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The annual G1 Climax begins this weekend, and for the first time this decade crowds will be allowed to cheer normally. This is a great time to jump into New Japan for those who avoided it during major pandemic restrictions for justifiable reasons. It's a four block format just like last year, and while there are some weaknesses to that format this is a far more interesting field than last year's. The Reiwa 3 Muskateers and Bullet Club War Dogs provide some much needed home grown new blood and there's two huge name compelling special guests in Eddie Kingston and Kaito Kiyomiya. There are two major changes this year: 1. Top two wrestlers from each block will advance creating a 8 man knockout tournament to decide the winner 2. All Block matches will have a 20 minute time limit instead of the conventional 30. As noted in the title all shows are on New Japan World and included in the subscription, which sadly i felt needed to point out as they've ran far too many PPVs as of late. Official New Japan previews: A Block B Block C Block D Block   full card is out now! nothing earth shattering but it's not unusual for a somewhat important angle to happen on a finals undercard. finals tomorrow at a fairly reasonable time for north america. G1 Climax 33 August 13th at 2:00 EDT/7:00 BST/15:00 JST Ryogoku Koukugukan Toru Yano and Oskar Leube vs. Kaito Kiyomya and Ryohei Oiwa Nagata, Honma, Umino, and Wato vs. Strong Style and Nakashima Tana, Ishii, Kington, and YOH vs. Makabe, TenCozy, and TMIV Bishamon, Taguchi, and Oleg vs. TMDK (ZSJ, Haste, Nicholls, and Fujita) G.o.D (Tama, Tanga, Hikuleo, and Jado) + El-P vs. Bullet Club (Finlay, KENTA, Owens, Coughlin, and Kidd L.I.J (Shingo, Tsuji, Hiromu, and BUSHI) vs. United Empire (Ospreay, Cobb, O-Khan, and HENARE) Just Four Guys (SANADA, Taichi, Kanemaru, and DOUKI) vs. House of Torture (EVIL, Yujiro, SHO, and Togo) G1 Climax 33 Final:Kazuchika Okada vs. Tetsuya Naito Thauros fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Aug 13, 2023 |
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tsuji over takagi final. just kidding. naito over okada
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Jul 14, 2023 03:12
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It's been awhile since I participated in one of these, excited to finally be back. Idk what the etiquette is for posting predictions these days, I do have a full sheet filled out, but I'm just going to call this result early: SANADA loses to Kiyomiya, but Kiyomiya in turn loses to all 3 Reiwa Musketeers.
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Jul 14, 2023 04:18
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Excited for Taichi/Will and to see Kaito get humilated in another promotion!
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TriffTshngo posted:It's been awhile since I participated in one of these, excited to finally be back. Post the predictions! Make your shame public! I'm currently filling out my own predictions right now and am very much looking forward to seeing it all fall apart by match drat 1 like it did last year!
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Jul 14, 2023 04:32
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TriffTshngo posted:It's been awhile since I participated in one of these, excited to finally be back.  I'm planning on making up a bracket once I do picks for the Princess Cup happening tomorrow as well
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Jul 14, 2023 04:33
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At a glance I don't see any big deciding matches on the last night of each block, aside from Tana/Naito. I guess with this format they can save big matches for the semi finals which makes the block winners less obvious. It's going to be a busy month and a bit between this and the Five Star, drat.
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Jul 14, 2023 04:41
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Jerusalem posted:Post the predictions! Make your shame public! I'm currently filling out my own predictions right now and am very much looking forward to seeing it all fall apart by match drat 1 like it did last year! SG Bamboo posted:
You asked for it!!  If I'm wrong even a single time I blame EVIL and DICK for making me not watch for 3 years.
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Jul 14, 2023 05:02
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Nice! We've got the same finalists and winner but otherwise a fair bit different. Didn't realise until posting that three of my blocks ended in tiebreakers to decide who's advancing  
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 Yep, going about it in different ways but I've also picked an Okada vs. Ospreay final with Ospreay winning the whole thing.  Man, I know people are a little down on the format this year but the ol' MATHTM magic hit as I was trying to figure out the various permutations for the final nights for each block  I feel bad about some of the low totals I gave some wrestlers, but also... well, yeah, I didn't buy that they would win the matches they have! 
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Jul 14, 2023 06:27
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Tsuji is going to kill that child https://twitter.com/CiaranRH93/status/1679373283827896328
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Doing my G1 picks and running into my most hated enemy... The Math   SANADA's winning the block, no way is are they putting the champ in second place. I have the 3 Musketeers going 1 win each but Shota takes second on tie-break while Tsuji at least gets a win off SANADA. Lol Kaito.  I can't see Okada shipping a loss here and thanks to the quarter-final format he doesn't have to. It's then a straight shoot between Ospreay and ELP for second with ELP beating Ospreay on the final night to take it.  This block is going to be such a clusterfuck. Finlay's winning it cause he needs the legitimacy but it's going to be tight. There's going to be a ton of people still in the mix come the final matches but Shingo just emerges ahead.  It's way past time that Zack got some real shine in a G1 and this block is set up perfectly for him to take it. Naito will struggle but just sneak into the runner-up spot at the end because that is his way.  Naito's winning it. We all know Naito's winning it. Shota makes the final because they want him to be a big deal fairly quickly. Shingo beats SANADA to set up the fall defence against another LIJ guy. ELP gets his win back over Finlay. Job's a good'un. Now I can't wait for it to all fall apart on Night 1 Rarity fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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Jul 14, 2023 07:40
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Oh god not a Naito/Shooter finals, their last singles match was so rubbish
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Jul 14, 2023 07:48
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I originally had Naito advancing as winner and an Okada/Naito final but there's no way Gedo lets it be that easy for Naito
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Jul 14, 2023 07:51
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I haven't been paying much attention to NJPW this year, but the G1 is always fun. Here are my actual predictions:  These were generated randomly: 
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I love seeing how the random picks do! Best of luck, Random El Phantasmo! 
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Jul 14, 2023 10:20
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There could be way worse finals than that. Props.
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Jul 14, 2023 10:32
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Amazed at all the people predicting good things for Kaito
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Rarity posted:Amazed at all the people predicting good things for Kaito Gotta convince him to dump NOAH and come to New Japan somehow! Of course, NOAH might counter by booking him wel..... sorry, I couldn't finish that sentence 
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https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1679794565891641344?s=20 And this is why we love Ishii Also Shane Haste with a bold sartorial choice https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1679793684462866439?s=20
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Yoshi Hashi posted:To be honest, I was very nervous about something today. I didn’t wear a suit. I figured it would be hot, so a sport jacket and tee would be fine. But then I worried, what if everyone would be in suits? I’m glad only Okada is wearing a suit. You look cool. I love this time of year, having fantastic wrestling every morning when I wake up.
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/njpwglobal/status/1679794565891641344?s=20 Eddie did make it, btw, came in right to say his piece at the podium with his belt... after shittalking Finlay
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Here's his whole promo from the beginning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyh_9bQO6mk&t=5290s Great stuff, this version of Bullet Club grows on me a little more with every performance
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Jul 14, 2023 20:34
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loving incredible that NJPW lets guys say poo poo like this lol. Coughlin is awesome at this, he's gonna be a loving superstar
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Watched the press conference, KENTA probably won best promo followed closely by ELP. NJPW has a roster of very weird people
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Math is too much for me, but gonna go with my heart and my head for the final 8: Kaito, SANADA, Okada, Ospreay, Finlay, Eddie, Naito, ZSJ And I'm gonna go WAY out and suggest we get Kaito vs Naito in the finals, with Naito winning. (I have to assume we're getting a second Okada/Kaito match in the semis, and that only makes sense if Kaito goes over, and Naito's clearly winning the whole thing so he has to win the other side) I also know Eddie's less likely than Shingo or maybe even Tama or Henare in that block, but let me dream. Gaz-L fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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Jul 14, 2023 22:28
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Seems like Kidd/Coughlin only got added to the G1 because Aussie Open left: https://twitter.com/KenanFields/status/1679875908960649217
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Ziggy Tzardust posted:Seems like Kidd/Coughlin only got added to the G1 because Aussie Open left: Well, that's an upside to Aussie Open leaving I suppose.
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Gaz-L posted:Naito's clearly winning the whole thing Didn't we all say that last year? And the year before?
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Didn't we all say that last year? And the year before? Yeah, but two of SANADA's 3 defences have been against LIJ. There's a possibility he loses to Shingo in the playoff stage setting up a third defence, which would really neatly lead into Naito facing him at the Dome.
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sanada vs naito is definitely happening the only question is whether it's kopw or the dome
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Thauros posted:sanada vs naito is definitely happening the only question is whether it's kopw or the dome As much as I picked from my heart, I do think the scenario where SANADA loses to Shingo in the quarters makes a lot of sense. Run it back at KOPW, SANADA beats Shingo, and now he's gone through the heavyweight threats in LIJ... except Naito.
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Getting in page 1 to say: Ain't Nobody Realer
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