Cruel Summer #28: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kota Ibushi (2018) w/ John Pollock
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🗓️ 1 September 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
WH Park reunites with John Pollock on the final episode of Cruel Summer (for now) to discuss the finals of NJPW G1 Climax 28: Kota Ibushi vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi from August 12, 2018.
They also discuss being able to see all 3 shows at Budokan Hall and how it compares to Sumo Hall, the significance of Katsuyori Shibata being in Tanahashi’s corner for this match, WH’s Top 10 G1 Finals and Top 5 G1 Final wrestlers. Plus a special announcement about WH’s next project on POST Wrestling.
Click here to watch this match on New Japan World (account required).
WH Park and a special guest look back at the finals of every NJPW G1 Climax tournament in Cruel Summer, a limited-edition podcast from POST Wrestling.
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| 0:50.3 | supply. Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Cruel Summer, our look back at each and every |
| 1:16.3 | G1 climax finals from the years 1991 to 2018 and in fact for the future, this will be the last episode. This is episode 28 covering 2018, Hiroshi Tanhashi versus Kodaabushiushi and joining me on this episode is the man who started all with me over at |
| 1:36.6 | episode one covering 1991 he is of course John Pollack John how have you been for the last |
| 1:42.1 | 27 years you You and I thought alike, I was going to make the same joke. You know, it's, uh, it's flown by W. H. I feel like it is, it felt like it was just a few months ago, but man, it's been a lifetime since you and I were waxing poetic about the very first G1 in 1991. |
| 2:00.0 | That's right, and there's been so many incredible like milestones in the history of the G1 finals moving to the |
| 2:08.0 | the Seabu dome for one year in the middle of a typhoon that I was at going to Budakon Hall last year with a building with |
| 2:16.7 | John I don't I think I told you during the review last year how amazing the air conditioning in that building was. Fantastic. |
| 2:23.3 | We'll talk more about the answer. |
| 2:25.3 | It was actually my first question is, |
| 2:27.4 | what is it like inside Sumo Hall in the middle of August? |
| 2:31.2 | Is it pretty hot?'s it's just my box this became my |
| 2:35.6 | favorite running joke throughout every single show is that you would make the |
| 2:39.7 | guest aware of just what a what a microwave the Sumo Hall is in the middle of the summer and how |
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