YOSHI-HASHI & Ryohei Oiwa Qualify for NJPW G1 Climax 2025 Tournament, Full Field of Competitors Set

Friday’s’s NJPW New Japan Soul 2025 event in Tokyo, Japan featured YOSHI-HASHI and Ryohei Oiwa qualifying for this year’s G1 Climax 2025 tournament.

Oiwa defeated Satoshi Kojima in an A Block Play-in match to advance to the A Block of this year’s tournament.

YOSHI-HASHI defeated Chase Owens in a B Block Play-in match to advance to the B Block of this year’s tournament.

YOSHI-HASHI and Ryohei Oiwa did it!

Both men secured their spots in this year’s G1 Climax after hard-fought Play-In matches.#njsoul report:https://t.co/f2Uu3527Jg

Watch the replay:https://t.co/gm938diTQy#njpw pic.twitter.com/HK9nVeiCof

— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) July 4, 2025

This year’s G1 Climax tournament takes place from July 19th to August 17th in Japan.

Updated field for NJPW G1 Climac 2025 tournament:

A Block:

• Hirooki Goto
• Boltin Oleg
• Yuya Uemura
• Yota Tsuji
• David Finlay
• EVIL
• SANADA
• Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Callum Newman
• Ryohei Oiwa

B Block:

• El Phantasmo
• Shota Umino
• Shingo Takagi
• Zack Sabre Jr.
• Great-O-Khan
• Gabe Kidd
• Ren Narita
• Konosuke Takeshita (AEW)
• Drilla Moloney
• YOSHI-HASHI