Promotional poster featuring all the competitors of the tournament
Promotion
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date
July 15 – August 13, 2023
City
See venues
Venue
See venues
Tagline(s)
Born in the Ring
Event chronology
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Next → All Star Junior Festival USA 2023
G1 Climax chronology
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Next → —
G1 Climax 33
Tetsuya Naito, winner of G1 Climax 33
Tournament information
Sport
Professional wrestling
Location
Japan
Dates
July 15, 2023–August 13, 2023
Tournament format(s)
Four-block round-robin tournament
Participants
32
Final positions
Champion
Tetsuya Naito
Runner-up
Kazuchika Okada
Tournament statistics
Bouts fought
119
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The G1 Climax 33 was a professional wrestling tournament promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The tournament commenced on July 15 and concluded on August 13, 2023. It is the thirty-third edition of G1 Climax and the forty-ninth edition of the tournament counting its previous forms under different names.
Considered NJPW's most important tournament, the G1 Climax featured 32 wrestlers, divided into four blocks of eight ("A", "B", "C", and "D"). Each participant faced all seven other wrestlers within the same block in singles matches. The winner of each block was determined via a point system, with two points for a win, one point for a draw, and no points for a defeat. There was a 20-minute time limit for the block matches instead the usual 30-minute time limit. Each night of the event seen matches from two blocks per night. On the final three days of the event, the top two scoring wrestlers of each block entered an eight-man playoff to determine the winner of the tournament, who also receives a future match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle Kingdom.
It was the largest G1 Climax to date with 32 participants and like last year's G1, it returned to the four-block format.
The event saw the G1 Climax debuts of Shota Umino, Hikuleo, Eddie Kingston, Ren Narita, Gabriel Kidd, Alex Coughlin, Shane Haste, Mikey Nicholls, Yota Tsuji and Kaito Kiyomiya with Kingston and Kiyomiya being outsiders from All Elite Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Noah respectively.[1][2]
^"NJPW reveals G1 Climax 33 participants". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. June 4, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
^NJPW. "G1 Climax 33 Lineup revealed! 【G133】】 | NEW JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING". NJPW. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
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