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NEW JAPAN G1 CLIMAX B BLOCK FINALS TOMORROW, YUTO AIJIMA TO RETIRE AND MORE FROM JAPAN

By Oliver Taylor on 2021-10-19 09:27:00

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling will hold its eighteenth G1 Climax 31 show tomorrow in the Nippon Budokan.

The full card is:

• BUSHI and Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kosei Fujita and Ryohei Oiwa
• B block: Chase Owens vs. YOSHI-HASHI
• B block: Hirooki Goto vs. Tama Tonga
• B block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Taichi
• B block: EVIL vs. SANADA
• B block: Jeff Cobb vs. Kazuchika Okada

Going into the show, the current B block standings are:

1. Jeff Cobb (8-0 record): 16 points
2. Kazuchika Okada (7-1 record): 14 points
3. EVIL (6-2 record): 12 points
4. Hiroshi Tanahashi (4-4 record): 8 points
-. SANADA (4-4 record): 8 points
6. Tama Tonga (3-5 record): 6 points
7. Chase Owens (2-6 record): 4 points
-. Hirooki Goto (2-6 record): 4 points
-. Taichi (2-6 record): 4 points
-. YOSHI-HASHI (2-6 record): 4 points

The winner of Jeff Cobb versus Kazuchika Okada in the main event will face Kota Ibushi in the tournament final at the nineteenth G1 Climax 31 show on October 21 in the Nippon Budokan.

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate has announced Sora Fujikawa will leave the company at the end of October.

Fujikawa debuted last year and is a member of the same rookie class as HipHop Kikuta, Jacky Funky Kamei and SB KENTo. He suffered a broken jaw last August but never returned.

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling has announced it will hold a show on December 8 in Yuto Aijima’s hometown of Omuta, and Aijima will wrestle his retirement match at the show.

Aijima announced his upcoming retirement at DDT’s show on September 12 in Fukuoka, asking the company to hold a show in his hometown for his final match.

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