–> “G1 CLIMAX XX ~20TH YEARS ANNIVERSARY~” <--

NJPW, 8/7/10 (Samurai! TV)
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
4,500 Fans

1. Special Tag Match: Manabu Nakanishi & TAJIRI beat Tetsuya Naito & Takashi Iizuka (12:41) when Naito was DQ’d.
2. G1 Climax - Block A: Prince Devitt [4] beat Karl Anderson [2] (10:44) with the Bloody Sunday.
3. G1 Climax - Block B: Giant Bernard [4] beat Yuji Nagata [2] (13:05) with the Bernard Driver.
4. G1 Climax - Block B: Go Shiozaki [4] beat Wataru Inoue [0] (16:03) with the Go Flasher.
5. G1 Climax - Block B: Satoshi Kojima [2] beat Yujiro Takahashi [0] (8:20) with a lariat.
6. G1 Climax - Block A: Hiroshi Tanahashi [2] beat Strong Man [0] (6:50) with the High Fly Flow.
7. G1 Climax - Block A: Toru Yano [2] beat Togi Makabe [0] (7:18) with the Uragasumi.
8. G1 Climax - Block B: Hirooki Goto [2] beat Shinsuke Nakamura [0] (16:51) with a foot-arrangement cradle.

* Makabe and Nakamura, two potential favourites to win the tournament, have both had disasterous starts, with losses on days one and two. Both fell to close rivals today. For Nakamura, this start is the opposite of last year where he stormed through the entire tournament before losing to Makabe in the final.
* Tanahashi made sure he wasn’t in the same boat by pinning Strong Man, who has also started badly.
* Devitt, Bernard, and Shiozaki continued their promising starts by picking up their second wins on the trot.

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Block A:
1. Prince Devitt [4]
2. Hiroshi Tanahashi [2]
- Manabu Nakanishi [2]
- Karl Anderson [2]
- Toru Yano [2]
- Tetsuya Naito [2]
7. Togi Makabe [0]
- Strong Man [0]

Block B:
1. Giant Bernard [4]
- Go Shiozaki [4]
3. Yuji Nagata [2]
- Hirooki Goto [2]
- Satoshi Kojima [2]
6. Wataru Inoue [0]
- Shinsuke Nakamura [0]
- Yujiro Takahashi [0]