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IWGP United States Heavyweight Title Match
14.10.2023
14.10.2023
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00:30I've proven that, I have beaten them all!
00:33Zach, the two guys that were the backbone of British wrestling
00:37Will, there's no doubt you and I are the best British wrestlers in the world
00:42Let's find out for that belt
00:46Since 2004, since I was 16 years old
00:48I've led the British wrestling scene
00:50As a British wrestler, as a technical wrestler
01:00Will Ospreay is a moron
01:03You'll never be able to defeat me
01:08Man, I know
01:14A seven starbreaker
01:17Here we go!
01:20Oh!
01:22Starbreaker!
01:23Starbreaker!
01:24He's got it!
01:25And Zach Sabre Jr. has won the New Japan Cup!
01:30A rivalry that's defying British wrestlers in New Japan Pro Wrestling
01:34And two of the best in the world
01:35My name is Will Ospreay
01:40And I am on another level!
01:44I've been at the top of British wrestling
01:46Close to two decades now
01:49The best wrestler in the world right now
01:50Will Ospreay
01:51Let's find out, Will
01:52Let's find out
02:02Copper Box Arena
02:04London
02:05It is now time
02:07For your New Japan Pro Wrestling
02:09Royal Quest 3
02:11Main Event
02:31Ever since Carl Gotts and Billy Robinson earned their reputation in shaping half a century of talent, history and legacy
02:40There's been a reverence in Japan for British wrestling, for Cats wrestling, for the Lancashire style
02:48A style and a scene that nearly died as we all bore witness to shameful tribute shows
02:57And Zach Sabre Jr. revived that Dolan scene by hearkening back to those old masters
03:04Carried UK wrestling out of a dark age
03:10And now, he is the winningest champion in the modern era of New Japan Pro Wrestling
03:17But is he, Gideon, the best in British?
03:21I know you'll tell me he isn't
03:23But we're gonna find out
03:25In just a few minutes
03:28Listen, listen, listen
03:30For one thing he's Australian now
03:33No longer British, we don't see him as one of our own
03:36Yeah, Zach, well done
03:37He was the best in Britain for a long time
03:41A hell of a long time
03:44But he was never the best in the world
03:59Or perhaps so
04:01If Zach did bring UK wrestling out of the dark age
04:07It was Will Ospreay that put it on the global stage
04:10His resume this year alone
04:13Omega, Okada, Sakagi, Jericho, Marafuji, Suji
04:20A parade of the best
04:22And Will Ospreay has proved better than them all
04:26But 9 and 6 down to Sabre
04:29The question has always been
04:32Is Will Ospreay definitively better than Zack Sabre Jr?
04:44You can argue this one way or the other
04:47You can argue this any which way you want
04:49You can say
04:50Hell, Zack Sabre might beat Will Ospreay
04:55Once out of twice
04:56Will Ospreay can definitely beat Zack Sabre Jr.
05:00Once out of twice
05:01Will Ospreay made that UK championship
05:04Because he said
05:05He represents British wrestling
05:08Why should he carry a US belt?
05:10You beat me for that title
05:12You are the best in the world
05:14And the branding has been best in British
05:16But this is a battle of the world's very best
05:20Two professional wrestlers
05:22In your main event in the Copper Box
05:34And in your main event in the Copper Box
05:38100!
05:38Are you on the surface?
05:47In your main event in the Copper Box
12:49Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
13:16C'est parti !
13:46But that is something that I think only fuels Zack Sabre Jr. more so here tonight.
13:55Oh, listen.
13:58You want to talk about generational talents?
14:03There has never been a generation in Britain that is as strong in every aspect of wrestling right now as
14:14there is right now.
14:15And these two, Zack and Will, are just at the front of that generation.
14:21They are the best of the best of the best of the best that there has ever been from this
14:27country.
14:28Osprey, from any country, I would argue.
14:31And Osprey getting quick there.
14:33The Tejeris taking Zack Sabre down.
14:35And now for the first time controlling this match, going to Will Osprey.
14:41There is no doubt about it.
14:42If you are in attendance here in the Copper Box, if you're watching, we thank you for watching live on
14:48Demand tonight, as well as on NJPW World.
14:52Count yourself lucky that you are able to witness this in person, in the flesh, in the moment.
15:00Because there are no two wrestlers like Zack Sabre Jr. and Will Osprey, and they never will be again.
15:12Oh, God.
15:13Jesus Christ.
15:18Because it isn't just a wink and a nudge and a mate and a sunshine.
15:22It is a meanness that exists.
15:26Absolutely.
15:27Listen.
15:28Will chopped him so hard he had to move to another corner.
15:31Repeated it because it worked.
15:32There's only so much of that you're going to take until you snap.
15:36Will Osprey grew up with a meanness.
15:40Just the product of his environment was mean.
15:43A little bit.
15:44A little bit.
15:45You know, where he grew up.
15:46And for Zack Sabre Jr., you're growing up in a different form, in a different place.
15:53But yet, coming through that hammerlock system and those guys that were mean, vicious bastards with a cruel sense of
16:03humor.
16:03You know, it was, that's the highest compliment you can give anyone, by the way.
16:11But neither one afraid to just absolutely throw all of their weight into these strikes.
16:24Did you see his headphones off the canvas then?
16:27Yeah.
16:28Right?
16:28And Eon, you heard the snap of bone on bone.
16:36And that's what that sound was.
16:42Because seeing the difference, Gideon Matt here.
16:50I would rarely, if ever, put Zack Sabre Jr. in the underdog position against Will Osprey.
16:56But with Will Osprey on the role that he is on, I don't think anyone can beat him.
17:02It was a miracle that Naito did in the G1 semifinals.
17:06Look out, plancher, high angle.
17:09Zack Sabre Jr. gets out the way.
17:14Oh, look at this now.
17:16Oh, Jesus.
17:18Nowhere to go, and almost.
17:20Twisting it into an octopus over the ropes almost, just.
17:24Like a track slip, I mean, of the most vicious, brutal form.
17:29You'd love to see it.
17:31Not against Will, obviously, but there is.
17:34I appreciate the art of that sadism so much.
17:52It's always been, I'm sure, a question of time in Zack Sabre's head as to when Will Osprey would overtake
17:58him.
18:00Always a question of when, not if.
18:02There was always points and moments, and sometimes at key points, when Will Osprey beat Zack Sabre Jr.
18:09for the British Heavyweight Championship.
18:10That was his transition from being a junior heavyweight into being a heavyweight wrestler.
18:15Now, unfortunately, that happened immediately before the pandemic.
18:18So I think there was always that question stemming from there, that yeah,
18:23Osprey beat Zack, but was he truly better than him?
18:26Man.
18:27Just so good at just rearranging those ankles, Zack.
18:32Jesus Christ.
18:34And look at that.
18:36And he's straining that knee bar onto his.
18:39Ten minutes gone, ten minutes.
18:41No, no, no, no.
18:42It's- Good job, Will, good job.
18:44Zack Sabre Jr. is almost the John Carpenter of professional wrestling.
18:48It's body horror, writ large on that canvas, and Will Osprey feeling the effects.
19:05And you saw the light in Osprey's eyes as the anger came, but that headbutt down to the sternum.
19:12Does he have the spring? He does, but not enough, but not enough, and that ankle that was worked over
19:19before.
19:20Stay calm, Will, find your ropes, find your ropes.
19:22Osprey trying to improve his position, could not, and now to the half-crab, and now.
19:27And you set your watch by it every six seconds, a new hold, a new form of torture.
19:33Trying to switch into a modified version of an STF there while Will found the ropes, which is honestly all
19:39you can do in that situation.
19:41So dangerous at any point, though.
19:46Again, from the snake pit and Billy Robinson, and down and down and down.
19:52That core teaching, you've got six seconds.
19:54If someone doesn't tap in six seconds, they're not going to.
19:57You have to transition.
19:59You have to keep moving.
20:00Zack Sabre Jr. in a constant state of movement.
20:04Absolutely, not only that, you are constantly readjusting, trying to dismantle your opponent's structure that he's built up in defense.
20:11Just taking one limb, if that doesn't work, taking the other limb, moving their body, forcing them into position where
20:16you can prank them.
20:17It's remarkable, but Will, what does he respond with?
20:22Just absolute brutality.
20:25Yeah, Will Ospreay is responding with anger, but perhaps in that sense, maybe Zack has win, is starting to turn
20:32in that game.
20:34Enough on the ankle, and enough on the kick.
20:36And this time, the handspring gets him.
20:46And that's the thing, no matter what Will does to put on sides, he will always have that speed in
20:52him.
20:55And you can see pain in the fingers, pain in the gut, pain in the ankles, but those people will
21:06keep him moving forward.
21:15Trust me, you don't want to get chopped like that.
21:19One person who could almost out-chop Marifuji, Will Ospreay.
21:24So quick catch with that forearm.
21:27Watch the springboard.
21:31Phenomenal indeed.
21:33And Sabre.
21:38Once upon a time, that would be called something cute in the match.
21:43Nothing like that now.
21:44No, no, no, this has been far too serious for far too long.
21:54The water-like kicks that are just faciously pinpointed by Will.
22:02And a Marifuji-like chop, and Will Ospreay is very open about his influences that he has taken.
22:09There's very few like Will in terms of, oh man, there's very few like Zack Sabre Jr.
22:17Always that next snap is waiting.
22:21Ospreay takes so many influences and makes them all his own, but Zack Sabre Jr. is all original.
22:31And just the fluidity of Zack Sabre.
22:37No matter who you are, how do you prepare?
22:40You just, because Zack Sabre Jr. can't prepare for Zack Sabre Jr.
22:45He doesn't know what he's going to do until he does it.
22:50So there is literally no way to game plan.
22:54You just have to go by feel, and that's why so few can beat Zack in a big spot in
23:01this position.
23:02That's why Zack Sabre Jr.
23:03Oh no, the most winningest champion in modern history.
23:09What?
23:09No, no, no, no, no, no.
23:13Has he got hooks?
23:15Oh my.
23:16Good grief at Ospreay somehow.
23:19No, again.
23:22We talked before about sheer stubborn blow.
23:26And sheer breaking of that neck, and the neck and the spine.
23:30And Will Ospreay has to make the ropes, and now does.
23:36A dangerous, dangerous situation.
23:3915 minutes gone.
23:4015 minutes.
23:41But the awareness of Will there to know where the rope was, eh?
23:44Flipped over backwards.
23:46Completely discombobulated.
23:47Stretched in knots by Zack Sabre Jr.
23:50Still knew where his nearest rope was.
23:55Zack, I wonder whether Will has, at one point earlier in the game,
24:00in this match, perhaps dislocated a finger.
24:03He was trying to get feeling in there earlier in the match,
24:07and was clutching that hand again as he went to the ropes.
24:10If so, and if Zack Sabre Jr. works over the neck,
24:15that fire, the pins and needles, will be all the more,
24:18That fire, the pins and needles, will be all the more.
24:19And again, another blow to the spine.
24:26Ospreay on the run.
24:28Both men stopped.
24:43Ospreay on the run.
24:46Le fait que Will Osprey est malheureux et malheureux.
24:52Able de mettre la punctuation sur la dernière sentence de ce match.
24:56Il y a pas de doute.
24:57Il a l'honneur de Zach Sabre, Jr.'s progress ici.
25:05Et on a l'honneur de ces gens
25:10qui a l'honneur de Cato a été en train de faire de la main.
25:15Et on a l'honneur de Fouyard dans le coin.
25:26Et on a l'honneur de Gideon.
25:29Et on a l'honneur de Gideon.
25:30Il est un voluil de Gideon qui a été encore.
25:33Il va être très.
25:35Il n'a rien de chique.
25:36Avec ce coup...
25:38Oh mon Dieu...
25:39J'ai eu voulu voir ça, hein...
25:40Je vois comment...
25:41Et juste ce qu'il est...
25:45Mais...
25:46Il y a de l'entrée, en l'œuvre...
25:50Vous voyez et regardez les pieds de la tête !
25:53Absolument...
25:54Et le putain de Zack Sabre, a fait...
25:56Il a fait...
25:58Faisons...
25:58Brutal...
25:59Une véritable style de l'exécution...
26:01...et ce qu'il est...
26:02...il a straight à la tête...
26:03et Zach Sabre Jr. qui m'a très bien réalisé, je ne crois pas qu'il est conscient qu'il
26:12ne peut pas être pour plus longtemps
26:13Osprey up top, back et ahead
26:21Il est feeling que ce n'est pas le moment
26:26Et le Hitemblayde, et non, non pas encore encore
26:32Il est trappé, watch for the euro, stop
26:40Everyone's down, of course From Will Osprey, holding him until it was the time to swing
26:47Don't try the old tricks against the new Will Osprey
26:52Will Osprey has tricks of his own
26:55Up to the top
26:59Et Zach stirs, le sky twister, press out to the floor.
27:04Il est straight through to his feet.
27:07Et despite the pain, the torture, the agony,
27:11on Will Osprey, he makes it look easy as cool, calm and collected.
27:17He finishes off the World TV Champion.
27:20Here we go, the Falcon Arrow.
27:27And we see this leap of faith through the G1,
27:33but on those angles, it would be a leap of faith indeed.
27:39Got it, got it.
27:42And that is it for you.
27:44No, it's not.
27:47Not yet, but look.
27:50Absolutely.
27:51Look, Gideon, at what saw on Zack Sabre Jr.
27:57Just comes up clutching those ribs.
28:00Those ribs have been...
28:03You know, I mean, it's a shaky turn of phrase,
28:07but the thorn in the side literally has been the ribs of Zack Sabre Jr for years.
28:12Beautiful.
28:12Beautiful control of his body by Zack.
28:19All right, back to that arm, that wrist.
28:21Oh, no, oh, no, oh, my God.
28:25The most shades of Jim breaks,
28:27trying to force that arm into position
28:28where he can manipulate him down before that stomp.
28:32Jesus.
28:33And now,
28:35it is Zack Sabre Jr.
28:37His time
28:39to play
28:40and it's gone 20 years.
28:41Cold-hearted assassin.
28:47Not eye for eye,
28:50but skull for arm.
28:57Again.
29:04How, how in the world
29:07and even Will Ospreay
29:08cannot believe he did it
29:10because that arm,
29:11that arm, Gideon,
29:12it may be broken.
29:14Yes, and he's finding that feeling in his fingers.
29:17He's testing himself.
29:18He's trying to feel it.
29:19That's not good.
29:23That's also maybe the only reason
29:25Zack's still in this thing.
29:26Not able to get a full cover
29:28with that arm compromised as it is.
29:31Not just the work directly to the arm,
29:34but earlier on in this match,
29:35the neck as well.
29:36The fire that shoots down.
29:40The nerve damage.
29:42Will Ospreay
29:43is well aware.
29:46and well,
29:48that wasn't,
29:49he's not wrestling
29:50with his mind right now,
29:51Gideon, is he?
29:52Listen, the foundations
29:53you lay at the start of a match
29:54have far-reaching consequences
29:56when it reaches its
29:58climax,
29:59and this is just Zack's
30:01excellent work
30:02at the start
30:02paying off him.
30:03Will,
30:04that arm is compromised, mate.
30:06Come on.
30:07That arm is compromised.
30:08The forearms are compromised.
30:10At the very start of the match,
30:12the ankle work
30:13has compromised the legs.
30:17The body control
30:18is compromised
30:19by the work of the men.
30:24About
30:24the only thing
30:28that we can say
30:29is at full capacity
30:30for Will Ospreay
30:31or perhaps it isn't,
30:32is the heart
30:33of the UK champion.
30:36Because certainly
30:37the minds
30:38might be going blank.
30:51enough to stun Saber.
30:53Again.
30:54Oh, come on, Will.
30:56A third.
30:58The rule of threes
31:00means your ankle
31:01will be snapped.
31:02No.
31:03No.
31:05Wow.
31:05And that one.
31:05Flash on the chin.
31:08Yet another
31:10hard concussive shot
31:11to Zack Saber Jr.
31:13Oh, no.
31:14Look at this stonebreaker.
31:15No.
31:17Rolls through.
31:18Double leg Nelson.
31:19Will try and bridge back.
31:21He can't.
31:22Sits out.
31:23What in the world?
31:25Yes.
31:25Real rat trap almost.
31:28Unbelievable.
31:30And again,
31:31again,
31:32that neck
31:32is always an option
31:33for Zack Saber Jr.
31:37It's almost like
31:39Zack was trying
31:40to catch
31:42smoke
31:42in his fingers.
31:44Absolutely.
31:44It was.
31:44The moment he thought
31:45he was there,
31:46Will was already gone.
31:47And that
31:48there is
31:50that there
31:52is British
31:52professional wrestling.
31:53Damn right.
31:58There is
31:59no other
32:00country in the world
32:01that can teach you
32:03what these men
32:03know.
32:04Oh, man.
32:05That was a hard right hand.
32:06Sometimes you just
32:07have to slap someone.
32:09Will floating through.
32:10Oh, a powerbomb them.
32:11Does he have it?
32:11He does it.
32:12Oh, and a powerbombs
32:13and Zack Saber Jr.
32:15Take it over.
32:16To him.
32:17Not quite.
32:23Will showing
32:24who can adapt
32:25to the style
32:26Zack's more known for.
32:28Zack's showing
32:29hey,
32:30if you can do it,
32:31why not?
32:34Jesus Christ.
32:48Vicious
32:49Zack Draver.
32:51No,
32:52Oskar's
32:52Oskar's
32:53and that arm.
32:55And you've got it.
32:56Don't break that
32:57grip.
32:57But he has to.
32:58He has to.
32:59They slug that off
33:00getting on the arm
33:01sorely.
33:02Sorely.
33:03How?
33:04Yes, boy.
33:06Relieve some of the
33:07pressure by turning
33:08into it.
33:08Zack tried to get
33:09into the triangle
33:10there,
33:10but Will already
33:11knew exactly
33:12what to do.
33:13All of his strength
33:14pulling him up
33:15for that powerbomb.
33:16Here it comes.
33:18Bang!
33:19Oskar's
33:19cut it.
33:21Done,
33:22done,
33:22done,
33:23baby.
33:23One,
33:24two,
33:25not yet.
33:26Come on.
33:27Not yet.
33:28But perhaps the table
33:30is set.
33:32Oskar's
33:32wide,
33:33so fires,
33:33hit a blade again,
33:35again,
33:35right on the jaw.
33:37and now
33:38Starr.
33:3925 minutes gone,
33:4025 minutes.
33:42Starr break it.
33:45And Will Osprey
33:46has done it
33:47in the main event
33:48of Rayacresti.
33:55The seconds,
33:57the seconds Will took
33:58to roll over him
34:00to hook the leg
34:01with his other arm.
34:03May have cost him
34:04there.
34:05Zack got lucky.
34:10There is
34:12no such thing
34:13as luck,
34:14Gideon.
34:15Preparation again, yeah.
34:15In an environment like this.
34:17You're entirely right.
34:18You make your own.
34:19That foundational work
34:21by Zack
34:21at the start of the match
34:22caused that to happen.
34:24I know,
34:25but come on,
34:26how close can you get?
34:35is that given
34:38how much time
34:39just catching himself
34:41on the apron
34:41while Will was recovering
34:43there?
34:43All right, well,
34:44this is a dangerous place
34:45to catch yourself, though,
34:47or to be caught
34:49because Zack Sabre Jr.
34:51has given himself
34:52no place to go.
34:54Shades of Daniel Bryan's
34:56in there with just catching
34:57those wrists
34:58and stomping on the face.
35:00Yeah, Will Osprey has had
35:02unkind words to say
35:03about Bryan Danielson.
35:07Oh, but he can't even
35:08do the pose
35:09for the Oskata.
35:12And Zack,
35:13you're right up there.
35:15Just smashing away
35:16with his face.
35:17No way
35:18you're going to escape
35:19three brutal headbutts.
35:22Oh, man.
35:24Oh, Jesus, Zack.
35:29What in the world, Zack?
35:31What are you doing, mate?
35:32No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
35:33Oh.
35:36No, no, no, no.
35:40They're both lobs.
35:43No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
35:44has he ever stayed
35:45the World TV title
35:46with just as hope.
35:50Will Osprey is howling in pain.
35:54Swing in again, though.
35:55Come on, Will.
35:56Find those ropes.
35:57And he can't tap.
35:59And it will be onurs
36:01to call it.
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