Taichi Earns Spot In 2025 G1 Climax At NJPW Soul Event

New Japan Soul results: Final G1 spot decided after four-man gauntlet match

The 2025 New Japan Soul tour reached its end on Sunday at Korakuen Hall. The most notable result on the card saw the final entrant in this summer’s G1 Climax tournament decided. It was Taichi who claimed the final spot in the A Block of G1 Climax 35, winning a four-man gauntlet match. The place in the tournament needed to be filled due to injury to Hirooki Goto. The gauntlet match to determine his replacement also featured Tomohiro Ishii, Satosh…

Taichi Earns Spot In 2025 G1 Climax At NJPW Soul Event

Taichi has earned a place in this years G1 Climax. Earlier this week, it was announced that Hirooki Goto would be withdrawing from the 2025 G1 Climax tournament, and on July 6th, NJPW would hold play-in gauntlet featuring Tomohiro Ishii, Taichi, Satoshi Kojima and Chase Owens on their NJPW Soul event. In the gauntlet, it would come down for Tomohiro Ishii and Taichi, with the pair putting on a match that has drawn praise from many fans in the af…