NJPW G1 Climax 26 Night 7 Results (7/28): Tanahashi Vs. Fale, Okada Vs. Tonga, Tenzan Vs. Makabe

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NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING G1 CLIMAX 26

7/28-2016- Tokorozawa Civic Gymnasium, Saitama

Airing On NJPWWORLD.COM

This is the 7th of 19 overall G1 events. Today’s lineup features the 4th slate of A block matches in the G1 tournament.

THE UNDERCARD

TIGER MASK IV & JUSHIN THUNDER LIGER DEFEATED DAVID FINLAY & RYUSUKE TAGUCHI

Fun opening tag team match. Match won by two familiar wrestling names. The masked duo gets the win when Tiger Mask hit a double arm superplex on Finlay for the pinfall.

YUJI NAGATA, SATOSHI KOJIMA,TOMOAKI HONMA & MANABU NAKANISHI DEFEATED KATSUHIKO NAKAJIMA, YASHI-HASHI, GEDO & TORU YANO

Kojima who gave up his G1 spot to his partner Nagata, He has shined in these undercard matches. He has been rewarded with a Ring of Honor title match vs Jay Lethal on the final night of the tournament. Kojima gets the win here for his team with a lariat on Gedo. This 8 man tag was used primarily to set up upcoming tournament matches. Yuji Nagata and Nakajima lost focus on the match itself and were most focused on each other. They had a big brawl at the end of this one and had to be pulled apart.

KENNY OMEGA & YUJIRO TAKAHASHI DEFEATED MICHAEL ELGIN & CAPTAIN NEW JAPAN

This was essentially a handicap match with Michael Elgin trying to beat The Bullet Club by himself. The running gag in these undercard multi man matches on the G1 is Captain’s partners avoiding tagging him because he is such a huge liability. In a standard tag match, He’s a little harder to hide. The finish of this match saw Omega keeping Elgin out of the ring so he can’t save The Captain from being beaten and pinned by Takahashi. Elgin and Omega face off in the G1 on sunday.

TETSUYA NAITO, KING OF DARKNESS & BUSHI DEFEATED KATSUYORI SHIBATA, KUSHIDA & JUICE ROBINSON

The Los Ingobernables faction gets the win when Evil pinned Juice with The STO. The story of this match is …

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