NJPW G1 Climax 35 Night Two (July 20) Stats & Info

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• ZSJ: 63.51%
• Kidd: 31.31%

• Zack Sabre Jr.’s 44 G1 Climax tournament match victories are the third most among active competitors.

• Zack Sabre Jr. is 4-5 in G1 Climax Tournament match main events. After losing four main events in a row, Zack won two in a row to leave last year’s tournament as the G1 Climax 34 champion.
• This will be Gabe Kidd’s first G1 Climax main event match.

• Zack Sabre Jr.’s 21 NJPW singles wins are the most in NJPW in that period.

• Despite his IWGP World Heavyweight Title win over Hirooki Goto, Zack Sabre Jr. has lost two straight NJPW singles match main events.
• Gabe Kidd has won three straight NJPW main events, dating back to NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed in November of 2024.

• Zack Sabre Jr.’s loss to Ren Narita snapped a four match winning streak in Hokkaido. During that streak he had defeated KENTA, Tomohiro Ishii, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Yuji Nagata.
• Gabe Kidd has now lost two straight NJPW singles matches in Hokkai Kitayel. He has not won a singles match here since graduating from Young Lion status.

• In Zack Sabre Jr.’s only main event match in Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kitayel, he lost to Tetsuya Naito during G1 Climax 30 in 2020.

• In G1 matches, Zack Sabre Jr is 3-1 with a two match winning strak in Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kitayel.
• Gabe Kidd lost to Chase Owens in Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kitayel in his first G1 Climax match of 2023.

• Zack Sabre Jr. has defeated Gabe Kidd twice in NJPW since 2021 and prior to that ZSJ held a 2-1 record over Gabriel Kidd in WCPW dating back to 2017. Sabre leads the all-time series across all promotions 4-1.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Taichi: 29.89%
• Uemura: 69.61%

• Between his last appearance in 2023 and this year, Taichi is entering his match with Yuya Uemura with a three match losing streak in G1 Climax matches. Taichi has lost four G1 matches in a row twice before, once each in the 2020 G1 Climax tournament (4 losses in a row), and again in the 2021 G1 Climax tournament (six in a row).
• Yuya Uemura started his tournament 3-0 last year, but has not won two straight G1 Climax matches since then.

• Taichi last won a one-on-one NJPW singles match by pinfall or submission on August 18, 2024 when he defeated Katsuya Murashima.

• Last night’s loss to Hiroshi Tanahashi was Taichi’s first career G1 Climax loss in Hokkai Kitayel.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• ELP: 23.33%
• Takeshita: 75.91%

• Only Hiroshi Tanahashi and El Desprado have more NJPW singles victories than Konosuke Takeshita’s eight in 2025.

• Konosuke Takeshita’s 14 NJPW singles victories in the last 365 days are the fourth most in NJPW in that time. If we add in AEW and DDT, Takeshita’s win total jumps to 26, which surpasses anyone else on the NJPW roster.

• El Phantasmo’s only singles win in Hokkaido occurred in his first match here when he defeated “Gabriel” Kidd at The New Beginning In Sapporo in 2020.

• El Phantasmo is now 0-3 in G1 Climax tournament matches in Hokkaido, dating all the way back to the 2022 G1 Climax tournament.

• Though the matches are hard-fought, Konosuke Takeshita has dominated the all-time series agasint El Phantasmo 2-0-1.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Tsuji: 55.05%
• EVIL: 44.57%

• EVIL’s 46 G1 Climax tournament match wins are the second-most among active G1 competitors.

• Yota Tsuji’s 15 NJPW singles wins in the last 365 days are the third most in NJPW in that timeframe.

• EVIL is carrying a four-match winning streak in Hokkai Kitayel dating back to the 2020 G1 Climax tournament.
• Tsuji enters with a two-match winning streak, dating back to his hair vs. hair victory over Yuya Uemura in February of 2024.

• After his victory over Callum Newman last night, EVIL is now 4-0 in G1 Climax matches in Hokkai Kitayel.

• EVIL and Yota Tsuji started their head to head series with a no contest in the New Japan Cup 2024 semi final before that match was restarted. Since then, Tsuji has defeated EVIL twice, but EVIL eliminated Tsuji in the first round of this year’s New Japan Cup.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Shingo: 73.90%
• O-Khan: 25.60%

• Shingo Takagi is now 2-5 in G1 Climax opening matches.
• Great-O-Khan is now on a four match losing streak in G1 Climax opening matches. He reached the knockout stage last year after starting the tournament 0-4.

• Including his loss in the A Block final last year, Shingo Takagi enters tonight’s match with a two-match losing streak. Shingo has lost three straight G1 Climax matches twice before.
• Great-O-Khan also enters tonight with a two match losing streak in G1 Climax matches. O-Khan’s longest G1 losing streak was 7 matches between 2021 and 2022.

• Shingo Takagi’s 12 NJPW singles wins in the last 365 days tie him with Hirooki Goto for the sixth-most in NJPW during that time.

• Shingo Takagi has been the most active singles wrestler in NJPW since making his singles debut on December 14, 2018. Since then, Takagi has wrestled in 142 NJPW singles matches, and he has won 92 NJPW singles matches. Both are the most in that timeframe.

• Shingo Takagi has now lost six straight NJPW singles matches in Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kitayel. His last win here occurred in February of 2020.
• Great-O-Khan has now lost two straight NJPW singles matches in Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Hokkai Kitayel. His last win here occurred in February of 2023 when he defeated Oskar Leube.

• Shingo Takagi’s six match losing streak in Hokkai Kitayel includes four straight G1 Climax tournament match losses.
• Great-O-Khan has not won a G1 Climax tournament match in Hokkaido Kitayel. He is 0-2.

• Shingo Takagi has dominated the all-time series with Great-O-Khan with a 5-0 record with three of those victories occuring during the G1 Climax tournament. Shingo eliminated Great-O-Khan in the semi-finals of last year’s knockout stage.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Finlay: 69.41%
• SANADA: 30.21%

• SANADA’s 40 G1 Climax tournament match victories are the fourth-most among active G1 Climax participants.
• Between his elimination from last year’s tournament and the beginning of this year’s tournament, David Finlay enters tonight’s match on a two-match losing streak. Finlay has only lost three straight G1 Climax matches once before.
• Between last year and this year, SANADA enters tonight’s match with a three match losing streak. SANADA has lost four straight G1 Climax matches twice before, once between 2017 and 2018, and once between 2019 and 2020.

• SANADA has lost three straight NJPW singles matches in Hokkai Kitayel. His last win here occurred during the 2023 G1 Climax tournament.

• David Finlay lost to SANADA in the finals of the 2023 New Japan Cup.
• SANADA lost to David Finlay in an IWGP Global Heavyweight Title Match in June of 2024.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• YOSHI-HASHI: 21.31%
• Narita: 78.31%

• YOSHI-HASHI enters tonight’s match with a two-match winning streak. YOSHI-HASHI last won three straight NJPW singles matches between the New Beginning In USA tour and the New Japan Cup in early 2020.

• YOSHI-HASHI and Ren Narita both enter tonight’s match with a two-match winning streak in Hokkai Kitayel.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Oleg: 58.13%
• Oiwa: 40.73%

• Five of Oleg Boltin’s first eight NJPW singles matches were against Ryohei Oiwa.

• Ryohei Oiwa is still looking for his first singles victory over Boltin Oleg.
• Even though they have wrestled five times, with an average match length under five mintues, and their last singles match occuring two years ago, it is fair to say these two may not be as familiar with each other as their records would suggest.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Umino: 73.74%
• Moloney: 26.01%

• Shota Umino’s twelve NJPW singles match victories in the last 365 days tie him for the sixth-most in NJPW in that timeframe.

• Shota Umino is now 1-0-1 in G1 Climax Tournament matches in Hokkai Kitayel. He started his G1 Climax career with a draw with Ren Narita here, and he defeated El Phantasmo in last night’s G1 Climax 35 opener.
• Drillla Moloney opened his G1 Climax career with a win over Great-O-Khan last night in Hokkai Kitayel.

• Outside of the G1, Shota Umino has lost matches to Tetsuya Naito and Shingo Takagi in Hokkaido. He has a 1-2-1 record overall in the prefecture.

• This will be the first NJPW singles match between Shota Umino and Drilla Moloney.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Tanahashi: 61.11%
• Newman: 38.76%

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s win last night was his first G1 Climax opener victory since 2018, the year he last won the G1 Climax tournament.

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 98 G1 Climax tournament match wins are the most of all time, just two wins away from becoming the first wrestler ever to win 100 G1 Climax matches, and 18 more than the second-most successful wrestler in G1 history (Kazuchika Okada).
• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 67 G1 Climax tournament match losses are the third most of all time, only behind Hirooki Goto (70) and Toru Yano (81).
• Callum Newman’s .200 G1 Climax winning percentage is now the third-lowest among wrestlers who have participated in 10 or more G1 Climax matches (Tomoaki Honma: .143, Osamu Kido: .182)

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 12 NJPW singles wins this year are his most since 2018, the year he last won the G1 Climax tournament.

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s win over Taichi last night snapped a nine match losing streak in Hokkaido Kitayel that dated back to 2016.

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s win over Taichi last night snapped a six match losing streak in G1 matches in Hokkai Kitayel that dated back to 2016.

• Prior to last night’s victory over Taichi, it had been ten years since his last win in the Hokkaido prefeture (July 20, 2015)

• This will be the first NJPW singles match between Hiroshi Tanahashi and Callum Newman.