NJPW G1 Climax 33 – Evening 13 – A Block Remaining
Date: August 5, 2023
Venue: EDION Enviornment OSAKA
Time: 5:00 pm JST

G1 Climax 33 continues with the A Block’s Remaining night time that includes Shota Umino vs. Hikuleo, and Ren Narita vs. Kaito Kiyomiya on August fifth on NJPWWorld.

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The staff at Voices of Wrestling has completed an exceptional job previewing the Block A, Block B, Block C, and Block D, and my good good friend J. Michael has written the quintessential information to New Japan Professional Wrestling, so after all, it solely is smart that the statistics, analysis, and knowledge that I ship to Kevin Kelly and Chris Charlton forward of each card additionally finds its dwelling at Voices of Wrestling. I’ll be posting my notes for each card of this 12 months’s G1 Climax. Beneath, check out night time one’s packet, and be happy to observe together with me on Twitter when the present is dwell, as that’s the place I’ll be including any additional bits of information that I choose up alongside the best way.

A Block Development Eventualities

Hikuleo

Shota Umino

Kaito Kiyomiya

Notice: Kaito Kiyomiya Win + Shota Umino Win = “Unbreakable Tie”

Notice: The perfect Gabe Kidd and Yota Tsuji can do is a tie for second place, and there’s no recognized tie-breaker state of affairs wherein both wrestler advances.

Match Six
G1 Climax 33 A Block Match
Gabe Kidd [5] vs. Yota Tsuji [5]

G1 Climax 33 – Match To Date

Current Historical past – 2023 12 months To Date – NJPW Singles

Current Historical past – Final 365 Days – NJPW Singles

Current Historical past – 2023 12 months To Date – Particular person General

Head To Head Historical past

Historical past in EDION Enviornment & Osaka

G1 Climax – All Time

Match Seven
G1 Climax 33 A Block Match Match
Ren Narita [4] vs. Kaito Kiyomiya [6]

G1 Climax 33 – Match To Date

• Earlier than Narita, Kiyomiya, and Umino, the final wrestler to have two G1 Climax matches finish in a attract the identical event was Hiroshi Tanahashi in 2007.

Current Historical past – 2023 12 months To Date – Singles – All Corporations

Current Historical past – Final 365 Days – Singles – All Corporations

Current Historical past – 2023 12 months To Date – Particular person General

Head To Head Historical past

This would be the first NJPW singles match between these two wrestlers.

Historical past in EDION Enviornment & Osaka

• Kiyomiya’s 3-8 file in EDION Enviornment is trigger for concern. He has received two straight right here, together with the 2022 N-1 Victory Remaining and a GHC Heavyweight Championship protection towards Jack Morris.

G1 Climax – All Time

Match Eight
G1 Climax 33 A Block Match Match
SANADA [12] vs. Chase Owens [4]

G1 Climax 33 – Match To Date

• The final time a wrestler swept their block was in 2009, when Shinsuke Nakamura did so earlier than occurring to lose within the finals.

Current Historical past – 2023 12 months To Date – NJPW Singles

• SANADA continues to journey his career-high profitable streak, now at 15 matches.

Current Historical past – Final 365 Days – NJPW Singles

• SANADA’s 18 singles victories within the final 12 months are probably the most in NJPW in that point.

Current Historical past – 2023 12 months To Date – Particular person General

Head To Head Historical past

• Because of final 12 months’s imbalanced schedule, final 12 months’s Chase Owens v. SANADA match was Chase Owens’ final match of block competitors, whereas SANADA nonetheless had extra matches forward of him.

Historical past in EDION Enviornment & Osaka

G1 Climax – All Time

• SANADA is simply 2-5 in his final block match of G1 Climax tournaments. He has misplaced two straight and 5 of his final six ultimate block matches.
• Chase Owens is 0-2 in his final block match of G1 Climax tournaments. Owens misplaced to SANADA in his ultimate block match final 12 months, however that was not SANADA’s final match resulting from final 12 months’s imbalanced scheduling.

Match 9
G1 Climax 33 A Block Match Match
Shota Umino [6] vs. Hikuleo [6]

G1 Climax 33 – Match To Date

• Shota Umino’s 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 46 seconds of whole match size is the longest in A Block and the second longest within the event (17 seconds in need of Kazuchika Okada’s 1:41:07
• Umino and Hikuleo’s common profitable match lengths are precisely the identical (11:19), however Umino has greater than doubled Hikuleo’s Common Shedding Match Size (Umino: 19:04, Hikuelo: 8:22)
• Earlier than Narita, Kiyomiya, and Umino, the final wrestler to have two G1 Climax matches finish in a attract the identical event was Hiroshi Tanahashi in 2007.

Current Historical past – 2023 12 months To Date – NJPW Singles

Current Historical past – Final 365 Days – NJPW Singles

Current Historical past – 2023 12 months To Date – Particular person General

• Shota Umino’s 61 whole matches in NJPW this 12 months are the tenth most within the firm.

Head To Head Historical past

Historical past in EDION Enviornment & Osaka

G1 Climax – All Time

G1 Climax – All Time – Fundamental Occasions

NJPW Fundamental Occasions – All Time

A Block Desk

A Block Match-To-Date Boxscore