NJPW Announces G1 Climax 34 Participants

On Sunday, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced the participants for the 34th G1 Climax tournament.

This year will witness the G1 Climax debut of NOAH's Jake Lee and AEW/DDT's Konosuke Takeshita.

Lee most recently came up short escalating against Tetsuya Naito on All Together Sapporo event. Both will be in the same block this year.

18 of the 20 participants were announced on Sunday’s NJPW Soul tour. While the final two names will determine after a mini tournament. 

A Block tournament includes: Tomohiro Ishii, YOSHI-HASHI, Callum Newman, KENTA, Chase Owens, and Yuijiro Takahashi

B Block tournament includes: Hiroshi Tanahashi, Toru Yano, Oleg Boltin, Satoshi Kojima, Taichi, and TJP

Regarding the full announced names of the both blocks are as follows:

Block A:

Tetsuya Naito

Shota Umino

Shingo Takagi

SANADA

Great-O-Khan

Zack Sabre Jr.

Gabe Kidd

EVIL

Jake Lee

+ the winner of the mini tournament for G A

Block B:

Hirooki Goto

El Phantasmo

Yota Tsuji

Jeff Cobb

Henare

David Finlay

Ren Narita

Yuya Uemura

Konosuke Takeshita

+the winner of the mini tournament for G B

This year’s tournament will kick off on July 20, with the finals taking place at Sumo Hall on August 18.