Ranking all favorites to win the 2018 G1 Climax

#16 Hangman Page

Bullet Club’s Hangman Page is all set to enter his first G1 Climax and make his G1 debut and personally, I couldn’t be more excited to see what the ROH superstar brings to the table. The New Japan management has shown a lot of faith in Page and definitely recognize him as one of the most talented stars in the Pro Wrestling industry.

Page, who recently challenged for the IWGP US Title and also main-evented Wrestling Dontaku with Kenny Omega, is likely to have a dominant outing in his first G1, he might not be the favorite to win the whole thing at this stage, but his matches against Tanahashi, Okada, and fellow BC stablemate Bad Luck Fale will be a few showdowns to watch out for.

#15 Tama Tonga

Much like every year, the G1 Climax is once again stacked with Bullet Club representatives and as far as ‘The Bad Boy’ Tama Tonga is concerned, he will look forward to having another decent outing in year’s G1 as well.

In the past two years, Tama Tonga finished his respective block 8 points to his name and during this year’s G1 28, the one-half of The Guerillas of Destiny will look to get to double figures, despite not being a favorite to win the whole tournament.

Regardless of that, we could definitely expect a few fun encounters involving Tama and his upcoming G1 27 rematch against new IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kenny Omega also promises to be another fun contest.

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