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Andrew’s G1 Climax 31 Day 15 Results & Match Ratings: 10.13.2021

A Block still matters! Half of the block is still alive and the matchups seem favorable to keep things close!

Published

3 years ago

October 13, 2021

Andrew Balaz

A Block still matters! Half of the block is still alive and the matchups seem favorable to keep things close!

Well like I’ve been saying, at least A Block this year has a solid enough storyline even if the wrestling is spotty depending on the matchups.

Today though everything seems interesting, even the non-tournament match. Yujiro is fighting for pride, same as Tanga Loa, so we might get more punch out of them than expected. KENTA, ZSJ and Shingo need to win to keep pace with Ibushi and set up weird tie breaker conversation for the last day.

So let’s get around to this!

Ratings:

Satoshi Kojima vs Kota Ibushi: Ibushi wins via Kamigoye @14:56 – *** ½
Tomohiro Ishii vs Yujiro Takahashi: Ishii wins via Vertical Drop Brainbuster @17:00 – ****
KENTA vs Tanga Loa: KENTA wins via Dirty Roll Up @22:12 – *** ¼
ZSJ vs Toru Yano: ZSJ wins via Handcuffed Cross Armbreaker @6:42 – ** ¼
Great-O-Khan vs Shingo Takagi: Shingo wins via Last of the Dragon @25:50 – *** ¾

Results:

Satoshi Kojima vs Kota Ibushi

Once again, the non-tournament match has the potential to be the best or at least second best match of the day. Kojima hasn’t had a ton of big success the past few years since he’s fallen back into the “old veteran” status, but he still has plenty in the tank to put on a good show.

Kota controls the early pace until the head Dad of Bread Club pushes the pace and is even the first to go for a Plancha to the outside. Kojima misses the Plancha as the start to trade with Kota winning the exchanges whenever he peppers in some kicks.

The suspense pops up as they fight on the apron, and Kojima actually gets the best of the situation and DDTs Kota into the apron. The referee gets to about 17 before Kojima goes back out to collect Kota to prove a point. He wants a legit pinfall not a count out victory. Kota manages to buy himself some time with a High Kick, eventually goes into a Sitout Powerbomb, Bomaye…and that’s only 2! Kamigoye gets blocked, Kojima turns the situation into a Koji Cutter and starts looking for the Cozy Lariat after the near fall. Kota finds different ways to try to maneuver away from the Lariat, but Kojima catches him with different lariat variations.

As we get to the end, Kojima and Kota collide in the center with Kojima hitting the statuesque Lariat to prove his resolve as Kota crashes. Kojima has crowd support, looks to be in control, but Ibushi pulls out a V Trigger which really rocks Kojima. Then a Kamigoye ends things in favor of the Golden Star.

This was probably the closest non-tournament match, with the exception of the KENTA vs Hiromu match. Those two were probably the most competitive that had moments of possibly seeing the upset incoming.

Tomohiro Ishii vs Yujiro Takahashi

So this was a surprise match to me. I didn’t give the usual timeline style of coverage because I expected a small flash from Yujiro but then a roughly 10 minute murder. However, Yujiro put up great fight, didn’t look bad and even had a small fire moment that the crowd went with.

Also it should be noted that Yujiro only cheated once and that’s early with the cane and the Pieter distraction. The rest was straight forward. Yujiro fought hard to stifle Ishii’s onslaught, he even went for a Buckle Bomb but didn’t get Ishii high enough and it turned into a Power Bomb in the corner where Ishii’s head barely clipped the pad, but not enough to be an egregious error.

Miami Shine, Olympic Slam and Pimp Juice gave Yujiro a lot of momentum. Ishii fought off Big Juice twice, it was a really solid hard hitting affair where Ishii finally got Yujiro into a position to pull off the Brainbuster and that was all she wrote. Quality match.

KENTA vs Tanga Loa

KENTA decided to play with people for a while in the early moments of the match. The cheeky rope breaks and the powders in and out as you can hear them jawing at each other with KENTA changing his tune for “come inside” or “come outside” and doing his best to not crack and amuse himself. Jado puts the breaks on that as he just gets in the way when KENTA tries to powder for like the 6^th time and KENTA had one of those movie moments of “God dammit…”.

Loa takes over in the match and KENTA keeps trying to find a way through, which is just waiting for Loa to get a little cocky. Loa also has a done great in the last few matches by showing off more moves in his repertoire, this match hitting a Standing Moonsault during his early flurry. Loa fires through KENTA’s relentless kicks and hits an Enzuigiri and Blue Thunder Bomb before KENTA needs to take a breather. That doesn’t work how KENTA expected though, since Loa follows him out and starts beating on him; but then throws him back in the ring instead of taking a possible Count Out.

KENTA takes advantage of Loa coming in second. Catches him in the ropes, hits his vintage Rope Hang Knee Drop, followed by Green Killer right in front of Jado. Loa counters the first sequence attempt at the Hesitation Dropkick, but KENTA gets it the next time around. KENTA and Loa have a big strike exchange, Loa looks to end it as he gets in the 3 Point Stance. KENTA throws Loa into the referee, Loa recovers and barks at KENTA to fight him like a man because he’s been acting like a bitch all match. KENTA replies with a Low Blow.

Jado gets mad at KENTA for the blatant foul on a teammate, which actually provokes Jado to start coming into the ring, KENTA kicks the rope and takes out Jado. He grabs the kendo stick and plays some Eddie Guerrero so the referee thinks Jado hit KENTA as has been his M.O. KENTA looks to take advantage of the distracted referee, but Loa returns the Low Blow, KENTA tries to Frakensteiner out of a Powerbomb, but Loa holds, KENTA tries to drop into a Small Package, but Loa holds. Loa almost pulls off the Running Powerslam, but KENTA slips out, drives Loa into the corner, rolls him up, puts his feet on the ropes and KENTA wins!

ZSJ vs Toru Yano

Zack grabs Yano before the introduction really begins. Sleeper Hold, tries a quick roll up but Yano kicks. Zack stays on top of Yano and tries to keep the quick pinfall attempts before Yano goes to the outside to take most of his entrance attire off.

Silliness, Yano takes Zack to the back, runs back to the ring and ZSJ stumbles out with a bag over his head. Zack beats the count, shenanigans, Yano tries the under the ring thing, doesn’t work, but they end up handcuffed together. They run into the ring at 19 together, Yano gets put in an Armbar, but Yano has the key in his boot. So Yano tries to undo the cuffs, Zack pulls back harder on the submission and Yano taps out.

Great-O-Khan vs Shingo Takagi

Shingo comes out with his left side taped up a bit. Will it cost him like it did with Taichi?

O-Khan did a very good job proving his power and youthful resolve while having an above average wrestling IQ. It took a while for Shingo to fire through the punishment and apply his power game even through the rib injury.

There were flourishes, O-Khan countered Last of the Dragon a few times, Shingo countered the Eliminator and we had a power man lariat off. Shingo barely got the best of it, fuels himself to finish it, hits Last of the Dragon and keeps everything close in block.

Overall Score: 7.25/10

I can’t say I’m really surprised, and that’s not because I had Shingo winning the block, but because they played things generally safe with the outcomes. The matches were just a little more consistent than I expected, nothing was amazing, but there was variety and quality throughout.

So let’s take a look at the last A Block on the 18^th:

Kota Ibushi vs KENTA: Is probably the main event looking at the shake out.
For Ibushi to win Block: If Shingo wins, Ibushi needs to win and ZSJ needs to lose or draw.
For KENTA to win Block: If Shingo loses & Zack wins, KENTA needs to win. If Zack loses and Shingo Draws, KENTA needs to win.
Tomohiro Ishii vs Toru Yano: This will either be right before or right after Intermission probably. Ishii doesn’t really have an angle to win the Block because he lost to both KENTA and Ibushi. I suppose if we go with Suzuki’s old comment of both getting struck by lightning and Ishii wins, then there might be some math there. But Ishii is out regardless of Kevin Kelly’s sus arithmetic.
Shingo Takagi vs Yujiro Takahashi: For Shingo to win the Block: He needs to win, Ibushi needs to Lose or Draw, ZSJ needs to Lose or Draw, KENTA is a non-factor because of tie breaker.
Zack Sabre Jr vs Tanga Loa: For ZSJ to win Block: He needs to win and KENTA needs to Draw or Lose. ZSJ has tie breakers over everyone else.
So KENTA is really the biggest factor on this final day. If KENTA can beat Ibushi that opens things up to however the rest of the day shook out. This is shaping up to be interesting.

A Block:

Kota Ibushi/ 6-2/ 12 Points
Zack Sabre Jr/ 6-2 / 12 Points
KENTA/ 6-2/ 12 Points
Shingo Takagi/ 6-2 / 12 Points
Tomohiro Ishii/ 5-3/ 10 Points – Eliminated
Toru Yano/ 4-4/ 8 Points – Eliminated
Great-O-Khan/ 4-5 / 8 Points – Eliminated
Yujiro Takahashi/ 2-6 / 4 Points – Eliminated
Tanga Loa/ 2-6/ 4 Points – Eliminated
Tetsuya Naito/ 0-9/ 0 Points (Eliminated Injury)

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Mitchell’s WWE SmackDown Results & Report! (4/26/24)

It’s Draft Day!

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April 26, 2024

Steven Mitchell

And with the first overall pick of the 2024 WWE Draft, SmackDown selects…

The WWE Draft returns for 2024, the first four rounds being right here on Friday Night SmackDown! With champions protected, who ends up where to challenge them?

OFFICIAL RESULTS

Rey Mysterio & Dragon Lee VS Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo; win.

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Andrew’s TNA iMPACT! Results & Match Ratings: 4.25.2024

We just got done with Rebellion, and Under Siege is two weeks away! Gotta see how these dots connect!

Published

21 hours ago

April 25, 2024

Andrew Balaz

Rebellion had quite a few returns, Mike Santana, Sami Callihan and Broken Matt Hardy. All three of these guys could easily be main event players, and its nice to mix up and expand what felt like a rather small pool of potential challengers.

Under Siege is only like 2 weeks out, so we’ll see how the dots connect in such a short period of time.

.@AJFrancis410, Rich Swann, and rap legend @BunBTrillOG are IN THE HOUSE Meanwhile, @joehendry announces he will deliver an apology to Fir$t Cla$$ NEXT WEEK on #TNAiMPACT! pic.twitter.com/4GNe2xWfyU

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 26, 2024

Ratings:

Mike Santana vs Myron Reed w/Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz: Santana wins via Spin the Block – ** 1/2
#1 Contender: Frankie Kazarian vs Josh Alexander: Josh wins via Grapevine Ankle Lock – ***
ASH by Elegance vs Xia Brookside: Xia wins via School Girl Roll-Up – ** 3/4
Sami Callihan vs The Good Hands: Sami Callihan wins via Cactus Driver ’97 – SQUASH
Eddie Edwards w/Alisha Edwards & Brian Myers vs Nic Nemeth: Eddie wins via Boston Knee Party – *** 1/4

Results:

Did @NicTNemeth say BROKEN? @MATTHARDYBRAND has arrived in the iMPACT Zone! #TNAiMPACT pic.twitter.com/HbkUangt6e

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 26, 2024

A weird opening that is just framed to put Nemeth and Hardy together against The System. Feels a little awkward, but who knows how it will play out.

.@JordynneGrace vs @miyu_tjp NEXT WEEK on #TNAiMPACT will now be for the Knockouts World Championship! pic.twitter.com/YnKZjb9yjx

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 26, 2024

Mike Santana vs Myron Reed w/Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz

Ahh I didn’t really pay attention to Santana’s theme at Rebellion, but its pretty damn cool. Good stuff.

Rascalz blindside Santana early, but the heel advantage doesn’t last more than a few moves. Santana whips Myron from corner to corner, hits a few Hip Attacks before Myron finally dodges one and starts using his unique offense and agility to his advantage. Matrix dodge, into an Leaping Outside Back in Slingshot Codebreaker. Some more offense and Santana powders to the ramp, Myron jumps over the rope and tries a Flying Cutter, but Santana blocks it, turns things around, gets pushed forward and hits the Rolling Cutter. Santana takes out the Rascalz, heads back into the ring, Myron tries to catch him unawares but eats the Spin the Block off the rope run! Santana wins fairly quickly.

Maclin’s music hits, he tries to employ the help of The Rascalz to attack Santana, but as soon as Maclin positions himself to get in, The Rascalz bail and flip off Maclin. Maclin makes it out of the confrontation relatively unscathed, but at least we know where he’s going for Under Siege probably.

OH FUCK ME WITH RUSTY KNIVES. Because Cardona is hurt Kon is paired with SDL, and she just challenges Jordynne and PCO to a tag match. WHY!? STOP IT. This is hot garbage.

Josh Alexander comes out…I wonder who’s Super Finisher he’s gonna conveniently kick out this time? Brian Myers? Frankie Kazarian? Rich Swann? Because yes, I’m still annoyed that Hammerstone has been in TNA for half a sandwich, he already connects with a Super version of his finish on tacks, and that’s not a finish. Oh Kaz’s music hits. Okay, so time for Josh to kick out of Fade to Black or Flux Capacitor. Kaz talks smack, says he won his match too so he should have a say in who’s number one contender. Josh challenges him, Kaz says not right now, but a referee runs out and says the match is official.

#1 Contender: Frankie Kazarian vs Josh Alexander

Kaz throws his jacket on Josh’s head, and attacks him with some strikes before Josh fights back and throws Kaz out. Commercial break, we see Kaz misses his Apron Guillotine, Josh goes for the Low Crossbody but Kaz dodges and Josh goes flying. Kaz starts throwing some chops and claws at the cauliflowered ears of Josh. Russian Leg Sweep from Kaz for a near fall. Josh swings wildly and Kaz ducks the strike and levels Josh with a Lariat.

Josh blocks a Vertical Suplex attempt, but Frankie pulls off a Fisherman’s Suplex after a few overhead strikes for a near fall. Josh stands up and connects with a straight right, rocks Kaz, Back Body Drop, into a Charging Forearm, Rolling Senton, 2 count! C4 Spike attempt countered into a Back Stabber and then Chicken Wing, but Josh fights it off, rolls through and into an Ankle Lock, Kaz kicks off and into a Head and Arm Cradle for a near fall and then the Guillotine Leg Drop into Slingshot DDT spot from Kaz for another 2 count!

Fade to Black, but its fought off, Big Boot but then Kaz counters the next move with a Power Slam into the Springboard Guillotine Leg Drop, but Josh grabs the Ankle Lock! Locomotion German Suplex time from Josh, Halfhatch Suplex after the Germans, floats over for a 2 count! C4 Spike attempt again, but Kaz fights it off, dumps him over the top rope, slingshots him in and into the Cutter for a near fall for Kaz! After the 2 Kaz grabs a chair and chain, the referee stops the chair of course, so he tries the chain, EY runs down and grabs the chain so Kaz pulls the Eddie Guerrero and the referee admonishes EY, but doesn’t DQ Josh. So as Kaz is busy laughing at EY, Josh picks the ankle, Ankle Lock with the Grapevine, Kaz taps.

Tensions are sky-high between @alexhammerstone and @JakeSomething_! #TNAiMPACT pic.twitter.com/LLCUJOCy7H

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 26, 2024

ASH by Elegance vs Xia Brookside

Both are jawing at each other and then throw hands before Xia gets the upper hand with a Headscissors from the Top Turnbuckle, Charging Knees, a Flurry of Kicks, but when the ref forces some space in the corner, ASH is finally able to dodge and work over Xia with her Twisting Body Splash, a few choking moves, a corner Stomp into a Snap Suplex for 2. ASH is in charge elegantly, but the referee keeps forcing space on both of them when they go for corner attacks. Xia manages to take advantage a little, but ASH regains control, kicks Xia up the ramp and then lands her Cartwheel Back Elbow up the ramp. It actually looks pretty cool executed like that.

Headlocks and Hair Pulling to keep Xia down and using energy to kick out. ASH is getting frustrated but Xia is remaining persistent. ASH goes back to the Headlock, but Xia fights up, Jawbreaker, Back Elbow, Kick to the gut and Drop Toe Hold sends ASH face first into the middle buckle. Xia rips off 4 Double Knee Smashes to the back of ASH’s head into her Flying Crossbody for a close 2! Xia pulls her up, but ASH spins out, then Xia slips it, but ASH kicks her in the chest and deposits her to the outside and demands a count from the referee. Iceman puts Jeweled Knuckles/Rings on ASH’s hand, the referee catches her, removes the stuff from her fingers and Xia hits the School Girl Roll-Up for the flash win.

Fraud has thrown the Ballot Box Battle into chaos, but also paved the way for an explosive showdown between @TheTreyMiguel and @The_Ace_Austin NEXT WEEK to determine the #1 Contender for the X Division Championship! #TNAiMPACT pic.twitter.com/lYHrtgNrc3

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 26, 2024

Sami Callihan vs The Good Hands

So the Good Hand Jobs are about to do their job to Sami. I’m just gonna assume Sami beats the hell out of both and wins with a Cactus Driver ’97. If anything interesting happens I might actually cover it, but come on now.

.@SteveMaclin has a proposition for @FrankieKazarian #TNAiMPACT pic.twitter.com/XY6lMdmSWo

— TNA Wrestling (@ThisIsTNA) April 26, 2024

Kaz makes a Metallica reference with the “Wash Your Back So You Won’t Stab Mine”…and Sweet Amber is the only good song on St. Anger. So…I ain’t mad.

Eddie Edwards w/Alisha Edwards & Brian Myers vs Nic Nemeth

A little early ground wrestling and headlocks for control from both men. Nothing super flashy to start until we get to the rope run and Nemeth goes for the Flying Body Press to drop Eddie. Before Nemeth can follow up, Lish grabs his foot. Nic does have his brother Ryan in the crowd, trying to get chants going and do the old school ‘power up the babyface’ thing, but Eddie has been in control since Lish got involved. Simple offense, chokes, strikes, Snap Suplexes, Knee Drops, simple yet effective. But then Eddie ducks his head too early, Nemeth kicks him in the face, bounces his head off the buckles a few times, Dropkick sends Eddie reeling to the corner, Nemeth starts the 10 Count Punches but Myers hits the apron to distract and Eddie manages to slip the situation and push Nemeth to the floor.

Commercial break happens, Nemeth is trying to fight back with Chops, but a Kitchen Sink from Eddie puts Nemeth on the floor again! Clubbing blow from Eddie, but Eddie then misses the Hip Attack in the corner and Nemeth counters with the Rude Awakening into the 10 Count Rain of Elbows. Fame Ass-er miss, Eddie tries something but Nemeth turns it into that hesitation DDT for 2! Tuning up the band starts to build and Eddie powders to avoid it. Nemeth throws Eddie back in, goes to the top, but Eddie crotches him, rises up and hits the Superplex into Tiger Driver for 2! Eddie starts mocking with Tuning Up the band but Nemeth hits his own Superkick into an Olympic Slam for 2!

Both men just trade strikes Fighting Spirit style, Eddie says “Always Trust the System” and Nemeth shuts him up with a Headbutt. Danger Zone is blocked, Boston Knee Party gets ducked, they level each other with Lariats! Myers and Ryan Nemeth start fighting to distract the referee, Moose hits the ring and hits Nemeth with the belt. Eddie lands Boston Knee Party and The System wins again!

Overall Score: 6/10

A lame opening segment, a squash match, ASH by Elegance getting her first loss, and a weird way of just pulling the number one contender out of mid air makes for an awkward show. Also Kon still be involved in, literally anything, is negative. However, I can say there was a ton of stuff thrown at the wall this episode, so there’s a chance that some things landed better with other people than myself. The ballot segments were amusing, they overused the “I need to talk to you Santino” gimmick a bit much and personally I feel like having Jake versus Hammerstone is booking yourself into a weird corner.

But hey, the main event was fun, Nemeth getting laid out to the point that there could be a story reason to take him out of the Under Siege match. Kaz with the Metallica reference was pop worthy and I guess its a lot of ‘let’s see where it goes’ kind of angle creation. So it wasn’t complete trash, but its definitely a wait and see episode.

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