Who Eddie Kingston Will Face In NJPW G1 Climax Tournament

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The brackets for the 2023 NJPW G1 Climax tournament have now been revealed, confirming some huge matchups for the summer.

The lineup for the upcoming tournament was previously announced, confirming that AEW/ROH star Eddie Kingston will wrestle in the Japanese tournament.

NJPW has now confirmed the blocks for the tournament, which are as follows:

A Block 

SANADA

Shota Umino

Yota Tsuji

Ren Narita

Chase Owens

Hikuleo

Gabriel Kidd

Kaito Kiyomiya

B Block

Kazuchika Okada

YOSHI-HASHI

Tanga Loa

El Phantasmo

Taichi

KENTA

Great-O-Khan

Will Ospreay

C Block

Tomohiro Ishii

Tama Tonga

Mikey Nichols

Shingo Takagi

Eddie Kingston

Aaron Henare

EVIL

David Finlay

D Block

Hiroshi Tanahashi

Hirooki Goto

Toru Yano

Tetsuya Naito

Zack Sabre Jr.

Jeff Cobb

Shane Haste

Alex Coughlin

The tournament will begin with a round-robin format, meaning each star will face every other competitor in their specific block.

After block competition is done, the four points leaders (one from each block) will advance to the semi-finals.

Two semi-final matches will take place to determine the two stars that will meet in the grand final of the G1 Climax 33 tournament. The winner will earn the right to challenge for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Kingdom 18 in January 2024, but will defend their #1 contendership along the way.

This means that, regardless of how well he does, Eddie Kingston, for example, will have seven guaranteed tournament matches, with one of them notably seeing Kingston battle Tomohiro Ishii in singles action.

Kingston is also set to face former IWGP Heavyweight Champions EVIL and Shingo Takagi.

Another huge match that will take place in block action will be Kazuchika Okada vs Will Ospreay in the B block.

An update has emerged on a huge match that has reportedly been discussed for AEW X NJPW Forbidden Door, which you can read more about right here.

C Block

Tomohiro Ishii
Tama Tonga
Mikey Nichols
Shingo Takagi
Eddie Kingston
Aaron Henare
EVIL
David Finlay

D Block

Hiroshi Tanahashi
Hirooki Goto
Toru Yano
Tetsuya Naito
Zack Sabre Jr.
Jeff Cobb
Shane Haste
Alex Coughlin

Interesting selections here! #njroad #G1Climax33

— SP3 | Jerome YouTube (@TruHeelSP3) June 10, 2023

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