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August 4, 2019

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 29 [Day Thirteen & Fourteen Review]: DestinWHOA!

DAY THIRTEEN - A BLOCK – Bad Luck Fale v KENTA - Bad Match Fale needed a roll-up to defeat 205 Live's Hideo Itami! Need I say more? No, but I will. To KENTA's credit, he was able to pull one of the better matches in this tourney out of the Worst Wrestler of 2019. …

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August 1, 2019

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 29 [Day Eleven & Twelve Review]: CHAOS From The Top Down.

DAY ELEVEN - A BLOCK – Kota Ibushi v Bad Luck Fale - Kota Ibushi in a *1/4 match. Nuff said. - 1.25/5 – Zack Sabre Jr. v Will Ospreay - As great as you'd imagine. Two of the, if not the two best, British wrestlers in the world go full out for 20-minutes. From …

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July 28, 2019July 28, 2019

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 29 [Day Nine & Ten Review]: Trankillo.

DAY NINE - A BLOCK – Kota Ibushi v Lance Archer - I'm happy that Archer's vast improvement is getting recognized in the thick of Moxley and KENTA's WWE-to-NJPW excellence. Big Lance has been great. This opener was no exception, with some of the most serious knee strikes you'll ever see (sorry, Omega!). One knee …

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July 25, 2019July 25, 2019

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 29 [Day Seven & Eight Review]: Starmakers.

DAY SEVEN - A BLOCK – Zack Sabre Jr. v Bad Luck Fale - I'll take a 6-minute count-out loss for Fale! - 2.75/5 – Hiroshi Tanahashi v Lance Archer - A really good match that felt more like an appetizer for the two than anything truly epic. But the story was great and Archer …

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July 20, 2019

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 29 [Day Five & Six Review]: Who Let The Dogs Out?

I'm at Comic-Con, marks, so some of these are coming in a little late (hell, I'm watching this morning's Day Seven event as we speak!). But you can thank the lovely cardio room at San Diego's Grand Hyatt hotel for my early morning, post-convention G1 viewing pleasure during this otherwise wild nerd-out weekend. Here's my …

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July 15, 2019

NJPW G1 CLIMAX 29 [Day Three & Four Review]: The Heat is On.

NIGHT THREE - A BLOCK – Lance Archer v Bad Luck Fale - This match went a helluva lot better than I imagined. That's chiefly in part to how great New Japan is pushing their new singles monster, Lance Archer. To get a clean, pretty dominant win -- via Iron Claw nonetheless! -- over a …

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