2021 Tokyo Olympic (Olympic) gold medalist Hifumi Abe (25 = Park 24) defeated his destined rival Joshiro Maruyama (29 = Miki House) in the final to win the tournament for the second consecutive time (fourth time). With 5 consecutive wins in direct confrontations, he won his 11th match with 7 wins and 4 losses. In 2024, he came very close to becoming a representative of the Paris Olympics.

Fuji TV, which was broadcasting this match on terrestrial broadcasting at midnight, canceled it during the extension of the final match. At the scheduled time, the announcer announced, “We are in the middle of the match, but we will end the judo broadcast here.”

After 2 minutes and 36 seconds (total of 6 minutes and 36 seconds) had passed after the match went into extra time for the Golden Score (GS), Maruyama made an uchimata and said, “Wait.” After that, it resumed, and when the total progressed to 6 minutes and 41 seconds, the broadcast ended, and the YouTuber group Comdot’s program began.

After that, after a heated battle that lasted more than 10 minutes in total, Maruyama was given the third instruction and Abe won by foul. The scene where he was happy to clap his hands nine times, and the handshake and joyous embrace with his sister Poetry (22 = Park), who achieved V on the same day, did not flow on the ground.