So, NJPW has announced the wrestlers for the big G1 Climax tourney.
https://streamable.com/fony3
For me, this is probably the greatest wrestling tournament in the world, right now. Sure, there are some wrestlers that some people wouldn't want in the tourney (Makabe, Bad Luck Fale, maybe Tama Tonga, and Zack Sabre Jr.), but you got the usual guys that you can rely on to deliver at the right moments (Okada, Tanahashi, Naito, Omega, Ishii, Goto, if he's motivated, Suzuki, if he does not have his cronies,).
Yuji Nagata and Satoshi Kojima can play the role of feisty old man very well that has no problems beating guys up and getting fired up against the younger talent, even if the old guys may not win a lot. EVIL, SANADA, Elgin and YOSHI-HASHI can be decent-to-great and Juice Robinson has grown nicely as a wrestler. Yano always makes things really interesting since you cannot really predict on who's going to win if he's in the G1 since he is capable of landing that surprise victory over the upper-card guys more often than not.
The biggest kicker is that KOTA IBUSHI is in the tourney again!!! Man, I haven't seen him in NJPW in almost two years. He can bring the goods and look the f' out if he goes against Kenny Omega.
I wonder where Ibushi has been all this time...... I know he's still wrestling in his home promotion of DDT from time to time. I mean it's not like he was wrestling in a tournament for a rival company or wrestling as an anime wrestling character or something.......
Oh yeah, I'm hyped for the G1 Climax.
Last edited by anguyen92; 06-20-2017 at 11:57 PM.