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00:00You can see what you want, being faced here, you think you know what goes on.
00:09You don't have a clue.
00:11Because I'm not in that eye on my own, I'm one on one.
00:18I'm a New Japan fan, I'm not about to have absolutely wrong for me
00:22to not strike down this traitor in Tokyo,
00:25so you can't come back to the side of the world.
00:30.
00:45.
00:50Special wrestling is a universal language for what differs in country to country is the definition of the word professional.
01:06The U.S. has become a synonym for sterility, for overproduction, for inauthenticity, for catering to audiences of one,
01:18to the producers, to the sponsors.
01:22In Japan, professionalism means passion and it means pride.
01:29The passion and the pride of both Game Kid and Kenny Omega nearly took both of those men to an early grade.
01:37And it's the reason for being, the reason they are here, and for anyone to question the passion and pride of Game Kid
01:46as Kenny Omega did in his disrespect, is to awaken a dangerous, dangerous beast.
01:55It started with a forgotten name, but it's the spot that ignited a wildfire and awakened a roaring British lion in the Toko Dog.
02:11You hear?
02:16Look at that shit.
02:18That's me, darling.
02:21You have any questions about what this match is about?
02:29You just saw the answer right there on the Gear of Game Kid.
02:33That's real.
02:34That's real.
02:35That's real.
02:36That's real.
02:38Come on, bro.
02:43This is progress.
02:46This is real.
02:48This is the king of sports.
02:50The air is thick.
03:18The emotion filling.
03:20This massive building, the Tokyo Dome.
03:23This is the Tiffany bounty .
03:24This is the
03:36Oh
04:06It is the return of the century and the icon of that as well.
04:27A former IWGP Heavyweight Champion,
04:31three-time AEW World Champion, a million and more accomplishments.
04:36You can read off of a list for this generational talent.
04:40Arguably, the greatest of all time.
04:43And a man who not only ushered in an era of international exposure for NJPW.
04:50But elevated the ceiling for professional wrestling itself in a country
04:55already famous for its wrestling strength.
04:58Revolutionizing the entire industry with every single match,
05:03with every famed trilogy that shifted this landscape.
05:07But there is always more to do.
05:10And just as there was more to do in Japan,
05:13there was more to do to reach the entire globe than the global world of pro wrestling.
05:19That led to the birth of all elite wrestling, Rocky Romero, back in 2019.
05:24Absolutely.
05:26This man set the stage for professional wrestling worldwide.
05:31Brought the name New Japan to the masses.
05:35This man is Japanese professional wrestling, in my opinion.
05:40This man has represented New Japan worldwide in so many ways.
05:46And yes, Gabe Kid is the future of that.
05:50But this meeting here tonight is what it's all about.
05:56The future versus the past slash present here in the Tokyo
06:26Perhaps with one wing clipped, the Phoenix seeks to fly once again tonight.
06:43And as much of an icon that Kenny Omega is, and I'm not saying he isn't,
06:49that Gabe did reaction.
06:50This is what the Tokyo Dome is all about, gentlemen.
06:59And of course, it must be acknowledged.
07:02And I can't believe you haven't gotten to it sooner.
07:04A life-threatening illness keeping Kenny Omega out of competition for over a calendar year.
07:09So many questions, Rocky, as to whether or not Kenny Omega would ever return to professional wrestling.
07:14And tonight, a hope and a prayer has become a reality.
07:17Yeah, just months ago, we didn't know for sure.
07:21And when Kenny showed up in Osaka, everybody still wondered.
07:26Who wants this in the stand-up?
07:28One body shot, Rocky, he's gone.
07:31Di-verticulitis.
07:32You know, Gabe wants it.
07:34And Kenny Omega suffered.
07:35Fuck you, bitch!
07:36Let's go!
07:36For over a calendar year, could be at least exacerbated by the game.
07:41Ken here tonight, as this one's already off to it.
07:43Let's go, let's go!
07:44One!
07:44It's already reminded me of UWF versus New Japan Pro Wrestling, the history in this building.
07:51Yeah, Muto and Takata.
07:56Wow!
07:57That is, I mean, you said it on his entrance, Rocky, but I think it was heresy to say that-
08:06Oh!
08:06Exactly, Kenny's thoughts that, yes, Kenny did so much for his company, but to dare to deign to say that Gabe Kidd cashes a check because of Kenny Omega is sickening.
08:19To say that he is Japanese professional wrestling is sickening.
08:24He is an indelible, iconic part of it, yes.
08:27But he is not bigger than this.
08:30Oh!
08:30Jeez!
08:30Jeez!
08:31Oh!
08:32And that's the message that Gabe Kidd has been sending, Chris.
08:36This idea of, well, if you are pro wrestling in Japan, Kenny Omega, you never would have left.
08:41Oh, yeah!
08:42Hell, baby!
08:42And that is what Gabe Kidd has forever held against the cleaner.
08:46But the flip side of that, Kenny opened the door for so many.
08:50That is the truth.
08:51Kenny put New Japan pro wrestling on the map internationally.
08:54That is true.
08:55The Bullet Club, the Young Bucks, all these guys that started AEW were very much a part of why New Japan pro wrestling grew so much.
09:05Well, no doubt about it.
09:06And in Gabe's mind, well, it was grow and grow, and then it was take and take.
09:11And, well, as soon as we have a money mark to take away some of those talents, well, then off they go.
09:17Escape!
09:18Oh, G!
09:19Off goes Jay White, Will Ospreay.
09:22Can't escape, cover.
09:24And it's only two.
09:27It's all so much deeper than that.
09:29And what have they done there that they haven't done here?
09:33It's all so much deeper than that.
09:33You all have no idea.
09:35Hey, let's put the guns away, boys.
09:37You know, I think one thing that can unify us all here tonight, Kenny Omega's most cherished triumph will be over Diverticulitis the way that it has been.
09:48The fact that he's returned to the ring is something special.
09:51We're witnessing that tonight.
09:52Absolutely one of the best all-time competitors.
09:57And we will never forget.
10:00Kenny looks to be in great shape, though.
10:03Let's.
10:04Yeah.
10:05He looks ready to go, and he looks solid.
10:07He's right here, and he's putting the boots to Gabe Kidd.
10:09He hasn't had a body shot yet, and if Gabe can get a body shot in on Kenny Omega, that's where the test is.
10:15You're absolutely right.
10:16You're absolutely right.
10:17Bring it.
10:22The heavy hands of Kenny Omega, former IWGP Heavyweight Champion.
10:32A man who has put on classics in this building.
10:39Gabe Kidd has made mention of putting that body shot.
10:46One, two.
10:47Claims that you cannot kill God with one strike.
10:51But maybe, just maybe, you can.
10:54Maybe, just maybe, Gabe's arms are long enough.
10:58Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:01He's a man.
11:02And a heavy spell to the outside for Gabe Kidd and Kenny Omega.
11:08What?
11:10And folks, we want you to keep in mind this is a special singles match.
11:16This is a special singles match.
11:17There is no time limit that has been applied to this one.
11:21Three.
11:22Yeah.
11:23I mean.
11:24Let's go.
11:25Yeah.
11:26Four.
11:27Yeah.
11:28No 30, no 60.
11:29There's no time limit here, Chris.
11:31Yeah.
11:32I mean, all Bryce Reimsburg is here to, well, to count to three, I guess.
11:39That only means one thing.
11:41We need a fight to the finish here.
11:43It'll be definitive.
11:44Oh!
11:45Omega crashing hard.
11:48Back, back, back!
11:49Into that steel barrier.
11:50Yes, one way or another, definitive it will be.
11:54Gabe Kidd says that his legacy will be defined, not by the bright lights in the Americas,
11:59but right here in the country of Japan.
12:02Hey, hey, in the ring, Kidd, you win the match.
12:10And Bryce Reimsburg trying to do what he can to keep control here, but
12:14he's gonna find out what all of us already know.
12:16There is no controlling the madman Gabe Kidd.
12:20No.
12:24This is exactly-
12:25God, give me a break.
12:26Okay, all right.
12:27What we feared the most.
12:31Gabe Kidd, a little bit of reconstruction here.
12:33We're trying to find our wits about us at ringside.
12:36As Kenny Omega's found his wits about him inside the ring.
12:40You're smart, I think.
12:41You wanna win?
12:42You wanna win in the ring?
12:43Gabe Kidd taking issue with the fact it's an AEW official here.
12:47Wait a minute, wait a minute.
12:48Oh!
12:49There's that drop kick right out of nowhere,
12:50where Kenny Omega takes it right over the top.
12:53What?
12:54One shot flattens down the madman.
12:59Fuck.
13:02And Omega feeling the effects of that Pescano.
13:05You see it now.
13:06Yeah.
13:07We saw it in front of him.
13:08Was grabbing those intercostals right there.
13:10I saw it, and I saw him, I heard him swear, and I heard him clutch the gut.
13:15Get your breath, get your breath.
13:22Get your breath.
13:23That could dramatically slow down Kenny Omega's pace.
13:28The very thing that has made him so successful so many times.
13:33In fact, Rocky, I believe it has.
13:35Give me that, give me that.
13:37Slowed it down to pick back up.
13:40If you're Kenny Omega right now, you may get less shots in than you originally
13:47intended walking into the Tokyo Dome tonight.
13:50They must hit harder than those that Gabe Kidd will throw at you.
13:54Look, Kenny has been in G1 after G1 after G1,
13:57the first non-Japanese winner of the G1 Climax in 2016.
14:03He's been through that legendary, the two out of three falls,
14:07with Kazuchika Okada in Osaka.
14:10He is a man that knows how to manage pain over a long process.
14:17And so now, Kenny Omega has to use all of those smarts to work around what has
14:22to be crippling pain through his abdomen.
14:24But we've seen him in incredible battles.
14:26What about Kenny Omega versus Will Oscar?
14:29Bloody.
14:30Yes.
14:31Desperate battles.
14:34And gentlemen, I hate to interrupt conversation here, but this crowd reaction
14:38is not something I feel we can ignore.
14:41Well, I mean, it's the hometown crowd, there's no doubt about it.
14:46It's different to come into this system and take over and expand it and grow it.
14:52You can do all you want in that regard.
14:54It's very, very different when you come from the system, when you are one of us.
14:59Oh, big right hand.
15:02All the way in.
15:03Let's go.
15:04Gabe Kidd.
15:05Clutching.
15:06Yep, just gonna call that, Rocky.
15:08You're right about it.
15:09Had that wrist clutch.
15:10And they're fighting on the apron here, the outside of the ring.
15:13Oh, heavy blows here.
15:15Oh.
15:16The damage you do to your own body versus the damage you do to your opponent,
15:27to test your spirit and your will.
15:30Uh-oh.
15:31That's great weight distribution, Omega down to the knee.
15:36Yeah, but he broke that grip with a blow to the midsection, to the lower back,
15:43and now he's gonna drill a hole right through that apron.
15:46Oh, wow.
15:47Gabe Kidd, Gabe Kidd.
15:49And it's right.
15:51Geez.
15:52Scary landing there for Kidd.
15:54I'm a little worried that one of these guys.
16:01Dying time here.
16:03I am very well familiar with that wild look in Kenny Omega's eyes.
16:08Yes, indeed.
16:09And it usually precedes something ugly.
16:13Oh, no, no, no.
16:14Oh, no, no, no.
16:15Dragon suplex.
16:16Oh, my.
16:17There are some around the world, Rocky, that believe when Kenny Omega left New Japan Pro Wrestling,
16:29the spirit of wrestling left with it.
16:31Gabe Kidd says, no, it did not.
16:33It was reborn under me.
16:35There's nothing that I can say that doubts that.
16:43Because Gabe Kidd 100% fights with every fiber of his being every time.
16:52The sense of the word strong style lives and breathes within someone like Gabe Kidd.
16:58Fights with his soul, fights with his heart.
17:01But listen to that crowd reaction.
17:03There are many who agree with you, Chris.
17:08On the green.
17:11Good God.
17:13Good God.
17:14My God.
17:15Good God.
17:16Gabe Kidd.
17:17He fights with his soul, he fights with his heart.
17:21But we've often said it, Gabe Kidd's tension that he doesn't fight with his brain.
17:26Help, help, help, help.
17:27Gabe Kidd's brains have just been spilled all over the floor of the Tokyo Dome.
17:31Now, Bryce Remsburg, our official's calling for some help out here.
17:34What a nasty, nasty landing for Gabe Kidd.
17:40He's gonna fucking go.
17:42We need the help.
17:43Clark Connors, you hear him barking, he says he's gonna go.
17:45But Bryce Remsburg thinks he can't.
17:48It's not Bryce, it's not for Bryce to decide.
17:51Well, it's the official, Chris.
17:53It's not out of his control.
17:55He's an AEW official.
17:56Of course he's gonna say.
17:58Give me a damn break, quit it, Chris.
18:01And now we have our officials on staff here right now checking on Gabe Kidd.
18:05Kenny Omega wants this one to continue.
18:07You don't think Gabe Kidd does it?
18:12Come on G, come on G.
18:13I know he does.
18:15God, Gabe Kidd.
18:16Jeez.
18:17And that's part of the problem, huh?
18:18Jeez.
18:19Gushed open.
18:20Here you get a good shot of it, Gabe Kidd.
18:23It's the sort of man, the sight of his own blood is only gonna fire him off even further.
18:28It was Kenny Omega Chris that wanted to call Gabe Kidd unprofessional.
18:36Well, what is professional wrestling?
18:40It is combat.
18:41It is blood.
18:42It is violence.
18:43It is uncomfortable.
18:45This is part of the situation.
18:47This is part of the sport of the world.
18:49God.
18:53Just came back from off the shelf for the past year.
19:06Might go right back on at the rate we're going.
19:09Get him!
19:10Get him!
19:11Get him!
19:12Get him!
19:13Get him!
19:14Get him!
19:19Kenny Omega said going into this match he will make nothing of Gabe Kidd.
19:25God!
19:26He will make not of Gabe Kidd what he made arguably of Will Ospreay.
19:32Nothing of Gabe Kidd other than an example.
19:36And look at that example right now.
19:38A bloody mess.
19:39But Chris, is this not the example Gabe Kidd wanted?
19:43The fight.
19:44This is the fight Gabe Kidd picked and it's the one that he has.
19:49It's the one he has, but is it the one that he can finish?
19:53Maybe, maybe now though, look.
19:56Walker is the fight that Kenny Omega can't finish.
19:59Kenny's hip is bad.
20:01I think he was asking for some ice.
20:05Yeah, we got our young lions here with some ice.
20:10I mean triage as we go.
20:13This is one of those situations, neither man will be the same after this.
20:18Ice healing spray.
20:23You can have a serious injury here.
20:24Yeah, this is.
20:25It is that right hip.
20:28You can hear him call out for help in Japanese.
20:31And now, barking at poor Shoma Kato for being too slow on the ice.
20:46He doesn't run the place, he doesn't run the shop like he does in AEW.
20:56That hip is bad.
20:57Yeah.
20:58That hip is in bad condition.
21:00No, Gabe Kidd ain't in good condition either.
21:02Well, that's limited mobility.
21:06For a man who has made a career off of perfect movements in Kenny Omega,
21:10that is damaging.
21:12Yeah, well Kenny Omega has sacrificed body and soul.
21:17He knows the mental strength as well as the physical.
21:20Oh, there's a body shot.
21:22Yeah, you talked about it.
21:23There's a body shot right there.
21:24Wait a minute.
21:25Wait a minute.
21:26And here's another one.
21:27Oh God.
21:28Oh God.
21:31Gabe Kidd had a desperation there.
21:34Pure anger and desperation.
21:39A true frickin' madman.
21:41Blood on the chest.
21:44And there is no control to be had here tonight.
21:58And we should have known it going in.
22:07This is not a match.
22:08It is a brawl.
22:09It is a fight.
22:10We knew that going into this, but we didn't know it was gonna be this bad.
22:16You're right.
22:17Jesus.
22:21Fuck that motherfucker.
22:23And now one more.
22:25We need more of this.
22:31Gabe Kidd, a mask donned in crimson.
22:34It's a place both of these men have been before, but never against one another.
22:42Never in singles competition.
22:46If he was willing.
22:47Uh-oh.
22:48No.
22:49If he was willing to break the leg of Eddie Kingston to become strong openweight champion.
22:54What's he willing to do with all of that?
22:57No.
22:58We're gonna see here.
22:59We're gonna see here.
23:00Kenny Omega basing himself down with those barricades.
23:03Again, back to the body, back to the gut.
23:05You're right.
23:06Yeah, Kenny just exposed there.
23:07He can't separate it.
23:09And that indentation, that indentation, you can see the exact point of contact.
23:21Skulls to table for Omega.
23:24And right back to the roots, Rocky.
23:27We saw the wrestler earlier on.
23:29Right back to the LA Dojo, finds Gabe Kidd.
23:33No bigger straighter to what he represents than Katsuyori Shibata.
23:40Yeah, rip that, rip that.
23:43Second, of course, to Kenny Omega.
23:46Wow.
23:47Yeah, dude!
23:49You motherfucker!
23:51Yeah!
23:52That's the word fucking-
23:54Clark Connors as well, a Shibata student.
23:57But what did that get us butting our heads against the glass ceiling until we formed the War Dogs?
24:05And what happened when they did?
24:11When Shibata went inside with AEW.
24:14Hey, come on.
24:16Give him his chairs in there.
24:17If you want more chicken chairs.
24:19Inside?
24:20Yes.
24:21All right, boys, I can see over to my left, Kenny Omega is cut and he is bleeding buckets.
24:28Oh, it is deep.
24:29He is bleeding buckets.
24:30He is bleeding buckets.
24:31Oh, no.
24:32And now the War Dogs.
24:33Oh, my God.
24:34That's bad.
24:35Aiding on the side of Gabe Kidd, steel chairs, looking like an ECW house showing here.
24:40Big old house.
24:42That's indeed.
24:43Much bigger than they ever got.
24:46And the sick freak, sick twisted bastard that is Gabe Kidd.
24:52We knew that it would be ugly.
25:03We knew that this would be violent.
25:05And these are two that surpassed every expectation in front of them.
25:13Every glass ceiling shattered.
25:20How about shattered spines go along with it.
25:30Oh.
25:33Oh, Chris shattered by his own hubris as Gabe Kidd.
25:38Every single time the madman has gone for a weapon, a table, a steel chair outside the barricade,
25:45right next to the ring, it has worked right against him.
25:48Well, the table works in his favor, I guess, but I don't think there's any situation that works for you
25:56when you're in this environment and you see the effects.
25:59That chair, the split Kenny wide open has lost a ton of blood.
26:04And now, the mind can't overcome the body.
26:07Oh, Gabe Kidd right back up.
26:13No split focus on the mind, no multi-track set.
26:18Whoa, whoa, whoa, God, God.
26:20Move it, baby.
26:22He's a long way down.
26:24No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
26:27Straight vertical, straight vertical.
26:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:36Yes.
26:41There is no time limit, as you said, the time calls just to give a sense of how long this punishment has gone on for.
27:01The only end, I think, will be unconsciousness for one man or the other.
27:06Time is simply a formality.
27:16Bust a jeep.
27:18Bust a jeep.
27:19Bust a jeep.
27:20Get in that chair to that midsection.
27:25Look at me, Gage.
27:26Look at me.
27:27Whoa!
27:28Where's the driver's looking?
27:30What is that?
27:31Kenny!
27:33Kenny Omega.
27:36He blocked that jump from a chair and a headbutt.
27:40Skull to skull.
27:41Go Omega and Kenny.
27:50This is the incredible dance of strength.
27:53No!
27:54No!
27:55You try to put your hands up Rocky, you try and stop those concussive effects.
28:17That doesn't do a damn when it comes to these two.
28:20Nothing you can do to stop that.
28:23This is uncomfortable.
28:28I didn't think it was gonna be a Sunday afternoon drive, but-
28:34Fuck you.
28:41Now we're gonna see Rocky just how deep the tank on Cape Kid is.
28:47As we know Kenny is nearly unlimited.
28:50That's it.
28:51Hey!
28:52Hey!
28:53Hey!
28:55Hey!
28:56Oh!
28:57Oh!
28:58Oh!
28:59Oh!
29:01Oh!
29:02Oh!
29:05Oh!
29:06Heavy shots!
29:07Yeah, open-handed.
29:08Oh, Kenny getting some blocks up there.
29:09Open-handed pa.
29:10Oh!
29:11Oh!
29:12Oh!
29:13Oh!
29:14What the fuck through?
29:16Oh, Sonic got it.
29:17Got it.
29:22I love it.
29:32What a thunderous shot to strike for the east.
29:38He went from the west.
29:39A thunderous explosion from the Tokyo Dome on it.
29:47The people know it.
29:52We've alluded to it in the past.
29:54The dark hero that is Gabe Kidd, the defender of spirit,
29:58the defender of the fight, the defender of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
30:03That is white.
30:06The white logo and the black chunks, the very picture.
30:11Don't dare doubt Kenny Omega's fighting spirit either.
30:27Whoa.
30:32That same fighting spirit Chris gave him a career.
30:38He gave him one of the absolute best.
30:41Because Gabe Kidd might be the heart and soul of New Japan Pro Wrestling,
30:45or he might carry that with him.
30:47But Rocky, Kenny Omega, perhaps the heart and soul of all of professional wrestling,
30:52more than AEW, more than New Japan.
30:55100%.
30:58How far are you willing to go for the love of the game?
31:02And the man who has been compared to the Terminator.
31:06Can he fly?
31:07Can he pull it out?
31:08He will rise.
31:09He will rise.
31:10Rise of the Terminator.
31:14Now Kenny Omega bringing it right back up to the top.
31:42He didn't have the spring, I think he wanted the back of the head.
31:52Again, the gut coming in his shoes.
31:58And like a sacrificial lamb, corner to corner, the trigger.
32:04He's in this position.
32:07Kazuchika Okada has felt this rock off the corner.
32:13Yes.
32:14This is what almost killed Kazuchika Okada.
32:17In this very building so many years ago.
32:26And Mike just finished the job on Gabe King.
32:30No, no, no, no, no.
32:32All the way, all the way.
32:33No, no, no, no.
32:34Kid's got to avoid this.
32:35There's no stopping it.
32:36It's in motion.
32:37No.
32:41Damn.
32:42Kid tried to do the best he could.
32:46Going over, tried to rotate onto his front and his knee smashed into the mat as well as his face.
32:55Absolutely no escape.
32:56No stability.
32:57Cover here for Omega.
32:58No.
32:59No.
33:00What's this?
33:02Oh!
33:03Jay Drew.
33:04Kenny Omega, the cover!
33:05My God!
33:06It's just a little bit.
33:07Good.
33:08Good.
33:09Good.
33:10Good.
33:11Good.
33:12Good.
33:13Good.
33:14Good.
33:15Good.
33:16Good.
33:17Good.
33:18Good.
33:19Good.
33:20Good.
33:21Good.
33:22Good.
33:23Good.
33:24Good.
33:25Good.
33:26Good.
33:27Good.
33:28Good.
33:29guys, no.
33:30Good.
33:31It's not there.
33:32It's not there yet.
33:33The heart and soul the spirit of Gabe getting to kick out of that.
33:39David may have killed Goliath.
33:46You can not kill God with one strike.
33:50Kenny might kill Gabe with one though.
33:55With trigger.
33:57For the first time in the air.
34:00No, no, no.
34:02The man, the man, Chris.
34:04He needed that core strength to get him up for the one-wing angel.
34:08And it wasn't there, diverticulitis.
34:11Oh, man, oh my.
34:14Is that a nod of resolve or a nod of understanding?
34:19Find experience.
34:22Send me home, motherfucker.
34:27We'll search for it anyway.
34:30Taking it, no, no, no, no, no.
34:32No!
34:34And Onoki Staple, this is New Japan.
34:37This is New Japan.
34:39Tokam would have a gun and if that's right in the heart of Gabriel King.
34:45And it is emotion overcome.
34:51Blood, sweat, and tears in front of our eyes.
35:01And a German for Ken.
35:03Kenny Omega's up.
35:04Omega's up.
35:05Wow.
35:08What a knee shot.
35:13And a pile driver spikes Gabe Kidd.
35:19This is it.
35:20This is it.
35:21The cover for Kidd, he's done it.
35:23No.
35:25Beyond New Japan, beyond AEW, this is the biggest match in the career of Gabe Kidd,
35:35whether he wants to admit it or not.
35:38Well, that's what this is all about.
35:40This is beyond brands.
35:42This is beyond tribalism.
35:45This is combat.
35:48Pure and simple.
35:50Gabe Kidd, digging it one more time.
36:03Kenny Omega.
36:04Oh!
36:05Oh!
36:06Oh!
36:07Oh!
36:08Oh!
36:09Oh!
36:10Oh!
36:11Oh!
36:12Oh!
36:13Oh!
36:14Oh!
36:15Oh!
36:16Oh!
36:17Oh!
36:18Give me a break!
36:20Damn it!
36:33The rope break goes to Omega, and this one still rolls on.
36:39But the longer this one goes, 30 minutes just announced on the clock.
36:49The closer we edge to a sudden halt, someone's body will give out in the end.
36:56Someone will be forced to quit, not by their own spirit, but by God's design.
37:19No!
37:20No!
37:21No!
37:22No!
37:23No!
37:24No!
37:25No!
37:26How many of those body blows, Rocky?
37:27No!
37:28Each one of them taking more and more away from Kenny Omega each time.
37:32Oh!
37:33Oh!
37:34Oh!
37:35It's it!
37:36And Oki again.
37:37Thank you!
37:38Oh!
37:39Through the spirit goes the sender.
37:41Sized up, the trigger delivered.
37:56Oh!
38:03Hold them it up.
38:04Oh!
38:05Oh!
38:06Cover, cover, this.
38:08Oh!
38:09It's not even close.
38:10We might go past 60 at this rate.
38:14We're gonna go all night, we'll go to tomorrow if we have to.
38:21This lion still roars.
38:24But how long can you roar in the face of God?
38:28Come and go ahead.
38:36Kenny Omega, the final send, the Phoenix.
38:40Oh!
38:41And we get in town!
38:44Oh!
38:45And you're a winner.
38:47Oh!
38:4945 seconds.
38:52Now, Kenny Omega's victory.
39:00Kenny Omega has done it.
39:04Kenny Omega's defeated the one man that has managed to cast any sort of doubt on the legacy that Omega has built, that has extended from Japan to the west.
39:17The Cleaner is your victor.
39:28What a battle.
39:31Two of the most stubborn individuals I've ever seen in my life compete here tonight
39:37in the Tokyo Dome.
39:41I will make nothing of you, Game Kid,
39:44other than an example.
39:49Well, what an example.
39:51You see it in the emotion of Tana Hash's face.
39:54That is the example of an athlete, an example of a competitor,
39:59an example of one of the very best professional wrestlers in the world.
40:05That you can be one of the best professional wrestlers in the world, Rocky.
40:11And Walker.
40:11But when you're going up against one of the absolute best of all time,
40:18something has to give.
40:22It could have been anyone's victory on any given night.
40:26Here we go.
40:27Here we go.
40:27Here we go.
40:28Here we go.
40:29Here we go.
40:30Here we go.
40:31But tonight was not that for Gabe Kidd.
40:34And that is the way of the prizefighter.
40:42In win or in defeat, two men giving in them their all,
40:49putting everything on the line, the heart, the blood, the sweat, the tears.
40:55And then the overcoming of emotion, not just for Gabe Kidd,
41:00not for Kenny Omega, but the ace of this company, the President Hiroshi Tanahashi.
41:05I see it in my eyesight.
41:07If you've ever forgotten what spirit looks like.
41:10You take a look at those two men that you saw compete in this very match,
41:14and you will be reminded.
41:17We came into this about New Japan Pro Wrestling versus AEW.
41:22And we come out unified in this fighting spirit, unified in the heart and the soul of combat.
41:30We saw everything that was greater than all elite wrestling,
41:33greater than New Japan Pro Wrestling.
41:35And the ultimate in greatness right there, you're looking at him, Kenny Omega.
41:40The Gabe Kidd is definitely, undoubtedly, on the very same level, Ron.
41:46Absolutely.
41:49A union between two great companies, a union, a fighting spirit worldwide,
41:55and the spirit and love of professional wrestling.
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