YOSHI-HASHI vs David Finlay - IWGP GLOBAL Heavyweight Championship Match: NJPW DESTRUCTION in KOBE (September 29, 2024)
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00:00I wonder where that road from that day would have led to.
00:07If I didn't stumble there, I don't think I would be where I am now.
00:12The challenger, Yoshihashi!
00:17This summer, he missed the G1 Climax.
00:23But!
00:26At the end of the summer, he scored a 3-count!
00:35The IWGP Heavyweight Champion, David Finlay, won!
00:47The final match was held at Kobe World Memorial Hall.
00:52His worst memory...
00:55In 2018, I tripped and fell and got injured.
01:00The people around me were screaming.
01:02The people in the distance were laughing.
01:05I can't forget that feeling.
01:07I felt like I had to be recognized by the people watching.
01:12It was really tough for me.
01:15His worst memory...
01:19But!
01:21I may be pathetic.
01:23But I got back on my feet.
01:26I went to see the band I used to listen to.
01:29I saw them as a ray of hope.
01:35I wanted to give them something like that.
01:41I tripped and fell.
01:44What's important isn't what people think of you.
01:48It's what I want to show them.
01:51What I want to show them is the power to live on.
01:57That's why I continue on that path.
02:0216 years since his debut.
02:0410 years since his first G1 match.
02:07I want to be the light he has never seen before.
02:11You want a fairy tale ending, but here's the thing.
02:14Fairy tales aren't real.
02:16I want to make it happen again.
02:19And what's even more real than that,
02:21is the fact that nobody, and I mean nobody,
02:24will ever take this from me.
02:27That white belt is still his color.
02:31It's not your color.
02:33I changed my name.
02:35I've always wanted that white belt.
02:40I want to be who I want to be.
02:42I'm waiting for you at the end of this road.
03:10I'm waiting for you at the end of this road.
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05:06I'm waiting for you at the end of this road.
05:13Then I'll laze the great hiking!
05:30We'll see you in two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
05:33nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
05:3924, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 34, 35, 36, 37,
05:4938, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52,
05:5656, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70,
06:0571, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85,
06:1584, 85, 86, 87, 88, 99, 100, 121, 122, 133, 144, 154, 155,
06:24never become a singles champion because he does not
06:28have the makings of what it takes to become one.
06:31And while many have argued against that fact
06:33for such a long time, Yoshihashi himself
06:36saying it's all about time and place
06:38and if anything is possible, well, it's
06:40possible tonight as well.
06:42And there's no doubt about that in the mind of Yoshihashi,
06:44but David Finley looks at a man like Yoshihashi,
06:47looks back at his fall in 2018 and sees the same man standing
06:51in front of him in 2024.
06:53Says, I'm wearing a nice suit to the press conference.
06:56That man has blue hair.
06:57David Finley is willing to go to these physical attributes
07:01of Yoshihashi to try and get inside the mind anything
07:04to get inside the mind of who he calls a professional choke
07:08artist.
07:09And admittedly, Chris Charlton, Yoshihashi
07:11in the past when it comes to singles endeavors,
07:14he has never come up successful in title contention.
07:18David Finley has very accurate claims
07:21when it comes to those facts.
07:22He may not like the way that he goes about it,
07:25but by God, David Finley walks in as IWGP Global Heavyweight
07:28Champion in every single intention
07:30to walk out just the same.
07:31The first Global Heavyweight Champion
07:33and the third Global Heavyweight Champion
07:35created that title out of the ashes of the IWGP US and UK
07:39Championship.
07:40It was that US Championship that was on the line two years ago.
07:44David Finley's first ever singles main event
07:47against Will Ospreay.
07:48And it was a breakthrough moment for David Finley,
07:52a coming out party, if you will.
07:54Finley said, Kobe brings out the true essence of both of us,
07:58doesn't it?
07:59Prove that David Finley is a killer.
08:01Prove that Yoshihashi are buffoon.
08:03The third IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion,
08:11Bad Club War Dogs, the legend, David Finley.
08:18David Finley.
08:28David Finley.
08:29David Finley.
08:30David Finley.
08:31David Finley.
08:32David Finley.
08:33David Finley.
08:34David Finley.
08:35David Finley.
08:36You can say perhaps some similarities between David
08:39Finley and Yoshihashi on their championship pawns,
08:42if you will.
08:43It was, in fact, here in Kobe, David Finley
08:46won six-man tag team championships.
08:48His first career championship was an impromptu match.
08:53And a lot of people thought, Walker,
08:56that David Finley, a very effective tag team wrestler.
08:59Is he a singles guy?
09:00Is he a leader?
09:01Something that still, you know, I
09:03think the greater essence people that perhaps aren't
09:06watching New Japan Pro Wrestling on a regular basis, as we do,
09:10have this idea in the back of their head
09:13that David Finley isn't the killer that he is.
09:15But he is everything that he says he is.
09:17And perhaps, arguably more, that's
09:19what makes him such a dangerous and, quite frankly,
09:22scary individual.
09:23I mean, historically, evolution has been a slow process.
09:26But for a man like David Finley, professional wrestling
09:28born in his blood.
09:30He is the worst wrestler to have had every single thing
09:33that he's had, and yet also earned
09:35so much of it in the same way.
09:37David Finley is the man to beat in this matchup.
09:40You know, what's funny, Chris, is, you know,
09:42us as statisticians, we would look
09:44at the 2-1 win-loss record between David Finley
09:47and Yoshihashi, and maybe laugh at some
09:49of the claims David Finley is making
09:51about his opponent here tonight.
09:52However, those two wins Yoshihashi
09:54has over David Finley did not come at the expense
09:57of the Rebel Savior.
09:58Cover.
10:00Did not come at the expense of the Bullet Club leader.
10:02They came from a different David Finley.
10:04That's not the man we see in front of us here.
10:06And that's not the Yoshihashi that David Finley
10:09is making fun of, as much as he can make light of it.
10:11You know, I mean, true trauma.
10:13That was such a great, a great, great interview
10:16that he did on YouTube recently, Yoshihashi.
10:20You know, through that trauma, trying to tap
10:22into himself, and Yoshihashi kind of feeling,
10:24you know, so many guys in this business
10:27feel the weight of expectations.
10:29I have to, pro wrestlers do this.
10:32You know, everything in wrestling
10:33is so prescriptive, thanks to, you know,
10:35I think some of the, well, less tasteful
10:40people within our community.
10:42Certain commentators might say,
10:44wrestling has to be a certain way.
10:46You have to behave a certain way.
10:48And it took that trauma for Yoshihashi
10:51to go against that grifting philosophy
10:55and kind of say, no, I mean, like, once I can enjoy,
10:58once I can be a symbol of hope to the people,
11:01that's how he tapped himself into that strength.
11:03That's how he became Never 0.6 Man
11:05and Tag Team Champion.
11:07Look out.
11:08David Finlay, it is pure raw strength and aggression
11:11that brought him that global heavyweight championship
11:13as well that allowed him the docile takeover
11:16of the Bullet Club, become the leader of the War Dogs.
11:19I think you're right.
11:20I mean, both men had an epiphany of sorts
11:23in the last couple of years.
11:28One could almost say both of their epiphanies
11:31came through shoulder injury in a funny amount.
11:33You know, I mean, David Finlay spent
11:36an awful long time on the shelf
11:40thanks to a shoulder injury sustained
11:42with a tag match with his then-partner Juice Robinson.
11:48All the differences, all the similarities,
11:51they all come to a head here tonight
11:52in our semi-main event.
11:53The fact is this, Yoshihashi has never faced
11:56against David Finlay at his most dangerous,
11:59which is David Finlay right now.
12:01It is not David Finlay of 2022,
12:03not of 2016 when they first met in singles action.
12:06It's now.
12:08Oh, and you're seeing it.
12:09The proof is in the pudding,
12:10and the pudding's on the shirt of Yoshihashi.
12:12Hammer throw there into the corner.
12:19Even Yoshihashi, you know,
12:20a little bit of vitriol for Gedo,
12:23who was once such a key part of Chaos,
12:28turned his back on Chaos, turned his back
12:31on Kazuchika Okada.
12:34Gedo, who laughed in the face of Yoshihashi
12:36when he took that nasty fall back in 2018,
12:38was right here at ringside.
12:49Even with the winning record,
12:50Yoshihashi still stands at a massive disadvantage,
12:53but it's not new for Yoshihashi
12:54to have to fight from underneath.
12:57The entire career of Yoshihashi
12:59built on the concept.
13:00Both men take it over the top.
13:04I mean, he's made a catchphrase of it.
13:07He lives by it.
13:08Everything can change in an instant.
13:12As long as you keep believing.
13:16He is well, well used to having his back
13:18against the corner,
13:19having to fight against adversity.
13:21He should be here.
13:23He'd even failed the tryout
13:24to get into New Japan for a wrestling three times,
13:27eventually got accepted
13:28because a couple of kids pulled out.
13:32And yet, here he is.
13:34Got his first championship opportunity
13:37as a substitute, thanks to an injury
13:40over the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
13:43That's why he said,
13:44I'd recovered mentally
13:47from being eliminated from the G1.
13:50I'd recovered by the time I got backstage
13:52because I knew I might have a chance come my way.
13:55Oh, well, what is David Finlay thinking?
13:57I think, oh, oh, come on now.
14:02You see, obviously attempting to poke fun
14:04to get inside the mind again.
14:06Yoshihashi, oh, nearly eating it
14:08for the second time in his career.
14:13Oh, we're battling up that faded ramp tonight, Chris.
14:17Oh, Finlay backing it all the way.
14:20It's a long way down for Yoshihashi here.
14:22It's Finlay, Finlay, no, no.
14:26An old enemy.
14:30And Yoshihashi with a suplex on that ramp.
14:34Well, perhaps the enemy of my enemy is my friend,
14:38Yoshihashi.
14:41A little bit reacquainted with that entrance ramp.
14:50It is David Finlay.
14:51It is David Finlay that seeks his second defense
14:54of the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.
14:58Won the title for the second time
14:59back at Wrestling Dontaku in Fukuoka May 4th.
15:02Defeated Nick Nemeth,
15:03defended once against Tsunada back in Sapporo.
15:06And you'll put all through this
15:07while David Finlay has constantly looked past Yoshihashi.
15:12He's had half an eye when Hiroki Goto,
15:14that's why he sent Gabe Kidd off to Goto.
15:16It wasn't because of Jake Lee at all.
15:18Oh, look out, Yoshihashi.
15:20Yoshihashi.
15:21Making a run for it, Yoshihashi dropkick.
15:24And this time it's Finlay taking the tumble.
15:32And there's something just so sweet
15:33about Yoshihashi being the man to deliver it.
15:39Even David Finlay in his interview
15:41at njpw1972.com.
15:43Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Chris, Chris, Chris.
15:45Oh!
15:47David Finlay chest and skull collide.
15:51With our apron here.
15:52And this is a side of Yoshihashi.
15:54Normally Yoshihashi would have brought Finlay
15:56right back into the ring.
15:57There's no doubt Finlay pushed Yoshihashi's buttons.
16:00Deserved every bit of that shot.
16:10Oh, it's instantaneous tonight.
16:12Yoshihashi!
16:17Oh!
16:18A little bit of killer instinct
16:20you rarely see from a headhunter.
16:27Here's another look.
16:28Oh, one more time.
16:30Bam, hard impact again on that shoulder.
16:32Previously damaged, re-aggravated
16:34during G1 for Finlay.
16:37Yoshihashi from the top.
16:42Blockbuster.
16:43Yeah, headhunter off the top.
16:45Cover here.
16:46And it's two.
16:49And now look.
16:50I mean, he's going.
16:52Pedal to the metal here, Walker.
16:54Consistent.
16:55Yeah, going for that butterfly lock.
16:59That's the in-ring IQ of David Finlay on display,
17:01by the way, right to the outside.
17:03You're right, you're right.
17:04But I think David Finlay has had to open his eyes now
17:07to Yoshihashi.
17:08You know, even in that interview at njpw1972.com
17:11alluding to his issues with Switchblade Jay White.
17:15There might be a match that people might want to see
17:17at Wrestle Kingdom or Wrestle Dynasty.
17:20I mean, Yoshihashi was the furthest thing down from his list.
17:24But right now it's right at the top.
17:26Has to be.
17:38Yoshihashi, the most sudden threat
17:40to the IWGP global heavyweight title.
17:42Let's not forget how this all started, Chris.
17:44The last night of G1 Climax.
17:46It was what?
17:47Yoshihashi pinning David Finlay.
17:49Proving what?
17:50I can pin David Finlay.
17:52Oh, and Finlay.
17:55He put the brakes on.
17:56Did Yoshihashi pin on that?
18:03Yoshihashi avoided instant disaster
18:07by pinning Thor on his feet.
18:10Chris, as we talk about insecurity
18:12and a lack of confidence
18:13Yoshihashi may have in this building.
18:15Knowing that you have defeated
18:16the global heavyweight champion before
18:18can dissuade some of that.
18:20Well, I think...
18:22Oh, my goodness.
18:23I don't think he'll be thinking much more after this.
18:26Yoshihashi tries to get low.
18:28Oh, no, no!
18:34Separating the shoulder blades of Yoshihashi
18:38is David Finlay.
18:39Let's look at it one more time.
18:40Here's your replay, folks.
18:42The power.
18:43Bam!
18:44And you're right.
18:45It was...
18:48The shoulder right there.
18:50Give me two.
18:51Give me two.
18:55He is deceptively, I think,
18:57Walker, one of the strongest athletes
19:00in New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
19:01I mean, you saw him do that to Jeff Cobb
19:03for crying out loud in the G1.
19:07Seven.
19:08Come on.
19:09Eight.
19:10And this is, perhaps, right there on your screen,
19:12the difference making.
19:13Goto trying to will Yoshihashi back in the ring.
19:18Very different quarter-men tonight
19:20between Goto and Gato.
19:23Going down.
19:27The difference is Goto is going to inspire favor.
19:29Cover here for Finlay.
19:31And it's two.
19:32Gato, on the meanwhile,
19:33is going to be on the outside.
19:34What? Barking orders to David Finlay?
19:36The so-called leader of the Bullet Club
19:38taking orders from who?
19:39Oh, well, that's a sore subject.
19:44Still even to this day,
19:47a lot of speculation of,
19:49well, did David Finlay act alone
19:51when he delivered that Shillelagh shot
19:53to Jay White?
19:54Or was it Gato that was pulling the strings?
19:58So it was a string puller to the string puller.
20:00And David Finlay is pulling them on Yoshihashi
20:02here tonight, left, right, and center.
20:05He's making him dance in a grotesque display.
20:14I don't think we need this.
20:17I mean, it's not often we see David Finlay
20:19go into these sort of tactics, but...
20:21Well, I mean, it's...
20:22This is the rebel.
20:24This is this David Finlay walker.
20:26And maybe the David Finlay of a couple of years ago
20:28wouldn't have gone to this.
20:30This is someone who is
20:32who is
20:34demonstrably
20:36sick
20:38of the propensity for violence.
20:41Oh, no, looking for a sequel.
20:43A sequel to the Kobe fall in 2018.
20:46And it's David Finlay goes shoulder first.
20:58Shoulder first for David Finlay.
21:00David Finlay and it's Yoshihashi here.
21:02Yoshihashi now.
21:06Face first, shoulder first, cover.
21:12Finlay is clutching at that left arm.
21:14We've said, we've spoken so many times
21:17for both of these guys.
21:18Those shoulder injuries, they never fully heal.
21:21Not at all.
21:22Oh, my God.
21:27That left shoulder injury was re-aggravated
21:29back to the tail end of G1.
21:31Climax of the match against Yota Tsuji.
21:39No, let's not.
21:41For an instant, Walker
21:43caused dispersions on David Finlay's work ethic
21:46in the year 2024.
21:48And the violent
21:51fights that he has been in,
21:52that he has put himself through
21:56against John Moxley and Will Ospreay
21:58in the Tokyo Dome
21:59in that Dog Pound Steel Cage match.
22:02Using the championship to neck Nemeth,
22:04winning it right back.
22:06And then again and again and into the G1.
22:08Finlay wants a full schedule.
22:11And that takes its toll.
22:13Yoshihashi is the pressure man,
22:15I think I'd have to say.
22:20David Finlay has put himself
22:22in time and time again.
22:25Some of the most dangerous matches.
22:39Wailing these shots off.
22:40Rolls through and a super kick
22:42for Yoshihashi.
22:44Up on the shoulders.
22:46No.
22:48Oh, Yoshihashi doesn't want to go.
22:51He won't go.
22:52Can he?
22:53He's got to make him.
22:55Oh, look out.
22:56Karma might be a bitch for Finlay.
23:01Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
23:03Look at that.
23:05Unreal.
23:06Right on the spine.
23:07The cover.
23:08Two.
23:11Again.
23:12And that's the second
23:13huge display of strength
23:15on that bum shoulder walker.
23:19And wants it.
23:20He's got it.
23:21It's the Dominator
23:23from David Finlay.
23:26And it's two.
23:36Finlay, each one of those massive moves,
23:38massive impacts,
23:40getting two.
23:41And the frustration,
23:42the frustration on the Yoshihashi
23:44isn't done yet,
23:45but the frustration
23:46and that pain
23:47building in his shoulder.
23:49How many times will it hold up?
23:51Will it hold up for this?
23:53DDT from Yoshihashi.
23:55And by God, this is the moment.
23:58Watch this.
23:59Off the ropes.
24:00Seeks it out.
24:01What's Hilarion call?
24:02Northern Irish curse.
24:15Look at that weight on Yoshihashi
24:17coming crashing down
24:19on the knee of Finlay.
24:23Oh, no, no.
24:24Guido calling the play.
24:26Guido calling the play walker.
24:27You can hear it.
24:28It's been that way for Finlay's career thus far.
24:30No, no.
24:31Oh, again.
24:33Face first from Finlay.
24:35Oh, this is how he beat him
24:36in the Okaku Interducting Cover.
24:38Oh, it's two.
24:41Oh, and right back into that
24:42Butterfly Lock here.
24:43Chris, we could be seeing
24:44a submission victory
24:45for Yoshihashi,
24:46a new global heavyweight champion tonight.
24:48So many times
24:50he retained the never-overweight
24:51six-man championships
24:53during the darkest days
24:54of New Japan.
24:55Progressing the pandemic
24:56with this hold walker.
25:01Driving that shit
25:02right down in the chest.
25:06It's an
25:07incredible
25:09It's a
25:10It's a modified,
25:11almost a version of the film
25:13Nelson cranking the neck forward.
25:15And Guido on the apron.
25:16Wait a minute.
25:17David Finlay.
25:18David Finlay.
25:19He has that shillelagh in hand.
25:20And Goto
25:21swipes Guido down off the apron.
25:23But Finlay still has the shillelagh.
25:26He's got to disarm him somehow
25:28as Yoshihashi sees it.
25:31Yes.
25:33I mean,
25:34Finlay's last best hope
25:35to retain Walker
25:36just tossed down the ring.
25:38Goto has Guido.
25:39Yoshihashi has Finlay.
25:42And Finlay tries
25:43as he might
25:44to make it that bottom rope
25:45we could have a new
25:46global heavyweight champion.
25:47How many times
25:48has Goto
25:49held away
25:50an opposition tag partner
25:52just like we're seeing here?
25:55The Bishamon bond
25:56might bring Yoshihashi
25:58global gold.
25:59It's happening.
26:01All the believers,
26:02all the doubters,
26:03they all come together
26:04and could collaborate
26:05for this damn moment.
26:06Yoshihashi becomes champion.
26:08He can do it.
26:11Yes.
26:12And now a kibo
26:13around the arm.
26:14It'll have to be
26:15verbal submission.
26:17And in pain
26:18and he cannot control
26:19the bottom half.
26:21Drop it.
26:23Watch out.
26:24Drop it.
26:26Drop it.
26:27Drop it.
26:28Watch out.
26:32All the stars
26:35had aligned
26:36and seen for the moment.
26:38But God, how tough
26:40is the global heavyweight champion.
26:46There's a reason
26:47that David Finlay
26:48has no problem
26:49whatsoever
26:50placing himself
26:51in some of the most
26:52dangerous situations
26:53New Japan Pro Wrestling
26:54has ever seen.
26:59Get this.
27:00Fisherman up.
27:01Yoshihashi.
27:04Oh no.
27:05Drag and suplex.
27:06Glad he puts down Yoshihashi.
27:08Hashi's up.
27:13Big match hash.
27:14Here we go.
27:18Inside and out.
27:20Goes Finlay.
27:21Hashi.
27:22Hashi.
27:23Hashi.
27:24Hashi.
27:25Hashi.
27:26Hashi.
27:27Finlay.
27:28And now Colbert
27:29believe Walker.
27:30Do you?
27:32It has to be proven here.
27:34Kubo Kuroshi.
27:36He's got it.
27:37He's got it Walker.
27:38He's got it.
27:39We have a new champion.
27:41No.
27:42No.
27:43No.
27:51Yoshihashi.
27:54Rethinking their grips.
27:55I haven't seen this out of
27:56Yoshihashi in years.
27:59You know,
28:00think Walker.
28:02It could be loose.
28:03The loose explosion.
28:07The cover.
28:12Yoshihashi going deep
28:13into his playbook.
28:16Nothing deeper than
28:17the loose explosion
28:18for Yoshihashi.
28:26Why?
28:28Why?
28:32And now
28:33a roar of defiance
28:34against the odds.
28:35And
28:36coming.
28:37It's
28:38guard.
28:39No.
28:40Kicks away the leg.
28:41Here it is.
28:42No.
28:44If it's going to be anything
28:45it's going to be this.
28:47Anything can happen
28:48in an instant.
28:49Yoshihashi.
28:51And Finlay.
28:52Finlay.
28:53Against all his
28:54wrestling instincts.
28:55Here we go.
28:56Oh.
28:58Guarded right into
28:59Prima Doctor.
29:03And Finlay.
29:05No, no, no, no, no.
29:06Back is dead.
29:12And backslide here
29:13for Finlay.
29:14Brought right back out.
29:16And it's
29:17into oblivion.
29:21No.
29:26Kobe is coming alive tonight.
29:27And it's going to take
29:28every single
29:29solid here
29:30for Yoshihashi
29:31to become champion.
29:37But now
29:38Finlay back
29:39in the driver's seat.
29:40Oh.
29:42Still
29:43Yoshihashi.
29:45Not anymore.
29:48Rolls in the elbow.
29:49Brings back up.
29:50And it's
29:51the same song
29:52and dance.
29:53Powerbomb in
29:54on the cover.
29:55Two
29:56once
29:57more.
30:02And damn
30:03everything that
30:04David Finlay said
30:05about Yoshihashi
30:06in that press conference
30:07yesterday.
30:08Saying that he isn't
30:09champion material.
30:10This is the heart
30:11of a champion
30:12Chris Charlton.
30:13And it's a heart
30:14that David Finlay
30:15may have one day.
30:17But this resilience
30:18is on another level
30:19for Yoshihashi.
30:25He's taking
30:26a lot of time.
30:27If he can get overkill
30:28it's over.
30:30There you go.
30:31Caught it.
30:32Caught it.
30:33Come on.
30:34They got him.
30:35No.
30:40And a pop-up
30:41powerbomb
30:42from Finlay.
30:46And it's gonna be
30:47overkill.
30:52And this
30:53match is
30:54over.
31:09So many times
31:11especially over the
31:12last 12 months
31:15that overkill
31:16has been just that.
31:18It's been
31:19a punctuation
31:20mark
31:22on an aggressive
31:23declarative
31:24sentence.
31:29Walker that was
31:30an overkill.
31:31No it was not.
31:32It was necessary.
31:35That was what it
31:36took to put
31:37down
31:38Yoshihashi
31:40at his
31:41prideful
31:42best.
31:52Oh wow.
31:57And over the
31:58body of a
31:59fallen friend
32:00steps Hiroki
32:01Goto.
32:03And steps up
32:04to the plate
32:06of the IWGP
32:07Global Heavyweight
32:08Champion.
32:13Chris you
32:14postured the
32:15question earlier
32:16on in the evening
32:17is David Finlay
32:18afraid of
32:19Hiroki
32:20Goto?
32:21And the
32:22answer remains
32:23maybe.
32:24But one thing's
32:25for certain
32:26Finlay is not
32:27going to show
32:28anyone, not
32:29going to show
32:30the world, not
32:31going to show
32:32his damn
32:33mirror exactly
32:34what his own
32:35thoughts are.
32:36David Finlay
32:37walks away
32:38with the win
32:39tonight.
32:46Savagery
32:47yes.
32:49Strength and
32:50success
32:51in equal
32:52measure.
32:53David Finlay
32:54still IWGP
32:55Global Heavyweight
32:56Champion.
32:57And coming up
32:58next folks the
32:59IWGP World
33:00Heavyweight titles
33:01on the line in
33:02our main event
33:03Tetsuya Naito
33:04against Great
33:05Okan.