The opening night of G1 Climax 34 took place on July 20, 2024, at EDION Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan, marking the start of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s annual summer round-robin heavyweight tournament, and was headlined by a Block A match between Shingo Takagi and Tetsuya Naito.
Shin Takagi
Tetsuya Naito
Konosuke Takeshita
Yota Tsuji
Takaaki Watanabe
Gabriel McMenamin
David Stephen Finlay III
Yuya Uemura
Seiya Sanada
Lee Jae-kyung
Hirooki Goto
Jeffrey Cobb
Luke James Uggles Eatwell
Tomoyuki Oka
Riley Vigier
Aaron Henry
Shota Umino
Callum Newman
Ren Narita
Oleg Igorevich Boltin
Walker Stewart
Chris Charlton