NJPW G1 Climax 33 Night time 18 (August 12) – Semi Finals

20 September 2023

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NJPW G1 Climax 33 – Night time Eighteen – Semi Finals
Date: August 12, 2023
Venue: Ryogoku Kokugikan
Time: 5:00 pm JST

G1 Climax 33 continues with two Semi-Remaining matches to arrange the G1 Climax 33 Remaining on August thirteenth.

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Will Ospreay and Tetsuya Naito each completed their block matches with a 5-2 document and with nearly a one-minute distinction in common match size.

Will Ospreay and Tetsuya Naito each enter their semi-final match with an 11-3 document in 2023.

Ospreay has not misplaced a singles match right here at Ryogoku since his NJPW debut towards KUSHIDA in April of 2016. He has gained six straight since then.
Tetsuya Naito is 3-1 in his final 4 matches at Ryogoku, together with wins over Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kenny Omega, and Tomohiro Ishii.
Within the final decade, Tetsuya Naito has gained 8 singles matches at Ryogoku, the second-most in that interval.
- Will Ospreay’s six wins are the seventh-most within the final decade.

Tetsuya Naito’s 23 G1 Climax Predominant Occasion victories are the third-most all-time. He solely trails Kazuchika Okada and Hiroshi Tanahashi.

Tetsuya Naito’s 48 Predominant Occasion wins are the third-most since 1990.
Since his NJPW debut in April of 2016, Will Ospreay has participated within the fourth-most singles essential occasions with 44.
- Tetsuya Naito has wrestled in 65 essential occasions since Will Ospreay’s debut in 2016.

Kazuchika Okada leads the all-time sequence with EVIL 6-3.
- Okada additionally leads the G1 sequence with EVIL 3-1.

Since profitable the 2012 G1 Climax in Ryogoku Sumo Corridor, Kazuchika Okada has gone winless in his final six G1 Climax matches within the storied venue (0-4-2).
Okada’s twelve singles wins since 2013 listed below are most within the final decade. None of these wins occurred in G1 Climax matches.

Kazuchika Okada holds the best G1 Climax profitable share of all time.
Okada’s 32 hours, 40 minutes, and 44 seconds of whole G1 match size is the second-most all-time (Tanahashi 46:19:54)
With a win tonight, EVIL would surpass Kota Ibushi on the all-time G1 wins record, and EVIL can be tied with Tomohiro Ishii for the Twelfth-most all-time.