G1 Tournament Blocks Announced: Omega and Okada in Same Grouping

New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the blocks for this summer’s G1 tournament. Somewhat controversially, Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada are in the same group.

Omega and Okada have had two much-talked about matches this year, the first at WrestleKingdom and the latest at Dominion. They are now scheduled to face to go 1-on-1 for a 3rd time in 2017, this time in the G1’s round-robin tournament.



G1 26 Block Groupings

A Block:

• Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Togi Makabe (GBH)
• Tomohiro Ishii (CHAOS)
• Hirooki Goto (CHAOS)
• Yoshi-Hashi (CHAOS)
• Bad Luck Fale (Bullet Club)
• Yuji Nagata
• Zack Sabre Jr. (Suzuki-Gun)
• Kota Ibushi
• Tetsuya Naito (Los Ingobernables)

Block B:

• Kazuchika Okada (CHAOS)
• Toru Yano (CHAOS)
• Satoshi Kojima
• Michael Elgin
• Juice Robinson
• Tama Tonga (Bullet Club)
• Sanada (Los Ingobernables)
• Evil (Los Ingobernables)
• Minoru Suzuki (Suzuki-Gun)
• Kenny Omega (Bullet Club)