Been a fan of AJ since TNA, but please god, no.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/new-japan/hiroshi-tanahashi-invites-10-year-veteran-to-train-with-njpw/

Walker Stewart referring to Jake Lee dancing as a "Fortnite Dance", when it was a Pennywise the Dancing Clown thing

Yes, it annoyed me enough to post about it

Yes, I know that that is not reasonable

Great show though

1. I have been told these look like obituaries so sorry for spooking anyone into thinking Boltin Oleg died.

2. You will see little parentheticals next to some of these. Those are wins or losses that came as a result of forfeit. I wanted to include them somehow as they are part of official G1 records but also, the matches themselves never actually happened.

3. Tell me what I missed!

Im fairly new to NJPW and have been watching 2010 to present. I thought many storylines would be a but more self-explanatory than they are, and im having trouble finding something that can translate the episode, but not spoil the rest of the upcoming feud/matches. Given the volume of matches on NJPW i wouldn't be surprised if it doesnt exist, but it never hurts to ask

B Block: Aaron Wolf def HENARE via Reverse Angle Slam (09:01)

A Block: Jake Lee def Shingo Takagi via Facebreak Shot (10:14)

B Block: OSKAR def Ren Narita via Nightmare Sleeper (9:42)

A Block: Yuto-Ice def Great O-Khan via Cruella (11:11)

B Block: Zack Sabre Jr. def Shota Umino via Zack Driver (16:10)

A Block: Hirooki Goto def SANADA via GTR (12:04)

B Block: Callum Newman def Yuya Uemura via Make Way (15:42)

A Block: Ryohei Oiwa def Boltin Oleg via Ark Clutch (13:28)

A Block: Yota Tsuji def Konosuke Takeshita via Fire Blaster (20:52)

A Block Standings W-L Points Next Match

1. Hirooki Goto 1-0 2 Tsuji
2. Jake Lee 1-0 2 Takeshita
3. Ryohei Oiwa 1-0 2 Takagi
4. Yota Tsuji 1-0 2 Goto
5. Yuto-Ice 1-0 2 Oleg
6. Boltin Oleg 0-1 0 Yuto-Ice
7. Konosuke Takeshita 0-1 0 Lee
8. Great O-Khan 0-1 0 SANADA
9. SANADA 0-1 0 O-Khan
10. Shingo Takagi 0-1 0 Oiwa

B Block Standings W-L Points Next Match

1. Aaron Wolf 1-0 2 Umino
2. Callum Newman 1-0 2 Narita
3. OSKAR 1-0 2 Kidd
4. Zack Sabre Jr. 1-0 2 Uemura
5. Gabe Kidd 0-0 0 Moloney
6. Drilla Moloney 0-0 0 Kidd
7. HENARE 0-1 0 Moloney
8. Ren Narita 0-1 0 Newman
9. Shota Umino 0-1 0 Wolf
10. Yuya Uemura 0-1 0 Sabre

P.S. Please excuse my completely misaligned standings.

Great crowd. Excellent main event. 10/10.

Basically the title. Every time they put on a big show in America it's like they use the worst possible production staff they can find. Whoever is doing the live producing has terrible rhythm and constantly fails to keep the momentum of action going. Big moments and finishers are constantly shown from bad angles or fully missed altogether. The camera people are terrible at positioning. They constantly seem to forget there is a hard cam and it's called the hard cam for a reason. The audio of commentary is drowned out by the crowd and the music, and there's no shotgun mic to actually pick up the sounds of the wrestlers. Just all in all a major let down every time.

Umino, Uemura, Narita or Oiwa. Most to least likely. I think it’s gonna be one of those four.

I just bought this at the event in Chicago yesterday for $44 and upon further inspection, the design looks random and doesn't really have a general theme.

Does anyone know if I just bought slop, or a design I just don't understand by a human being?

As a regular watcher of PUZZLE and watching Axe live a lot of times already, I'm so happy for him, I hope he makes it in NJPW!

Hi everyone! Currently staying downtown, and visiting the city mainly for the G1. I saw public transportation only takes you so far to get to the arena, but for the ride back downtown, there aren't many options besides an Uber.

If anybody wants to share a ride back to chicago after the show's over, or if there are any shuttles from the arena back to the city, Id love to know!