New Japan Pro Wrestling 7/31/2026 G1 Climax 36 Day 9

New Japan Pro Wrestling 7/31/2026 G1 Climax 36 Day 9

Day 8 is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/new-japan-pro-wrestling-7292026-g1.html

SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs Oleg Boltin & Masatora Yasuda

Oleg and San go at it. They trade some basic holds. San side headlock takeovers him and is put in a headscissors. Oleg shoulders him over then bearhugs him. San eye rakes him to break it up. Oelg gets headscissored then dropkicked in the knee. 

Oleg takes a double boot to the gut. Oleg double suplexes his opponents. Masa comes in and dropkicks YK for 2. YK eye rakes him and Masa sunset flips him. YK trips him into a crab. YK dropkicks him in the knee then knee breakers him. YK figure fours Masa and Masa taps out.

Thoughts: It was mostly a waste of time. It got about 4 minutes or so and it was over before they even really got past the opening moves.  

Konosuke Takeshita and Toru Yano vs Hirooki Goto & Tatsuya Matsumoto

KT and Goto lock up twice. KT side headlocks him. They forearm each other. Goto lariats him. KT armdrags him. They lariat each other at the same time. Yano and Tat get in. Tat gets eye raked. Tat then forearms him down. Tat hits euros in the corner. Yano takes the turnbuckle pad off. Tat dropkicks Yano from behind then flying euros him for 2.

Yano goes into the exposed buckle and he takes a water wheel drop for 2. Goto running lariats KT. Yano then just pulls Tat down by the hair and pins him at 3:40.

Thoughts: 3 minutes and 40 seconds was the best they could give us here? Why even bother at this point? Tatsuya losing to a simple hair pull would have been hard to buy in 1950, yet alone 2026. This was just awful booking.

United Empire (Great-O-Khan, Jake Lee & Jakob Austin Young) vs. Unbound Co. (Gedo, Shingo Takagi & Yuto-Ice)

Ice's chest is purple from Yota Tsuji chopping him 200+ times the other night.

Unbound get to hit start and 4 of the 6 go outside to fight. Khan chairs Shingo outside. Young broski boots Gedo in the ring. Young then chokes him. Lee puts his glove on and boots Gedo. Lee then puts his finger in Gedo's mouth. Khan tries top in Gedo with a foot on the chest. Khan then boots Gedo while he's down.

Khan tells Gedo to hit him, then he side steps him. Shingo is tagged in. Shingo corner lariats Khan then hits jabs. Young eye rakes Shingo then gets sent into Lee. Shingo suplexes Khan for 2. Khan running back elbows Shingo then hits mongolian chops on him. Shingo double lariats the heels but gets nowhere. Shingo then hits a ddt + flatliner combo.

Ice gets in. He bots Lee in the corner. Ice running knees him. Jake knees Ice in the gut. Gedo chokes Young. Gedo sperkicks Young in the knee and tries a pin on him. Jake knees Gedo in the gut. Youngthen ddt's Gedo and pins him.

Thoughts: It had a lot of people coming in and out here as their leisure and it was all over the place for the most part. By the time someone got a few moves in, the next guy would tag in. Gedo was by far the weakest man on the totem pole here and took the loss because of it. Jake Lee was back to being an oddball after being normal for a few days.

Khan sits out on a chair on Shingo outside. Lee sends Ice into the post. Lee then handcuffs Ice to the turnbuckle connector. Lee then squirts Ice with a water gun.

TMDK (Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa) vs. Unbound Co. (Daiki Nagai & Yota Tsuji)

Oiwa wristlocks Yota and Yota forearms him in the gut. Yota flying headscissors him. Yota corner splashes Oiwa. Yota hiptosses him but Oiwa holds on and armlocks him. Oiwa stomps Yota's arm. Oiwa side headlocks him. Oiwa shoulders him over and side headlock takeovers him.

Yota gets double suplexed for 2. Hart misses a senton on Yota. Nagai comes in and hits forearms on Hart. Hart blocks his spinebuster attempt. Nagai spinning ddt's him and spinebusters him. Nagai crabs him. Nagai dropkicks Hart then Hart crossbodies him for 2. 

Yota backdrops Oiwa and Hart sentons Yota. Hart corner splashes Nagai and lariats him for 2. Hart then death valley drivers Nagai and pins him.

Thoughts: It was rushed with them trying to get in what they could before the end of their allotted 5 minutes. They did pack as much action as they could into this before it ended. This deserved better.

G1 Climax 2026 Block B Match - Drilla Moloney vs. OSKAR

DM spears him to start. DM dropkicks him between the ropes. DM top rope elbow drops him for 2. DM tries to jump on him off the apron but is caught and dropped on the rails. Os running facekicks him outside.

They go back in. DM is thrown hard into the corner and goes down. DM hits chops on Os and Os chops him down for 2. Os stomps DM. Os backdrops him for 2. Os camel clutches DM. DM dropkicks Os then powerbombs him. 

Os back body drops DM and elbow drops his back for 2. They chop each other. Os slams DM for 2. DM superkicks Os then golden ratio kicks him for 2. DM spears Os. Os rams DM in the corner twice. DM rolls him up for 2. Os sleepers him. DM misses a spear and goes into the buckles. Os running tombstones him. Os then grounded chokes him and DM is out. Os wins.

Thoughts: It started off hot and just lost more momentum as it went on. We just needed to see these guys trade bombs and big moves and instead they went to submisions. It wasn't that good.

Os helps DM up after. 

G1 Climax 2026 Block B Match - Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ren Narita

Zack wristlocks Ren and Ren reverses it. Ren side headlock takeovers him and it put in the headscissors. Togo gets on the apron and Zack goes for him. Zack backrolls him into a bridge. Zack rolls up Ren for 2 twice. 

Zack hits euros and Togo trips Zack. Ren gets a 2 count on Zack. Zack facekicks Togo off the apron. Zack then triangles Ren over the top rope. Kanemaru comes out and pushes Zack. Zack rolling armbars Ren and Ren pins him off of it.

Thoughts: It was short and full of shenanigans. There was nothing good here but at least it didn't waste much time. 

G1 Climax 2026 Block B Match - Gabe Kidd vs. Callum Newman

Gabe and CN fight outside to start. Gabe is sent into the rails. CN headbutts Gabe outside. They trade forearms in the crowd. CN kicks him in the seats. CN tries a flying dropkick in the seats but Gabe moves and CN crashes into the seats.

Gabe pushes the ref away and throws a chair in CN's face. They get in the ring. Gabe uppercuts CN. CN dropkicks Gabe. CN slingshots out, gets forearmed and is brainbustered on the floor. CN gets in and Gabe lariats CN. Gabe sends him hard into the buckles. Gabe hits mounted shots on CN and eye pokes him. 

Gabe hits chops and headbutts on CN. CN forearms Gabe. CN spin kicks Gabe in the face then spinning lariats hm. CN superkicks him and cross legged suplexes him for 2. Gabe drops him with a forearm and sends him to the apron with a forearm. CN chest kicks him down. Gabe lariats CN down then rebound lariats him for 2. Gabe short piledrivers him for 2.

Gabe hits more forearms. Gabe slaps and lariats him. Gabe his a piledriver for 2. CN takes him down with a sleeper. CN no sells 2 germans and lariats him down. CN double stomps him then hits an underhook suplex for 2. Gabe hits more lariats and chops. CN forearms and high kicks him. Gabe knees him in the face. Gabe sunset flips him for 2 then knees him in the face. 

CN puts the ref in Gabe's way and low blows him. CN cradles him and pins him.

Thoughts: It was acceptable but there was a lot of starting and stopping here. They kept falling down to each other's strikes, then the action would slow down for 5-10 seconds, then it would happen again and again. It made it hard to get any flow going and it hurt the match. There were a lot of stiff shots here. 

G1 Climax 2026 Block B Match - Yuya Uemura vs. Aaron Wolf 

Wolf's takedown is blocked. They trade arm holds. Wolf kimura takedowns him. Wolf side headlocks him then shoulder throws him. Wolf STO's him then shoulder throws him again. Yuya ties his up arm and cranks back on the other arm. Yuya yanks on the arm and elbow drops his arm. 

Yuya wraps Wolf's arm around and the ropes and rolls him up for 2. Yuya armlocks him and Wolf ropebreaks. Yuya yanks on the arm then chops him in the corner. Wolf uranage's him. Wolf suplexes him then elbow drops him for 2. 

Yuya works the arm and pulls back on it. Yuya chops him in the corner then underhook suplexes him for 2. Yuya goes back to the kimura. Wolf hip throws him twice. Wolf does a head and arm choke then turns it into an anaconda vice. Yuya rope breaks. Yuya ddt's him.

They forearm each other. Wolf hits lariats. Wolf sitout AA's him for 2. Wolf reverse triangles him. Yuya rolls him up for 2. Wolf running corner lariats him. Yuya rebound germans him then dropkicks him. Yuya takes a big powerslam for 2. Yuya headbutts and enzugiri's him. Yuya hits his front suplex then top rope crossbodies him. Yuya pins him.

Thoughts: It was almost all arm work here. These two aren't real flashy so there weren't a ton of highlights. It wasn't really a suitable main event and was just acceptable only. Wolf continues to do fine in bigger matches though and that's impressive for his experience level.

Yuya talks on the mic after.

Overall thoughts: It wasn't that good of a show. The undercard was a waste of time as usual. Oskar/Drilla disappointed. Zack/Ren wasn't good but at least it was short. Gabe/Newman had a lot of starting and stopping which hurt the flow. The main wasn't really fit for the spot and would have been better as a midcard match. I'd give this a 3 out of 10 as there wasn't anything that good here.