During Sunday’s Kizuna Road card, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced the participants for this year’s G1 Climax tournament, which begins Saturday, July 14th and concludes with three straight nights at Budokan Hall on August 10th, 11th, and 12th.
Below is the list of this year’s participants:
*Kenny Omega, IWGP heavyweight champion
*Michael Elgin
*Jay White, United States champion
*Hiroshi Tanahashi
*Togi Makabe
*Juice Robinson
*Kazuchika Okada
*Hirooki Goto, NEVER Openweight champion
*Tomohiro Ishii
*Toru Yano
*Yoshi-Hashi
*Bad Luck Fale
*Tama Tonga
*Hangman Page
*Tetsuya Naito
*EVIL
*Sanada
*Minoru Suzuki
*Zack Sabre Jr.
*Kota Ibushi
The 20 entrants match the same number of participants as last year’s G1.
Jay White and Hangman Page will be entering their first G1 and replacing Yuji Nagata and Satoshi Kojima from last year’s lineup.
