Tetsuya Naito sure loves his baseball analogies.
As Night 3 of G1 Climax 32 gets set to roll into Sendai, Naito is once again reminding us that for him, this year’s tournament is his bottom of the ninth: possibly his final chance to get into the main event at Wrestle Kingdom. Doing so will mean winning the entire G1 Climax, and to do that, the first order of business will be taking down Hirooki Goto.
Another highly motivated participant is Tama Tonga, though in his case, it’s as much wanting to prove a point to his former Bullet Club teammates as anything else. He’ll get an opportunity to stick it to one of them, Chase Owens, directly as he opens his B Block schedule.
A battle of big men is on tap for A Block, though since that’s already being billed as the home of giants, that could be said for nearly any pairing in that part of the tournament. In this case, it’s Lance Archer and Bad Luck Fale, who clearly have already been spoiling to fight each other.
Last but hopefully not least, the D Block is set for a bout between two men who have never faced each other in singles competition in a NJPW ring, David Finlay and Yujiro Takahashi.
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