NJPW G1 Climax 35 Night Three (July 22) Stats & Info

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Uemura: 43.77%
• Tsuji: 49.81%

• Yota Tsuji’s 16:12 total match time in this year’s G1 Climax is the second-shortest in the A Block.
• Yuya Uemura’s 30:05 total match time in this year’s G1 Climax is the second-longest in the A Block.

• This is Yota Tsuji’s 15th NJPW singles main event. It’s been 779 days since his first (6/4/23), making him the fifth-fastest ever to wrestle in 15 NJPW main events—behind only Inoki, Takayama, Okada, and Takagi. He’s the third-fastest to do so in the last 22 years, trailing only Okada and Takagi.

• Yota Tsuji lost to Satoshi Kojima in Sendai Sun Plaza Hall during the 2020 New Japan Road tour.

• Yota Tsuji is 0-3 in his career in Sendai. He holds losses to Shota Umino, Satoshi Kojima, and tonight’s opponent, Yuya Uemura, here in Sendai.
• Yuya Uemura is 1-1 in Sendai. He lost to SHO during the 2020 Best of the Super Junior tournament and he defeated tonight’s opponent, Yota Tsuji, during last year’s G1 Climax tournament.

• Yuya Uemura vs. Yota Tsuji was the main event of night fourteen of last year’s G1 Climax tournament. In that match, Yuya Uemura defeated Yota Tsuji, but was forced to withdraw from the tournament after sustaining an arm injury.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Finlay: 70.22%
• Taichi: 29.53%

• Taichi’s 39 minutes and 23 seconds of total match time during this year’s G1 Climax is the highest in the A Block by nearly 10 minutes.
• Taichi’s 19:02 average is 4 minutes and 39 seconds longer than the next highest in A Block.

• Taichi last won two consecutive G1 Climax matches in his first two matches of the 2023 G1 Climax.

• David Finlay’s 17 NJPW singles wins in the last 365 days are the second-most in NJPW during that time.

• David Finlay is 0-3 in NJPW singles matches in Sendai Sun Plaza Hall. He has not wrestled here since June of 2016 when he lost to Jay White.
• This will be both wrestlers’ first G1 Climax match in Sendai Sun Plaza Hall.

• Taichi is 0-2 in singles matches in Sendai; he lost to Minoru in 2008, and he lost to Tama Tonga during the 2021 G1.
• After five straight losses, David Finlay enters tonight’s match with a two match winning streak in Sendai dating back to the 2023 G1 Climax tournament.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• EVIL: 67.05%
• SANADA: 23.68%

• EVIL’s 47 G1 Climax tournament match wins are the second-most among active G1 competitors.
• SANADA’s 40 G1 Climax tournament match victories are the fourth-most among active G1 Climax participants.

• SANADA enters his match with EVIL with a four match losing streak in NJPW singles matches. SANADA has only lost five straight NJPW singles matches once, between August of 2017 and February of 2018.

• SANADA’s ten NJPW singles losses are the second-most in NJPW in the last 365 days.

• This will be both wrestlers’ first NJPW singles match in Sendai Sun Plaza Hall.

• EVIL has a two-match winning streak in Sendai. He defeated Hirooki Goto in the 2021 G1 Climax, and he defeated Eddie Kingston here in the 2023 G1 Climax.

• Both EVIL and SANADA are both undefeated in G1 Climax matches in Sendai.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Tanahashi: 27.63%
• Oleg: 71.85%

• 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 67 G1 Climax tournament match losses are the third most of all time, only behind Hirooki Goto (70) and Toru Yano (81).

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 12 NJPW singles wins this year are his most since 2018, the year he last won the G1 Climax tournament.

• Hiroshi Tanahashi has wrestled in NJPW singles matches for 147 hours, 6 minutes, and 18 seconds. That is the fourth-most in NJPW history, behind only Tatsumi Fujinami, Seiji Sakaguchi, and just over an hour short of El Samurai.

• Only Shinsuke Nakamura (6-0) has more NJPW Singles match wins in Sendai Sun Plaza Hall than Hiroshi Tanahashi’s four.
• Only Tomohiro Ishii (1:25:01) has spent more time wrestling in NJPW singles matches than Hiroshi Tanahashi (1:21:59).

• Hiroshi Tanahashi last lost a singles match in Sendai Sun Plaza Hall during the 2014 G1 Climax when he lost to Bad Luck Fale.

• Only Antonio Inoki (12) has more NJPW singles wins in Sendai than Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 10.
• Boltin Oleg is 2-0 in NJPW singles matches in his career in Sendai. He defeated Yuto Nakashima at the Miyagi Exhibition Center in 2023 and he defeated Konosuke Takeshita in Xebio Arena during last year’s G1 Climax.

• Oleg Boltin defeated Konosuke Takeshita in Xebio Arena on night fourteen of last year’s G1 Climax tournament.

• Boltin Oleg knocked Hiroshi Tanahashi out of the G1 Climax 34 Qualifying Tournament in Korakuen Hall last year.

Sport Of Pro Wrestling G1 Climax 35 Pick ‘Em

• Oiwa: 62.21%
• Newman: 37.28%

• With a .273 G1 Climax winning percentage, Callum Newman is almost out of the bottom-ten of all time G1 Climax winning percentages.

• Callum Newman’s 3-10 record and .231 winning percentage are both the worst in NJPW over the last 365 days.

• Callum Newman defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi on Sunday in Hokkai Kitayel. The only time Callum Newman has won two or more singles matches in a row in NJPW was during last year’s G1 Climax qualifying tournament.

• Ryohei Oiwa is 0-2 in NJPW singles matches in Sendai. He has lost singles matches here to Hiromu Takahashi (10/12/2021), and Tomoaki Honma (2/11/22).
• This will be both wrestlers’ first NJPW singles match in Sendai Sun Plaza Hall.
• This will be Callum Newman’s first NJPW singles match in Sendai.
• This will be both wrestlers’ first G1 Climax tournament match in Sendai.

• This will be the first NJPW singles match between Ryohei Oiwa and Callum Newman.