New Japan crowned their first US Heavyweight Champion as their sojourn into the States came to a head!
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New Japan hit Long Beach for the first of two shows as they started a tournament to crown an inaugural IWGP United States champion.
The final show in Japan before the G1 was yet another Korakuen Hall show, main evented by BUSHI hoping to make KUSHIDA’s latest run as IWGP Junior Heavyweight champion a short one.
Kizuna Road continued in Korakuen Hall on Monday as YOSHI-HASHI got his NEVER title shot and we found out who was in what block for the G1.
The tour inbetween Dominion and the G1 Climax hit Korakuen Hall on Tuesday – with those G1 names finally revealed!
No debuts this month, but the sixth Lion’s Gate Project gave some us a better insight into how the current crop of youngsters are getting along.
How do you follow a massively-hyped match of the year candidate? Well, if you’re Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada… you just do it again. For longer. Leaving everyone somehow wanting even more than the 60 minutes they got!
With Dominion this coming Sunday, New Japan made their customary trip to Korakuen Hall for their “go home” show… just in case we forgot Omega/Okada II was coming up!