New Japan Pro Wrestling has released information on this year’s G1 Climax Tournament, which has for the past few years provided some of the greatest matches – and by far the greatest tournaments – in pro wrestling history.
This year’s event will take place over 20 shows, between July 20th and August 16th. The final six shows will all take place in Tokyo, with the August 9-12th shows at Korakuen Hall and the August 14-16 shows at Ryougoku Sumo Hall.
Here is the lineup for this year’s show, with brackets to be announced later:
Kazuchika Okada
AJ Styles
Hirooki Goto
Togi Makabe
Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Hiroshi Tanahashi
Yuji Nagata
Satoshi Kojima
Tetsuya Naito
Katsuyori Shibata
Shinsuke Nakamura
Toru Yano
Tomohiro Ishii
Yujiro Takahashi
Karl Anderson
Doc Gallows
Bad Luck Fale
Michael Elgin
Kota Ibushi
Tomoaki Honma
