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01:18Sonata coming live
01:19from Radio City Music Hall tonight
01:21This is a man who is looking to find victory
01:23on the evening
01:24over Ryohei Oya
01:50Chris, there have been a few rumors that have been floating around the mills here in New
01:54Japan Pro Wrestling that maybe, just maybe, the G in G1 Climax could stand for the grip.
02:01Oh, I thought he would stand for...
02:05Yohei Oya-Wa
02:06Go-Yohei Oya-Wa
02:08Oh, wait, no, I don't like to say that.
02:10Ryohei Oya-Wa, four points on the board and walking to the action here tonight.
02:15He suffered a hard loss to Utah Ice just 44 hours ago.
02:28Here we have been, we have been always noting, we sort of touched on it in our last match, we
02:37always talk about the C block, so to speak, the unofficial C block, who comes out on top of
02:41These undercard tag team matches.
02:43Jacob Austin Young, coining it that it should be the J block, the J-A-Y block,
02:48and of course, you've also got Zane J very heavily in that mix, and another J in Hart
02:52ley Jackson.
02:53Oh, that's a great point.
02:54Hartley Jackson, meanwhile, has been the winningest guy on these undercard tags so far over the course
02:59of this tournament, and I think continuing to pledge his case to play into next year's tournament, as he
03:06has done for a long, long time.
03:08I mean, I'd very much argue that Hartley Jackson was the man of the C block without the
03:13points in front of me, but in last year's G1 Climax started it.
03:16A lot of great wars against Young Lion action back then, but for right now, it is Ryohei
03:20Oya-Wa and Sonata.
03:22The preview of the action to come in Yamato Arena on Osaka, Japan's July 29th, night 8
03:28th of the tournament.
03:29Last year, Sonata beat Oya-Wa in this tournament and certainly took an unclean path
03:35to defeat Ryohei Oya-Wa, and I wonder whether Oya-Wa
03:38is excited to wrestle this version of Sonata that we've seen so far in this tournament, the more
03:43classical Sonata, especially as a palate cleanser after facing Utoisius.
03:47That's a great point, but the question being what version you're going to get, Sonata seems like
03:51he is willing to turn on a dime.
03:54And it is Oya-Wa who is going to try and turn him back.
03:57Man, we saw that many years ago.
03:59Let's see it.
04:00Oh, right out of it here.
04:02Sonata, one of the line, Oya-Wa ducks it, misdirected, popped into it, and
04:05That is classic.
04:07Oh, that's classic Katamaru, straight in there.
04:12Yep, this is what Katamaru does very well, but Harley-Jackson can hit a little bit
04:16harder, fight a little bit meaner, and to the outside goes Nobu.
04:27A lot of people in last year's U1 Climax Tournament, Chris, considered it a bit
04:31of an upset when that rendition of Sonata, that version of Sonata, managed to put down R
04:35yohei Oya-Wa.
04:36I mean, it was a case over the last tournament, that Sonata working around his physical limitations, that was
04:43Why he drew it, predominantly.
04:45That's a torture in the first place.
04:48So I think pick up those strings through his bow, those tools in his toolbox.
04:53He won't be afraid to use those tools should it come to it.
04:59Oh.
05:09I think one of those tools is crowd control when it comes to the other players in this ring.
05:16Sonata taunting at Hartley-Jackson, drawing the referee, that gives Katamaru the opportunity.
05:21I mean, that's a high tag team wrestling IQ.
05:24One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
05:35Ten, seven, seven, seven, eight.
05:40And Oya-Wa back in at the count of 13, but you have to know Sonata
05:43immediately on the attack again.
05:45Into the cover here on Oya-Wa.
05:47Two countdowns tonight.
05:51It's been really special to see what Sonata has become in this year's G1 Clim
05:56ax Tournament.
05:56I mean, really flashing back to the year of 2023.
06:00That was the year that he went undefeated in the competition.
06:14As Katamaru looking for the cover on Oya-Wa at a count of two.
06:22It's one of those tournaments, Chris, for young Ryoho Oya-Wa.
06:25It really starts to feel like it's do or die.
06:28Put the pieces together, go big or go home.
06:30And Oya-Wa really managing to string together some impressive ways of victory,
06:34but the disappointing haven't been as consistent as Oya-Wa's wanted.
06:37Yeah, I mean, I think one of the big humps he wanted to get over was to try and
06:43I submitted Utah Ice yesterday.
06:45That would have done a great deal for his confidence.
06:47That was not the case.
06:49And now Oya-Wa has to refocus at two and two.
06:54I mean, that's the standing most of the block is on at this moment.
06:57I don't want to play for.
06:58But when you get to that midway point, as Osaka is on Wednesday,
07:02having a positive win-loss record,
07:04there's a huge difference between three and two and two and three
07:09as we get into the back four of this tournament.
07:16Everyone is rallying around the tag here in the red corner
07:19and welcome the black and orange zone to Hartley Jackson.
07:28And Jackson burning through that lariat for the cover on Sonata.
07:32A two-count here.
07:34As Jackson really looking to rule out the C-block here tonight
07:38and put away a member of the A-block potentially.
07:40Sonata, rake those eyes right there.
07:43Stomp to the foot of Hartley Jackson.
07:51Oh, no water in the pool for Hartley Jackson here.
07:55Tag in the corner and welcome back, Kanemaru.
07:58Welcome back in.
07:59Sonata is good.
08:02It takes two when it comes to Hartley Jackson, no doubt about it.
08:05You'll see a lot of the chicanery, the cheating ways out of Sonata
08:09when he's with men like Yoshino Kanemaru
08:12and Dick Togo in House of Torture.
08:14Right now, though, Kanemaru may be looking for the cleanest victory
08:17we've seen out of the house in a minute.
08:21Continuing to decimate that left arm, that left leg, rather,
08:26and immediately Jackson sent Kanemaru out.
08:29Well, I think sometimes here, I mean, you have to join
08:31great House of Torture in a curve.
08:39There's winning clean as a sheet, and then there's winning as clean
08:42as, well, Yoshino but Kanemaru's sheets,
08:44which isn't particularly clean.
08:45Yeah, well, I've heard.
08:46I don't want to know.
08:48Uh-oh.
08:49Come on.
08:49Aloha, Hartley.
08:54Oh, and Hartley Jackson crushing in Kanemaru.
08:59Kanemaru sent on for a two-count.
09:00Sonata in to break it up.
09:03So you have to wonder how clean things are going to be
09:06between Ren Narita and Hanari coming up later on this evening.
09:09Yeah.
09:10I really saw a taste of that yesterday.
09:11There are many questions about it.
09:13Meanwhile, Sonata taking to the outside with a hip toss there.
09:17Let's go!
09:20Hartley Jackson full steam ahead and into the corner.
09:24Kanemaru looking for the cover.
09:26Nearly stole one in a count of two.
09:27Jackson!
09:29It's like running into a brick wall, Chris.
09:32Yeah.
09:32Illudizable.
09:33Yeah, novic.
09:35And on the shoulders here, Jackson.
09:37A jagged edge.
09:39Big Jag got in the cover.
09:43And it's a three-count pinfall.
09:48Two more points in the J block.
10:08That is the TMDK music that will close out this matchup here tonight.
10:12Not exactly the music that Sonata wanted to hear.
10:18But it is what is to come.
10:20July 29th.
10:21A rematch from G1 Climax one year ago.
10:24Ryohei Oewa and a very different Sonata.
10:27Go one-on-one in singles competition.
10:29Let's go!
10:36What's the way to Germany?
10:37We haven't used this matchup.
10:38One thousand start okay!
10:44Debringers
10:44Oh my God!
10:47Oh my God!
10:49Oh my God!
10:50Wow, this brother wins!
10:52The Chamber Dijo
10:53to join the players in.
10:54Thank you for watching.
11:25A block, Kagawa Friday for B, and it is such a key point to dictate the narrative going into
11:33that, back four of the tournament, and before we know it, well, three weeks from tonight, it will be the
11:39finals, G1 Climax 36, Yogoku Simo Hall, still tickets available, NJPW
11:441972.com, baby.
11:55NJPW1972.com, baby.
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