Right now they're having their annual G-1 Climax. Twenty wrestlers split in two 10-man round robin tournaments over nine straight days all over Japan. The winners from each block then face each other in the finale and get a title shot.

I'm telling you; every style you can find - aerialist, groundwork, amateur style, strong style, brawler, muscle - is in this tournament. Night 2 ranks up there with Payback as the wrestling show of the year. Today is Night 5. New Japan about 16 months ago took Kazuchika Okada, who was in TNA languishing as Samoa Joe's sidekick, gave him a rich kid with bling gimmick and within a month of his debut they put the title on him and began a new renaissance in purosesu.

In WWE and TNA, there are only a handful of guys in each company that are good to great workers. In New Japan, there's only a handful of guys that AREN'T. And the gimmicks are great as well; I don't need to know a lick of Japanese to understand them or the feuds.

This is a big contender for match of the year. If you got about 20 mins, take a look at it (ignore the first two minutes; no audio is due to NJPW not having rights to play Ishii's entrance music on their iPPV telecasts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTxWRNYB7tE

That was the main event of Night 2. Tanahashi is the former champion, considered the John Cena of the company; top babyface and top draw. However he's in Tokyo, which has a hardcore audience, and Ishii is considered a legit shooter. The last 5-10 minutes of this match is some of the best wrestling you'll see this year.
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