[9/18-10/20]NJPW Presents: G1 Climax 31

[Tha_Mac]

Chase Owens is from West Virginia and has Texas roots so it's possible he's on that but until something comes out on that about him I can say dude is deceptively good in the ring. He has been impressive this year when involved in serious matches (minus Toru Yano). He has a nice moveset and for a low card talent is fun to watch.

Also I came into the G1 thinking that Shingo would win it and choose Ospreay as his opponent at WK16 now I'm leaning towards Okada over ZSJ and I'm not sleeping on a Shingo-Cobb Finals with Shingo winning either.

 

[Microfracture]

The submission reversals in this ZSJ vs O Khan match

 

[MenacingMonk]

Tired of working on limb all match, get put in a key submission and not tap. Too much of that in Shingo/KENTA.

 

[Dylmatic]

I think KENTA vs. Zack Sabre Jr from Night 13 is the best KENTA match of his NJPW run. ****1/2.

 

[Tha_Mac]

I think KENTA vs. Zack Sabre Jr from Night 13 is the best KENTA match of his NJPW run. ****1/2.

It's been some really good matches the last couple of days: O'Khan-Ishii, KENTA-Hiromu, Okada-Taichi and Ibushi-O'Khan

 

[3Rivers]

NJPW G1 Climax 31 updated standings and schedule

The G1 Climax 31 tournament continued today in Osaka.

Here are the current standings and the remaining schedule for the tournament:

Standings --

A Block

*Point totals and records include forfeit wins*

• Kota Ibushi 12 points (6-2)
• Shingo Takagi 10 points (5-2)
• KENTA 10 points (5-2)
• Zack Sabre Jr. 10 points (5-2)
• Tomohiro Ishii 8 points (4-3)
• Toru Yano 8 points (4-3)
• Great-O-Khan 8 points (4-4) *eliminated*
• Tanga Loa 4 points (2-5) *eliminated*
• Yujiro Takahashi 4 points (2-5) *eliminated*
• Tetsuya Naito 0 points (0-9) *withdrew with knee injury, forfeited eight matches*

B Block

• Jeff Cobb 12 points (6-0)
• Kazuchika Okada 12 points (6-0)
• EVIL 10 points (5-1)
• Hiroshi Tanahashi 6 points (3-3)
• Taichi 4 points (2-4) *eliminated*
• SANADA 4 points (2-4) *eliminated*
• Hirooki Goto 4 points (2-4) *eliminated*
• YOSHI-HASHI 4 points (2-4) *eliminated*
• Tama Tonga 2 points (1-5) *eliminated*
• Chase Owens 2 points (1-5) *eliminated*

Schedule --

G1 Climax 31 night 14, Tuesday, October 12, 5:30 a.m. Eastern time on NJPW World --

• B Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Jeff Cobb
• B Block: Hirooki Goto vs. EVIL
• B Block: Kazuchika Okada vs. Chase Owens
• B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. SANADA
• B Block: Taichi vs. Tama Tonga
• Hiromu Takahashi vs. Ryohei Oiwa

G1 Climax 31 night 15, Wednesday, October 13, 5:30 a.m. Eastern time on NJPW World --

• A Block: Shingo Takagi vs. Great-O-Khan
• A Block: Toru Yano vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
• A Block: KENTA vs. Tanga Loa
• A Block: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Yujiro Takahashi
• Kota Ibushi vs. Satoshi Kojima
• Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kosei Fujita

G1 Climax 31 night 16, Thursday, October 14, 5:30 a.m. Eastern time on NJPW World --

• B Block: Kazuchika Okada vs. Tama Tonga
• B Block: Jeff Cobb vs. EVIL
• B Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. YOSHI-HASHI
• B Block: Hirooki Goto vs. SANADA
• B Block: Taichi vs. Chase Owens
• Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI vs. Ryohei Oiwa & Kosei Fujita

G1 Climax 31 night 17, Monday, October 18, 5:30 a.m. Eastern time on NJPW World --

• A Block: Kota Ibushi vs. KENTA
• A Block: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Toru Yano
• A Block: Shingo Takagi vs. Yujiro Takahashi
• A Block: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Tanga Loa
• Satoshi Kojima vs. Great-O-Khan

G1 Climax 31 night 18, Wednesday, October 20, 4:30 a.m. Eastern time on NJPW World --

• B Block: SANADA vs. EVIL
• B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. Chase Owens
• B Block: Hirooki Goto vs. Tama Tonga
• B Block: Kazuchika Okada vs. Jeff Cobb
• B Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Taichi
• Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI vs. Ryohei Oiwa & Kosei Fujita

G1 Climax 31 Finals, Thursday, October 21, 5 a.m. Eastern time on NJPW World --

• A Block winner vs. B Block winner

 

[THE 101]

Damn that's a rough final stretch of cards

Okada/Cobb, Tana/Taichi, Tana/Cobb should be worth checking out.

Shingo/ZSJ probably been my favorite match so far although I've only really cherry picked the best looking matches this year.

 

[Dylmatic]

Atleast the Okada/Cobb match will be a proper Block A final.
KENTA vs. Ibushi will decide the Block B winner with Shingo and ZSJ as possible spoilers too.
ZSJ beat Shingo and Ibushi, Ibushi beat Shingo so i could see a situation where Kota and Zack have the same amount of points before Kota faces KENTA, if he wins he advances to the final, if he loses Zack does.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

ZSJ is the best technical/submissionist wrestler I’ve ever seen in my life

 

[THE 101]

I heard Tanga Loa has been showing out

Gonna need to check some of his matches out.

 

[TBdaGhost]

Bruh

 

[Scottie Drippin]

ZSJ is the best technical/submissionist wrestler I’ve ever seen in my life

Bottom tier screen name to content ratio

 

[MenacingMonk]

ZSJ getting shine in the tourney.

 

[stro]

I can't ever see ZSJ getting a IWGP title run. Could see a NEVER run, but if Ishii could never get the big one even for a a single defense, there's no way ZSJ's performances get him anything but more opportunities to have good matches in NJ.

 

[Dylmatic]

The variation of the Money Clip Okada used to submit Chase Owens looks way more vicious than the usual application, I hope he's gonna use it only this way now.