00:00Je ne veux pas que ça.
00:03Vous avez de l'air de me dire.
00:06Après ça, je dois regarder ça.
00:11Je vais te dire tout le monde, et je vais te dire, parce que je pense que je connais qui
00:16vous êtes.
00:16Je pense que je suis en train de trouver ça.
00:19Et je veux que vous connaissez, c'est bon, bring la caméra ici, all right ?
00:23Je veux que vous connaissez que je ne suis pas le même gars.
00:28You bring your ass to real Goku, the Super Junior Final, on June 5th.
00:35You bring your ass to real Goku, bitch.
00:39Well.
00:51Juice has seen all he can of that video.
00:55He's seen all he can.
00:56He says he thinks he knows who it is.
01:00He thinks he's figured it out.
01:03Does Juice Robinson know who is behind those videos,
01:06who is saying that Juice's time is up on June the 5th ?
01:18You can feel the heat coming off of Juice's body as he reared up and he wanted whoever is behind
01:28that.
01:28He wanted them to clearly see and to hear his words so whoever is behind it, now Juice Robinson is
01:38the one putting them on notice and I guess the only question is who's behind it and then the other
01:47question is what are they going to do on June the 5th ?
01:50Let's go to our main event, because Chris, this is going to be an outstanding wrestling match !
01:59Oh yeah, must win situation for Taiji Ishimori, but Sho has an awful lot to prove here tonight.
02:24Ishimori stands at five and one.
02:29Ishimori has beaten Dragon Lee, Marty Scurll, Teton and Taka for four.
02:34The Kanemaru defeat.
02:37He has still never found a way to beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru in his career.
02:42He then followed that bitter defeat with a victory over Jonathan Gresham.
02:50And he has Tiger Mask and Shingo Takagi left.
03:00For Ishimori, he cannot simply look forward to the end.
03:06He must take care of each step along the way.
03:09He must take care of each step along the way.
03:23The B Block is a muddled mess.
03:26The B Block is a muddled mess.
03:27It's pretty clean right now.
03:30Yeah, we know Shingo Takagi now is up to 7-0.
03:35So the only hope is for Taiji Ishimori to keep on the same pace as Shingo.
03:41Now if he does that, then it all comes to the final night in Eheme.
03:46Because even though Ishimori has lost one and Shingo hasn't lost,
03:50because if Ishimori can beat Shingo that last night, they'd be tied.
03:55He would have the Tidebreaker and he would advance.
03:59And, Sho earlier tonight was mathematically eliminated.
04:04So the miracle that he had talked about after a slow start will not happen.
04:11But the significance of this match, I'm sure for Sho, is very, very telling.
04:22It's a point of pride for Sho and I think it's a point of pride for both of these guys.
04:28Just in terms of their general outlook on professional wrestling.
04:34It's no secret that both of these guys are body guys.
04:37And it's no secret that Sho really is driven by the idea of being the alpha male in the junior
04:43heavyweight division.
04:56And we know that Taiji Ishimori didn't come to New Japan Pro Wrestling and just be a guy on the
05:01roster.
05:01He came to be the guys.
05:05Because he had dominated the junior division in NOAA for so long that it almost seemed to...
05:13It just became commonplace that he was at the top of the game and yet never got fully the respect
05:19I feel that he deserved for being as good as he has been for as long as he was.
05:24Well, Ishimori absolutely is a veteran of the junior heavyweight space in all of professional wrestling for, you know, 16,
05:3217 years.
05:33I think Sho, at the start of his journey, is thinking, what path am I going to take?
05:38Am I going to take the path of loyalty to Yo and Rocky and Roppongi 3K and Chaos?
05:42Or do something more like Ishimori where he flitted from group to group and promotion to promotion to go where
05:48the money is.
05:50Ishimori and Sho met in the Super Junior Tag League in the fall of last year.
05:57It was Roppongi 3K who defeated Ishimori and Eagles to propel themselves into a three-way tie.
06:08And eventually winning the Super Junior Tag League for the second year in a row.
06:14Yeah, it was the Eagles that took the pin that night though.
06:21And a collar and elbow tie up to begin things.
06:24Juice Robinson has left the broadcast position and we don't anticipate him coming back, but it is...
06:33I know he was really looking forward to this because Juice and I were talking earlier today and he, again,
06:40sees so much in Sho.
06:46It's important, I think Juice feels, that Sho model himself after so many greats.
06:56And Ishimori is one that he can learn so much from.
07:01Because Ishimori was where Sho is now.
07:10Ishimori was...
07:11Look out.
07:14And connects with the drop kick to the arm.
07:16So the strategy for Sho might be to target the arm to lock in a submission.
07:21It's right there on the apron and he took it.
07:29And Sho, an important part of his career was his excursion to Mexico.
07:33Ishimori started his career in Mexico.
07:35He was already wrestling for two years before he made his Japanese debut.
07:46And what's the difference between, you know, Toriman that Ishimori competed in and CMLL that Sho did?
07:55Is it a different style? Is it a different schedule? Is it more hard hitting? I know that Toriman has
08:03a great variety of athletes.
08:04Yeah, I mean, from what I understand of the Toriman system, it was very similar to the idea almost to
08:11like how we have the LA Dojo in New Japan.
08:14The idea of taking the... of duplicating training and knowledge sharing.
08:19But the Toriman style and Toriman which evolved into Dragon Gate took more of that lucha wrestler approach.
08:24So like the combination of lucha libre and Japanese strong style.
08:29Sho...
08:29You know, it's almost like I feel that Yo took more of Mexico back with him than Sho did.
08:34And Sho took more of the American leg of his excursion when he went further up north and trained in
08:42Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
08:43Yeah, he even had a fight scheduled, an amateur level fight.
08:48And at weigh-in, his opponent took one look at Sho and said, I won't make weight. I won't be
08:54fighting today.
08:56And so he never got to have his first mixed martial arts match.
09:01So the work for Sho here on the front end on the arm is significant.
09:09Ishimori suffered a neck issue early on in the tournament in the match with Marty Skrull.
09:15It was a win, but he was affected for several days.
09:20He's going on the move.
09:23Catching Sho in the midsection. Springboard bombs away. Yes.
09:28For...
09:29There is no wrestler with a good neck.
09:32But there are some wrestlers with worse necks than others.
09:35And Ishimori was in that category.
09:38So his...
09:39The time with the training room and the TENS unit and the heat and the ice and the rest.
09:48But now the left arm is compromised as he stomps away.
09:53And you see the bandage on the ear of Sho.
09:56The cauliflower ear got split open in his matchup against...
10:01Was it Dragon Lee or was it against Shingo at tournaments beginning?
10:05No, I think it was probably a combination of both.
10:08I mean, he'll trade with you, will Sho.
10:11And probably in that extent, if it does come to a slugfest, then I'd give that to Sho rather than
10:16Ishimori.
10:17And Ishimori.
10:19And Ishimori, who will do a lot of work on the neck of his opponents.
10:25He'll try a cover, make show work to kick out.
10:28And he does it too.
10:29Of course the S-lock and the bloody cross are his direct paths to victory.
10:38Our previous match went 28 minutes.
10:43And Eagles was victorious over Ospreay with El Phantasmo's interference.
10:49As Ishimori drops a knee again across the neck of Sho.
10:55I wonder whether Eagles did give comment to the press backstage after his match.
11:00I can't wait to hear those remarks.
11:03NJPWworld.com tomorrow at noon.
11:06JST, typically those comments do come up subtitled.
11:13Boot across the throat and Ishimori will hang on until the count of four.
11:19If Red Shoes got to five, could be disqualification.
11:23And Ishimori cannot afford a defeat here in this.
11:26And this tournament would not be over if he does lose or come up pointless or even goes to a
11:32time limit draw.
11:35But he controls his fate, his destiny.
11:38Unlike anyone else in this tournament, everybody else has been eliminated.
11:43For Ishimori, it's hang on, continue to win.
11:46Assume Shingo's going to do the same.
11:47And the both men will head to the final night with Ishimori having to win.
11:51And Shingo just needing a draw to win the block.
11:54Sho charges in.
11:55Ishimori catches it with the boot.
11:57And now...
12:00Cranks the neck!
12:04Cranks the neck and I bet there is a little bit of that...
12:07The fabric of that kick pad up against the left ear of Sho as well.
12:12Ishimori knows all too well what pain that Sho is feeling right now.
12:18And he'll try another pinning combination.
12:21Another kick out at two.
12:27Ishimori sharing that to go back to that tournament background.
12:31You know, another person that went through that route was Kazuchika Okada before he joined the New Japan Dojo.
12:35It's, again, it's sort of a hodgepodge of athletes and, you know, backgrounds.
12:41But they all come out of that system well-rounded.
12:46Whereas Sho had very linear training.
12:49New Japan Dojo.
12:50Then CMLL.
12:52Then Ring of Honor and the American catch-as-catch-can style.
12:57But I think they both shared, like, this same...
13:01Look out!
13:02Oh!
13:04Sho with the power!
13:06Ishimori!
13:10Catch as Sho was wide open.
13:15Going the spear!
13:18And Ishimori's head snapped back!
13:21The whiplash effect!
13:22Took the former IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion down!
13:28And now Sho looking to capitalize!
13:41Vertical suplex!
13:43Sho will go to the cover!
13:45Red shoes there too!
13:46And no more!
13:47But the cross-arm breaker is on the way!
13:52If this goes to the ground, if it goes to grappling, it will go to Sho.
13:57Just like Ishimori Sho has a driven, he has a selfishness about him.
14:01When he was in America, the only reason he went into BJJ wasn't because he loved MMA per se, but
14:07he said he looked at who the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion at the time was.
14:12That was Kushida, as it happens, and Kushida had that background.
14:15That's why he went that route!
14:21That's why he went that route!
14:23And Sho trying the power route!
14:25Ishimori!
14:26Oh!
14:31Jamming the heels and all of his weight down right through the ribcage of Sho!
14:48Now Ishimori tries to jam the double knees! Sho gets out of the way!
