NJPW G1 Climax 35 Entrants and Blocks Revealed

By: Lewis Carlan

The most prestigious tournament in professional wrestling, G1 Climax 35, is set to kick off on July 19th at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center. The tournament will conclude on August 17th at Ariake Arena in Tokyo.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling revealed the entrants of the G1 Climax 35 tournament and their respective block placements at today’s Dominion event.

The G1 Climax 35 participants are as follows:

A Block:

• Yota Tsuji
• El Phantasmo
• Hiroshi Tanahashi
• SANADA
• David Finlay
• EVIL
• Yuya Uemura
• Oleg Boltin

B Block:

• Hirooki Goto
• Konosuke Takeshita
• Zack Sabre Jr.
• Great-O-Khan
• Ren Narita
• Shingo Takagi
• Gabe Kidd
• Shota Umino

There will be four more entrants, two to each block, that will be decided via four upcoming matches. The competitors in the four qualifying matches have not yet been revealed.

Here is the full GI Climax 35 event schedule:

• July 19 (Sat) Hokkaido, Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center
• July 20 (Sun) Hokkaido, Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center
• July 22 (Tue) Miyagi, Sendai Sunplaza Hall
• July 23 (Wed) Niigata, Aore Nagaoka
• July 25 (Fri) Tokyo, Ota Ward General Gymnasium
• July 26 (Sat) Ota Ward General Gymnasium
• July 27 (Sun) Aichi Port Messe Nagoya Exhibition Hall 1
• July 30 (Wed) Yamato Arena, Yamato University
• August 01 (Fri) Kagawa / Sun Messe Kagawa
• August 02 (Sat) Hiroshima / Hiroshima Sunplaza Hall
• August 03 (Sun) Fukuoka / Fukuoka International Center
• August 05 (Tue) Osaka, INTEX Osaka Building No. 5
• August 07 (Thu) Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• August 08 (Fri) Kanagawa Yokohama Budokan
• August 10 (Sun) Gunma, G Messe Gunma
• August 13 (Wed) Shizuoka, Act City Hamamatsu
• August 14 (Thu) Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• August 16 (Sat) Ariake Arena, Tokyo
• August 17 (Sun) Ariake Arena, Tokyo

The winner of the G1 Climax 35 tournament will go on to face the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship which is currently held by Hirooki Goto.

Zack Sabre Jr will attempt to win the G1 Climax for the second consecutive year. The last competitor to win the tournament two years in a row was Kazuchika Okada who won it in 2021 & 2022.