G1 Climax 25 Day 1

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Thought I may as well do this since I am going to be watching this. The standard Vets and Young Lions tag match has just finished so into the actual show

 

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Cody Hall and Yujiro Takahashi Vs Hirooki Goto and Captain "Fookin" New Japan this should be a rather fun match, though it is a given that either Cody Hall or Captain New Japan are taking the pin

 

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I love how epic Goto's entrance theme is

 

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Cody Hall has shitty tattoos.

 

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Cody Hall is also that tiny bit too short to truly pull off the step over the top rope thing, Its clear he is on the tips of his toes doing it. Though he does have some ability to do the power spots.

 

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He also has a pretty decent jumping elbow drop.

 

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But yeah pretty typical heel tactics from the Bullet Club representation.

 

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nice hangman spot by Takahashi on Goto

 

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Captain New Japan and Goto pulled off a Young Bucks spot with the Lariat. But as expected Cody Hall took the pin. Goto indicating to Takahashi that he will lose I assume, it makes sense since they are both in Block B

 

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I have nothing but respect for the young boys, wrestle in the dark match then get out and then do the ring stuff

 

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Machine Gun with his fashion Accessory Tama Tonga in a Tag team match against Shinsuke Nakamura and YOSHI HASHI

 

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So Machine Gun Vs Nakamura from this brief exchange is looking like a potentially good match.

 

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Kawaii Tama Tonga is Kawaii

 

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that shoulder/neck breaker looked nasty

 

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I want to see more Machine Gun/Nakamura as a match, and since this is the G1 we will get that match since they are both in Block B

 

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Gun Stun and Boma-Ye avoidance lessons aplenty this match

 

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The distance that Tama Tonga gets on his corner splashes is impressive

 

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Nakamura with the pin on Tama Tonga

 

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Ryusuke Taguchi and KOJIMAAA!!!!! and Michael Elgin Vs. Tomohiro Ishii, Okada and Gedo

 

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hey look there is Jay white a kiwi. There is a reason I use Okada's theme as my ringtone, it is just awesome

 

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Elgin is living his dream, performing in Japan and starting out against Okada, not a bad way to start and winning the strength spot as well

 

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Elgin vs Ishii is something I never knew I wanted until this moment

 

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Naomi should learn from Taguchi how to truly use butt based offense

 

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Kojima is in the standard older Japanese wrestler role. He is a grump. The older they get the more of a grump they get

 

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That was an insane delayed verticle suplex on Gedo by Elgin, gets kicked in the gut by both Okada and Ishii and lifts Gedo back up both times