One of the most prestigious pro wrestling tournaments in the world rings the first bell on Saturday in Chicago on Saturday.G1 Climax 36 begins at the NOW Arena with some of the best pro wrestlers New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) has to offer.The winner of the tournament will get a future shot at the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Kingdom in January.COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON FOX NEWS DIGITALRocky Romero in the ring during AEW Collision on June 15, at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, OH.
(Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)The event lasts four weeks.There are wrestlers separated in two blocks – A and B.
Wrestlers get two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss or a no contest.Double count outs and double disqualifications are determined to be draws.Block A includes: Last year’s winner Konosuke Takeshita, Hirooki Goto, Boltin Oleg, Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi, Jake Lee, Sanada, Great-O-Khan, Yuto-Ice and Ryohei Oiwa.Block B includes: Shota Umino, Yuya Uemura, Drilla Maloney, Zack Sabre Jr., Callum Newman, Ren Narita, Gabe Kidd, Henare, Aaron Wolf and Oskar."I think that that because it's a league style and it is, obviously, super physically demanding.
This is the tournament that kind of makes you a legend, if you get the opportunity to be in it," New Japan ambassador Rocky Romero told Fox News Digital in a recent interview."Obviously, it's super physically demanding.
The schedule is difficult as well but I think the popularity of it comes from it really is the highest caliber that New Japan has to offer."This tournament kind of, like I said, creates legends in the end.It's the most famous tournament.
… We've had people, you know, Masahiro Chono has been in it.Scott Norton.
I mean, Steve Austin, I believe, has been in it.So, I mean, names that really mean something have been a part of this tournament since ‘91, the inception of it."Yota Tsuji and Callum Newman face off during the New Japan Pro-Wre...