NJPW G1 Climax 35 Night Fourteen (August 8) Stats & Info

• Shota Umino has won quickly, and it has taken a long time to defeat him. Umino’s -5:53 Win/Loss Differential is the second best in the B Block, only behind YOSHI-HASHI.
• Konosuke Takeshita’s 2-hours, 1-minute, and 9-seconds of total G1 Climax 35 match time is the longest in the B Block.
• By the tournament’s end, Konosuke Takeshita will be the only wrestler in the B block to wrestle nine G1 Climax singles matches. All other wrestlers will have received a forfeit win against Gabe Kidd. Takeshita defeated Kidd on night one.

• Konosuke Takashita’s 18-minute and 10-second average G1 Climax loss match length is the seventh-highest of all time, only 4 seconds shorter than Keiji Muto.

• Shota Umino started his G1 Climax main event career with a loss against Hikuleo in 2023. He recently won his first G1 main event when he defeated Zack Sabre Jr. earlier in this year’s tournament.
• Konosuke Takeshita is just 1-4 in G1 Climax main events. He picked up his first G1 main event win on July 26 against Shingo Takagi.

• Only El Desperado and Hiroshi Tanahashi have more NJPW singles wins in 2025 than Konosuke Takeshita’s 12.
• Shota Umino’s nine NJPW singles wins are the fifth-most in NJPW this year.
• Shota Umino’s 21-minute and 11-second average in losing matches is the third longest in NJPW this year (Goto, Kidd).

• Takeshita’s 14 NJPW singles wins in the last 365 days are the fourth-most in NJPW.
• Umino’s12 NJPW singles wins in the last 365 days are the seventh-most in NJPW.
• Shota Umino’s 6-hours, 10-minutes, and 33-seconds of NJPW singles match length in the last 365 days is the fourth-most in NJPW.

• Shota Umino lost to Jake Lee in Yokohama Budokan during last year’s G1 Climax tournament.
• This will be both wrestlers’ first main event singles match in Yokohama Budokan.

• Shota Umino defeated Oscar Leube in Kanagawa in 2023, and he lost to Jake Lee here during last year’s G1 Climax tournament.
• This will be Konosuke Takeshita’s NJPW singles debut in Kanagawa.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Umino: 40.45%
• Takeshita: 57.82%

• This will be the first NJPW singles match between Shota Umino and Konosuke Takeshita.

• Ren Narita enters his match with Shingo Takagi with a two-match winning streak. This is Narita’s fifth two-match winning streak in G1 Climax matches, and he has never won three straight.

• Shingo Takagi’s 17-minute and 34-second average G1 Climax match length is the fourth-highest of all time.
• Shingo’s 18-minute, and 17-second average losing match time is the 7th longest of all time.

• Only Hiroshi Tanahashi has lost more singles matches in the last 365 days than Shingo Takagi’s 10 losses.
• Shingo Takagi’s 12 NJPW singles wins in the last 365 days are the sixth-most in NJPW.

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

• This will be Shingo Takagi’s fifth singles match in Yokohama Budokan. Every singles match he has had here has been against a member of House of Torture (Yujiro Takahashi x2, EVIL x2)

• Shingo Takagi is 1-1-1 in G1 Climax tournament matches in Yokohama Budokan. His 2021 tournament ended with a double countout here against Yujiro Takahashi.
• This will be Ren Narita’s first singles match in Yokohama Budokan.

• Shingo Takagi is 4-1-1 in NJPW singles matches in Kanagawa, including a win over Tomohiro Ishii in G1 Climax 29, and win over Katsuhiko Nakajima during the LIJ vs. Kongo series in early 2023.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Takagi: 73.31%
• Narita: 26.29%

• This is the first singles match between Shingo Takagi and Ren Narita.

• After beginning G1 Climax 35 with two straight losses in matches wrestled, Zack Sabre Jr. has won four straight.
• Zack Sabre Jr. has won four straight G1 Climax matches. It’s the third time he’s had a four-match winning streak in the tournament. He’s won five straight once, last year, when he won the G1.
• 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.

• Zack Sabre Jr.’s 49 G1 Climax tournament match victories are the third most among active G1 Climax competitors. With one more win, he will become the 12th wrestler ever to win 50 G1 Climax matches.

• Zack Sabre Jr.’s 13 NJPW singles wins are the third-most in NJPW this year. He will tie Hiroshi Tanahashi and El Desperado with one more win.
• Drilla Moloney’s 8 NJPW singles wins this year are a career high.

• Zack Sabre Jr.’s 21 NJPW singles wins in the last 365 days are the most in NJPW.

• Zack Sabre Jr. is 2-1 in NJPW singles matches in Yokohama Budokan. He holds wins here over Juice Robinson and Gabe Kidd. He holds a loss here against Tanga Loa. All of ZSJ’s Yokohama Budokan matches have occurred during G1 Climax tournaments.

• Zack Sabre Jr. is 4-1 with a two match winning streak in NJPW singles matches in Kanagawa.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• ZSJ: 93.49%
• Moloney: 6.24%

• This will be the first singles match between Zack Sabre Jr. and Drilla Moloney.

• YOSHI-HASHI’s -9:18 Win/Loss Differential is the best in the tournament.
• YOSHI-HASHI’s 58 minutes, and 53 seconds of total match time is the least in the B Block.

• YOSHI-HASHI lost to KENTA in Yokohama Budokan during the 2020 G1 Climax tournament.

• YOSHI-HASHI is 0-2 in his NJPW singles career in Kanagawa.
• El Phantasmo is 0-1 in his NJPW singles career in Kanagawa.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• ELP: 49.18%
• YOSHI-HASHI: 40.46%

• YOSHI-HASHI has defeated El Phantasmo twice, both during G1 Climax tournaments.