New Japan continued the G1 CLIMAX 36 today with Block B.
Today’s event was held at Takamatsu City General Gym in Kagawa and can be watched on demand on New Japan World. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 1271.
Match 1: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SANADA beat Masatora Yasuda & Boltin Oleg. Kanemaru beat Yasuda with a figure 4.
Match 2: Toru Yano & Konosuke Takeshita beat Tatsuya Matsunoto & Hirooki Goto. Yano pinned Matsunoto.
Match 3: Jacob Austin Young, Great-O-Khan & Jake Lee beat Gedo, Yuto Ice (Ice Baby) & Shingo Takagi. Young pinned Gedo after Bites The Dust.
Match 4: Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa beat Daiki Nagai & Yota Tsuji. Jackson pinned Nagai after Death Valley Bomb.
G1 CLIMAX Block B:
Match 5: OSKAR (The Grouch) beat Drilla Moloney by ref stoppage (technical submission).
Match 6: Ren Naita beat Zack Sabre Jr. Only went 2:45, lots of House Of Torture interference.
Match 7: Callum Newman beat Gabriel Kidd.
Main Event: Yuya Uemura beat Aaron Wolf.
Standings (Block B):
1-HENARE, 4-1, 8 pts
2-OSKAR, 4-2, 8 pts
3-Newman, 4-2, 8 pts
4-Kidd, 4-2, 8 pts
5-Moloney, 4-2, 8 pts
6-Uemura, 3-2, 6 pts
7-Narita, 3-2, 6 pts
8-Wolf, 2-3, 4 pts
9-Sabre, 1-4, 2 pts
10-Shota Umino, 0-9, 0 pts (OUT-injured)
The top 2 advance to the Semifinals. Now a 5-way tie for the lead but HENARE has an extra match in hand and the advantage. Major shocker is that Sabre is now all but eliminated AND has no tiebreakers as he only beat Umino.
The next event is tomorrow at Hiroshima Sunplaza Hall in Hiroshima with Block A. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.