New Japan continued the G1 CLIMAX 36 today in Mie with Block B.
Today’s event was held at Hinyo Highway Arena in Mie and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 2310.
Match 1: Jacob Austin Young & Great-O-Khan beat Masatora Yasuda & Boltin Oleg. Young pinned Yasuda after a spiral brainbuster.
Match 2: Taiji Ishimori & Shingo Takagi beat Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SANADA. Ishinori pinned Kanemaru with Gedo Clutch.
Match 3: Zane Jay & Jake Lee beat Daiki Nagai & Yota Tsuji. Lee pinned Nagai after FBS.
Match 4: Tatsuya Matsumoto & Hirooki Goto beat Gedo & Yuto Ice (Ice Baby). Goto pinned Gedo after GTR.
G1 CLIMAX Block B:
Match 5: Zack Sabre Jr. beat HENARE by ref stoppage (technical submission).
Match 6: Drilla Moloney beat Ren Narita
Match 7: Aaron Wolf beat Callum Newman.
Main Event: Yuya Uemura beat Gabriel Kidd.
Standings (Block B):
1-Uemura, 5-3, 10 pts
2-Newman, 5-3, 10 pts
3-Narita, 5-3, 10 pts
4-Kidd, 5-3, 10 pts
5-Moloney, 5-4, 10 pts
6-Sabre, 4-4, 8 pts (OUT)
7-HENARE, 4-4, 8 pts
8-Wolf, 4-4, 8 pts
9-OSKAR, 4-4, 8 pts
10-Shota Umino, 0-9, 0 pts (OUT)
the top 2 advance to the Semmifinals. Where to start? First, Moloney. He has no matches left so his only hope is every remaining match is a no contest. He is not out officially but is pretty much out. Second, the apocalypse scenario of a 7-way tie! Believe it or not, that and any all-10 point scenario would mean HENARE wins the block, but first he must beat Newman. Complicated stuff-currently the advantage for tiebreakers is held by Narita and Newman. OSKAR and Wolf must win and get a lot of help to have any chances. As for others, Uemura must beat OSKAR AND both Newman & Narita must lose or draw. I’m marking Sabre out because of tiebreakers-he only beat Moloney, HENARE & OSKAR. So there seems to be no real path forward.
Simple stuff now-Newman advances with a win (HENARE) because he then would only lose tiebreaker to Narita. Narita advances by beating Kidd. Kidd must beat Narita and needs either Uemura or Newman to lose.
Sit back and enjoy the CHAOS!!!
The next event is tomorrow at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka with the final day of Block A. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.