Various: G1 Climax 2018 Night 12 Results, Jericho on Roman Reigns, Indies

NJPW G1 Climax 2018 Night 12 Results – August 1, 2018

August 1, 2018
Kagoshima, Japan – Kagoshima Arena
English commentary: Kevin Kelly and Rocky Romero.

Quick match results:
1) Tanga Loa & Bad Luck Fale defeated Shota Umino & Michael Elgin via pinfall.
2) Chase Owens & Hangman Page defeated Toa Henare & Togi Makabe via pinfall.
3) Sho & YOSHI-HASHI defeated Yoh & Jay White via submission.
4) BUSHI & EVIL defeated David Finlay & Hiroshi Tanahashi via pinfall.
5) El Desperado & Minoru Suzuki defeated Gedo & Kazuchika Okada via pinfall.
6) G1 Climax 28 B Block – Tama Tonga (2-4) defeated Tomohiro Ishii (2-4) via pinfall.
7) G1 Climax 28 B Block – Juice Robinson (2-4) defeated SANADA (3-3) via pinfall.
8) G1 Climax 28 B Block – Tetsuya Naito (5-1) defeated Toru Yano (1-5) via pinfall.
9) G1 Climax 28 B Block – Kenny Omega (6-0) defeated Zack Sabre Jr. (3-3) via pinfall.
10) G1 Climax 28 B Block – Kota Ibushi (4-2) defeated Hirooki Goto (2-4) via pinfall.

Chris Jericho Comments on Roman Reigns’ Issues with Positive Crowd Support

Recent episode of The Jim Ross Report podcast show had Chris Jericho as the guest and one of the topics discussed involved how to help fix Roman Reigns on-going issues with generating positive crowd reactions.

“It is [difficult to be a heel nowadays], but, once again, I’ve worked with Roman Reigns in 2017, I don’t know, two dozen times. I had so much fun working with him in every single aspect and I’d say in those two dozen times there were only two or three times where he wasn’t the super over babyface. You just have to know what to do [as a heel]. You have to know how to live in that moment. Just be a piece of s–t, man! It’s really easy to do if you know how to tap into it and Roman is a tremendous worker. He’s fun to work with. So, once again, heel/babyface, all I know is that it’s the proverbial thing where if you show up at the arena, and you look at the card on the wall, and you see, ‘okay, Jericho versus Roman Reigns’, I’m like, ‘okay, I’m done. See you in two hours. Let’s just go out there and have fun.’ You don’t have to sit there. You don’t have to worry. You don’t have to go over a bunch of s–t. You just go in there and just work.”

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Rock band Downstait announced on Twitter that they will be releasing the official theme song for All In on August 3rd.

PWInsider reported Major League Wrestling recently signed former MLW World Heavyweight champion Shane Strickland to a “long term” contract. It was also reported the company is currently in the process of locking up more of their roster to new contracts.

NJPW announced Jado will miss the rest of this year’s G1 Climax tournament due to issues related to a foot injury he suffered late last month.