NJPW G1 Climax 35 Night Five (July 25) Stats & Info

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Tanahashi: 22.94%
• Finlay: 76.41%

• 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 70 G1 Climax tournament match losses are tied with Hirooki Goto for the second-most all time, only behind Toru Yano (81).

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 44 G1 Climax tournament main event wins are the most ever.
• Hiroshi Tanahashi has spent 26 hours, 14 minutes, and 15 seconds wrestling in G1 Climax tournament match main events. That is nearly two hours more than the second-most (Okada), and nearly 10 hours more than the third most (Naito).

• David Finlay is Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 146th unique NJPW singles match opponent.

• Prior to his victory over Taichi on night one of this year’s G1 Climax, Hiroshi Tanahashi had lost seven straight singles main events.
• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 122 NJPW main event singles wins are second only to Antonio Inoki.
• David Finlay lost his last NJPW main event match when he lost to Hirooki Goto at Sakura Genesis. Finlay last lost two straight NJPW singles main events between the end of the 2023 G1 Climax and New Beginning 2024.

• Hiroshi Tanahashi lost a world title challenge to Hirooki Goto at Ota City General Gymnasium earlier this year.
• David Finlay won his only NJPW singles match in Ota City General Gymnasium when he defeated Tomohiro Ishii in the first round of the 2023 New Japan Cup.

• Hiroshi Tanahashi is 1-3 in main events in Ota City General Gymnasium with a win over Tetsuya Naito, and losses to Bad Luck Fale, Hirooki Goto, and KENTA.

• Hiroshi Tanahashi is 3-1 in G1 Climax tournament matches in Ota City General Gymnasium. He holds G1 wins here over Minoru Suzuki, Hirooki Goto, and Tetsuya Naito. HIs lone tournament loss here was his 2019 main event loss to KENTA.

• This will be the first NJPW singles match between Hiroshi Tanahashi and David Finlay. Finlay is Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 146th unique singles opponent in NJPW.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Tsuji: 81.26%
• Oiwa: 18.22%

• Ryohai Oiwa is 0-1 in Ota City General Gymnasium. He lost to Clark Connors here on the undercard of the 2023 Best of The Super Junior Tour.

• Yota Tsuji is 0-1 in Ota City General Gymnasium. He lost to Hikuleo here during the 2023 G1 Climax tournament

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Taichi: 37.70%
• EVIL: 61.78%

• Taichi has worked hard for his G1 Climax 35 results to date. His 17:39 average match time is the longest in the A Block thus far.

• EVIL’s 47 G1 Climax tournament match wins are the second-most among active G1 competitors.
• Taichi has won two straight matches in this year’s G1 Climax tournament. He last won three straight G1 matches at the beginning of the 2020 G1 Climax tournament when he defeated Jeff Cobb, Minoru Suzuki, and Yujiro Takahashi.

• EVIL has won two straight NJPW singles matches in Ota City General Gymnasium. EVIL last lost here during the 2021 G1 Climax when Kazuchika Okada defeated him.
• After starting his career 0-2 in Ota City General Gymnasium, Taichi has traded wins and losses in his last three matches here.

• EVIL is 0-2 in G1 Climax matches in Ota City General Gymnasium. He G1 holds losses here against Michael Elgin and Kazuchika Okada.
• Taichi is 2-2 in G1 Climax matches in Ota City General Gymnasium. He holds losses here against Jon Moxley and SANADA, and he holds wins over SANADA and YOSHI-HASHI.

• EVIL was victorious during the 2021 G1 Climax tournament in the only singles match between himself and Taichi.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Uemura: 72.70%
• Newman: 26.90%

• Yuya Uemura has lost two straight G1 Climax matches. The longest losing streak in Uemura’s short G1 Climax career was four matches in the middle of last year’s tournament.

• Yuya Uemura and Callum Newman both have 10 NJPW singles losses in the last 365 days. They are tied for the second-most in NJPW during that time.

• This will be both Yuya Uemura and Callum Newman’s first NJPW singles match in Ota City General Gymnasium.

• This will be the first NJPW singles match between Yuya Uemura and Callum Newman.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Oleg: 47.97%
• SANADA: 51.90%

• SANADA’s 41 G1 Climax tournament match victories are the fourth-most among active G1 Climax participants.
• Boltin Oleg’s consecutive wins over Ryohei Oiwa and Hiroshi Tanahashi represent his first consecutive G1 Climax tournament wins.

• Boltin Oleg wrestled Josh Barnett to a time limit draw in Ota City General Gymnasium this past January at New Year Dash.
• SANADA is 3-2 in Ota City General Gymnasium singles matches, and he enters his match with Boltin Oleg with a two-match winning streak. SANADA last lost here during the 2021 G1 Climax tournament.

• SANADA enters his match with Boltin Oleg with a two-match winning streak in G1 Clmax matches in Ota City General Gymnasium.

• This will be the first NJPW singles match between Boltin Oleg and SANADA.