With the G1 a distant memory, New Japan’s turning their attention to the Destruction tour – with warm-ups and three PPVs in the next three weeks.
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Nineteen shows. 185 matches… and it all comes down to the last one. Tetsuya Naito. Kenny Omega. Someone’s going to become a two-time G1 winner and head to the Tokyo Dome in January!
Another month, another debutant it feels like, as Ren Narita became the latest to break free of the New Japan dojo on this month’s Lion’s Gate show.
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!