G1 Climax 24 - Best & Worst

G1 Climax 24 Best & Worst:

-          Best Wrestler: KAZUCHIKA OKADA

Now, I do realize AJ Styles, Tomohiro Ishii and Tomoaki Honma dominate most of the lists, but I gotta go with the Rainmaker here. Thing is, his stuff mostly went under the radar since everyone was talking about the other three, and rightfully so, because those three were truly glorious, but Okada was patient, scooping one good performance after other, like a silent killer, and it all paid off later, when he busted out three great matches: Goto, Suzuki, Nakamura. Add that to the early classics with Makabe and Naito, and bang, you got the guy with FIVE great matches, and his weakest rated match was ***1/4 with Yano, so there you go. The Styles match was borderline great, but got clipped down a little bit due to useless interference by Yujiro, then you got the Tenzan match, the Anderson match, the Archer match, all good stuff.

Dude’s only 26, and is one of the best wrestlers in the world for two and a half years now, consistently. Mad! He’s technically insanely crisp, tall, good looking, popular and very over with the crowds, people are not tired of him, and Gedo & Jado are taking every advantage of it.

-          Best Matches:

*****

Styles/Suzuki (8/1)

****3/4

Ishii/Honma (7/26)

Styles/Naito (7/26)

Suzuki/Okada (8/8)

****1/2

Honma/Tanahashi (7/21)

Ishii/Nakamura (8/1)

Shibata/Honma (8/3)

Nakamura/Tanahashi (8/3)

Okada/Goto (8/4)

Ishii/Nagata (8/8)

-          Best Show: 8/1 in Korakuen Hall, one of the best shows I’ve seen in my life

-          Biggest Letdown: YUJIRO TAKAHASHI

For the second straight year, brothers, and at this point, I truly believe dude’s hopeless.

-          Worst Match: Yujiro/Yano (8/8)

-          Worst Show: 8/8