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Jan 4, 2024 · Tetsuya Naito finished a story of his own at Wrestle Kingdom 18, defeating Sanada to capture the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship in the main event.
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On January 4, 2024, at Wrestle Kingdom, Naito defeated Sanada in the main event to win his first IWGP World Heavyweight Championship and end Sanada's record 271-day reign.
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The origin of this story was the 2013 G1 Climax. Tetsuya Naito had been properly positioned to take the place of Hiroshi Tanahashi as the next babyface ace. His time, to New Japan management, was 2013, when he won the G1 Climax and secured an IWGP Heavyweight Championship main event match at Wrestle Kingdom 8. He proclaimed he was the shuyaku, or t...
Upon Naito’s return, he had changed. Instead of this flashy babyface, he was a tranquilo heel. Upon expressing his allegiance, not to the fans or the company, but Los Ingobernables, he started his own branch in Japan: Los Ingobernables de Japon. Eventually, he had a chance to seek revenge against the belt that caused his downfall. In 2016, he chall...
After failing at Wrestle Kingdom 12, and failing at his actual shot at the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, in the main event, Tetsuya Naito was attacked by Chris Jericho at New Years Dash. After stating his displeasure with Wrestle Kingdom 12 claiming to have a double main event, he stated he was the one true main event. Jericho went back to America...
2020 is when Tetsuya Naito started his quest to become dual IWGP Intercontinental Champion and IWGP Heavyweight Champion. In 2019, NJPW went to Madison Square Garden and Naito nominated Kota Ibushi as his challenger. Ibushi wanted to hold the belt that his gods, Shinsuke Nakamura and Hiroshi Tanahashi, held. Naito lost the belt in MSG to Ibushi. Th...
After Kota Ibushi defeated LIJ member SANADA, his idea of unifying both belts had well been established. Afterward, Tetsuya Naito issued a challenge for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship only. Naito went on to say Ibushi had so much respect for the Intercontinental Championship but wants to kill the legacy of it. To Naito, what sense did this ...
In the first match, The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) defeated No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, while in the second match, Team 3D defeated The Most Violent Players in a hardcore match to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship.
Oct 27, 2023 · Oct 27, 2023 12:58 PM EDT. In only three months, Tetsuya Naito will headline Wrestle Kingdom 18 for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. He will challenge Sanada for the IWGP world heavyweight...
5 days ago · Naito is a staple of New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s signature tournament. This year marks his fifteenth consecutive G1. “The G1 is the one tour all year that has the most attention from fans all ...
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Dec 20, 2023 · When Sanada meets Tetsuya Naito in the main event of Wrestle Kingdom 18 in just a few weeks, it will the culmination of a journey for both men. Yet even though Sanada enters the match as the IWGP...
