NJPW The New Beginning In Hiroshima
Date: February 28th, 2021
Venue: Osaka-Jo Hall
Time: 2:00pm JST
First Match
Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima vs. Jeff Cobb & Will Ospreay
2021 Statistics
- Last night was the first time since joining The United Empire that Jeff Cobb was not the Winning Fall Participant in a winning match. The last time Cobb won a match and didn’t finish the match was when he teamed with Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson & Master Wato on the G1 Finals card.
Last 365 Days Statistics – Overall
Second Match
Special Singles Match
Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano vs. Chase Owens, EVIL & Jay White
2021 Statistics – Overall
- EVIL’s 18 losses are the most in NJPW so far in 2021.
- Kazuchika Okada’s 17 wins are the most in NJPW so far in 2021.
Last 365 Days Statistics – Overall
Third Match
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match
Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa [C] vs. Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI
Last 365 Days Results – Tag Team
Head To Head History
- Guerrillas Of Destiny have faced Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI once. That was during 2020’s World Tag League and Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI were victorious.
History in Osaka-Jo Hall
- Guerrillas Of Destiny have wrestled three times in Osaka-Jo Hall. They are 2-1 in this building and all three matches have had the IWGP Heavyweight Championships on the line.
- YOSHI-HASHI has wrestled 5 times in Osaka-Jo Hall, he is 2-3 in the building after last night’s loss to Tanga Loa
- Hirooki Goto has wrestled seven times in Osaka-Jo Hall. He is 3-4 in the building after last night’s victory over Tama Tonga.
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships
- This will be Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa’s 29th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Match in their career.
- Guerrillas Of Destiny have appeared in 28 of 259 IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Matches, or 10.8% of IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships Matches all time.
- The IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships have been defended in Osaka-Jo Hall twelve times. In those matches, they have changed hands 7 times (58.33%)
Fourth Match
NEVER Openweight Championship Match
Hiroshi Tanahashi[C] vs. Great-O-Khan
2021 Results – Singles
Last 365 Days Results – Singles
Last 365 Days – Overall
- In the last 365 days, only EVIL, SANADA, and Shingo Takagi have participated in more matches than Hiroshi Tanahashi.
Head To Head History
- This will be a rematch of Hiroshi Tanahashi and Great-O-Khan’s only singles match. Tanahashi defeated O-Khan in 17:13 at The Tokyo Dome on January 4th.
History In Osaka-Jo Hall
- This will be Hiroshi Tanahashi’s third career singles match in Osaka-Jo Hall. He is 2-0 in this building. He defeated Toru Yano at Dominion in 2015 and he defeated Tetsuya Naito for the Intercontinental Championship at Dominion in 2017.
- Most recently, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kota Ibushi lost the IWGP Tag Team Championships in this building at 2020’s Dominion event.
- This will be Great-O-Khan’s third ever match in Osaka-Jo Hall. He has participated in two 6-man tags, one as a young lion, tagging with David Finlay & Shota Umino and, of course, his victory with The United Empire last night.
NEVER Openweight Championship
- The NEVER Openweight Championship has been decided in 72 matches over the course of just over 8 years. In those 73 matches, a new champion has been determined 32 times or 44.4% of all matches.
- This will be Hiroshi Tanahashi’s second ever match with the NEVER Openweight Championship on the line, it will be Great-O-Khan’s first.
- Tanahashi’s 35 minute and 40 second victory over Shingo Takagi at The New Beginning In Nagoya was the longest NEVER Openweight Championship match of all time.
- The NEVER Openweight Championship has been decided six times at Osaka-Jo Hall (Dominion 2015-2020). The title has changed hands in 3 of those matches.
Fifth Match
(Vacant) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Match
El Phantasmo vs. BUSHI vs. El Desperado
Last 365 Days Results – Singles
Head To Head History
- El Phantasmo is 2-0 against the other competitors in this IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match. While El Desperado and BUSHI are both 2-3 in total.
History In Osaka-Jo Hall
- This will be all three wrestler’s first singles match in Osaka-Jo Hall.
- This will be El Phantasmo’s first appearance in Osaka-Jo Hall.
- El Desperado has participated in 4 tag matches in Osaka-Jo Hall. He is 3-1 including one IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship defense.
- BUSHI has participated in 4 tag matches in Osaka-Jo Hall. He is 2-2 including a victory defending the NEVER Six Man Tag Team Championships in five way gauntlet at Dominion 2017.
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
- The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship has been decided in 308 matches dating back to its
- This will be the third time the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship has been decided in a three-way match. Most recently, Dragon Lee defeated Bandido and Taiji Ishimori in a three way match at Madison Square Garden in April of 2019. Prior to that, the only three-way Junior Heavyweight Championship match occurred at Wrestle Kingdom 7 in 2013 when Prince Devitt defended his title against Kota Ibushi and Low Ki.
- The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship was also decided once in a four way match (1/4/18, Ospreay v. Scurll v. Takahashi v. KUSHIDA)
- The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship has been vacated nine times in its history. Hiromu Takahashi an Jyushin Thunder Liger are the only wrestlers to vacate the title twice.
Main Event
IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match
Kota Ibushi [C] vs. Tetsuya Naito
2021 Results – Singles
- With a win tonight, Kota Ibushi would be the first NJPW wrestler to four singles wins in 2021.
Last 365 Days Results – Singles
Head To Head History
- Kota Ibushi leads the all-time series between himself and Tetsuya Naito 6-3. Every match between these two has either had a title on the line or it has been a part of a tournament.
- Kota Ibushi and Tetsuya Naito’s last three meetings have had the Intercontinental Championship on the line, Ibushi is 2-1 in these matches.
History In Osaka-Jo Hall – Intercontinental Championship
- The IWGP Intercontinental Championship has been defended seven times in Osaka-Jo Hall, and the title has changed hands in 5 of those matches, including three unsuccessful Tetsuya Naito title defenses (v. Hiroshi Tanahashi – Dominion 2017, v. Chris Jericho – Dominion 2018, v. EVIL – Dominion 2020).
- Seven of the 74 (9.5%) all-time IWGP Intercontinental Championship matches have happened at Osaka-Jo Hall.
- Five of the 27 (18.5%) Intercontinental Championship title changes have occurred in Osaka-Jo Hall.
History In Osaka-Jo Hall – Tetsuya Naito & Kota Ibushi
- Kota Ibushi has only had one singles match in Osaka-Jo Hall. He lost the Intercontinental Championship to Tetsuya Naito at Dominion in 2019.
- Tetsuya Naito has participated in six singles matches in Osaka-Jo hall, he is 2-4 in this building. His wins include his Intercontinental Championship victory over Kota Ibushi at Dominion in 2019 and his Double Gold defense over KENTA at New Beginning 2020. His losses include the end of two of his three IWGP Heavyweight Championship reigns (v. Kazuchika Okada – Dominion 2016, v. EVIL – Dominion 2020)
IWGP Intercontinental Championship History
- The IWGP Intercontinental Championship has been decided in 74 matches. The title has changed hands in 37.84% of those matches
- The IWGP Intercontinental Championship hasn’t been decided without being attached to the IWGP Heavyweight Championship since January 4th of 2020 when Jay White lost the title to Tetsuya Naito on Naito’s quest to become double champion.
- Kota Ibushi has wrestled for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship 8 times in his career dating back to 2015 when he challenged Shinsuke Nakamura for the belt at Wrestle Kingdom 9. He is 5-3 and in the midst of his second reign.
- Ibushi’s victory over Jay White on January 5th was the longest ever IWGP Intercontinental Championship Match.
- Tetsuya Naito has wrestled for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship 20 times in his career dating back to his first Intercontinental Championship victory over Michael Elgin in 2016. Only Shinsuke Nakamura has wrestled more times for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship (28 times)
- Over the course of his career, Tetsuya Naito has been Intercontinental Champion for 869 days across six reigns. Only Shinsuke Nakamura has been champion for more cumulative days (901).