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New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 28 2018 Participants Revealed and Winner Predicted!

New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 28 2018 Participants Revealed and Winner Predicted! Today New Japan Pro wrestling revealed the participants for the NJPW G1 28 Tournament 2018. G1 brings together the best of New Japan and pits them in Two Groups of 10, Block A and Block B and the Winners for those groups with face off in a match on August 12 2018  with the winner obtaining the G1 Briefcase which gives them a title shot.  List of Participants  Kenny Omega (IWGP Heavyweight Champion) Jay White (IWGP US Champion) Hirooki Goto (NEVER Openweight Champion) Juice Robinson Michael Elgin Hiroshi Tanahashi Togi Makabe Bad Luck Fale Kazuchika Okada SANADA Tomohiro Ishii Toru Yano YOSHI-HASHI Hangman Page Tama Tonga Kota Ibushi. Tetsuya Naito EVIL Minoru Suzuki Zack Sabre Jr Groups, Schedules and Match ups to be decided in the next few weeks.  At this very early stage without groups being drawn its very hard to pick a winner, last year I picked Naito and...

NJPW G1 Climax #G127 Wrestlers, Blocks and Matches Released

NJPW G1 Climax G127 Wrestlers, Blocks and Matches Released NJPW Pro Wrestling announced the wrestler competing in this year annual G1 Tournament and have split the wrestlers into Block A and Block B. A Block Hiroshi Tanahashi Togi Makabe Yuji Nagata Hirooki Goto Tomohiro Ishii YOSHI-HASHI Bad Luck Fale Tetsuya Naito Zack Sabre Jr. Kota Ibushi B Block Satoshi Kojima Juice Robinson Michael Elgin Kazuchika Okada Toru Yano Kenny Omega Tama Tonga EVIL SANADA Minoru Suzuki I laid out a scenario in my previous blog (which you can read here http://jonswrestleview.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/njpw-g1-climax-tournament-2017.html  where I thought that Okada and Omega could be the final Group A vs Group B match. However as you can see from the Blocks Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada have been drawn in Group B so will have a match against each other in G1 Tournament in will be a pivotal match I think in deciding the winner of the group. Also...