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00:00Goto, the revolution of Goto, Iroki Goto.
00:08GTR Kai.
00:1512th IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, Iroki Goto.
00:20The next, who is the champion? Who is the champion? Who is the champion?
00:30Oh, it's Zach Saber Jr.
00:36I'm your next champion.
00:43I'll take it.
00:46Challenger Zack Saber Jr.
00:49The one thing that made me very urgent to challenge Iroki was that he broke the defense record.
00:56The one thing I was saying this year.
00:58Next year, Montelio's Resurgence.
01:01I won a tournament and a title or two before in California.
01:06This is New Japan Pro Wrestling.
01:08I won the championship for the first time in Japan.
01:10I'm going to win it for the second time in the old USFA.
01:14I got this belt.
01:17It's going to be true.
01:22It's still the war.
01:25It's not going to be finished.
01:27In this new Japan Pro Wrestling,
01:30I'm going to give you a wish and hope.
01:35I don't know how to do it, but I don't know how to do it.
02:05It's going to be a win!
02:35And the man who answered the challenge first is Zack Sabre Jr.
02:40Zack Sabre Jr.
02:46What the title to me is exactly what he said.
02:50Gozo calling for challengers.
02:52He really wants to defend this title against anyone.
02:56And meanwhile, Zack Sabre Jr., he's kind of looking to turn back time
03:01because it was, of course, Sabre Jr. who was defeated by Gozo to start the Gozo revolution.
03:08Oh, Zack Sabre Jr.
03:12Oh, Zack Sabre Jr.
03:17Oh, Zack Sabre Jr.
03:21Yes, sir.
03:25Hey, oh, Zack, get that done with it.
03:27Oh, Zack Sabre Jr.
03:30That's your title. Get thrown.
03:32That's your title. Get thrown.
03:35Get that title back thrown.
03:36Let's go.
03:37Today on the
03:42Top Children
03:43нет
03:45Get
03:46deep
03:49deep
03:52don't
03:54feel
03:56kind
04:03run
04:04up
04:06and
04:07Oh, my God.
04:37with whom it began may be with whom it may end it was on february 10th of this year when the goto
04:54revolution kicked off in spades after a 20 plus year journey to the top of the mountain in new
05:01japan pro wrestling maroki goto has not just been sitting at the top of it in 2025 but knocking
05:09anyone to climb it off his perch i can't do anything i don't know gp second heavy future
05:17new bishop can't you have to do this it is one more match one more time the iwgp
05:29world heavyweight title on the line and it could be defense number six for hiroki goto
05:37you'll see in the blue corner here tonight shane haste recently off of a return to total non-stop
05:54action wrestling and tna is a mystery opponent has made his way in support of zach saber jr here
06:02tonight just as cmdk showed out in support the last time these two faced off in singles action
06:07referee taito nakabayashi your official and the iwgp world heavyweight championship is up for grabs
06:14of course we are in ontario california southern california and zach said it you know he started
06:29out here main eventing in japan but he's also had a quite a few historic victories here in
06:35southern california if you want to think back to the peter eugene days he has made history why not
06:41win this championship back in california my first time getting to meet zach saber jr it was actually
06:48an event that you were at it was a game changer wrestling event here in california during zach's
06:54stent competing heavily on the american independent scene and to see where you know zach was on the
06:59cusp of greatness there now to have been a former iwgp world heavyweight champion we're gonna be getting
07:04into g1 climax season in just a few months would be the defending g1 climax winner from g134
07:10zach saber jr cannot afford for these to be his career peaks so to say it's all about climbing back
07:16to the top of the mountain where you have once stood before if you have never stood there before
07:20you don't know how difficult it is to retain that world heavyweight title
07:24so far has been a very technical contest saber with the headlock and let's not pretend that it is
07:41not in zach saber jr's wheelhouse to keep this technical the parts of struggle that we see most
07:48against heroic goto are in technical competition and this comes with goto ushuto background and it is
07:57goto right out of the way side headlock takedown and saber jr we are keeping it fast and frenetic
08:02we're going to take a look through the run of who haroki goto has defended this world heavyweight
08:17title against and really i mean such a relatively short period of time and i'm happy to believe it's
08:23because no phone knows that we're about to get to the best of the super junior season we're going to take
08:27the the gas pedal off a little bit on the heavyweight division and focus on the junior heavyweights
08:32goto wanted to get a decent amount of offenses in prior to best of the super junior where
08:37we know that he may be competing on undercards but he's going to have a decent amount of low profile
08:42attention
08:50but he's also in his challengers it's been from the old guard
08:57to the the upcoming guard in something like a calum newman and now we have
09:05zach sabre jr who is a former champion he kind of bridges all of that yeah you're right i mean it
09:10truly does find you in the middle with men like zach sabre jr david for me you can even consider
09:16a show to umano tight as well just a few more of those contenders
09:21shiroshi tanahashi defense number one 15 years old defense number two goto has been running through
09:29the ringer of it but that is as we talk about all the time an incredibly dense and incredibly difficult
09:38schedule to keep up with
09:43goto just last defended the iwgp world heavyweight title five days ago that is one match and then a 14
09:50hour flight right here to california landed in lax made a two-hour drive to ontario and now goto's got
09:57to go through hell all over again that's not an easy thing to do vader and the count is on he's slowing it back up
10:06he could get counted out and lose that title but it looks yeah he just rolled in and immediately immediately
10:13stopped
10:23and the champion first of all the outside again
10:29you know the one benefit maroki goto has in this competition is a sense of familiarity when it comes
10:35to pressure a sense of familiarity when it comes to opponent within this championship reign as well as
10:41faced off eight different times in singles competition dating all the way back to sakura genesis for the
10:47never open weight title in 2017. and sadly not in the favor of goto but rather that of saber junior
10:55that's a five and three record and saber junior looking to make it a six and three and add a second
11:01world heavyweight title reign to the resume oh and although zach is in control right now and has the
11:07advantage in terms of wins you could argue that it's that last loss right that was the most important it
11:13was that last loss that ended up with goto as champion i mean it's all about what have you done for me
11:19recently in pro wrestling right and tmdk has been on uh definitely riding the struggle bus in a sense
11:25zack saber junior no longer world heavyweight champion we all hail a lot losing his challenge
11:31in the never open weight title now robbie eagles and kosei fuji to have as of road to wrestling
11:36don taku no longer iwgp junior tag team champion so it's really on zack saber jr
11:41to right the ship when it comes to the orange button has now managed to get fully back in control
11:47of these two but you're not going to see it in the ring a lot more of that 2017
12:04tak saber junior coming out tonight than we saw back in february of this year
12:09and now hiroki goto laid in a couple shots and sabre junior only takes one for separation to be
12:19needed
12:34and zack saber jr got the boot up finds out the ropes misdirected hiroki comes with the lariat
12:42you do not turn your back on the world heavyweight champion
12:50you know veda there is this uh idea in professional wrestling that there are some
12:54men who are just better in the chase there are some athletes that just have more of the motivation
12:59to compete differently to compete better whenever there's something to fight for
13:03did zack saber jr get too comfortable as iwgp champion i'm not exactly saying that but zack
13:09saber jr has pressure on him further than he has in quite some time here tonight
13:16oh as the cover here for goto metabasa and it is two over at the same time goto is someone who has
13:23really been on the chase at least in a metaphorical sense for his entire career
13:28finally able to get this huge victory and we've seen him take on challenger after challenger but like
13:36you said that schedule is grueling eventually that does catch up to you
13:42to the arm and yeah that's goto's left arm it's not the predominant one but it is going to be effective
13:48saber jr now in the Fujiwara position and is going to be targeting that right arm now this is great from
13:54saber jr wrestle both sides of those arms away that is the power base for hiroki goto
14:01in any world title matchup both arms now trip oh man you're not supposed to bend that way not at
14:09all and saber jr with some added leverage
14:25i mean look you can see that the realms under zack's chinny caught that larry directly in the
14:30he's having trouble recovering a little bit from that which is why it's smart to keep this grounded
14:42all that power offense out of goto and really zack saber jr alike it's going to
14:47make it a lot harder to breathe it's going to affect your cardio your ability to keep pace
14:52over 20 minutes of action these two to battle last time and ushi goroshi lands out for hiroki goto in favor
15:04but not able to make the cover
15:08instead both down on the canvas
15:21instead both down on the canvas
15:45sabre takes a knee
15:51we already know who the next man in line is for the world heavyweight title mind you
15:59will it be zack saber jr will it be hiroki goto to face shingo takagi at dominion
16:08goto wants him zack says otherwise
16:11right now it looks like it could go either way and it very well could
16:14do it with the way these two are going at one another wouldn't shock me if a double ko was inbound
16:22goto now reverse gtr
16:25and they're both down again
16:36deep, and they're both down
16:38again.
17:00Zach, what's in?
17:02Zach Driver!
17:04Whoa, Zach Driver out of nowhere!
17:06It's enough to put the
17:11champ down, but I think
17:13Zach Driver Jr.
17:15just too exhausted
17:17to make the pitfall instead
17:19rolling to get a little
17:21distance. And not enough to make the
17:23cover. Having trouble breathing.
17:25Meanwhile, Shane Hayes looking
17:27to Will on. ZSJ in the blue corner.
17:29And a cover for Zach
17:51Sabre! No.
17:55Saw Sabre Jr.
17:56was holding on to the arm in that cover.
17:58Could have transitioned into some sort of submission
18:00maneuver as we've seen before, but Gotoh
18:01too forceful
18:03on the kickoff.
18:04Excuse me.
18:08Sabre again, creating some
18:10distance, creating a
18:11bit of a runway here.
18:14Oh!
18:15Oh, Gotoh.
18:16Gotoh has Sabre Jr. trapped in,
18:18and now it's a one-man
18:19lights out.
18:21Ontario!
18:22Shoto!
18:23Gotoh!
18:23Gotoh!
18:34Gotoh!
18:38Back up to his feet
18:40slowly, but he's there.
18:46Oh!
18:51Oh!
18:51Oh!
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18:53Oh!
18:55Gotoh now on the shoulder
18:57one more time.
18:58Ushiguroshi!
19:06Gotoh to put this one away
19:08for the revolution
19:09to continue.
19:10No!
19:11Sabre Jr.
19:13Oh!
19:14Oh!
19:16Oh!
19:16This is the prime minister
19:17of professional wrestling
19:19in full effect right now.
19:21There will be no revolution
19:23in the way of the way of
19:24of the position in the way of
19:25Zack Sabre Jr.'s political enterprise.
19:26Oh!
19:27Oh!
19:27And the camp is completely trapped.
19:32And the champ is completely trapped.
19:36Oh!
19:38Oh!
19:39Oh!
19:40Oh!
19:40Oh!
19:41Oh, no!
19:41It's the position Gotoh's very familiar with.
19:43Oh, no!
19:44Very familiar indeed.
19:45Oh!
19:46Oh!
19:47Oh!
19:47Oh!
19:47Oh!
19:48Oh!
19:49Oh!
19:49Oh!
19:50Oh!
19:50Oh!
19:51Oh!
19:51Oh!
19:52And it could be goto to the bottom rope and this one's safe
20:22Baroque goto is in a world of pain tonight
20:41And meanwhile, Zack Sabre Jr. sits in the driver's seat for the first time in some time
20:52Sabre Jr. could go for the kill right now if he chooses
21:01Goto again face down on the canvas, but Sabre is watching and waiting
21:12Goto back up on his knees
21:17You start to see the bruising form if you look right now bait on the side of the body of Heroku Goto
21:26Zack Sabre Jr. fully intending to continue this punishment
21:31And not to be caught here you see goto trying to catch these kicks not quick enough
21:35But finally finally manages to do something
21:38And eating slap after slap after slap
21:42And eating something different off the headbutt
21:44Goto wants to show the world Japanese pro wrestling
22:00Japanese strong style fighting spirit
22:04Goto's doing that here
22:07On the shoulder
22:09GTW get through with Stan
22:13No
22:14Closer than close
22:19Well we've seen it all out of goto so far except one thing and it's coming now
22:27It's coming now
22:28Oh no no British roll
22:30Oh
22:33We nearly saw it
22:39Back in again
22:4130 seconds
22:43No
22:48Goto one more time
22:49Sabre Jr. smarter than your average cat
22:51Watch it again
22:52Goto shoulders again
22:53No
22:54No
22:55And we're back to Zack in position
22:57And no
22:59I think there were molecules
23:01Between Tycho's head and the canvas
23:04That is how close that was
23:06I mean you can question the official's judgment call all you want
23:10But a two count is a two count in pro wrestling
23:13Well they both charge in and collide
23:23One of these men will meet Shingo Takagi at Dominion
23:26The question is who
23:34Sabre Jr. charges right into trouble
23:39It's coming
23:43Sabre O'Connor
23:45No no
23:46The shoulders of Sabre down
23:47No
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24:40And there's no winner, but the title doesn't change hands.
24:45No, it does not put the World Heavyweight title in limbo.
24:48In fact, this will count as a successful sixth defense for Hiroki Gozo,
24:53but successful is going to be loose in that translation.
25:05Zack Sabre Jr. disgusted with this result.
25:10And I don't think Zack Sabre Jr. is the only one disgusted with this decision.
25:21And I don't think this is how Gozo necessarily wants these defenses to go.
25:26Not at all. Not the slightest.
25:28No political espionage is going to stop the Gozo revolution.
25:44It is a sixth defense of the IWGP World Heavyweight title.
25:49And Hiroki Gozo looks just as shocked as we are.
25:52Well, Zack Sabre Jr. famously, I may have a few words, I know,
25:55but he may have something to say about this.
25:58It looks like Gozo is, he's pacing around the ring as well.
26:04Well, you know that Shingo Takagi has kept a tight eye over in Chiba, Japan.
26:13For night one of best of the Super Junior 32 on the action that we've just seen.
26:20Hiroki Gozo now confirmed to face Shingo Takagi
26:25in the main event of Dominion on June 15th.
26:29I cannot wait.
26:32And meanwhile, coming up, it is the main event of the evening.
26:36A three-way match.
26:37The strong women's title on the line, Mercedes-Monnaie, Azami, and Mina Shirakawa.
26:42It's happening now.