NJPW G1 Climax Night 15: Penultimate A-Block Matches for Okada, Ibushi

SANADA (6) vs Lance Archer (4)

G1 CLIMAX 29 浜松大会！第5試合Bブロック公式戦、@seiyasanada VS @LanceHoyt！入場途中のSANADAをランスが強襲！抵抗されるも圧倒的パワーでねじ伏せる！果たして勝負の行方は!?登録＆視聴▷https://t.co/kIlDpxrVU1#njpw #njpwworld #G1Climax #G129 pic.twitter.com/ce5hceQeuJ

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Lance Archer came down the ramp and went around the ring beating up the ring attendants. He also braided his faux-hawk, which is, in my opinion, a questionable fashion choice. But I guess when you have hair as long as Archer, you eventually need to handle it with braids!

Sanada didn't make it down the ramp, Archer attacking him and hauling him to the ring as the starting bell sounded. Sanada's leaping rana took Archer outside the ring, and Archer speared Sanada into the blue barricade.

Archer took Sanada by the hair and smashed his face into the active camera before rolling him back into the ring and smacking another ring-attending young lion. Their traded chest chops left Archer standing tall twice, and he hit Sanada with the Black Hole Slam for a pinfall attempt.

Sanada absorbed Archer's boots and chops, and he survived being choked into the ropes. So much so that Sanada rallied with a dropkick to Archer's knee. He's far shorter than Archer, so he attacked Archer's legs to great effect.

Sanada flew into Archer outside the ring and rolled him back to have his springboard reversed into a chokeslam, then Sanada couldn't make his finisher connect. Two more pinfall attempts saw Sanada on his back as Archer stood over him again.

Archer missed his aerial attack and got his knees up to foil Sanada's jumps as well. Sanada couldn't finish his Skull End move and was caught in Archer's Everybody Dies face claw for a short time. A Japanese back-clutch hold roll-up was Sanada's answer to another quick series of reversals, and he picked up the 2 points.

Results: SANADA (8) def. Lance Archer (4) via pinfall