NJPW to reveal G1 Climax 30 participants on September 9
The participants for this year’s G1 Climax 30 tournament will be revealed this week.
NJPW announced this evening that the participants for this year’s tournament will be revealed during their September 9 show at Sendai Sunplaza Hall in Miyagi. The participants will be revealed between the third and fourth matches.
The card will be headlined by a IWGP Jr. Tag Team title tournament match, with Hiromu Takahashi and BUSHI taking on El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru.
The full card is as follows:
- Hiromu Takahashi & BUSHI vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado
- Ryusuke Taguchi & Master Wato vs. Taiji Ishimori & Gedo
- Tetsuya Naito, Shingo Takagi, and SANADA vs. EVIL, Dick Togo, and Yujiro Takahashi
- G1 Climax 30 participants revealed
- Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kota Ibushi, Yuji Nagata, and Tomoaki Honma vs. Minoru Suzuki, Taichi, Zack Sabre Jr., and DOUKI
- Hirooki Goto, Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, and Yuya Uemura vs. Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano, SHO, and Gabriel Kidd
- Satoshi Kojima vs. Yota Tsuji
The tournament will begin on September 19 at the Osaka Prefectural Gym. The last three nights, including the finals of the tournament on October 18, will take place at Sumo Hall in Tokyo.
NJPW has previously announced that due to COVID-19 prevention measures, B block tournament entrants will not compete on A block tournament cards and vice versa.