NJPW The New Beginning In Hiroshima
Date: February 10th, 2021
Venue: Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall
Time: 6:00pm JST
1st Match
Gabriel Kidd, Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura vs. El Desperado, Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru
2021 Statistics
- El Desperado has 6 victories so far in 2021. He has been the winning fall participant in all 6 of those matches. His +6 Fall Differential is the best in NJPW in 2021.
- Yuya Uemura’s -8 Fall Differential is the worst in NJPW this year.
Last 365 Days Statistics – Overall
2nd Match
Master Wato vs. BUSHI
2021 Statistics – Overall
- Only Dick Togo (-8), Yuya Uemura (-8), and Tomoaki Honma (-7) have a worse fall differential than BUSHI thus far in 2021.
- Only Kazuchika Okada (11), Hiromu Takahashi (10), and Tetsuya Naito (10) have more overall wins than BUSHI’s 9 thus far in 2021.
- Only Yujiro Takahashi (11), EVIL (11), and Tomoaki Honma (11) have more overall losses than Master Wato’s 1- thus far in 2021.
Last 365 Days Statistics – Singles
- This will be BUSHI’s first one on one singles match this year, but he did compete and win the New Japan Rambo at Wrestle Kingdom. He then lost in the KOPW 2021 four-way match on night two of Wrestle Kingdom when Toru Yano pinned him.
Head To Head History
- BUSHI and Master Wato have faced each other once in a singles match. That was on December 2nd, 2020 when BUSHI defeated Master Wato in 13 minutes and 15 seconds during the Best of The Super Juniors 27.
History in Hiroshima
- Master Wato has participated in two matches in Hiroshima. In 2016, Teruaki Kanemitsu defeated him in a singles match on the World Tag League tour, and in 2017 Wato teamed with Jyushin Thunder Liger and Tomoyuki Oka (now the Great-O-Khan) to defeat Katsuya Kitamura Shota Umino & Tiger Mask.
- BUSHI has a much longer history in Hiroshima, though he only has one singles victory in the city. That was a Best of The Super Junior 23 victory over David Finlay in 2016.
3rd Match
Hirooki Goto, Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI vs. El Phantasmo, EVIL, Jay White, Taiji Ishimori & Yujiro Takahashi
2021 Results – Overall
- Nobody has more overall wins in NJPW in 2021 than Kazuchika Okada (11).
Last 365 Days Results – Overall
4th Match
Kota Ibushi & Tomoaki Honma vs. SANADA & Tetsuya Naito
2021 Results – Overall
Last 365 Days Results – Overall
- Over the last 365 Days, nobody in NJPW has more overall wins than SANADA (64).
5th Match
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match
Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa [C] vs. Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr
Last 365 Days Results – Tag Team
Head To Head History
- Guerrillas Of Destiny have faced Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr four times and they have been victorious all four times
History in Hiroshima
- Guerrillas Of Destiny have wrestled three times in Hiroshima, including an IWGP Tag Team Title Three Way Match in 2017. They are 1-2 in Hiroshima and on a 2 match losing streak.
- Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr have never wrestled together in Hiroshima.
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships
- This will be Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa’s 28th IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Match in their career.
- Guerrillas Of Destiny have appeared in 27 of 258 IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Matches, or 10.4% of IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships Matches all time.
- The IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships have been defended in Hiroshima 9 times, most recently in 2017 when War Machine successfully defended the titles against Killer Elite Squad and Guerrillas Of Destiny.
- The IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships have only changed hands once in Hiroshima when Masa Saito and Riki Choshu defeated Kengo Kimura and Tatsumi Fujinami in June of 1988.
Main Event
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match
Hiromu Takahashi [C] vs. SHO
2021 Results – Singles
- Hiromu Takahashi is one of just three wrestlers who has started his 2021 with a 2-0 record. He keeps very good company. Kota Ibushi and Hiroshi Tanahashi are the other two currently sitting at 2-0.
Last 365 Days Results – Singles
- Over the last 365 days, Hiromu Takahashi has the most singles wins in NJPW at 14. He is tied with Kazuchika Okada for the top honor over the last calendar year.
Last 365 Days – Overall
- SHO and Hiromu Takahashi have both participated in two historical multi-person matches on The Road To The New Beginning. On January 25th, they were participants in the first 6-man tag match to go to a 30 minute draw in NJPW since February 11th of 2009. On February 8th, they were participants in the first 2 on 2 tag match to go to a 30 minute draw in NJPW since December 23rd of 2013.
Head To Head History
- Dating back to their days as Young Lions, Hiromu Takahashi and SHO have faced each other five times in singles competition. Hiromu has the career lead in the series 4-1.
- SHO finally overcame Hiromu for the first time during 2020’s Best of The Super Junior 27 tournament, defeating Takahashi in 25 minutes and 53 seconds in Osaka.
History In Hiroshima
- Hiromu Takahashi’s only singles experience in Hiroshima came as a Young Lion, Dating all the way back to 2010, he took losses from Dave’s Richards, Tomoaki Honma, King Fale, and Tama Tonga.
- This will be SHO’s first singles match in Hiroshima.
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
- The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship has been defended 9 times in Hiroshima, most recently by KUSHIDA when he successfully defeated El Desperado in 2017 at Destruction.
- This will be the 308th all-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Match. The title has changed hands in 29.32% of all title deciding matches.
- This will be Hiromu Takahashi’s 16th career IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match. He is 11-4 entering tonight’s contest.
- This will be the first IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match of SHO’s career.