Thread 18541249

Show starts at 5:30am EDT / 10am BST. 30 MINUTES TILL SHO-TIME

The G1 Climax 35 league phase is over, and August 14 in Korakuen we'll see the second and third place finishers in opposite blocks face off in singles action. The winners will take on A Block winner EVIL and B Block winner Zack Sabre Jr. Saturday in Ariake's semifinals ahead of Sunday's grand final matchup!
Opening VTR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvfS4m2JCRw

>G1 CLIMAX 35 Playoff Match **Winner faces EVIL in semifinals**
Yota Tsuji vs Shota Umino
>G1 CLIMAX 35 Playoff Match **Winner faces Zack Sabre Jr. in semifinals**
David Finlay vs Konosuke Takeshita
>6 Man Tag Match
TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr., Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson) vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (EVIL, Don Fale & DOUKI)
>Tag Team Match
Shingo Takagi & Daiki Nagai vs War Dogs (Drilla Moloney & Taiji Ishimori)
>6 Man Tag Match
Hiroshi Tanahashi, Yuya Uemura & Katsuya Murashima vs United Empire (Great-O-Khan, Callum Newman & Jakob Austin Young)
>8 Man Tag Match
Boltin Oleg, El Phantasmo, Toru Yano, & Jado vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, SANADA, Yujiro Takahashi & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
>Tag Team Match
Taichi & Satoshi Kojima vs YOSHI-HASHI & Shoma Kato

>>18541249 (OP)
Here's how the blocks ended up

>>18541249 (OP)
Pretty grim final 6 desu

Save us, Tsuji

LET'S GO TSUJI
YOU'RE THE BEST WRESTLER A LIVE

>>18541260
exchange shota for shingo and evil for heato stomu and it'd be good

>>18541249 (OP)
Finally Yujiro is back

Shota is winning this

>>18541249 (OP)
I can't think
Bad TV and other people's lives
On the Instagram and Facebook feeds
Got me
Fatigued
Another night holed up inside
So we hit the streets
And walked around
Routes we've run in
To the ground
A THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE

>>18541265
stfu you banger obsessed freak

I want Shota to win just because I hate you OP.

BOOOOOOOOOORN IN THE RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

HEY

GRIM

I'm thinking Umino pulls it off

Don't feel that good. I read nips that think Umino is a better pick that Tsuji against EVIL only because for them Tsuji is being very stagnant and even if Umino is Umino he has still has time to improve.

BOOM

CRASH THE MAT TWIX

>>18541312
They deserve grim japan then. That nigga is beyond dimeless

this gay ass song has grown on me

>>18541315
My problem is less Umino vs Tsuji but A block having EVIL instead of Uemura

>>18541312
sounds like shota should be a midcard champion until he improves to the point of being presentable at the main event

>>18541312
Tsuji is stagnat but Shota has failed multiple times already. This G1 second round would feel so much better with either Yuya or Grip in either of their spots. The three musketeers are a failed gen at this point

Kojima-gun is back!

>>18541324
what a team

>>18541323
I think the same thing but I guess picking Umino as their choice is the less evil but to me not pushing harder Oiwa or Uemura was the wrong choice from the start

sex with taichi!

the ojisan tag team match (and shoma)

>Shoma wants to go to Mexico
Send Narita there too. Teach him to be more exciting with his submissions

building to that dangerous pitbulls vs tenkoji tag title match

>>18541344
adhd riddled tiktok zoomer freak shut the fuck up

Taichi nooooooooooo

damn I love these two

>>18541323
Many people have failed several times before winning big. Shota isn't any different. Bitch ass nigger.

Charlton is in Kevin Kelly mode but leftist

I was only here for the Ballsack Boyz I'll see you faggots later

>>18541366
Im sure that continously putting him back in the position he's failed in will eventually work.

>event possibly happening around wk time
oh my god not another wrestle dynasty fuck off

>>18541368
>comes for Exile Tribe B-team
>calls others fags

>>18541379
Takes one to know one

Based Bolton

kwab

has oleg ever said anything in english before?

>>18541373
SANADA failed to win the IWGP many times too before winning it? As did a lot of others?

What are the potential matches for King of Pro Wrestling? I might be in Japan then and might go

Great-o-khan pisses me off

You were robbed, Yuya-san

Funny people thought when Ospreay said "I'll bring my friends" he was gonna get fucking Callum Newman in that cage match

>>18541402
There's a difference between failing to win a title and failing in a spot in the main event. Unfortunately Shota has failed constantly in his main event spots (even after different repackaging and gimmicks)

This tubby young loin has potential to be very based

jakob walks like tanahashi now with that fucked up leg

Get his ass, Murashima!

>>18541424
What happened to his leg?

Newman fucking sucks

>>18541432
he tweaked it in Yokohama in a very rudimentary way and they ran straight to the finish. He's been doing nothing in his matches ever since

>Chris having to bend the knee and advertise Forbidden Door
Tonikan never forgets

>>18541419
What the fuck are you talking about?

THESE MY DOGS FR
THESE MY DOGS FR
THESE MY DOGS FR
THESE MY DOGS FR

>>18541442
Shota Derangement Syndrome

>>18541445
Hope you're doing well anon, always pops the boys to see your gifs for War Dogs members.
>and by the boys I mean my wife finds them cute, please never stop

>>18541446
If you honestly believe that Shota should be anywhere higher than the midcard (especially at this point), then I don't know what you are watching

>>18541450
>Honey, my 4chan friend posted it again!
>That's nice, dear.
Wholesome

>>18541454
Watching you have a melty in every gamethread

>>18541458
>Everyone that disagrees with me is the same person
Anon please get some help

>>18541465
There's only three of us here

Wonder who's gonna be picked for Ishimori's 120 min iron man match at Korakuen

>>18541469
maybe 4

>>18541454
He pinned the IWGP World Heavyweight champion in this very tournament. Of course he deserves another main event spot. And even if he fails again I'll still support him.

>>18541469
>2 oiwa fuckers and a taichi fucker
what kind of gamethread is this

>>18541472
Even though i think Shota is a failure, I do want him to win today because I think it would be funny

>>18541476
i out myself as DDTfag and Oiwa fucker so who is the other guy

>>18541456
Basically the dynamic that we have, except that she just giggles uncontrollably for about 30 seconds watching the gif loop. Weird to think that those of us who stopped being underage b& at the close of the 2000s are now in our thirties, horrifies me to think about.

i want to thank the anon of yesterday's thread who mentioned oiwa's butt being half out during his match vs uemura.

hisashiburi douki-san

>>18541476
a based one

Couldn't pay me to give a fuck about zsj

If Takeshita wins the G1 do you think they have him beat ZSJ before WK? Seems a bit weird to have an "outsider" win the title at Tanahashi's retirement show

come on jackson get that nigga

>>18541495
If he slips back down to Global territory I wouldn't mind. He had his run.

>>18541415
no one thought about newman. no one thinks about newman.

We all want the Savage King Rebel Boss Dawg GOAT Slayer Leader of Bullet Club David Finlay to win here, right?

The semis feel a bit pointless. EVIL or ZSJ ain't winning

AURA

LETS GO DAVID
YOURE THE BEST WRESTLER UH-LIVE

he should get his wife to valet for him

FOUR SAVAGE GENERATIONS

TAKE THIS AS MY DECLARATION

>>18541538
PUBLIC ANAL MASTURBATIOOOOOON

>>18541537
Gedo is his work wife

COME ON FINRAY

Takeshita has a god tier theme in NJPW compared to his AEW one

>>18541544
wasn't that his original aew theme before they changed to the don callis brown note?

>>18541544
it's the one he uses in DDT

>>18541544
It his DDT theme that AEW was using at first, then they gave his some generic slop instead of letting him keep it.

gonna need some kikkoman logos on them tables

>>18541549
I don't watch enough njpw/aew to know that 2bh

David gives me baron corbin vibes

>>18541553
did you see bingo bongo vs shingo shango in the kurokuken hall?????? le jewster gave it 7,5 stars of david

Why isn't Finlay booked for Forbidden Door?

>>18541557
His body is like Corbin's but not as tall. He kinda works how you'd expect someone like Corbin to work too

How long before Takeshita just ignores the knee?

>>18541557
he doesn't look even similar to his dad
was he... you know...

>>18541567
his door isn't forbidden iykwim

>>18541571
Raped?

>>18541574
Neither is Tanahashi's but he's booked

>>18541567
tony knows he's gonna join his daddy in WWE so he doesn't bother platforming him

>>18541567
didn't he even ask to wrestle jay white before?

>>18541575
Adopted.
Or Fit Finlay was cucked

Every person in this crowd chanting for Takeshita wants to be raped

>>18541579
Isn't Jay constantly waiting out his AEW contract with a "totally legit" injury?

>>18541440
Chris needs to know his place. Can't have him getting cocky again.

Kill him Finlay

Oh fuck that nigga concussed

>>18541586
I certainly hope so.

>>18541586
I know it's surprising to see an AEW wrestler sell something

This is as dimes as I thought it would be

I AMU ZE TABLUUUUU DESU NEEEE

I like Takeshita so seeing him like that is good. It's a bit annoying to see him constantly playing the big tough guy

Boy I hope that Takeshita remembers he is meant to be concussed when he starts his comeback.

>>18541571
Ain't no way this comedy shitter birthed David lol

>>18541594
he's literally the tallest japanese man in history, he has to play the big bad tough dude

Yep, Finlay's winning

>>18541603
don't jinx it

Takeshita!

>>18541599
I know which i said "it's nice to see him like that" kek

WAN!!! WAN!!!!!

>>18541483
taichi fucker is (Me), oiwa is a fine lad but i love old men more
>>18541574
ok how u know

YOUVE GOT HIM, DAVEY. OVERKILL

>>18541598
>He doesn't rate based Fit
Dude was fucking amazing all through the 1980s and 1990s and was still able to reinvent in the 2000s when he got the old "we got nothing for you."

>Walker blatantly cheering for Takeshita
WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON NIGGA

Damn Finlay's doing a good job getting the crowd to cheer for Takeshita

>>18541603
YOU FUCKING JINXED IT YOU FUCKING FAGGOT

David Finlay should have won the whole G1.

Lol Takeshita vs Shota final (where Takeshita gets his win back)

New Japan needs a rebel, not a DDT shitter that doesn't know how to sell. Fuck off.

New Japan continues to throw it back for AEW

fuck

>MMMMMhmmmm yeah that was a badass powerbomb yeah
It was at that moment that I realised that Takeshita gives me 2000s Taker vibes, and not in a remotely good way. Finally figured out what I don't enjoy about him.

>>18541622
of what was left, yep. It's either gonna be Tsuji which would be alright or Takeshita with a AEWWINSLOL

Finlay's booking aways makes me think he's just about to leave for WWE

THANK YOU TONY

YES TONY-SAMA WE WILL HAVE TAKESHITA WIN THE G1 AND HE'LL GET HIS FEW LOSS IN THE TOURNAMENT BACK DO NOT WORRY

if Shota wins then Takeshita's winning the whole thing

Fit Finlay vs Fat Fanlay vs Fot Fonlay

man some of you are so obsessed with aew bullshit you can't even enjoy a show

>>18541639
If Tsuji wins then Takeshita is winning the whole tournament

>>18541603
DAMMIT KAITO

>>18541642
i can't enjoy takeshita matches because they're mindless bangers molded for meltzer's tastes

>>18541634
Genius move from Gedo and the boys desu, all of the salary ladies who fell in love with him during his undercard shenanigans era have to attend every show they can for fear it is his last.

THIGHJI

>>18541642
You can't put the genie back in the bottle, once you know their filthy fingerprints are all over this shit it's hard to not hate AEW and specifically Tony Khan

Nice thighs boy

We need to start asking the AEWtists not to make fun of us when Takeshita wins the G1

SHORTU TAITSU GA!

boduji

no finner

Takeshita beats ZSJ which sets up the Forbidden Door match which ZSJ gets his win back

MY BOY

LETS GO SHOTA
TAKESHITA NEEDS HIS WIN BACK

>Charlton shading the guy who named them the reiwa musketeers
Kek fuck Kidani

>>18541662
Takeshita beats ZSJ clean in 5 minutes which sets up Forbidden Door where Takeshita beats ZSJ clean in 4 minutes

lol the shota chanting didn't last much

That sounds like universal Yota cheers

Is Shota loses this will he go through another "character shift"

>>18541676
THIRD CHANCE
THIS TIME FOR SURE

>>18541687
Gedo does like to book things in threes

>>18541676
They want/need 2 young Hontai guys leading so I doubt it

>>18541661
no finner because he lost his pants

Time to hulk up Shota

time to get a new career shota

I like Tsuji a lot better when he's controlling matches. Makes way more sense for his positioning

why is that dude named after that degenerate anime porn

This is our generation's Okada vs Nakamura

you're on watch, gedo

>>18541707
ask his dad he’s over there

The crowds treat Shota like DDT crowds treated Takeshita when he was getting pushed.

>>18541715
I'm not in japan

>>18541716
The difference that Takeshita during his DDT era had a personality and the management saw the potential of him and the people around him

>>18541726
>Takeshita during his DDT era had a personality
no he didn't

Why is he using John Cena's move? Is it a tease?

>>18541728
Dude please, I get you are a hater but you are trying a bit too hard

>>18541676
He's gonna be the most over of all the musketeers just one more new gimmick bro. Just like Naito bro

LET'S GO TSUJI
YOU'RE THE BEST
FINNER A-LIVE

>>18541716
ddt fans actually care about wrestling and not just the gay shit that comes with it?

TSUJISAULT

>>18541726
His problem was literally the fact that he had no personality(plus how hard he was pushed so close to the HARASHIMA/Golden Lovers era). His edge of Shota is at least having exciting matches

>>18541739
Yes? I wouldn't be watching this if I only cared about gay shit

oh god those fucking chops

Tsuji is getting a lot of offensive...

Shota TANKED those

>>18541732
you weren't watching

Tsuji trying to maintain control of the match despite a bum leg instead of getting his bum leg abused all match is a nice surprise but also makes me think that he's definitely going to lose

I think I can see tsuji losing weight in real time as the fight progresses

Tsuji has holes in his work but he manages to hold it together in big matches

Whenever Shota gets any advantage, the air goes out of the room for a second

>>18541769
he's the standard barer of the new guys, he has to

This is starting to feel like Shota is actually winning...

>>18541743
He's not super quirky and le funny guy like other guy in his era but saying he didn't have a personality when he was very popular especially for the hijinks with his faction and other people is silly
also the sauna faction was created as "golden lovers of reiwa", don't think DDT ever hide that lol

SHO-TA
SHO-TA
SHO-TA

SAVE ME JEONG MOSQUE LI

>>18541777
his offense that isn't lariats still suck while tsuji does a lot of flashy shit

KILL HIM YOTA

Oiwa/Uemura mogs this match hard

fameasser

Nice bump for the stomp, Shota

Yep, Shota's winning.

Fuck tsuji's losing

NO ONE'S KICKED OUT OF FULL RANGE GENE BLAST

SHOTA GOING TO THE DOME
ONE ACE LEAVES A NEW ONE EMERGES

>Shooter eyes rolled back but still kicks out
sick sell

>Shota doing obvious thigh slaps and watching the ref during counts
I hate this shit

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>18541807
>A NEW ONE EMERGES

FINNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

THANK YOU GOD

THANK GOD

GOOOOOOD

them red pudding panties saved him [fantastic news]

FINNER BASEF

>>18541810
that's every wrestler on earth lol

BOYHOOD DREAM

>>18541817
Gene blasted all over the monitor when I saw it.

Not as good as Yuya/Oiwa but that was great. Yota showed up today

>>18541820
pretty sure originally it would've been Tsuji and Gabe again possibly

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>18541820
nah it's going to be takeshita vs evil and he's going to crush hot on his own and he's going to look at tanahashi on commentary and he's going to say i did in one match what you couldn't do in a year bitch

he's going nuts up there

Never listened to a Tsuji promo. IDK what the nigga is saying but his delivery seems good.
Japanese speakers can he talk good?

>>18541843
Tsuji vs EVIL is the next round anon

where did tana come from? kek

>>18541843
yeah and evil is winning and facing takeshita in the finals

>Stands in front of Tanahashi
Oh shit Tsuji is losing and getting the retirement match kek

>>18541849
He was very convincing and heated so I guess that really helped even if speech was very basic.
I'm curious to see what nips think about it since many preferred Shota instead of him.

Tsuji calling out Red Shoes kek

all this nigga does is bitch lol

>>18541873
what he said about him?

>>18541882
That he wants to face Shota without having to think about Red Shoes being there

>>18541891
why is he so obsessed, he was dominant for like 80% of the match and red shoes never bothered him

>>18541891
Well, seems fair. No one bought that up before?

>no Edgelard
Blessed gamethread

>>18541915
rent free

>>18541941
Hit the gym