New Japan wrapped up the G1 CLIMAX 35 Tournament today with the Finals.
Today’s event was held at Ariake Arena in Tokyo and can be watched on demand OUTSIDE JAPAN ONLY on New Japan World. This event aired live in Japan as part of WORLD PRO WRESTLING LIVE 2025 exclusively on TV Asahi. You can also watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 6870.
Match 1: Zane Jay & Masatora Yasuda beat Tatsuya Matsumoto & Shoma Kato. Yasuda pinned Matsumoto.
Match 2: Satoshi Kojima & Taichi beat Katsuya Murashima & Togi Makabe. Taichi pinned Murashima after Dangerous Backdrop. Afterwards, Oskar Leube & Yuto Nakashima appeared, back from their international training excursions. They turned heel and aligned with David Finlay & Bullet Club, laying out Taichi and demanding an IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship shot. They will now be known as OSKAR & Yuto Ice going forward.
Match 3: Master Wato, Yoh & Toru Yano beat Ryusuke Taguchi, El Desperado & YOSHI-HASHI. Yoh pinned Desperado after Direct Drive.
Match 4: Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Don Fale & SANADA beat Tiger Mask, El Phantasmo & Boltin Oleg. Fale pinned TM 4 after an elbow drop.
Match 5: Yuya Uemura, Shota Umino & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat Jacob Austin Young, Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan. Uemura pinned Young with a kannuki suplex hold.
Match 6: Gedo, Taiji Ishimori, Drilla Moloney & David Finlay beat Daiki Nagai, Hiromu Takahashi, Yota Tsuji & Shingo Takagi. Moloney pinned Nagai after Drilla Killer. Afterwards, Takagi with microphone declaring war on Bullet Club (the former LIJ are now known as The Independent) and demanding Gabriel Kidd vacate the IWGP Global Championship. Kidd had to pull out of the G1 CLIMAX after one match due to injury.
Match 7: DOUKI, Sho, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita beat Hartley Jackson, Kosei Fujita, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr. Narita beat Jackson with Hell’s Guillorine.
Main Event: G1 CLIMAX 35 Finals: Konosuke Takeshita beat EVIL to win the tournament. Masahiro Chono was a special guest on Japanese commentary for the match. As a result, Takeshita gets a future IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match, traditionally at Tokyo Dome but not always the case. We may find out more at the traditional post-tournament presser tomorrow. He won’t be next though…that will be Nigel McGuinness, who won a 4-way in All Elite Wrestling yesterday to get the next title shot against Sabre. That match will happen at the AEW Forbidden Door PPV on 8/24 in London, England.
The next event is BLUE JUSTICE 16, the next Yuji Nagata Produced hometown event, on 9/7 at Togane Arena in Chiba. Broadcast plans TBA.
UPDATE: Kidd isn’t vacating the Global title but Takagi is getting his title shot. That match will happen at DESTRUCTION on 9/28 at Kobe World Hall in Kobe. Also official for 9/28 is IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Taichi & Tomohiro Ishii vs. OSKAR & Yuto Ice for the titles, Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Great-O-Khan, Hiromu Takahashi vs. Taiji Ishimori and Yota Tsuji vs. David Finlay.