{"id":102661,"date":"2021-10-18T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=102661"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:55:57","slug":"g1-climax-31-b-block-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/18\/g1-climax-31-b-block-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: G1 Climax 31 B Block Final (10\/20\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all comes down to this in the B Block as Jeff Cobb and Kazuchika Okada will battle it out to decide who wins the block and goes on to face\u00a0<strong>Kota Ibushi\u00a0<\/strong>in the G1 Climax 31 Final.\u00a0 Cobb and Okada isn&#8217;t the only big match that will take place at the Nippon Budokan but it is the only match with tournament ramifications.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s take a look at the full card for the G1 Climax 31 B Block final day.<\/p>\n<h2>G1 Climax 31 B Block Final Card (10\/20\/21)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kosei Fujita &amp; Ryohei Oiwa vs BUSHI &amp; Hiromu Takahashi<\/li>\n<li>B Block: YOSHI-HASHI vs Chase Owens<\/li>\n<li>B Block: Hirooki Goto vs Tama Tonga<\/li>\n<li>B Block: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Taichi<\/li>\n<li>B Block: SANADA vs EVIL<\/li>\n<li>B Block: Kazuchika Okada vs Jeff Cobb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Kazuchika Okada (14) vs Jeff Cobb (16)<\/h3>\n<p>The only two men left alive in the block will collide on the final day to settle their rivalry.\u00a0 Okada has problems with Cobb dating back to Cobb joining the United Empire which immediately pit him against Okada.\u00a0 With the Empire&#8217;s leader\u00a0<strong>Will Ospreay\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/08\/15\/will-ospreay-returns\/\" target=\"_self\">not in Japan<\/a> right now Jeff Cobb has taken up the mantle as Okada&#8217;s main rival with the two currently 1-1 in singles matches in 2021.\u00a0 Okada does have an edge in their all-time W\/L record as he beat Cobb in last year&#8217;s G1 Climax.\u00a0 Jeff Cobb is currently looking to do the impossible and run through his block unbeaten but he has a major roadblock in the form of Kazuchika Okada who has already beaten him twice in singles matches.\u00a0 With how things are shaping up we predict that Kazuchika Okada will walk away from this match with the win and slip into the G1 final.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and AEW Dark: Elevation (Monday nights) and AEW: Dark (Tuesday nights) at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>. AEW Rampage airs on TNT at 10 PM EST every Friday night.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all comes down to this in the B Block as Jeff Cobb and Kazuchika Okada will battle it out to decide who wins the block and goes on to face\u00a0Kota Ibushi\u00a0in the G1 Climax 31 Final.\u00a0 Cobb and Okada isn&#8217;t the only big match that will take place at the Nippon Budokan but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":102662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6975,14,2192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-wrestling","category-njpw","category-wrestling"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}