NJPW G1 Climax 2018, Week 2: Every Match Ranked From Worst To Best

15. Minoru Suzuki Vs. YOSHI-HASHI (20 July)

Hangman Page Kazuchika Okada
NJPW

Rating: ***3/4

Poor YOSHI-HASHI. The 'Head Hunter' faced the wrong man at the wrong time when he took on Minoru Suzuki freshly removed from his losses against Hiroshi Tanahashi and Togi Makabe.

'The King' knew HASHI wasn't even a pretender to his throne, and delighted almost too much in the pounding he delivered to the Block A barrel scraper. Forcibly taking his two points with insane glee, Suzuki's first win was the statement of intent his shocking early losses had robbed him of. Yet again, YOSHI-HASHI's guts were heartbreakingly without glory.

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