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Sakura Genesis (2025)
Sakura Genesis was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on April 5, 2025, in Tokyo at Ryōgoku Kokugikan. Previously held under the Invasion Attack name, this was the sixth event to be held under the Sakura Genesis name. The main event saw Hirooki Goto defend the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against the 2025 New Japan Cup winner David Finlay. Production Storylines Sakura Genesis will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. On March 20, 2025, David Finlay would win the New Japan Cup by defeating Shota Umino in the finals, allowing Finlay to challenge Hirooki Goto for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Sakura Genesis. Event The event started with the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
(NJPW) is a Puroresu, Japanese professional-wrestling Professional wrestling promotion, promotion founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, and based in Nakano, Tokyo. It is currently majority owned by card-game company Bushiroad, with TV Asahi and Amuse Inc. owning minority shares of the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi has served as the promotion's Chairman since September 2013, while Hiroshi Tanahashi has served as the president of the promotion since December 2023. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, NJPW is the largest and longest-running professional wrestling promotion in Japan. Their biggest event is the January 4 Tokyo Dome Show (currently promoted under the Wrestle Kingdom banner) held each year since 1992. In addition to promoting professional wrestling matches, NJPW has also showcased mixed martial arts fights on some of its live events. The promotion was owned by Yuke's from 2005 until 2012. It was then sold to Bushiroad in 2012, which parlayed its entry to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a face (babyface) is a heroic, "good guy", "good-doer", or "fan favorite" wrestler, booked (scripted) by the promotion with the aim of being cheered by fans. They are portrayed as heroes relative to the heel wrestlers, who are analogous to villains. Traditionally, face characters wrestle within the rules and avoid cheating while behaving positively towards the referee and the audience. Such characters are also referred to as blue-eyes in British wrestling and ''técnicos'' in ''lucha libre''. Not everything a face wrestler does must be heroic: faces need only to be clapped or cheered by the audience to be effective characters. When the magazine ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' went into circulation in the late 1970s, the magazine referred to face wrestlers as "fan favorites" or "scientific wrestlers", while heels were referred to as simply "rulebreakers". The vast majority of wrestling storylines involve pitting faces against heels, although more elab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabe Kidd
Gabriel Michael McMenamin (born 24 April 1997) is an English people, English Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Gabe Kidd, is a member of the Bullet Club and its List of Bullet Club members#Sub-groups, War Dogs sub-group, and is the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship, IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion in his first reign. He is also a former Strong Openweight Championship, Strong Openweight Champion and Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship, Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion. He also makes appearances for partner promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Professional wrestling career Early career (2011–2019) McMenamin made his debut in 2011 under the name Kid Danger and at that time, he wrestled under a mask to conceal his age. In 2013, McMenamin switched to the name of Gabriel Kidd. On 29 April 2017, Kidd won the WCPW Internet Championship, one of the titles of WhatCulture, WhatCulture Pro Wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yujiro Takahashi
, is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of House of Torture and a former member of Bullet Club. He is one-third of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions with Ren Narita and Sho in their first reign as a team and fourth for Takahashi individually. Takahashi entered New Japan in November 2003 with an extensive amateur background, advancing through the dojo and debuting on July 26, 2004, under his full name. He later shortened his name to . From 2007 to 2008 he was a member of the stable Samurai Gym with El Samurai and Ryusuke Taguchi, which ended when Samurai left the company. In 2010, he joined Chaos, where he was a one-time IWGP Tag Team and Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion with Tetsuya Naito, with whom he teamed as No Limit. In 2014, Takahashi defected to Bullet Club, becoming the first non-gaijin member to join the stable. As a member of Bullet Club, he is a one-time NEVER Openweight Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sho (wrestler)
(born August 27, 1989), known Mononymous person, mononymously as Sho (stylised in all caps as SHO), is a Japanese Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of House of Torture, a former member of Bullet Club, and a double champion; being one-third of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship, NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions alongside Ren Narita and Yujiro Takahashi in their first reign as a team and his third individually, and being one-half of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions with Douki in their first reign as a team and his sixth individually. He is a former member of Chaos (professional wrestling), Chaos and was a part of the junior heavyweight tag team Roppongi 3K, along with Yoh (wrestler), Yoh. The tag team were five-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and three-tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ren Narita
Ren Narita (成田 蓮 ''Narita Ren'', born November 29, 1997) is a Japanese professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of House of Torture and a former member of Bullet Club. He is one-third of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship, NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions with Sho (wrestler), Sho and Yujiro Takahashi in their first reign as a team and second for Narita individually. He is a former NJPW World Television Championship, NJPW World Television Champion. Early life Narita has played several sports before becoming a wrestler, including baseball, and kendo. Professional wrestling career New Japan Pro Wrestling (2017–present) Young Lion (2017–2019) Narita was trained under New Japan Pro-Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling's (NJPW) "Glossary of professional wrestling terms#young boy, young lion" system. Narita made his professional wrestling debut for NJPW's Farm team#Professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Tanahashi
is a Japanese professional wrestler, sports executive and Podcast, podcaster. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he serves as the president and representative director of the promotion, and is also an active wrestler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, his accolades in NJPW include a record setting eight reigns as IWGP Heavyweight Championship, IWGP Heavyweight Champion, a record three reigns as IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion, two reigns as IWGP Intercontinental Champion, one reign as NJPW World Television Championship, NJPW World Television Champion, three reigns as IWGP Tag Team Champion, one reign as NEVER Openweight Champion and six reigns as NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion. All totaled, Tanahashi has won 26 championships in NJPW. He has also won NJPW's premier tournament, the G1 Climax, on three occasions (G1 Climax#2007, 2007, G1 Climax#2015, 2015 and G1 Climax#2018, 2018) and won the New Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NJPW World Television Championship
The is a professional wrestling championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. The inaugural champion was Zack Sabre Jr., who has held the championship a record-setting two times. The reigning champion is El Phantasmo, who is in his record-tying second reign, he won the title by defeating previous champion Great-O-Khan at NJPW Wrestling Hizen no Kuni on April 29, 2025. History New Japan Pro-Wrestling president and CEO Takami Ohbari and TV Asahi representative Hiroyoki Mihira announced the creation of the title at Declaration of Power on October 10, 2022. The championship is seen as a celebration of both the upcoming 50-year anniversary of the partnership between the two companies, as well as the continued growth of NJPW World, New Japan Pro-Wrestling's online streaming service. Ohbari also expressed encouragement for younger wrestlers on the roster to compete for the championship. All matches contested for the championship will be held with a 15-minute time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Phantasmo
Riley Vigier (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he performs under the ring name El Phantasmo (often shortened to ELP) and is the NJPW World Television Championship, NJPW World Television Champion in his record-tying second reign. In NJPW, Phantasmo was a former member of Bullet Club and became a three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion (all with Taiji Ishimori) and a two-time Super J-Cup winner while in the stable. Starting in 2023, he transitioned into the heavyweight division and would also be kicked out of Bullet Club, leading to him joining the Guerrillas of Destiny. He would team with Hikuleo (wrestler), Hikuleo, with whom he became a two-time Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship, Strong Openweight Tag Team Champion and List of IWGP Tag Team Champions, one-time IWGP Tag Team Champion, and at one time held both set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great-O-Khan
, better known by his ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of the United Empire stable, the former NJPW World Television Champion in his one time, and the final official KOPW Champion. He also wrestles for NJPW's United Kingdom based partner promotion Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro), where he is the former Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion. In NJPW, he is also a four-time and current IWGP Tag Team Champion (twice with Jeff Cobb, once with Henare, and once with Callum Newman) Early life Oka excelled in amateur wrestling while in school, winning the All Japan Wrestling Championship in the 120 kg Freestyle class in 2012. Oka met Takaaki Kidani, president of Bushiroad in 2013, and was signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) shortly after, but didn't begin training until 2015 as he was still in university at the time. In the past, Oka has also competed in judo, karate, sambo, kickboxing, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanada (wrestler)
, better known by his mononymous ring name Sanada (stylized in all caps), is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of House of Torture and a former member of Bullet Club. He is a former and longest-reigning IWGP World Heavyweight Champion. As part of NJPW, Sanada is mostly known for his tag team with Evil as a part of '' Los Ingobernables de Japón'', with whom he is a two-time IWGP Tag Team Champion, two-time World Tag League winner, and a three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion (alongside Bushi). He also had a short reign as IWGP Tag Team Champion with Tetsuya Naito. He won his first NJPW singles title, the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, in early 2022, and won the 2023 New Japan Cup, which led to him winning the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. He is also known for his work in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he was the first Gaora TV Champion, a two-time All Asia Tag Tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuya Uemura
is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former Provisional KOPW Champion. He has also made appearances for Impact Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions and Game Changer Wrestling. Early life In March 2013, Uemura graduated from Imabari Technical High School. He wrestled collegiately before he started his professional wrestling career. In October 2016, he won the West Japan Collegiate Wrestling League's 71 kg Greco-Roman championship. In March 2017, Uemura graduated from Fukuoka University. Professional wrestling career New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2017–present) Young lion (2017–2021) In April 2017, after graduating from Fukuoka University, Uemura was signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling under New Japan's " young lion" system. A year later, in April 2018, Uemura as well as fellow young lion, Yota Tsuji, made their pro-wrestling debuts at Lion's Gate Project 11 where Uemura was defeated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
