NJPW G1 Climax 2019 Night 4 (July 15) - B BLOCK: Every Match Ranked From Worst To Best
4. Tetsuya Naito Vs. Taichi
The most dangerous version of Taichi was, as usual, on display the second he ripped away his trousers, but a victory over potential overall G1 Climax victor Tetsuya Naito got the Suzuki-gun piece of sh*t off the mark and paid tribute to a former friend in the deadly alliance.
Holding on to Takshi Iizuka's iron glove since the NJPW icon left it behind in the ring following his February 2019 retirement, Taichi had waited for the exact right moment to deploy instead of his usual raft of weaponry. Cleaning Naito's less-than-Tranquillo clock after a thrilling closing sequence was perhaps as perfect a payoff as the company could have proffered.
Whilst unspectacular in in the extreme in its first half, this substantially outperformed their rotten Intercontinental Title clash from earlier in the year, and the result will now expedite former G1 Winner Naito to get his f*cking sh*t together if he wants to get back to the Tokyo Dome.
Defeat against Toru Yano was a blow, but this latest lot can be qualified as his rock bottom. With the imminently beatable Hirooki Goto up next, Naito must start looking not just up, but all the way to the top.