Wrestling Omakase #172: NJPW G1 Climax Night 8 & NOAH N-1 Victory Block Finals w/ Skylar

This week on Wrestling Omakase a couple of G1 Climax B Block Defenders™ report for duty, and we wrap up a great NOAH N-1 Victory as well.

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John is joined by returning guest Skylar (@Twwitterdotcom) for a whole lot of interesting takes on a whole lot of topics, including, uh, what's in the news lately. John also re-tells a memorable story based on a recent topic: their infamous run-in with Harold Meij. Then they discuss Night 8 of the G1 Climax from this past Thursday in Niigata, a B block show headlined by Tetsuya Naito and SANADA. John and Skylar are both major B block apologists so they try to defend a block that's been maligned in some corners of the Western puro internet and try to describe why they actually prefer it to A block at this point. Plus, they review all the matches from the night, John gives their top 10 matches of the G1 so far and their top (and bottom) performers, and we look ahead to Night 9's A block show.

Then they turn their attention to the final block night from Pro Wrestling NOAH's N-1 Victory, again breaking down all the tournament matches as well as the junior battle royale. The battle royale also leads us to talking the NOAH junior division and its many, many turns, but they spend plenty of time on the heavyweights and their matches as well. They wrap things up with John giving their top 10 matches of the tournament and again top and bottom performers, and both of them looking ahead to the NOAH N-1 Victory finals from next weekend, which look awesome. They also do a brief look at the upcoming AJPW Champion Carnival finals as well.

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