The New Beginning in Osaka (2025)

The New Beginning in Osaka
Promotional poster
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Date	February 11, 2025
City	Osaka, Japan
Venue	Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
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The New Beginning in Osaka is an upcoming professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event will take place on February 11, 2025, in Osaka at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. ^[1] It will be the forty-first event under the New Beginning name and the ninth to take place in Osaka.

Production

Storylines

The New Beginning in Osaka featured professional wrestling matches that involves different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. ^[2]

On the pre-show at Wrestle Kingdom 19, Hirooki Goto won the New Japan Ranbo earning him a IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match. IWGP World Heavyweight champion Zack Sabre Jr. would successfully defend the title in the main event against Shota Umino and on the following night at Wrestle Dynasty against Ricochet. ^{[3] [4]} On January 7, 2025, the title match between Sabre and Goto was set for The New Beginning in Osaka.

Matches

No.	Matches*	Stipulations
1P	El Desperado and Katsuya Murashima vs. United Empire (Francesco Akira and Jeff Cobb)	Tag Team match
2	Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Togi Makabe	Singles match [5]
3	Shingo Takagi vs. Drilla Moloney	Singles match [5]
4	Shota Umino vs. Great-O-Khan	Singles match [5]
5	Taichi vs. Sanada	Singles match [5]
6	Ichiban Sweet Boys (Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita) (c) vs. Chaos (Rocky Romero and Yoh)	Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship [5]
7	Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Boltin Oleg	Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship [6]
8	The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) (c) vs. Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito and Hiromu Takahashi)	Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship [5]
9	Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Gabe Kidd	Singles match for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship [5]
10	Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Hirooki Goto	Singles match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship [5]
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match P  – the match will be broadcast on the pre-show *Card subject to change

References

1. Currier, Joseph (January 13, 2025). "NJPW announces upcoming major event schedule". F4wonline.com . Retrieved January 19, 2025.
2. Grabianowski, Ed (13 January 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications . Retrieved October 9, 2017.
3. Vetter, Chris (January 4, 2025). "NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 19 results: Vetter's review of Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Shota Umino for the IWGP World Hvt. Championship, AEW International Champion Konosuke Takeshita vs. Never Openweight Champion Shingo Takagi in a title vs. title match". Pro Wrestling Dot Net . Retrieved January 5, 2025.
4. Vetter, Chris (January 5, 2025). "NJPW Dynasty results: Vetter's review of Zack Sabre Jr. Vs. Ricochet for the IWGP World HVT. Championship, Kenny Omega vs. Gabe Kidd, Mercedes Mone vs. Mina Shirakawa in a title vs. Title match". Pro Wrestling Dot Net . Retrieved January 6, 2025.
5. Carey, Ian (January 7, 2025). "Eight matches announced for NJPW New Beginning in Osaka". F4wonline.com . Retrieved January 19, 2025.
6. Lambert, Jeremy (January 14, 2025). "NEVER Openweight Title Bout Added To NJPW New Beginning In Osaka". Fightful. Retrieved January 19, 2025.

External links

• Official New Japan Pro-Wrestling's website