Hirooki Goto vs Ren Narita - "G1 CLIMAX 34" B Block Official Match: NJPW G1 CLIMAX 34 (July 31, 2024)
後藤 洋央紀 vs 成田 蓮 - 『G1 CLIMAX 34』Bブロック公式戦：NJPW G1 CLIMAX 34（2024年7月31日）
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00:00Hey look, I'm Norishima. Little nerd. Slapped the snot out of his nose earlier.
00:08Did you see them pictures of Megan Thee Stallion in Tokyo by the way? She was looking fire.
00:15You got post notifications on.
00:17Of course I do.
00:19Who uses this? Ren Narita. Ren Narita.
00:33Why?
00:37For Ren Narita, this match is going to be like stepping back into the walls of the L.A. Dojo.
00:51A place that Gabe, you, yourself are very familiar with.
00:54And Ren Narita, his training underneath the legendary Katsuri Shibata has brought him to this point in the dance.
01:01But long gone are the accusations of being a Katsuri Shibata clone for Ren Narita.
01:07There's four points on that man's board.
01:09Yeah, he's woken. What did I say when I beat him in the G1 last year?
01:12I said, I want your grandkids to know he's a Shibata wannabe. And he changed.
01:18Granted, he joined the worst faction in New Japan history, so he's a fool.
01:24But he's getting more results than he did back then, tagging with Shotar, Uminu, Acid.
01:36This way, Goto got a pull through as well. Genki Goto making a comeback, but he failed in the New Japan Cup final.
01:43Is he going to fail here as well? That all depends.
01:47That depends how he turns up. Has he really got that samurai spirit that he talks about?
01:51No, he ain't got as much as me. No one's got as much as me.
01:56No one's got as much as me.
02:26This is the wall for this new generation of athletes coming through New Japan Pro Wrestling.
02:31That means yourself, Gabe. That also means men like Ren Narita.
02:36Red corner, 2 wins, 2 losses, 8.4 points.
02:40Chaos, 182cm, 103kg.
02:44Goto Hiroki!
03:05He blames himself for not being that wall earlier on in his career.
03:14We're already getting started here tonight.
03:17It is house of torture tactics, and as you called them, the worst faction to ever grace the confines of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
03:25Gabe, I think there's one thing you and I can agree on. It's that exact statement.
03:28Ren Narita believes that he has found himself in what is the true embodiment of strong style.
03:38Well, that just confirms he's a little full then, doesn't it?
03:42He's getting his ass whooped by a 40-year-old.
03:45The oldest member of G1 Climax 34 is Hiroki Goto, and 4 points on the board for both men here tonight.
03:51We're going to see a different split.
03:53One more man will join the top of B Block here tonight.
04:01Talk a little bit about the training of Ren Narita.
04:04Spent some time in the Nogue Dojo, going on to the LA Dojo, trained underneath Katsuyori Shibata, just like yourself.
04:10Many, many connections for Hiroki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata, former IWGP Tag Team Champions alongside each other.
04:16And hell, best friends going all the way back to their days in high school.
04:20Speaking of the man, speaking of Shibata.
04:26These men can't be, they can't be thinking about Shibata.
04:29I said this in the last match, they can't be thinking about other people when you're in G1.
04:34But it's these mental tricks of the trade, Ren Narita knows them so well and throws right through Hiroki Goto.
04:45Remember back five years ago, G1 29.
04:49Hiroki Goto sent right into that turnbuckle post, went and trained at the LA Dojo under Katsuyori Shibata
04:55and was surrounded by men that you're well familiar with.
04:57Clark Connors, Alex Coughlin, Carl Fredricks, all to repair for that year's battle in G1 Climax 29.
05:03Goto sent right into that barricade again.
05:07Look how much better he got. Look how much better he got.
05:11There's definitely something to be said about the people that came through that LA Dojo.
05:14I'm not just saying that because you're here inside with me.
05:17Ren Narita has lost every single act of discipline that Shibata put into him in that dojo, though.
05:23Good. He needs to find out who he is.
05:26And he looks like he's doing that right now.
05:29But he knows he can't rely on his wrestling, so he's got to move to this.
05:38Believes that his lack of wrestling style showcased nowadays is true strong style.
05:43And hold on a minute. That's the ring bell.
05:44Abe-san doing whatever he can. Asami, come on.
05:49We knew it was going to be chaos here in our semi-main event.
05:53And Goto takes that chair right off the jaw.
06:05Almost that feeling for Hiroki Goto heading in here tonight.
06:09If Katsuyori Shibata is not here to punish his former student Ren Narita,
06:13then I have to be the one to do so.
06:15And Goto, it's going to be a hard, hard battle with tactics like this at Narita's front.
06:39Very well could. Goto right back in before the count of 16.
06:52Narita, not a lot of semi-main events or main events in G1 Climax 34 this year.
06:58Let's know that this is one of the few that we are going to end up seeing with Ren Narita.
07:01Does that put a little bit more pressure on an athlete,
07:03knowing you only get so much time in that limelight?
07:10Oh, come on.
07:11He just got in there.
07:12Yeah, he did. Narita, cover here.
07:14I've got my attention.
07:16That's two and knee right into the drive of the spine.
07:19All the way up and down, targeting Hiroki Goto.
07:22So much damage has been done to that body over the past 20 years of Goto's career.
07:28Exactly. And listen, how many G1s Goto has been in at this point?
07:31A far amount more.
07:33You should know more than anyone.
07:3417 times a competitor.
07:3617 times. You've got to think about that.
07:37That's going to count into everyday life.
07:39You wake up, you're going to be feeling that.
07:42It's the hardest schedule, the hardest tour, the hardest competition.
07:46You can't forget about that.
07:50And Goto is definitely feeling that.
07:52He's feeling 17 years of a beat and catching up to him right now.
07:55But Narita has a huge beating coming toward him right now.
07:59The spirit of Shibata, the spirit of Goto does not matter.
08:02Narita is going to take it right to the throat and right to the corner.
08:08Talk about that experience difference.
08:10Goto, his 145th G1 Climax match in his career.
08:15Narita only entering his second Climax overall.
08:18And we're Climaxing tonight.
08:20Huge lariat.
08:21Don't ever say that ever again.
08:23You're wrong.
08:33It's going to take much more than a lariat to put down Ren Narita.
08:38Maybe not much more, though.
08:39He looked like he was reeling after the forearms.
08:41And he's just feeling it.
08:42That's for certain.
08:43Spinning wheel kick in that corner.
08:44In the jawline once again.
08:46And up, down.
08:47Psychedelic suplex.
08:49Comes in clutch, hook of the outer leg, and it's two.
08:53Go!
08:54Go!
08:55Go!
08:56Go!
08:57Go!
08:58Go!
08:59Go!
09:00Yeah!
09:01Since winning his first block match back in Kagawa,
09:04he has not lost a block appearance.
09:08As Hiroki Goto, Narita, sleeper hold, driven right back into that turnbuckle.
09:13Go!
09:14Go!
09:15Go!
09:16Go!
09:17Yeah!
09:18And to create the distance.
09:19Bam!
09:20Ren Narita face first.
09:21Into the cover once again.
09:22It's deep in it.
09:23And it's two.
09:24You look at the past few years.
09:26You look at the past few years in New Japan.
09:28When Goto has won, he has used different stuff.
09:30If he keeps going to his old, the same old stuff, he ain't going to get it.
09:34When he busts out the big, I don't even know what his moves are called,
09:37but you know what I'm talking about.
09:39The suplex where he drops him on the head.
09:41Absolutely.
09:42He needs to bust that out.
09:43And right now he's just doing it.
09:46And he got caught once again.
09:53You can't wrestle these matches like a normal match.
09:56G1 matches are not a normal match.
09:59So many different components.
10:01So much more pressure.
10:02So much more everything.
10:03And I affirm it every single time.
10:06These two both are in there right now.
10:08Goto, Narita, both men feeling it.
10:10Opposite corners.
10:11Charges in.
10:12There's that back elbow.
10:13Seen this before from Narita.
10:15Got that pump kick.
10:16Setting up for that guillotine at some point in the future.
10:19Missed that half suplex.
10:20Brought through into the cover.
10:22Two once again.
10:23Narita rolls right through into the guillotine.
10:26He's locked in as well.
10:28Yeah, and this is good strategy here from Narita.
10:31He's got that elbow high.
10:34Cannot give up any bit of leverage possible.
10:36Goto trying to alleviate some of the pressure.
10:39He's got the wrist bone on the neck right there.
10:41That might be it.
10:43He's got to fight through that.
10:44He's got to get to the ropes.
10:45He's got to skate right now.
10:46Goto trying to make it to those bottom ropes wherever possible.
10:49Use those long legs.
10:51Can he do it?
10:53He's fading.
10:56He's fading.
10:57You can see his left arm.
10:58Look at his left arm.
10:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:00You see that right there.
11:01He's going.
11:02Just off your camera shot, but it's fading.
11:03He's got to go.
11:04He's got to go.
11:05He's got it.
11:06To the bottom rope.
11:08Look at him.
11:09His body's on the limit.
11:11Goto.
11:13Goto.
11:15Goto.
11:17Narita.
11:20Goto.
11:21There's Narita going on a bike ride or something.
11:23He's got motorcycle boots on a little weirdo.
11:27He's definitely taking his time.
11:28Looks like a Hiro Saito wannabe.
11:32Narita.
11:34Shout out Hiro Saito there.
11:36Taking it to the top.
11:37Narita wants to help Guillotine.
11:38That knee from the top misses out.
11:40And that knee to the stomach does not.
11:43Off the ropes.
11:44Guillotine wanted it.
11:45Not going to happen.
11:46Has it here.
11:47Oh, gee.
11:48Goto.
11:51Back of the neck right on that knee bone.
11:53That was.
11:54Goto.
11:55Goto.
11:56Goto.
11:58Goto is going to have to rely on every single maneuver he has
12:01in his arsenal if he wants to be able to overcome Ren Narita here
12:05tonight.
12:06Narita might have a stinger out there.
12:08He's clutching on there.
12:09I might be.
12:10I might send a shock diamond right down his spine.
12:14Wouldn't be the first we've seen off an Uchiguroshi like that.
12:24Heavy fire.
12:25That's more like it.
12:30Goto thinks no one has more fighting spirit in New Japan Pro Wrestling
12:34that the younger generation misuses the term and that Ren Narita has
12:38never known it in his career.
12:39Cover.
12:40He's an idiot.
12:41He needs to go.
12:42He needs to.
12:43All these guys, they need to go in these situations.
12:45This is the time to go.
12:46Doesn't matter about fighting spirit.
12:47He did.
12:48Narita.
12:49Sleeper hold.
12:50Wants to try and bring it down.
12:52Goto instead takes down Narita.
12:53And it's a guillotine to behead.
12:54Narita right out to the outside.
12:55And I have to question the strategy here, Gabe.
12:56Could be going for the cover off of that shot.
12:57It might be that stinger from the gurushi, whatever you call it.
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14:19Here we go.
14:20This is more like it.
14:21A real test of samurai spirit.
14:22Oh snap.
14:23Oh.
14:24Now do it again.
14:25Goto.
14:26That's narrowed down on the shoulders.
14:27Not going to happen.
14:28Marty Asami has to avoid these shots.
14:29Oh.
14:30Avoid it though.
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15:26How did you do that?!
15:27Wait, wait, wait, wait!
15:28Sound man!
15:29Oh!
15:30Red Narita hit signature!
15:31Wait, wait, hold on.
15:32He's grabbing on to Asami and the low blow to
15:33the goes hose!
15:34Come on!
15:35Knees to the face, I know.
15:36Not like this.
15:37It's a double cross from goddamn Red Narita!
15:38Oh.
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15:45good for you and congratulations
16:04red narita six points on the board
16:08hiroki goto stuck at four but it is becoming very very crowded at the top of
16:14the block red narita hanare jeff cobb kano skate to keshita yuya uemura all sitting at the top of
16:23block b game if we're all sitting at the top of block b is anyone really at the top of block b
16:28i don't care about block b i'll be anyone in block b
16:31block b ain't important to me stop asking me stupid questions
16:34okay
16:38how many points from narita go six points there you go well he's gonna get some more
16:44if he wants to make it to the finals
16:50we are a long way off and it is going to be a long rest of our night
16:54hiroki goto takes on kano skate to keshita coming up the next time we join you for block b on august
16:594th and for red narita it is one of his only main events of the tour red narita yoda suji still to come