NJPW King Of Pro Wrestling 2025 (October 13) Stats & Info

IWGP World Heavyweight Title Match
Zack Sabre Jr. [C] vs. Konosuke Takeshita

2025 Year To Date — NJPW Singles Matches

• Only Hiroshi Tanahashi has more NJPW singles wins this year than Zack Sabre Jr.
• Only Hiroshi Tanahashi and Zack Sabre Jr. have more NJPW singles wins this year than Konosuke Takeshita.
• Zack Sabre Jr. has logged 7 hours, 45 minutes, and 4 seconds of total singles match time this year—the most in NJPW.

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches — Main Events

• Konosuke Takeshita won three consecutive NJPW singles main events to win G1 Climax 35.

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches — In Ryogoku Kokugikan

• Zack Sabre Jr. has won four straight singles matches at Ryogoku Kokugikan. His last singles loss in this building came in 2022, when he fell to Kazuchika Okada in an IWGP Heavyweight Title match.
• Konosuke Takeshita won his only NJPW singles match to date at Ryogoku Kokugikan.

All Time — NJPW, DDT Singles Matches — In Ryogoku Kokugikan — Main Events

• Including DDT appearances, both Konosuke Takeshita and Zack Sabre Jr. hold a 3–2 record in main events at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
• Zack Sabre Jr. enters tonight on a three-match winning streak in Ryogoku main events.
• Takeshita enters with a two-match losing streak in Ryogoku main events.

2025 Year To Date — NJPW Individual Overall

All Time — IWGP World Heavyweight Title & IWGP Heavyweight Title Matches Matches

Head To Head History – Statistics

Head To Head History – Singles Matches

• The IWGP Heavyweight/World Heavyweight Title has been decided 50 times at Ryogoku Kokugikan, with 14 title changes—28% of top title matches held here.

IWGP Heavyweight & IWGP World Heavyweight Title Defenses in Ryogoku Kokugikan

IWGP Global Heavyweight Title Match
Gabe Kidd [C] vs. Yota Tsuji

2025 Year To Date — NJPW Singles Matches

• Yota Tsuji’s 13 NJPW singles victories this year rank sixth on the roster.
• Eight of Gabe Kidd’s twelve NJPW singles losses this year occurred via forfeit during this year’s G1 Climax tournament.
• Two of Kidd’s four NJPW singles wins this year have been for the IWGP Global Heavyweight championship.

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches — In Ryogoku Kokugikan

• Yota Tsuji is 3–2 in singles matches at Ryogoku Kokugikan. In his last appearance here, he defeated EVIL at this year’s Sakura Genesis. He has never recorded back-to-back singles victories in this building.
• Yota Tsuji won his first singles match at Ryogoku Kokugikan in 2020, defeating Gabriel Kidd.

2025 Year To Date — NJPW Individual Overall

• Yota Tsuji’s 90 NJPW matches this year are second only to Hiroshi Tanahashi.

Head To Head History – Statistics

Head To Head History – Singles Matches

IWGP Global Heavyweight Title Defenses in Ryogoku Kokugikan

• The IWGP Global Heavyweight Title has been defended twice at Ryogoku Kokugikan, with both defenses successful.

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match
OSKAR & Yuto-Ice [C] vs. Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura

2025 Year To Date — NJPW Two-Man Tag Team Matches

All Time — NJPW Two-Man Tag Team Matches

2025 Year To Date — NJPW — All Instances Tagging

All Time — Team — IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Title Matches

All Time – Individual – IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Matches

• This will be Shota Umino’s first challenge for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles.
• Yuya Uemura previously challenged for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles in 2024, teaming with SANADA against BISHAMON in Taiwan.

• The IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles have been contested 34 times at Ryogoku Kokugikan, with 14 title changes—including four in the last five defenses held in this building.

NEVER Openweight Title Match
Oleg Boltin [C] vs. EVIL

2025 Year To Date — NJPW Singles Matches

• Boltin Oleg enters tonight’s match on a two-match winning streak. His most recent singles loss came against EVIL during the G1 Climax tournament.

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches — In Ryogoku Kokugikan

• Boltin Oleg is 3–0 in singles competition at Ryogoku Kokugikan, with victories over Ryohei Oiwa, Oskar Leube, and Yuto Nakashima.
• EVIL enters tonight on a four-match singles losing streak and has dropped six of his last seven bouts at Ryogoku Kokugikan. His last win in this building came in 2022 against Hiromu Takahashi.

2025 Year To Date — NJPW Individual Overall

All Time — NEVER Openweight Title Matches

Head To Head History -Statistics

Head To Head History – Singles Matches

• The NEVER Openweight Championship has been contested at Ryogoku Kokugikan twelve times, with four title changes. The most recent came at Sakura Genesis 2024, when Shingo Takagi defeated EVIL to reclaim the championship.

NJPW World TV Title/ELP 20th Anniversary/Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Road ~Connection~
El Phantasmo [C] vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

2025 Year To Date — NJPW Singles Matches

• Hiroshi Tanahashi leads all of NJPW with 20 singles victories this year. The only other calendar years in which he reached 20 or more singles wins were 2006 and 2004, when he recorded 26 each, and 2000, when he finished with 21 wins and 44 losses.

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 360 NJPW singles victories rank seventeenth all time.
• Tanahashi’s 348 singles wins since January 1, 2000, are the most in NJPW during that span—107 more than the next closest, Hirooki Goto.

All Time — NJPW Singles Matches — In Ryogoku Kokugikan

• Hiroshi Tanahashi’s 34 singles victories at Ryogoku Kokugikan rank second all time, behind only Hiroyoshi Tenzan’s 35.

2025 Year To Date — NJPW Individual Overall

• Hiroshi Tanahashi has wrestled 107 matches in NJPW this year—15 more than the next most active competitor, Yota Tsuji, with 92.

Head To Head History – Singles Matches

Special Singles Match
Drilla Moloney vs. SANADA