EVIL, who beat SANADA today, has been installed as a +500 underdog for his bout with today's main event victor - Okada.
A win for Okada will pay out at odds of -1,000.
The other semi-final match will be a repeat of one of last year's semis with Will Ospreay and Tetsuya Naito squaring off.
Both men are currently priced at -120 pick 'em.
Last year's result had Ospreay qualifying to make it to the final where he ultimately lost to Okada.
In the first G1 Climax 33 post, I wrote about last year's final noting that the camera focused on Ospreay's agony of defeat while Okada celebrated his win. It made me think - as I watched live - there could have been a plan for Ospreay to right that wrong in 2023.
That thought was written before I knew Ospreay and Okada would be grouped together in one of the blocks. When they met, Ospreay was the victor.
I also wrote about being interested in the odds for Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito at the time suggesting that a clash of former Los Ingobernables de Japon stablemates in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom - if SANADA were still holding the IWGP strap - would not be a surprise to me.
For that to happen, Naito winning the tournament would be the way to go. Therefore, and as ironic as it seems considering what I wrote about Ospreay righting wrongs from 2023, Naito could be the one avenging his G1 Climax 32 exit by beating Ospreay on Saturday.
Ospreay is BetOnline's odds-on favourite to be crowned this year's tournament winner. His price is now into -115 from +200.
Okada - chasing a consecutive threepeat - is in second with odds of +100, The most recent price for an Okada win was +350.
Next is the aforementioned Tetsuya Naito (+150 from +250) followed by EVIL who is now at +1,000 from +1,400.
All of the odds moves I've followed in the tournament winner market can be viewed in the table below.
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