Tetsuya Naito

Over the past few months, there has been a main event feud in NJPW between EVIL & Tetsuya Naito. It all started at the end of the 2020 New Japan Cup, when EVIL won the tournament, shocking many. At the time, both were members of the Los…
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NJPW is fantastic at building up stars within their roster. They bring promising rookies into their dojo, and train them up through their Young Lion program. This is the route that men like Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada, Tetsuya Naito,…
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There is just one major stop between us and the huge double tournament that is Best of Super Juniors & World Tag League. That is Power Struggle, which might as well be called ‘G1 Climax Fallout”. We have six big singles matches already…
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Earlier this year, New Japan Pro Wrestling made one of the best choices they’ve made in years. Instead of being one epic show, their annual January 4th Tokyo Dome show was two. It was split over January 4th & 5th, and those are still…
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The G1 Climax 30 is in the books, and it was a fantastic edition of the iconic tournament. It was a hard task for NJPW, using reduced crowd sizes and those crowds not being able to make noise. The hot crowd is one of the things that makes a…
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There is only one match left in the G1 Climax 30, that being the finals. SANADA & Kota Ibushi will meet tomorrow with a shot at IWGP Heavyweight Champion Tetsuya Naito at Wrestle Kingdom the prize. However, they aren’t the only ones to…
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Kota Ibushi won the A-Block, and now it’s time to see who will win the B-Block. There are only three men in the running, those being EVIL, SANADA and the current IWGP Double Champion, Tetsuya Naito. Everyone else has been eliminated, making…
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The headline match for G1 Climax 30 Night 18 was an opportunity for IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental 'Double Champion' and Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) leader Tetsuya Naito to keep his hopes of advancing to the finals alive.
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G1 Climax 30 Night 16 saw IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental 'Double Champion' and Los Ingobernables de Japon (LIJ) leader Tetsuya Naito take on current KOPW (presumably King of Pro Wrestling) titleholder and CHAOS member Toru Yano.
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We have a pretty clear picture of who can win A-Block in this year's G1 Climax, so let’s get that figured out with B-Block tonight. Tetsuya Naito & EVIL are tied at the top, with EVIL beating Naito in a tie, but it is not that simple.…
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