NJPW G1 Climax 36 update: night 18 matches announced including G1 Climax 36 semi-final round matches, Tenzan retirement, final G1 block standings

NJPW has announced the entire card for the G1 Climax 26: Night 18 event on Aug. 15. The show will feature the Yuya Uemura vs.  Callum Newman and Ryohei Oiwa and Yota Tsuji semi-final round G1 Climax 26 matches. The main event will feature Hiroyoshi Tenzan’s retirement match against Satoshi Kojima that will have a five minute time limit.

The entire card for G1 Climax 36: Night 18 follows:

• Hiroyoshi Tenzan’s retirement match: Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Satoshi Kojima (five minute time limit)
• G1 Climax Semi-Final Round match: Yota Tsuji vs. Yuya Uemura
• G1 Climax Semi-Final Round match: Callum Newman vs. Ryohei Oiwa
• TMDK (Zack Sabre Jr. & Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita vs. Aaron Wolf & Boltin Oleg & Tatsuya Matsumoto
• Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi & Yuto-Ice & Oskar & Taiji Ishimori & Gedo) vs. Togi Makabe & Yuji Nagata & Toru Yano & Yoh & Master Wato
• The Death Riders (Gabe Kidd & Wheeler Yuta) vs. Drilla Moloney & Daiki Nagai
• Konosuke Takeshi & Taichi & El Desperado & Ryusuke Taguchi vs. Ren Narita & Sho & Sanada & Douki
• Hirooki Goto & Yoshi-Hahshi & Masatora Yasuda & Taisei Nakahara vs. United Empire (Henare & Great-O-Khan & Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young

FINAL G1 CLIMAX 36 BLOCK STANDINGS

A block

*= advances to semi-finals

• Yota Tsuji (6-3): 12 pts*
• Ryohei Oiwa (6-3): 12 pts*
• Konosuke Takeshita (6-3): 12 pts
• Boltin Oleg (5-4): 10 pts
• Hirooki Goto (4-5): 8 pts
• Shingo Takagi (4-5): 8 pts
• Yuto-Ice (4-5): 8 pts
• Sanada (4-5): 8 pts
• Jake Lee (3-6): 6 pts
• Great-O-Khan (3-6): 6 pts

B block

• Callum Newman (6-3): 12 pts*
• Yuya Uemura (6-3): 12 pts*
• Gabe Kidd (6-3): 12 pts
• Ren Narita (5-4): 10 pts
• Drilla Moloney (5-4): 10 pts
• Zack Sabre Jr. (5-4): 10 pts
• Henare (4-5): 8 pts
• Oskar (4-5): 8 pts
• Aaron Wolf (4-5): 8 pts
• Shota Umino: (0-9) 0 pts -missed tournament due to injury. Did not appear after night 1.