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Csonka’s NJPW G1 Climax 28 Night 5 Review
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Csonka’s NJPW G1 Climax 28 Night 5 Review
OFFICIAL RESULTS
– A Block Match: Jay White defeated Michael Elgin @ 17:59 via pin [***¾]
– A Block Match: Minoru Suzuki defeated YOSHI-HASHI @ 13:40 via pin [**¾]
– A Block Match: EVIL defeated Togi Makabe @ 10:23 via pin [**¾]
– A Block Match: Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Bad Luck Fale @ 16:35 via DQ [***]
– A Block Match: Kazuchika Okada defeated Adam Page @ 17:30 via pin [****]
– Follow all of my reviews at this link.
– Night One Review
– Night Two Review
– Night Three Review
– Csonka’s NJPW G1 28 Undercard Thoughts (Days 1-3)
– Night Four Review
Jay White vs. Michael Elgin: They lock up, working into some back and forth and Elgin now starts overpowering White and lays in nasty chops. White powders to the floor and Elgin follows with a suicide dive. Elgin now sets up some chairs and teases the deadlight suplex into the crowd, but White cuts him off and hits the Saito suplex on the floor. White now attacks the back of Elgin, slamming him to the apron and barricade. Back in and White continues to control, hitting a neck breaker for 2. The Muta lock follows. Elgin escapes, rolls to the apron, and White follows and lights him up with strikes. Elgin counters back, and hits a slingshot double stomp for 2. The enziguri and northern lights suplex scores for 2. Elgin now lays in corner clotheslines, takes White up top, but White fights him off, drops down and hits a Saito suplex. The urange follows for 2. They trade strikes, with Elgin taking control, and hitting an enziguri. White cuts him off with a German, but Elgin hits a German to the buckles. Elgin now looks for a powerbomb, but White counters out into rolling suplexes. Elgin turns thee tide, hits a suplex, and takes White to the top. Elgin hits the superplex and covers for 2. Elgin heads up top, and the big splash connects for 2. White fights off the powerbomb, but Elgin takes him up top and now looks for a burning hammer. White slips out and they work to the apron, and White hits a complete shot to the apron. White looks for kiwi krusher, but loses Elgin and they crash to the floor. Check yourself before you wreck yourself brother White. They break the count, White hits a sleeper suplex, but Elgin counters blade runner with huge spinning strikes. The knee strike follows, and then a rolling elbow and half and half suplex. The tiger bomb connects for 2. White fights off the buckle bomb, grabbing the ref as Elgin finally hits it and that’s a ref bump. Low blow by White. Blade runner finishes it. Jay White defeated Michael Elgin @ 17:59 via pin [***¾] I really enjoyed this, as they constantly built the action and drama throughout the match. By hook or by crook, White moves to 3-0, following his wins over Tanahashi & Okada with a win over Elgin here. This had a really nice build throughout, and the crowd was completely invested and locked in during the closing stretch. White picks up another douchey win to keep his run going. I am so over these ref bump and interference finishes, it fits White’s character, but really deflated the crowd here. Sometimes a hell, especially one you want to be a top guy, just needs to win; the ref bump wasn’t needed here.
Minoru Suzuki vs. YOSHI-HASHI: HASHI attacks before the bell, taking the fight to Suzuki and working to the floor. HASHI is fired up here, laying in chops until Suzuki cuts him off, attacking the injured shoulder around the post. Chair shots follow and Suzuki now has control and he beats the shit out of HASHI at ringside. Back in the ring and Suzuki continues to attack the arm and shoulder. Suzuki rips off the tape on HASHI’s shoulder and starts ruining his day with strikes. HASHI counters PK and hits a DDT. The draping dropkick follows. HASHI up top and the blockbuster follows. Suzuki now catches HASHI with an arm bar, but HASHI makes the ropes. Suzuki gets the sleeper, looks for the Gotch, but HASHI escapes. The neck breaker and butterfly lock follows. Suzuki makes the ropes, but HASHI gets it again. After a fight, Suzuki makes the ropes. HASHI hits a back stabber; Suzuki fights off karma, and hits the running dropkick. Suzuki now fucks him up with rapid-fire strikes but HASHI hits a superkick and cradle for 2. Big strikes by Suzuki, and the Gotch finally finishes it. Minoru Suzuki defeated YOSHI-HASHI @ 13:40 via pin [**½] They tried to make HASHI a resilient, never say die babyface and get sympathy on him but it led to a flat match that felt as if it went way too long as the crowd never really invested in HASHI.
EVIL vs. Togi Makabe: They trade strikes at the bell, EVIL lays in chops but runs into a shoulder tackle and bails. The fight goes to the floor, with Makabe controlling until EVIL sidesteps him and Make crashes into the barricade. EVIL gets chairs and does his baseball swing spot. Makabe slowly beats the count, but gets tossed back to the floor as they brawl into the crowd. Makabe manages to cut him off with a big lariat. Back to ringside and Makabe posts EVIL. In the ring and Makabe hits corner clotheslines and mounted strikes. EVIL cuts him off and lays in clotheslines. The broncobuster follows for 2. Banshee muzzle follows; Makabe escapes but EVIL rolls and gets the hold back. Makabe barely makes the ropes. Makabe fights off darkness falls, lays in chops, but EVIL hits a fisherman’s buster for 2. EVIL hits darkness falls for 2. Makabe fights off everything is evil, they trade lariats, and both men are rocked. EVIL finally fires up and takes Makabe down, hits everything is evil and picks up the win. EVIL defeated Togi Makabe @ 10:23 via pin [**¾] This was a pretty good, hard-hitting, big man match. Makabe finally takes his first loss.
Bad Luck Fale vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi: Loa is out with Fale. These two are 2-2 all time in G1 action. Tanahashi attacks with a dropkick at the bell and starts attacking the knee of Fale. Tanahashi chop blocks him now, and continues attacking the knee with kicks and a dropkick. Fale to the floor and Tanahashi follows with an apron cannonball. Fale finally fights back and tosses Tanahashi over the barricade. Fale takes the ref as Loa lays the boots to Tanahashi. Fale back out and tosses Tanahashi into some chairs. Tanahashi beats the count, but Fale immediately attacks. It’s all Fale now as he works over Tanahashi in the ropes. The slam follows as Fale covers for 2. Fale now grinds things to a halt, working a neck pinch. Tanahashi slowly fires up and starts attacking the knee again with dropkicks and a dragon screw. Fale tries to fight off the cloverleaf, but Tanahashi locks it in. Fale escapes and sends Tanahashi to the floor. Back in and Tanahashi hits the dragon screw in the ropes. Fale cuts off the sunset flip with a sit down splash for 2. The running splash gets 2. Tanahashi picks up the pace and lays in strikes, but runs into a lariat. He fights off the grenade, but Fale gets a Samoan drop for 2. Tanahashi fights out of bad luck fall with a RANA into a cradle for 2. Sling blade into a cradle gets 2. Tanahashi follows with twist and shout. Sling blade connects, Tanahashi up top and misses the high fly flow. Fale hits the corner splash and grenade for a good near fall. The bad luck fall is countered into a sling blade. Tanahashi up top and the high fly flow gets 2 as Loa pulls out the ref. God fucking damn it. Fale ends up hitting Loa by accident, Tonga in and hits gun stun on Tanahashi. Fale covers, but Red Shoes throws the middle fingers at Fale and DQs him. Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Bad Luck Fale @ 16:35 via DQ [***] They were legit on their way to a great match as Tanahashi again showed he can get the most out of Fale and they had the crowd invested. And then the run-ins and anti-climactic finish happened and it completely killed it for me. We’ll call it good overall, and at least an actual DQ was refreshing.
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Kazuchika Okada vs. Adam Page: Okada has penis-like balloons tonight. They lockup and work into a series of counters; Okada starts playing around, frustrating Page. Page clotheslines him to the floor and follows with a sloppy looking suicide dive, calling Okada a piece of shit. Back in and the bridging fall away slam gets 2. After some counters, Page hits the running shooting star press for 2. The slam and senton atomico follows. Okada fights back to his feet and hits a DDT. Okada picks up the pace, hits the flapjack and covers for 2. Okada now dropkicks him to the floor. He follows and maintains control until Page hits the buckshot lariat on the floor. Back in and Page heads up top, and the moonsault misses. Page avoids the drop kick, looks for rite of passage, Okada counters, and Page then transitions into the jig’n tonic for 2. Okada fights off rite of passage again, lays in rights, heads up top but Page cuts him off. Okada knocks him back to the mat, but Page fires up and is back up top and hits the neck breaker. Both are down as Okada rolls to the floor. Page heads up top and connects with the moonsault. Back in and the buckshot lariat gets a really good near fall. Okada fights out of rite of passage, but page counters the German and hits a dropkick. Okada fights back and hits the tombstone for the double down. They trade strikes now, and Okada hits the dropkick. Page counters rainmaker with a superkick. They work into more counters of the rainmaker & buckshot lariat, Page hits a powerbomb and covers for 2. Okada gets pissed, and hits the rainmaker and for the first time in over 40-days, picks up a singles win. Kazuchika Okada defeated Adam Page @ 17:30 via pin [****] While not a blow away match by any means, this was a great main event match with Okada finally overcoming and picking up his first win. They did a really great job of teasing Okada losing again, and Page not only delivered, but felt like he belonged in there with Okada, he did really well here as he strong 2018 continues.
G1 BLOCK A
* Jay White: 3-0 (6pts.)
* Michael Elgin: 2-1 (4pts.)
* EVIL: 2-1 (4pts.)
* Togi Makabe: 2-1 (4pts.)
* Hiroshi Tanahashi: 2-1 (4pts.)
* Adam Page: 1-2 (2pts.)
* Bad Luck Fale: 1-2 (2pts.)
* Kazuchika Okada: 1-2 (2pts.)
* Minoru Suzuki: 1-2 (2pts.)
* YOSHI-HASHI: 0-3 (0pts.)
G1 BLOCK B
* Kenny Omega: 2-0 (4pts.)
* Kota Ibushi: 2-0 (4pts.)
* Tetsuya Naito: 1-1 (2pts.)
* Tomohiro Ishii: 1-1 (2pts.)
* Hirooki Goto: 1-1 (2pts.)
* Kenny Omega: 2-0 (4pts.)
* SANADA: 1-1 (2pts.)
* Tama Tonga: 1-1 (2pts.)
* Zack Sabre Jr: 1-1 (2pts.)
* Juice Robinson: 0-2 (0pts.)
* Toru Yano: 0-2 (0pts.)
– End Scene.
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