Welcome to WrestlingObserver.com’s live coverage of\u00a0NJPW G1 Climax 2015.<\/p>\n
We’re looking for your thoughts on tonight’s show, as well as the previous two nights at Sumo Hall, so you can send a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match for each show to dave@wrestlingobserver.com<\/p>\n
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Shinsuke Nakamura for the G-1 Climax headlies,\u00a0 Check out our coverage from the last 2 days: NJPW G1 Climax Tournament 8-15 live results: Okada vs. Nakamura; B block winner to be decided\u00a0and\u00a0NJPW G1 Climax Tournament 8-14 live results: Styles vs. Tanahashi to determine A Block winner<\/p>\n
Coverage by Dave Meltzer<\/em><\/p>\n The last day of NJPW’s 25th annual G1 Climax\u00a0airs live on NJPW World at 2:00 a.m. ET from Ryogoku Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan:<\/p>\n It opened with Delirious doing an interview in English.\u00a0 He put over that ROH has the best wrestling in the U.S. and New Japan has the best wrestling in Japan and together they present the best wrestling in the world.\u00a0 He announced that in 2016 that ROH would be promoting shows in Japan.\u00a0 It got a polite response and some “ROH” chants.\u00a0 It sounded like something similar to Fantastica Mania.<\/p>\n JUSHIN LIGER & YOHEI KOMATSU & SHO TANAKA VS. RYUSUKE TAGUCHI & MASCARA DORADA & DAVID FINLAY<\/p>\n Fast paced opener but they were limited on time.\u00a0 Everything was crisp but Tanaka & Komatsu had a better chance to show their stuff on Sunday’s show.\u00a0 Taguchi pinned Komatsu after imitating Nakamura and then doing a near bom a ye hip attack combination after Dorada and Finlay took out Liger and Tanaka with dives.<\/p>\n HIROYOSHI TENZAN & SATOSHI KOJIMA & CAPTAIN NEW JAPAN VS. YUJI NAGATA & MANABU NAKANISHI & JAY WHITE<\/p>\n Decent match.\u00a0 Kojima, Nagata and White were all good but it was a quick in and out match with mostly crisp work and guys doing their signature spots.\u00a0 The finish saw Tenzan & Kojima hit the 3-D on White and Tenzan used the Anaconda vise for the subission.\u00a0 Fans booed Captain.<\/p>\n YOSHI-HASHI VS. MICHAEL ELGIN<\/p>\n Crowd was very into this one.\u00a0 Elgin was a big hit on all the Tokyo shows.\u00a0 The match was what you’d expect but the crowd was into it a lot more than a match of this type.\u00a0 Yoshi-Hashi got some offense in, good near falls, before missing a swanton.\u00a0 Elgin came back with a spinning chop, a spinning elbow, a power bomb into the buckles and a spinning Elgin bomb.<\/p>\n TORU YANO & TOMOHIRO ISHII & KAZUSHI SAKURABA VS. BAD LUCK FALE & YUJIRO TAKAHASHI & TAMA TONGA<\/p>\n Yujiro came out with Peter, a hot female dancer in a catwoman costume.\u00a0 Not much to this match.\u00a0 The big thing was Yano giving Yujiro a low blow and and Peter checked it out and gave an “X” sign.\u00a0 Finish was the double low blow on Yujiro and Fale by Yano, and then Ishii pinned Yujiro afer a brainbuster.\u00a0 Tonga looked good, the rest were just there.’<\/p>\n TOMOAKI HONMA & TETSUYA NAITO & TOGI MAKABE VS. HIROOKI GOTO & KATSUYORI SHIBATA & KOTA IBUSHI<\/p>\n Fun match, ending with Ibushi pinning Honma clean with the Phoenix splash.\u00a0 Lots of heat for Shibata vs. Naito and everything involving Honma.\u00a0 Toned down given the talent involved.<\/p>\n During intermission they announced that Wrestle Kingdom 10 would take place on 1\/4 at the Tokyo Dome.\u00a0 Nobody was exactly surprised.\u00a0 However, the next thing was a surprise as Genichiro Tenryu came out and started arguing with Gedo.\u00a0 Gedo brought up Kazuchika Okada’s name and Okada came out.\u00a0 Okada told Tenryu that he should be happy that he wasn’t around when Tenryu was in his prime.\u00a0 Seemed to set up Okada vs. Tenryu as the main event for Tenryu’s retirement show in November.<\/p>\n YOUNG BUCKS VS. BOBBY FISH & KYLE O’REILLY FOR IWGP JR. TAG TITLES<\/p>\n Fish & O’Reilly regained the title with Chasing the dragon first on Matt on the floor and then on Nick in the ring and Fish pinning him.\u00a0 A ton of moves and well timed.\u00a0 Crowd wasn’t that into it early on but they did get the crowd as the match went on.\u00a0 Cody Hall interfered a lot including at once point carrying O’Reilly to the back and Fish had to work several minutes on his own until O’Reilly came back.\u00a0 Lots of fast creative spots back and forth.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n KUSHIDA VS. RICOCHET FOR IWGP JR. TITLE<\/p>\n Excellent match ending with Kushida using the hoverboard lock, or Kimura, on Ricochet after Ricochet had missed the 630.\u00a0 Both congrataulated each other after and hugged.\u00a0 Ricochet seemed to be asking for one more match.\u00a0 This wasn’t out of his world athletic like Ricochet vs. Ibushi last year.\u00a0 Not a lot of mind blowing moves, with the highlights being Ricochet doing this incredible running flip over the post dive and Kushida, on the top rope did a flip dive on the post and landed badly on the floor like he’d been power bombed on the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n KAZUCHIKA OKADA & MICHAEL BENNETT & MATT TAVEN VS. A.J. STYLES & KARL ANDERSON & DOC GALLOWS<\/p>\n Good fast paced match with a surprise finish as Styles pinned Okada after the Styles clash.\u00a0 This pretty much locks that Okada vs. Styles will be on a fall PPV for the IWGP title likely in either September or October.\u00a0 All the stuff with Okada and Styles was excellent, but it was really Anderson and Taven that were in much of the time.\u00a0 Maria did one spot where she tried to seduce Anderson.\u00a0 Styles tried to calm him down until Anderson basically told him to look at her and Styles stared dancing and was all mesmerized.\u00a0 Gallows yelled at both and wanted to punch her but they both stopped him, and then all three turned around into kicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n The first G-1 champion Mr. August, Masahiro Chono came out to help announce the main event.\u00a0 Keiji Muto, who lost to Chono in the first G-1, also came out.\u00a0 Muto got a huge reaction and Chono got a good reaction.\u00a0 They are playing their stuff over the house mic before the match starts.<\/p>\n HIROSHI TANAHASHI VS. SHINSUKE NAKAMURA FOR THE G-1 FINALS<\/p>\n All I can say is the main event was unbelievable.\u00a0 They went more than 32:00 and it ended with them both on the ropes throwing elbows and slaps and then Tanahashi with Nakamura on the middle rope with his back to the ring, hit a crossbody and they crashed to the ground.\u00a0 Tanahashi then followed with a high fly flow to the back and a regular high fly flow and got the pin.\u00a0 They shook hands when it was over.\u00a0 Chono then handed Tanahashi the G-1 flag to wave.\u00a0 Both kicked out of the others’ finishers and this was basically the pull all stops out match after the great main events each man had the last two nights.\u00a0 So it looks like another Okada vs. Tanahashi Tokyo Dome main event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to WrestlingObserver.com’s live coverage of\u00a0NJPW G1 Climax 2015. 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