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First, catch up on any action you missed! Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 Nights 9-10 Nights 11-12 Nights 13-16 Nights 17-19 The 27th G1 Climax may have come to a close, but our collective praise for this year’s …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 Nights 9-10 Nights 11-12 Nights 13-16 A sold out Ryogoku Sumo Hall played host to what were possibly the three greatest nights in G1 Climax history. Almost certainly the finest two. And most definitely …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 Nights 9-10 Nights 11-12 We’re 80 matches deep into the 2017 G1 Climax, and I have watched and written about all of them. Oh god, please send help. But first, enjoy this look back …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 Nights 9-10 I struggle to recall a time when the G1 Climax didn't consume our daily lives. Is it because the G1 has always been with us, or that we’re only truly alive when …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 Nights 6-8 The G1 Climax stops for no one, least of all you or I. As if to prove this as fact, lovely Nagoya — and what appeared to be a decommissioned Soviet prison camp in …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 Nights 3-5 “People won’t buy into wrestlers who want to have a long and healthy life.” - Hiroshi Tanahashi Words of wisdom? Perhaps not. But words all twenty G1 Climax competitors have clearly chosen to live by, as …Read more »
Previously: Primer Night 1 Night 2 The world may be coming to an end, but the G1 Climax continues on, and forever will long after we’ve been reduced to ash. So here we are, with a double — no — a triple-sized update covering …Read more »
Night two of the G1 Climax brought on the B Block action with plenty of satisfaction from the Mecca of Martial Arts, the Temple of the Toe-Hold, Korakuen Hall. The stench of death didn't quite fill the air as it did on night one, …Read more »
If you're just now joining us, be sure to check out our G1 Climax primer ! Night one of the G1 Climax saw an evening that began as sport, but ended as a raw expression of the inherently self-destructive human soul. A …Read more »
If New Japan Pro Wrestling is indeed “The King of Sports,” then the annual G1 Climax is its version of the melee as held in the court of Louis VII. Since 1991, Japan’s humid summer months have played host to a tournament that past entrants …Read more »
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