BRM Reviews NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 8

[Big Red Machine]

NJPW G1 Climax 25: Day 8 (8/1/2015)- Osaka, Japan

JAY WHITE & DAVID FINLAY JR. vs BULLET CLUB (Doc Gallows & Cody Hall)- 5/10
Fun opener, especially the stuff with Cody Hall and Jay White in the beginning.

TETSUYA NAITO, KOTA IBUSHI, & MASCARA DORADA vs. HIROYOSHI TENZAN, TOGI MAKABE, & YOHEI KOMATSU- 6.5/10
No DQ for Teznan shoving the ref like that when the ref was trying to tell him not to interfere?

CAPTAIN NEW JAPAN, KATSUYORI SHIBATA, & TIGER MASK IV vs. BULLET CLUB (AJ Styles, Tama Tonga & Bad Luck Fale)- 6.75/10
Great heat on Tiger Mask. I hated the spot where AJ and Shibata took turns eating big shots in the corner but then barely sold them and ran across the ring to give the other guy a receipt.

HIROSHI TANAHASHI, RYUSUKE TAGUCHI, & KUSHIDA vs. CHAOS (Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI, & Gedo)- 6.25/10
Fun stuff with a good finish and almost no Yano stupidity.

G1 CLIMAX 25 BLOCK B MATCH: Satoshi Kojima vs Yujiro Takahashi (w/Cody Hall)- 6.75/10
I can see some people not liking the interference, but I’m fine with it every once in a while.

G1 CLIMAX 25 BLOCK B MATCH: Yuji Nagata vs. Karl Anderson (w/Tama Tonga)- 7.25/10

G1 CLIMAX 25 BLOCK B MATCH: Tomoaki Honma vs. Michael Elgin- 7.5/10
A great match with Elgin working over Honma’s head. Elgin’s power moves even managed to make this feel different from every other Honma match where he tries to do falling headbutts and misses so the other guy works over his head.

G1 CLIMAX 25 BLOCK B MATCH: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Tomohiro Ishii- 8/10
Shinsuke was Shinsuke, Ishii actually sold well, and they had one hell of a finishing sequence.

G1 CLIMAX 25 BLOCK B MATCH: Hirooki Goto vs. Kazuchika Okada (w/Gedo)- 7.75/10
GREAT match with some good false finishes and cool spots. I would have given it an 8/10 if the guy who had been getting his head worked over all match didn’t start his big comeback with a series of headbutts.

A good show from New Japan. B Block is kicking A Block’s butt in terms of consistency so far.

[cero2k]

"A good show from New Japan. B Block is kicking A Block’s butt in terms of consistency so far."

well yeah, one side has Yano, Tenzan, and Fale bringing them down. Block B's worse IMO would be either Kojima or Nagata, and they're still pretty solid guys

[Big Red Machine]

"A good show from New Japan. B Block is kicking A Block’s butt in terms of consistency so far."

well yeah, one side has Yano, Tenzan, and Fale bringing them down. Block B's worse IMO would be either Kojima or Nagata, and they're still pretty solid guys

Well... B block has Ishii, and I think Fale is fine for his role.
It's amazing how the Puro snobs were so down on B Block because of Elgin and Yujiro but were giving A Block a pass aside from Tenzan and Gallows.

Interestingly, A block's best matches have been better than B block's top matches.

[cero2k]

"A good show from New Japan. B Block is kicking A Block’s butt in terms of consistency so far."

well yeah, one side has Yano, Tenzan, and Fale bringing them down. Block B's worse IMO would be either Kojima or Nagata, and they're still pretty solid guys

Well... B block has Ishii, and I think Fale is fine for his role.
It's amazing how the Puro snobs were so down on B Block because of Elgin and Yujiro but were giving A Block a pass aside from Tenzan and Gallows.

Interestingly, A block's best matches have been better than B block's top matches.

but even Ishii is capable to having great matches when he wants, on the other side Tenzan is slow as hell, Yano is not that awesome, and Fale, is good for his role, but he's not having that great matches this year as he had been having during and before the Okada feud, not sure if he's hurt or something, he's just not delivering as I know he can.

Still, i think that A block has a better top of the card with Tana, AJ, Naito, and Ibushi, they all fight at an Ace level, while block B is more balanced out, only Nakamura and Okada are at that Ace level, Goto and Anderson are closest to their level, yet still leagues away

[Big Red Machine]

"A good show from New Japan. B Block is kicking A Block’s butt in terms of consistency so far."

well yeah, one side has Yano, Tenzan, and Fale bringing them down. Block B's worse IMO would be either Kojima or Nagata, and they're still pretty solid guys

Well... B block has Ishii, and I think Fale is fine for his role.
It's amazing how the Puro snobs were so down on B Block because of Elgin and Yujiro but were giving A Block a pass aside from Tenzan and Gallows.

Interestingly, A block's best matches have been better than B block's top matches.

but even Ishii is capable to having great matches when he wants, on the other side Tenzan is slow as hell, Yano is not that awesome, and Fale, is good for his role, but he's not having that great matches this year as he had been having during and before the Okada feud, not sure if he's hurt or something, he's just not delivering as I know he can.

Still, i think that A block has a better top of the card with Tana, AJ, Naito, and Ibushi, they all fight at an Ace level, while block B is more balanced out, only Nakamura and Okada are at that Ace level, Goto and Anderson are closest to their level, yet still leagues away

Eh. I've never seen Naito as an ace-level guy, and I think Anderson probably could be.

[cero2k]

Eh. I've never seen Naito as an ace-level guy, and I think Anderson probably could be.

i think that Naito's last year, he's been reaching a top level, by Wrestle Kingdom, i felt he and AJ's match was to establish who the 4th position Ace was

4th position ace doesn't make sense, but you get what i mean