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New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling held its sixteenth G1 Climax show today in Yokohama Budokan.

The full results were:

• Yota Tsuji def. Yuya Uemura
• B block: KENTA def. YOSHI-HASHI
• B block: Zack Sabre Jr. def. Juice Robinson
• B block: Tetsuya Naito def. Toru Yano
• B block: EVIL def. Hirooki Goto
• B block: SANADA def. Hiroshi Tanahashi

Following today’s show, the updated B block standings are:

1. EVIL (6-2 record): 12 points
2. Tetsuya Naito (6-2 record): 12 points
3. SANADA (5-3 record): 10 points
4. Zack Sabre Jr. (5-3 record): 10 points
5. Hirooki Goto (4-4 record): 8 points
-. KENTA (4-4 record): 8 points
7. Hiroshi Tanahashi (3-5 record): 6 points
-. Juice Robinson (3-5 record): 6 points
-. Toru Yano (3-5 record): 6 points
10. YOSHI-HASHI (1-7 record): 2 points

EVIL, SANADA and Tetsuya Naito are the only three remaining competitors. While it is not official yet, one could reasonably assume either EVIL versus SANADA or KENTA versus Tetsuya Naito will headline the B block final on October 17 in Ry?goku Kokugikan.

EVIL holds the tiebreaker over Naito. If EVIL defeats SANADA, he wins the block regardless of Naito’s result.

SANADA also holds a tiebreaker over Naito. If SANADA defeats EVIL and Naito loses to KENTA, he wins the block.

Naito needs to defeat KENTA and SANADA to defeat EVIL or EVIL and SANADA to draw to win the block.

New Japan has also confirmed the match order for the A block final on October 16 in Ry?goku Kokugikan.

The confirmed match order is:

• Gabriel Kidd vs. Yota Tsuji
• A block: Jeff Cobb vs. Yujiro Takahashi
• A block: Minoru Suzuki vs. Shingo Takagi
• A block: Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay
• A block: Kota Ibushi vs. Taichi
• A block: Jay White vs. Tomohiro Ishii

The block is Jay White’s to lose. He currently leads the block with 12 points with tiebreakers over Kota Ibushi and Kazuchika Okada. If White defeats Tomohiro Ishii, White wins the block.

Ibushi needs to defeat Taichi and Ishii to defeat White. Okada does not factor into Ibushi’s equation.

Okada needs both White and Ibushi to lose and to defeat Will Ospreay.

Ospreay is the least likely to win the block. He needs to defeat Okada, Yujiro Takahashi to defeat Jeff Cobb, Taichi to defeat Ibushi and Ishii to defeat White.

 

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the full card for its GLITTERS show on November 21 in Kanagawa.

The full card is:

• Daichi Hashimoto vs. Masaki Morihiro
• Hideyoshi Kamitani and Takuho Kato vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Yuki Takasugi
• Kankuro Hoshino vs. Ryuichi Kawakami
• Jaki Numazawa and Yuichi Taniguchi vs. Ryuji Ito and Yuko Miyamoto
• Akira Hyodo and Yuya Aoki vs. Kohei Sato and Yasufumi Nakanoue
• Chicharito Shoki and Kota Sekifuda vs. Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa
• Fuminori Abe and Takuya Nomura vs. Kosuke Sato and Yuji Okabayashi

It will be the first time Kosuke Sato competes in the main event of a Big Japan show.

GLEAT

LIDET Entertainment’s new promotion GLEAT will hold its debut GLEAT Ver.0 show in Korakuen Hall tomorrow.

The full card is:

• Kaz Hayashi vs. NOSAWA Rongai
• Kazuki Ohkubo and Takanari Ito vs. Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Tanaka
• Syuri vs. Yuu
• Daisuke Sekimoto, Jun Akiyama and Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Kazuyuki Fujita, Kendo Kashin and Takashi Sugiura
• Kenoh vs. Soma Watanabe

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