NJPW G1 Climax Night 6 Results: Moxley headlines the night

Jon Moxley (4) vs. Tomohiro Ishii (4)

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Moxley and Umino (Shooter? Sure, Mox, calling him Shooter is almost as good as calling him by his real name, Shota) fired up the audience with their entrance among them.

CHAOS faction’s veteran member Ishii looked ready to trade blows with Moxley to the very end of the 30-minute time limit. Forehead to forehead they met, and Unno separated them until the bell.

Their strikes were more exploratory, as were their unsuccessful spin kicks. But once the men had a feel for each other, Moxley’s body slam started the real action. He hauled Ishii into the audience before slamming his head into the venue’s East entrance sign multiple times.

Headbutts and chest chops kept Mox one step ahead, and when Unno tried to separate them again, Mox gave his young lion’s father a big hug. If the audience had any doubt that Moxley fights on the side of chaotic good, that doubt was gone as Mox respected Unno and brutalized Ishii.

The count hadn’t started until Unno finally got back into the ring (sweaty and rumpled from the Mox hug), and both men beat it but only because Mox tossed Ishii into the mat. After a failed pin, he locked Ishii into a stranglehold, encouraging him to quit.

Ishii refused, kicking out of a pin attempt and getting his leg into the ropes to break the stranglehold. That resilience landed Moxley in the mat from Ishii’s vertical suplex. Ishii absorbed a lot of damage, and he used the energy from that beating to turn the tables on Mox for a while, putting him into the barricade.

That was a mistake, as the chairs came out, and they dueled with the steel seats. Moxley took the upper hand and the extra time to set up one of his favourite weapons, the table. The men both tried to introduce their opponent to the table with suplex attempts, but it only resulted in more action outside the ring with another chair.

That chair had one more use on Moxley, and that was enough to stun him. Ishii set Moxley on the table and put him through it from the top rope. Back in the ring, Ishii delivered a surprising superplex and a German suplex, which was returned with interest in the form of a lariat from Mox.

Mox decided it was time to bite his way to victory, and headbutts from both men stunned, but Mox wasn’t at Ishii’s mercy at any point. A textbook Yuranagi and Regal Knee nearly put Ishii away, but as he kicked out, Moxley was setting up his finisher. He failed two attempts and Ishii took him down with a pair of lariats but not for long.

Another round of headbutts fired both men up but Moxley hit the Death Rider finisher twice to pin Ishii and remain at the top of the B-Block.

Results: Jon Moxley (6) def. Tomohiro Ishii (4) via pinfall

See you tomorrow for Night 7 of the G1 Climax Tournament!