Watch Along: Kenny Omega vs Tetsuya Naito (G1 Climax 2017)
Added 2025-06-10 20:44:28 +0000 UTCJoin me as I watch Kenny Omega vs Tetsuya Naito at the G1 Climax in 2017!
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LFG, got six hours to kill before the night shift.
Przemek Barwik
2025-06-15 14:36:26 +0000 UTCInsane!!
DanteOnDeck
2025-06-14 13:52:06 +0000 UTCYeah I might just watch the best matches from a G1 lmao
DanteOnDeck
2025-06-14 13:51:55 +0000 UTCI'll add those to the list of matches to watch on here!
DanteOnDeck
2025-06-14 13:51:25 +0000 UTCThank you for all of this!! I'll start including the entrances in future videos and start mixing in feuds/series along with events!
DanteOnDeck
2025-06-14 13:50:15 +0000 UTCThank you for this!!
DanteOnDeck
2025-06-14 13:48:55 +0000 UTCNaito and Ibushi matches are legendary since they're both psychotic
Anthony Hernandez
2025-06-14 06:08:22 +0000 UTCJust a couple of things. -Watching a whole G1 in a week is insane. It’s a month long tournament that most years features to blocks of 10 wrestlers. Some years there’s a semi final round, last year they did a play in tournament. Needless to say that’s a lot of matches. The finals is the best record from each block vs each other. If I were you, I would simply watch dominion this weekend, this is when the field is usually announced, but this years G1 starts next month in July. -in the modern era of NJPW the winner of the G1 headlines the Tokyo dome main event challenging for the top title, though they can be challenged if they lost at any given point in the round robin stage. Last year ZSJ broke the norm and challenged at king of pro wrestling which was exciting bc it meant the top title wasn’t in a holding pattern. -Finally to understand Naito’s desperation here he was previously rejected by the fans as a top guy. Despite winning a previous G1 the fans voted for the intercontinental title to headline the Tokyo dome, dude goes away for a bit and develops a new attitude and form LIJ. This match was him clawing and scratching his way back to the main event that he was rejected several years prior. There’s a lot more, but there’s a few videos that lover his lore like super eyepatch wolf and show buckle
Denis R
2025-06-11 18:28:17 +0000 UTCA few things to note: - The story I heard with Naitos eye taunt is it originally came from his time in Mexico. Basically the crowd was telling him to open his eyes (because he's Asian...) and he co-opted it and made it apart of his character. - I was at a show where Gabe Kidd & Alex Coughlin attacked Honma and Yano before the match and threw them into the barricade which I was sitting next to. That shit ricocheted into me and threw me to the floor, it was awesome lol. - You gotta start including the entrances in this, New Japans production value + theme music + costume design makes it a must see thing (unless it's a music issue then that's totally fair) - If you think Naito tries to kill himself in these matches, you gotta check out his series with Ibushi. They got so brutal that Meltzer stopped rating them because he was so concerned for their health. - I love the idea of using that PPV/Event watch along slot to watch a feud/series of matches instead of always needing to just a single event every time - The move Naito hit was called Gloria. It's usually just a pretty regular side slam, that one is probably the most brutal one he ever hit. - The corkscrew moonsault Naito attempted was his regular finisher up until 2012 (maybe a little later) but he switched away from it because his knees were fucking destroyed. Basically any match 2014 onwards you can see his knees insanely taped up. He would pull the move out in the real big matches though. - For the longest time winning the G1 just meant you won a title shot for presumably their next big show, but since 2012 it became a world title main event at Wrestle Kingdom title shot. Though last year Zack Sabre Jr decided to use his title shot earlier, so it's not always set in stone. But, the title shot is merely a benefit. The main reason to win the G1 is still to say you won the G1. That's the accomplishment. - Naito was by far the most popular wrestler in the company basically from the moment he returned from his second excursion in 2014. If you went to any new japan show over the past 10 years you'd have seen the audience with 80% Naito or LIJ merch. He was crazy over. - And yeah, Naito fucking rocks.
Rhys Withhisspoon
2025-06-11 11:18:28 +0000 UTCBefore this, Naito was a former world champion, so he wasn't considered a slight underdog even tho KO was the reigning G1 champ. Now he just has to shake off that wrestle kingdom curse heh
Ray_Tenay
2025-06-11 06:42:39 +0000 UTCThe move naito pulled off at 28:00 was a uranagi, a signature but not his destino
Ray_Tenay
2025-06-11 06:29:15 +0000 UTCNot sure njpwworld has full ones that far back.
Ray_Tenay
2025-06-11 06:18:34 +0000 UTCI agree with that
Ray_Tenay
2025-06-11 06:17:23 +0000 UTCThe winner of the G1 gets a World title shot at Wrestle Kingdom.
Jacob Juhasz
2025-06-11 05:59:10 +0000 UTCI'd love for you to watch a full G1(I'd do one from the 90s personally) But just a friendly warning that it would take atleast 2-3 parts
Paul Watson
2025-06-11 03:24:49 +0000 UTCYou need to check out tanahashi vs ibushi g1 28 or else okada vs ibushi at wk 14. Some of Ibushis best matches
Matt Hamill
2025-06-11 01:02:08 +0000 UTCYes, the winner of the G1 gets a shot at the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, usually at WrestleKingdom.
droseReal
2025-06-10 23:06:20 +0000 UTCA full G1 is 80-100 matches. I would not suggest watching a full tournament from the past, but this summers tournament should be very exciting if you follow along live. Its 19 nights of wrestling from match 1 to the finals.
RF
2025-06-10 22:01:24 +0000 UTCAll of the “botched” spots like the table piledriver or corner headbutt were meticulously dissected by the internet at the time and people came to the consensus that they were actually planned to go the way they did. Insane work by Omega and Naito that night.
RF
2025-06-10 21:39:37 +0000 UTCAlso, Dante, I admire how much you want to watch an entire G1 Climax tournament, but I don't think one watchalong will be enough. Due to the format of the tournament, there are usually 91 matches every G1. So you can either watch the entire thing over the course of weeks, or you can ask for the best matches of a particular G1 and watch those plus the final.
Santiago Aner
2025-06-10 21:38:20 +0000 UTCThis match is amazing, I'm glad you loved it. Naito is a beast.
Santiago Aner
2025-06-10 21:35:11 +0000 UTC
