You absolutely need to see this show! Or at least the final two matches… It’s back to Korakuen Hall today for the fourth round of this year’s G1 Climax – with block B action featuring Michael Elgin vs. Tetsuya Naito and an enticing encounter with Katsuyori Shibata and NOAH’s Katsuhiko Nakajima.
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With the promise of Kazuchika Okada vs. SANADA, New Japan’s gotten a lot of people out of bed early on Saturday morning (or in the States, kept them up very late on Friday night!), so let’s get to it! Day two in the first four-day stretch of the G1 Climax continues now…
Day two of this year’s G1 Climax saw the start of the block B matches, and it was a night full of shocks, surprises and a stinker. If you guessed that last one was due to Toru Yano, then congratulations, you’ve been keeping score!
Live from Hokkaido, the 26th G1 Climax is underway! With 91 tournament matches spread over 19 shows, the G1 is a notoriously tough tournament to compete in, and this year’s edition is expected to be no different, particularly for guys coming whose injury status is already questionable (cough Hiroshi Tanahashi cough).
Whilst the Western Wrestling World is focussed on next weekend’s WrestleMania, New Japan is building up to their own spring special, with April’s Invasion Attack event. As with pretty much every New Japan show, they have a road to get there… and Sunday March 27 was no different, as they returned to Korakuen Hall.
In most of the wrestling world, it’s extremely rare for promotions of any size to work together. New Japan seems to be the exception, as in January, they held four shows with the Mexican CMLL promotion, and this weekend they held two shows in Korakuen Hall in league with Ring of Honor.
This past weekend, New Japan wrapped up its New Beginning series of shows with events in Osaka and Niigata, ultimately crowning a new IWGP Intercontinental champion. The New Beginning series started at the end of January, with the company’s Road to New Beginning shows, stretching out over seven nights before they arrived in Osaka on Thursday.
Since relaunching NXT in August 2012, we’ve seen a lot of different faces going through the black-and-yellow brand. Originally intended as a developmental group, the television product has slowly morphed to the point where it’s now getting easier than ever to decry the show as “Triple H’s vanity product”. (Warning: NXT spoilers lie ahead – even though WWE’s advertising it)