NJPW G1 Climax 24: Night 9
Aichi, Japan 8/4/14
1.) G1 Climax - Block A - Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs.
Tomoaki Honma: ***1/4
2.) G1 Climax - Block B - Yujiro Takahashi vs. Lance
Archer: **3/4
3.) G1 Climax - Block A - Luke Gallows vs. Yuji
Nagata: ***1/4
4.) G1 Climax - Block B - Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Togi
Makabe: ***1/2
5.) G1 Climax - Block B - Minoru Suzuki vs. Tetsuya
Naito: ****1/4
6.) G1 Climax - Block A - Bad Luck Fale vs.
Katsuyori Shibata: **3/4
7.) G1 Climax - Block A - Shinsuke Nakamura vs.
Satoshi Kojima: ****
8.) G1 Climax - Block B - Karl Anderson vs. AJ
Styles: ***3/4
9.) G1 Climax - Block A - Shelton "X"
Benjamin vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi: ***1/2
10.) G1 Climax - Block B - Kazuchika Okada vs.
Hirooki Goto: ****1/2
Overall: 8.5/10
We're getting deeper into the G1 Climax, and New Japan is continuing to put on awesome show after awesome show, with Night 9 being another perfect example of this. By any normal standards, this would be a great show in any other company, but by the standards of the G1 Climax, this is probably around the 5th or 6th best show of the tournament, up to this point. You had a number of awesome matches on this show, like Suzuki/Naito & Nakamura/Kojima, while the Main Event, Okada vs. Goto, was the Match of the Night. We also saw a lot of entertaining matches on the undercard, like Makabe/Tenzan (another good match for Tenzan), a battle of Bullet Club stablemates in Styles/Anderson, and Benjamin vs. Tanahashi. The only real negative on this show to note was that Bad Luck Fale defeated Shibata on a fluke count out. Other than that, another solid show in the 2014 G1 Climax. New Japan continues their incredible roll.
We're getting deeper into the G1 Climax, and New Japan is continuing to put on awesome show after awesome show, with Night 9 being another perfect example of this. By any normal standards, this would be a great show in any other company, but by the standards of the G1 Climax, this is probably around the 5th or 6th best show of the tournament, up to this point. You had a number of awesome matches on this show, like Suzuki/Naito & Nakamura/Kojima, while the Main Event, Okada vs. Goto, was the Match of the Night. We also saw a lot of entertaining matches on the undercard, like Makabe/Tenzan (another good match for Tenzan), a battle of Bullet Club stablemates in Styles/Anderson, and Benjamin vs. Tanahashi. The only real negative on this show to note was that Bad Luck Fale defeated Shibata on a fluke count out. Other than that, another solid show in the 2014 G1 Climax. New Japan continues their incredible roll.
Block A
Hiroshi Tanahashi (6-2-0) - 12 Points
Shinsuke Nakamura (6-2-0) - 12 Points
Bad Luck Fale (5-3-0) - 10 Points
Katsuyori Shibata (5-3-0) - 10 Points
Davey Boy Smith Jr. (4-4-0) - 8 Points
Yuji Nagata (4-4-0) - 8 Points
Tomohiro Ishii (4-4-0) - 8 Points
Satoshi Kojima (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Shelton "X" Benjamin (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Doc Gallows (3-5-0) - 6 Points
Tomoaki Honma (0-8-0) - 0 Points
Block B
Kazuchika Okada (6-2-0) - 12 Points
AJ Styles (6-2-0) - 12 Points
Minoru Suzuki (5-3-0) - 10 Points
Tetsuya Naito (4-4-0) - 8 Points
Togi Makabe (4-4-0) - 8 Points
Hiroyoshi Tenzan (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Hirooki Goto (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Lance Archer (3-5-0) - 6 Points
Karl Anderson (3-5-0) - 6 Points
Toru Yano (3-5-0) - 6 Points
Yujiro Takahashi (3-5-0) - 6 Points
NJPW G1 Climax 24: Night 10
Kagawa, Japan 8/6/14
1.) G1 Climax - Block A - Tomoaki Honma vs. Satoshi Kojima: ***
2.) G1 Climax - Block A - Bad Luck Fale vs. Davey Boy Smith Jr.:
**1/4
3.) G1 Climax - Block B - Tetsuya Naito vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan:
***3/4
4.) G1 Climax - Block B - Karl Anderson vs. Minoru Suzuki: ***1/4
5.) G1 Climax - Block B - Toru Yano vs. Togi Makabe: *1/2
6.) G1 Climax - Block B - Yujiro Takahashi vs. AJ Styles: ***
7.) G1 Climax - Block B - Lance Archer vs. Kazuchika Okada: ***3/4
8.) G1 Climax - Block A - Yuji Nagata vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi:
***3/4
9.) G1 Climax - Block A - Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tomohiro Ishii:
****1/4
10.) G1 Climax - Block A - Doc Gallows vs. Shinsuke Nakamura:
***1/4
Overall: 7.75/10
Well, we knew this was going to happen at some point.
New Japan had been putting on incredible show after incredible show throughout
this tournament. Eventually, there was bound to be a subpar show, and it's now
surprise that it came this late in the tournament. To be completely honest,
however, it's not like the show itself was bad, or the crowd didn't react well.
The show was pretty decent. It's just that the tournament, up to this point,
had set the bar so high, that a show like this comes off as incredibly subpar,
compared to what came before it. Of course the big match on this show, and the
match everyone wanted to see, was Ishii vs. Shibata, who had that incredible
***** match in last year's G1. Ishii was coming into this match hurt, having
separated his shoulder in his match on Night 8 (he had Night 9 off), so
obviously the match wasn't quite the standard of last year's match, but it was
still the Match of the Night. You also had a few other really solid matches
with Naito/Tenzan, Archer/Okada & Nagata/Tanahashi. Other than that, there
really isn't anything else of note on this show. Definitely the weakest show of
the tournament.
Block A
Hiroshi Tanahashi (7-2-0) - 14 Points
Shinsuke Nakamura (7-2-0) - 14 Points
Bad Luck Fale (6-3-0) - 12 Points
Katsuyori Shibata (6-3-0) - 12 Points
Satoshi Kojima (5-5-0) - 10 Points
Yuji Nagata (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Shelton "X" Benjamin (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Tomohiro Ishii (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Davey Boy Smith Jr. (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Doc Gallows (3-6-0) - 6 Points
Tomoaki Honma (0-9-0) - 0 Points
Block B
Kazuchika Okada (7-2-0) - 14 Points
AJ Styles (7-2-0) - 14 Points
Minoru Suzuki (5-4-0) - 10 Points
Tetsuya Naito (5-4-0) - 10 Points
Togi Makabe (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Hirooki Goto (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Toru Yano (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Karl Anderson (4-5-0) - 8 Points
Hiroyoshi Tenzan (4-6-0) - 8 Points
Yujiro Takahashi (3-6-0) - 6 Points
Lance Archer (3-6-0) - 6 Points
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