NJPW Presents: G1 Climax 27 (July 17 - August 13; Scores Updated 8/7)

[Superkick Party]

5:30am EDT / 10:30am BST

NJPW "G1 CLIMAX 27", 7/21/2017 - DAY THREE
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. "King of Darkness" EVIL & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Juice Robinson & David Finlay
2. Minoru Suzuki & Taichi vs. SANADA & BUSHI
3. Kenny Omega & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Tama Tonga & Chase Owens
4. Michael Elgin, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano & Gedo
5. G1 Climax - Block A: Yuji Nagata vs. Hirooki Goto
6. G1 Climax - Block A: Togi Makabe vs. Tomohiro Ishii
7. G1 Climax - Block A: Kota Ibushi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
8. G1 Climax - Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Bad Luck Fale
9. G1 Climax - Block A: Tetsuya Naito vs. YOSHI-HASHI​

 

[Nero Christ]

going over the first day now

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

I don't think Kenny should have been attempting a reverse rana on a 49 yr old MiSu in the first place

My MOTN was Sanada and Evil

I totally agree with that last thing I want see is ol man MiSu selling ranas.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Sanada's constant is funny as hell to me.

Had the crowd rolling with him too

The commentators selling Suzuki like the Japanese Charles Manson

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

5:30am EDT / 10:30am BST

NJPW "G1 CLIMAX 27", 7/21/2017 - DAY THREE
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. "King of Darkness" EVIL & Hiromu Takahashi vs. Juice Robinson & David Finlay
2. Minoru Suzuki & Taichi vs. SANADA & BUSHI
3. Kenny Omega & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Tama Tonga & Chase Owens
4. Michael Elgin, Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano & Gedo
5. G1 Climax - Block A: Yuji Nagata vs. Hirooki Goto
6. G1 Climax - Block A: Togi Makabe vs. Tomohiro Ishii
7. G1 Climax - Block A: Kota Ibushi vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
8. G1 Climax - Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Bad Luck Fale
9. G1 Climax - Block A: Tetsuya Naito vs. YOSHI-HASHI​

The Fale/Tana rivalry continues.

 

[Nero Christ]

I'm dying at Sabre Jr coming out to complete and utter silence

several albums could be made during this man's entrance

 

[Nero Christ]

a damn piledriver off the top rope

 

[Drones]

Scoreboard after the first 2 shows:

Spoiler: SCOREBOARD 7/21

Blocks:
A Block
Hiroshi Tanahashi - 0
Togi Makabe - 0
Tomohiro Ishii - 0
Hirooki Goto - 2
YOSHI-HASHI - 2
Bad Luck Fale - 2
Yuji Nagata - 0
Zack Sabre Jr. - 2
Kota Ibushi - 0
Tetsuya Naito - 2

B Block
Kenny Omega - 2
Kazuchika Okada - 2
Toru Yano - 0
Satoshi Kojima - 2
Michael Elgin - 0
Juice Robinson - 2
Tama Tonga - 2
SANADA - 2
EVIL - 0
Minoru Suzuki - 0

 

[HollywoodP]

Night 2 was decent. I skipped most of the bullshyt at the beginning...From what I watched
Okada vs Yano was highly entertaining with Gedo and Jado getting in the mix...not as good as Yano vs Tana in years past but pretty good nonetheless...It went way too long tho.
Kenny vs Suzuki was good not great. You just expect them to put on a motherfukker of a match but it lacked a certain viciousness thats needed in a Suzuki match and a few too many mishaps that could easily have been avoided. And even though theres fans that pick one side or the other and Kenny seemed to be working babyface for alot of the match in the end its still a heel vs heel match and it just didn't have the emotional charge that each of their solo matches usually have.

Sanada vs Evil...was excellent. Match of the night for sure. I don't typically watch Evil matches...or Sanada matches for that matter at least not during G1 season when I know I'm going to be watching a shyt ton of wrestling in the upcoming weeks, but I saw they were building something during night 1 and said I'd give it a shot...I'm sure glad I did. Quick, crisp, smooth in all their moves. The LIJ vs LIJ story really worked well. Sanada seems to really be coming into his own. Hell they both did great. That match makes this show worth watching in the very least.

 

[stro]

Night 2 was decent. I skipped most of the bullshyt at the beginning...From what I watched
Okada vs Yano was highly entertaining with Gedo and Jado getting in the mix...not as good as Yano vs Tana in years past but pretty good nonetheless...It went way too long tho.
Kenny vs Suzuki was good not great. You just expect them to put on a motherfukker of a match but it lacked a certain viciousness thats needed in a Suzuki match and a few too many mishaps that could easily have been avoided. And even though theres fans that pick one side or the other and Kenny seemed to be working babyface for alot of the match in the end its still a heel vs heel match and it just didn't have the emotional charge that each of their solo matches usually have.

Sanada vs Evil...was excellent. Match of the night for sure. I don't typically watch Evil matches...or Sanada matches for that matter at least not during G1 season when I know I'm going to be watching a shyt ton of wrestling in the upcoming weeks, but I saw they were building something during night 1 and said I'd give it a shot...I'm sure glad I did. Quick, crisp, smooth in all their moves. The LIJ vs LIJ story really worked well. Sanada seems to really be coming into his own. Hell they both did great. That match makes this show worth watching in the very least.

MiSu's age finally caught up to him. He's not the elite (the the elite ) guy he was even 2-3 years ago. A shame he spent the last 2ish great years of his career working NOAH in shyt no one saw. He's certainly entered the Fujiwara post 1991 era stage of his career. Despite being in the best shape he's been in in years, the facts are he's almost 50 and has had an extremely physical career considering he spent a decade doing shoots, years before doing the very stiff shoot style, and being in a lot of super stiff matches post shoot career.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

My power rankings thus far are

Kota/Naito
Kenny/MiSu
Sanada/Evil
Tana/ZSJ
Kojima/Juice (first surprise G1 banger)

 

[Jmare007]

Juice getting over brehs, got 2 big ass banners in Korakuen

Nagata vs Goto was very good as expected, hard hitting and some dope drama.

Ibushi vs Sabre was fun too. Liked the story of Kota never being able to get things going and getting caught in ZSJ's tricks/counters but it never reached "next level" to me. Still worth a watch though.

Naito vs YOSHI was a worthy main event. I could care less about Yoshi Hashi but this was entertaining as fukk, thought I would check the first minutes and just fast forward till the end but they kept my attention and the last few minutes were very good.

Didn't care to watch anything else on the show

 

[JKO123]

Juice getting over brehs, got 2 big ass banners in Korakuen

Nagata vs Goto was very good as expected, hard hitting and some dope drama.

Ibushi vs Sabre was fun too. Liked the story of Kota never being able to get things going and getting caught in ZSJ's tricks/counters but it never reached "next level" to me. Still worth a watch though.

Naito vs YOSHI was a worthy main event. I could care less about Yoshi Hashi but this was entertaining as fukk, thought I would check the first minutes and just fast forward till the end but they kept my attention and the last few minutes were very good.

Didn't care to watch anything else on the show

do u watch mma or boxing?

 

[TOAD99]

Ibushi vs Natio god damn

shyt might be my match of the year. Partly because of the length - it didn't feel like a drawn out match just for the sake of a long match.

Wanted ibushi to win (biased he's one of my favorites) but Naito is so over

Gedo would be a fool to not book Naito vs Okada at Wrestle Kingdom

Which is why he probably won't do that

 

[JKO123]

how is the english commentary?

usually it aint worth