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G1 Climax

The G1 Climax, started in 1991, is one of the most prestigious annual wrestling tournaments in the world. Wrestlers ranging from Ric Flair to Big Van Vader to Shinya Hashimoto to Steve Austin have participated in the G1 Climax throughout its history. New Japan wrestlers dominate the event but each year there are various freelancers and invaders from other promotions to ensure that the tournament is always different and always unpredictable. Through the years the tournament has changed in the number of participants and style, but since 1999 it has been a round robin tournament with at least two blocks. Below I have listed every G1 Climax with the participants, the Semi Final (if there was one), and the Finals. Each wrestler name will bring you to that wrestler's profile if you click on it. For each round robin style tournament, the wrestlers are listed by row in their block in the order that they finished. For single elimination tournaments, the wrestlers are lined up over the wrestler that they defeated in the first round.

1991

Participants (Round Robin):

Keiji Mutoh	Tatsumi Fujinami	Scott Norton	Big Van Vader	Masahiro Chono	Shinya Hashimoto	Bam Bam Bigelow	Riki Choshu

Finals:

Masahiro Chono defeats Keiji Mutoh in 29 minutes, 31 seconds with a Powerbomb

1992

Participants (Single Elimination):

Steve Austin	Scott Norton	Keiji Mutoh	Masahiro Chono	Kensuke Sasaki	Terry Taylor	Shinya Hashimoto	Rick Rude
Arn Anderson	Bam Bam Bigelow	Barry Windham	Tony Halme	Jim Neidhart	Hiroshi Hase	The Barbarian	Strong Machine

Semi Finals:

Rick Rude defeats Kensuke Sasaki	Masahiro Chono defeats Keiji Mutoh

Finals:

Masahiro Chono defeats Rick Rude in 29 minutes, 44 seconds with a STF

1993

Participants (Single Elimination):

Hiromichi Fuyuki	Strong Machine	Masahiro Chono	Hiroshi Hase	Kengo Kimura	Osamu Kido	Keiji Mutoh	Tatsumi Fujinami
Takayuki Iizuka	Shiro Koshinaka	Ashura Hara	Shinya Hashimoto	Michiyoshi Ohara	Takashi Ishikawa	Great Kabuki	Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Semi Finals:

Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Keiji Mutoh	Hiroshi Hase defeats Masahiro Chono

Finals:

Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Hase in 21 minutes, 49 seconds with a Scorpion Deathlock

1994

Participants (Round Robin):

Masahiro Chono	Keiji Mutoh	Riki Choshu	Yoshiaki Yatsu	Yoshiaki Fujiwara	Osamu Kido
Power Warrior	Hiroshi Hase	Shinya Hashimoto	Tatsumi Fujinami	Shiro Koshinaka	Takayuki Iizuka

Finals:

Masahiro Chono defeats Power Warrior in 21 minutes, 51 seconds with a STF

1995

Participants (Round Robin):

Keiji Mutoh	Masahiro Chono	Ric Flair	Shiro Koshinaka	Shinya Hashimoto	Scott Norton	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Kensuke Sasaki

Semi Finals:

Keiji Mutoh defeats Scott Norton	Shinya Hashimoto defeats Masa Chono

Finals:

Keiji Mutoh defeats Shinya Hashimoto in 24 minutes, 8 seconds with a Moonsault

1996

Participants (Round Robin):

Riki Choshu	Kensuke Sasaki	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Shinya Hashimoto	Junji Hirata
Masahiro Chono	Shiro Koshinaka	Kazuo Yamazaki	Keiji Mutoh	Satoshi Kojima

Finals:

Riki Choshu defeats Masa Chono in 13 minutes, 45 seconds with a Scorpion Deathlock

1997

Participants (Single Elimination):

Satoshi Kojima	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Scott Norton	Masahiro Chono	Great Muta	Shinya Hashimoto	Kensuke Sasaki
Steve Regal	Tadao Yasuda	Junji Hirata	Michiyoshi Ohara	Manabu Nakanishi	Kazuo Yamazaki	Buff Bagwell

Semi Finals:

Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeats Hashimoto	Kensuke Sasaki defeats Scott Norton

Finals:

Kensuke Sasaki defeats Tenzan in 8 minutes, 9 seconds with a Northern Lights Bomb

1998

Participants (Single Elimination):

Tadao Yasuda	Satoshi Kojima	Shiro Koshinaka	Kensuke Sasaki	Shinya Hashimoto	Kazuo Yamazaki	Masahiro Chono	Genichiro Tenryu
Big Titan	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Osamu Nishimura	Michiyoshi Ohara	Tatsutoshi Goto	Tatsumi Fujinami	Manabu Nakanishi	Keiji Mutoh

Semi Finals:

Kazuo Yamazaki defeats Masa Chono	Shinya Hashimoto defeats Kojima

Finals:

Shinya Hashimoto defeats Yamazaki in 15 minutes, 34 seconds with a Brainbuster

1999

Participants (Round Robin):

Keiji Mutoh	Yuji Nagata	Kensuke Sasaki	Tatsumi Fujinami	Satoshi Kojima	Tadao Yasuda
Manabu Nakanishi	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Shiro Koshinaka	Masahiro Chono	Shinya Hashimoto	Kazuo Yamazaki

Finals:

Nakanishi defeats Mutoh in 14 minutes, 43 seconds with an Argentine Backbreaker

2000

Participants (Round Robin):

Yuji Nagata	Takayuki Iizuka	Tatsumi Fujinami	Jushin Liger	Tatsutoshi Goto
Kensuke Sasaki	Satoshi Kojima	Brian Johnston	Hiro Saito	Osamu Kido
Manabu Nakanishi	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Tadao Yasuda	Osamu Nishimura	Kenzo Suzuki
Masahiro Chono	Shiro Koshinaka	Junji Hirata	Yutaka Yoshie	Tatsuhito Takaiwa

Semi Finals:

Kensuke Sasaki defeats Yuji Nagata	Manabu Nakanishi defeats Masa Chono

Finals:

Kensuke Sasaki defeats Nakanishi in 19 minutes, 42 seconds with a Crab Hold

2001

Participants (Round Robin):

Yuji Nagata	Tadao Yasuda	Manabu Nakanishi	Kazunari Murakami	Tatsumi Fujinami	Minoru Tanaka
Keiji Mutoh	Masahiro Chono	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Satoshi Kojima	Osamu Nishimura	Jushin Liger

Semi Finals:

Keiji Mutoh defeats Tadao Yasuda	Yuji Nagata defeats Masa Chono

Finals:

Yuji Nagata defeats Keiji Mutoh in 22 minutes, 3 seconds with a Nagata Lock II

2002

Participants (Round Robin):

Yoshihiro Takayama	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Kensuke Sasaki	Hiroshi Tanahashi	Shiro Koshinaka	Yutaka Yoshie
Masahiro Chono	Osamu Nishimura	Manabu Nakanishi	Yuji Nagata	Kenzo Suzuki	Tadao Yasuda

Semi Finals:

Masa Chono defeats Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Takayama defeats Nishimura

Finals:

Masahiro Chono defeats Takayama in 20 minutes, 23 seconds with a Yakuza Kick

2003

Participants (Round Robin):

Jun Akiyama	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Masahiro Chono	Manabu Nakanishi	Osamu Nishimura	Hiroshi Tanahashi
Yoshihiro Takayama	Yuji Nagata	Katsuyori Shibata	Yutaka Yoshie	Shinsuke Nakamura	Tadao Yasuda

Semi Finals:

Jun Akiyama defeats Yuji Nagata	Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeats Takayama

Finals:

Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeats Akiyama in 31 minutes, 43 seconds with an Anaconda Vice

2004

Participants (Round Robin):

Katsuyori Shibata	Genichiro Tenryu	Shinsuke Nakamura	Masahiro Chono	Minoru Suzuki	Yuji Nagata	Blue Wolf	Yutaka Yoshie
Hiroshi Tanahashi	Hiroyoshi Tenzan	Kensuke Sasaki	Osamu Nishimura	Koji Kanemoto	Manabu Nakanishi	Togi Makabe	Yoshihiro Takayama

Semi Finals:

Hiroshi Tanahashi defeats Tenryu	Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeats Shibata

Finals:

Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeats Tanahashi in 21 minutes, 1 second with a Anaconda Vice

2005

Participants (Round Robin):

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