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G1 Climax 31 Night 1 - 9/18/2021; Suzuki v. Gresham Main Events GCW Highest In The Room, Suzuki v. Nick Gage on 10/23/2021; Suzuki/Archer v. Mox/Kingston Moved to Rampage on 9/24/2021, Made Lights Out Match

The 31st edition of G1 Climax began today, with a show you can see now on NJPWWorld.

G1 Climax 31 (All events on NJPWWorld) - 9/18/2021, Osaka EDION Arena

SHO [Bullet Club] d. Ryohei Oiwa (Snake Bite, 6:08)

G1 Climax 31 A Block: Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club] d. Kota Ibushi (Big Juice, 11:31)

G1 Climax 31 A Block: Great O-Khan [United Empire] d. Tanga Loa [Bullet Club] (Eliminator, 17:45)

G1 Climax 31 A Block: Toru Yano [CHAOS] d. KENTA [Bullet Club] (Whole Roasted KENTA, 11:07)

G1 Climax 31 A Block: Zack Sabre Jr. [SZKG] d. Tetsuya Naito [Los Ingobernables] (YES! I AM A LONG WAY FROM HOME, 27:05)

G1 Climax 31 A Block: Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables] d. Tomohiro Ishii [CHAOS] (Last Of The Dragon, 27:45)

Shingo said that there have only been two previous reigning champions who won G1 Climax, so the 3rd IWGP World Heavyweight Champion should be the 3rd champion to win G1. Here’s hoping! The fact Kota Ibushi lost on Night 1 to freakin’ Yujiro doesn’t inspire me that they aren’t going to have Ibushi win the block now, however. A lot of new finishers, and finisher names, are showing up in this show, including from the newly heel SHO. Great O-Khan gets the win in his debut G1 Climax match, beating fellow debutant Tanga Loa. It’s Toru Yano Season again!

Attendance did not crack 2000 in a 8000-capacity building. Even in these times of lowered attendances due to COVID-19, that is not great. NJPW have some work to do to get interest in their product heightened once more.

Current A Block standings:

O-Khan - 2pts (1W 0D 0L) Sabre - 2pts (1W 0D 0L) Shingo - 2pts (1W 0D 0L) Yano - 2pts (1W 0D 0L) Yujiro - 2pts (1W 0D 0L) Ibushi - 0pts (0W 0D 1L) Ishii - 0pts (0W 0D 1L) Loa - 0pts (0W 0D 1L) KENTA - 0pts (0W 0D 1L) Naito - 0pts (0W 0D 1L)

Last night in LA, Minoru Suzuki defeated Ring of Honor’s Jonathan Gresham in the main event of Game Changer Wrestling’s Highest In The Room event. I don’t know how the match was as I knew I wasn’t going to last until 1am Chicago time to see it, so I’ll catch this later on today on FITE TV (about $15 too). Post-main, however, GCW’s icon Nick Gage (MDK All Fuckin’ Day!) challenged Suzuki for the previously unannounced GCW show on 10/23/2021 in LA, so I’ll add that one to the itinerary. That match could be for the GCW Heavyweight title too, if Gage manages to beat Jon Moxley for the title on 10/9/2021 at GCW’s show in Atlantic City, NJ, that night. [EDIT: It looks like GCW’s Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 7 will happen on 10/22/2021 now as well, so I am SURE Suzuki will be on that, but no official card announcements yet.]

If you are into GCW’s normal deathmatchy fare, they are running a show for free on their YouTube channel, GCW v. FIST Combat, from San Diego, CA, although I can’t seem to find a time for that show. I am going to guess it’ll be 8pm PDT, but check the link later I guess.

On the subject of Suzuki and Moxley, last night on AEW Rampage, it was announced that the tag match between Mox & Eddie Kingston v. Suzuki & Lance Archer that was set for Dynamite on Wednesday, will now be on the special 2-hour Rampage on Friday 9/24/2021. Suzuki is already booked for GCW that night, in NYC (a date I erroneously listed as 10/24 in the subject of last post, oops), but I am thinking this is a taped Rampage, happening after Dynamite Wednesday, as I don’t think even Tony Khan can rent the Arthur Ashe Stadium for two nights.

The match has also been made a Lights Out match, which means it’s “unofficial and unsanctioned,” and doesn’t go on AEW’s (completely worked) win-loss records. Lights Out matches tend to go a bit more hardcore than most in AEW, and also is rarely used; I think this will only be the third or fourth one in the company’s history. And they’ve all been very good matches so far, especially Thunder Rosa v. Dr. Britt Baker, DMD, earlier this year on Dynamite. It also means this match will be the main event on next week’s edition of AEW Rampage, so hey, that’s cool too!

Tomorrow’s show starts B Block matches for G1 Climax 31, including the 5th meeting between Hiroshi Tanahashi v. Kazuchika Okada in G1 Climax. Later tonight at 8pm EDT / 7pm CDT on NJPWWorld is the new “season” of NJPW Strong, beginning the cycle of Fighting Spirit Unleashed shows taped back on 8/16/2021 from Long Beach, CA.

- 9/19/2021, Osaka EDION Arena

Kosei Fujita v. SHO [Bullet Club]

G1 Climax 31 B Block: YOSHI-HASHI [CHAOS] v. EVIL [Bullet Club]

G1 Climax 31 B Block: Jeff Cobb [United Empire] v. Chase Owens [Bullet Club]

G1 Climax 31 B Block: SANADA [Los Ingobernables] v. Tama Tonga [Bullet Club]

G1 Climax 31 B Block: Hirooki Goto [CHAOS] v. Taichi [SZKG]

G1 Climax 31 B Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi v. Kazuchika Okada [CHAOS]