10 Wrestlers You Wouldn't Believe Competed In A G1 Climax
8. Ric Flair
The Nature Boy was no stranger to Japanese rings, having competed in them for over 20 years by the time he entered his first G1 Climax in 1995.
A mere week after his record breaking bout with Antonio Inoki in front of 190,000 spectators in North Korea was broadcast on PPV, Flair was back in Inoki's company for the G1.
Going to a 30-minute draw the previous year's winner Masahiro Chono, Flair scored a victory over the first ever IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Shiro Koshinaka, before surrendering to the eventual tournament winner Keiji Mutoh.
With a final standing of 3 points, Flair failed to make it out of Block A (to be fair to Flair, there were only 4 participants in each group in 1995) and was on his way back to WCW, where he would form the new Horsemen and finish the year as a 12-time, or 14-time - depending on your preferred version of history - world champion.