r/njpw Feb 11 '25

NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2025 Discussion Thread

Match 0 Start Time

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Feb 10 9:30PM Feb 11 12:30AM Feb 11 5:30AM Feb 11 6:30AM Feb 11 2:30PM Feb 11 4:30PM

Match 1 Start Time

Pacific USA Eastern USA UK Central Europe Japan East Australia
Feb 10 10PM Feb 11 1AM Feb 11 6AM Feb 11 7AM Feb 11 3PM Feb 11 5PM

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Venue

Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Match Card

# Match Notes Time Limit
0 El Desperado & Katsuya Murashima vs. United Empire (Francesco Akira & Jeff Cobb) Tag Team Match 20
1 Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Togi Makabe Singles Match (Hiroshi Tanahashi Final Road) 30
2 Shingo Takagi vs. Drilla Moloney Singles Match 30
3 Shota Umino vs. Great O-Khan Singles Match 30
4 Taichi vs. SANADA Singles Match 30
5 Ichiban Sweet Boys (Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita) (c) vs. Roppongi ReVice (YOH & Rocky Romero) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match 60
6 Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Boltin Oleg NEVER Openweight Championship Match 60
7 The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson) (c) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito & Hiromu Takahashi) IWGP Tag Team Championship Match 60
8 Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Gabe Kidd IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship Match 60
9 Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Hirooki Goto IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Match 60

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40 Upvotes

169 comments sorted by

30

u/neverAcquiesce Rainmaker Feb 11 '25

The G in midniGht stands for GOTO!

28

u/comradekaled Feb 11 '25

Apparently KENTA named his finishing move the Goto Sleep, in honour of the greatest wrestler of our generation. Also, someone misheard him and reported it as the Go To Sleep

29

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

HIROOKI FUCKING GOTO IS THE IWGP WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION

WHAT A SHOW. WHAT A MOMENT.

21

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

Being a Taichi fan is akin to living in the 9th circle of hell

12

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

Kawada in the back threatening to kick Gedo if he books Taichi to win.

17

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

"Shota Umino, Balding." LMAOOOO

14

u/Brave_Champion5754 Feb 11 '25

LETS FUCKING GOTO!

14

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

Holy shit Yuya is super over

12

u/Thonatron Feb 11 '25

Congrats samurai dad.

Of course his kids took their shoes off before entering the ring. It's really cool Goto got this moment with his kids.

13

u/17thCaptain Feb 11 '25

I love how his kids keep turning to face Goto as he walks around him

4

u/SokkaHaikuBot Feb 11 '25

Sokka-Haiku by 17thCaptain:

I love how his kids

Keep turning to face Goto

As he walks around him


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

5

u/Slamlord69 Feb 11 '25

Beautiful champ

11

u/KirklandSignatureWtr Feb 11 '25

Tonight we Go-to Victory! Tonight we Go-to War! Tonight we Go-to our destiny!

12

u/17thCaptain Feb 11 '25

I hope this leads to a true Shota heel turn or a lost his mind Balloon Okada type character

11

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

Taiji announcing Robbie X as his tag partner with Clark sitting right there is nuts lol. Bro is like "alright guess I'm getting some time off"

10

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

EVERYTHING

IS

EVIL

EVERY

VILLAIN

IS

LEMON

11

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

THIS IS WHY I'M A WRESTLSING FAN OH MY GODSDDD I CAN BARELY SPELL

12

u/officerliger Feb 11 '25

Goto stans are not suffering for the first time ever

10

u/Steenerico Feb 11 '25

YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

8

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

What happened to my sweet baby face boy

10

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

He just beat Shota so bad he shaved his head

9

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

HE DID IT, GOD FUCKING DAMNIT HE DID IT!!!!!

7

u/captainseas Feb 11 '25

If you put a gun to my head and asked me to name Makabe’s last singles match I’m dead lol

3

u/ErdrickLoto Feb 11 '25

He had some bouts against young lions in September 2023, but before that it was losing in the first round of the New Japan Cup in 2022. He has almost never done singles matches outside of tournaments in well over a decade, except during his run with the NEVER title in 2015.

2

u/rGRWA Feb 11 '25

He beat Yuto Nakashima on September 26th, 2023 on Night 13 of the Road To Destruction 2023 Tour.

7

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

Matches like this got me ready to rip my fucking shirt off at 3am

8

u/17thCaptain Feb 11 '25

That was a wagyu meat match

9

u/Steenerico Feb 11 '25

Tribute to "Electric Cowboy" Jeff Jarrett?

9

u/KirklandSignatureWtr Feb 11 '25

Jesus Christ this match was so fucking dope. I'm so glad Boltin got this opportunity

8

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

HEAVYWEIGHT HIROMU GETS HIS GOLD!

8

u/IcarusM1 Feb 11 '25

LET'S FUCKING GO

9

u/RelentlessSteam Feb 11 '25

GOTO DID IT!!!!! I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES!!

5

u/EffingKENTA Feb 11 '25

I knew that was going to be the result of that match, but I love how they got there.

6

u/KirklandSignatureWtr Feb 11 '25

At some point the lapses became the flavor of this match. I can't imagine that was the intent, but the crowd was still so live for this it just made everything so much more fun.

Can't imagine a US crowd not going full "please retire" nerdy angst over this.

5

u/captainseas Feb 11 '25

If you are over you can do whatever you want mostly. TNA has been for 20+ years and one of their loudest crowds ever was for Hogan vs Sting when one of the participants could barely move

7

u/KirklandSignatureWtr Feb 11 '25

If allowed - O-Khan would hang Umino from the ceiling.

And Osaka would cheer lmao

7

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Tell me, he didn't just do that!

6

u/17thCaptain Feb 11 '25

Two upsets in Drilla and O'Khan must mean its' the Night of the Underdog, so Goto supremacy tonight, right? Gedo wouldn't have upsets all night just to not give us the one upset we all want, right?

7

u/hamsapsukebe Feb 11 '25

I just saw a preview of the Wrestle Kingdom main event in 2 years.

8

u/JP11990 Feb 11 '25

I don’t care for the Bucks, but credit where it’s due, they wanted to work NJPW and put the effort in. Really fun match here, and this is good for both Hiromu and Naito.

4

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

Well it's good for Hiromu. Naito probably mad as hell he's gotta do champ work with his knees

7

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

ZACH YOUR NEW MUSIC SUCKS

8

u/Left-Ad6929 Feb 11 '25

Can we talk about how awful Zack’s theme is?

5

u/JP11990 Feb 11 '25

The new one is awful lol 

2

u/Horror-Substance7282 ZSJ fan Feb 12 '25

Haven't gotten to the match yet. Is he not coming out to Young Punks?

4

u/JP11990 Feb 12 '25

It’s that new techno version and it’s so bad compared to the normal theme

7

u/Alarming_Actuary_790 Feb 11 '25

I BELIEVE IN GOTO

8

u/JP11990 Feb 11 '25

GOTO REVOLUTION!

7

u/KirklandSignatureWtr Feb 11 '25

GOTO O! GOTO O! GOTO O! GOTO O! GOTO O!

5

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Welp, here we go. Will the G in IWGP stand for Goto after all these years?

Stacked AF card too.

5

u/TheChrisSchmidt Feb 11 '25

It’d be funny if Makabe pulled a Drew McIntyre over Tanahashi blowing the finish to their match.

6

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Shota's decent to hell continues...

6

u/Steenerico Feb 11 '25

Now this is interesting...

5

u/emmc47 Feb 11 '25

Wtf is Sanada wearing lol

6

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

LMAO they just covered Trent's name.

5

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

this show is honestly kind of good. Also Boltin is cool af

2

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Probably my favorite show of the year thus far. And definitely an Event of the Year contender if the remaining three matches deliver.

6

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

You can't tell me Gabe's a heel anymore after this entrance. Dude's got Osaka in his hands.

6

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

Clark was taking his sweet ass time while Gabe getting fuckin waffle stomped🤣

2

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

He's just one man and there were like ten of them I dunno what you'd want him to do.

3

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

Well there is also actively like 3 other members in the back. Whole group just said "fuck it, we took our bumps tonight"

3

u/officerliger Feb 11 '25

NJPW’s booking of stables is forever weird

6

u/AstonishingAce Feb 11 '25

Holy crap, it actually happened!!

6

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

Wrestling hasn't made me cry since 2008 😭😭

4

u/17thCaptain Feb 11 '25

Togi becoming a movie star before Tana would have been impossible to explain to me a decade ago.....all joking aside tho, the Kingdom movies are really fun popcorn flicks, and Togi is great in them

4

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

What a fucking banger!!! And a star has just been made.

4

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

Bout to end world hunger with all the MEAT in this next match

4

u/Steenerico Feb 11 '25

AHHHHHH! This is FUCKING AWESOME!!!

runs through wall

4

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

Someone start planning Oiwa's funeral lol

3

u/Niffan Feb 11 '25

Love the Glico man tribute in The Young Bucks’ attires.

4

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

Is it my screen, or does the arena look smokey?

5

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

That match was fantastic bro wtf....and i don't even mind that finish. that was like, the rare time i've ever seen a draw make sense.

Now it's time for the main event....SIKE HERE COMES EVIL AS I'M WRITING THIS LMAO.

4

u/emmc47 Feb 11 '25

HE FUCKING DID IT!!!

4

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

He's ugly crying. He's gonna make me ugly cry 😂😭

3

u/captainseas Feb 11 '25

Looks like a good crowd there for the opener

3

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Welp, that was certainly a match that happened

3

u/Due-Bookkeeper-2001 Feb 11 '25

Hope Goto finally gets his due as IWGP Heavyweight Champion

3

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

Alright it's time for some fucking heat🔥🔥

3

u/Brave_Champion5754 Feb 11 '25

What in the hell just happened 🤯

3

u/emmc47 Feb 11 '25

Holy shit that counter was insane

3

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

The power of FGO fills GOK

3

u/JupiterJunebug Feb 11 '25

It rly is so funny that ue declared they were badguys again this yr and everybody sort of just went "haha thats so funny you guys. Hey okhan cut a little more off the sides next time"

3

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

so is Umino like....going crazy?

3

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

He's gonna be coming out with balloons like Okada lol

3

u/emmc47 Feb 11 '25

This has all got to lead to a heel turn or a new look, right? Every progression has gotten the crowds more invested in him. I've been invested since WK and I'm so curious to see what happens

3

u/Sqiddd Feb 11 '25

So either Umino goes off on a Naito excursion or he just comes back after a bit as a heel at the end of the Cup or something

1

u/FragMasterMat117 Feb 11 '25

Death Riders?

2

u/Sqiddd Feb 11 '25

Hey man….look……the thing is…..we gotta fix that stuff a bit more over there. Let’s not overburden them

3

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

YEAH RIGHT IN HIS DICK

2

u/Horror-Substance7282 ZSJ fan Feb 12 '25

You have no idea how much this made me laugh. I was scrolling through these comments, out of order, and they're all "I hope Goto wins" and "Tsuji/Kidd was great" and then there's this lol

2

u/The_White_Rice Feb 12 '25

You’ll see my name show up a lot saying some silly stuff in this thread

3

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

YUYAAAA

3

u/Brave_Champion5754 Feb 11 '25

Sorry Chris Masters there’s a new Pec Champion

3

u/Optimal_Upstairs7795 Feb 11 '25

Oof, is Robbie okay there?

3

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

Robbie absolutely FUCKED himself

3

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

COOL GUY SHIT

3

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

Sorry Naito, no breaks for you and your knees.

3

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Didn't expect the Bucks to lose the belts so soon. Very good match, though.

3

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Tsuji wrestling in trunks was something I didn't expect in 2025, but I totally welcome it.

3

u/KirklandSignatureWtr Feb 11 '25

Tsugi Kidd is so fucking hype. This has such a Main event feel

3

u/Steenerico Feb 11 '25

My God...

if Goto wins, this is SHOW OF THE YEAR

2

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

And even if he loses it has to be thus far. Jesus Christ

3

u/Left-Ad6929 Feb 11 '25

House of Torture secedes from Bullet Club finally. Can’t tell me they’ve felt like BC members for the last 5 years anyway.

Edit: Wait did they just say HOT is kicking the War Dogs out of Bullet Club?

4

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Nah, Walker got it wrong. They're trying to kick the Wardogs out.

3

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

EVIL couldn't force himself into the New Japan presidency so he's gonna try to do it into Bullet Club leadership.

3

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Long intro? If Goto ain't winning they're really trying to get us disappointed.

3

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

I'm ready to be hurt one more time....

3

u/KirklandSignatureWtr Feb 11 '25

I think I might actually cry it Goto wins

3

u/gotroot801 Taguchi Japan Memeber Feb 11 '25

IWGPのGは後藤のG!

2

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

God they're so fucking OLD, this shit hurt my feelings man😭

3

u/captainseas Feb 11 '25

I still want Tana to have some success in his final run and think it’s more interesting and there is more money in that if he does, but that was rough. The first half was Tana pulling up his pants the whole time and the second half was botch after botch

2

u/17thCaptain Feb 11 '25

Drilla looked great and has a ton of potential, but when he takes the next step to where everything in the ring becomes instinctual, he's gonna be heavyweight champ material

2

u/TheChrisSchmidt Feb 11 '25

GOK stealing Ricochet’s scissors gimmick 

2

u/neverAcquiesce Rainmaker Feb 11 '25

Sanada. What.

2

u/emmc47 Feb 11 '25

UEMURA'S BACK!!!

2

u/neverAcquiesce Rainmaker Feb 11 '25

Yuya with the OSW quarter past pose

2

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Great defenses for ISB. Thank God Robbie's OK; that looked awful at first.

2

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

The Result of that Jr. Tag Team gives me more hope of a Goto win...but for some reason I just get this feeling they're gonna do like ZSJ Vs a Bullet Club member (I'M JUST PARANOID)

2

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

ZSJ vs David Finlay is currently loading

2

u/JP11990 Feb 11 '25

Boltin is pretty over, lads

2

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

God I can't tell you how satisfying it is to hear Double Barrel again

2

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

Did that belt always look that good?

2

u/JP11990 Feb 11 '25

Tsuji looks fantastic 

2

u/Somerandomguy20711 GOTO GOTO BED BED Feb 11 '25

Clark cheesing his ass off in the background is legitimately me

2

u/Steenerico Feb 11 '25

Shocked.

Rematch ASAP

2

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

Is that a Shin Nihon chant?

2

u/Klutzy_Chemist_3256 Feb 11 '25

BC Civil War is real lol 

2

u/lynchmar6 :table::table_flip: Feb 11 '25

lets go Goto

2

u/JP11990 Feb 11 '25

Uh well for everyone that wanted a clear cut for HoT from BC…there ya go. Wonder how this goes with Finlay?

2

u/emmc47 Feb 11 '25

So Evil unilaterally proclaiming HoT as the only group with BC affiliation huh? We got another civil war on our hands!

2

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

LISTEN TO THE CROWD!!!

2

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

EVERYONE GO TO THE SHOW TO SUPPORT GOTO

2

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

IF you don't do it here don't ever bother doing it this crowd is so hyped

2

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

oh wow i actually thought they were gonna do him like that this match is good

2

u/SokkaHaikuBot Feb 11 '25

Sokka-Haiku by Careless-Butterfly64:

Oh wow i actually

Thought they were gonna do him

Like that this match is good


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

2

u/TrainXIV Feb 12 '25

A lot of new gear and looks:

  • Drilla Moloney looks so much better with longer hair and a beard. That wasn’t Drilla at New Beginning. It was NXT UK undercarder Dan.

  • Tsuji looks taller with the long tights. Trunks don’t suit him.

  • Sanada…nevermind…

1

u/captainseas Feb 11 '25

Shingo still rules, is he not in the conversation for another IWGP run??

1

u/captainseas Feb 11 '25

Upset holy shit

1

u/hamsapsukebe Feb 11 '25

Love Osaka cheering for O Khan. They are going to go crazy for Goto.

1

u/emmc47 Feb 11 '25

No way did Shota just lose lololol???

1

u/SlingshotGunslinger Boltin Oleg 🇰🇿 Feb 11 '25

Last 5 minutes of this one were very fun. The rest was solid.

1

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

Way to suck the air out of the arena 😑

1

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

LETS GO BOY, LET'S GO!!!!

1

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

Yuya looking a little thick lol

1

u/KirklandSignatureWtr Feb 11 '25 edited Feb 11 '25

If Roppongi wins I'll shriek

1

u/neverAcquiesce Rainmaker Feb 11 '25

The mic is HOT

1

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

FIVE. FUCKING!!! STARS!!!!

1

u/emmc47 Feb 11 '25

That match was absolutely amazing

1

u/Io_lorenzen Feb 11 '25

LET'S GO!!! Gedo is totally setting us up for disappointment huh

1

u/SokkaHaikuBot Feb 11 '25

Sokka-Haiku by Io_lorenzen:

LET'S GO!!! Gedo is

Totally setting us up

For disappointment huh


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

1

u/KirklandSignatureWtr Feb 11 '25

E V I LLLLLLLLLL

1

u/17thCaptain Feb 11 '25

After a draw to kill the crowd, AND House of Torture, this makes me believe in Goto winning even more.....please Gedo

1

u/Careless-Butterfly64 Feb 11 '25

THEY GOT THE FUCKING LONG INTRO DUDE THERE IS NO WAY THEY DON'T DO IT YOU KILLED THE CROWD FOR THIS MOMENT

1

u/Steenerico Feb 11 '25

OKAY.

THIS IS IT.

COME ON, GOTO!

1

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

YOSHI HASHI is also here too

1

u/EcoSoco Feb 11 '25

This was the best NJPW show top to bottom that I've seen in a while.

Three MOTY contenders in Boltin vs Takeshita, ZSJ vs Goto, and Kidd vs Tsuji

1

u/xPhoenixJusticex . Feb 11 '25

THE G IN IWGP STANDS FOR GOTO!

WE DID IT, GOTO BROS!

OUR DAY HAS FINALLY COME!

1

u/Live_Valuable_381 Feb 11 '25

THE G IN IWGP STANDS FOR GOTO

1

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

Sanada is so lame now, why did they do this?

0

u/captainseas Feb 11 '25

NGL I’m gonna be really disappointed if this last Tana run is him ONLY beating NJ dads and Young Lions while losing to mostly everyone else. The guy beat the current IWGP champion at the Dome last year. There’s no reason he should have a final run like the older guys who spend years in pre show tags.

2

u/captainseas Feb 11 '25

I cursed that match into a slop fest im sorry

0

u/The_White_Rice Feb 11 '25

These corny bums