Gabe Kidd has literally spit in the face of NJPW.
In what should have been the main event but wasn’t, Shota Umino put his IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship on the line against AEW invader Gabe Kidd at tonight’s Road to G1 Climax event.
Kidd immediately came through the audience flipping off everyone and anyone. Once he stepped into the ring he drop kicked the official and got in the face of NJPW President Hiroshi Tanahashi.
Umino came running down to the ring to fight Kidd off throwing him out of the ring like last night’s garbage. They end up fighting the crowd. Kidd throws Umino into a railing, dragging him up the stairs and into the crowd. Kidd punches Umino but Umino’s punch knocks Kidd to the ground. Kidd slams Umino’s head into a railing busting him open. Kidd batters Umino choking him out with a fan’s towel. The crowd boos him.
When Kidd comes over to the announce table he picks up the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship throwing it across the arena. An angry Tanahashi stands up to face Kidd. Kidd spits in his face.
Kidd piledrives Umino on the concrete floor and spit in Tanahashi’s face again. Umino somehow kicks out. Kidd pins Umino with a Death Rider to win the IWGP Global heavyweight Championship.
As per his duty, Tanahashi enters the ring to put the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship around Kidd’s waist while announcer Chris Charlton complained that the match should never have taken place after Kidd drop kicked the official.
Kidd gets in Tanahashi’s face and punches him. Kidd throws the belt on the floor and leaves it there while Charlton asks where is AEW management to sanction Kidd?
YOH also successfully defended the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship defeating Francesco Akira. Yoh gave Akira a running knee to the face and wrapped him in an Anaconda Vice for the submission.
In the first G1 Climax Play In match of the evening, Yujiro Takahashi, of all people, fought skyscraper Oskar for a spot in the G1 Climax tournament. Yes, it is Yujiro facing Oskar so The Tokyo Pimp needs all the help he can get…and he gets it. Oskar goes to pin Yujiro after a big slam but Ren Narita pulls the official out of the ring. In doing so, the official’s head whacks right into the corner of the time-keeper’s table.
Oskar chases down Narita. Sanada attacks from behind. Narita, Sho and Sanada give Oskar a beatdown. Yujiro grabs his walking stick and hits Oskar in the face with it. Yujiro delivers the Pimp Juice DDT but Yuto-Ice appears yanking the official out of the ring. In the ring, Ice takes care of the House of Torture fending them off.
Ice kicks and punches Yujiro in the face. Ice and Oksar hit Yujiro with KOD. The official counts three.
In the second Play In match, it was Ryohei Oiwa versus El Phantasmo. In the final moments of that one, ELP no sells a German Suplex from Oiwa. He suplexes Oiwa. Oiwa fights back with Chaos Theory and a spinning clothesline for the win.
Road to G1 Climax Night 6 Results
Yuya Uemura, Taichi, El Desperado & Masatora Yasuda versus HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, SANADA, DOUKI & SHO)
Douki pins Yasuda with his Doton-no-Jutsu finisher. After the match, Taichi runs the heels out of the ring.
Winners: HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, SANADA, DOUKI & SHO)
Boltin Oleg, Aaron Wolf, Hirooki Goto and Tatsuya Matsumoto versus Unbound Co. (Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi, Yuto-Ice and Daiki Nagai)
Oleg escapes Nagai’s Victory Roll to pin him with a Kamikazi bomb.
Winners: Boltin Oleg, Aaron Wolf, Hirooki Goto and Tatsuya Matsumoto
Tiger Mask and Jado versus Unbound Co. (Gedo and Taiji Ishimori) versus HOUSE OF TORTURE (Dick Togo and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) – Tiger Mask Final 3 Way Tornado Tag Match
This is essentially Tiger Mask’s second last match…ever. Mask, Jado and Unbound double team the House. Gedo and Jado hold Kanemaru as Tiger Mask delivers the crotch chop from the second rope. As Mask is about to pin him with the Tiger Driver, Togo attacks the official to stop the count. Kanemaru spits whiskey in Mask’s face rolling him up for the pin.
Tiger Mask promises that tomorrow, in his last match, he will give his all…and then some.
Winners: HOUSE OF TORTURE (Dick Togo and Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
Yujiro Takahashi versus OSKAR – G1 Climax 36 B Block Play-in
Winner: OSKAR
Ryohei Oiwa versus El Phantasmo – G1 Climax 36 A Block Play-in
Winner: Ryohei Oiwa
Shota Umino versus Gabe Kidd – IWGP Global heavyweight Championship
Winner: …and new IWGP Global heavyweight Champion, Gabe Kidd.
YOH vs Francesco Akira – IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Winner: …and still IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, Yoh.
