Sport of Pro Wrestling • NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 20 — Konosuke Takeshita vs. Yota Tsuji — IWGP World & Global Heavyweight Title Match

IWGP World & IWGP Global Heavyweight Title Match
Konosuke Takeshita [World] vs. Yota Tsuji [Global]

Only Hiroshi Tanahashi won more NJPW singles matches in 2025 than Konosuke Takeshita’s 18.
Takeshita’s 7 hours, 6 minutes, and 9 seconds of NJPW singles match time ranked third in NJPW in 2025, behind only Zack Sabre Jr. and Hiroshi Tanahashi.
Only Hiroshi Tanahashi and Zack Sabre Jr. won more NJPW singles matches in 2025 than Yota Tsuji’s 15.
Yota Tsuji has amassed 35 NJPW singles wins in the last three years. That is fourth-most in NJPW in that period.
Konosuke Takeshita enters the Tokyo Dome on an NJPW-leading six-match singles winning streak. His last NJPW singles loss came in August, when he was defeated by Shota Umino during the G1 Climax.

When accounting for Konosuke Takeshita’s time in AEW, DDT, CMLL, and independent promotions in addition to NJPW, he finished 2025 with 35 singles victories across 46 singles matches.

Yota Tsuji wrestled the second-most NJPW matches in 2025. Only Hiroshi Tanahashi competed in more than Tsuji’s 117.

Konosuke Takeshita is undefeated in singles matches at the Tokyo Dome. He won twice during last year’s Tokyo Dome weekend, defeating Shingo Takagi and Tomohiro Ishii.
Yota Tsuji also won two straight singles matches at the Tokyo Dome during last year’s Wrestle Kingdom and Wrestle Dynasty weekend, defeating David Finlay and Jack Perry.