Fighting Club G-EGGS

Fighting Club G-EGGS
Stable
Members	Yuji Nagata Manabu Nakanishi Yutaka Yoshie Brian Johnston Masakazu Fukuda
Name(s)	Fighting Club G-EGGS G-EGGS
Debut	March 2000
Disbanded	June 16, 2001
Promotions	NJPW

Fighting Club G-EGGS was a professional wrestling stable that competed in New Japan Pro Wrestling. Led by Yuji Nagata, it consisted of wrestlers with sporting backgrounds.

G-EGGS originally formed in March 2000 and it featured Nagata, Manabu Nakanishi (Nagata's Tag Team Championship partner), Yutaka Yoshie, up and comer: Masakazu Fukuda, and former UFC fighter Brian Johnston. One month into the group's formation, on April 14, Fukuda (competing in the 2000 Young Lions Cup tournament) collapsed following his match with Katsuyori Shibata after taking a flying elbow smash. He was rushed to the hospital but died on April 19 due to bleeding of the brain; he was 27 years old. Following the loss of Fukuda, G-EGGS continued on as a group and rebounded at Wrestling Dontaku 2000, where Yoshie defeated Satoshi Kojima while Nagata and Nakanishi successfully defended the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Naoya Ogawa and Kazunari Murakami.

On July 20, 2000, Nagata and Nakanishi lost the IWGP Tag title to Tencozy (Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima). Following the title loss, all four G-EGGS members entered the 2000 G1 Climax. In the end, only Nagata and Nakanishi made it past the round robin portion with both winning their block. In the end, both lost to eventual winner Kensuke Sasaki (Nagata in the semis and Nakanishi in the finals). In the fall of 2000, G-EGGS began a rivalry with Masahiro Chono and his Team 2000 stable. The two factions battled in 19 singles and tag matches throughout the October 2000 tour with the winning team getting matchmaking rights at Battle Final 2000. G-EGGS began the series well but with Team 2000 having 10 wrestlers to G-EGGS 4 proved to be the deciding factor as Team 2000 made a comeback and eventually won the series 11-8.

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