New Japan continued the G1 CLIMAX 35 today in Yokohama with the penultimate day of Block B.
Today’s event was held at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on New Japan World.
The announced paid attendance was 2448.
Match 1: Toru Yano & Boltin Oleg beat Masatora Yasuda & Taichi. Yano pinned Yasuda.
Match 2: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & SANADA beat Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa by DQ. Jackson DQ’d.
Match 3: Daiki Nagai & Yota Tsuji beat Jacob Austin Young & Callum Newman. Tsuji pinned Young after Gene Blaster.
Match 4: Dick Togo & EVIL beat Katsuya Murashima & Hiroshi Tanahashi. EVIL beat Murashima with a scorpion deathlock. Shocking moment afterwards…EVIL & Tanahashi handshake!?! What could it mean?
Match 5: Tomoaki Honma & Yuya Uemura beat Gedo & David Finlay. Uemura pinned Gedo.
G1 CLIMAX Block B:
Match 6: El Phantasmo beat YOSHI-HASHI.
Match 7: Zack Sabre Jr. beat Drilla Moloney.
Match 8: Shingo Takagi beat Ren Narita.
Main Event: Shota Umino beat Konosuke Takeshita.
Great-O-Khan beat Gabriel Kidd by forfeit.
With one day left, Sabre is now in the lead at 6-2, 12 points, and because of tiebreakers he will advance as his only losses are to Narita & Umino, who are at 5-3, 10 points along with Takeshita. Umino will advance with a win in his last match (Khan) while the Takeshita-Narita winner also will advance. If Umino loses, his only hope is for Takagi-Moloney to be a draw because Umino lost to both, and that would mean Takeshita can also advance that way. Everyone else is at 4-4, 8 points with still a slim chance on tiebreakers except for YOSHI-HASHI, who is now OUT because of tiebreakers (he would only have them against Narita & Takagi). For the Takagi-Moloney winner to have any chance to advance, Umino and Takeshita must lose. The top 3 advance.
The next event is Sunday at G Messe Gunma in Gunma with the final day of Block A. Live streaming on New Japan World will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET.