NJPW G1 Climax 26 Opening Night Results(7/18): A Block Begins,Okada Vs Marufuji,Tanahashi Vs Sanada

NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING G1 CLIMAX 26

HOKKAIDO PREFECTURAL SPORTS CENTER SAPPORO,JAPAN

This is the first of 19 separate G1 events that will culminate with the tournament final on August 14th.

The show opened with 4 under card matches that led into the opening matches of the A Block in the G1 tournament. As has become a NJPW tradition. The under cards feature multi-man and tag team matches with several G1 participants involved who are not scheduled for the tournament on that particular evening. Here are the results of the under card.

TIGER MASK & JUSHIN LIGER & MANABU NAKANISHI & KATSUYORI SHIBATA DEFEATED CAPTAIN NEW JAPAN & RYUSUKE TAGUCHI & KUSHIDA & TOMOAKI HONMA BY PINFALL

An 8 man tag opener which had some good action to start but leaned heavily on comedy in the end with Captain New Japan taking the fall for his team. Manabu Nakanishi pinned Captain after hitting him with a Hercules Cutter which is a variation of a torture rack followed by an RKO.

TORU YANO & KATSUHIKO NAKAJIMA DEFEATED SATOSHI KOJIMA & JUICE ROBINSON BY PINFALL

Yano and Nakajima won when Nakajima pinned Robinson with a brainbuster.

YUJIRO TAKAHASHI & KENNY OMEGA DEFEATED YOSHI-HASHI & GEDO BY PINFALL

Basic tag match with some comedy spots sprinkled in ends when Takahashi pinned Gedo with a dominator.

TETSUYA NAITO & EVIL & BUSHI DEFEATED MICHAEL ELGIN & YUJI NAGATA & DAVID FINLAY BY PINFALL

The LIJ faction here was victorious in this 6 man when Bushi pinned Finlay with a codebreaker coming off of the top rope.

G1 TOURNAMENT/A BLOCK RESULTS

Here are the results of The five A Block matches that took place on the opening night of this tournament.

HIROYOSHI TENZAN DEFEATS TOMOHIRO ISHII BY PINFALL

It took awhile for the crowd to get into this and behind the sentimental favorite, Tenzan but it turned out to be quite an opening match in the tournament. Very physical strong style match which saw Tenzan …

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