G1 Climax 35 Preview with John Pollock & Bruce Lord
POST Wrestling
POST Wrestling
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock & Bruce Lord kick off the G1 Climax Season with a preview of the tournament and go through all twenty participants, the major stories, and possible outcomes.
They chat about the A & B Block standouts, big matches on the schedule, Hiroshi Tanahashi’s final G1, the rising stars to keep an eye on, Taichi replacing Hirooki Goto, Konosuke Takeshita’s involvement, and what level of buzz this year’s tournament is generating.
POST Wrestling’s coverage of the G1 Climax begins this Sunday with a show hosted by Bruce Lord & Karen Peterson covering the first two nights of the tournament
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go excel and you get live editions of Rewind a raw, |
| 0:06.3 | rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown featuring all the news of the day, your questions |
| 0:11.1 | and answers, as well as feedback. Post Wrestlingcafe.com. $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:17.1 | And we now declare it G1 Climax season. I am John Pollack, and here he is the Lord of Vancouver. |
| 0:26.1 | Bruce is here with us, the man that will be one of our many members of the post-dressling army over the next month that will be tackling the G1 Climax climax the 35th edition of said tournament. |
| 0:38.6 | Bruce, how are you today? |
| 0:39.6 | Doing great, doing great, John. |
| 0:41.1 | Looking forward to the G1 getting started this weekend. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah, it takes a village to raise a kid. |
| 0:46.5 | It takes a cafe to cover a tournament like the G1 as we get into it. |
| 0:52.5 | We were talking before we started about the fact that they're starting off pretty hot with, |
| 0:56.2 | you know, two 10 match cards this coming weekend, looking forward to talking about those |
| 1:01.3 | with Karen and I. |
| 1:02.6 | And really, as I think we'll get into, talking about the tournament today, kind of seeing how |
| 1:07.8 | some of the good and the bad in New Japan right now is reflected in the tournament this |
| 1:12.9 | year. Well, before we dive into the deep end of the G1, get all of our thoughts out, I know that |
| 1:18.8 | you are a world traveler, Bruce, and the biggest question everyone has as we approach your |
| 1:23.5 | latest G1 coverage this year, have there been any specific scotches that you have been procuring over the past year |
| 1:31.2 | when it comes to your analysis and grading of the matches you are about to digest? |
| 1:35.4 | I don't know that any of the scotches that I brought back home with me back to Vancouver |
| 1:43.2 | from Scotland over the past few months. |
| 1:44.9 | I don't know if any of them are, there are a lot of like kind of one-offs and everything like that, |
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