NJPW reveals participants for G1 Climax 34 tournament
A partial list of participants for the 34th G1 Climax tournament have been revealed.
The two big surprises this year include Jake Lee from Pro Wrestling NOAH and Konosuke Takeshita of AEW/DDT. Both will be making their G1 Climax debut this year. Lee most recently came up short against Tetsuya Naito on Saturday’s All Together Sapporo event. Both will be in the same block this year.
Eighteen of the twenty participants were announced on Sunday’s NJPW Soul tour. They include:
Block A:
- Tetsuya Naito
- Shota Umino
- Shingo Takagi
- SANADA
- Great-O-Khan
- Zack Sabre Jr.
- Gabe Kidd
- EVIL
- Jake Lee
- TBA
Block B:
- Hirooki Goto
- El Phantasmo
- Yota Tsuji
- Jeff Cobb
- Henare
- David Finlay
- Ren Narita
- Yuya Uemura
- Konosuke Takeshita
- TBA
The final Block A and Block B participants will be decided in a tournament that begins during the NJPW Soul tour, ending with the finals at Tokyo Budokan on July 5. The participants in the tournament include:
A Block tournament: Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Callum Newman, KENTA, Chase Owens, Yuijiro Takahashi
B Block tournament: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano, Oleg Boltin, Satoshi Kojima, Taichi, TJP
This year’s tournament begins on July 20, with the finals taking place at Sumo Hall on August 18.