B Block is clearly in the lead for match quality. Sadly tonight’s show wasn’t all that flash. Cool looking arena also.

Katsuhiko Nakajima vs YOSHI-HASHI

I almost find it comforting that Nakajima has decided to wear knee pads during this tournament, it always makes my knee’s hurt every time I see a wrestler go down to their knees without any padding.

Nothing note worthy to mention, solid match. Injuries were exploited, moves were well executed. Nothing too special. Nice see matches are still very consistent through out this B Block. A lot of these wrestlers are in very warm water looking to shift and move into new feuds or simply to develop more of a fan base.

YOSHI pins Nakajima with the Pump Handle Cradle Driver.

2/5

Michael Elgin vs Yuji Nagata

Two seriously hard hitters, fingers crossed no one looses any teeth.

Very tradition Japanese match, not a lot of fancy maneuvering or complicated spots. A selection of nice suplexes, lariats and strong kicks. Love how people still pop for Nagata’s Undertaker impression. Death valley driver onto the apron sets up Elgin’s ridiculous dead lift German. Ending sequence produces a turn buckle bomb into Elgin’s spinning Liger bomb for the win.

2/5

Matches so far are basically just doing there job, lets see what happens when A vs B.

Katsuyori Shibata vs Toru Yano

Will the no nonsense heart puncher Shibata fall pray to the loud mouth, genital working, backslide from hell Yano.

Out of the gate, Shibata goes and takes Yano’s head off.

Setting up for …. and Shibata falls pray to the school boy.

5/5

EVIL vs Kenny Omega

This should be good fun.

The One Winged Angle vs The Prince of Darkness, sounds like a cool anime doesn’t it. Terminator chant sends Omega into faking a plancha and imitating the Naito pose. Huge baseball dropkick into a steel chair looks like it killed EVIL. A Perfect Plex onto a chair opens a cut in Omega’s back. The cut looks pretty deep.

Omega pushing through delivers a nice sequences of signature moves. Crowd sadly is dead due to just witnessing Shibata being pinned so quickly.

Kenny Omega looks crisp as hell throughout this contest. Each signature move is as clean as the next. Cannot say enough about the guys in ring talent.Omega manages to kick out of a reverse Death Valley Driver. Exchanging some strong strikes Omega delivers the reverse Rana.

Huge running bicycle knee sets up for the One Winged Angel for the win.

2.3/5

Tetsuya Naito vs Tomoaki Honma

A very interesting combinations for the fans to support; the bad-ass heel everyone loves vs a guy who is really proving himself this G1.

A pretty slow beginning to the match, but both very interesting characters doesn’t prevent me from being distracted. Naito counting with the ref was hilarious. Honma makes his way back into the ring after a 19 count and Naito doesn’t seem fussed.

Running drop kicks for you and for everyone! Hay, you cant say anything, if its effective why not do it another 50 times! Another Hiroshi Tanahashi tip of the week.

Honma gains the momentum back and begins a dead lift suplex, which he held for so long I didn’t think he was ever going to move. Honma just suspended in time. Running Kokeshi is successful. Naito answers Honma’s come back with a reverse atomic drop and a running drop kick for measure. Crowd is still pretty dead, not sure whats up.

A nice back and forth sequence sets up the jumping Kokeshi. With a boot to the face, another Kokeshi is successful from the second rope. Honma hits a devastating Brain Buster that legit made me shriek. Naito has a habit of taking ugly bumps, which are great but not so great when almost spiking a Brain Buster.

Naito sets up for a Destino, which is answered with two solid headbutts. Is it just me or does everyone and their dog do headbutts now? Crowd is almost not there once Naito locks in his signature submission. A very sloppy reversal to a Destino puts Honma in a position to hit the over the shoulder pile driver.

Kokeshi from the top is unsuccessfully, people are still chanting his name. A hard exchange of forearms allows Naito the advantage to hit the reverse DDT.

Naito hits the Destino, pinning Honma.

2.5/5