there was no reason for Red Shoes to not start the count.
13:25So the early advantage here goes to Kasachiko Okada.
13:29But even Okada knows that Ospreay is far from done.
13:37And now the stranglehold applied.
13:39Hey, get one hand out.
13:40Get one hand out, Will.
13:41We'll hear comments, coaching, from the United Empire cornermen.
13:48And this has been, as I said, that Ospreay is saying as he came into the building today
13:53that that's all they did last night.
13:56And I wonder whether that's the difference in approach.
14:00I dare say Okada would get back, get some rest, and just refocus the next day.
14:08But Ospreay was doing nothing until late at night, watching tape over and over.
14:14And look at the way Ospreay's right leg just goes out.
14:18It sucks in the spine.
14:19Yeah.
14:21Took his breath.
14:22And another one.
14:23And now the rear chin locker.
14:25Of course, Will Ospreay, the only defeat in this tournament was to David Finley.
14:35But down the stretch, took a lot of damage.
14:39Shingo Takagi, Yoshihashi, and then of course, in the final night of block, the victory over Juice Robinson.
14:51So Ospreay coming in far from unscathed.
14:54Oh no.
14:56Yeah, did you see the whiplash?
14:58Yeah.
14:59He's gonna get it again.
15:01No, another DDT, but this time the vertical suplex.
15:05So perhaps that was part of the game plan because Cobb and Okan stood up as soon as the toe of the boot went into the midsection.
15:14So to your point about tape study, going back, conversation, I think that was one key right there.
15:20The United Empire corner men helping bearing some of the load here with Ospreay who's had the weight of the world on his shoulders.
15:31Almost likes it that way.
15:33The first Briton to ever reach it this far in the tournament.
15:36Hands for a glass of a kick.
15:38Okada was hoping to do something but instead absorbed the boot.
15:41Now Ospreay's moving.
15:43And one man who beat Okada in the past.
15:48Was famous for this.
15:51A phenomenal forearm but again the shockwaves down the spine of Will Ospreay.
15:58That's a lot to ask.
16:23Watch the drop kick.
16:28Ospreay kicks him away.
16:30Ospreay knows it.
16:33Patient.
16:34Oh!
16:35How about that?
16:36How about that?
16:37The nod of approval from Aaron Hanare.
16:40It seems like each member of the United Empire has played a role in dissecting Okada and setting up Ospreay here.
16:51Oh!
16:52It's time for Broke Kevin.
16:54All or nothing.
16:56Here we go!
16:57Oh my god!
16:58Skytwister press!
17:00That might have been some inspiration from his corner man but no one, no one can do what Ospreay did but the Commonwealth King can.
17:14Now let's take another look.
17:19Yes!
17:21You got it!
17:24Yes!
17:25Yes!
17:26Yes!
17:27Yes!
17:28Yes!
17:29Yes!
17:30Yes!
17:31Yes!
17:32Go!
17:33Oh, it's Okada clutching his neck.
17:50Yeah, and...
17:51Couldn't quite make out on the replay if maybe Osprey caught him, elbowed.
17:58No, he baited him in.
17:59He baited him in.
18:00Oh, an oscutter on the floor.
18:04Well, there's no possum now because Okada took that straight on his face.
18:11Okada was sandbagging Osprey there.
18:14He's making him drag up dead weight just to set the thought of a landslide on the floor.
18:19My God, could you imagine if that would have hit?
18:22But Osprey sprung to life and hit the oscutter off the barricade.
18:27Again, with every moment, Will Osprey will drive it like he stole it.
18:35With every moment, he will hurt himself to hurt Kazuchika Okada.
18:40We saw it right there.
18:42That was a bad landing for Osprey as well, but it was worse for Kazuchika Okada.
18:46That's the risk you take, and now steps into the jackknife.
18:51Keep cover.
18:52Great stack on that cover.
18:54Yeah.
18:55A little cat, the cat and mouse on the floor, and Osprey is able to come out on top, which
19:01has not happened in this tournament in forever.
19:18This building, the DuPont Budokan, of course, in its history was not too frequent a stop for New Japan, but especially here in our 50th year, it's become a landmark, if you will, of...
19:24of the great moments of Okada in the presentation to this company.
19:31You think back to that anniversary event and how far Okada was pushed then.
19:36It seems like every moment here in this building and beyond has only made Okada stronger.
19:43But now Will Osprey is picking him apart.
19:50As much as I want to sort of tease caution here, you know what I mean, or urge it.
19:59How many times, even just a couple of nights ago against Lance Archer, where Archer dominated Okada and put pressure on that neck, just like Osprey is doing right now.
20:12And still just Okada finds a way because he's not human.
20:19Step over Kravat.
20:22Osprey's got to stay patient.
20:25He's already taken a lot of damage coming in.
20:29Okada frees himself.
20:35And Osprey scores with the form.
20:40Backdrop.
20:44Backdrop.
20:45Oh, my.
20:48Up in the lights.
20:52And the problem there came in.
20:53I almost thought that Okada might have been thinking flapjack.
20:58And that's a real dangerous situation where I think Osprey didn't know, am I going up and then forward or am I going up and over?
21:06And that could have been a position where Osprey could have broken his neck all together.
21:10There is the flapjack.
21:13So again, same move.
21:15Same exact movement for Osprey.
21:17Different result.
21:21And now, trying the money clip.
21:25Oh, you see instantly pain etched on the face as his neck is cranked to the left.
21:37And at the same time, the pressure being put in the arteries in his neck cutting the flow of blood to the brain.
21:43It's a painful hold and it's a choke at the same time.
21:47Osprey escapes but is caught.
21:52Snap forward and back and reapplying the money clip.
21:55Now with Osprey seated on the mat.
21:58And we're 15 minutes in.
22:0015 minutes can feel like forever, folks.
22:03Or it can go by in the blink of an eye.
22:05That's what's happened here in our G1 Climax 32 finale with Will Osprey and Kasichika Okada.
22:1315-49 was their very, very first meeting seven years ago.
22:22The 29-year-old Will makes the ropes and lasts longer than 22-year-old Will.
22:35And Okada's on cruise control right now.
22:54The body slam.
22:55He'll go to the top.
22:56He'll look for the elbow drop.
22:58Let's see if the United Empire has got anything scouting-wise.
23:03If they did, Osprey was unable to execute.
23:10They look fine getting up to get a closer look knowing that this is where Kasichika Okada's
23:15at his most dangerous.
23:20And now as the wrist clutch happens, right back into the corner.
23:28Wow.
23:32He said it before that Kasichika Okada, the final boss of professional wrestling.
23:48And it seems every time when he drops that elbow, it's like he's entering the second phase,
23:54the second stage, his second form of his attack.
23:59Oh my God!
24:04Red Shoes shaking his head thinking, I might have to make another difficult decision.
24:11He's coming, Osprey.
24:21Come on, Osprey.
24:26Come on.
24:27Come on, Osprey.
24:28Come on.
24:32Come on.
24:34Oh, big brother is how Osprey used to view O'Connor.
24:43Oh, a lot of kicks.
24:45Oh.
24:53Oh.
24:55Here he cut off!
24:56Jesus!
24:57High last way up!
25:04The ground in the Budokan is starting to shake.
25:34Okada is close to the ropes as we see.
25:39He'll need them, the leverage to get up.
25:42But Osprey beginning that crawl towards Okada.
25:45They look to assist Okada in there.
25:49Oh, no.
25:50Oh, no.
25:51I thought Osprey wanted Okada in the ring, didn't want Okada to roll to the outside.
25:56But no, he's got dark designs on the Rainmaker.
26:00Oh, no, no, no, no.
26:05And the G1 Climax 32 Tournament could turn right here.
26:08Oh, no.
26:13And it's Stead!
26:15Oh, Osprey pays the price.
26:17Sickening thud as the back crashed on the iron frame of the ring.
26:26And still, they're in that deadly, dangerous position.
26:35Oh, no.
26:37Oh, we thought landslide on the floor would be awful off the apron.
26:41Oh, the hook kick!
26:42Oh, hook kick!
26:43To the eye!
26:44Here he comes!
26:45So he won't see this coming!
26:46Here he comes!
26:47So he won't see this coming!
26:48Plus, got it!
26:58Another look here.
27:00Watch Okada's head.
27:01It snapped in the crook of Osprey's arm.
27:06It was the perfect position, the perfect way that Osprey could have hit that move.
27:15He's able to take it from his perspective, lower down and not on his neck and shoulders as he did on the floor earlier.
27:25But you're seeing Osprey's design here of just pushing every risk, taking every chance he can to be able to do what he's never done before.
27:40Seven!
27:41Seven!
27:42Seven!
27:43Seven!
27:44Nine!
27:45Ten!
27:46All right, halfway to 20.
27:48Eleven!
27:49Twelve!
27:50Twelve!
27:51And Okada.
27:52Seven!
27:53Fourteen!
27:54Fourteen!
27:55Fifteen!
27:56Fifteen!
27:57Fifteen!
27:58Is about to be counted out.
28:00I wonder what Osprey is thinking right now.
28:02Seventeen!
28:03Is he processing this moment?
28:06Is he realizing how close he is?
28:09And is he?
28:10Ninety!
28:11And oh, he was waiting.
28:12Waiting!
28:13He knew Okada would get back in!
28:15He was processing all right.
28:17Two!
28:18And almost!
28:19And you see, he's not letting Okada get in his head.
28:26He's going from one move to the next.
28:28Again!
28:29Oh!
28:30More than phenomenal.
28:32And can this hot streak of Osprey seal the deal?
28:36Yes!
28:37Yes!
28:38Yes!
28:39A critical hit!
28:40Oh!
28:41He can't fall off right away!
28:42Took just half a second, two!
28:44And no!
28:53If, perhaps if, Osprey would have been able to get to the cover quicker.
28:58Possibly, he could have held Okada down for the three.
29:03But the cumulative toll of injury and impact on Will Osprey's neck forced him to stop the
29:12climb to the top for one second.
29:15Look Kevin, once upon a time, Will Osprey would be frantic and searching for answers.
29:32But he seems to have them all tonight.
29:34Oh yeah!
29:35Stormbreaker.
29:36No!
29:37Whoa!
29:38Whoa!
29:39Whoa!
29:40He'll got wrist control but Osprey refusing to go down.
29:43Oh!
29:46Now driven down.
29:48You're right, Chris.
29:53The idea of control of self.
29:56Keeping emotions in check.
29:58Yeah, but who has control right here?
30:00There you go.
30:01You can have it, you can wanna have it.
30:04But when you're facing Kazuchika Okada, you're gonna come in second in that regard every time.
30:12Ahhhhhhhh!
30:18Come on!
30:19Come on, men.
30:20Come on, men, Black.
30:21Come on, men.
30:22Come on, Black.
30:23Come on, black.
30:24Come on.
30:25Fazio, Black, come on.
30:26Here we go.
30:29Oh!
30:30One.
30:31Another one.
30:32One again, simple shot to the spine.
30:36And now Okada off the ropes.
30:38And a drop kick.
30:41And now he's going to send Ospreay across.
30:43Drop kick this time.
30:44Ospreay hangs on.
30:45Another Oscutter again.
30:47No!
30:48Oh, my God!
30:49Jesus!
30:49Drop kicked him out of midair.
30:532012, 2014, 2021, and now on the way, 2022.
31:05Spinning Rainmaker.
31:06No!
31:07Oh, what an elbow.
31:08Oh, the hook kick is there.
31:12Chelsea grid.
31:17The United Empire could smell it.
31:19They feel it.
31:22They know it.
31:24This is Ospreay's time.
31:27He said this is the World Cup of Wrestling.
31:29They think it's.
31:30No!
31:32It may be.
31:33Oh, wait a minute.
31:34Oh.
31:35Oh.
31:36Look at this.
31:40Ooh.
31:41One, two, and no.
31:44One, two, and no.
31:58A furious light behind the eyes of Will Ospreay against the Glacier, the corner.
32:01Oh, the hidden blade.
32:02And he got all of it.
32:03And the cover.
32:04Here we go.
32:05One, two, and it is no.
32:06Oh, the hidden blade.
32:07Oh, the hidden blade.
32:08And he got all of it.
32:10And the cover.
32:11Here we go.
32:12One, two, and it is no.
32:14Oh.
32:15The G1 Climax 32 Tournament.
32:23And the beautiful trophy.
32:30But so much more.
32:37This now, it can be anything.
32:40It can be anything.
32:42It could be everything.
32:43Or it could be nothing.
32:45It's a high five ball.
32:47Wow.
32:48Attacking for the next generation.
32:51Said he would study every man who's ever beaten Okada
32:55and just used Tanahashi's finisher.
32:57And now look at this.
32:59From Tanahashi to AJ.
33:03And Don Tucker 14.
33:06Styles Clash.
33:08Styles Clash.
33:10Shoulders down two.
33:12And he almost did it.
33:29But now Ospreay's getting in his head.
33:38Now he's racking his brain.
33:42And now he might have come up with an idea.
33:51From Tanahashi to AJ.
33:55And the crowd knows it as well.
34:08The first.
34:09The last.
34:10The only.
34:11The first.
34:12The last.
34:13The only.
34:14The fourth winner of the T1.
34:16Speed Trigger.
34:17Oh, and you don't think.
34:18Yeah.
34:19Here we go.
34:20One wing.
34:21No.
34:22Landslide.
34:23The.
34:24The.
34:25The.
34:26The.
34:27Oh.
34:28Oh, let's slide!
34:34The Rainmaker!
34:41No! No, he kicked out!
34:45Well, it's both kicked out of the Rainmaker!
34:58They really did think it was all over in the Budokan!
35:02But it isn't! Not yet!
35:04And Will Ospreay still lives in the G1!
35:08Red Shoes is telling both athletes they must get up and they must continue this match!
35:33But it's advantage Okada!
35:48And Ospreay may have survived!
35:50Trying to get a hold of everything he can!
35:53He can't get the wrist, can't get the waist, trying to get the waistband!
35:57And even just this struggle right here!
36:00The crowd!
36:03It's a struggle against Okada!
36:05Is it a struggle against the inevitable Ospreay Fields?
36:12Come on!
36:13Come on!
36:14Come on!
36:15Come on!
36:16Come on!
36:26Oh!
36:27German suplex!
36:28And he hangs on to the waist!
36:29He hangs on to the waist!
36:30He hangs on to the G1!
36:31Here we go!
36:33Let's go!
36:34Leave the Spanish way!
36:35It's dead!
36:36Oh!
36:37In the Spanish play, it's dead!
36:39We're past 30.
37:09We've got about 7,000 people in the Nippon Budokan, pulling not for Ospreay, pulling not for Okada, but for the fight, for the competition.
37:39We've got about 7,000 people in the Nippon Budokan.
37:46Rhetorical question.
37:49Neither man will want this to stop.
37:54I don't think any of us do.
38:01I don't think any of us do.
38:08I don't think any of us do.
38:23I don't think any of us do.
38:38I don't think any of us do.
38:53I don't think any of us do.
39:08Man, I thought Okada had Ospreay right where he wanted him.
39:12Ospreay started to buckle and then the one more.
39:15Put Okada down.
39:17Put Okada down.
39:30Oh no!
39:34We lost.
39:35Dragged nerve.
39:36Will Ospreay kicks Okada's head off.
39:41And what's this now?
39:57Stormbreaker.
39:58Oh no!
39:59Wait a minute!
40:00Could it be the DSD?
40:01Maybe he was thinking Tamar.
40:03Oh no!
40:04The neck maker!
40:05Oh!
40:06But still!
40:07The pain must be searing, but...
40:10Oh!
40:11The Endy!
40:12And here we go!
40:15Wait a minute!
40:16No, we don't!
40:17Rainmaker!
40:18No!
40:19Rainmaker pop-up!
40:20Oh!
40:21He's got it now!
40:22He's got it now!
40:23He's got it now!
40:24Ospreay had an answer!
40:25But the Cobra blows it!
40:26Here we go!
40:27Does Okada have an answer for this?
40:28No!
40:29Oh!
40:30Oh!
40:31He got it!
40:32And now!
40:33Oh!
40:34Oh!
40:35Oh!
40:36Oh!
40:37Oh!
40:38Oh!
40:39Oh!
40:40Oh!
40:41Oh!
40:42He got it!
40:43And now!
40:44Oh!
40:45Rainmaker!
40:56It's 33 minutes and 53 minutes.
40:59It's the勝利 for Okada Kabuchika!
41:03The winner is...
41:08Tarsun Shika!