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NJPW Announces 2023 G1 Climax Blocks And Schedule

By John Canton • Published 11th June 2023
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New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the blocks and schedule for their upcoming G1 Climax 33 tournament.

The 33rd edition of NJPW’s G1 Climax will begin on July 15th with 32 wrestlers competing in a month-long tournament that will end on August 13th.

It’s a tournament full of some of NJPW’s biggest names including Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Will Ospreay, Tetsuya Naito, KENTA and the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion SANADA as well.

In addition to all of those big NJPW names, AEW-ROH wrestler Eddie Kingston will be in the G1 Climax tournament as well.

The four blocks look like this:

A Block

  • SANADA
  • Chase Owens
  • Hikuleo
  • Ren Narita
  • Shota Umino
  • Yota Tsuji
  • Gabe Kidd
  • Kaito Kiyomiya

B Block

  • Kazuchika Okada
  • YOSHI-HASHI
  • Taichi
  • KENTA
  • Great-O-Khan
  • Will Ospreay
  • Tanga Loa
  • El Phantasmo

C Block

  • David Finlay
  • Tomohiro Ishii
  • EVIL
  • Tama Tonga
  • Shingo Takagi
  • Aaron Henare
  • Eddie Kingston
  • Mikey Nicholls

D Block

  • Hiroshi Tanahashi
  • Tetsuya Naito
  • Hirooki Goto
  • Zack Sabre Jr.
  • Toru Yano
  • Jeff Cobb
  • Shane Haste
  • Alex Coughlin

New Japan Pro Wrestling has also posted the cards for every night of the G1 Climax tournament. They also have more information about the tournament including a 20-minute time limit for matches to encourage faster-paced matches.

“This year will see the top two entrants from each block move into an elimination phase of quarter, semi and finals, and with just 20 minutes on the clock for block matches, the competition will be encouraged to move faster and with more intensity than ever before.”

The full G1 Climax schedule is below:

July 25

– A Block: SANADA vs. Kaito Kiyomiya
– B Block: Kazuchika Okada vs. YOSHI-HASHI
– A Block: Ren Narita vs. Hikuleo
– B Block: Tanga Loa vs. El Phantasmo
– A Block: Yota Tsuji vs. Chase Owens
– B Block: Taichi vs. KENTA
– A Block: Shota Umino vs. Gabe Kidd
– B Block: Will Ospreay vs. Great-O-Khan

July 26

– D Block: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jeff Cobb
– C Block: Tama Tonga vs. David Finlay
– D Block: Tetsuya Naito vs. Shane Haste
– C Block: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Eddie Kingston
– D Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Toru Yano
– C Block: Shingo Takagi vs. Mikey Nicholls
– D Block: Hirooki Goto vs. Alex Coughlin
– C Block: Aaron Henare vs. EVIL

July 27

– B Block: Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay
– A Block: SANADA vs. Ren Narita
– B Block: El Phantasmo vs. KENTA
– A Block: Hikuleo vs. Yota Tsuji
– B Block: Tanga Loa vs. Great-O-Khan
– A Block: Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Gabe Kidd
– B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. Taichi
– A Block: Shota Umino vs. Chase Owens

July 30

– D Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hirooki Goto
– C Block: Tama Tonga vs. Shingo Takagi
– D Block: Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Shane Haste
– C Block: Tomohiro Ishii vs. EVIL
– D Block: Tetsuya Naito vs. Alex Coughlin
– C Block: Mikey Nicholls vs. Eddie Kingston
– D Block: Toru Yano vs. Jeff Cobb
– C Block: Aaron Henare vs. David Finlay

August 1

– B Block: Kazuchika Okada vs. KENTA
– A Block: Shota Umino vs. Yota Tsuji
– B Block: Tanga Loa vs. Will Ospreay
– A Block: SANADA vs. Gabe Kidd
– B Block: Taichi vs. El Phantasmo
– A Block: Ren Narita vs. Chase Owens
– B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. Great-O-Khan
– A Block: Hikuleo vs. Kaito Kiyomiya

August 2

– C Block: Shingo Takagi vs. David Finlay
– D Block: Tetsuya Naito vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
– C Block: Tama Tonga vs. Eddie Kingston
– D Block: Hirooki Goto vs. Jeff Cobb
– C Block: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Aaron Henare
– D Block: Toru Yano vs. Shane Haste
– C Block: Mikey Nicholls vs. EVIL
– D Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Alex Coughlin

August 5

– A Block: SANADA vs. Chase Owens
– A Block: Ren Narita vs. Kaito Kiyomiya
– A Block: Shota Umino vs. Hikuleo
– A Block: Yota Tsuji vs. Gabe Kidd

August 6

– B Block: El Phantasmo vs. Will Ospreay
– B Block: Kazuchika Okada vs. Tanga Loa
– B Block: Taichi vs. Great-O-Khan
– B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs. KENTA

August 8

– C Block: Eddie Kingston vs. David Finlay
– C Block: Shingo Takagi vs. EVIL
– C Block: Tama Tonga vs. Aaron Henare
– C Block: Tomohiro Ishii vs. Mikey Nicholls

August 9

– D Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito
– D Block: Hirooki Goto vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
– D Block: Jeff Cobb vs. Shane Haste
– D Block: Toru Yano vs. Alex Coughlin

August 10

– A Block first place vs. C Block second place

– B Block first place vs. D Block second place

– C Block first place vs. B Block second place

– D Block first place vs. A Block second place

August 12
– Semifinals

August 13
– Finals

Thanks to NJPW and Fightful for some of the information above.