Goto to miss G1 Climax 35, NJPW announces match to determine final A block entrant

Former NJPW World Hvt. Champion Hirooki Goto has been removed from the G1 Climax 35 tournament due to an elbow injury he suffered during his IWGP World Hvt. Championship title defense against Zack Sabre Jr. on June 29 at Tanahashi Jam.

NJPW initially announced he was off the July 4 Soul event after Tanahashi Jam due to an elbow injury. It was then announced today that he has been ruled out of the entire G1 Climax 35 tournament because of the same elbow injury. The company also announced that the last participant in the A Block would be determined by a Gauntlet match that would see Tomohiro Ishii vs. Taichi vs. Satoshi Kojima vs. Chase Owens at the July 6 Soul event. 

Here are the current G1 Climax 35 blocks:

A Block

• Hirooki Goto (out)
• Oleg Boltin
• Yuya Uemura
• Yota Tsuji
• David Finlay
• Evil
• Sanada
• Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Callum Newman
• Ryohei Oiwa

B Block

• El Phantasmo
• Shota Umino
• Shingo Takagi
• Zack Sabre Jr. 
• Great-O-Khan
• Gabe Kidd
• Ren Narita
• Konosuke Takeshita
• Drilla Moloney
• Yoshi-Hashi