10 Reasons The G1 Climax Is Unmissable This Year
5. All Those Matches
If you strip away all the bells and whistles, there is one simple reason to watch this year's G1. The twenty men in this tournament might just be the highest concentration of wrestling talent you will see in New Japan, or anywhere else. This is one stacked roster, and they are all capable of delivering the extraordinary.
Even if we just take one wrestler and focus on their matches, we have several Match Of The Year contenders. Let’s look at Tetsuya Naito. Over the course of just under a month, he will face off against Kota Ibushi, YOSHI-HASHI, Bad Luck Fale, Yuji Nagata, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto, Zack Sabre Jr., Togi Makabe, and Hiroshi Tanahashi. With one or two exceptions, those could all be incredible.
And that’s just one man’s journey through the tournament. All those men have to face each other too, and we haven’t even touched on Block B. If you love wrestling, then this is like being handed a plate to the buffet and being told to help yourself. It would be rude not to enjoy it.