NJPW G1 Climax 35 Night Twelve (August 5) Stats & Info

• After beginning G1 Climax 35 with three straight losses in matches wrestled, Shingo Takagi has won two straight.
• After beginning G1 Climax 35 with two straight losses in matches wrestled, Zack Sabre Jr. has won three straight.
• It has been incredibly challenging to defeat Zack Sabre Jr. during this year’s G1 Climax tournament. His 19 minute and 12 second average loss time is the highest in the B Block.
• Shingo Takagi can be eliminated tonight with a loss + a Konosuke Takeshita win, among a few other complicated scenarios (https://g1.sportofprowrestling.com/scenarios)

• Zack Sabre Jr.’s 48 G1 Climax tournament match victories are the third most among active G1 Climax competitors.

• Zack Sabre Jr. and Shingo Takagi are both .500 in G1 Climax main events. ZSJ is 6-6 and Shingo is 10-10.
• 35.7% of Shingo Takagi’s G1 Climax matches have been main events.
• 15.8% of Zack Sabre Jr.’s G1 Climax matches have been main events.

• 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 147 NJPW singles matches, and he has won 95 NJPW singles matches. Both are the most in that timeframe.

• Shingo Takagi’s thirteen NJPW singles victories in Osaka are the most since Shingo’s debut in NJPW.

• Shingo Takagi has lost two straight NJPW main events in Osaka. Both were IWGP World Heavyweight Championship matches (Goto, ZSJ).

• After losing his first two G1 Climax main events in Osaka, Shingo Takagi has won four straight, dating back to his victory over Tomohiro Ishii in 2021.
• 2023 was the only year since 2019 that did not feature Shingo Takagi in a G1 Climax main event in Osaka.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• ZSJ: 54.37%
• Shingo: 43.78%

• Zack Sabre Jr. and Shingo Takagi have split their four previous singles matches in Osaka. This will be their fifth singles match in Osaka.

• El Phantasmo is eliminated from tournament contention. After tonight’s match with Drilla Moloney, ELP will only have one more match left.
• Drilla Moloney’s 57 minutes and 3 seconds of total match time during this year’s G1 Climax tournament is the second-lowest among wrestlers who are still active in the tournament.

• El Phantasmo is amid his longest G1 Climax tournament losing streak ever at four matches.
• Drilla Moloney is coming off of a loss against Konosuke Takeshita. In his short G1 Climax career, he has not lost two straight G1 Climax matches.

• Drilla Moloney’s eight NJPW singles wins this year are the sixth most in NJPW, and are a career high for Drilla.

• El Phantasmo has never won an NJPW singles match in Osaka. ELP is 0-11 in Osaka, dating back to his 2019 Best of The Super Junior loss to Ryusuke Taguchi.
• Drilla Moloney is 5-0 in NJPW singles matches in Osaka. He holds wins here over Clark Connors, KUSHIDA, Shingo Takagi, TJP, and Ren Narita.

• El Phantasmo is 0-6 in G1 Climax tournament matches in Osaka. He holds G1 losses in Osaka to YOSHI-HASHI, Juice Robinson, Will Ospreay, HENARE, Ren Narita, and Great-O-Khan.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• El Phantasmo: 50.53%
• Moloney: 49.47%

• This will be the first NJPW singles match between El Phantasmo and Drilla Moloney. ELP and Dan Moloney wrestled a series of three singles matches in SWA and SWE in 2017 and 2018. Moloney holds the series lead 2-1.

• After tonight’s match with Ren Narita, Great-O-Khan will only have one more G1 Climax match to wrestle. Coming into the match, O-Khan can only reach 12 points. Great-O-Khan would be eliminated with a loss, plus a Drilla Moloney or Zack Sabre Jr. win.

• Great-O-Khan’s 11 NJPW singles match victories in the last 365 days are the seventh-most in NJPW during that time.

• Great-O-Khan has won four straight NJPW singles matches in Osaka, dating back to his loss to Gabe Kidd during last year’s G1 Climax.

• Both wrestlers are .500 in G1 Clmax tournament matches in Osaka. O-Khan is 4-4, Narita is 2-2.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• O-Khan: 59.60%
• Narita: 39.60%

• Although Ren Narita has never wrestled Great-O-Khan in a singles match, he is 0-3 against Tomoyuki Oka.
• Tomoyuki Oka (Great-O-Khan) defeated Ren Narita in Narita’s fourth NJPW singles match ever in November of 2017.

• Konosuke Takeshita’s 1 hour, 45 minutes, and 56 seconds of total match time during this year’s G1 Climax tournament is the highest in the B Block.
• YOSHI-HASHI has been swift. His 7-minute and 17-second average match time is the lowest in the B block.

• Konosuke Takeshita’s 11 NJPW singles wins are the third-most in NJPW this year. He only trails Hiroshi Tanahashi and El Desperado.

• Konosuke Takeshita’s 14 NJPW singles wins in the last 365 days are the fourth-most in NJPW, only behind Zack Sabre Jr., David Finlay, and Yota Tsuji.

• Only five wrestlers have lost more NJPW singles matches in the last 20 years than YOSHI-HASHI’s 143 losses.

• After starting his NJPW career 2-0 in Osaka, Konosuke Takeshita enters tonight’s match with two match losing streak in Osaka, including his NEVER Openweight Title match loss to Boltin Oleg at Dominion.
• YOSHI-HASHI last won a singles match in Osaka in the 2022 G1 Climax tournament. He was assinged a victory over Gabe Kidd via forfeit for his last booked singles match in Osaka.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• YOSHI-HASHI: 10.34%
• Takeshita: 89.26%

• This will be the first singles match between YOSHI-HASHI and Konosuke Takeshita.