The New Beginning in Sapporo (2019)

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The New Beginning in Sapporo (2019)
Promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
DateFebruary 2-3, 2019
City Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Venue Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center
AttendanceNight 1: 4,868
Night 2: 6,089
Event chronology
 Previous
Fantastica Mania 2019;
The New Beginning USA
Next 
Road to The New Beginning
The New Beginning chronology
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The New Beginning USA
Next 
The New Beginning in Osaka (2019)

The New Beginning in Sapporo (2019) was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 2, and 3, 2019, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, at the Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center.

Contents

Storylines

The New Beginning in Sapporo featured eight professional wrestling matches for each night, which involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [1]

Results

Night 1

No.Results [2] [3] StipulationsTimes
1 Ren Narita defeated Yuya Uemura Singles match 9:45
2 Manabu Nakanishi and Toa Henare defeated Ayato Yoshida and Shota Umino Tag team match 8:53
3 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Tiger Mask defeated Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka and Taka Michinoku) by disqualification Tag team match 9:26
4 Taguchi Japan (Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, Tomoaki Honma and Ryusuke Taguchi) and Yoshi-Hashi defeated Bullet Club (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens and Taiji Ishimori) Ten-man tag team match 13:38
5 Suzuki-gun (Taichi, Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado) defeated Los Ingobernables de Japón (Tetsuya Naito, Bushi and Shingo Takagi) Six-man tag team match 13:28
6 Minoru Suzuki defeated Sanada Singles match 19:40
7 Evil defeated Zack Sabre Jr. Singles match 22:01
8Bullet Club (Jay White and Bad Luck Fale) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada by submission Tag team match 24:36

Night 2

No.Results [4] [5] StipulationsTimes
1 Toa Henare defeated Yota Tsuji Singles match 7:07
2 Manabu Nakanishi and Tiger Mask defeated Ayato Yoshida and Shota Umino Tag team match 9:31
3 Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Ren Narita defeated Suzuki-gun (Takashi Iizuka and Taka Michinoku) by disqualification Tag team match 9:47
4 Taguchi Japan (Togi Makabe, Toru Yano, Tomoaki Honma and Ryusuke Taguchi) defeated Bullet Club (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Yujiro Takahashi and Taiji Ishimori) Eight-man tag team match 14:15
5Bullet Club (Jay White, Bad Luck Fale and Chase Owens) defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi and Chaos (Kazuchika Okada and Yoshi-Hashi) by submission Six-man tag team match 17:57
6 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi and Shingo Takagi) (c) defeated Suzuki-gun (Yoshinobu Kanemaru and El Desperado) Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 18:04
7 Los Ingobernables de Japón (Evil and Sanada) (c) defeated Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki and Zack Sabre Jr.) Tag team match for the IWGP Tag Team Championship 16:52
8 Tetsuya Naito (c) defeated Taichi Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship 21:31
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match

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