NJPW G1 Climax Night 16 Results – August 9, 2023
Location: Shizuoka Japan
Venue: Act City Hamamatsu
Tag Team Match
Strong Openweight Champion Eddie Kingston & Yuto Nakashima vs. House Of Torture (Evil & Sho)
Sho hits Yuko Nakashima with the Cross Armed Piledriver to get the win.
Winners: House Of Torture (8:31)
Rate: 4
Tag Team Match
TMDK (Mikey Nicholls & Kosei Fujita) vs. Kaito Kiyomiya & Ryohei Oiwa
Match ends when Mikey Nicholls hits Ryohei Oiwa with a Sliding Lariat to get the win for TMDK.
Winners: TMDK (10:05)
Rate: 6
6 Man Tag Team Match
Bullet Club (NEVER Openweight Champion David Finlay, Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion Gabriel Kidd & Gedo) vs. Shota Umino, Hikuleo & Master Wato
Master Wato makes Gedo tap out to The Vendaval.
Winners By Submission: Shota Umino, Hikuleo & Master Wato (10:07)
Rate: 6
Tag Team Match
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champion Tomohiro Ishii & Tomoaki Honma vs. United Empire (Henare & Great O Khan)
Henare drills Tomoaki Honma to the mat with Streets Of Rage for the win.
Winners: United Empire (10:53)
Rate: 6
6 Man Tag Team Match
Strong Style (Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado & Ren Narita) vs. Los Ingobernables De Japon (Shingo Takagi, Bushi & Yota Tsuji)
Match ends when Ren Narita locks Bushi in the Cobra Twist & Bushi taps out.
Winners By Submission: Strong Style (10:19)
Rate: 7
Block D Match Of The 2023 G1 Climax
Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion Alex Coughlin (4) vs. Toru Yano (4)
Gabriel Kidd attacks Toru Yano from behind in the aisle as we’ve some double teaming before the bell as they are burying Yano under guard railing before Yano gets sent into his chair but he trips Alex Coughlin into it before wiping out Kidd with a chair shot.
Coughlin gets the chair too before Kidd gets drag up the aisle with his head in a chair and all the way to the back.
Yano turns his attention to Coughlin & he gets thrown into the crowd but Coughlin just throws Yano into the chairs before he flung a few more chairs around the crowd as both guys ended up all over the crowd.
The bell finally rings & Yano has removed a corner pad & Coughlin gets thrown into it then sent into the ropes for a wrist tape clothesline and choke before Coughlin took Yano into the same exposed corner ahead of a shoulder tackle but Yano returns with a slingshot to take Coughlin chin first into the corner.
A powerbomb gets escaped as Coughlin shoved Yano into the referee & he spills to the outside as we see Kidd return to ringside & he pulls out a table as Coughlin threatened to suplex Yano from the ring and through it but Yano avoids it as Kidd jumps on him once more.
Kidd demolishes a guard rail then gets sent through that table, before Yano pulls out scissors & the ref is back as Yano threatened to stab Coughlin with the scissors but the ref takes the scissors & the ref misses Coughlin hitting Yano with Strong Openweight Tag Team Title before he hits Jackhammer to get the win.
Winner: Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion Alex Coughlin (6) (5:07)
Rate: 5
Block D Match Of The 2023 G1 Climax
Jeff Cobb (8) vs. Shane Haste (4)
Jeff Cobb must win to advance.
Match starts off with a lock up then Shane Haste goes to the ropes before he reaches for them again as Cobb put him in a wristlock as Cobb rolls free as Haste reversed the hold before he caught Haste’s leapfrog and turned it into a suplex attempt.
Haste slips out but got taken outside with a dropkick where he capitalized by taking Cobb into the rails then the post before lifting him up for an apron powerbomb.
Cobb beats the count out but Haste is right on him with stomps and a chinlock but Cobb breaks free by taking Haste back into the corner for a series of clotheslines.
A running back suplex takes Haste out of the corner while a standing moonsault gets a near fall before a running knee from Haste almost gets a 2 count.
Haste pulls up Cobb for a Falcon Arrow but Cobb kicks out at two before they went back & forth on uppercuts before a dropkick takes Cobb outside as they fight up the aisle as Haste tries for a piledriver on the ramp but ends up bouncing with a back body drop from Cobb.
Cobb heads back to the ring but Haste tries to stop him to force a draw clinging onto Cobb and hooking his leg on the guard rails as we get a double Count Out.
Winner: No One (Double Count Out) (11:10) (Both men get a point)
Rate: 6
Champion vs. Champion Block D Match Of The 2023 G1 Climax
IWGP Tag Team Champion Hirooki Goto (6) vs. Television Champion Zack Sabre Jr (8)
Hirooki Goto must win and for Hiroshi Tanahashi & Cobb to lose to advance.
Zack Sabre Jr must outscore either Tetsuya Naito or Cobb.
Match starts off with Zack Sabre Jr took Hirooki Goto into the ropes only for Goto to come back with a hiptoss and a shoulder tackle then heading to the outside ZSJ goes after Goto’s ribs before pulling him into a bow & arrow hold back inside as the ropes eventually saved Goto.
A kick to the back winds up Goto but a hiptoss from Goto allowed ZSJ to slide in with a Cobra Twist. Grounded the hold ZSJ ends up rolling into the ropes again before Goto returned with a clothesline then with a back suplex to pick up a two count.
Goto gets caught on the top rope as ZSJ looks to be on the defensive as elbows soften up Goto but he shoves down ZSJ but he pops up then wandered into a hanging choke in the ropes then he relinquishing the hold Goto returns to the top rope but a elbow drop gets caught and turned into an armbar with the ropes once again saving Goto.
They trade clotheslines as Goto tried to get back into it eventually knocking down ZSJ ahead of an ushigoroshi then back suplexes continued to bounce ZSJ but he hits back with a backbreaker to cut off Goto before a Zack Driver plants Goto.
ZSJ can’t make the cover though as they are trading strikes only for ZSJ to come back with an overhead kick to the arm before a mid kick from Goto nails ZSJ before GTW gets a near fall then a GTR follows but ZSJ countered into a rear naked choke then into a European Clutch for a near fall.
Goto connects with a headbutt but ZSJ goes back to the ribs as a manjigatame pulls Goto to the mat where a tied up double armbar forces Goto to verbally give up.
Winner: Television Champion Zack Sabre Jr (10) (ZSJ advances to the Quarter Finals)
Rate: 8 (Recommend)
Block D Match Of The 2023 G1 Climax
NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi (6) vs. Tetsuya Naito (8)
If Tanahashi wins or goes to a draw ZSJ & Jeff Cobb advances.
If Naito wins him & ZSJ advances.
Match starts off with Hiroshi Tanahashi hits Tetsuya Naito with an inside cradle then rolling outside Naito gathers his thought, then returned to lock up with Tanahashi only to get drag down in a side headlock then Naito does some hair pulling breaks the hold but Tanahashi tries the same trick as things head into the corner where a springboard crossbody helps take down Naito.
Naito goes back to the hair as he pulls down Tanahashi in a neckbreaker then stretched Tanahashi over the ropes with another hair pull then Naito takes a trip to the guard rails before Naito then grounds him back inside with the leg nelson before Tanahashi avoiding a Combinacion Cabron as a forearm took down Naito.
A slam and a flip senton out of the corner gets Tanahashi a two count while a dropkick to the knee and a dragon screw takes down Naito then Naito connects with an armdrag and a low dropkick then Tanahashi hits a dragon screw in the ropes to block Combinacion Cabron.
Tanahashi hits Ace’s High to the floor then he rolls Naito back into the ring for a sling blade then heading up top a 2nd Ace’s High connects before he goes for High Fly Flow but he lands on Naito’s knees then both men get back to their feet to trade blows as Naito followed in with elbows to the neck as Tanahashi ended up flopping to the mat once more.
Naito measures up Tanahashi in the corner for Esperanza before Tanahashi elbows away a Destino and caught Naito with an inside cradle for a near fall before a Twist & Shout follows then a bridging German suplex before Naito spikes Tanahashi with a tornado DDT for the win.
Winner: Tetsuya Naito (10) (17:54) (Naito takes 1st Place & ZSJ takes 2nd Place)
Rate: 7
Final Block D Standings After Night 16
1st Place- Television Champion Zack Sabre Jr & Tetsuya Naito (10 Points) (5-2) (Naito takes 1st due to the tie breaker over ZSJ)
2nd Place- Jeff Cobb (9 Points) (4-2-1)
3rd Place- NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi, Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion Alex Coughlin & IWGP Tag Team Champion Hirooki Goto (6 Points) (3-4)
4th Place- Shane Haste (5 Points) (2-4-1)
Last Place- Toru Yano (4 Points) (2-5)
Quarter Finals (August 10th)
Block A Winner 1 IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Sanada vs. Block C Winner 2 Evil
Block B Winner 1 NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Team Champion Kazuchika Okada vs. Block D Winner 2 Television Champion Zack Sabre Jr
Block C Winner 1 NEVER Openweight Champion David Finlay vs. Block B Winner 2 United States Champion Will Ospreay
Block D Winner 2 Tetsuya Naito vs. Block A Winner 2 Hikuleo
