NJPW G1 Climax 26 Event #16 Results (8/10): Naito Vs. Hashi, Omega Vs. Nakajima, Elgin Vs. Honma

NEW JAPAN PRO WRESTLING G1 CLIMAX 26

AUGUST 10TH, 2016- YAMAGATA CITY GENERAL SPORTS CENTER

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The G1 is down to it’s final four events. For those interested in sampling New Japan World to see the final 3 days of the G1 climax. There will be English commentary done by ROH’s Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino. Coming into today, 6 participants in the B block are separated by only 2 points. All trying to win the B block and qualify for this Sunday’s G1 final. Here are today’s results.

THE UNDERCARD

RYUSUKE TAGUCHI DEFEATED DAVID FINLAY IN 5:03

Taguchi gets the win over the fourth generation wrestler Finlay with the Dodon.

BAD LUCK FALE, TAMA TONGA & YUJIRO TAKAHASHI DEFEATED SATOSHI KOJIMA, JUICE ROBINSON & MANABU NAKANISHI IN 6:24

The Bullet Club wins yet again on the G1 undercards when Tonga hits the Gun Stun on former NXT wrestler CJ Parker, now known as “Juice”. The build in this match was for Bad Luck Fale’s next G1 opponent. His own stable mate, Tama Tonga. Fale is tied for 1st place and Tonga can spoil his chances of winning the A block and going to the final.

“COLD SKULL” SANADA & BUSHI DEFEATED HIROYOSHI TENZAN & CAPTAIN NEW JAPAN IN 5:41

The Los Ingobernables de Japon tandem gets the win with a Skull End by Sanada on the Captain.

KAZUCHIKA OKADA, TOMOHIRO ISHII, HIROOKI GOTO, NAOMUCHI MARUFUJI & GEDO DEFEATED HIROSHI TANAHASHI, TOGI MAKABE, KUSHIDA, JUSHIN THUNDER LIGER & TIGER MASK IV IN 10:12

Goto hits the GTR on Liger to get the win in this star studded 10 man tag. This match sets up 3 upcoming final A block matches in Okada vs Tanahashi, Goto vs Marufuji and Ishii vs Makabe.

G1 CLIMAX 26

B BLOCK

KENNY OMEGA DEFEATED KATSUHIKO NAKAJIMA IN 10:29

Omega beats Nakajima with the one winged angel. This match was great but ended too soon. This was very entertaining. Great finishing sequence where Omega appeared to be done in by a Nakajima penalty kick, only to recover and hit a reverse rana followed by the one winged angel. Huge victory for Omega which puts him right in contention to win the B block this coming Saturday when he faces Tetsuya Naito. Kenny is not in a win and you are in situation even with a victory against Naito. Omega would need help in the form of an Evil victory over Shibata and an Elgin loss to Nakajima. Nakajima is officially eliminated by virtue of this loss. He has been one of the best performers in the entire tournament and had a great showing representing NOAH. He will face Michael Elgin in his last G1 match.

“KING OF DARKNESS” EVIL DEFEATED TORU YANO IN 2:57

Evil gets the win with the STO on Toru. Yano’s run of pulling off unorthodox victories is over. His unlikely journey to win the B block has ended as well with this loss. Yano had stolen 3 straight wins over the likes of Nagata, Elgin and …

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