NJPW G1 Climax 35 Night Nine (August 1) Stats & Info

• Hiroshi Tanahashi has labored through his two wins during this year’s G1 Climax. His 18:12 average win time is the longest in the A Block.
• Tanahashi’s +7:38 win/loss differential (Average Win – Average Loss) is the worst in the tournament.
• Yuya Uemura has won quickly, and he has been challenging to put away in his two losses. Uemura’s -6:13 win/loss differential is the best in A Block.

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 99 G1 Climax tournament match wins are the most of all time, just one win away from becoming the first wrestler ever to win 100 G1 Climax matches, and 19 more than the second-most successful wrestler in G1 history (Kazuchika Okada).
• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 70 G1 Climax tournament match losses are the second-most all-time, only behind Toru Yano (81).

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 45 G1 Climax tournament main event wins are the most ever.
• Hiroshi Tanahashi has spent 26 hours, 44 minutes, and 37 seconds wrestling in G1 Climax tournament match main events. That is over two hours more than the second-most (Okada), and over 10 hours more than the third most (Naito).
• Yuya Uemura started his G1 Climax career with two straight main event victories, but he has lost two straigth main events during this year’s tournament.

• Assuming he stays in good health, by the end of the G1 Climax tournament, Hiroshi Tanahashi will have wrestled in at least 29 NJPW singles matches. Tanahashi last wrestled 27 or more NJPW singles matches in 2006, when he wrestled in 30.

• Prior to his victory over Taichi on night one of this year’s G1 Climax, Hiroshi Tanahashi had lost seven straight singles main events. He is now 2-1 in main events during this tournament.
• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 123 NJPW main event singles wins are second only to Antonio Inoki.

• Hiroshi Tanahashi started his career with two straight losses in Takamastsu, but he has now won four straight here, dating back over 20 years to 2005.
• Yuya Uemura is 3-0 in his career in Takamatsu, including his main event victory over Konosuke Takeshita during last year’s G1 Climax tournament.

• Both Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yuya Uemura are 1-0 in main event singles matches in Takamatsu. Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated EVIL here during the 2019 G1 Climax, and Yuya Uemura defeated Konosuke Takeshita during last year’s G1 Climax.

• Both Hiroshi Tanahashi and Yuya Uemura are 1-0 in main event singles matches in Takamatsu. Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated EVIL here during the 2019 G1 Climax, and Yuya Uemura defeated Konosuke Takeshita during last year’s G1 Climax.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Tanahashi: 21.69%
• Uemura: 76.72%

• Yota Tsuji has won three straight matches in this year’s G1 Climax tournament. This marks Tsuji’s third career three-match winning streak. Tsuji has never won four straight G1 Climax matches.
• Momentum is on Yota Tsuji’s side. Tsuji’s three-match winning streak is the longest active winning streak in the A Block.
• Taichi’s 1 hour, 18 minutes, and 34 seconds is the longest in this year’s G1 Climax tournament to date.
• Taichi’s 15 minute and 43 second average match time in this year’s G1 Climax is the longest in the A Block.

• Yota Tsuji is one of just four NJPW wrestlers with ten or more singles wins in 2025.

• Yota Tsuji’s 16 singles wins in the last 365 days are the second-most in NJPW.

• Taichi is just seven wins away from 100 all-time NJPW singles wins.

• Taichi has never won a singles match in Takamatsu. He is 0-3 in Takamatsu with two of his losses occurring during G1 Climax tournaments.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Taichi: 17.22%
• Tsuji: 82.12%

• David Finlay has lost three straight matches in this year’s G1 Climax. Finlay has never lost four straight G1 Climax matches.

• David Finlay’s 14 NJPW singles victories in the last 365 days are the third-most in NJPW during that period.

• FInlay defeated HENARE in Takamatsu during last year’s G1 Climax tournament.
• Oleg lost to Hirooki Goto in Takamatsu during last year’s G1 Climax tournament.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Finlay: 62.52%
• Oleg: 36.95%

• EVIL’s 49 G1 Climax tournament match wins are the second-most among active G1 competitors.

• EVIL began a five-match losing streak in NJPW singles matches on Night nine of last year’s G1 Climax tournament. Since halting that five-match skid during this year’s New Japan Cup, EVIL has not lost two straight singles matches.

• Ryohei Oiwa defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi in his last singles match. Oiwa has only won two-straight NJPW singles matches four times in his career.

• EVIL has never won a singles match in Takamatsu under the name EVIL. Takaaki Watanabe defeated Yohei Kamatsu here in 2013.
• EVIL is 1-4 in NJPW singles matches in Takamatsu, and he enters tonight’s match with Ryohei Oiwa on a three-match losing streak.
• Ryohei Oiwa lost a singles match to Kosei Fujita here in 2022.

• All three of EVIL’s losses in Takamatsu have occurred during the G1 Climax. He holds losses here to Kenny Omega, Minoru Suzuki, and Hiroshi Tanahashi.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Oiwa: 37.00%
• EVIL: 62.73%

• This will be the first singles match between Ryohei Oiwa and EVIL.

• Callum Newman defeated David Finlay in his last G1 Climax match. Newman has never won two straight G1 Climax matches.

• SANADA defeated Taichi in his last match. SANADA last won two straight G1 Climax matches between night nine and night eleven of last year’s G1 Climax tournament.

• Newman and SANADA enter tonight’s bout with the same record in NJPW singles matches this year at 3 wins, 5 losses.

• Night nine of last year’s G1 Climax started a seven-match losing streak for Callum Newman. Since snapping that skid, and earning an entry into this year’s G1 Climax tournament, Newman is 3-3.

• SANADA is 4-0 all time in NJPW singles matches in Takamatsu. He holds two New Japan Cup match wins, and two G1 Climax match wins here.
• This will be Newman’s first NJPW singles match in Takamatsu.

• SANADA holds G1 Climax wins in Takamatsu against KENTA (2019) and Gabe Kidd (2023).

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Newman: 52.98%
• SANADA: 47.02%

• SANADA defeated Callum Newman on night two of last year’s G1 Climax tournament.