Saturday 18 September 2021

G1 Climax 31 Betting: Night 1

The first night of this year's NJPW G1 Climax tournament is currently underway. As soon as I woke up this morning, I checked in with the betting markets from Kambi and noticed that there has been activity in some of the outright and match markets.

Kazuchika Okada, who had been 7/2 since the market was first opened, is now a 3/1 second-favourite alongside Tetsuya Naito.

Naito is one of the selections that have moved out following Okada's slip. His most recent priced was 11/4.

As well as Naito, EVIL and Kota Ibushi have also drifted. Both have risen from 7/1 to 15/2.

SANADA remains the betting favourite at 9/4.

G1 Climax 31 Outright Winner

Earlier this week, the oddsmakers created a market in which customers could gamble on what the final will be. 

A final with Naito opposing SANADA has been the 13/4 favourite since the entire market was installed on Monday. The two wrestlers are 5/4 and 7/5 favourites to win their respective blocks.

G1 Climax 31 Finalist Betting

Now, onto today's card. 

G1 Climax 31: Night One

Kota Ibushi .vs. Yujiro Takahashi
The opening match of this year's tourney started off with Kota Ibushi a 1/10 favourite to beat Yujiro Takahashi when the match started.

G1 Climax 31 Betting: Night 1

The market opened a week ago with Ibushi a 2/13 favourite. He was backed into 1/9 a couple of days after that before falling into 1/10 a couple of days ago.

Takahashi was 5/1 when the bell rang. This was up from his opening 7/2.

Great-O-Khan .vs. Tanga Loa
Great-O-Khan's odds to beat Tanga Loa in match number two fell a couple of times this morning.

The market opened last week with Great-O-Khan a 7/20 favourite over the 19/10 for Loa. The market remained stationary right up to this morning when I noticed that the favourite had slid into 2/7. Then - when I checked in an hour later - I noticed he had fallen into 1/4.

G1 Climax 31 Betting: Night 1

With the favourite lowering. Tanga Loa ended up out to 5/2.

The match ended with the favourite getting the two points.

Toru Yano .vs. KENTA
Kambi's market for Toru Yano versus KENTA started off with the latter an 11/25 favourite. 

G1 Climax 31 Betting: Night 1

As you can see, in the table above, KENTA was moved into 7/20 sometime before Thursday evening. The market remained stationary from that point. It closed a few minutes before the event went on break.

Yano started off at 8/5, but was 19/10 when betting was suspended.

The match ended with a Yano win due to, yes - you guessed it correctly- shenanigans!

Tetsuya Naito .vs. Zack Sabre, Jr.
Kambi's market for the penultimate match on tonight's round stayed with Tetsuya Naito a 1/3 favourite over Zack Sabre Jr (2/1) from Saturday all the way through to the start of the match.

G1 Climax 31 Betting: Night 1

ZSJ won the match via submission.

Tomohiro Ishii .vs. Shingo Takagi
The market for the main event closed with IWGP World Heavyweight Champion - Shingo Takagi - closing as a 2/5 favourite to pick up the points against Tomohiro Ishii (7/4).

G1 Climax 31 Betting: Night 1

When the market was first published, Kambi had Takagi at a slightly higher 1/2 to Ishii's 7/5.

Takagi won to close the show.

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