{"id":57577,"date":"2019-06-17T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=57577"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:11:35","slug":"njpw-reveals-g1-climax-tournament-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2019\/06\/17\/njpw-reveals-g1-climax-tournament-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"NJPW reveals G1 Climax tournament blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-2219077142\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>NJPW reveals G1 Climax tournament blocks<\/p>\n<p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><i>New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the following wrestlers for the A Block of the G1 Climax tournament.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hiroshi Tanahashi<br \/>\nKota Ibushi<br \/>\nKazuchika Okada<br \/>\nWill Ospreay<br \/>\nEvil<br \/>\nSanada<br \/>\nBad Luck Fale<br \/>\nZack Sabre Jr.<br \/>\nLance Archer<br \/>\nKenta<\/p>\n<p><i>New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the following wrestlers for the B Block of the G1 Climax tournament.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Juice Robinson<br \/>\nTomohiro Ishii<br \/>\nToru Yano<br \/>\nHirooki Goto<br \/>\nJeff Cobb<br \/>\nJon Moxley<br \/>\nTetsuya Naito<br \/>\nShingo Takagi<br \/>\nJay White<br \/>\nTaichi<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Powell&#8217;s POV:<\/strong><\/span> The A Block strikes me as the more loaded of the two, but there are some intriguing matchups in both blocks. NJPW also revealed the various match dates for the tournament at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njpw1972.com\/53335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NJPW1972.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Check below for the latest Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast with Jason Powell and Pat McNeill of the Wayback Playback podcast, who discusses how the more things change the more they stay the same with the return of the XFL and AEW coming to TNT, plus thoughts on WWE&#8217;s struggles, how wrestling from 20 years ago holds up through today&#8217;s eyes, and more.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: solid 1px #dedede;\" src=\"https:\/\/app.stitcher.com\/splayer\/f\/180116\/61872673\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-2688286450\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJPW reveals G1 Climax tournament&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2324],"tags":[210,2245],"class_list":["post-57577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsticker","category-njpw-news","tag-njpw","tag-njpw-g1-tournament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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